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Tech founder reimagining making learning+video personal.

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j45··on Too many men suffering in silence, national health report finds (Canada)
One seems written by a real human more than the other.
j45··on Too many men suffering in silence, national health report finds (Canada)
1) "Poor men's health carries economic costs"

Yet.. they say a man's worth is "not" the value they put in the bank account.

2) What's deadly about this space is that surveys can be toxic.

Too often, it's researchers looking to slowly understand things, have people open themselves up, then leave them like that, for little to no progress in 5-10 years.

That kind of system needs supply, no?

3) I have heard from some men that sometimes there can be things that only other men understand. That can be similar to women's health issues can be understood differently, or men can feel more comfortable with other men.

4) It's important for authors to try and be aware of their own unconscious biases. Much like medicine is horribly behind at understanding women's health (for example, women hearts are not the same as men's), it means the inverse can be true too, beginning with asking men.

j45··on How I'm fighting the AI brain fry
Reading books is critical.
j45··on Goldman Sachs is pulling Claude Code from its bankers and traders
Leaky llm syndrome is like putting in a wormhole to bypass all those cybersecurity investments.
j45··on Writing as a thinking tool
Instead of asking the LLM to explain things, you can use it as a pen.

Let it organize and work with your thoughts, as you say, how you say, as you do it.

Once that is clear, it can then better create those other artifacts.

j45··on Agent memory needs its OpenTelemetry moment
Some times when I see ai generated text like this, it feels possible to see how sophisticated their AI skills are if they couldn’t even get the text to render better, and how that might transfer to the code itself.

This looked interesting, unfortunately it feels far too long for humans to spend time reading.

People might really be starting to write like LLMs, it’s why reading books is the single biggest anti-slopping protection for the human brain.

The “shape” of the article was a word generator performatively generating larger words where simpler ones would do. “That holds”

j45··on Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" exposes passwords in 1,122 public GitHub files
That may be for most cases, but it wasn't safe for this password scenario, and likely others that haven't been discovered. Maybe there's a PII setting that can be enabled by default.
j45··on Claude Code's "Don't Ask Again" exposes passwords in 1,122 public GitHub files
Can secret scanning be enabled by default?
j45··on You are protesting the wrong technology, people
Great piece.

Canvas is a slightly more modern and private equity Moodle for the banal transactions of student/instruction life and not actually for learning.

It’s nice it helps instructors for sure, but it’s never really been about the students.

Students are just water boarded with a multitude of too many different tools to different tools from canvas that aren’t connected nor work together for the student experience.

Learning management systems can be for managing the learners and access to learning, but rarely about the learning or learning experience or learning outcomes.

These platforms are too often so entrenched and anchored in earning in the past that they can’t see let alone reach the present or future.

j45··on Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production
It's good to dare to try things more than a little different.

Who would think we could get satellite internet that works?

j45··on University libraries are being swarmed by AI bots, putting public access at risk
It was 11,000 searches on just one topic (Finnish music). Not sure how many topics.
j45··on University libraries are being swarmed by AI bots, putting public access at risk
Static web pages might be back for a bit while this gets figured out
j45··on OpenAI Finds 948 Local Privilege Escalation Bugs in the Linux Kernel
If the volume of bugs being found continues, maybe the rate of bugs will slow, but increase on the release of a sufficiently capable new model.

The vibe coded nature of letting LLMs write patches without understanding the impacts, could invite bandaids on top of bandaids.

j45··on Claude Code sends your email address to websites
Asking a non-deterministic machine to act like it's deterministic is never a good idea.

Where Claude Code has supposed boundaries between deterministic and non-deterministic tasks and flags.. generally.. it's unclear how much privacy has been a part of that and what implication that could have.

Hope that clarifies.

j45··on Claude Code sends your email address to websites
There may be an assumption that these issues are human reviewed.
j45··on Claude Code sends your email address to websites
Masked email or separate email is the way.
j45··on Claude Code sends your email address to websites
I don't care that it sometimes invents one - it should never do something so ridiculous
j45··on Claude Code sends your email address to websites
Bingo. Auto mode doesn't mean send private information outbound. There are other deterministic hard points - why not this?
j45··on Claude Code sends your email address to websites
Again, it should ask which email to send if required, or claude should be able to request which email to send when it needs to - it does neither.

This is an awfully leaky issue.

j45··on Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM
It's too bad electron didn't just rebuild itself to help so many applications all at once.
j45··on You'll need nerves of steel to work with AI agents
The sentence I shared above helps considerably to use.
j45··on So my ISP was hijacking my DNS
For sure, I read the article.

Introducing what ISPs do with DNS information is helpful to understand how encompassing DNS self-hosting needs to be thought about - DNS requests are important to consider the appropriate encryption for.

From the homelab side, increasingly with the automated attacks on systems, it seems wise to keep all services off the internet directly and put it behind one or more service to keep them safe. From that perspective, setting up something like Tailscale can also help mitigate this kind of issue.

j45··on Download your favourite YouTube videos
Backing up videos seems increasingly a consideration, it's disappointing to see videos I've organized and paid for via Youtube Premium to support creators and invest in organizing meaningful playlists.
j45··on OpenSSH 10.6p2 has been released with a workaround for a critical vulnerability
It's nice to see how quickly this is being addressed, and likely monitored for any unintended side effects.

Looking at the unpatched Ubuntu things in my life, and I'm pretty close to asking Claude to update things to see how quickly Alpine can get close, assuming responsiveness can stay this fast and quality.

j45··on So my ISP was hijacking my DNS
One massive reason is they redirect requests for videos to closer (or local) caches of videos for netflix (directly from youtube placing it with a large enough ISP), or local caching at the ISP level so less traffic hits the internet.

If you've ever been hit with a "webpage isn't updating" issue when someone else can see it, often it's different DNS servers.

It's best to never use the ISP's DNS servers, regardless of the reason why they might do what they do.

j45··on So my ISP was hijacking my DNS
It's best to treat your ISP's DNS as not being in your best interest, and actively against you getting your full internet speed and responsiveness.

Set an external DNS server on your router, or learn to run your own locally.

j45··on Sshole
I think you're missing the reason why it's relevant now.

LLMs will find it.

They work endlessly at finding the 'and' scenarios.

This should have been closed up a long time ago.

j45··on You'll need nerves of steel to work with AI agents
remind opus to not over-enjoy problems
j45··on Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)
This is a pretty disappointing thing to read.
j45··on I give to charity – but never to people on the street. Is that wrong?
I respect your right to have your perspective - reading it for me felt less about morality, and more about dignity and being humane in demonstrating a practice of care towards strangers. It can be surprisingly easy to abstract that away by proxy.
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