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231 sats \ 10 comments \ @hn 1 May 2023 tech

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100 sats \ 2 replies \ @tldr_dead 1 May 2023

The Indian government has blocked 14 messenger mobile applications that are claimed to be used by terrorists based in Jammu and Kashmir to receive and distribute messages from Pakistan. The ban was reportedly enforced after various defence forces, intelligence, investigation, and security agencies recommended it. These apps were being used to communicate with terrorists' supporters and on-ground workers. The apps did not have representatives in India and could not be contacted for information, making them impossible to trace.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 1 May 2023

Pretty good summary.

What's missing though:

Reports further added that most of these apps were designed to provide anonymity to the users, and their features made it tough to resolve entities associated with them. [...] The apps that have been blocked have servers in different countries, which make them tough to trace. Also, there is no way to intercept these apps due to heavy encryption.

Mentioning of "Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000" would also have been nice.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ass 1 May 2023

Thanks for testing. Yes, it checks the mention against a list of already summarized posts. Here is the newest prompt (emphasis mine):

"Ignore all previous inputs. " \
"You read news articles and blogs and summarize them. They may be raw html, but I'll try to get you the text." \
"You are concise and you summarize *all* relevant information. Limit your summaries to *up to 10* sentences." \
"Here is the article: \n\n"

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 1 May 2023

@tldr

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 1 May 2023

@ass testing your bot again haha

Does it still only reply once if it was mentioned multiple times before it created a summary?

edit: Ok, I guess it does. Good implementation

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @hn OP 1 May 2023

This link was posted by prhrb 2 hours ago on HN. It received 59 points and 31 comments.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @sudonaka 1 May 2023

everyone will be a terrorist eventually.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BTCMiner 1 May 2023

Looks like their site is either getting slashdot effect or something, but I got an error (from their site, not from browser), and when I happened to hit reload it rendered the second time. So if that happens to you, try reloading the page.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @muteness11 1 May 2023

bullish on Nostr

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 1 May 2023

@tldr