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techgnosison Woman faces six years in prison over Cash App account she never opened

I felt the same way, and made a CashApp account, but I don't think it matters. It didnt say anything about the fraud account having her email address. It just had her name and they inputted her social. I don't think there's anything you can do but pray.

techgnosison Woman charged with computer fraud due to scam CashApp account being in her name

This story is making me angrier than any story in the news right now

techgnosison Most Americans Say AI Is Bad for Society, Oppose More Data Centers

"And yet...you are part of society. Interesting..."

techgnosison OpenAI CLI

Ironically enough I could have Codex make this for me in like 5 minutes. If there's a published API, a CLI is always within your grasp.

techgnosison SF Tesla motorist fatally strikes man crossing highway while car was in FSD mode

I can't blame any motorist, for any reason, for hitting someone crossing the interstate. If you walk across I-80 then your life is forfeit.

techgnosison Using AI to reverse engineer hardware

Man this thread is jam packed with sociopaths who don't feel empathy.

That sucks that your business and mental well-being are threatened by AI. It's a scary time for everyone. I hope you figure it out.

techgnosison Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years

You're talking like you're old. You are --25-- my friend, young. No reason to resign yourself to the idea that your friends are all too old.

techgnosison Show HN: Spotatui, a Spotify TUI/GUI without web API rate limits

Not the OP but I would guess its a combination of things

1. The style and motif. I've never met someone who got interested in Linux and didn't immediately appreciate the look and feel of the terminal. People see hackers and fast scrolling text on TV and in movies and it's just fun. Lord knows I was and still am obsessed with CLI and TUI stylings. It brings me joy.

2. It's a lot easier to get started writing a TUI or a CLI. Picking a GUI framework is not easy and many times they are not fun to use. You can only use so many languages to write a GTK app or a QT app. You can use almost any language you want for a CLI tool.

3. CLI and TUI tools are way more universal. I don't have to care if you run GNOME or KDE or if you have GTK-3 or GTK-4 installed or whatever. CLIs and TUIs just work. I can also distribute a single static linked executable instead of a .deb or a Flatpak or something more difficult.

techgnosison Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome

I almost lost my Google account because of Safari. I bought some official Google USB keys https://store.google.com/us/product/titan_security_key?hl=en...

I setup two of them for my Google account but I made them both in Safari. Only one of them worked. What if both of them failed? I would have been fucked.

I re-made them on Chrome and they both worked.

techgnosison Grieving the loss of details

Kinda feels more like [Denial]? What bargain am I making?

techgnosison Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default

Seems like its just a bunch of young engineers making bad architecture decisions. Not sure I would blame the culture of vibe coding everything. It might just be bad taste.

techgnosison Grieving the loss of details

I couldn't possibly predict but I just doubt things will be as bad as everyone thinks, they never are.

techgnosison Grieving the loss of details

Yeah I feel this. My strongest passion in computing is simply learning how the machine and OS work. The code I would write would usually be experiments, not projects or tools.

I'm less pessimistic than the author though. There is always room for people who know what they are talking about. Take a deep breath.

techgnosison Taliban suspends fiber optic network maintenance and expansion

Maybe it's about money, but it's definitely about porn. From the article:

However, in September 2025, the Taliban banned the use of fibre-optic internet in Balkh, and the restriction was later extended to several other provinces. In some cases, local Taliban officials said the move was aimed at “preventing vice”.

techgnosison Colorectal Cancer Is Rising Among the Young, Even Kids and Teens

Heavy THC vaping absolutely screws up my bowels. The Munchies eventually changes into anorexia and constipation.

techgnosison <input type="password" maxlength="20"> prevents me from logging into Vanguard

And if someone gets into your account and robs you, that's your problem too!

techgnosison Does Georgism work? Five years later

Isn't the idea that it's a land value tax, and not just a land tax. The land in your example is not particularly valuable. Unless I have misunderstood the idea.

techgnosison Seattle Bans Rental Junk Fees

Small landlords aren't the ones dropping junk fees on tenants

techgnosison Iran school bombing: grounds to believe US was behind atrocity, UN finds

This is correct. Nothing will change.

techgnosison Berlin-based Langdock moves its parent company from the US to Germany

Who are you implying it is? China? Iran? NK? Someone else?

techgnosison America's Driver's License Breach Is a National Security Disaster

I'd rather tackle this problem from a different angle. If a bank gives a fraudulent loan to someone in your name, its YOUR problem and not the bank's problem. Why don't we make it the bank's problem? They gave the fraudulent loan. How is it not their problem to fix?

If we fix that, then having your ID stolen is a much, much smaller problem.

techgnosison It's Getting Harder to Return Things–and It's Making Shoppers Mad

Good. People abuse the hell out of merchants. It sickens me what people think is OK to return.

techgnosison DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits

I suspect an absence of auditable financial transactions is itself a red flag

techgnosison The car industry A/B tested selling a car with and without CarPlay

Yeah this is no good. If one says Honda and one says Chevy, then it's not apples to apples. It doesn't matter if it's the same car, the vast majority of people don't know that. Comparing sales numbers is meaningless.

techgnosison OKF Agent Memory – Git-native persistent memory for AI coding agents

https://github.com/huggingface/funes

Maybe?

techgnosison Uber is laying off 10% of staff

He didn't say "Uber has grown by orders of magnitude" == "top line nearly tripling"

They are two separate statements. Maybe some portions of Uber did grow exponentially. Riders, revenue, miles travelled, etc...

He also wants you to know that as part of that exponential growth, top line nearly tripled.

techgnosison Norway Shrugged (2024)

Atlas Shrugged references didn't do this guy any favors

techgnosison Aphantasia Beginner's Guide

I'm one of the naysayers denying aphantasia in the comments.

Why would we default to believing people, though? I get your point. Believe people when they tell you their experience. Sure, that seems like a reasonable thing to do. But in this case, when there is zero evidence besides a self-reported experience, why do we default to believing that there are suddenly two types of people, instead of assuming that semantics has created this illusion?

You're defaulting to being nice, which is fine, but it doesn't make you any more right than me and my skepticism. We both have no idea what the truth is.

techgnosison Aphantasia Beginner's Guide

This is the correct conclusion. We have no shared, objective way to label our visual experience. We will never know the truth here. This is indeed a quirk of human psychology powered by internet trends that encourage people to find reasons to feel their health is special and unique.

techgnosison Aphantasia Beginner's Guide

Right away the story is impossible to verify. What does "I was seeing that landscape and not the road" actually mean? You can't answer that, and neither can I. I will never, ever, know what you mean by that.

I can guess, and I definitely have already done so.