The flipside of “the worst she can say is no.”

I can only hope to be this calm and articulate when I die.

As a non-technical person at the bottom of the learning curve, I can vouch for its steepness.

people who really need anonymity are very rare. probably less than 100 in the entire world. definitely not typical Kagi users

unless they are criminals, in which case we don’t care that they don’t have full anonymity (nor we want them as customers)

If this is where you’re drawing the “believes only criminals want privacy” argument from, that’s not exactly what the quote says. The wording sucks, but it’s saying:

• Very few people need anonymity.
• Anonymity seekers aren’t our target market.
• The criminal subset of anonymity seekers are even more “not our target market”.

(This bit about criminals is completely unnecessary, though, and its inclusion makes me inclined to believe that Vlad looks down on people who want anonymity. I’m definitely not a fan of this guy.)

I’m sure there a more nuanced takes than mine, but I feel like I can support copyright when it’s correctly used to protect individuals, but not when it’s being abused by corporations and large creators.

Not OP, but it’s decent.

If you’re used to swiping to type on Gboard, the predictions aren’t as accurate. 10-25% of the time, manually typing is faster than swiping because the predictions are so wrong, or because there’s no prediction at all.

It’s supposed to train locally in order to improve the predictions, but I don’t know how long it will take for it to “catch up” to the swipe-to-text experience that I’m used to.

This and Tsurebito (by the same author) make me think they’re really good and telling “am I in a dream?” type stories. Thanks for sharing.

I think that’s because you’re thinking about it with your body and your experience.

Someone with a different body and different experiences might see that 240lb bouncer and think:

Another guy they hired to be dumb muscle. I’ve dealt with his type before; wouldn’t hurt a flea without permission. Would probably cry right after, too. But the little guy… his eyes are saying he’ll do it. He’ll enjoy watching the big guy crush my windpipe. And big guy? If the little guy tells him to, he won’t hesitate.

“H-hey, we’re all friends here. T-Tell you what, I’ll tell you what you want to know, and you can tell big guy here he’s got nothing to worry about.”

If you take the right perspective, you can make almost any skill check make sense.