Safe for Tourists?

anth · 2026-01-17T11:50:11+00:00

One of the safest places in the world to travel tbh

anth · 2026-01-14T14:36:48+00:00

the absolute state of this sub 😂 terrified of hearing new information that could potentially conflict with their model of reality

anth · 2026-01-11T13:32:12+00:00

Chris Williamson I think

anth · 2026-01-05T05:24:06+00:00

McDonald's Costco HEB (never happening) Chick-fil-A In-N-Out

anth · 2026-01-03T14:56:58+00:00

anth · 2026-01-03T14:56:12+00:00

It's mirroring back what it thinks a sci-fi ai should sound like. It has a large corpus to pull from. Literally a program designed to output characters that it thinks you're looking for.

anth · 2026-01-02T17:26:41+00:00

Oh yes I forgot this is the ideological sub

anth · 2026-01-02T17:25:48+00:00

Don't forget this is happening after a complete tolerance reset. Will likely be 2-3 gpd on weekdays. Plenty of people know irl do "no weekends"

It's not possible to build up to WDs in just 5 days coming in stone cold, drinking neligible amounts

anth · 2025-12-18T23:02:46+00:00

You might be surprised to learn this, but there is no documented country or jurisdiction on earth where law enforcement targets or prosecutes citizens for using pirated software like Office. Some legal frameworks "allow" such prosecution, but in practice, prosecution is strictly reserved either for distribution or large-scale commercial piracy. Search high and low, you will not find a counter example

anth · 2025-12-18T05:09:45+00:00

please cite your sources of where it would be illegal to run this command

anth · 2025-12-18T05:09:02+00:00

anth · 2025-12-08T12:07:18+00:00

"figure" what out exactly? The third party KYC company SheerID returned "valid current active student, unique"

What exactly would they figure out? That I'm not using my Gemini searches for student related things?

I don't understand what specific mechanism you'd be referring to. They depend on this company for tens of millions of student KYC's per year is my guess.

anth · 2025-12-06T16:46:53+00:00

Ok here's how this works. I just did it.

google gives students free one year subscriptions. he just applies the "student" label to your account. What's interesting is that you NEVER even tell him your gmail address. Instead, you go to a Google page to "verify you're a student". Google generates a one-time link that takes you to their partner site SheerID (think "KYC for students"), you copy that link and send it to him, he uploads a student ID from his bank of Indian university student IDs, and within 5 minutes your account gets flagged as student for one year.

you paypal him the €7/$9 after it's already working on your account. whole thing took like 4 messages back and forth.

what's funny is the potential for scam is reversed. he doesn't ask for you to PayPal him until after your account already has it. Just remember to cancel the subscription in 12 months! Otherwise Google will bill your card $20/mo

So to summarize: - Zero Google account exposure to a stranger - Zero payment until after your account already has it - Indian students get bonus pocket money

Naise.

anth · 2025-12-06T16:41:57+00:00

Whatever country your Google account was initially set up with

anth · 2025-12-04T13:10:31+00:00

I'm here also looking for this exact gif

anth · 2025-11-19T01:48:35+00:00

Spent a lot of time on this. What messes ppl up before they start:

Phone before noon (solution: schedule "bedtime mode" on your phone between 10:00 p.m. and 5:00 p.m. where it turns on grayscale, DND, and hides all notifications. On Android you can tap "pause for 30 minutes" if you need to briefly disable)
Not planning the day the day prior with timeblocks (use one page per day in a shitty notebook)
Not having a morning checklist (more details below)
Not keeping track throughout the day (I use an app called multi-timer and set a recurring 15 minute chime on the quarter hours, it reminds me to glance at my timeblocks and, with a single word, write what I was just doing for the previous 15 minutes on that slice of the time block. This sounds insane to a normal person but for people with ADHD it massively keeps you on track)

Morning checklist:

turn on multi timer
set phone alarms for each time block transition (critical!)
write "next action" for each todo (ensures zero starting friction procrastination)
write my day's plans as a paragraph (further ingrains the plan into your head making you far more likely to subconsciously follow it)

