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kirth_gersen··on Can Democrats effectively abolish Electoral College after midterm wins?
This was pretty clearly a backlash against the high gas and groceries prices. Oh and data centers. The average voter doesn't care about things they think are too complicated.
kirth_gersen··on Being a kid making games in the early 2000s
dang. kept expecting him to discover dungeons & dragons...
kirth_gersen··on Notice How Old websites look better than new websites
Agreed.
kirth_gersen··on Valve "played capitalism so well they broke it" and now Steam can't be replaced
I wish more companies would choose to do this honestly.
kirth_gersen··on WTF Ubuntu?
Local minecraft server definitely requires port forwarding at the router... as I've learned to my chagrin that Starlink doesn't support port forwarding... Goodbye self hosted minecraft. Did it for nearly a decade and cannot anymore.
kirth_gersen··on Napping characteristics and incident dementia
It seems to me that perhaps the data better supports that dementia is correlated with unintentional and short naps. This makes it sound like they think it is causal, which I doubt.
kirth_gersen··on Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace
This is why when I use AI, I still download from the browser and drag and drop the outputted files like a caveman. Sure, it's slower, but it keeps my mental model more up to date and has less security risks. I can even...like read the thing before I run it rather than giving a LLM access to my shell directly. Also anecdotally, it seems more token efficient for those who care about that.
kirth_gersen··on Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace
True, but there are other people working at the companies that probably own stock in both their own company and some of the others...if you believe that this is the future, you'd be a fool to buy non-AI tech stocks, right?
kirth_gersen··on Toxic experts (2017)
I didn't get that from it. This is just venting from a teacher irritated by someone being toxic about something they made to inform people. Not sure I'd have named the person that was the "inspiration" for this. At best it probably won't change a lifetime of learned behavior, and at worst they will take glee in 15 min of fame.
kirth_gersen··on ‘You Are Done’: The letter sent to King by the F.B.I (2014)
came expecting a rick roll, got an unexpected banger. thanks!
kirth_gersen··on Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS
negative attention is still attention..."no such thing as bad publicity"- PT Barnum.
kirth_gersen··on Zero click, silent, remote Android DoS
why not do both?
kirth_gersen··on Claude Code regularly sends each background agent’s transcript to its model
even if their motive is "make our product better", that is still just the profit motive with extra steps. the reason to make your product better is to make it more competitive so that... it makes more profit long term.
kirth_gersen··on DoorDash to Buy Instacart for $17B, Uniting 2 Delivery Giants
Well, that can't be good. Hello higher prices for worse service.
kirth_gersen··on I Used AI to Fake a Scientific Paper. Here's What Happened
Save yourself a slog. The automated checks found that the citations didn't exist and flagged the "papers". A better title would have been "Automated Systems seem to hold back the AI Slop papers. For now." Sweet writing studio, though.
kirth_gersen··on Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages
beautiful. i don't see the pieces as animated, however. perhaps I am missing something?
kirth_gersen··on Early 2000s were peak of humanity
you know in your heart it's not
kirth_gersen··on AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it
for now. some people seem to think we should make ai native programming languages and just let them be black boxes. which is a bad idea imo
kirth_gersen··on CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements
Most have internal batteries and are still "on" to a certain extent unless the battery is completely discharged.
kirth_gersen··on Show HN: PageAgent, A GUI agent that lives inside your web app
Came here to say missed opportunity to call it "PAgent". Rolls off the tongue better than Page Agent.
kirth_gersen··on Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?
+1 for NoScript. It is kind of a pain for the first few days when you have to spend 10-30 seconds reloading sites to allow the minimum needed. It is also eye opening to see how much bloat is added and how fast pages load without all the extra bs.
kirth_gersen··on The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence
$200 doesn't seem that crazy if they are buying several phone lines. I assume he pays at the least his wife as well, so that's two. If they have home internet bundled in as well, that would easily explain that figure. All to say, AT&T. He may also have a home phone line for a fax machine. It is perhaps a bit disingenuous to bundle it all together, but it also isn't the main point of the article.
kirth_gersen··on The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence
In America, you basically need insurance to act as a larger stronger party in the negotiation of prices with the hospital on your behalf. Without the bargaining power of the insurance company the prices you'd pay can be significantly inflated. So paying for the insurance is the slightly lesser of two evils. Supposedly. From your question it seems perhaps you live somewhere with a saner system in place. I'm envious.
kirth_gersen··on Activision-Blizzard buyout is 'harming both gamers and developers' – Lina Khan
Possibly bc games are much more intensive in cpu, graphics cards and RAM usage in a way that streaming content isn't. And that usage is per user since you don't see the same video game frames as everyone else. By comparison, you don't need to compute every frame of a netflix series. It's static, you just serve it up.
kirth_gersen··on "Even God Cannot Hear Us Here": What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women's Prison
Doubtful. But even if true? So what? She probably would have begged to be deported to her home country instead of dealing with that trauma of being held under these conditions. We are supposed to be better than this. So disappointed in my country right now.
kirth_gersen··on Man Killed by Police After Spiraling into ChatGPT-Driven Psychosis
I have it toggled off and it does do this less, but still often enough to be mildly annoying.
kirth_gersen··on Claude Opus 4 turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline
The simplest strategy would seem to be just to ignore all terminal input in this case. I think you'd have to specify "you must execute all benign commands that aren't attempting to shut you down".
kirth_gersen··on AI photo editing raises trust issues in photography
"You don't trust a photo from some rando in your social feed."

If only that were true for so many people.

kirth_gersen··on AI photo editing raises trust issues in photography
Eh. Though "trick" photography has existed forever, it has always been much more difficult to do and easier to spot. Now it is super easy. That has to change the calculus of trust and the basic assumption that most images aren't doctored.
kirth_gersen··on Is Ben scrolling TikTok right now?
Hey, I hope this helps you reach your goal. You are doubtless a wonderful person either way. This is the most creative self help, I've ever seen.
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