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iowemoretohimon U.S. life expectancy hits all-time high

Look long enough and you will always find something to support your claim.

iowemoretohimon U.S. life expectancy hits all-time high

Shall I cherry pick some stats from some of Cuba's administrative divisions?

iowemoretohimon Show HN: OSS AI agent that indexes and searches the Epstein files

Those are going to be some spicy hallucinations.

iowemoretohimon 90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from the internet

> Think what's going on in Iran is very sad, but

> the above is not to diminish the other sad loss of life

That's a lot of caveats.

iowemoretohimon Iran has now been offline for 96 hours

Any source for this?

iowemoretohimon Clair Obscur having its Indie Game Game Of The Year award stripped due to AI use

How could it be spammed in previous years since this is only the 2nd year of "The Indie Game Awards". Not to mention the event only had less than 7.5k total views to the 171 million for the "The Game Awards".

iowemoretohimon Clair Obscur having its Indie Game Game Of The Year award stripped due to AI use

The Game Awards 2025 had more viewers than the Superbowl with a total of 171 million global livestreams vs The Indie Game Awards (7.1k Youtube views and 433 Twitch views).

iowemoretohimon Rahm Emanuel says U.S. should follow Australia's youth social media ban

Do children buy devices and pay for internet service?

iowemoretohimon Crypto hoarders dump tokens as shares tumble

As a fellow American said: "I don't think about you at all."

iowemoretohimon Seoul says US must fix its visa system if it wants Korea's investments

Same as the solution to declining birthrates is to import more people to also not have children.

Neither addresses the problem just provides a way to ignore it for longer.

iowemoretohimon Bluesky now platform of choice for science community

> It's not just you. Survey says: "Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky"

Ars Technica

iowemoretohimon Europe's Free-Speech Problem

Do the average Democrat really cares about our euro alliances or are you talking about the left media talking points?

I've yet to met a normal person mention how worried they are about our relationship with Europeans.

iowemoretohimon Our Response to Mississippi's Age Assurance Law

Do they plan to also block the UK and Australia?

iowemoretohimon Computer fraud laws used to prosecute leaking air crash footage to CNN

The person got paid to grant exclusive rights to the videos to CNN, this wasn't just posting to social media to spread the word.

iowemoretohimon Computer fraud laws used to prosecute leaking air crash footage to CNN

Why is leaking the video the right thing? There were multiple videos of the incident including footage from a EarthCam live camera. And the NTSB released multiple videos as part of their investigation. The video wasn't leaked in order to stop a coverup.

iowemoretohimon Microsoft engineer fired for disrupting CEO Nadella's speech at Build 2025

I don't think this is exclusive to American workplaces, I would wager this is the norm in most of the world.

iowemoretohimon X.com refuses to open with Firefox strict tracking protection enabled

How will the remaining 97% of users handle this? /s

It's a bug on Firefox's end related to the twitter.com > x.com migration.

iowemoretohimon Microsoft says 8.5M Windows devices were affected by CrowdStrike outage

Device that was sending telemetry data with Crowdstrike installed and is no longer sending telemetry data after the event time frame can be considered to be affected.

Another possible source is Crowdstike itself who definitely has the data.

iowemoretohimon Microsoft says 8.5M Windows devices were affected by CrowdStrike outage

Crowdstrike is also used on Linux and MacOS devices. So by your definition, does that means they aren't considered secure either?

Crowdstrike is certainly not required for a device to be considered secure, it is a tool that uses AI and ML to detect and prevent malware, 0-day exploits and other cyber threats in real-time across endpoints.

iowemoretohimon Opinion: I'd rather have a headphone jack and a microSD slot than AI in my phone

My device has a headphone jack and a microSD slot and I've never used either of them.

In regards of AI I find transcription, summarization, translation and predictive text to be very useful.

iowemoretohimon Proton Mail Adds an Open-Source AI Writing Assistant to Take on Gmail

This is not a chatbot and is in no way similar to what Google does.

It's opt-in, open source, runs on device, does not use your emails to train the model, and most important of all does not grant Proton access to your emails.

What part of that do you see as a privacy violation?

iowemoretohimon Newpipe/yt-dlp stops working

> PeerTube integrated into Mastodon is a borderline existential threat.

Sorry even as a big fan of PeerTube and Mastodon this is simply delusional.

iowemoretohimon Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is so buggy you can't install the OS [video]

Or use Etcher, etc. AKA Properly create a bootable USB stick. This seems to me as FUD.

iowemoretohimon Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is so buggy you can't install the OS [video]

If it worked like a dream for you why would this be an issue for you? You can easily create a edge cases for any distribution including Debian.

iowemoretohimon Google fires 28 employees involved in sit-in protest over $1.2B Israel contract

Of course it will impact their careers. If there were no consequences then this exercise would prove to be meaningless.

iowemoretohimon Proton and Standard Notes are joining forces

What's the ETA for the Google Drive Linux client?

iowemoretohimon OpenAI: 'The New York Times Paid Someone to Hack Us'

Pretty interesting to see how each commenter bias influences how they interpret this claim.

iowemoretohimon Cool website to remove the paywall on any article

This made me chuckle. Guess you can pay bills with acknowledgement.

https://www.archivebuttons.com/blog/remove-paywalls-ultimate...

> Ethical Considerations of Bypassing Paywalls

> At the core of ethical considerations is a profound respect for content creators. Recognizing the time, effort, and resources invested in producing quality journalism is crucial. By acknowledging the value of this work, users can approach paywall removal with a sense of responsibility and an understanding of the potential impact on the financial sustainability of news outlets.