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satchljon DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome

Can you explain the cat thing? Why wouldn't cats who are not fed be forced to kill even more birds?

Is it because they would be focused on more efficient sources of food like mice instead?

satchljon Gemini AI tells the user to die

It’s directed at one individual, not all humans

satchljon Show HN: I made a privacy friendly and simple app to track my menstruation

It would be awesome to have a temperature tracker here as well.

satchljon Krazam OS

spent way too long looking for that code in the syllabus

satchljon 'Irresponsible' to ignore consciousness across animal world scientists argue

Consciousness is not sentience, and if it's all semantics I don't care but if people are going to make moral arguments using this conflation between the two then I have a problem. As it says in the article, sentience is roughly the ability to feel valenced emotions (good/bad). Consciousness is many things, but importantly the ability to feel qualia, experiencing what feels like the 'blueness' of blue, for example.

It's totally possible that all sorts of life forms are conscious. I just think to focus on sentience and call it consciousness is silly.

satchljon The Web Is Fantastic

I feel that for the indie community, the web is dying thanks to modern browser bloat. We need to move to alternatives.

satchljon History of Alice and Bob (2017)

Disappointing that this website is only served unencrypted...

satchljon Moderna's mRNA cancer vaccine works better than thought

Yes the word 'vaccine' seems misleading to me as well, as people tend to think of vaccinations as ways to prevent contagious illness. I think immune therapy is a much better term.

satchljon Moderna's mRNA cancer vaccine works better than thought

If by "free" you mean that taxpayers payed huge amounts of money then sure...

satchljon Moderna's mRNA cancer vaccine works better than thought

It is intended for people who’ve had high-risk melanomas removed, to prevent cancer from coming back.

satchljon Moderna's mRNA cancer vaccine works better than thought

> The cancer vaccine: Moderna and pharma giant Merck are developing an mRNA-based cancer vaccine, mRNA-4157 (V940), for people who’ve had high-risk melanomas removed.

satchljon Vim Adventures: Learn Vim while playing a game

this is a paid thing but doesn't tell you upfront :(

satchljon Show HN: Open-source macOS AI copilot using vision and voice

It's not working for me, I get a "Too many requests" http error

satchljon Beeper Cloud Is Working Again

It is indeed working, but I had to ask the Help chat to manually switch me over to the working bridge

satchljon Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access

Beeper Cloud has also been cut off, even though they are running virtual MacOS machines for every Beeper Cloud user... not sure how they managed that

satchljon Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications

The notification is separate from the message. It absolutely is MITM, just for the notifications, which are messages themselves with real content (you have received a message from so-and-so).

satchljon Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications

Notice how SimpleX (https://simplex.chat/) has no push notifications by default because of this issue.

satchljon Gemini AI

I've been asking Bard and it's telling me it's latest major update was September and it's backend is LaMDA... not sure if that means anything though

satchljon Gemini AI

Google has many photos of white males on their website wtf: https://about.google/google-in-america/

satchljon Gemini AI

Yup, it's all a performance for the investors

satchljon The Gemini protocol seen by this HTTP client person

People writing negative things about Gemini who haven't actually used it should start by reading the Gemini FAQ: https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/faq.gmi

It's not meant to replace http. Use Gemini for the things it's meant for and http for the things it does best.

satchljon The Gemini protocol seen by this HTTP client person

> There is no need for a TLS layer in a protocol that won't let you POST

You don't need POST. You have queries (and many Gemini people use Titan as well).

satchljon The Gemini protocol seen by this HTTP client person

Whatever it "looks like" to you, the fact is that Gemini was made by people who had been using Gopher extensively.

satchljon A biochemist’s view of life’s origin reframes cancer and aging

Don't you love the British. Who thought of the name "University College"?

Metabolism before genes makes perfect sense. Defining life is silliness as far as I'm concerned, but DNA is a very specific mechanism of reproduction whereas metabolism is more universal basic concept. Or so it seems to me...

satchljon Ask HN: Google Search down?

anyway, use searx! https://searx.space/

satchljon Ask HN: Google Search down?

It's back up for me

satchljon Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today?

very likely - I'm noticing that too

satchljon Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today?

yup me too lol, it's serving the the 502 bad gateway error to be precise

satchljon The Battery Revolution Is Just Getting Started

Very important. The author doesn't even begin to directly discuss the way batteries are being impacted by a move away from fossil fuels. I am also interested in making improvements to batteries by reducing the environmental impact of manufacturing them, and experimenting with more abundant materials than lithium.

See http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2010/ph240/eason2/

satchljon Math Problems for children from 5 to 15 (2004) [pdf]

in this case, the line between grammar and math is fuzzy - english (or russian) and mathematical symbols are two different languages here which are each capable of describing the same thing.

the challenge is to do the necessary translation and rearrangement