Time to move to a dumb phone, I guess. Android is slowly becoming worst of both worlds, none of the privacy features of iOS yet walls of the garden keeps getting higher.
Readit NewsI hope the author received a nice well deserved bounty for this find. Could have been catastrophic in the wrong hands.
A little off topic but I've always wondered why Ms office doesn't allow embedding of excel cells within word/powerpoint and then allowing reference to certain cells within word with some syntax. That would unlock a lot of new ways to create reactive presentations and word documents.
dpacmittal commented on Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy theguardian.com/film/2025... · Posted by u/nemoniac
I wonder if a business model where you buy movies for $x would work. You pay for each movie you want to watch, you get to download and keep the movie forever. A certain cut of the movie goes to the production studios. No ads, no device limits, no monthly subscription costs and you get access to the movie forever.
I pasted the image of the chart into ChatGPT-5 and prompted it with
>there seems to be a mistake in this chart ... can you find what it is?
Here is what it told me:
> Yes — the likely mistake is in the first set of bars (“Coding deception”). The pink bar for GPT-5 (with thinking) is labeled 50.0%, while the white bar for OpenAI o3 is labeled 47.4% — but visually, the white bar is drawn shorter than the pink bar, even though its percentage is slightly lower.
So they definitely should have had ChatGPT review their own slides.
>but visually, the white bar is drawn shorter than the pink bar, even though its percentage is slightly lower.
But the white bar is not shorter in the picture.
Is it only me who feels its incredibly unfair for publishers, that not only did big tech trained their LLMs on free content authored by these publishers, but it's also killing their future revenue. It's like stealing from someone and then making sure they never make money again.
We also use it because it's super-easy to mold, and is incredibly suited to mass production. The ease with which it can be shaped might even be the single most compelling reason to go plastic.
Plastic takes the best aspects of wood (lightweight, cheap), ceramics (easy to shape, watertight), and metal (casual resiliency); and dodges some of the biggest issues with each (wood requires a lot of finishing and is very slow to shape industrially, ceramics tend to shatter, metal is comparatively expensive, prone to rust, and also electrically conductive). They're not perfect, but if you add up the stat points it's obvious why they're so prevalent.
Let's not forget it's strength to weight ratio and how incredibly cheap it is. A polythene bag having few grams of weight can easily carry a load of 5kg or more while costing only a few cents.
Any such law displays a gross disrespect for basic freedoms. The more people that ignore it the better. You'd do as well to outlaw sewing your own clothes.
I mean it's illegal to grow marijuana or synthesize LSD at your home in most of the world.
dpacmittal commented on Ask HN: Cloud vs. Edge Computing–Why Choose a Local NAS? · Posted by u/thunderstruck
The biggest issue to me is one of security. You have to find a way to expose your NAS to access outside the home to make it truly as convenient as the big tech cloud services. Some vendors help do this for you (Synology with QuickConnect); otherwise you're probably thinking about always using something like Tailscale or setting up a reverse proxy on a VPS that you would have to secure, patch, and monitor.
Tailscale is wonderful for exactly this use case
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EQT1gVsE6I