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Happy that Ashutosh and Saurav are out. A big hug to Ratna for going through so much trolling and hate in the past few days.
One of the principles of comedy is to punch up. People in positions of power should learn to absorb criticism. Comedy should 'comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable' as Finley P. Dunne once wrote. Though, what we see everyday is the opposite — people with might and power troll and bully those far below them. Yet, some people stand and show courage. To them, we should always give our gratitude.
If you are based out of India, your phone's messages/whatsapp/notifications are likely going to be filled with every brand on the planet sending you promotions you didn't ask for.
You could switch off notifications for an app or a category within an app, but then again some apps don't cleanly define categories cleanly so you miss out on all notifications.
To get back some peace, I had setup a local on-device classifier model on my phone a couple of months back. It was a good start, but it could not catch all of the promotions and brands were also getting more creative over time, for ex: some companies send out "Salary Credited" messages to get you to open their offer messages :(
With all of the hype around jev (@typesafeai), I thought why not try it out, and that it's removed 8 notifications since last evening!
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Some notes :
1. I did compare this to 2 gemma and qwen models available on @OpenRouter - while the price and accuracy itself were similar, the latency on JEV was consistently much better!
Majority of the JEV latency is also just Openrouter connecting to the model so this should get better over time.
2. While using an on-device classifier model is the best choice for privacy + latency, it's perf is based on how good your training dataset is.
3. I do hope that smarter notification control becomes an OS level feature for android, I'll have this running in the mean time.
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when is this coming for users over 18
Major changes coming to Facebook and Instagram for users under 18—
Strict time limits:
• 2 hours per day
Content:
• Banning use of beauty filters
• Ability to deactivate algorithmic feed
• Concealing 'likes' totals, other reactions
Nighttime Blocks:
• App access closed (12am-6am)
• Notifications silenced (10pm-7am)
School Mode:
• Push notifications blocked (8am-3pm)
Mindfulness reminders:
• After 15 minutes of continuous use
• At 60 and 90 minutes of total use daily
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got a friend using codex and now just looking forward to explaining what a sol terra luna ultra is
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'08 financial crisis?
The birth-rate collapse isn’t just about money, housing, or women choosing careers. The sharper diagnosis: fewer couples. Across the world, young people still say they want kids. But they socialize less, partner less, commit less – and become parents less. Smartphones didn’t make us infertile. They may have made us lonelier. The fertility crisis is really a bonding crisis. ft.com/content/fba35eca-df3a…
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the other rabbit hole that i have gotten myself into is data centers and net positive/negative impact - overall it just seems like a series of trolley problems :
L1 - people in the vicinity vs people in the city (air, water, noise pollution vs tax revenues/employment benefits in construction)
L2 - people in the city vs people on the internet (electricity/water consumption vs economical benefits by leveraging this tech)
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outside of the hype here about the next update online, i think its a real question that do we need to accelerate at all costs -> like is the benefit of the acceleration worth the cost
and the upside and downside of this tech is not uniformly spread
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chennai auto/cabs have figured it out - all aggregators are just lead gen, it's like a b2b sales cycle to book a ride lol
ask for a ride -> add extra amount cause nobody is accepting -> talk to the drivers and negotiate extra on top of extra -> repeat
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i get that there's zero incentive for aggregators to fix this experience cause like what are consumers going to do - negotiate on the road?
somehow BLR is way chiller, there's zero negotiation on price, it's just ye/no
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had a long chat with my cab driver on the way home and the tl,dr from his perspective:
- his cost of operating is 11rs/km and the apps give him somewhere between 15-18rs/km
- his expected rev is 25rs/km and the apps don't give those rates
hence in his pov :
- all the drivers have decided that they are going to accept the rides on the app and ask for extra
- the lower rates on the apps are being taken by newer drivers entering the job with lower cost of operating
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