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If only there was an ~11inch one to replace the old 2012 model, possibly the most perfectly portable laptop created.

it's roughly the same physical size, just smaller bezels so bigger screen.

Weird extrapolation. They're popular in lots of places - Law & Order has been running 30 years.

None of this is unique to the UK. I'm old enough to remember 24, the show that whitewashed torture while people were getting renditioned by the CIA.

I'd be more surprised if there was a country where this kind of thing didn't happen.


Once we invented the railway we quickly realised that Oxford Time and London Time being 6 minutes out was not helpful. That was 180 years ago.

We've got about a year before so many people are interacting with LLMs on a daily basis that its style starts to reverse infect human speech and writing

Great insight – Would you like to try and identify some specific "AI-isms" that you've noticed creeping into your own writing or your colleagues' emails lately?

People are okay to use delve now.

This said, there were people that talked like this before LLMs, it didn't develop this whole cloth.

Exactly. LLM's are mimics.

People seem to be going around pointing out that people talk like parrots, when in reality it's parrots talk like people.


I mean, it's both.

Did you develop your own whole language at any point to describe the entire world? No, you, me, and society mimic what is around us.

Humans have the advantage, at least at this point, of being a continuous learning device so we adapt and change with the language use around us.


The article above doesn't read well, at all.

It's not my subject, but it reads as a list of things. There's little exposition.


Gawd Damn LISTICLES!!!! And all of those articles that list in bullet points at the top of the article the summary of the article. And all of those people saying they don't want to read exposition, just give me the bullet points.

It's already happened to me. I've started to have dreams where instead of some sort of interpersonal struggle the entire dream is just a chatbot UI viewport and I'm arguing with an LLM streaming the responses in. Which is super trippy when I become aware its a dream. In the old days I'd dream about playing chess against myself and lose which was quite bizzare feeling because my brain was running both players. But thats totally normal compared to having my brain pretend to be an LLM inside a dream.

My honest take? You're probably right

You are absolutely right.

Here is why you are correct:

- I see what you did there.

- You are always right.


British steak and kidney pudding (a steamed pie of suet pastry) is a truncated cone shape, could go spherical with the right pastry case.

A truncated cone is called a "frustrum" which always seemed fitting to me.

Ethically pure 60s musicians are pretty hard to come by

Ethical humans are pretty hard to come by if you put them under a microscope.

"Not beating women" doesn't require a microscope.

I agree but when you’re dealing with celebrities people sometimes lie and exaggerate, and third parties sometimes extrapolate beyond any semblance of grounded facts. So most people subject to that level of scrutiny and fame are likely to have some allegations against them whether true or not.

Hendrix’s girlfriend Kathy Etchingham claims he never abused her. Some third parties dispute her claims about her relationship.

His arrest record suggests at least some type of altercation with a previous girlfriend but it’s far from clear cut to me.

People are complex and reality is complex. I myself was subject to false accusations about abuse from a disgruntled ex girlfriend (who actually WAS in fact physically and mentally abusive to me and I have the scars to prove it).

But regardless, I have zero issues reflecting on a person’s accomplishments and talents even in the context of them being a horrible person. In fact, I find that part of the intrigue of really talented people. Reality and people are quite multi-dimensional. The only general rule I know is that nobody is perfect and holding up ANYone as some example of moral perfection is almost certainly wrong.


If you're a Mac user, I have a Keychron that fits this description, the Q11. It's basically a split mechanical MacBook keyboard.


Almost. I own a Mistel MD770 which does a very similar arrangement. I strongly dislike the non standard home/end/pgup/pgdown positioning.

Had you asked me how often I use those keys, I would have said hardly ever. Now that I have to suffer that layout, I have realized they are crucial for my typing/usage patterns.


That bugged me about the Q11 at first too, for the same reason. I remapped the keys (which is easy to do) so I had Home/End above backspace, and then the three keys on the right are Del/PgUp/PgDn, and it was pretty easy to get used to without really changing my typing habits. The default layout is truly weird though. I can't imagine using insert more than end.


