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Group_B··on The dangerous intimacy of social location sharing
> When I was in the ICU for a few days (thankfully due to medical confusion and not a real condition) people reached out to see if I was ok and needed anything. I know people who discovered that a mutual friend died unexpectedly when their phone had been at the morgue for several days.

I feel like this kind of information can be found out by just naturally talking with others. Viewing your friend's and family's location all the time is just so unnecessary and overkill. If something is wrong, you simply reach out to others, they don't need to be actively checking your location to determine that. Yeah obviously the exception is crazy emergencies, but I think most people would take their chances than be this open to location sharing. Kids too make sense. Other than that, I don't believe location sharing to this degree should be normalized at all.

Group_B··on As many as 2M Cisco devices affected by actively exploited 0-day
You're secure if you don't expose SNMP. Can't believe there are that many devices out there with that exposed though.
Group_B··on Are touchscreens in cars dangerous?
Agree, I do think Mazda gets it right though. No touch screen for most models. Screen is controlled with a knob. It’s a tiny bit clunky, but a million times better than all the touchscreen bs.
Group_B··on Right-wing extremist violence is more frequent and deadly than leftwing violence
We’ve always had political violence in this country. None of this is surprising.
Group_B··on The US is now the largest investor in commercial spyware
Gotta love the good old US of A. I feel like we have the worst of both worlds; dystopian surveillance, yet massive crime issues still. An amazing world we live in.
Group_B··on Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah
I think it's simply too late for real gun control in the US. Like how would that ever be enforced? There's too many guns already, and we have too many people down south that would be happy to smuggle guns back up North. And trying to control the ammo would be even more unrealistic. The gun culture America created over the past 100+ years is a massive mistake, and I don't think there is any undoing of it. Should have been more control immediately post WWII imo.
Group_B··on I Am An AI Hater
Maybe if he keeps hating it more and more it'll go away. Or maybe we just have to combine all our AI hate together and AI itself will cease to exist.
Group_B··on Proposal to Ban Ghost Jobs
not every company is some large mega corp
Group_B··on AI crawlers, fetchers are blowing up websites; Meta, OpenAI are worst offenders
That's hilarious. I need to set up one of these myself
Group_B··on Tiny, removable "mini SSD" could eventually be a big deal for gaming handhelds
bait?

It's *couldn't care less my dude

Group_B··on This website is for humans
I do think the average person sees this as a win. Your average person is not subscribing to an RSS feed for new recipes. For one thing, it's hard enough to find personal food blog / recipe websites. Most of the time when you look up a recipe, the first several results are sites littered with ads, and sometimes take too long to get to the point. Most AI does not have ads, (for now?) and is pretty good at getting straight to point. The average person is going to do whatever is most convenient, and I think most people will agree that AI agents are the more convenient option for certain things, including recipe ideas / lookups.
Group_B··on Alarming New Study Finds Smartphones Ruining Our Brains at Unprecedented Speed
Don’t worry, AI will fix this!
Group_B··on AWS Restored My Account: The Human Who Made the Difference
So lesson learned, write a blog post if you need support with AWS?
Group_B··on Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce
Right now AI is in the grow at all costs phase. So for the most part access to AI is way cheaper than it will be in the next 5-10 years. All these companies will eventually have to turn a profit. Once that happens, they'll be forced to monetize in whatever way they can. Enterprise will obviously have higher subscriptions. But I'm predicting for non-enterprise that eventually ads will be added in some way. What's scary is if some of these ads will even be presented as ads, or if they'll be disguised as normal responses from the agent. Fun times ahead! Can't wait!
Group_B··on Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn?
Rent numbers aren’t making sense either though. I mean have fun renting if that’s what you prefer!
Group_B··on VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in
There’s also P2P VPN services which pretty much make it impossible to block
Group_B··on GLP-1s Are Breaking Life Insurance
Good point. The main root cause of obesity is too many calories. Usually, obesity and the symptoms / diseases that come with it improve / go away when eating less calories. Does any human technically need medication to eat less calories?
Group_B··on GLP-1s are breaking life insurance
It’s usually a self inflicted disease. Your own actions cause it most of the time
Group_B··on Microsoft to Cut 9k Workers in Second Wave of Major Layoffs
Yep, you need to get sponsored to work so we have thousands and thousands of workers trapped with low salaries. Nothing they can really do. It’s too risky trying to find another company to sponsor you because otherwise you get deported back
Group_B··on Microsoft to Cut 9k Workers in Second Wave of Major Layoffs
Yes, federal workers are not allowed to strike
Group_B··on The Velvet Sundown are a seemingly AI-generated band with 325k Spotify listeners
Not too surprising that this is finally happening. It’s going to become more and more difficult to filter through all this AI music slop. But can it even be described as slop if me or someone else genuinely enjoys listening to it?

Is the end goal to just pump as much AI music as possible and watch as all the ad money comes in? I wonder how Spotify will handle this spam of AI slop as it becomes more prevalent.

Group_B··on Apple introduces a universal design across platforms
The idea of this transparent UI is so dumb. How could anyone at apple think this would be a good idee? Sure, let’s make it 100x harder to read and navigate the UI. Genius decisions being made at Apple here. I hope they do a lot of tweaking with this before it’s forced onto my device.
Group_B··on Pentagon to terminate $5.1B in IT contracts with Accenture, Deloitte
Great, but it doesn’t matter too much as they’ll still vote in an increased budget that adds more debt. How about we raise taxes a bit and stop spending trillions of dollars that we don’t have each year.
Group_B··on DOJ will no longer prosecute cryptocurrency fraud
I apologize. Last low effort comment from me. I promise!
Group_B··on DOJ will no longer prosecute cryptocurrency fraud
Fraud is legal! Yaaaaaayy
Group_B··on Vets Who Code
https://youtu.be/DRTHMdNVtJ4?si=jcw5tFzR88zVSrw2
Group_B··on Windows debloat script made by Microsoft
I’d like to think there is a Microsoft developer out there that used this script on the very machine that is helping create one of the listed applications that was removed.
Group_B··on A Letter to the American People
pain…
Group_B··on Ask HN: Is it a bad idea to make an email domain with an uncommon TLD?
Your email may get rejected if it’s not one of the usual ones. May have issues receiving mail. My company for example blocks over 100 different TLDs. Don’t even look at reputation of domain, just automatic block. Not worth dealing with that imo.
Group_B··on Ask HN: Is it a bad idea to make an email domain with an uncommon TLD?
What do you plan to use the email for? If it’s for serious stuff I would stick with one of the OGs. Not worth getting a “unique” TLD.
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