I was hoping to read a post about some tiny LLM running in the browser to do live adblocking.
Once I see the first ad in an LLM I'm paying for, I'll stop using it and cancel my subscription. It's that easy. If that means I'll be missing out on some fancy new model or if that rules out an entire vendor because they trained all of their models with ad-injection, so be it. Of course I can't trust anything from any model, this will distort the relationship between my
My browser is at least somewhat neutral and since it's a client connecting to various systems outside of my control, applying some client-side filtering to get rid of the nonsense some entities push into my direction, is basically just self defense I'll have to live with.
But once I'm fighting a dedicated service provider that owns the client and is intent on selling my eyeballs, I'm not gonna spend a minute trying to cleanup whatever they're sending in my direction. There's 0% chance any of it is still trustworthy.
I think the only reason left, that we don't have to use ML to detect ads in YouTube streams, are the legal requirements for visible separation of content and ads. I doubt LLM ads will get more integrated than current Google search results screen. Maybe services that don't have enough "surface" for ads (including all APIs) will move to subscription only model.
You might add Bitcoin, Lighting or Monero to your donations page. Would've gladly dropped you a few bucks but I don't use any of the services you're offering.
Thanks for the suggestion, that’s a fair point. I currently rely on a couple of mainstream platforms mainly to keep things simple, but I do see the value in more open and permissionless options like Bitcoin/Lightning or Monero.
I’ll definitely consider adding at least one of them going forward. Really appreciate the willingness to support.
> I’m planning a non-intrusive in-app prompt to remind users about donations something subtle, because many users forget once they start using the app, rather than only seeing the donation info in the README.
As I mentioned previously, the above approach seems to be well enough and good.
I actually wish macOS would clone Alt-dragging from anywhere to drag and Alt-right clicking to resize from anywhere from Linux (at least GNOME and KDE Plasma have this built-in). That would certainly solve most of the complaints in the original post.
*GNOME features, not Linux features. No such issues over here on KDE.
I have often felt like GNOME is the most Apple-y of desktop environments; they're very form over function. Not surprising to me at all that both would pick a design that seems beautiful until you try to use it.
Shortly after Windows 10 came out I was joking that Microsoft finally made a Linux distribution (by replicating all the jankiness we usually associate with it).
I believe the parent is referring to how GNOME 3.0 had some really bad resizing grabs. Single-pixel widths at the edges, and almost impossible to hit corners.
I was about to suggest Xfce as an example where window resizing is effortless due to the <super>+<right click> behavior. You can just grab the rough sector of a window to resize it.
> Yeah, because millions of people are just stupid remote-controlled robotic zombies who will, upon a command of the CIA, go into the streets against Basij thugs who are willing to shoot at them.
What a lazy and ignorant attempt of spinning this. That's on the same level as the "so many people would know, no one could keep it a secret" fact check drivel. You don't need people to be stupid, "remote-controlled" nor robotic zombies. You just need to keep on funding assets, recruit new people and the seeds will form a groundwork sooner or later.
> But I find the opinion that everyone in the world just obediently dances by someone's flute quite dehumanizing.
Basically no one means this when they speak of regime change operations and people participating in it.
I know a few activists who were involved in sending dialup numbers to fax machines during the Arab Spring during the Internet blackout in Egypt and most of them are pretty much aware that they were mostly pawns for Western governments.
Iranian economy is absolutely terrible, their government hangs people like there is no tomorrow, the ayatollahs dip their beaks into every viable business and steal like crows, the official ideology of the system is a primitive medieval theocracy pushed on educated and modern people. Plus the very same government, after spending a lot of money on arming itself, proved incapable of beating back an aerial assault of the "Little Satan" back in June.
If I lived in Iran, I would need no CIA to be angry about the status quo.
> Basically no one means this when they speak of regime change operations and people participating in it.
They do though. Spinning the 2014 Maidan Revolution as a fully illegitimate CIA-backed coup (with the implicit conclusion that it's against the will of the people) is one of the main rhetorical pillars used to justify Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
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