So it'll have porn?


I wonder if American citizens from states which requires age verification to access porn (25 US states today) will be fine with it or these states will start demanding ID to access freedom.gov. It would be delicious irony.


Or, since it's apparently run by HHS, surely they will protect people looking for resources about abortion, hormones, etc.

Real rich material coming from the government demanding it's biggest Internet companies unmask government critics.


Pretty sure it will be like TrumpRX. Big PR blitz and when the details are exposed, a nothing burger.


Right. Porn will probably be most of the traffic. The number of people in Europe who really want to access US neo-Nazi sites is probably not large.


There is a lot more blocked than porn and neo-nazis. This will also allow access to sites that block access because of laws: Imgur is not accessible from the uk, nor are a lot of smaller US news sites. Ofcom are after 4 chan too.


Oh no! Not 4chan.

How ever will we Europeans keep up with the latest theories about which celebrities are actually AI influencers.


Sounds like censorship is already becoming normalized in the EU and UK. Terrifying.


First off, the UK isn't in the EU, and 2nd, not a single website is blocked for me here in the Netherlands, quite literally none. I can access Discord without an ID, I can watch all the porn I want, I can pirate anything I want from anywhere etc.

How many states require IDs to go to porn sites, again? How many journos is it now that Trump blacklisted from the White House? Yeah, lotta freedoms over there...


> First off, the UK isn't in the EU

I would guess that is why the GP said "EU and UK"

> ot a single website is blocked for me here in the Netherlands, quite literally none

One EU country. At the very least I know you have censored search results as that is an EU wide requirement of the right to be forgotten.

> I can pirate anything I want from anywhere etc.

Multiple EU countries are blocking pirate sites. https://torrentfreak.com/european-isps-complain-about-dispro...

Some countries have very broad definitions of hate speech.

There are definitely American sites that block EU visitors because of the cost/risk of GDPR compliance.


> At the very least I know you have censored search results as that is an EU wide requirement of the right to be forgotten.

How is the right to be forgotten a bad thing exactly? You can't request a news article be deleted if you're a prominent public figure for obvious reasons, but if you're a random Joe Schmoe then being able to force companies to take down things they've collected about you is a good thing.

And are you implying search engines in the US don't have things "censored" all the time anyway? If you look up basically any form of media on Google, at the bottom will be a large list of links removed due to DMCA takedowns. Hell, Youtube literally steals all ad revenue from creators hit with DMCA takedowns, even falsified ones, where's your complaint about Google censoring its own creators?

> Multiple EU countries are blocking pirate sites

And that's idiotic, but definitionally not the case in "The EU" as can be seen by my country which is part of The EU, the Netherlands, not blocking access to any pirate sites. I would know, I pirate media quite literally every single day of my life, both private and public trackers without even having a VPN or anything of the sort. I'm sure it's not the only EU country to not block anything, even though corrupt idiots in Spain and Italy also exist.

> There are definitely American sites that block EU visitors because of the cost/risk of GDPR compliance.

I mean, good? If business are so incompetent/malicious that they can't even comply with the GDPR, which just states that users have to be informed and have to give explicit consent to companies harvesting their data, then they can fuck off. If your company goes bankrupt because the GDPR makes it impossible to earn money, good riddance to that parasitic business model I say, maybe get a real revenue stream that doesn't rely on fucking over every single one of your users instead? The people who are against GDPR are really telling on themselves and how little they respect their own users.

But anyways wtf does the GDPR have to do with "censorship" or hate speech? If anything this sounds like you're arguing that the US companies are the ones doing the censorship, considering they're the ones blocking it for EU users (apparently, I've literally never come across a blocked page due to GDPR, and it's not like California doesn't have similarly stringent regulations either like the CCPA).

Next you're going to tell me HIPAA is censorship as well.


> How is the right to be forgotten a bad thing exactly? You can't request a news article be deleted if you're a prominent public figure for obvious reasons,

Criminals and politicians have used it to get removed from search results. The news article might be there, but no one will find it.

