freijon
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- Comment on Looking for a European news service 13 hours ago:
I’m testing Kagi News (using it along with other news) and I can cautiously recommend it by now. First of all, do read their About page. If this doesn’t speak to you, then I guess you can stop reading now. But for me, it hits the nail on the head.
It’s basically an AI driven news aggregator. It’s one of the rare cases where I think it’s AI done right. Kagi News works with a community curated list of news sources (RSS Feeds) and summarizes them into max. 12 topics per day per category. Most of it is open source and you can contribute to the sources with PRs if you want. I created a separate category for my country for instance.
What I like about it: They try to be as neutral as possible. For example they have a section “Perspectives” where you will find the perspective of all involved stakeholders. It’s no-nonsense, fact driven news that doesn’t waste my time.
You mentioned you want an “European news service”. Kagi is located in the US, but most of the news sources they use for the “Europe” category are European. But if you’re missing any you can always add them with a PR :)
It’s quite a new service (still in Beta) and since it uses an AI summarizer, you should always stay critical and double check the sources. I’m using it since a few months now and I always checked with other sources to see if it gets the things right. It’s doing a pretty good job and made a lot of progress.
I basically use it when commuting to see whats new in the world. The once-a-day approach keeps it at a healthy amount. When a specific topic really interests me, I dive deeper and also look for other sources.
- Comment on If you're a parent, how do you prevent your kid from watching AI slop? 2 weeks ago:
You could try the app “Slop detective”. It’s an iOS / Android app developed for kids to learn to detect AI slop. Alternatively, you can simply open slopdetective.kagi.com if you don’t want to install anything. It’s created by kagi.com, the company behind the search engine. They have several initiatives to fight AI slop, this educational app being one of them.
- Comment on Know your place 4 months ago:
What are the 4 dots after Neptune?
- Comment on This is WAR. 5 months ago:
- Comment on How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday? 5 months ago:
I didn’t know what a fleshlight was and assumed OP misspelt Flashlight, assuming OP expected something bigger for their 18th birthday. Needless to say, the comments were quite confusing.
- Comment on xkcd #3106: Farads 7 months ago:
This capacitor will cost around one Bitcoin
- Comment on Now that's impressive 8 months ago:
- Comment on role playing game to beat AI Karens and Kens (not physically) 8 months ago:
I gave it a try (on the website) and enjoyed it quite a bit. However, I would not pay for a more advanced AI. I’d rather pay for more content in the future, e.g. new characters or new scenarios. I liked the art style and high resolution graphics. The music can become quite repetitive. Also, some sound effects surely wouldn’t hurt. I played through the first two characters, the boomer and the influencer. I thought I messed up with the influencer, but apparently I did well and got a $1000 bonus. The change in mood of the customers was quite fitting. Unfortunately it’s not possible to resume a play-through or skip characters you already played against. It’s a very basic game and while you basically just argue with an AI, the graphics and very brief background story helped getting into my role. I liked it and it’s fine to pass the time for a few minutes, e.g. when commuting.
