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New comment by louisbourgault in "Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia"

louisbourgault — Wed, 27 May 2026 00:10:34 +0000

If you think about the most salient or well covered things by the news in each of their presidencies, they're right there in the header. I'd say it's difficult to write in an unbiased sense about these issues, and given the difficulty, Wikipedia has done a decent job.

New comment by louisbourgault in "Costco sued for seeking refunds on tariffs customers paid"

louisbourgault — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:54:15 +0000

Yes, once I would have agreed. But lately, I'd prefer my money to be going to Costco by far over the us government, and I imagine quite a lot of Costco's members (they are known for being Democrat donors, and a well liked company) feel the same.

Massive caveat that I'm not American, it just seems like public sentiment doesn't broadly think that all the money going to the US government is used for "public good "

New comment by louisbourgault in "The Xkcd thing, now interactive"

louisbourgault — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:38:48 +0000

Really cool! To be honest, when I clicked on this I had a hope that it would be possible to add things to the stack like the ongoing memes of just putting different things in there (maybe live with other people as a collaborative editor).

New comment by louisbourgault in "Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth"

louisbourgault — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 10:14:05 +0000

> Let's call them out on that later. Right now let's applaud them for doing the right thing.

Yes, yes, yes. When I first read the stuff about this yesterday, my immediate thought was "wait, these are the only two things they have a problem with?"

But they made a stand, and that still matters. We shouldn't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. At least it's not Grok.

New comment by louisbourgault in "US threatens EU digital services market access"

louisbourgault — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 12:40:48 +0000

Calling a system that is 90% foss and public domain "owned" by anyone is a bit of a stretch. I can, fully legally, download all the text of Wikipedia for about 130gb and host it myself. Besides, Jimmy Wales is awesome.

New comment by louisbourgault in "Gemini 3 Pro Model Card [pdf]"

louisbourgault — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 23:06:32 +0000

I feel like 1.5 was still pretty good -- my school blocked chatgpt at the time but didn't bother with anything else, so I was using it more than anything else for general research help and it was fine. The blocking fact is probably the biggest reason I use Gemini 90% of the time now, because school can never block google search and ai mode is in that now. That, and the android integration.

To be fair, for my use case (apart from GitHub copilot stuff with Claude 4.5 sonnet) I've never noticed too big of a difference between the actual models, and am more inclined to judge them by their ancillary services and speed, which google excells in.

New comment by louisbourgault in "Drawing Text Isn't Simple: Benchmarking Console vs. Graphical Rendering"

louisbourgault — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 05:40:40 +0000

Thanks for that! I was finding it painful as well

New comment by louisbourgault in "Notion releases offline mode"

louisbourgault — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 04:11:18 +0000

Finally! The main aspect of this for me that is important is the ping. It seems like Notion hosts all their services in the US, and since i'm in Australia it somewhat annoys me the time it takes for pages to load. Just downloaded the update and it feels amazing.

New comment by louisbourgault in "Notion releases offline mode"

louisbourgault — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 04:03:17 +0000

I love notion for school stuff. The databases are just absolutely neccesary for me, and collaboration is a must for me (and without a paid subscription as well). I'm going to check out Obsidian Bases too though now they're out.