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aszantu··on Social media bans and digital curfews to be trialled on UK teenagers
I can see bored guys setting shit on fire again :D
aszantu··on We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers
there's this one guy I know who writes scripts to poison ai scrapers that ignore the robot.txt, basically creates word salad and random folders that keep going deep without giving the ai anything of value.
aszantu··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)
https://angryangels.sarah-rosenhahn.de/try-the-cemetery-of-f...

please don't hug to death, I only got 10 GB of Data

it's 1st MVP and I got a dayjob, so please be kind. Haven't put out a howto yet, but ideally you have a notebook and a pen, some memories and grief to work through.

aszantu··on Coffee linked to slower biological ageing among those with severe mental illness
Sorry I took so long to answer. The one is called pro combo, you take it for a week. I took l-glutamine and diatomaceous earth for a month before I took the probiotic. Also was eating China kale, low oxolate veggie when I took it, so it wouldn't starve right away.
aszantu··on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?
Capitalism can only work when there's cheap labor and someone consumes the fruit of said labor.

When nobody earns is the same as everyone earns the same amount (aka inflation) as long as there have been humans, there will be someone grabbing more than everyone else.

So question would be how do you make transition into a world where there's less paid work?

aszantu··on Coffee linked to slower biological ageing among those with severe mental illness
Not diagnosed, but eventually I noticed how veggies gave me psychotic episodes that would last for a few days. Was connected to oxolates seemingly. After one week of probiotics psychosis doesn't happen when I eat veggies now.

Incidentally caffeine calms me down as well.

aszantu··on Samsung makes ads on smart fridges official with upcoming software update
Stopped buying Samsung phone because I couldn't disable some stupid assistant button with ai subscription on the last one. I'm really sad because Samsung was always a good brand to me
aszantu··on Germany outfitted half a million balconies with solar panels
Balcony solar is limited to 700-800 watt for safety reasons. There's also a lobby to get ppl to need an electrician for installation, which is bullshit. Rising energy prices (I paid minimum 50 bucks/Month) and sneaky corporate tactics (they give you 12 ct/kwh then after like half a year make it 60 ct/kwh) makes ppl want more price independence, which is understandable
aszantu··on YouTube addresses lower view counts which seem to be caused by ad blockers
Pretty sure it's caused by the algorithm not serving the user anymore... Unless I block a channel forever I only get served the same channels over and over or it's an endless reel of ai slop with that dead crappy voice on all kinds of variations...
aszantu··on Toothpaste made with keratin may protect and repair damaged teeth: study
Just wanted to add for anyone suffering problems with gums and teeth

Gums and Collagen - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7570157/

* As far as I understood, calcium needs a scaffold to attach to bones and teeth - collagen, as in gelatine, can seemingly support the regeneration of the gums, as well as some limited regeneration of the teeth

* Personal Note: I used to have knee pain in my twenties when I still ate a standard diet, when I took collagen it took about a month until the knee pain went away

* Teaspoon in the morning was enough

* Overdosing on Collagen might create some problems - might wanna read up on this

aszantu··on GPT-5
I liked gpt3 no need to fix something that's not broken :(
aszantu··on Beyond Meat fights for survival
I kinda think beyond meat is for ppl who care about taste. You can fake meat taste and texture much cheaper.

For ppl who care about nutrients, artificial meat seemingly gets more expensive and you also need licenses probably and what not.

Health wise it's in your own best interest to eat animals that fave been able to forage and graze in the sun. See Vitamin d and so on. Those ppl won't buy factory slurry.

aszantu··on Nobody knows how to build with AI yet
Takes me more time to define what I want than to make the thing
aszantu··on Psilocybin decreases depression and anxiety in cancer patients (2016)
I used to Microdose psylocibin, ever 4. Day. Since I didn't hold a job but did some daily routine, I knew it would be a slow day. It actually worked really well.

