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New comment by benhurmarcel in "Back to Kagi"

benhurmarcel — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:52:47 +0000

I do the same thing, I only use Kagi when the result I want isn’t obvious, so the cheap plan is plenty. It’s easy to do with the browser’s shortcuts.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Airbus Takes Flight from AWS"

benhurmarcel — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:15:27 +0000

Well I don’t miss the days of sending Word and Excel files as attachments back and forth to collaborate

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Airbus Takes Flight from AWS"

benhurmarcel — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:12:41 +0000

Because you could get a bug fixed in Outlook before?

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Global Warming at 3 °C by 2050? What's Behind the New German Climate Warning"

benhurmarcel — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:50:42 +0000

No, it’s 18°F. This is a temperature difference, not an absolute temperature, the conversion isn’t the same.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "AI content is everywhere on social media, especially LinkedIn"

benhurmarcel — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:20:15 +0000

By email this is true but you can’t do that as well by chat or texts. You only get one thread per contact.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "CarPlay Is Additive"

benhurmarcel — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 08:54:01 +0000

When I plan to use a rental car I usually pack a phone holder that fits on air vents. You never know if you’ll be able to connect your phone to the car so that’s a small backup.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"

benhurmarcel — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:21:19 +0000

It has its quirks. For example it can’t attach an image without inlining it. Or if the sender has several email addresses saved it can’t show which one sent you a particular email. And it can’t show you which of your email addresses received a given email.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

benhurmarcel — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:41:54 +0000

Because you don't trust Google either, so you're out of realistic options

New comment by benhurmarcel in "How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown"

benhurmarcel — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:32:49 +0000

> If there's a conflict on the server and your change cannot be applied, your change is rolled back on your client

Do you lose your data then? Or are you thrown back into the form after it closed?

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Three Ways to Get Paid (2018)"

benhurmarcel — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:01:18 +0000

Only if you actually try to achieve them

New comment by benhurmarcel in "It's Not Just X. It's Y"

benhurmarcel — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:04:56 +0000

Exactly, without talking about automated checkers or publishing policies, if a text gives readers the impression is was LLM-generated it will affect how they judge it.

Recently a contractor presented a small internal tool they made for a very specific task. The UI text gave a direct impression to be entirely LLM-generated with no human edition. It makes the entire tool look vibe-coded, affecting how we judge it. Now I question whether they even reviewed the functionality correctness, which I wouldn't doubt if the UI didn't look generated.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL"

benhurmarcel — Sun, 31 May 2026 20:04:32 +0000

I got locked out of some websites by Cloudflare Turnstile on some very standard configurations, like an iPhone on Safari, or a Windows 11 desktop with Firefox or Edge, neither with a VPN on. I never found out why.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

benhurmarcel — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:23:17 +0000

Now add up the engineer’s salary and you’ll find that software seats already cost more than those R&D ones.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

benhurmarcel — Tue, 26 May 2026 08:52:10 +0000

I often use LLMs to suggest recipes based on some criterias, but yes once you decided what you want to cook always go find some non-IA recipes for it

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links"

benhurmarcel — Sun, 24 May 2026 21:37:08 +0000

And then we have the national post office sending its notifications from the scammiest-looking domain they could find: noreply@notif-colissimo-laposte.info

New comment by benhurmarcel in "The IBM-ification of Google?"

benhurmarcel — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:16:19 +0000

It has a good title

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can"

benhurmarcel — Fri, 22 May 2026 07:53:18 +0000

Can it store multiple urls for the same password now?

New comment by benhurmarcel in "Why is almost everyone right-handed? A new study connects it to bipedalism"

benhurmarcel — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:53:56 +0000

I’m left handed and can use a mouse with either hand. It’s just a matter of habit.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens"

benhurmarcel — Sun, 17 May 2026 16:34:37 +0000

In his case of a large company, I’d expect that completing the useless training is necessary to get access to the tool. That’s how it worked in mine.

New comment by benhurmarcel in "EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids"

benhurmarcel — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:20:58 +0000

If you disable your watch history, Youtube won't show you personalized Shorts anymore. Much less addictive.