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  A dog called Andy Yen was CEO of this very successful company, #Proton. Andy walked with his revenue in his mouth when he came across a crystal clear pond. Peering down, Andy saw another dog holding even more revenue feared the future of his business. In a moment of panic he attempted to snatch the other profit away to double his ARR. He opened his mouth to snatch it, and in doing so the company's trust and goodwill fell into the water and now he was CEO of nothing.

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  This cognitive shrinkflation that's happening everywhere is really getting to me. Saw a billboard earlier today that had a very obvious typo in it, in a word that a 6 year old would be expected to spell properly. This mistake somehow made it through the advertisement agency, the printers, and out onto a public billboard and nobody seems to have actually looked at the thing in any part of the process.

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  New blog post covering recent updates to marginalia search, kinda technical and meandering. https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_138_systemdocker/

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  Putting this on my fridge.

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  SIMD intrinsics are feeling more like a targeted accessibility hate crime the more I have to use them. 😅

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  The way I manage my email inbox is that I wait until it's so full of emails I should respond it makes me want to curl up in a ball and cry, a process which usually takes about a week.

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  I wrote a blog post, about the arduous joy of learning new things. https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_135_learn/

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  Been replacing the graph representation for the link graph with a CSR implementation. It sure is a lot better than what I was doing before. Biggest improvement to date is the website similarity calculation, which used to take literal days to finish, and now finishes in an hour. Memory locality is pretty good.

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  Search engine is going offline for a short bit in solidarity with GitHub. (also for a bit of server maintenance).

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  LinkedIn Park - In Hindsight It Doesn't Even Affect Our KPIs. This will be very funny to a small number of people.

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  I low key want to turn my website into Myst, but the puzzles are also there as CAPTCHAS, to keep the AI scrapers out. You want to read my recipe for chicken soup do you, well I hope you've made some coffee and brought your notebook and remembered to write down the hint in in the margins of the page about my cool stick collection.

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  I actually have the tech to make website screenshots in the search engine dismiss their GDPR notices, but I have zero inclination to do so.

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  I'm a bit sad that Anubis the bot-mitigation thing with the anime girl doesn't make the anime girl hold a scale like what Anubis the Egyptian god of the afterlife uses to weigh the souls of the departed. Because if it did, and you need to sit down and brace yourself for this: If it did it would be a *web scale*.

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  I know I was gonna take time off but I couldn't help myself, got inspired and started working on an overhaul of the site viewer. Plan is to add more functionality for showing recent updates to a website, with inline back-links. Very early mockups with contrast issues:

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  RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@oantolin/115956880232782872 The word processor and its consequences have been a disaster for humanity

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  @mongoose Bardiche man dreams of that time he scored four touch downs in a single game of peasantball. Unicorn swears this has never happened before. Cat has PTSD flash backs to the dog riots of 1208.

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  Working on a NSFW filter and trying to tune it to not be an erasure machine as there is some vocabulary overlap between the contexts of porn and queer culture. Question for the LGBT-community: Wth are the "bisexual papers"? Stumbled upon this (according to the classifier) ambiguously NSFW bigram that if nothing else sounds like something someone leaked, revealing some dark secret. Have I... dug too deep? Seen things not meant for my eyes? (Screenshot is NSFW in the mo...

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  New blog post, on the meandering route to getting a somewhat viable NSFW filter in Marginalia Search. https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_134_nsfw/

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  Ethics in AI is a trolley problem where you don't know who is tied to what track, and the AI CEOs make ridiculous claims that everyone in the world is tied to one of the tracks and you'd better switch onto that track because the tracks and the trolley are about to turn into Voltron and go pew-pew-pew and then fly to the moon and bounce it like a basketball and shoot lasers and blow up the sun and walk away from the explosion without looking in slow motion looking *awesome*.

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  All you need to understand the state of LinkedIn and HN the last few months can be found in this openclaw template: https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/blob/76bfd9b5e660a7ebfed3e258e849c9b2ec894b9f/extensions/open-prose/skills/prose/examples/34-content-pipeline.prose

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  So I had to disable Anubis a while back because it was too much of an accessibility issue for browsers with no JS support. Now I've deployed a query-rate based mitigation that makes you wait for a few seconds before you can proceed if the query rate is too high. A bit annoying, but it works with any browser and will disable itself when the bots go away.

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  Did some local LLM-based labeling of the HN comment corpus, tasking the model to classify how likely it is that each comment is: * Using AI-like grammar (e.g. it's not X, it's Y) * Using AI-like markup (e.g. em-dashes) * Trying to shill something * Trying to influence public opinion Still a bit work in progress, but here are some preview data.

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  Which one of these would you say is correct? Argument for "is": In English "data" is treated as an uncountable noun. Argument for "are": In Latin, "data" is the plural of "datum".

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  If programmer speed and efficiency was truly such a significant competitive factor, we wouldn't be packing them like sardines in noisy and stuffy open floor plan offices.

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  > [...] in that empty space, I begin to wonder: Where did all the people go? What are they all doing behind the artifice they’re showing here? Why am I wasting my time and energy wading through these shallow yet unbounded seas of nothing? Have very much been feeling this bit lately. The social web is an evaporating ocean, leaving only an inhospitable salty death zone full of bots, shills, and influence campaigns, immitating the people that used to be around. https://www.scottsmitelli....

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  Did some statistics, and it seems posts from newly registered accounts on HN are nearly 10x more likely to use EM-dashes, arrows, and similar typography than established accounts. https://www.marginalia.nu/weird-ai-crap/hn/