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prox commented on How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs arxiv.org/abs/2512.04047... · Posted by u/50kIters

SCdF · 12 days ago

I've only read the abstract, but there is also plenty of evidence to suggest that people trust the output of LLMs more than other forms of media (or that they should). Partially because it feels like it comes from a place of authority, and partially because of how self confident AI always sounds.

The LLM bot army stuff is concerning, sure. The real concern for me is incredibly rich people with no empathy for you or I, having interstitial control of that kind of messaging. See, all of the grok ai tweaks over the past however long.

prox · 12 days ago

And just see all of history where totalitarians or despotic kings were in power.

prox commented on WinApps: Run Windows apps as if they were a part of the native Linux OS github.com/winapps-org/wi... · Posted by u/klaussilveira

GaryBluto · 17 days ago

I see it's time for the bimonthly reinvention of VirtualBox and VMWare's seamless modes from a few faceless techies on GitHub and designed for people who can't be bothered to use WINE or VirtualBox.

prox · 17 days ago

As someone who is looking to go Linux, do most windows apps work now through Wine or VirtualBox ? I know Valve did a lot of work for games.

It’s been 4 years since I even took a good look at it.

prox commented on Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC geacron.com/home-en/... · Posted by u/not_knuth

pell · a month ago

In a grand view removed 1000 years from now the introduction of digital communication and their network effects must have been pivotal though even if it was in a negative way (which very well may be). I just doubt that would then be a point about Facebook specifically as this is just a tiny slice of that era, I think.

prox · a month ago

MySpace was much earlier, as well as a few other forerunners

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prox commented on Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper windowslatest.com/2025/11... · Posted by u/DearAll

monegator · a month ago

I keep fighting with devs that want to use web-everything.

Luckily for me, i have the ultimate power so i can just say "Firefox doesn't support that. I don't use chrome. period."

But lately i had to start saying Safari doesn't support that so we would lose all iphones, or we can start investigate after we have a working solution. God damn react.

prox · a month ago

It’s such a mess isn’t it.

prox commented on Visible from space, Sudan's bloodied sands expose a massacre of thousands telegraph.co.uk/world-new... · Posted by u/wslh

culi · a month ago

Sudan is the 3rd largest producer of gold in Africa but it remains the poorest country in Africa because the companies that exploit those resources are never Sudanese.

The RSF got their weapons by acting as mercenaries for the UAE to fight against the Houthis in Yemen. Fighting as a mercenary is pretty much the only reliable source of income for many people in the country.

prox · a month ago

From wikipedia :

On examination of photos and videos of weapons used in the conflict that were posted on social media, the rights group identified that companies registered in China, Iran, Russia, Serbia, and the UAE were associated with the weapons provided to RSF.[96] Human Rights Watch reviewed images of show crates with markings indicating they were manufactured in 2020 and initially acquired by the UAE Armed Forces in through a contract with Adasi, a subsidiary of UAE-based weapons manufacturer Edge Group. A January 2024 report by the UN Panel of Experts on Sudan deemed the UAE's alleged support to the RSF as "credible"

According to Business Insider, "The two generals helped Russian President Vladimir Putin exploit Sudan's gold resources to help buttress Russian finances against Western sanctions and fund his war in Ukraine."[108]

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prox commented on Affinity Studio now free affinity.studio/get-affin... · Posted by u/dagmx

dannyw · 2 months ago

Thank you (long-time Affinity user and fan, and Canva employee here :)

Re. on-device AI features: these still have significant training costs; and Canva as a whole has paid hundreds of millions to date in royalties to creatives, including for AI training.

Affinity is free, forever; but not open source; if that makes sense.

prox · 2 months ago

I am sorry, but for me the app just died. That may sound dramatic but the promise at acquisition was that nothing would change. The picture that was drawn is that we would get a v3. Sure I would suspect some canva integration, but again, not a whole redo and relaunch that seems at first glance nothing like what we had, and completely taken over into the Canva system.

Also free is never free.

prox commented on Carlo Rovelli’s radical perspective on reality quantamagazine.org/carlo-... · Posted by u/vismit2000

sanskarix · 2 months ago

That second quote hits hard. Physics got so good at answering questions that people forgot to check if they were asking the right ones. Same thing happens in tech - we're really good at optimizing for metrics, terrible at asking if those metrics matter.

prox · 2 months ago

This falls in line with the absolute rarity of questioning your own assumptions. In my experience few do.

The amount of people looking outward only is too damn high, as the saying goes.