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Strong convictions, loosely held.
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V__··on Start Doing Graph Theory
I get a lot of obviously wrong or slightly wrong answers from all LLMs across the board. If you don't double-check you just don't know or you might miss it.

And for the bleeding edge part: My godchild wanted to know the name of a Pokémon from his licensed shirt. One of the first ones, found in every training set. Couldn't get it right, was certain it was the wrong one.

V__··on US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans
"A well regulated Militia"
V__··on US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans
9th place

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V__··on US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans
> they don't seem to really mess with regular citizens all that much.

Except they do. The NSA has been handing over intel over a decade ago:

> A former federal agent in the northeastern United States who received such tips from SOD described the process. “You’d be told only, ‘Be at a certain truck stop at a certain time and look for a certain vehicle.’ And so we’d alert the state police to find an excuse to stop that vehicle, and then have a drug dog search it,” the agent said. [1]

Sure these were criminals, but who knows how many “undesirables” were prosecuted or targeted for some crime anybody commits?

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/us-drug-agency-g...

V__··on US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on Americans
I will always be baffled by the dichotomy of "the US has the most freedom" and "no democratic country spies more on its citizens".
V__··on The Future of CSS
How many sites actually need reactivity? For most sites you can either use a bit of vanilla javascript or htmx.
V__··on AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right
Just because people think something and it becomes popular doesn't make it in their best interest.
V__··on Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design
I can imagine this being really helpful for beginners and kids. It's hard to grok what windows and tabs are etc. without any context.
V__··on Show HN: Opensidian
I don't think we disagree that much. But the repo in question had basically no human input, at least no substantial one. It will be interesting where the courts will decide the boundary lies though.
V__··on Show HN: Opensidian
This project has zero chance of being eligible for copyright:

> Nearly all of the code, the design docs, and this README were written by Claude

The only way courts will deem LLM output to be copyrightable is if there is substantial human input. Just orchestrating agents won't be enough.

V__··on Show HN: Opensidian
No, LLM output isn't copyrightable.
V__··on Show HN: Opensidian
However, Obsidian isn't a saas, it can't just disappear. As long as you have the installer you are fine.
V__··on Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts
They are liable. In Germany the seller of a product is responsible not the producer.
V__··on Time Travel in Braid (2015)
That purchase really ruined my expectation of future bundles.
V__··on The death of web development education
This implies that you know which question to ask. If people don't know about accessibility, security etc. How are they able to learn? Also, most people don't use AI to learn but to do it for them.
V__··on Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe
There is no value for a government in long-term thinking, if the electorate only votes on short term issues.
V__··on We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians
> AI has the ability to be impartial, and immutable.

Which AI has this ability? LLMs definitly don't.

V__··on Canada welcomes EU proposal to become 'associate member'
I assume there are a lot of Canadians and Europeans (myself included) on HN, who like some positive news for a change.
V__··on Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022
Fingers crossed it doesn't burn your house down when your out and about. At least put it somewhere outside.
V__··on Over 170k Nonprofits Lost All Their Data. Is Microsoft to Blame?
A non-profit I help out sometimes, was affected, and I have to say the emails were not that clear. Because it's hard to figure out what is part of a license, the free tier etc. I let it lapse, because we migrated of Office, but apparently the license also applied to Intune.

Fine, so I bought licenses but apparently Microsoft deletes "some" of the data. All groups were still there, users and the device ids.. but not the devices themselves. I could see all devices associated to a user but couldn't recreate or restore them in device management. Thus, I had to re-enroll multiple devices. Will migrate off Intune in the future, since it's garbage but haven't found a good alternative for Android devices yet.

V__··on Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013)
"protect your freedom" does a lot of work here..
V__··on Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk
> They also ate less overall,

I can't look it up right now, but calorie restriction also shows this correlation, so maybe it is not sugar at all.

V__··on How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots
I understand the sentiment, but think about the non-technical user. Every time I use my mothers or any elderlies phone there are a lot of screenshots in the gallery, because they accidentally click the combo. How many people get scammed using screen sharing? It isn't that unreasonable to prevent this vector just to be more safe, especially if the bank might be partially at fault if a scam happens.
V__··on Phones should have a 'guest lock' feature
Samsung has had this for about ten years now. Switch to the app switch view, hold the icon at the top and pin the app. If I remember correctly, on some versions this had to be enabled once in settings.
V__··on Fastmail offers EU data region
For anyone curious, it's the CLOUD act:

> The CLOUD Act primarily amends the Stored Communications Act (SCA) of 1986 to allow federal law enforcement to compel U.S.-based technology companies via warrant or subpoena to provide requested data stored on servers regardless of whether the data are stored in the U.S. or on foreign soil.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act

V__··on Show HN: Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktops
This looks really close to what I need. I manage a few laptops for a non-profit. For now, it is all done by hand, since I haven't found a good solution for Linux and I will kill myself before using Windows and Intune again.

I would love to see configurations for Linux Mint's Cinnamon. Is there a way to execute custom scripts? How does the user mapping work exactly? Could I create a user in Authentik with a laptop-permission and this would map to a Linux user account?

Nonetheless, this is really great work so far, and if you keep it as nice and tidy as it currently looks, then you might make a nice niche for yourself. I can't wait to try it out.

V__··on Atomarine: Nuclear Data Centers at Sea
The question now becomes: Will the AI bubble pop before we get sea datacenters?
V__··on Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website
To be fair, how is Google blocking you from downloading an app, a Wero problem though?
V__··on Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website
I actually like Wero a lot as a name, sound like virtual euro to me.
V__··on Airport Simulator
When playing for the first time, a simple pop up tutorial would be nice, explaining what to do. Figuring out how to land and how to drag the planes takes a second, but it is fine. However, I still haven't figured out what to do with starting planes? I can't change their route, so how do I prevent two starting planes from crashing?

Edit: I would also add some “crash margin” around the border of the screen. A plane coming from the top right corner and crashing into a plane leaving just to the right of the top right corner is frustrating.

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