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nomel··on Residential proxies detected on White House network
Maybe I'm confused.

Guest networks are configured to disallow intranet connectivity, so the "security" risk would be from the device having access to the internet, on a guest network IP. But a guest network exists for the purpose of giving untrusted devices access to the internet, without compromising the security of the intranet. My local library, the local airport, Home Depot, the movie theater, etc all have public wifi, yet nobody would claim they were directly compromised. I understand the connection could be used for receiving and sending packets over the internet, like a DDoS (which would trigger rate limits, even at Home Depot), but framing a guest network, giving an untrusted device access to the internet, as some security issue seems very odd. The isolation is the mitigation.

nomel··on Life with Down Syndrome
> Because that's what this entire discussion is about?

My mistake! I completely misread that bit.

> I'd love for you to explain how the right to abortion, for any reason, is actually not a progressive idea.

One of those reasons is eugenics, a form of ableism. That was my only point.

nomel··on Insects don't swarm at LED lights
This is actually many many millionth's of some fraction of a percent false! ;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50327058

nomel··on Is Curiosity Good for Us?
This is all a self inflicted wound though. Weeks are still spent on him, and his pseudoscience, in intro psychology classes, and still brought up in higher level courses. People only know about him because psychologists won't stop talking about him. Here's one sentence that could be used to stop the cycle, any time a desire to talk about Freud comes up: Freud introduced the concept of psychoanalysis, but his framework and findings are in no way relevant to science, so will be left to the reader.

And the torture ends!

I don't believe it's necessary to go into depth about all the ideas that were wrong, through all of history.

nomel··on Is Curiosity Good for Us?
I don't understand psychologists interest in Freud, someone who was completely and entirely objectively wrong about everything.

It would be like physicists constantly including references/comparisons to Aristotelian Mechanics, or flat Earthers.

Why put any consideration or thought into something known-to-be completely wrong? I can't comprehend it. For me, it completely discredits anything they're trying to say. Maybe there was something interesting, I don't know, I gave up after I saw 25 hits for "Freud". I don't enjoy pseudoscience.

nomel··on Residential proxies detected on White House network
If I'm using one of these services while connected to a guest wifi network, with the usual configuration for guest access (like no intranet connections), is that guest wifi network compromised? What's the threat model?
nomel··on Frustrated ranchers want people to quit 'rescuing' their working guardian dogs
We tried to adopt a cat once from a local shelter. If there was any indication that you would let the cat outside, for any period of time, they would reject the application. Also, if there was any indication you would ever leave the cat alone for 10 hours or more, they would reject the application. So, we left all those cats in the shelter, where there were almost certainly terminated, and bought a kitten from some random people on craigslist.

After that cat passed, we tried to adopt a dog from the local shelters. All required an interview and house visit, with random unscheduled visits within the 6 months after. We bought a puppy from some random kid.

edit: "any indication that you would let the cat outside" and "outdoor cat" are not the same thing. I failed because I said we had a patio we would let the cat sit on, in nice weather, on the second floor, or because we were going to see if we could leash train it (my friend had with his cat). I don't know, the lady seemed very angry the whole interview. The leash training failed before it made its way outdoors, but the sun was enjoyed.

nomel··on A thousand fewer paths to root
2022: https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/googl...

2026: https://medium.com/@hammaadmughal/the-invisible-bazaar-insid...

etc. Concept of governments being main buyers doesn't change by year.

nomel··on Residential proxies detected on White House network
What makes you believe this is related to national security?
nomel··on A thousand fewer paths to root
The governments buy them up [1]. Nukes wouldn't be required for WW3.

[1] https://www.cyberdefensemagazine.com/zero-day-market-the-gov...

nomel··on Residential proxies detected on White House network
Do you believe the availability of wifi for staff/guests is somehow unreasonable? Or, is there a belief that no internet (wifi or cellular) connected devices are allowed on premises? Is them using cellular data, rather than a guest network, somehow more secure?
nomel··on AR guitar with just a laptop and scissors
I would rather you have typed this on a typewriter. They're not that expensive.
nomel··on Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux
> What's your point?

