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by ryandrake 5d ago
This isn't about math being too hard. It's about companies deliberately hiding and obfuscating what you owe. Try this. My cell phone service is AT&T's "Value Plus VL" service with three lines. Tell me my exact m
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by ryandrake 5d ago
It's the "agency" bit that really annoys me. The Computer is no longer Personal. I expect my personal computer to only do things that I choose to invoke. It should not do a laundry list of things that the device manufacturer
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by ryandrake 5d ago
There's nothing more American than not knowing the price you're going to pay for something until you have to pay it. This applies to everything from income taxes to health care to big ticket purchases like homes and cars, to airli
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by ryandrake 5d ago
Some people are obsessed with free-riders and never happy until they know they're only narrowly paying for the smallest granular subset of things they use, and nothing that they are not personally using. This is why we have all these l
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by ryandrake 5d ago
Exactly. Last time I moved to a new area, out of about 5 local family doctors, the shortest wait time for a New Patient Appointment was eight months. In the good ol' non-socialized-medicine USA. So for eight months, we had to rely on
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by ryandrake 5d ago
Nope, I don't want that at all. What I want is a law with actual enforcement behind it and penalties that actually deter bad actors. You don't just write a law and then stop there declaring job done.
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by ryandrake 5d ago
I think we need to stop calling one-sided "terms documents" that are entirely written by one party, the party with 100x+ the monetary resources and power of the other party, with no input from that other party and not subject to a
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by ryandrake 5d ago
Oh no! It's against the law. That'll definitely stop companies from doing it with impunity.
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by ryandrake 5d ago
It's not Pi's responsibility to police what people do with devices after the devices are sold. If bootleggers are modifying the devices and reselling fraudulent versions, that's between the buyer and the bootlegger and market
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by ryandrake 5d ago
They ought to complain to Amazon, then. They were sold one thing but delivered something else.
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by ryandrake 7d ago
Unsurprising that they're both flagged. HN commenters really, really don't like to think about a world where they can't tell the difference between real and AI. One commenter really nailed it[1]: "We didn't get wo
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by ryandrake 7d ago
This just sounds like an im14andthisisdeep rant. Everyone is stupid, except you, of course, who are enlightened and detached from "the herd."
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by ryandrake 7d ago
I remember warez being the sole driver of my modem upgrade path from 9600 to 14,400 to 28,800, finally to very unstable 33,600 bps, then to trying to convince my parents to order a second phone line for... uh... modem... stuff... And then,
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by ryandrake 7d ago
Had a silly exchange with Codex: I had an AGENTS.md file in a directory that was a symlink to an already-created CLAUDE.md. On my first prompt to Codex, it decided to point to me that my AGENTS.md specifically calls out directions to Claude
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by ryandrake 8d ago
There's unfortunately a huge contingent of people who would strongly oppose a utopia where we all could live as equals in comfortable, luxurious lifestyles, where robotics, replicators, AI, and automation took care of everyone's n
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by ryandrake 8d ago
AI training is the clearest example yet that companies are allowed to get away with what is treated as a serious crime only when an individual does it. There are many more examples of this, of course, but this one seems to be the most stark
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by ryandrake 8d ago
It's the same bad faith argument as: "It's perfectly OK for a police officer to observe a street corner, see crime happening, and go take action, therefore , building a complete, panopticon surveillance system that watches a
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by ryandrake 8d ago
I'm convinced that most Passkey adoption is accidental.
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by ryandrake 8d ago
Silicon Valley has no concept of consent and boundaries. If computing was a night club, "Silicon Valley" is the guy who goes up to every woman saying "Want to dance? [Yes or Maybe Later]?"
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by ryandrake 8d ago
Even the concept of "where on the PC" has been totally annihilated by OS vendors and app developers. Is it on the filesystem? Is it on The Cloud? Is it vaguely "In An App"? Is it in some "Secure Enclave"? Who t
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by ryandrake 8d ago
Almost all chat apps provide presence and availability to would-be chatters. They already know if I am available and open to chat.
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by ryandrake 8d ago
Almost all chat apps provide presence and availability information to would be chatters.
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by ryandrake 8d ago
I don’t even tell people in my (remote work, non tech) neighborhood that I work in tech anymore unless they really probe. I don’t like getting my ass kicked.
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by ryandrake 8d ago
Most people who work in computers/Internet do not live and breathe computer/Internet culture all day. They come in, do their job, clock out, and think about real life for the rest of their day. Most people I know, even people who
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by ryandrake 9d ago
We'd rather have the artisanal hand-crafted lies of the past than today's AI-generated lies.
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by ryandrake 9d ago
> There’s probably a fifth D: the delusion that your children will want the items you’re planning to bequeath to them, especially the kind of furniture that used to be called antiques I'm at the age where a lot of friends are starti
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Show HN: Smart Mouth Billy Bass – another fishy LLM assistant(existens.org)
2 points by ryandrake 9d ago|0 comments
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by ryandrake 10d ago
I’m glad I did my one Linux kernel driver contribution before I worked at Apple. What a surprise to know that I’ll never be able to contribute to it ever again.
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by ryandrake 10d ago
Technically, even your browser is an agent. It says it in the HTTP: User-Agent. So is cURL. Every application the user runs is acting on the user's behalf.
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by ryandrake 11d ago
> “A phone, but it has AI and no apps” isn’t even additive. It’s purely a loss of functionality. I don't necessarily agree that “A phone, but it has AI and no apps” is a good product, but it could be considered additive. When the iP

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