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It describes incestuous child rape, because the author describes his experience of being raped. Victims speaking about their abuse, now that is one step too far and needs to be censored.

I knew there had to be a rational explanation as to why this book was chosen as a "bad book'.

Just tried and it's blocked on Telekom with the default DNS.


That's completely different. Imagine you are reading a book and the words only get revealed to you at 1 word a second. You would get annoyed if your natural reading speed was higher than that.

Same with a video. A lot of people speak considerably slower than you could process the information they are conveying, so you speed it up. You still get the same content and are not skipping parts as you would when skimming a book.


Especially since the only party to the right of Merz are actual right-wing extremists.


On the other hand, in modern European politics very often anything that is traditional right wing is labeled "far right extremists" anyway at this point, especially if they are a bit too critical of the EU and open borders. The only thing 'acceptable' is "centre right".

For instance in France, at this point, the National Rally (Le Pen) is not really more in the right than the traditional conservative/right wing party was in the 70s and 80s (with years in government). It is plainly just "the right" and largest party in Parliament, yet they are labeled dangerous far right extremists because it is (less and less) helpful politically...

Not sure exactly how the political positioning is in Germany but overall "far right" and "right-wing extremists" have lost all meaning generally in Europe because those terms are so abused. The current German government coalition does not seem to particularly reflect the democratic result of the latest election (majority on the right), same as in France.


So it makes sense then: there are two parties. The center is the imaginary line in the middle. One of the parties is center-left, the other is center-right. Logic! :)


I tried it out because of your comment and the very first prompt Gemini 2.5 Pro hallucinated a non-existant plugin including detailed usage instructions.

Not really my idea of good.


This has consistently been my experience with every LLM I have tried. Everybody says "Oh, you tried it one the model from two months ago? Doesn't count, the new ones are sooo much better". So I try the new one and it still hallucinates.


Same thing, I thought I would give it a shot and it got the first solution so wrong in a simple nextjs typescript project I laughed out. It was fast but incorrect.


Can you provide your prompt? This hasn't matched my experience. You can also try enabling search grounding in the right hand bar. You have to also explicitly tell it in your prompt to use grounding with Google Search, but I've had very good success with that even for recent or niche plugins/libraries.


So glad we're pinning the success and learning of new technology on random anecdotes. Do pro AI people not see how untenable it is where everything is a rumor?


It is only a rumor to people who refuse to put in effort.


I'd rather put my effort into developing my own skills, not hand-holding a hallucinating robot.


I enjoyed the clarity of that sentence. It's wild to read. Some people are choosing the hand-holding of the hallucinating robot instead of developing their skills, and simultaneously training their replacement (or so the bosses hope, anyway).

I wonder if "robot" was being used here in its original sense too of a "forced worker" rather than the more modern sense of "mechanical person". If not, I propose it.


What does this even mean? Lol.


You need at the very least 4 of those $15.50 fonts to cover italic and bold.

If I could get the entire font family for $30 or so I would consider it despite all the free alternatives, but $150 is just way too much if you are making a non-US salary.


There is a “Comic Code Coding Essentials“ bundle for $30, licensed for up to 5 users. Unfortunately, it’s at the very bottom of the page so it’s easy to miss.


I suppose I'm the last person alive to just use plain text. So, yes, sorry for that omission.

The full collection is $100. At average European salaries, that's (at worst) half a day of work. Not unnoticeable, but if you care about your tools, not an amount that's entirely unreasonable. The coding family is, as you say, $30 - 90 minutes of work.

Beyond US, Europe, and other affluent countries, yes, it gets somewhat unaffordable. I don't have a good answer here. But I don't think asking indy folks to fix global inequality is the right answer, either. They need to live too.

Some choose to release their fonts for free (Monaspace, Comic Mono, Inconsolata...), but that's a choice they made for themselves. They ultimately decided it was affordable for them to do that. And that's great!

But I really have a problem with complaining about people who are trying to make a living, demanding they give away their work. One because it's somewhat entitled ("I deserve to get your work for free"), and two because it's a large part of what discourages indy work. Something our industry sorely needs.


Did you actually try your cinema prompt recently? I just asked my pixel phone "tell me showtimes for aquaman in Berlin" and it immediately opened an overview of cinemas with showtimes for the Aquaman movie today with options to buy the ticket.

Same for the weather prompt someone else posted above and contrary to their experience it showed me exactly what I expected.

I'm a bit confused if those examples are something that didn't work in the past or if it's something that somehow doesn't work properly in the US right now.


"Hey Google, give me showtimes for Aquaman" opens the assistant on my phone, and transcribes my request correctly.

There's a Nest mini (2nd gen) two meters away, but the device that answers is the Google Home 2016 in a different room.

First attempt: "Okay, ten minutes. And that's starting... Now."

Second attempt: "Sorry, I don't understand."

Third attempt: bingo.

Further trials seem to work, until they're interrupted by the 10 minute timer.

My partner comes downstairs to ask why I'm yelling STOP.

I remember my exact words when I bought this thing:

I have seen the future, and it sucks.


The mod sounds a lot more petty than the removal of said mod.

Is a single drop down menu that only shows up once during character creation really triggering the author of that mod that much?


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I'm amazed how I triggered you so hard, you are now crufting through all of my comment history, downvoting and commenting like a maniac.

Imagine being this dense and still incapable of defining "normal" as a high school student during statistics class would.

And you know why I'm taking a stance? Because people like you make me to. I have no choice, a few years ago I was told "Oh these pronouns? Yeah just ignore it if you are cis, no worries." But now I get banned from a mod site if I upload a modded INI file removing it from my single player game, where no one is affected by my decision to remove it. Cancelled by people like you who claim to be the "good guys". Fascism is back, but now a different flavor, thanks.

Now think about that after you ruined my day by stalking me.


You've been breaking the HN guidelines extremely badly in this thread and others. We ban accounts that do that. Please don't do it again, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

Edit: it also looks like you've been using HN primarily for political and ideological battle. That's another line at which we ban accounts, regardless of what you're for or against. (For past explanations on this point see https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...). If you want to continue commenting on HN, we need you to stop this pattern, as it also breaks HN's rules.


I haven't downvoted you in either thread (and unsure why you care about that so much), you seem to have more issues than I assumed, work on yourself, for your own good.

> Fascism is back, but now a different flavor, thanks.

Says the racist.


You've been breaking the HN guidelines extremely badly in this thread and others. We ban accounts that do that, so please stop—regardless of how wrong others are or you feel they are.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.

Edit: we had to warn you about this already (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36347094) and you've continued to do more of the same. If this keeps up, we'll have to ban you. I don't want to ban you, so please fix this.


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This is probably the noisiest topic of all of them (where "noise" means there is a lot of dishonesty and hatred and petty sociopolitical tribalism masquerading among the honest argument).

I haven't read this article, but I am open to an argument that trans pronouns could have negative effects, and giving the article the benefit of the doubt (that it's honest): I feel completely confident that the people uploading a mod to remove something trans- or gay-related from a video game are part of the noise, and are not honestly trying to support the argument you have linked, and are doing more harm in spreading hatred than theoretical good.


I get that as well and I live somewhere, where HFCS is not used, so I don't think that is the culprit.

Personally if given the choice between a regular coke and coke zero, I will choose the zero every time.


Just looked it up, since I remembered hearing about it and apparently there are some new rules where you only need one if you average more than 20000 viewers.

That's the case for just 2 streamers in Germany. No other streamer had more than 20k average viewers in the last 30 days, but some are close, so they might have one as well.


I wasn't sure if this was a joke about overlicensing of everything in Germany, but alas no.


I think it's even funnier because it's true


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