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My phone: my private space. Anything in the browser: not my private space.

I want exactly that: the OS to translate between that boundary with a sane default. It’s unavoidable to have cases where this is inconvenient or irritating.

I don’t even know on iPhone how files are named “internally” (nor do I care), since I do not access the native file system or even file format but in 99% of all use cases come in contact only with the exported JPEGs. I do want to see all my photos on a map based on the location they were taken, and I want a timestamp. Locally. Not when I share a photo with a third party.


It is not just a default when it is the only option.

The word default is more appropriately used when the decision can be changed to something the user finds more suitable for their usecase


> Anything in the browser: not my private space.

Google’s main business is ads, ie running hostile code on your machine.


Agreed. It’s the good old “A little beating never hurt anyone. It certainly didn’t break me when my parents did it!” speech.

I seriously doubt that’s the case. Someone will take offense in your killing, and come back for you and your tribe. And so round and round it goes.

> Sending you an email after you signed up is "unethical"?

Unless I asked for it, it is both unethical and will turn me as potential customer away, and it is illegal (GDPR).


I would believe there is a nontrivial amount of books by the same author published in the same year with the same title either in different formats, different languages, and/or by different publishers.

Right. This would conflate, e.g., the British and American editions of books published in both countries in the same year; and they are frequently different, as might be different editions of a book published in the same year.

Nice! For my taste you could remove the TAP OR PRESS bar after some time, maybe after score 3 or so including restarts.

It’s obviously the unguided section where you sit with whatever emotions the disruption brings up for you!

There is also the theory that it serves as a reenactment of one’s own abuse. Trying to find peace and return to safety by replaying the scene, this time not as helpless victim but perpetrator: in control.

Victims of sexual abuse thus often are haunted by “fantasies” of abuse but avoiding the victim position; the trap is to identify with the fantasies. All too often, they’ve been told it is their fault, they wanted it etc, so the imagined replay “proves the original perpetrator right”.

The only way to break the circle seems to be to fully go into the fantasy and process the victim position, with support of a well-meaning presence (typically a therapist but in another reality it could be friends or family).


„Rewrite in a style appealing to Hacker News users critical of AI slop“.

I mean, there are lots of people here that writes well enough that giving it some style samples and tell it to adapt the text to "this style: [insert post]" wouldn't be the worst idea.

Like in most cases that involve finance, I appreciate Matt Levines summary and comments in his excellent and ads free Money Stuff newsletter. Highly recommended! I wish there were more newsletters like his. In fact, it’s one of the few news sources I consistently read, and the only one I conveniently receive in my mailbox. Most other newsletters are just glorified advertisement.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2026-04-08/rob...

I can see how some people get more excited and want to follow stories more closely but as I get older I notice how most of the time I don’t value it as much, and like trustworthy sources that deal with the detail to provide useful summaries and highlights for me.


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