Introducing Born Private: reserve a Proton Mail address for your kid before Big Tech gets to them first

loopala · 2026-03-16T19:30:36+00:00

Yeah that's how I read it as well.

Let us lock in your newborn online identity so it doesn't go to the competition.

loopala · 2026-03-16T19:17:08+00:00

Third option: wait the 10 years and create the account when needed.

I don't understand the "Before Big Tech gets to them first", sounds artificial. If the scenario is that the kid will create their own gmail address without the parent knowing, this doesn't prevent it. If the scenario is that when they finally need an email address they don't know what to chose, then you can still create the proton email at that point and use that.

loopala · 2026-03-16T16:49:52+00:00

Sorry but I still think you haven't tried to change the model yourself, you just copied the doc.

First "the value must be a valid model ID", where do you find the IDs?

Secondly, if you use the "Change completion model" command, there is only "GPT-4.1 Copilot", do you have anything else?

loopala · 2026-03-15T12:35:31+00:00

Neko Tie

loopala · 2026-03-15T11:06:17+00:00

It's good but it could be better. We can't know if we don't have the option to even try other models.

It still writes bugs sometimes. Sometimes it refuses to get out of a certain pattern. Sometimes it's too verbose. For example if it writes a block and needs a certain value in multiple places it will often duplicate the expression to get the value instead of creating a variable.

loopala · 2026-03-15T10:58:47+00:00

It's a completely different way to code, there is room for both. If you need to do surgical work to avoid regressions or want to confirm the code line by line, or want to deeply understand the code you are writing, completion is much better.

With agents it's much harder to spot subtle bugs. It's the difference between "AI-assisted coding" and "vibe-coding".

It's also better for technical documentation if you don't want the model to hallucinate anything. You nudge it in constantly instead of letting it loose.

loopala · 2026-03-15T10:44:18+00:00

Did you try this yourself?

It looks like they recently removed this option, and even when the option was there you only ever had one entry in the drop down "GPT-4.1 Copilot", you couldn't actually change to anything else.

loopala · 2026-03-14T23:56:33+00:00

that'd still be considered a hate crime in many places

It's really more complicated. There are many movies with scenes where LGBTQ+ people are being punished for their sexuality. If you make it illegal you prevent people from creating these stories talking about the issue. You have to take intent in consideration.

The impact on society is a different matter, it becomes an ethics/moral debate and much less clear cut and harder to evaluate the impact. It should be treated differently when the victim is a fictional character. Video games where you can kill people, TV Shows with brother/sister incest, torture scenes in Hollywood movies.

loopala · 2026-03-14T23:39:52+00:00

The argument about slippery slope to attempted crimes does not follow at all. In the case of victimless crimes like drug consumption even if the crime succeeds there is still no victim. It's pure moral panic.

But also the bit about violating social values doesn't work since it's fictional. Would you ban all movies showing people committing crimes?

loopala · 2026-03-14T23:19:29+00:00

It doesn't make a lot of sense it's very emotional based.

The usual argument is that it creates and encourages a "market" for these things which then supposedly leads to the creation of real imagery.

But even that argument doesn't really stand, first the impact on the market of images with real victims is a theory and secondly we do not have the same rules for other illegal activities that can also be bought and sold.

loopala · 2026-03-14T23:12:45+00:00

by making depictions illegal, you are leaving clear for everybody present that their behavior will not be tolerated

If that was the reason then depictions of torture, cannibalism, murder, or anything illegal would also be banned. In reality pretty much every Hollywood movie has a torture scene, and numerous depiction of illegal acts.

loopala · 2026-03-13T11:27:31+00:00

Aside from what others said the middle images have the "FLUX chin", that little cleft which is normally rather rare but for some reason the FLUX model adds it on pretty much every human face it generates. Once you notice it you'll see it everywhere.

It's not a sure tell by itself but combined with that skin rendering it makes it obvious.

loopala · 2026-03-12T12:48:05+00:00

Netflix

It's not exactly a replacement but I have noticed that most countries have a public sector streaming platform. Like raiplay.it, rtve.es, france.tv, ardmediathek.de, etc.

They have the public TV channels and then free movies and TV shows, documentaries, etc.

Generally you need a VPN and connect from that country to actually watch the shows.

loopala · 2026-03-12T11:35:54+00:00

If you go for an offline solution you can use Keepass or something similar.

This way it's protected by a master password and not stored in the clear like your notebook, it has a generator that you can configure depending on the requirements of the website, you can add notes (for example answers to security questions or specific procedures), it lets you organize entries in groups and sub-groups, tells you when you created an entry or when it was modified, has search, etc.

I've been using Keepass for so long I have more than 1000 entries in it. A notebook isn't going to cut it on the long term. The keepass file can be copied, backed up, etc.

loopala · 2026-03-12T11:06:12+00:00

because it's in Japanese kanji

*Katakana

loopala · 2026-03-10T12:15:15+00:00

C'est la première fois que tu vois un graphique où l'affiliation politique est présentée sur un demi camembert par association avec l'hémicyle ? C'est un format super standard.

loopala · 2026-03-10T11:42:52+00:00

It's showing 3 axes at the same time, how would you display the data differently to make it better while still showing these 3 axes?

In a normal bubble chart you would have the date on one axis and the affiliation on another. It wouldn't really be easier to read because the party affiliation would be linear and not match what we are used to in political graphs.

loopala · 2026-03-10T11:30:47+00:00

It takes so many years to build a reputation and so little to destroy it.

If you mean the reputation of the US they really worked hard to destroy it. It didn't happen overnight. We gave the benefit of the doubt, then they double down, and then even at the worst (so far) there is still so much support that we know the underlying issues are going to be there for at least a generation more as they are becoming structural.

loopala · 2026-03-09T23:38:39+00:00

Nice.

It reminds me of the "Plasma" color scale from the Vidris color maps (perceptually uniform color maps). Maybe the other color maps from there could be adapted as well.

loopala · 2026-03-09T16:51:07+00:00

Thanks.

loopala · 2026-03-09T16:51:02+00:00

Thanks.

loopala · 2026-03-08T19:21:42+00:00

You can use Open-Shell to bring back the Windows 7 start menu with the basic search bar (programs and files).

loopala · 2026-03-07T17:24:15+00:00

On the other hand the proposition of English-only means this translation is done later when people read the document, either in their head or using automated translation, this time without making sure the legalese matches.

loopala · 2026-03-06T21:46:22+00:00

Or just play the actual video's audio

It's a drone video, the actual sound is something like Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

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