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  • What are the craziest misconceptions you’ve heard about programming from people not familiar with it?

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  • The things that make me a good programmer:

    1. I read error messages
    2. I put those errors in Google
    3. I read the results that come up

    Even among my peers, that gives me a leg up apparently.

  • Why the recent Mozilla news isn't actually a big deal

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  • The people who make up the 2% market share using Firefox overlaps with the people tired of AI - specifically LLMs - being shoved into everything.

    Mozilla just released a LLM-driven website generator a few months ago. Why are we assuming they won't add something similar to Firefox?

    If Mozilla wants to use machine learning, awesome. But how about we treat the techies who support them like adults and say "machine learning" instead of using the AI buzzword which is overloaded.

  • Another “patent troll” defeated by Cloudflare and its army of bounty seekers

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  • NewEgg is such a shell of its former self. They went from fighting patent trolls to platforming scammers.

  • Queer.af mastodon domain has been seized by the Taliban

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  • I doubt most people know that country TLDs are different from vanity TLDs. I know when I look up domains, they're usually all smooshed together and then the terms are in a giant block of ToS.

  • YouTube Premium announces 100 million subscribers

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  • I want the creators I watch on YouTube to continue to get paid, both from YouTube and their sponsors. My contributions through premium are sliver of what they see, but if everyone stopped supporting them in that way, the total would be zero.

    I back some of them on Patreon where I can, but it's not economically feasible for me to back them all in such a way.

  • YouTube Premium announces 100 million subscribers

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  • Yeah, as someone who gets good mileage with YouTube Premium, I wish they offered a version just for ads without music. YouTube music sucks hard, but I can't justify paying for another music app on top of it.

  • YouTube now suggests new content by colour

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  • The fact that Google started as a search company and yet search in their own apps sucks is boggling.

    In YouTube Music, when you're building a tuner to create a station, you can't search at all. Instead, you get an endless scroll off bands and have to find the one you want that way. The order is random.

    Like .. Pandora let you do the same thing with search back in the 00's

  • Microsoft endorses anti-LGBTQ online "child safety" bill KOSA night before Big Tech hearing (US Politics)

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  • I agree with you, and normally like posts to just use the original headline, but in this case, it feels like the newspaper is pro-KOSA. They mention in the article hundreds of organizations support the legislation but don't mention the hundreds that have opposed it.

    Perhaps something like "Microsoft president endorses online child safety bill night before Big Tech hearing [Bill is opposed by EFF over censorship concerns]" would be a better way to handle adding context.

  • Shutting down Artifact

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  • Their recommendation algorithm was terrible. It just sent me every article from BookRiot and any article that mentioned whiskey.

  • 'It hasn't delivered': The spectacular failure of self-checkout technology

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  • Well that's some bull. The software knows what items are covered and which aren't, so that's just assuming folks needing help are thieves.

  • 'It hasn't delivered': The spectacular failure of self-checkout technology

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  • At Giant, I'm pretty sure it's decided by the system based on some algorithm, not the employee. The one time I was audited, we were in the store for a long time and had removed a few items from the cart after adding them.

    The audit consisted of the employee scanning ten random items and confirming we had scanned them too.

  • Authy is shutting down its desktop app - The Verge

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  • Literally went to every site in Authy and removed 2FA and then re-added it with the new app.

  • Authy is shutting down its desktop app - The Verge

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  • Spent an hour last night moving to 2FAS. Authy doesn't make it easy -- unlike their competitors, they don't offer an export feature.

  • Authy authenticator apps for desktop are being discontinued in August 2024 (Apple Silicon not included)

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  • I can't tell from their page -- is it syncing via a SaaS service or just out to a file store like Google Drive?

    Edit: It does sync with Google Drive and file exports. No SaaS component that I can see.

  • Kagi Reacts to Backlash

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  • They already said that the Brave API is cheaper for them. That's the motive. They keep charging the same but pay less.

  • Kagi is now partnering with Brave

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  • Right. They flat out said the Brave API is cheaper.

  • Mozilla 2023 Annual Report: CEO pay skyrockets, while Firefox Marketshare nosedives

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  • You mean you don't see the synergy between Firefox and an AI landing page generator? /s

  • Reddit Falls Short of Ad Growth Targets Ahead of Likely 2024 IPO

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  • Yeah. I use DNS-level blocking too, but it's not something I can roll out to my non-technical family members. They understand turning off the browser extension if things don't work, but not adding a DNS whitelist and then waiting / clearing DNS.

  • Reddit Falls Short of Ad Growth Targets Ahead of Likely 2024 IPO

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  • Reddit expects to finish this year with ad revenue ... slightly over $800 million... Reddit had said two years ago it aimed to exceed $1 billion in ad revenue by 2023...

    So they missed their two year goal by 20%. They had forecasted a 2.9x growth and achieved 2.3x

    When it comes time to IPO, they'll just blame the economy and ad blockers, while showing how many users they forced into their app where ad blocking is harder.