is there any extension that fools websites into thinking im not using adblock just want to read few newspages. or any extension that unlocks premium content. I remember there was once for it

>>9684 It's called Bypass Paywalls Clean

https://youtu.be/x22k3csfJCo Better notes system. Automating Rsync part is amazing.

https://blog.google/intl/en-in/company-news/technology/students-in-india-just-got-a-gemini-upgrade/ I have no doubt that India will progress economically, but Indians really underestimate how their data will be weaponized against them.

1. Do you use AI for personal or professional work ? 2. Do you use commercial AI services or run your own models locally ? 3. Do you think AI will take over your job ?

>>9731 1 no, not work, but i talk to ai chatbots often. 2 I don't run locally, but i will try to once i get some time 3 it's just a matter of time for me. I don't know wtf to do now.

>>9733 What do you talk to it about ?

>>9734 Things that are too dumb to post about anywhere else. For example, yesterday I told chatgpt I "hate it when I run out of clean underwear". Stupid shit like that

It's so frustrating how hard it is to post on reddit. All subreddits have minimum karma and age requirements, and I dont think you can make accounts without email. Ik reddit is generally hated but sometimes it's the best/only place to ask

>>9737 reddit is gay and astroturfed to hell. Hilarious people blame indians for ruining reddit when its obvious every sub is filled with chinese and muslims.

>>9737 >>9739 In theory, Reddit holds lot of promise. Reviews and experiences of people who try rare tech, meaningful discussions etc. All open forums end up useless though and open forums imo all end the same. That said, Reddits owners also apply their political motivations which has made the platform retarded, like Facebook became a hotbed for boomers, Insta became the SFW Only fans etc. > people blame indians Weak and retarded. People who cannot influence their own governments, but blame hard working people trying to make a living. White racists are retarded and deserve their own extinction. They claim to be about merit and tradition, but when faced with Asians or Africans (not African Americans) they want protections. Yet they don't mind globalism when it benefits them.

>>9739 >Hilarious people blame indians for ruining reddit I don't think people do that. I haven't seen anyone do so. the indian subs on reddit seem to have formed their own bubble and their own memes, and don't really affect the rest of the website. The moderators, admins, and the most reddity users do a great job of making most of the mainstream subs miserable. They do not need to outsource these things to India. Just look at r/askreddit which in my opinion was the one mainstream subreddit that was worth lurking. Bunch of fun threads and replies you could learn from. Now? Since this term of the Orange man began? It's literally just "redditors of reddit, how do you feel about this thing which says orange man bad?" and a few other mundane questions on repeat ad infinitum. None of that is caused by Indians. All of it is caused by the moderators of the sub peddling their opinions. The thing with reddit is that it has basically taken over the entire Internet. Forums are dying or dead. If you need help with something specific, reddit is one of your best bets. It's the reason why when you search for something, reddit is one of the few useful results you get unless you count stackoverflow threads from 10 years ago. It's also going to attract useful people who do want to post answers to queries or are otherwise knowledgeable in some domain - because it's the only place for discussion now. Asking 4chan is a hit or miss. In my experience, it's usually a miss. >>9745 >but blame hard working people trying to make a living. they should blame their own governments and companies, who in search for cheap labour and more profit, turn to hiring people from overseas instead of people from their own countries. I'd be mad too if indian companies started hiring from for example the Philippines and other SEA countries while ignoring the unemployment situation in India, and the government supporting/not resisting such hiring. I read somewhere that the western IT companies are now indeed turning to these other, poorer/weaker currency nations because in the last few years, they also trained themselves to be codemonkeys instead of just being rice farmers or whatever.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Smartphones-could-become-far-more-powerful-compact-and-energy-efficient-thanks-to-major-breakthrough.1069592.0.html Will be a while before this is operational. But I cannot even imagine how I'd use a 55 GHz processor.

