marapuru (u/marapuru)

marapuru commented on Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge businessinsider.com/anthr... · Posted by u/pyman

reaperducer · 2 months ago

Apparently it's a common business practice.

It's not a common business practice. That's why it's considered newsworthy.

People on the internet have forgotten that the news doesn't report everyday, normal, common things, or it would be nothing but a listing of people mowing their lawns or applying for business loans. The reason something is in the news is because it is unusual or remarkable.

"I saw it online, so it must happen all the time" is a dopy lack of logic that infects society.

marapuru · 2 months ago

You are right on that. I’ll edit my post to reflect that.

Edit: Apologies, I can’t edit it anymore.

marapuru commented on Anthropic cut up millions of used books, and downloaded 7M pirated ones – judge businessinsider.com/anthr... · Posted by u/pyman

marapuru · 2 months ago

Apparently it's a common business practice. Spotify (even though I can't find any proof) seems to have build their software and business on pirated music. There is some more in this Article [0].

https://torrentfreak.com/spotifys-beta-used-pirate-mp3-files...

Funky quote:

> Rumors that early versions of Spotify used ‘pirate’ MP3s have been floating around the Internet for years. People who had access to the service in the beginning later reported downloading tracks that contained ‘Scene’ labeling, tags, and formats, which are the tell-tale signs that content hadn’t been obtained officially.

marapuru commented on Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot support.mozilla.org/en-US... · Posted by u/phantomathkg

interestica · 4 months ago

Kobo (ereader) + Pocket was always just an amazing and low friction combo. This blows.

marapuru · 4 months ago

Yep, this got me hooked on pocket as well. I had/have so many articles on there that ar easy to read on a bus / train / plane or in bed before falling asleep.

And the reasons to shutdown are pretty lame. “ But the way people save and consume content on the web has evolved, so we’re channeling our resources into projects that better match browsing habits today.”

It worked for me? And probably at least hundreds or thousands others?

marapuru commented on The top 10% owns 87% of the stocks awealthofcommonsense.com/... · Posted by u/jasdi

Gasp0de · 6 months ago

I was very surprised by the holiday budget. Less than 2500$ for 80% of the population? Does that mean that no one from these 80% stays in a Hotel or AirBnB for longer than a week with their family? No one travels overseas, or if so, only every 5 years or so? 2000$ is what you can easily spend on plane tickets for a family of 4.

marapuru · 6 months ago

In the Netherlands, a financial advisory board (NIBUD) advises people to save 10% of their income. The average yearly income being around € 45K comes to a € 4.5K yearly saving. Deduct unexpected costs + that you want to spend part of this on actual savings _and_ realizing that many people don't manage to save that much due to increasing prices + senseless spending (subscriptions, fast fashion, etc.) makes it much less surprising.

Also, Hotels and Airbnb's are incredibly expensive (even for me, working a decent job with a good income) for families. That's why i chose campings over hotels and bought a decent tent.

marapuru commented on Show HN: An AI-powered book software to write a book in hours firstbook.ai/... · Posted by u/casb

marapuru · 7 months ago

And what happens with you as an author building up a sizeable amount if experience while writing?

Yes it makes you produce a book faster, but I feel you lose a lot of knowledge buildup along the way.

marapuru commented on Show HN: I center aligned Paul Graham's website and published a Chrome extension github.com/ktkaushik/paul... · Posted by u/kaushikt

marapuru · 7 months ago

It's a nice hobby project, but why not just use a browsers built-in reader mode? It has all the same features, and works on (almost) any website.

marapuru commented on Meta Censoring '#Democrat' on Instagram mstdn.chrisalemany.ca/@ch... · Posted by u/vool

tmountain · 8 months ago

It's not a bug, people are reporting a long list of phrases that follow the same patterns (pro Trump, anti Democrat).

marapuru · 8 months ago

Can you link to where you find more reports? Is that in the Mastodon thread?

marapuru commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024) · Posted by u/david927

vldmrs · 10 months ago

Thank you, dinosaurs are in my TODO list

p.s. - my son is an expert at dinos, not sure why I haven’t added them

marapuru · 10 months ago

Cool, hopefully it will be in your top downloads ;-)

marapuru commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2024) · Posted by u/david927

vldmrs · 10 months ago

I've noticed that my son spends way too much time on YouTube or playing Minecraft and one of the few offline activities he enjoys doing on his own is coloring. And since he comes to me every time he wants a new coloring book and we spend about 10 minutes together searching for each picture, I made a website with a collection of coloring books for him. The site is very simple, but to be honest, I haven't had so much fun with the process of creation for a long time.

https://colorango.com/

marapuru · 10 months ago

Great stuff! I tend to generate some colouring pages on the fly but these look great.

Can you add dinosaurs?

marapuru commented on A photographer captures life in America's last remaining old-growth forests npr.org/sections/the-pict... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo

Diederich · a year ago

Last night, just before full darkness, I was walking through the woods around our home in rural western Washington state and quite suddenly I'm looking at a surprised black bear. It was perhaps 4 meters away and immediately stood up and started huffing. I shouted at it and calmly walked away.

We don't live in a true old-growth forest, but it's pretty close. There are definitely many hundred year old trees.

We manage our five acres very, very minimally, and we're actively re-foresting most of the ~1ac of yards that were mowed prior to us moving here in 2020.

As another commenter said, this is the most beautiful natural environment I've ever seen, and we're extremely grateful that this has become our forever home.

marapuru · a year ago

Thank you for sharing this encounter and for re-foresting the land.