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natebc··on Whimsy and the Literacy Crisis [video]
"... moving truth from the realm of objectivity to the realm of subjectivity."

Admittedly this is not typical HN faire but Ash talks about the impact of "the algorithm" and impact on the parlance of truth.

Plus she's very entertaining.

natebc··on OpenPrinter
close, but not quite. I suppose in the way that originally set him off, yes.

It looks like they're using the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 license so restricting commercial use which I think would run afoul of the purists definition of Freedom?

It's a cool printer, and I'd much rather have something like this!

natebc··on Verizon is about to break our Gizmo watches
Where I live (Durham, NC) Google Fi's MNO is T-Mobile so they're effectively the same.
natebc··on Verizon is about to break our Gizmo watches
Same, they must mean Google Voice. I've used Google Fi for gosh, 8-9+ years (honestly don't remember, but a good long while) and I've had ZERO problems with anything relating to using it as my cell provider.
natebc··on Spain Orders Blacklist of Palantir from Public and Private Companies
i knew it was a little while after WWII (college history was long, long ago!) but didn't realize it was ... 1975-1977!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_transition_to_democrac...

natebc··on AI can't be listed as inventor on patent applications, Japan's top court rules
This is the bit in the copyright offices' report that i'm trying to square:

>The Office concludes that, given current generally available technology, prompts alone do not provide sufficient human control to make users of an AI system the authors of the output.

https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intell...

natebc··on AI can't be listed as inventor on patent applications, Japan's top court rules
> Your AI slop is effectively public domain.

I haven't been able to square this belief (This is what i believe too.) with what I perceive as so, so many people making projects, putting them on github and slapping an MIT/GPL license on them.

If IP rights can't be applied to generated code then how are they able to apply a such a license to them?

I've asked this before and the response was along the lines of people thinking their multiple prompting amounted to human creative process and therefore it was covered but ... how? Any lawyers around that can ELI5 it for us? Maybe links to a lawyer somewhere who did?

natebc··on The Anti-Palantir Manifesto
it's not your bike that he stole.
natebc··on I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI
I'm pretty sure the Optimization part is just ... not present at all.

This is how we get LLM summaries presenting something mentioned once by some nutjob in a reddit thread as bona fide FACT

natebc··on I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI
The Uber guy? Yeah that was a painful watch.
natebc··on Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS
Who knows. I'm sure it was pretty expensive. Was certainly more comfortable on that side of their legal desk though I'm sure.
natebc··on Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS
I remember all this too. The time period that I was in this scene was AFTER 2010 though so who knows. As mentioned in response to the sibling "credible sources" bro, I was just a lowly support engineer so i had to trust that the CEO wasn't lying to us about all this.

Maybe he was ... they do that sometimes.

I looked around a little. the C&D from Netapp was in ~July 2010 and the partnership and product with Oracle in the Fall (Around the cease fire) and we continued with that (via the Oracle Partnership) through 2011-2015 when the company ran out of cash and laid us all off.

natebc··on Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS
sorry, don't have a link to the CEO telling us that we were signing a partnership with oracle that included the indemnification.

I was just a lowly support engineer so not privy to all the legal details that the executives were dealing with. I too had to just take them at their word.

ETA: I searched a bit. Here's a link

https://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/networking/netapp-thr...

Maybe threats were enough? I certainly wouldn't want to test it myself.

natebc··on Ubiquiti: Enterprise NAS, Built on ZFS
another thing holding it back is the threat of a lawsuit from Netapp.

source: used to work for a storage vendor that was marketing a NAS based on ZFS and got credible threats from Netapp to the point that we sought a partnership with Oracle that included indemnification under Oracles settlement with Netapp.

natebc··on Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers
We've got a few candidates for that on the go and this is for sure one of them.
natebc··on I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis
There's a lot of bleak things for sure.

Linux has come a long way Valve's efforts with Proton/Linux Gaming

natebc··on What I've learned about the trombone
That's wild. I suppose it's just a long baritone?
natebc··on Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
What are the premiums like for this AI radiologists malpractice insurance?
natebc··on The most unlikely school bag
Right? The classic Trapper Keeper!
natebc··on The real cost of owning a home
wait ... There are landlords out there who will "spend on it"?

Mine took 3 weeks to replace a broken HVAC when it was 35 degress out. 5 days to fix a toilet that when flushed dumped sewage into my downstairs neighbors ceiling.

Maybe if you're treating yourself as a tenant but your run of the mill rent extracting (or worse, middle man) landlord is the cheapest creature on the land.

natebc··on Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore
Yes. But Python isn't punch cards behind the scenes so it's not the same thing at all.

Besides. You're not asking <AGENT OF THE WEEK> to produce punch cards to jam into the PDP.

natebc··on Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore
Junior devs should still read to learn how to write the code.

Surely the desired state isn't that nobody knows how to write code any more right?

natebc··on Meta to receive $3.3B in tax breaks for its $10B Louisiana data center
and the price will not be in currency.
natebc··on All Those A.I. Note Takers? They're Making Lawyers Nervous
gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/business/dealbook/ai-note...
natebc··on The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)
If anybody wants some more encouragement to check out Technology Connections ... the vibe is hour+ long Andy Rooney pieces.
natebc··on I want to live like Costco people
Their pharmacy is A+.

I get my dogs seizure meds there and they're about $10 a month but at a regular pharmacy they'd be $300+.

natebc··on Is my blue your blue? (2024)
Same.

Dad: Hey, what rig did we catch that king on?

Me: Live pogey with a chartreuse minnow.

natebc··on Supreme Court to hear arguments in landmark Roundup weedkiller case
Gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/climate/supreme-court-bay...
natebc··on Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones
if you ever want an upgrade look into nautilus air horns. I had one on my 250cc Vespa that would clear an intersection.

Needs like 18 amps if that tells you anything.

natebc··on Show HN: Running local OpenClaw together with remote agents in an open network
TBH This whole thread is a little odd.
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