>>9751 Westerners do blame Indians for everything these days. The series of stunning chess wins for example have soured lot of westerner chess fans. Our only mistake is being docile and not bring more aggressive

>>9751 The math Olympiad has soured americunts. I for one am happy to see us progressing in core fields. But we have a very very long way to go.

Nuisance model - Introduce service for free - Introduce annoyance - pay to make annoyance go away Convenience model - sell laziness - Make user dependent - Increase price ## Actual services Email - Sell your data , used to sell you ads Cloud/File hosting etc - data mining - spy on you # not all services are bad. But the big ones are all horrible. I don't see how normies continue to justify their use of big tech. For work I can understand, at workplace employees have no option usually. The arguments usually are - UI is shit : So is your face faggot, I don't see you offing yourself. - Drivers : Unless you use bleeding edge tech, this doesn't apply - I like big tech convenience - These are people who cannot create folders or name files. I consider them consoomers. Long story short - Computers have become consumer devices if you use big tech. It has become so bad that there are no options for normies. None.

>>9770 I have a wireshark analyzer running, I find new trackers everyday.

https://www.techspot.com/news/108837-tea-app-designed-women-flag-men-behavior-hit.html some faggot made this app for women to add reviews about men in their area for "red flags" or "green flags" after he saw his mother struggle with "dating". Learning about the existence of this app ruined my entire week. BUT The government IDs and the real photos of the users of the app turned out to be stored on a database that was unintentionally left accessible to the general public. Not that it means anything, this will just cause another wave of "muh poor suffering women" :( victimization. If the women do feel insecure about this, they will feel insecure about the exact thing they were doing: hosting photos of people without their permission or knowledge, and talking about them, possibly revealing intimate details. Of course, they won't think of it that way, because they won't see past themselves. If you're thinking only xyz category of women use this, you should know that this quickly rose up to the list of most downloaded apps on the apple appstore. It never ceases to amaze me how westerners, and increasingly, everyone else too, treats "dating" as some sort of sport or hobby. Just like how some people treat going shopping as their hobby. >>9771 Everyone now knows about tracking and privacy and things, but few people know just how deep it goes. Not even me. The analyzer will probably help you realize the depth. >UI is shit : So is your face faggot, I don't see you offing yourself. KEK UI is shit is a valid argument but people apply it to "it looks old", not "it's a laggy electron wrapper designed to look like a touchscreen".

>>9773 I saw this app leak and 1. If you are not the kind to date for sport, then stay from such people and their lives. They are a different species and contact with them will be bad for you. 2. The chicks who did this, deserve exactly this. On the UI stiff and tech, will answer later. Need to gather my thoughts. But I think it is good that consumer tech is moving away from useful tech.

I have worked with all state of the art models available to the public and many that aren't. There are for sure jobs that will go away - Teachers - Doctors (some not all) - Support staff and marketing - Phone sex chat and call lines In most cases, AI just generates a summary of top search results. Sometimes this is excellent and solves your problem. In most cases, the answers are sloppy and need lot of work. I don't like working with unserious people who don't do their homework or lack basic competence. AI sounds like that. A coworker whose work you need to keep going over and it adds to your work.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.01191 I had written something of the sort but forgot to post it here. That said, are humans any better ? most humans to me, seem to just parrot things too without really knowing what it means.

My autism is back again, I am strongly considering learning Doom Emacs now. Vim is just fine tbh. Only thing I miss is built in image support, but that is a niche complaint.

Installing ubuntu is a breeze now. installed 24.04 LTS, done in like 45 mins at most. Check the box for "download third party drivers" and it will install proprietary nVidia drivers for you and make it so that it actually works - this process took me hours upon hours of frustration a few years ago, kernel would panic because X server would try to start up before the graphics driver had loaded, or something. I don't really remember. But this is better.

>>9864 It took Nvidia data getting leaked for Nvidia to fix its abysmall drivers. I am on Ubuntu too now. It is comfy. If not this then id either use Debian or Arch. But Arch is a pain and breaks easily with using latest and greatest hardware.

