The problem with this specific instance is that if you asked someone to find out who won this championship without using an LLM, they’d reach the same answer. I’d be much more impressed if someone managed to poison an LLM into answering that US won the 2023 World Cup

How would this impact platforms like Reddit or HN?

When it comes to forcing platforms outside of Greece to comply with this, those platforms will just close their service down to Greece.

If you want to talk about the concept itself of removing anonymity: on HN the impact would not be huge, a lot of us are not really anonymous with links to personal sites in our profiles. Reddit is a different beast entirely.

Or they'll leave their services open to Greece. They don't have a physical presence there and aren't subject to their laws.

You don't need a physical presence to be subject to another country's laws. Disobeying a judicial order would be grounds for issuing a warrant which could easily be expanded to an international warrant for the owners of the platform.

The "judicial order" in the first place violates the first amendment, which isn't binding on Greece, but is binding on the nature of any extradition order they wish to seek in the USA.

Don't think that will happen, they will probably tell their ISP's to block access t those sites.

Greece may come after Reddit Netherlands B.V., though.

Then they will be blocked & only accessible via VPN

I do wonder how easy it is to de-anonymise a typical reddit user based on topics, ways of writing, time of writing etc. throw into some form of pattern recognition and see if it links up with other reddit accounts, accounts on forums, things like Facebook etc.

Throw in information Reddit has (ip addresses, user agents etc) and it’s no doubt a certainty.

You would probably get the right person in a list of candidates that would be too long to be useful.

huh it is actually the opposite direction, low recall and high precision.

once again getting the right answer on the internet is posting a wrong one assertively :) thanks

There is a Keychron store in Bangalore that lets you do this. They even have a computer with a USB C wire sticking out so you can take any keyboard to it and type on Monkeytype. Since the keyboard community is a small one, it’s never really crowded. However, in my experience it takes at least a week of continued use to be able to judge whether a switch is good for you.

I feel that tabbing to the wrong instance of an app is a problem that can be solved on the software level. It’s a nightmare on the default macOS app switcher. I use an app called Contexts as a solution and it works reasonably well. There seems to be some free and open source solutions as well.

I have definitely bought things I’ve seen in ads. And I know many people who have. There are brands that I know exist only because I’ve seen ads for them. What is an alternative to advertisements that you suggest??

Why do we need an alternative?

> For apps that run locally—no servers, no cloud costs—subscriptions make no sense anymore

Never did tbh. These apps should be one time purchases at best.

Why don’t third party keyboards take advantage of this situation? Why hasn’t Google updated Gboard on the App store in years?

What about Ubuntu though? I haven't used used Ubuntu since I switched to MacOS a few years back. But I would suggest that to even non-IT people

It's not only about the happy path working, it's also about the user being able to figure out the sad path.

The recently sunsetted Reddit public chat was a good example. They were tied to a subreddit, so only people with some shared interest came together. And the moderators could set an entry barrier based on karma. And you stood to lose your reddit account if you misbehaved in a public chat

I understand and appreciate Reddit’s approach.

On the other hand, I think there might be a way to solve this problem for live anonymous chat in a way that doesn’t rely on threats of “punishment” or “banning”.

I think most people looking at this problem don’t appreciate how much realtime information can be calculated from the event stream and how that information can be leveraged toward solving it in near realtime.

Why does people care if their Reddit account is banned? I've never understood this. Can't you just open a new one?

Replace “reddit” with “google” in your sentence. Now how does it sound?

Like you're talking about something completely different in function and purpose.

Not for quite a lot of people it isn’t, no.

I’m guessing you’re over 35 (as I am).

I know plenty of people in their 20s whose entire online life is centered on Reddit.

They make hundreds of comments a day. It’s where all of their social interaction is. it’s where they coordinate activities with people. It’s where they chat with people. it’s how they communicate with everyone.Losing that handle would be disastrous. You can’t just change it.

Clickbaits are the degrading practice the pope just condemned. I can sorta see the humour in this one

Yeah, I was thinking "wow, this is well outside the HN title guidelines" but this feels like a case where humor might win the day.