> I'm sure it's not the only EU country to not block anything, even though corrupt idiots in Spain and Italy also exist.

Exactly my point. You cannot generalise about the EU and say "it does not happen in the EU"

> And are you implying search engines in the US don't have things "censored" all the time anyway?

I never said that!

> I mean, good? If business are so incompetent/malicious that they can't even comply with the GDPR

So, to be clear, you think its good that people in the EU cannot read some news sources?

> I've literally never come across a blocked page due to GDPR

Maybe your interests are too mainstream. I often find news stories I would like to read that are blocked for people from the UK and EU.


> Criminals and politicians have used it to get removed from search results. The news article might be there, but no one will find it.

Sure, there have doubtlessly been some cases of people abusing it, but that's an argument for refining how the law works, not scrapping the right entirely. The alternative is just "companies can collect and display whatever they want about anyone forever with zero recourse," which is obviously worse. If anything the fix is clearer rules about who qualifies, not throwing the whole thing out.

> Exactly my point. You cannot generalise about the EU and say "it does not happen in the EU"

Fair enough, and I'll concede that. But the same goes the other way, you can't make a blanket statement like "websites in the EU are censored/blocked" when that's simply not true in every EU country. Most people on HN talk about "The EU" like it's a singular borg entity with identical laws across the board, which it isn't.

> So, to be clear, you think its good that people in the EU cannot read some news sources?

The sites choosing not to serve EU users is on them, not the EU. The GDPR doesn't say "block European visitors," it says "if you collect their data, follow these rules." The sites are making a business decision that compliance isn't worth it, which again just tells you everything about how central harvesting user data is to their whole operation. If a news site is literally non-functional without hoovering up your personal data without consent, that's not the EU's fault, and frankly no one should be giving these privacy ruining entities anything anyways if that's the case.

You can't dump chemicals into the water table just because proper disposal is inconvenient and expensive, why do we suddenly clutch our pearls when the same logic is applied to people's privacy?

> Maybe your interests are too mainstream. I often find news stories I would like to read that are blocked for people from the UK and EU.

I read pretty niche stuff and have never once hit a wall here in NL. What specifically are you being blocked from? It's not something I've ever run into.


> Most people on HN talk about "The EU" like it's a singular borg entity with identical laws across the board, which it isn't.

Certainly true, and similarly in the US. Every US state makes their own laws. Some states want Porn ID, and some don't. And therefore don't have it.


If 4chan is unimportant, why is it being censored?

Amazed to see so many government bootlickers on "hacker" news these days.

Gone are the days of the misfits and pirates and the innovators.

"Tie me up and tell me what I'm allowed to do daddy government, I will agree no matter what, you know what's best."


Previous propaganda channels from the government couldn't legally be broadcast within the US itself, so it's possible they'll try to pull the same thing here.


Government mandated uncensored free porn access. I wonder if this will this also apply in US states requiring age verification to legally access such content?


They will probably (first) have to bounce off freedom.ccTLD for any ccTLD but .us.


> we've had many generations as a developed nation now

Have you? Jim Crow apartheid was in place in my parents lifetime. I don't care how many cars and ship you make, that ain't developed.


You're right, but "don't blame us, we were investing our energy in oppressing the blacks" isn't really the greatest excuse for cotton belt states when it comes to their education and gdp numbers.


Voice audiobook player is so nice and simple, a pleasure to use


I recently PR'ed some improvements within the search (series and part are now searchable).

I also made a custom fork with some quality of life improvements, like series and part visible on screen, headset remote click patterns (tap for play/pause, double-tap for next, etc.).

Currently I'm working on a totally DIY build offline audio (book) player with the footprint a bit bigger than the iPod Nano 7g that maybe never will be finished, but ATM it is fun to work on... (see https://github.com/sandreas/rust-slint-riscv64-musl-demo for the testing repo and https://github.com/nanowave-player/nanowave-ui for the latest code I'm working on)


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