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hiatus··on Google Safe Browsing incident
> Well, you're responding to him, so questions or suggestions are probably better than speculation.

I suspect the author is unaware of their other blindspots. It's not 2001 anymore. Holding yourself out as a hosting provider comes with some baseline expectations.

hiatus··on The government ate my name
I don't think you can name your kid $()*&@Q%&
hiatus··on The government ate my name
I think you misread my comment? I said:

> You can't, in any country I'm aware of, choose absolutely any name you want.

Like in Germany can you name your kid "The Holocaust Didn't Happen"? No right?

hiatus··on The government ate my name
> Declaring a people's opinions about names stupid and irrelevant (or even illegal) is one of the many ways majorities oppress or even commit slow genocide against minorities.

My point was governments do this all the time and it is a far cry from fascism. Elsewhere in the thread, it is mentioned that often times you have to compromise when registering a name in a different country (for instance, if the language does not contain a phoneme used in your name). In that case, you have to conform to the country's culture and language. Under that lens, banning names that violate cultural norms is not so crazy.

hiatus··on Google Safe Browsing incident
One can only imagine the other beginner mistakes made by this operator.
hiatus··on "My dad says: people like you don't matter anymore."
That does not sound far fetched to me at all. The nationwide average for teachers is $70k. Surviving on a $80k-$100k/year pension at retirement with full health insurance coverage for you and your spouse for the rest of your life sounds pretty reasonable.
hiatus··on Time Warp IDE – Complete environment for old-school coding
This is like the worst shilling I've ever seen.
hiatus··on The government ate my name
> people with strong opinions over how they want to be named exist.

is a total non-issue. You can't, in any country I'm aware of, choose absolutely any name you want.

hiatus··on I played 1k hands of online poker and built a web app with Cursor AI
Can you link to more info?
hiatus··on I played 1k hands of online poker and built a web app with Cursor AI
> Poker isn’t actually hard to play perfectly if you’re writing a bot.

How so? It's not like the entire game state is visible to all players, and a big part of poker is playing the other players.

hiatus··on SEC approves Texas Stock Exchange, first new US integrated exchange in decades
> will be to not be overseen by the SEC in some important capacity.

How would a securities exchange avoid being regulated by the securities and exchange commission?

hiatus··on Study of 1M-year-old skull points to earlier origins of modern humans
I have no expertise in the field whatsoever but can't help but wonder if it is at all related to our consumption of cooked foods. At the very least it reduces the incidence of parasites but I am sure there are myriad benefits beyond treating foods for longevity through methods like smoking.
hiatus··on Launch HN: Grapevine (YC S19) – A company GPT that actually works
Who would intentionally downplay their accuracy in marketing materials by conflating the statistic with another?
hiatus··on Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society
It can be a bit of both no? Drugs are addictive but drug use increases when conditions worsen.
hiatus··on OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss
> I think the beneficiary is wrong here. Those teens will grow up to work for organizaitons (sic) using Azure AD, Windows, Office and OneDrive/SharePoint/Teams.

Idk, younger companies like Anthropic and OpenAI are using google.

hiatus··on An opinionated critique of Duolingo
I expect a critique of accuracy would be non-opinionated.
hiatus··on Claude Code 2.0
> Junior Engineers aren't "dangerous" but we just don't give them too much access/authority too soon.

If it is not dangerous to give them this access, why not grant it?

hiatus··on Comprehension debt: A ticking time bomb of LLM-generated code
My experience has been mixed with tools like deepwiki, but that's precisely the problem. I tried it with libraries I was familiar with and it was subtly wrong about some things.
hiatus··on The great sameness: a comic on how AI makes us more alike
The question is, in time will anyone (or rather, enough) care? Insecurity will dissolve if you know everyone else is doing it too. Remember the coffee cup in game of thrones? It was noteworthy because of the novelty but I expect worse and for people to care less.
hiatus··on Evanston orders Flock to remove reinstalled cameras
And neither is a beater but they still get impounded.
hiatus··on U.S. military was caught off guard by Israeli strike on Qatar
> He is lying or not smart enough to filter out propaganda.

This kind of divisive rhetoric helps no one.

hiatus··on Apple Demands EU Repeal the Digital Markets Act
For how long? Or at least, how long after they lose their second largest consumer market do shareholders demand a shakeup of leadership?
hiatus··on U.S. military was caught off guard by Israeli strike on Qatar
Aren't their planes incompatible with the fueling requirements of the Israeli planes?
hiatus··on Restrictions on house sharing by unrelated roommates
The article opens talking about boarding houses and moves on to discuss single-room occupancies which are the rental afforded by boarding houses. It is the renting of individual rooms that is illegal.

In any case, there is _some_ limit to the number of occupants allowed to coreside in a given residence. States tend to codify minimum square footage requirements on a per-person basis to determine occupancy limits for a particular building.

hiatus··on That DEA agent's 'credit card' could be eavesdropping on you
Most of these are obviated by a wallet app on the phone.
hiatus··on Teen suspect surrenders in 2023 Las Vegas casino cyberattack case
What's the end result? Prosecuting the victim of a cybercrime for paying a ransom?
hiatus··on Hidden risk in Notion 3.0 AI agents: Web search tool abuse for data exfiltration
How would that work when models regularly access web content for more context, like looking up a tutorial and executing commands from it to install something?
hiatus··on AI tools are making the world look weird
Mind linking to the post for the curious?
hiatus··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
I know GDPR provides rights for access and portability, but I'm not sure if you have portability rights for content you didn't create (like messages sent to you).
hiatus··on When Knowing Someone at Meta Is the Only Way to Break Out of "Content Jail"
You are suggesting that google would immediately terminate and blacklist an account that is the subject of litigation?
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