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erelong··on Deskilling the body: We are doing less sensing, navigating, remembering, walking
just ask AI how to do more "sensing, navigating, remembering, walking, choosing, and attending"?

ironic but solutions exist?

erelong··on It wasn't AI that flipped Proton's charge
meh, we still have to wait for Proton's response before taking the story circulating at face value

It's not like Proton has had so many security breaches like we've been constantly seeing hit so many other sites in other posts (I don't think?), nor that they have so many other problems that exist at other companies

Hoping people keep perspective and that Proton bounces back even better with adaptations to named criticisms

erelong··on Nurses Sound Alarm as 'Uber for Nursing' Apps Push to Deregulate Healthcare
Many industries (medicine, law, engineering, etc.) need huge "deregulation" shakeups; massive expensive legal and financial grifts going on
erelong··on I'm a Proton employee and I'm breaking my silence
Yeah I'd definitely want to hear the other side of the story before jumping to conclusions on that "biased attack piece" that made its rounds (it's very possible Proton is indeed in the wrong and can be fairly criticized, but I've seen enough conflicts like this where I want to hear what the other side says before rushing to judgment, especially about a tech company which was otherwise liked by a lot on HN it seems)
erelong··on Reddit is going logged-in only. Blame Google AI Overviews
Monetization death spiral?
erelong··on AO3 Down for Maintenance
wishing you and others luck

if something happens, it's probably not your fault?

erelong··on Manifestos, Fear, and 'Loser Thinking': Inside Proton's AI Reckoning
Looks like a smear post, easy for anyone to do

Should wait for and read Proton response before taking it seriously

erelong··on MIT professor says AI is taking over your brain
tbh I feel these headlines are kind of sensationalized, it's just about how you use AI, and that determines if it is beneficial for you or not

Anything like how the internet or search engines or telephone operators (lol) "change your brain" articles I guess could be written ("Why didn't you just manualy memorize or look up a phone number yourself, what, do you want to download a brainrot?!")

erelong··on ‘You Are Done’: The letter sent to King by the F.B.I (2014)
yep, they changed from the archived article I linked from vox.com to a NY Times article link. (I only posted the archive link I did because it was a wall on vox and I couldn't read article otherwise)
erelong··on ‘You Are Done’: The letter sent to King by the F.B.I (2014)
https://archive.ph/yGBOu
erelong··on Low cholesterol targets cut cardiovascular events by 33%
I think there's been a pushback on this view lately, that this is only one factor to consider or that the studies leading to this kind of conclusion are flawed?
erelong··on Big Tech's thirst for water is sparking a global resistance
Sometimes I wonder how many resources things like AI actually save rather than consume (I don't see that reported on as much)
erelong··on It's now official, tech is the new tobacco
Tobacco is a nootropic

Social media is a powerful tool for sharing and obtaining info

Poison is the dose

erelong··on Tell HN: I'm going on strike this November
ITT we can maybe discuss effective alternatives to strikes

> start alternative better businesses or work for them

> encourage work reforms in society like remote work / 4 day work weeks

> write in

erelong··on Anthropic trained Claude on illegally obtained Stanford professors' books
it never should have had any place, it never made sense, it's always created more problems than it solved
erelong··on Anthropic trained Claude on illegally obtained Stanford professors' books
> the title

sounds bad...

> the article: "pirated the work of over 10 Stanford professors to train its Claude models"

that just... doesn't seem like much compared to so much other scraping though, right?

erelong··on Chocolate Is Getting Worse
https://archive.ph/B7Czv
erelong··on Here be monsters: What do you still need to know when agents do the work?
https://archive.ph/Noxps
erelong··on Lula wins election after final votes tallied
> The surprise result defied polls, precedent and went against the rightward trend that's been sweeping across Latin America.

...so this will play in to Bolsonaro's claims the election was "stolen" then probably, if the polls heavily favored him?

erelong··on Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs
Wouldn't use the extension but I like the metaphor of unread tabs being like overgrown weeds
erelong··on Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
yeah it's kind of weird because some old mac laptops I've used were easy to work with and put on third party software (Linux), but the things like ipads and iphones not so much...

edit: it's like... just give us the same option for the ipads / iphones please?

erelong··on Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
I share your sentiments but I wonder realistically how far we are from AI just "jailbreaking all the things", rendering the conversation moot

Like they can try to lock some things down, and some of those barriers we may not be able to get around, but how much of enough of them will we be able to circumvent?

Ideally this would probably not affect newer hardened devices but could unlock a bunch of older otherwise "unusable" hardware that functionally is "e-waste" currently

erelong··on Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
Hoping more "unsupported" older "iDevices" can be made usable with newer software with something like "jailbreaking"
erelong··on Your Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown
Alternatively the duopoly hard block might push linux mobile development in to overdrive (with AI assistance?)
erelong··on I Electrified My Push Scooter with a Power Drill
add another wheel on the other side of the drill for a kind of sidecar-like stability? (tricycle style?)
erelong··on Will MOOCs Destroy Academia? (2012)
Unfortunately a lot of government meddling in education and industry has continued to prop up academia as we know it, however maybe it will be different "this time" with AI
erelong··on Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) released
Used to love Ubuntu but they dropped X11 support so I'm out

(I'm fine with Wayland for those who want it but it still breaks things I've used)

erelong··on Bookofjoe's Favorite Thing: Best Pill Splitter
I've been wondering about an automated way to do this and also wondering why they don't make more half doses for some of these pills people need chopped up
erelong··on Gaming on Linux without cheating
Meanwhile I'm over here probably wanting to play offline solo games I can "cheat" more in (sometimes unlimited health is a fun feature or other "cheat codes")
erelong··on Suicide rates highest ever among middle-aged men
I think part of the problem in that instance, might be "success" being necessary but not sufficient for "surviving and thriving"; and unfortunately sometimes that isn't explained along the way to even people who become conventionally successful (but, perhaps we can try to improve an awareness of the issue going forward for future gens)
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