That them trying to protect IP around something very profitable isn't crazy. That not being fully supported in Linux, when the product was literally designed around Windows, also isn't crazy or really evidence of anything, including evil (see the whole fucking history of Linux compatibility of made-for-Windows hardware).

Maybe let them cook.

nomel··on Nvidia RTX Spark encrypted firmware slows inference speed to 35% on Linux
Power per compute is ludicrously important to data centers. This isn't some small IP, it's a potential market differentiator.

edit: even more important for mobile computers

nomel··on Life with Down Syndrome
> but I'm willing to just give that to you since it seems like that's your position

I'm not sure where you get this from. I stated, with very simple wording, that I don't think that terminating the mentally ill is related to being progressive, with an example demonstrating why. I'm not trying to communicate anything, other than what I wrote.

> But even then, sometimes people do have to die for what's best for society.

This is, literally, the reason the Nazis terminated the mentally ill [1], and is a framing that is not in line with progressivism at all, which would be more about personal choice.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_unworthy_of_life

nomel··on Life with Down Syndrome
> I'm referring to people who

Then be clear and specific, and don't require everyone to guess. You are referring to an entirely negligible portion of the population, with no political weight, but phrased it as something significant. Again, "minority" is not useful for the exact reason demonstrated.

nomel··on US voters roundly reject data centers in ballot measures
> - Some of the revenue generated by the datacenter must be set aside to improve power reliability

Note that the utility monopolies are posting record profits that have increased steadily over the last decade.

nomel··on Life with Down Syndrome
Of course, but that doesn't mean it's appropriate. It covers a ratio from 0.00001% to 49.9999%, so is in no way a useful word on its own. It's usually only used to influence people (as in this case, where it can be read as 38% being insignificant). Real numbers should be used, instead.
nomel··on US tech giants' hidden AI debt swells 90% to $3.2T in 6 months
They mean you're obligated to the money. You can't back out. You're in debt to them. But, some of this does not include obligation, so fundamentally isn't the same as debt.
nomel··on Life with Down Syndrome
The goal. One is to prevent inconvenience to themselves, which is a lifestyle choice. The other is a goal of making a superior breed of humans.
nomel··on Scaling Git at OpenAI
Note, 6 of the last 10 had "fix" in the commit message. Most of the rest were patches to fix incorrect behavior/exploits, but without "fix" in the name. Fixing things is not the result of AI, it's the result of software development. Sometimes people hide this fact by either refraining from committing, or merging all those fix commits into one commit.
nomel··on Life with Down Syndrome
So, it's progressive to terminate the mentally ill? Seems like it would be a slightly different axis, since history shows it's a vector not purely aligned with the "progressive" label.
nomel··on Life with Down Syndrome
You've exaggerated.

> 38% said it should be illegal in all or most cases

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2026/06/17/what-the-...

nomel··on Life with Down Syndrome
Is this related to the culture around living in harsher environments, where mistakes easily mean death?
nomel··on xAI installs eight converted jet engines to power Mississippi data center
With that portion being somewhat compensated for by the rising "connection fees", being over $150/month where I am.
nomel··on Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot
A fourth cable would allow you to keep the other three constrained up high, with fourth being to lower. Would require some close looped control to eliminate swaying though.
nomel··on xAI installs eight converted jet engines to power Mississippi data center
Utility monopolies have been raising rates, and profits, for a long while now, to the point where making you own power is cheaper. On average, 15 cents per dollar directly into profit [1].

[1] https://energyandpolicy.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/Payin...

nomel··on Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise
Does this meet all the SAR limits for general population RF exposure? Especially the tissue near the emitter?
nomel··on Show HN: Hacker Times, a New York Times-inspired version of Hacker News
We're going to enter an era of fragmentation and silos like never imagined before. It'll be terribly wonderful, with everyone getting exactly what they want.
nomel··on Scaling Git at OpenAI
Wait until you see the Linux git history [1]! Also see the 80/20 rule.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

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