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navane commented on Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now dosaygo-studio.github.io/... · Posted by u/keepamovin

hn_throwaway_99 · 5 days ago

This is awesome, but minor quibble with the title - "hallucinates" is the wrong verb here. You specifically asked it to make up a 10-year-in-the-future HN frontpage, and that's exactly what it did. "Hallucinates" means when it randomly makes stuff up but purports it to be the truth. If some one asks me to write a story for a creative writing class, and I did, you wouldn't say I "hallucinated" the story.

navane · 5 days ago

It so very weird to see this called "hallucinate", as we all have more or less used it for "made up erroneously".

Is this a push to override the meaning and erase the hallucination critique?

navane commented on Self-hosting my photos with Immich michael.stapelberg.ch/pos... · Posted by u/birdculture

jasonjayr · 9 days ago

You get a link and you can set read or write permissions on it.

Whoever gets that link can browse it in a web browser.

I've used this to share albums of photos with gatherings of folks; it works very well. It does assume you have your Immich installation publicly available, however. (Not open to the public, but on a publicly accessible web server)

navane · 9 days ago

How safe is that to set up for novice it people? I have a pi with pi-hole on it and am thinking about putting immich on it but the fact that it exposes itself outside my LAN frightens me.

navane commented on John Giannandrea to retire from Apple apple.com/newsroom/2025/1... · Posted by u/robbiet480

sfblah · 13 days ago

Siri's awfulness really is a thing to behold. I haven't used an android phone in a while. For those users out there, does its voice assistant actually work?

navane · 13 days ago

I use it almost daily, to set timers and alarms

navane commented on Stopping bad guys from using my open source project (feedback wanted) evanhahn.com/stopping-bad... · Posted by u/emschwartz

generalizations · 15 days ago

No, I did not. From the article. This is, unfortunately, a straightforward case of poorly-considered moralizing with extremely bad consequences.

> Overall, these ideas lead me to believe that the open source movement needs to see itself as in a larger social context. Can we shift the balance of power away from massive companies and their massive harms? Can we prevent Nazis from using our software? Should we even try?

> I know my goal: shift the default in open source from “it’s free for anyone to use” to “please don’t use this if you’re evil”. I don’t just want to do this for my little project; I want to slowly change the discourse. I’m not sure how to do that effectively, if it’s even possible.

navane · 14 days ago

Whoops you're right. I read it twice and completely overlooked that part. Also one of the seven bullet points points in that direction.

I read it as a more "big corps exploiting open source devs" take (as were six out of seven bullet points), but they did indeed slip that in, and concluded with it even.

navane commented on Stopping bad guys from using my open source project (feedback wanted) evanhahn.com/stopping-bad... · Posted by u/emschwartz

generalizations · 15 days ago

Sounds good, but what happens when everyone else uses ideological purity filters too?

Because if what this guy is saying is reasonable, then it immediately follows that it's also reasonable for every ideology and religion to exclude the ones they don't like. For example: how does an antisimetic software license strike you? Because that would be a perfectly reasonable license for some people to enact, and fully justified by this article's logic.

Do unto others, and all that.

navane · 15 days ago

No, what is deemed evil by this blog, is what exploites open source. For open source software, that's very relevant.

Just like anti democratic values are relevant for democracies.

Don't straw man this.

navane commented on The Nerd Reich – Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy simonandschuster.com/book... · Posted by u/brunohaid

n4r9 · 17 days ago

Thiel is probably the most obvious example, being explicitly anti-democracy and pro-authoritarian. Musk is also known for endorsing fringe far-right views and activists. I wouldn't be surprised if there are many more such attitudes in the SV elite, but the rest of them are better at self-regulating.

navane · 17 days ago

Musk was literally campaigning for the German right wing nationalist party.

navane commented on When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/... · Posted by u/goldenskye

NaomiLehman · a month ago

are these bad things?

navane · a month ago

No. It's just ironic to see them coming from a capitalist demagogue desguised as a republican.

navane commented on I don’t need a Steam Machine brainbaking.com/post/2025... · Posted by u/ingve

Surac · a month ago

Kudos to the author. I also will not buy a steam Box. But i appreciate the effect it will have on gaming and Linux. I use Mint and use steam to play my games just fine. For some games it is a little bit shaky. Game company’s now have a incentive to make gaming just feel right on a Linux machine much more than like the switch deck. Just my thinking of course

navane · a month ago

if you read to the end, you'll see he gets one anyway

navane commented on When UPS charged me a $684 tariff on $355 of vintage computer parts oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/... · Posted by u/goldenskye

chrneu · a month ago

>America had no idea how good they had it, in the before times.

The downside is the insane consumption associated with that. Americans are responsible for an insane amount of pollution, far more per capita than any other people in the history of the world, much of which is tied to how easy/cheap it is to order shit we don't need. So, good if ya wanna buy cheap pollution, pretty bad if ya care about the next generation.

navane · a month ago

Tariffs are great for a left wing, socialist, anti-globalist, green agenda.

navane commented on Deepnote, a Jupyter alternative, is going open source deepnote.com/blog/were-op... · Posted by u/zX41ZdbW

knlb · a month ago

The whole post feels like it was edited/modified by ChatGPT; `What we opened — in English, not a changelog`, `Why it matters (no fluff):`, `We are big believers in notebooks — full stop` are patterns that always make me feel like an LLM wrote it (sentence followed by a marketing qualifier).

I really liked Deepnote the product when I last used it, but the post definitely feels off.

navane · a month ago

"We are big believers in notebooks — full stop" could be more succinctly written as "We are big believers in notebooks."