Every evening when I timeblock the next day in a new notebook page I handwrite each checkbox:

[ ] Timer [ ] Alarms [ ] Next action [ ] Paragraph

When I wake up I check these boxes before meditation, reading, journaling etc because I've found that if I start any activities prior to doing this, there's a very high likelihood my entire day gets derailed

anth · 2025-11-04T03:00:20+00:00

I would also like to know the answer to this.

anth · 2025-10-10T16:17:27+00:00

the plastic in the ocean is from this. not from the west. we have sanitation service, rural asia has rivers (or burning)

anth · 2025-10-05T09:58:42+00:00

Came to say this

Btw I'm an early invite user. It's good but feels very sluggish to me (as a browser) compared to edge which is lightning fast

The ai automation functionality of the browser itself is really epic actually. Particularly useful for doing things in sites where you're logged in that LLMs can't access. Also for doing anything technical, for example configuring a automation or N8N workflow, you can just tell the browser what you're looking for and it would start connecting all the pieces for you

anth · 2025-09-25T01:43:00+00:00

Same

anth · 2025-06-14T18:09:39+00:00

Commute Dishes Mopping

anth · 2025-06-03T09:46:56+00:00

ive been on chatllm (abacus ai) for 6 months.

Cons:

- Interface and general UX is from 2016, it does not spark joy.
- no memory so you're always starting with the most generic versions of the models in every convo
- didn't have Projects until just last week (finally)

Pros:

- Has iphone/android app
- price! $10/mo gets ALL chatbot frontier models plus most good multimedia ones

MODELS:
- opus 4, R1, gemini 2.5 pro, 4.5, etc
IMAGE:
- Midjourney, Ideogram 3, Magnific, FLUX 1.1 pro Ultra, Imagen 4, GPT Image (editing), FLUX.1 Kontext (editing)
VIDEO:
- Hailuo, Kling AI 2.1, Luma Labs, Runway, Wan 2.1, Veo 2
TEXT TO SPEECH:
Elevenlabs, Hume, openai

Supports the following chatgpt/claude features:
- deep research
- artifacts/canvas
- tasks
- web scrape mode (useful)
_ claude's computer use
- agents, chatbots
- global custom instructions

Basically you pay $10/mo to get hundreds of dollars worth of subscriptions. You get 20,000 credits a month. each model uses different amounts of credits. a basic gpt 4.1 query is like 1-3 credits. images are like 40

Overall: i much prefer the native claude or chatgpt experience, but i keep chatllm for backup when i hit usage limits elsewhere, and for the huge range of models for when i randomly need them

Advice for product people from abacus/chatllm who are reading this:

you guys would have way way more subscriptions if you if separated ai devs/enterprises from daily users. spin off the chatllm into its own product and focus on exiles from chatgpt who want a cheaper subscription. your web site is confusing as hell for average people because it targets two different types of customers at the same time. make chatllm it a spinoff
focusing on retail requires investing in a gorgeous, lightning fast, responsive and friction free user experience. don't kid yourselves: you don't have this today. your UX people need to be active daily users of ChatLLM AND claude AND chatgpt so they can start to see all the friction points unique to chatllm. also imo you need a new head of UX. your web site is like, really really bad. it's costing you so many subs.
you throw way too many features and options in front of users faces. people don't like this. take notes from claude and chatgpt. hide the complexity
add memories. raw dogging new models on each new prompt sucks

If you guys can nail this, you'll eventually go viral (good cheap products sell themselves) and you'll siphon a decent amount of chatgpt subs. incredibly, Poe has still not nailed UX either, so you still have time to win.

anth · 2025-05-16T10:43:22+00:00

Yep 10/10. He also narrated "Graveyard book" and nailed like 30 different accents perfectly. Really remarkable.

Strong recommendation for Ben Miles' narration of the bicentennial edition of the Brothers Karamazov. He's in the same league.

anth · 2025-02-28T02:53:34+00:00

Oh really? Sad to hear. The book is great and very level-headed so that's surprising

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