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Re:Tell HN: ChatGPT is the biggest privacy disaster ever on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @11:05AM (#38532644)
To be fair, I'm pretty sure they tell you that upfront, alongside warning you not to send any personal information in conversations.
Re:23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9M users on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @11:00AM (#38532579)
> "Bad" is subjective, no? > Is it good or bad if a father learns that his teenage son is not his own?

I feel like that would depend on the person. If the father wanted to know and the son didn't, that would be good for one and bad for the other, and vice versa.

Re:23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9M users on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @10:57AM (#38532529)
> I'm not sure I've heard that argument as much as "why do you care so much about privacy?" full stop.

I'm not sure I've ever heard anyone I know mention privacy at all, as if they're totally ignorant to it. In reality, the majority of people will just let Google or Microsoft do whatever with their personal information as long as the product or service is slightly more convenient than the last one.

Re:Firefox on the Brink? on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @10:52AM (#38532451)
> In fact, because the iPhone is so popular in the U.S. — which is obvious from what you see on that aforementioned government analytics page — Safari pulls large numbers that also hurt Firefox.

This makes me dislike smartphones more than I already did. Not only has iOS Safari overtaken Firefox in terms of market share, it has also overshadowed macOS Safari, a much better browser than iOS Safari for a much better operating system than iOS.

Re:Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update on Sunday November 26, 2023 @12:00PM (#38423079)
I don't know where to get the updated code to make mods with though. A lot of the changes they mentioned were specifically for modders, so I don't know why I can't find the source code anywhere.
This sounds like another one of those dumb viral marketing things again. Everything I hear about like this just reeks of corporate trash.