Readit Newsdw64 commented on A German ISP changed their DNS to block my website lina.sh/blog/telefonica-s... · Posted by u/shaunpud
Interesting point. There’s wide acceptance of commercial censorship, but censorship for the common good (rightfully) feels like a slippery slope. But are they actually so different? Couldn’t the latter be done in a way just as purposeful? Or does it always lead to loss of freedom disproportional to its goals?
We do accept „censorship“ if it follows due process based on clear and well-intended laws. Think taking down piracy sites, child porn, slander.
But CUII is formed by a private oligopoly, with anonymous judges, implementing vague rules, trying to keep secret even what they block. All while limiting what the vast majority of Germans (who don’t know what DNS is) can access on the internet. IMO that’s the issue.
dw64 commented on Apple's AI isn't a letdown. AI is the letdown cnn.com/2025/03/27/tech/a... · Posted by u/ndr42
Where exactly is the Apple Intelligence that was advertised? Siri absolutely cannot go into your phone's calendar and see who you bumped into at some bar or café. I've been using the Pixel 9 Pro as my daily driver and while I really wanted to install CalyxOS on it, I've found Gemini to be actually useful (and I'm generally biased against Google).
Apple is behind the curve like Google was prior to Gemini 2.5 Pro, but unlike Google, I cannot see Apple having the talent to catch up unless they make some expensive acquisitions and even then they will still be behind. I was shocked at how good Gemini 2.5 Pro is. The cost and value for money difference is so big that I'm considering switching away from my API usage of Claude Sonnet 3.7 to Gemini 2.5 Pro.
Also, where is Apple Intelligence at all for any other language? I‘m from Germany and my phone is set to German. There is still no option to even enable it, although the phone was marketed all the same for Apple Intelligence.
dw64 commented on Now Reddit are coming for the individual personal subreddits toot.cat/@dredmorbius/110... · Posted by u/dredmorbius
> Consolidating all of those forums in a single place was nice.
Was it, though?
Sure, I'm not going to minimize the benefits of discoverability, avoiding the need for users to create yet another account, and taking the burden of infra maintenance off of someone who'd otherwise have to stand up a server to host phpBB or whatever.
But ultimately we don't strictly need these things. Isolated/fragmented web forums were doing just fine before Reddit came along. Maybe adding a little friction to the process of a first post to a new forum is a feature, not a bug.
> Reddit had a good thing, but neglect and mismanagement ruined it.
Yes and no. Ultimately, any time you hitch your community to someone else's platform, you incur the large risk that the platform owners will make changes that you don't like. It's not even "neglect and mismanagement": Reddit's owners have been doing what they believe increases the value of Reddit. Whether they're wrong or right about what changes accomplish that ultimately doesn't matter: those changes might not be what makes users and moderators happy, and users and moderators don't have much power to affect change. This protest/blackout may end up achieving the desired effect, but think of the time, energy, and effort wasted around all of it. Better to spend that time working on solutions that allow communities to own their slice of the platform, and have final say as to what happens with it.
> > Consolidating all of those forums in a single place was nice.
> Was it, though?
The great thing about Reddit is how it removes almost any friction from creating and joining new „forums“. The less friction or transaction cost you have the better. Without Reddit I’m not sure we’d have dedicated forums of people posting their grilled cheese sandwiches or Babylon 5 GIFs
dw64 commented on Tell HN: Cancelling HP Instant Ink prevents cartridges from being used · Posted by u/wfme
> This is precisely where the analogy falls down.
No it doesn't. The reason you're paying is for the ink to be delivered, even if pricing is only indirectly related to that.
> if you only print a few pages a year, you may never need a second delivery, ever.
This isn't true because the cartridges dry out and clog up if you don't use them enough.
> The reason you're paying is for the ink to be delivered, even if pricing is only indirectly related to that.
This is factually plain wrong. You’re paying per page. If you print more pages than agreed, even on the same cartridges, you need to pay up per page. When you sign up, they even tell you to keep your original cartridges because the new ones are for your subscription only.
No one is paying for an agreed amount of ink or cartridges to be delivered. That’s not the service. The advantage of InstantInk is that you literally don’t care about ink anymore. You know you can print the amount of pages and HP takes care of when and what ink you need.
dw64 commented on Tell HN: Cancelling HP Instant Ink prevents cartridges from being used · Posted by u/wfme
It's like subscribing to Dollar Shave Club and later finding out you can't shave your beard with the blades already sent to your home when your subscription expires because the TOS said the subscription is for shaving x times per month and the blades are owned by the company. Complete nonsense.
Except that dollar shave club sells you replacement parts at a reduced rate (eg 9$ parts for 6$ per month) while HP sends you ink cartridges that usually cost around 100$ for 3$ per month to use. The service wouldn’t make any sense for them if you’re allowed to use them outside of the subscription. This constant complaining about InstantInk is completely nonsense.
dw64 commented on We will be shutting down neeva.com neeva.com/blog/may-announ... · Posted by u/oidar
> Not really. Kagi weeds out those pretty well in practice. The results are mostly same as from Google, but the crap is removed and organic sites get a boost.
It doesn't do that because that's impossible. If you search for something that's in the news, you visit the news site retrieved by the search engine. That has no bearing on the fact that site will, most likely, be heavily ad supported, most likely.
> organic sites get a boost.
Sorry but I can't infer any meaning from that fragment. What is an "organic site"?
Please see their article [1] for details, before claiming something is impossible.
TL;DR: They check how many ads and trackers are on websites and punish those in the sorting.
Most of the useless websites are full of affiliate links, ads and tracking so they naturally get downgraded.
If you’re talking about a niche topic with only one result you obviously still get that one result, but I’d argue for most search terms the issue lies in ordering the very many results.
It's back up as of now!
Personal email servers will communicate with each other happily but you need a middleman one for important recipients if you want to be sure it gets into an inbox.
Gmail has specific bulk (!) sender requirements, which to my knowledge don’t include a blanket downranking of residential and „VPS“ IPs (the latter are just datacenter IPs anyways). You need TLS, SPF, DKIM, DNS and reverse DNS entries that align, ideally DMARC and that’s pretty much it.
https://support.google.com/a/answer/81126?hl=en#zippy=%2Creq...
At one point I misconfigured a relay as unauthenticated and we got abused by spammers for a day. We got put on all sorts of blacklists within hours and got our IPs cleared self-service immediately after fixing the issue.
If you just send emails completely unauthenticated, yes they will be blocked.