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nonchalantsui··on What happens to SaaS in a world with computer-using agents?
There are already so many things called AgentOS, and none of them are an OS! So you would be right on the mone-- peanuts.
nonchalantsui··on Fake VS Code Extension on NPM Spreads Multi-Stage Malware
Simplewall, windows firewall control, netlimiter.
nonchalantsui··on CAPTCHAs: 'a tracking cookie farm for profit masquerading as a security service'
Since this was focused on v2 and other interactive captcha, the alternative is to upgrade to new versions that don’t do so. Still some downsides (and the study does address very briefly the use of AI to trick v3), but at the very least it does address some of the concerns.

Important to note though that as AI gets more accessible then the downsides of v3 start to weigh more.

nonchalantsui··on What Happens to SaaS in a World with Computer Using Agents?
Great doc. I wonder when we’ll be getting an OS that dedicates itself to Agents.
nonchalantsui··on I built an open source AI tool to find my autoimmune disease
It can play a huge role certainly. Waiting or attempting DIY solutions can often make symptoms worse, which can make diagnosing easier for the doctor, but comes with the tradeoff of potential earlier treatments.
nonchalantsui··on I built an open source AI tool to find my autoimmune disease
I apologize for offending you, but these are not stereotypes.

Not sure why you find that weird. It's a complaint about inequality towards women, and also the inequality that men face due to misguided masculinity encouraging them not to seek medical advice (and instead rely on DIY nonsense).

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9934383/ https://info.primarycare.hms.harvard.edu/perspectives/articl... https://www.aamc.org/news/why-we-know-so-little-about-women-... https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9657442/

nonchalantsui··on The Anthropic Economic Index
Coffee for $5? That's a steal in this economy!
nonchalantsui··on Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more
From what I recall reading: Richard was a common name so people used nicknames often, and this became shortened versions Rick/Rich. Eventually rhyming into Dick/Hick.

Similar for Robert -> (shortened) Rob -> (rhyme) Bob.

Worth noting, the dick = penis connotations happened later on, so Dick was just a nickname!

nonchalantsui··on Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'
What point of “there is a lot of overlap” is difficult to understand? These people are often in many of the same channels because of how easy it is to stay involved through the likes of discord. Krebs didn’t have to go through much effort and neither did the links I posted.

764 also splintered from a nazi group 09V. Don’t downplay them.

Side note, you might want to reassess some of your views that have you pushing the same sort of propaganda that these groups do.

nonchalantsui··on I built an open source AI tool to find my autoimmune disease
Just wanted to add that often times these stories of doctors not taking patients seriously (when eventually they do get diagnosed with something serious) involves women because of how vastly substandard medical testing and research is for women.

A lot of men won’t have that same experience, they’ll have the experience of waiting too long to ask for help. Which in a dark ironic manner is one way of keeping things equal, one won’t be taken seriously for 5 years, the other won’t ask for help for 5 years!

nonchalantsui··on Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'
It's distinct in that these groups aren't isolated from each other, there's member overlap and subgroups splintering from each other due to trying to avoid authorities.

It's also distinct in the type of crimes. Sextortion involving young kids/creation and sharing of CSAM merging with extreme political beliefs and encouraging those beliefs, with a specific focus to target young kids particularly those vulnerable enough to not have parents immediately notice. The criminals are often also on the younger side, like 19 year olds leading sex cults[1].

"The Com" goes by other names due to these groups being in a lot of different regions under different monikers and subgroups. 764 network, cvlt network, harm nation, etc. All the same general type of crime and target groups.

Here's some resources warning people about them:

https://rcmp.ca/en/news/2024/08/rcmp-reminds-canadians-about...

https://www.wired.com/story/764-com-child-predator-network/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/20...

[1] https://unicornriot.ninja/2024/sextortion-coms-inside-a-vile...

nonchalantsui··on Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'
This is the part quite a lot of people seem to not grasp. While there is certainly a portion of them that are regretful and feel misled, a lot of them actively wanted this. The cruelty is the point, the end is the cherry on top.
nonchalantsui··on Avoiding outrage fatigue while staying informed
This is just the consequence of the API protests. Despite people claiming it had no lasting impact, admins coming in and making sweeping changes to mod teams replacing them with loyalists, alongside ramping up centralized feeds to serve more ads onto meant content quality took a nosedive. This is obvious in most subs if you actually look at who is submitting the threads (something the app and All/Popular pages hides in several views), most of these subs are dominated by a handful of accounts. It's a cycle too, because often they'll continue spamming subs in order to get on All/Popular, or make up weird stories to do so, effectively karma farming taken very seriously, with mods encouraging it because of the aforementioned loyalists.

It's all just driveby anger and reposts. Maybe some smaller subs with good communities here and there, but that often requires a mod team putting in substantial hours and remaining under the radar from All/Popular in any shape.

Forgot to mention, Reddit also started paying these accounts for posting. So a literal financial incentive to ragebait. It' called the "Contributor Program".

nonchalantsui··on Apple Invites
Yeah I've heard similar, although I'm surprised you got 1080p out of Apple TV on Linux.

The streaming services landscape is very weird in general. Lots about DRM or what have you that cause very bizarre rules like Netflix only allowing Opera on linux to play full 1080, or how on mac Edge only does 720. Some of them refusing to show anything over 720p on browsers no matter which platform. Of course some have workarounds through extensions.

Certainly not the seamless experience one would have hoped from the switch away from cable services!

nonchalantsui··on Apple Invites
Let's just hope they don't start producing TVs (the screens) alongside all of this!
nonchalantsui··on Apple Invites
The Apple TV one is particularly bad due to them naming the service, the box, and the app the same thing. One of them has a + tacked on, who knows which.

As long as they don’t start naming other things Invite, they might avoid that issue. Although maybe they’ll name their HomePod with a screen that and we’re back to square one.

nonchalantsui··on GitHub reveals how software engineers are purging federal databases
Culture war as a feature flag is so good. I’m definitely reusing that.
nonchalantsui··on A Coup Is in Progress in America
If any of those were reasons for them voting, it would have shown in the exit polls when they were asked.

It was not.

nonchalantsui··on AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU
Stop resisting! We detect you are depressed and will take action!
nonchalantsui··on A Coup Is in Progress in America
>Stalin tracker, 1933

>5 million soviet rubles saved due to closing “ineffective farms”

Who knew it could be that simple!

nonchalantsui··on A Coup Is in Progress in America
> Trump was voted in to blow up the entrenched bureaucratic state

None of the exit polls makes this claim.

nonchalantsui··on US Bill Proposes Jail Time for People Who Download DeepSeek
Several states also couldn’t really enforce the porn ban. They still passed those bills.

So crazier things have happened!

nonchalantsui··on Ask HN: Who wants to be fired? (February 2025)
The market has never demonstrated caring about any of that, nor does it reward it.
nonchalantsui··on Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries
Marc Andreessen stated on twitter that was a core reason for why he likes AI, to drive down wages (which in his words "must crash").

So you are not far off from that concept of putting vast numbers of employees out of work, when influential figures like Andressen are openly stating that is their ambitions.

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