VPN use will increase.
Readit Newsthrowaway843 commented on Tell HN: Online Safety Act to be enforced in the UK on July 25th · Posted by u/trycatchthroawy
Just don't watch YouTube.
Everything became junk when primed for 10-12, or 26-30 minutes - a race to the bottom. AI's a further nail into what YT was.
This is some remarkable intuition. Electromagnetism wasn't even developed as a theory. To observe such varied phenomena like how nerves communicate or what comprises matter or the behaviour of light and postulate they might all have something in common and something to do with the attraction/repulsion seen when objects are rubbed together, is incredible. Was the idea very unique for its time or did scientists at the time hold similar ideas? Do you think it was just a lucky guess in the end that the world didn't turn out to be more complex or was there some reason behind this craziness?
The world was very pious then. To have written that paragraph a century earlier may have resulted in ostracizm. To have written it like that was enough given the limited backing that ould be given. It was enough to influence those around and after Newton, it was, in that sense, remarkable.
It was falling behind. The dodgy stores were getting more creative and Fakespot needed to play catch up.
You've got stores that would include a $5-$20 coupon/gift card in the item in exchange for a positive review. Sure, this didn't 1:1 translate but if a user did it would look like a legitimate review.
You've got a plethora of LLMs out there just itching to GENERATE.
Then an expensive option I was suprised happened - I bought a Dyson clone vacuum cleaner off of Amazon. A few weeks later, the company emailed me and said 'We have a new model. Buy that one, leave a review, we'll refund the purchase'. So I did it. This happened about 10 more times in 2024. My outdoor shed is entirely stick vacuums.
Feel a bit dirty doing it but that's ok I've got 12 vacuums that can clean my conscience.
I think Fakespot would have difficulty with all 3 of these scenarios.
Dyson always struck me as scammy. All the way back to the 19990s. More proof.
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throwaway843 commented on If macOS is so easy to use, why do I hate using it so much? · Posted by u/pcarroll
MacOS hasn't evolved. It sticks with old paradigms because it's stuck in its ways.
With keyboards, that includes mappings that give RSI and finger strain for the sake of not adding a handful of keys.
For the window manager, that includes non-windowed applications, from a UI perspective never moving on from single application views - just giving an illusion of multiple apps.
Despite the strides NextSTEP brought Apple as an OS, some of which shows through at the command line, the UI and UX just hasn't moved on.
REGEX that's incompatible with Office doesn't win users.
> powerful spreadsheet functions like TEXTSPLIT and VSTACK...
...won't matter to almost anyone when you still can't right-click a row and press 'd' on a keyboard to delete that row. Everyday stuff like that matters, not an oblique function.
I still cannot find my way around the semi-ribbon interface, while half the options are still in menus. It seems like pot luck whether or.not the right-clicked 'format' will have the option. Perhaps it's not even 'format'.
Fancy functions to learn don't matter when ChatGPT can string together existing functions to do the job and leave an average-lay-power-user happy. 365. Meanwhile, python's python-XXXx libraries provide a superior UI, a UI that's entirely in my head, than LibreOffice.
throwaway843 commented on Why email startups fail forwardemail.net/en/blog/... · Posted by u/skeptrune
It seems Forward Email has come to the exact same conclusion I did in a blog post awhile back: https://marcoapp.io/blog/marco-an-introduction
I agree that "reinventing" email, or building a business based on "AI features" are both terrible ideas.
We began building Marco not to do either of these things, but simply because _there wasn't_ any actual cross-platform IMAP client.
Apple Mail exists (but is terrible) if you only have Apple devices. Lots of other options like Superhuman and Shortwave exist, but only support Gmail+Outlook.
All we're doing is building the app that should have existed 10 years ago: a cross-platform, offline-first "Thunderbird". Except far more lightweight and modern. And yes, we've built it from the ground up. And no, it's not Electron.
You seem to be chatting down some perceived tangental competition in order to chat yourself up. That kind of self-promotion's no good. Especially when picking ethereal "your writing sounds weird" ad homineming a decently detailed, reasonably hard-hitting, article.
Perhaps you don't like the conclusions it draws?
You then put words in others mouths. Then cannot leave the thread alone. You've already been called out by failing to pander some cheap anti-Electron sloganeering to the HN crowd, too.
I suggest, if you're going to talk-up your APP, to do so by focusing on positives. Perhaps read some posts by people that promote successfully, such as patio11.
If they are not conscious, does that make them unconscious? And if so, do they snore?
throwaway843 commented on If you care about money or power, stay close to AI twitter.com/paulg/status/... · Posted by u/dsrtslnd23
If you want an 'in' to money and power, stay close to AI as money and power's been convinced enough to get insecure about it thus chase it with existential money and power.
To be fair, this happened a couple of years ago but continued stoking of the insecurity flames is required.
If, however, you already have an 'in' to money and power, no action needed unless one's ego wants more, is deranged, etc.