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New comment by nekzn in "Flipper One – we need your help"

nekzn — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:42:32 +0000

And still, those humans would go outside and check when they heard an odd noise, so they could ascertain if it was a threat or not. This is more of this.

New comment by nekzn in "Denmark's wind and solar investments shield it from global energy turmoil"

nekzn — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:40:18 +0000

I thought the argument was that if nature did something it was cool and great but if humans did the same thing it was evil and twisted?

New comment by nekzn in "Flipper One – we need your help"

nekzn — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:29:21 +0000

On one hand, you’re right. On the other, it’s normal that humans want to gauge the authenticity of the things they interact with. Some sort of uncanny valley thing.

New comment by nekzn in "We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot"

nekzn — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:03:38 +0000

Sorry to tell you that all websites you get when you google "what is the best tool for doing x" are already manipulated, including reddit conversations.

New comment by nekzn in "Google Declaring War on the Web"

nekzn — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:50:37 +0000

Websites brought this on themselves. Have you tried visiting one? Popups upon popups upon ads upon cookie banners upon notification permission prompts. I’m not going to miss that. Nobody is going to miss that.

Think of AI distillation as some kind of improved Reader Mode feature.

People never wanted to visit your website; they just wanted the information that your website held. Now they can get to the meat without having to deal with the bones.

New comment by nekzn in "Mind-Blowing Growth Is About to Propel Anthropic into First Profitable Quarter"

nekzn — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:45:25 +0000

Really looking forward to Ed Zitron having a meltdown over this.

New comment by nekzn in "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE"

nekzn — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:06:40 +0000

You probably realise that this website has a voting system (that’s what the small icons next to all comments do; they are not meant to be triangles but arrows). Through this voting system users can show their support or disapproval of any content posted by other users. When a majority of users consistently upvote the same set of opinions positively, you can tell how that majority feels about some matter.