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It feels if they were a slightly smarter and not had made an announcement that about such fact they would have gotten away with it hell, this probably happens all the time, but other administrations maybe were more discreet. Be that as it may, regardless of this decision, which can be appealed by the way, there is that saying: there is nothing more coward than money – and would argue power as well. A single discreet Trump meting with Tim Cook, and Trump saying "I would be really happy if you removed that app, and not tell anyone that I asked you for it", could have been enough.

It seems these sort decisions are fundamentally useless:

* It doesn't even force companies to reinstate such apps.

* It doesn't give any constitutional right for apps to be on the app stores.

* It doesn't force companies to allow people to install apps from whatever they want, which would be by far the best solution

Hell, even if there were a public register of Trump asking them to remove an app, you could always argue, "Well, anyone, regardless of them being president of the United States or not, is free to ask for an app to be removed; anyone could theoretically demand and protest anything, and Trump, as any citizen, has this right" (not saying I agree with that thesis, to be clear).

But I do believe the whole point highlights a bigger problem: a negative relation between big corporations and the government. I'm not sure how anyone would solve it. Maybe by sidelining the whole issue by making it easier for people to install apps from whatever the fuck they want, without the app stores gatekeeping what software one installs on their device.

But if anything, we are moving far away from that, even on Android

What I would agree or say, is that if you debloat and update Windows, the update will most likely undo whatever you did, and well, that's part of the game. I usually solve this by disabling updates and deciding when I will update the system, so I'm prepared and have reserved time to re-apply the patches on that day.

You could use youtube-dl to download the all automatic subtitles those videos and then search.

Also, related project: https://filmot.com/search/radiohead%20/1/1?sortField=uploadd...

It allows you to do text to full search on youtube videos. The project obviously didn't index ALL youtube videos subtitles, but it easily index millions of youtube subtitles.

The issue is that Sora ended up getting the short end of the stick: by generating the footage, it became the primary target of complaints. Meanwhile, they were forced to remove the videos, but people simply took those videos and uploaded them to random social media platforms like Twitter, TikTok, or YouTube, which ended up hosting the content while being much less of a target, since the content wasn’t generated there.

Honestly, I think the only way forward will be to wait for local models to become good enough so that you can run something like Sora locally and generate whatever you want.

For example, I read that Switzerland voted to guarantee the use of physical cash, even enshrining it in the constitution, which clearly points toward preserving older infrastructure. However, if you have cash but no one accepts it, it becomes useless. So it would probably require more—something like requiring businesses and the government to accept that form of payment.

As many things in life, not impossible: but is society willing to pay for that?

https://70s.myretrotvs.com/

Mozilla kill when it moved from XUL to web extension. Mozilla is run by people who don't use Firefox nor care.

https://web.archive.org/web/https://www.devever.net/~hl/webc...

To give an example: I use AutoHotkey, it's a scripting language for Windows that allows you to do a bunch of things. You can customize the keyboard, mouse, you can create menus and toolboxes, you can target specific applications inside. It's a fantastic tool. But it isn't available for Linux for obvious reasons; Linux is much more fragmented. You need like 3 or 5 different programs to achieve the same result in some cases, depending on your given script.

In other words: debloating Windows and customizing it is considerably easier than installing Linux. Let alone some really good software you end up finding along the way: Everything, which is an amazing search program that allows you to create custom categories and the like. EmEditor, which is really good software to open and visualize really large text files, like it can open a 4GB txt with no problems.

About the last sentence:

>If customisability is important

People value both things: customisability but also they value their time (of not having to come up with a new workflow), they value the programs and workflow they already learned to use through the years, and so on and so forth.

Those warnings are stupid.

Like, the technology behind this is no secret at this point. If not China, it will be Russia, or Belarus, or Iran, or whatever. Somewhere with electricity, servers, and a disregard for US intellectual proprietary laws. Also, even in China, I'm really skeptical that they would put filters for Chinese users (unless you are trying to make of Xi Jipinin that it is). The most likely outcome is that America/Europe get safeguards and Chinese users don't, which would lead to a funny situation of Westerners using Chinese VPNs to access a more unrestricted version of the model.

And that's not even to mention open source, which is the future of this tech. Open source, local, censorship-free models that you will be able to run on your home.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47034102

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