One day I had a little too much. That day I was really productive and obsessed with folds in clothing.

aszantu··on Samsung embeds IronSource spyware app on phones across WANA
Couldn't get rid of some assistant that I would have to have registered with Samsung last phone. When it broke I switched over to a used Nokia. Little bit less convenient but I wish they wouldn't keep pushing that annoying spyware stuff on us... I'm perfectly fine to just use my phone for browsing and staying in touch with ppl... Why the f. Do I need Google Assistant which I also can't cancel...I swear, next phone will be one of those bricks for the elderly...
aszantu··on Benzene at 200
Lots of sunscreen and other beauty products seem to be contaminated with benzene. Johnson & Johnson was caught a few times putting it in baby powder or something
aszantu··on Isaac Asimov describes how AI will liberate humans and their creativity (1992)
The story from iRobot is one of Asimov s stories and it works exactly as intended. The AI figured that to keep humans safe you have to put them in cages. Humans will always fight over something
aszantu··on A Reddit bot drove me insane
Gophernet is still around
aszantu··on Philip K. Dick: Stanisław Lem Is a Communist Committee (2015)
Lems fiction was so wonderfully weird, I remember something about a double agent in a mental hospital trying to figure out wether the other patients are double, triple or quadruple agents. Very confusing, was a script for a movie, don't know if it ever got made
aszantu··on Isaac Asimov describes how AI will liberate humans and their creativity (1992)
Funny thing About Asimov was how he came up with the laws of robotics and then cases on how they don't work. There are a few that I remember, one where a robot was lying because a bug in his brain gave him empathy and he didn't want to hurt humans.
aszantu··on After 'coding error' triggers firings, top NIH scientists called back to work
can just speak for myself, but I wouldn't be employable after a layoff like that... I't get a mental meltdown and afterwards would probably be on disability until I got mentally better. They're literally teaching thausands of people that they aren't reliable and can't be trusted. I mean, if that's what you're aiming for, good for you, but I'd recon that you'll end up with more people that want your head now than before.
aszantu··on My 16-month theanine self-experiment
I found, I take Abt. 4 days to react to stuff. Except for those cheap cooking oils, I get migraines within a time-frame of about 3 hrs.
aszantu··on My 16-month theanine self-experiment
Can for myself just say I took the anime for a while but don't think it did anything. Way higher effect was switching to decaf and then drink mushroom coffee for alertness. There are different mixes out there, I just went with a random one from Amazon when I enjoyed some test-packages from chi-coffee. I'm also mixing with cocos cream and cows milk.
aszantu··on OpenAI Researchers Find That AI Is Unable to Solve Most Coding Problems
it's so much easier to learn from examples than from documentation in my opinion, documentation is, what I use when I want to know additional parameters or downsides of a functionality. I'm no coder though.
aszantu··on Migraine is more than a headache – a rethink offers hope
I seem to get migraines from plant fats and stimulants like caffeine.also caffeine withdrawal.Been drinking chaga coffee a few days and feel so much better in the evening
aszantu··on Intermittent fasting could be unsafe for teenagers
#inmice #invitro
aszantu··on The hallucinatory thoughts of the dying mind
hehe, those who tried it, what did you get out of it?
aszantu··on The hallucinatory thoughts of the dying mind
Sleep writing is funny

Put a piece of paper under the hand with a pencil, write down thoughts until you're gone, read in the morning - profit

aszantu··on Bacteria (and their metabolites) and depression
I did have some experience with dog food, where I'd feed the dog and after a few weeks noticed joint pain. I'd not paid attention, but there were beets in the dog food. That was kinda blind until I noticed symptoms. I realized, I was licking the leftovers on the spoon before I washed it by hand. Not sure this counts as blind testing.

Sadly it feels impossible to find a doctor in germany that knows what to do about it. The last success was with something like oxalobacter. For a few months now I could eat at least some salad, but seemingly that effect weakens over time.

So I think I have found a probiotic that works, but it doesn't stick well. This article mentions genetic traits being connected to the biome. So I think I'll have to have genetic testing eventually, but I'm way paranoid to hand over my genes to some random lab.

aszantu··on Bacteria (and Their Metabolites) and Depression
been collecting for a while, happy hunting https://github.com/cutestuff/FoodDepressionConundrum
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