>>9841 This is too technical, and i am no longer in the habit of reading mathematical notation like this. but >In this paper, we critically examine the COT reasoning of LLMs through the lens of data distribution, revealing that the perceived structured reasoning capability largely arises from inductive biases shaped by in-distribution training data. We propose a controlled environment, DataA lchemy, allowing systematic probing of CoT reasoning along three crucial dimensions: task structure, reasoning length, and query format. Empirical findings consistently demonstrate that CoT reasoning effectively repro- duces reasoning patterns closely aligned with training distributions but suffers significant degradation when faced with distributional deviations. Such observations reveal the inherent brittleness and superficiality of current CoT reasoning capabilities. We provide insights that emphasize real-world implications for both practitioners and researchers. It's good to have some scientific tests to confirm this, but what the paper proposes is quite obvious if you ask me. Both in practice and analytically. ChatGPT doesn't know much about the plots of media and filmography. If you ask ChatGPT about old movies, or even popular video games, it will produce total and complete garbage. And then if you think about it, it's obvious that the model will perform badly on things it has not been trained on. Real world logic is too complicated to be extrapolated from existing data. I get it, CoT is an attempt to give intelligence to the AI, so it can be more than just a word prediction engine. Even so, we cannot expect it to know what it has never been told. AI is a machine/tool, and we shouldn't give it more credit than that. At least, for now. Someday, they will create a machine that is actually intelligent. For now, they're making a lot of money selling a machine they claim is "intelligent". >>9867 I don't think the drivers by themselves were bad. It was just hard to get them configured correctly. I used to run hashcat on my machine, noveau was bad. proprietary drivers bumped up the speed properly.

>>9868 > On the paper saying the obvious Birds learn to fly on their own. Researchers just watch them fly and write papers on how they fly. Similarly, Academia here is just documenting what exists in practice. The NVidia drivers were really really bad. Both in performance and configuration options. I tried AMD and it wasn't any better. Today the scenario is different. AMD drivers work well and therefore AMD cards are a decent option. but for more commercial applications, NVidia still slays. BUT. The costs ! A proper AI desktop will set me back 3k at the very least (2,70,000 Rs INR) for not even top of the line config.

>>9892 2 years until global rollout, and because this is about Google Play services, all devices which ever shipped with Google Play will have the same change if my understanding is correct. They blacklisted paytm during some IPL match and I had to install it, so I used an apk from another phone (Xender) and it simply refused to install. Just an annoying message saying "App not installed." Iirc it was because Google Play services, too. Play already controls what apps you can and cannot install. And the nooses are also slowly being tightened around the necks of the custom ROM people. Even if you and I still manage to keep a phone alive with sideloading enabled, who knows how many developers will sign up for that scheme. The smaller that number, the smaller the number of independent apps. It will ultimately hurt the developers and the consumer. No doubt this is Google's scheme to force more developers into their own ecosystem. Maybe they will also require platform fees later.

>>9932 https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2025/sep/03/sfc-qa-on-how-to-keep-your-sideloading/ Iode and others running microG are working well for me including Banking apps.

https://www.nokia.com/newsroom/nokia-expands-defense-portfolio-with-two-advanced-tactical-communication-solutions New nokia dropped

Bhagwa iphone looks good. I can show my sanghiness with it in public.

i want a blackberry passport

>>9961 >>9961 I had one. Did not like it. Slow and buggy. But for emails it was perfect. Why the fuck does gen Z hate email

>email i dont genuinely know. Theres no reason for zukurburg to see your dick pics. A faster BB passport. Its like having maid-computer but better. Could put linux on it. Ubuntu-touch or something like that

https://cursed-lang.org/ >>9964 Unihertz Titan was available in India before but it isn't anymore. I would live something like this. Even if just for better typing. My laptop is already compact at 14, older one was 12. With age, smaller screes don't make to me, I need a monitor for anything beyond 1 window now. Still, for a phone a Blackberry form factor makes sense. Phones are so boring and not to mention spyware. It is very annoying.