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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Yes I do, and a price increase of only $10 (so $30 vs $20) can make a big difference in sound quality for a pair of headphones for work (meetings and some music off Youtube). So it’s not even about hifi (at that price range, of course not), it’s about giving a shit and do a little research / testing before settling on a slightly better low end consumer product. Or, given a certain budget, maximise the quality for it, again, by doing some research beforehand, no matter what you plan to buy. But, most people are lazy.

    When it comes to music, it also depends on a person’s tastes. Ariana Grande sounds the same to me weather played on Sennheiser headphones or a microwave oven.


  • No, logins should be harder in order to be secure. Hence the addition of 2FA (which is also incompatible with your proposal).

    As developers, we strive to make things more secure, not less, and unfortunately, good security always comes with the trade-off of less convenience for the user (larger entropy passwords, session expiration, captchas, etc).

    Now, of course, it depends on how sensible the data in that account is. I wouldn’t want this for my email account, for example, or online password manager, which are the entry gates to all my other accounts. The Kagi search engine offers the possibility to login on another device via a session URL which you can copy-paste. And this is fine, if the site / app clearly states the dangers, implemented it securely, tracks and lists the sessions and allows you to invalidate a session for all devices, and you are fine with potentially disclosing the data for that account (forgetting to log out, or disclose the session URL somewhere) - which is not much, as they don’t log the searches, only the daily counts. And their use-case makes sense, people aren’t used to authenticating in order to search something on the internet.

    So, this should be an optional feature offering from the website / app, not built-in in the browser which would make it trivial to be abused by anyone.









  • Asimov’s laws of robotics only work when the robot knows what “harm” is. The shitty LLMs today we call “AI” are nowhere close to be trusted with an answer to “is it safe to eat this mushroom?” let alone with putting a 200000 RPM drill in their hands then let them operate on a human. It’s utterly irresponsible to give dangerous jobs to robots this soon in their development. But hey, quick profits in a PR bubble.

    Later edit: All of you are right. In retrospective, my comment was stupid and doesn’t make sense in the context. The robot in question isn’t based on LLM (of course it isn’t) and isn’t general AI either, so the issue of “don’t do harm” doesn’t apply.







  • I don’t have children yet in any poll made by my city council I vote for more schools and kindergartens instead of parking lots. And always vote for funding education and stop the man-made climate disaster, because that’s what will keep our species on track. I don’t really care about parents, they made their own choice, just like I did. You chose the responsibility, because it also comes with happiness and a sense of fullfilment. I do care about the children and their future though, and wish future generations have a life at least as happy as I have, because, you know, being alive is awesome. I want humankind to thrive in the future, even if I don’t have any skin in the game, because that’s what an intelligent human being should think like. You were given a chance of life, just give it back. What a skewed, utterly ridiculous point of view you have. If you have that opinion of people without kids, I don’t want to know how you treat actual minorities.