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by ohhnoodont 3mo ago
> There was never any plausible explanation for why this wouldn’t happen. There was never any practical mechanism to prevent someone from saving a conversation and using it to train their own model. At this point it may not even be happe
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by ohhnoodont 3mo ago
> else we'll be expecting to explain Shakespeare's plays using physics. This is just a data problem though. From the perspective of a deterministic universe, creative works theoretically can be explained as a physics outcome (i
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by ohhnoodont 7mo ago
> How about the part where children cannot legally create accounts of their own, on computers that they own? Where is that actually stated in any law being discussed? If a parent gives a child a device with admin access, that’s their cho
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by ohhnoodont 7mo ago
How is that dumb? It seems reasonable and pragmatic. If the current status quo is ID uploads and face scans, this seems like the better approach. It shifts the responsibility back to parents. All adult service operators have to do is filter
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by ohhnoodont 7mo ago
Same. I used to be ride-or-die for my Thinkpad Trackpoint™ keyboards, I even had an external USB one. Eventually I started to feel the RSI in the top of my hand. Haven't had any issues with a Macbook trackpad.
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by ohhnoodont 7mo ago
There are plenty of 8GB M1 Airs that many people will likely still be using 10 years from now. For 90%+ of users a laptop is just a web browser machine.
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by ohhnoodont 7mo ago
I loved gen 1 pokemon as a kid in the 90s. But today I sometimes feel like our culture is locked in time. Walking into a toy store is somewhat depressing - everything looks exactly the same as it did when I was a kid! It’s been 30+ years, k
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by ohhnoodont 7mo ago
The average consumer is also very happy to take recommendations from the tech-literate people in their life. I would love if there was a budget-friendly, privacy-preserving phone I could recommend to everyone.
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by ohhnoodont 7mo ago
I agree. I feel the flow of having browsers send some flag to sites is the most privacy-preserving approach to this whole topic. The system owner creates a “child” account that has the flag set by the OS and prevents the execution of unsanc
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by ohhnoodont 10mo ago
Last week if you are using a VPN + a browser that limits fingerprinting, you were likely to see error messages accessing HN.
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by ohhnoodont 10mo ago
Glad I'm not crazy for running agentic tools in an isolated VM.
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by ohhnoodont 10mo ago
What does squirreling it away mean though? A pile of cash instead of investments? The reality is that you don’t get to throw in the towel.
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by ohhnoodont 10mo ago
I’m glad that someone has built this and made it their personal crusade, but this is a problem that I can’t relate to having. I find it far more uncomfortable/intimate to sleep next to someone (even if in separate beds) than to shower
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by ohhnoodont 10mo ago
Couples that poop together stay together.
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by ohhnoodont 10mo ago
I’ve actually ended otherwise decent relationships early because the other person was way too coy/upset with bodily functions like farting and pooping. If we’er sleeping together I expect us to be farting together. And if we are living
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by ohhnoodont 1y ago
The first tier ($4/month) only works for up to 25 aliases. Depending on how many of your aliases have leaked, you may have to pay a lot to perform that check. I wish HIBP had a solution for those of us who are individuals but use domai
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by ohhnoodont 1y ago
If you use this approach, once 10 of your aliases are in the HIBP database you will need to pay for a subscription to see breaches for your domain (and even then the $40/year tier is only good for 25 aliases). I wish HIBP had a solutio
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by ohhnoodont 1y ago
> the senior cowboy coder (who just went into retirement) They just went into retirement?
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by ohhnoodont 1y ago
I've seen coworkers at Big Tech Co™ make huge security blunders despite attending prestigious universities (Berkeley, Stanford, etc) and having 5+ years of industry experience. No LLM slop required. Just rushing to meet deadlines while
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by ohhnoodont 2y ago
What software are you using for virtualization? I wasn't impressed with the Apple Silicon options last time I looked.
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by ohhnoodont 2y ago
I think we may just be bumping into cultural differences here. I grew up in a household were being naked around family members was common. I spend time in clothing-optional spaces. I rarely draw the blinds on my windows, etc. I'm not c
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by ohhnoodont 2y ago
My point is that the threat model is backwards. The threat associated with a camera is the least severe compared to anything else a malicious person could do with access to your computer. Recored conversations, chats and email, browsing his
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by ohhnoodont 2y ago
This raises a different but related question. In what world should a victim of a crime be extorted for doing innocent things in their home. If a peeping tom took a photo though a window, could that be used to extort someone? When people are
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by ohhnoodont 2y ago
Obviously the camera is also 'disabled' when the lid is closed regardless of the controlling circuitry. So while that's a good feature, it's not relevant.
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by ohhnoodont 2y ago
Yup it's wild to me how much anxiety there is about cameras while no mind is given to microphones. Conversations are much more privileged than potentially seeing me in my underwear. That said the most sensitive information is what we a
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by ohhnoodont 2y ago
There seems to be widespread anxiety regarding cameras, but hardly anyone ever talks about microphones. Are conversations not much more privileged information than potentially seeing someone in their underwear?
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by ohhnoodont 2y ago
> I want AI to do my laundry and dishes Machines for those tasks are already commonplace. Is loading/unloading them really that much effort?
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by ohhnoodont 3y ago
There are ways to address this problem, but in any case this is still ultimately a very good problem for property owners to have. Their property value has increased dramatically. Being forced to move is inconvenient, but you do so with a la
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by ohhnoodont 3y ago
It's the case for all large tech companies. Headcount increases in software engineering projects result in diminishing returns per-individual, but the increase is still there (if managed correctly). For example a 100 person team may no
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by ohhnoodont 3y ago
Given that your article (from 2022) states Hertz will pay $168 million to people accused of stealing cars, it seems pretty unlikely Hertz is still making that mistake. Seems totally safe to me. Have there been any recent instances of this?

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