There really is a lot of processing between the signal and final display. It's pretty common for TVs to ship and then get a firmware update that does actually affect core display functionality.

I'd rather they just shipped finished firmware, but yanno. I got bit on a monitor that has actual firmware bugs but no firmware upgrade path that doesn't involve trying to ship it to a service center.

People don't think the invasion of their privacy will 1. save lives, and 2. not take lives.

Faith in governments is not only low, people are pretty sure any power governments have will be abused.

The equation is a little bigger than that, basically.

I still think we don't have good UI for picking start and end times. Anything that doesn't implement clicking and dragging to set events is missing the best way (In my opinion).

Google does it, I wish they went further. The calendar is a visual metaphor for time, let me interact directly with the visual metaphor, let me drag the boxes, resize them, etc.

I already use GCP and Google for work, and getting an API key was so annoying that even I couldn't be bothered after a while of looking around.

Maybe things there have improved some, but when I was looking it was a huge runaround.

Hmm. My company has an internal portal for generating Gemini API keys. I select a project from a drop down, enter a name, and press okay.

That may be evidence the built-in Google experience is difficult or confusing.

This is very cool. I can't comment on the encryption, but I did want to mention that your page design is pretty bad, which is a shame for something so useful.

It looks AI generated, you can probably paste this into your LLM of choice to improve it.

It has pretty subtle information hierarchy. All the text sizes except for the main heading are withing 15% size of each other. More differentiation here would be the lowest hanging fruit, I think. I'd also say all the text needs to increase in size in general. It's pretty low contrast as well, made worse by the small font size. And some things, like button highlights, are too high-contrast. They pull too strongly away from the rest of the text and flow. You also have a lot of buttons, some of them are even just to pre-fill demo text. I'd cut it way down.

I think the goal should be that the critical path to making a 'burn link' is at the very top of the information hierarchy. Big heading "Your Secret", with very well signposted text box. Big heading "Link Expiration" with a big range slider (with number input.)

(Sliders have the advantage of structurally communicating what you're doing. You fill up the available slider to add more time, you shrink it to have less time.)

The overall idea is that the eye naturally snaps to the next step when the previous one is done with zero effort. Really blast the information and steps into people's brains.

I hope Flashpaper takes off!

Thank you so much for constructive feedback!

You caught me. The design is AI-generated, I built the whole app with AI tools.

Really apprecaite the pointers; I agree with what u said, and will try re-read it again tomorrow (it 1.30 am here haha) and adjust the design.

Again. Thanks a lot for your support and kind words!

Yeah, /your/ nation maybe. I wonder if there's any other reasons that could explain this, especially given the pretty uniform distribution of video games, and the extremely uneven distribution of violence.

Oh, and everywhere in your nation? At the same time?

Sorry, I think I have a button.

This isn't necessarily true, especially with consumer GPUs. Some actually can clock higher with less voltage. It's pretty rare, and mostly comes from factory overclocked cards. For it to help you need a card that 1. Thermal throttles 2. can sustain its max OC with less voltage than set at the factory. In that rare case you are removing thermal pressure which allows you to clock higher for longer. It's the silicon lottery though, and (often) lazy board partners just smashing the voltage up as high as the chip maker allows. You definitely won't get more performance from a datacenter GPU this way.

I think the common use of the term capitalist is as a participant in capitalism.

This is distinct from someone who is a proponent of capitalism as a system, which appears to be the way you are using capitalist. For which I don't blame you.

Liberalism (in the traditional economic sens) likes competition. Capitalism is a mode of production, and capitalists notoriously don’t like competition when they are the incumbents

No no, you see, for a government 'leading in AI' is just spending the most money on it.

For companies too, judging by the number of LinkedIn posts along the lines of

"Our 4-person team's AI bill this month was $100K and I've never been more proud of an invoice"

"If your $250K a year engineers aren't spending $250K a year in tokens, you aren't getting your money's worth"

"If you aren't using at least $500 of tokens a day, it's time for a performance improvement plan"

As far as I can tell, people are getting blitzed. People I know are incredibly deep in their personalized bubble and genuinely aren't even hearing about it. It's genuinely distressing. In general and for the future of democracy.

It feels like this era of hyper-individualism requires too much attention from each individual and favors those that can afford to outsource the work. While that stabilizes the role of society as a system, I feel like this is most worrisome for the less privileged in any low-trust environment.