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I'm flagging anything I see that is uncivil, especially if your account was created after March 2020.

My username can be a mac address. That makes me giggle.

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dec0dedab0de··on LEDs’ potential to save our night skies
I hated these so much until I got a car with a tinted rear windshield, and a self-dimming mirror.
dec0dedab0de··on Show HN: I've built a words game based on binary search
I think a practice mode, or letting people play the older games would be good. I can think of a few older people who would love this, but would definitely need a few tries to get the hang of it.
dec0dedab0de··on The Three-Second Theft: Why AI Voice Fraud Outruns Every Defence
But which US governments? There are thousands of them, and they all have different policies.
dec0dedab0de··on The Three-Second Theft: Why AI Voice Fraud Outruns Every Defence
who is they?
dec0dedab0de··on Your 'App' Could Have Been a Webpage (so I fixed it for you)
sure, but that original idea was 20 years ago.
dec0dedab0de··on How Donkey Kong Toppled Atari
Donkey Kong is the main character. Mario was just who the player controlled, he was so unimportant he didn't have a name and they just called him Jump Man.
dec0dedab0de··on Should DayQuil Be Legal?
Calling Dextromethorphan a placebo is quite a stretch. Sure, I think the point is that it makes you intoxicated so that you don't really care that you're sick, but it is definitely active.
dec0dedab0de··on Resetting Xbox
Nintendo is also much older than Sony and Microsoft. They don't really chase short term gains to appease shareholders.
dec0dedab0de··on Knoppix
There was a time that this was the easiest way to install Debian.
dec0dedab0de··on Do Babies Dream of Baby Sheep?
My oldest memory is a clown holding a bunch of balloons flying over the fence at my first birthday party. I then tried to fly with the baloons when i got them.

I told my mom about it decades ago, and she said there was a clown that jumped over the fence. Then I spent the rest of the party running around the house holding the balloons.

dec0dedab0de··on Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities
That's violating TOS, spamming, possibly a DDOS, but the distillation in and of itself is not an attack it's just using the model.

Like the difference between scraping a site with one or two active connections vs thousands. It's not the scraping that is an attack, it is how they are going about it

dec0dedab0de··on Show HN: Nimic – Pure Python as a systems language with AOT compilation
cython uses type hints now
dec0dedab0de··on MSG Made Dossier on Activists Who Opposed Facial Recognition
i don’t think anyone is claiming it is illegal
dec0dedab0de··on A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime
We really just need telcos to stop allowing caller id spoofing. Doesn’t even need your name, but with a real number we could actually report these scams.

You can still allow people to hide it, but then by default every non-business phone should block calls with hidden numbers.

dec0dedab0de··on FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs
How about we start by forcing telecoms to not allow any fake caller ID from their network?
dec0dedab0de··on New York just passed a one-year temporary ban on data centers
Around here they are cutting down forests. Sometimes even protected forests without getting permits, trying to beg for forgiveness after the fact.

They don't need to maximize every inch of the building, if that means less capacity then so be it.

As far as water and power, that's why I mentioned in cities that already have capacity. Or at least the ability to run new lines without digging up the roads, because they have tunnels for such things.

dec0dedab0de··on New York just passed a one-year temporary ban on data centers
I think I presented my thought in a civil manner.
dec0dedab0de··on New York just passed a one-year temporary ban on data centers
Then they can put less stuff in each one. Destroying nature to maximize corporate value is not ok.
dec0dedab0de··on Most men lie about how tall they are
Size 12 is the one closest to 12 inches, which is common enough of a foot size that we call it a foot.
dec0dedab0de··on Most men lie about how tall they are
I am 5'10.25", but I just say 5'10". It is hilarious whenever someone else claims to be 5'10" and I am multiple inches taller than they are.
dec0dedab0de··on The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen
I think login.gov needs to offer a way for others to use them. They have a pretty good system where you can bring your identification to the post office to get verified. Though I'm sure there are loopholes in the other options, but physically going to a federally owned building with cameras and providing ID has got to be one of the more secure ways to handle it.
dec0dedab0de··on New York passes pied-a-terre tax
That really depends on how you define middle class. I can easily see how someone with a net worth of 100m being considered middle class compared to billionaires.
dec0dedab0de··on Opaque Types in Python
or they could just test and maintain the hack on their own.
dec0dedab0de··on Why Japanese companies do so many different things
Look at the best pizza place in the world, the best burger maker in the world.. they are not in Italy or America, but in Tokyo.

That's a bold claim. While I'm sure the average quality in Japan is significantly better than ours, I would put the best pizza places in Jersey, NYC, and CT up against anywhere in the world.

dec0dedab0de··on Built AI forensic accounting software with my dad
Next week we're going to have prompt injections via ledger
dec0dedab0de··on Tracking Starbucks' 'widely recyclable' cups: none ended up at recycling
and paper in a landfill is just fine.
dec0dedab0de··on 560-610 minutes of exercise a week needed for substantial heart benefits
It's even easier with young kids, you just play with them. Once they get older and too cool it becomes a pain.
dec0dedab0de··on Who will buy your services if you fire us all?
just for the record, I don't believe this, it's just why a rich person might not want to provide healthcare for the homeless.
dec0dedab0de··on Who will buy your services if you fire us all?
healthcare for the homeless means seeing more homeless. It’s much more effective to let them die.
dec0dedab0de··on It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness
what if you are the only conscious being?
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