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victorkullaon Ask HN: Are we as society going to let LLM companies take all the values?

I totally agree with you. Being an old school dev that had my hay-day back before most of the people on this site was born - I think AI will ultimately be our doom. AI writes it's own next-gen, and what is left for us?

victorkullaon Stop Advertising in Your Commits

https://fshot.org/techzone/hacker-news.php

victorkullaon NASA Moon Base

Tell us when you can ACTUALLY prove you have got to the moon.

- The burden of proof is on the claimant.

victorkullaon A sleep-like consolidation mechanism for LLMs

No they do not. I'm sure that if you presented the same argument about, I don't know?, your car's CPU with built in AI; then this would be a whole different discussion entirely.

victorkullaon Social media as bad for children as smoking, British doctors say

Says the same BRITISH doctors that stuck RNA jabs in YOUR children's arms.

Limit your children's social media by all means, but don't buy them a twenty deck of smokes.

victorkullaon Americans Have Entered the Age of the Needle

And now there is a thread devoted to it.

victorkullaon Google changes its search box

Google: "The goal of Search has always been simple: to help you ask anything on your mind — from quick facts to the deep, complex or hyper-specific questions that can be hard to articulate."

US: The goal has always been about MONEY

victorkullaon Google changes its search box

Looks good apart from the Google tracking: https://fshot.org/utils/surfacescan.php?site=https%3A%2F%2Fk...

victorkullaon Google changes its search box

Even Yandex from Russia is a better search engine. But I am yet to come across a truly powerful, fair and accurate search engine.

victorkullaon What happens when your blog hits #1 in Hacker News?

That is very true. I actually asked ChatGPT when would be the best time to post. It came back with a local time, I posted, I failed ;-)

victorkullaon What happens when your blog hits #1 in Hacker News?

I had something similar a couple of weeks ago and hit 20K who had decided to read my article. The latest article has achieved just 10 views in one day - which feels strange because I personally think that my latest article is the better researched and written. Have you found this?

victorkullaon Rest alone doesn't fix burnout. Here's the structural reason why

Sound advice. However. how many people have bosses that would agree to a reduced work load? After all; it was probably them that caused the burn out in the first place.

victorkullaon Do_not_track

It is for the most part - however, some sites still respect it so I figure, if you can turn it on then why not? Global Privacy Control is the more widely used one today but there still isn't wide adoption of this also.

victorkullaon AI, Intimacy, and the Data You Never Meant to Share

Use Promo Code: FSHOT-10 ;-)

victorkullaon The Elizabeth line is getting video wrap-around advertising screens

I'm sure that within weeks, most of these screens would be underneath a thick layer of graffiti ;-)

victorkullaon Do_not_track

The issue is that it is not enforced. My version of My IP will tell you if 'Do Not track' and 'Global Privacy Control' are set by your browser but it is up to the website to honour your requests. Check if your browser is sending them by visiting: https://fshot.org/utils/myip.php

victorkullaon Using Android Without a Google Account in 2026

I simply switched to GrapheneOS last year - never looked back ;-)