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cluckindan··on AI companies are shredding rare books
This is not that different from having a book burning march. The fervent neocon tech overlords and their funding circles want a monopoly; not only on truth, but on ideas and thought in general.
cluckindan··on Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470%
Let’s see them ship some chip first
cluckindan··on Punk, or why I don't stream anymore
Ok clanker
cluckindan··on Why We Don't Trust the Database with Authentication
Or just salt the string with the username before hashing.
cluckindan··on QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall
Moisture camera. Now there is an idea.
cluckindan··on FDA rejects petition to set PFAS limits in food
True. The risk is heavily downplayed, since the health effects manifest in decades and can be blamed on lifestyle factors, while the amounts causing health issues are in the order of parts per trillion.
cluckindan··on The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online
So now there is a market for verified identities. Good job making the numbers go up.

Besides, major social media platforms can just generate ”verified” profiles to fit a demographic. There is no way for advertisers to verify the audiences are genuine. Even CTR is meaningless unless conversion is tracked. This means Meta et al. will soon be actually buying/scalping advertised products and offloading them onto a secondary market.

cluckindan··on EU to legislate about Chat Control behind closed doors
In other words, CIA.
cluckindan··on We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme
Conversely, add cute animal models to gun parts.

Maybe it would be possible to just embed a prompt injection into metadata or the STL mesh itself.

cluckindan··on U.S. government will decide who gets to use latest upgrade to ChatGPT
A private holding company and multiple smaller subsidiaries going public.
cluckindan··on Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads
Why is this downvoted?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27ll_own_nothing_and_be_ha...

Coincidently, in the Soviet Union, the propaganda had a similar tone about ownership: you’ll drive to the grocery store in a Lada, but can just switch to a limousine to drive back.

cluckindan··on Show HN: Bible as RAG Database
Can we have apocryphal books too, like Moses 6 & 7 :)
cluckindan··on Show HN: Bible as RAG Database
Search for ”destroy”
cluckindan··on Show HN: CleverCrow: give tokens to your favorite projects
Where can I invest and trade in these ”tokens” you speak of?
cluckindan··on Prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction (2016)
> and LLMs

… sometimes duplicate things unnecessarily.

cluckindan··on Turns Out, There Is a Cabal of Elite Crazies Trying to Control the World
You mean the billionaires?
cluckindan··on I used sound waves to make espresso
Submarines didn’t always have laundry services. For a 90-day trip, the crew would bring six uniforms and rotate them daily. Shower was one minute of water once a week. Everyone smoked tobacco all the time, everywhere.
cluckindan··on GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17
There is no FOSS modem. The baseband is a separate computer operating on a lower level than the OS.

Your provider can run arbitrary code there.

cluckindan··on A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer
Yes. But the perps are in North Korea.
cluckindan··on Firewood Splitting Simulator
No, and that’s what makes it a proper simulator.
cluckindan··on Firewood Splitting Simulator
It’s an equation. If you have dry firewood, you need less of it at once. Some folks don’t understand that.

More water in the wood means less efficient combustion, more smoke and harsher smoke, which may irritate your neighbors downwind, or everyone around on still days.

cluckindan··on AI OSS tool repo goes archived over night after raising $7.3M Seed
What did you spend the money on?

The other half goes where?

cluckindan··on Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip
cluckindan··on Palantir loses legal challenge against Swiss investigative magazine
Please don’t use these sites, they alter archived content and use visitor browsers as a ddos botnet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidan...

cluckindan··on Show HN: Putt.day a daily mini golf game
I made it in 3. Git gud.
cluckindan··on Tell HN: Meta is down
A communications disruption can only mean one thing…
cluckindan··on A jacket that harvests drinking water from the air
Sure it would, if it can capture the humidity evaporated from skin and breath.
cluckindan··on Ultra-processed foods in the global food system: The role of tobacco companies
Food being made appealing is one thing and adding behaviorally reinforcing drugs into foods is another. Especially when the latter are not just one product, but a spectrum of products, each one engineered to produce addiction in a different group of people (nationality, ethnicity, genetics)
cluckindan··on Ultra-processed foods in the global food system: The role of tobacco companies
It’s more than marketing, they’re applying cigarette processing principles to food processing: choosing specific flavor chemicals and additives to produce maximum addiction within the varied neurophysiological profiles of different consumer cohorts

They’re essentially engineering food to produce subtly mind-altering effects.

cluckindan··on I Must Attempt to Explain the Lego Scandal Rocking YouTube State of Utah
The people stealing legos were Mormons.

The cops defending the thieves and harassing the owners and investigators were Mormons.

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