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Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:28AM (#50334358)
Here's a 75" monitor after 1 single search: https://www.dell.com/en-gb/shop/monitors/apd/dell-pro-p-75-4...

Yes, it's only 60Hz, but again, 1 search.

Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:02AM (#50334215)
A Benq gaming monitor with an android box, chromecast tv, nvidia shield, etc, with a soundbar.
> Ring cameras are privately owned, installed on private property, by the choice of the property owner.

... recording the street, meaning https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/guidance-on-the-u... applies in the UK:

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If your CCTV system captures images of people outside the boundary of your private domestic property – for example, from neighbours’ homes or gardens, shared spaces, or from public areas – then the GDPR and the DPA will apply to you. You will need to ensure your use of CCTV complies with these laws. If you do not comply with your data protection obligations you may be subject to appropriate regulatory action by the ICO, as well as potential legal action by affected individuals.

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However, as with anything in the UK, it's virtually impossible to enforce it on sh*thead neighbours recording you with their Chinese cloud enabled devices 24/7.

Re:Websites Should Be Printable on Monday October 26, 2026 @09:03AM (#50242911)
Oh, wow, that's one naive print.css

Missing things like resizing media to not occupy everything, blocking certain elements from getting broken up, and so on, wrap when needed, printing links (sic), etc

The latter is why I moved links into footnotes instead of inline linking - also to prevent breaking up the reading flow.

Also: adding page counters is virtually impossible.

Anyhow, I do think it's a good idea, but mostly for archival reasons: if you really want an archival copy, you'll need to print it.

Re:Why Gopher in 2026? on Sunday October 25, 2026 @11:23AM (#50232553)
WhatsApp has little to do with doomscrolling. I really wish I could afford to not use it, but it seems to be impossible.

Scenario 1: video calls

I live abroad. The family, including a 80+ grandmother, has Androids, iPhones, computers. If I were to run something, maintenance would be limited to a few times per year, and I couldn't be there when they get a new device. Besides, remote support on android is virtually impossible.

I'm a veteran sysadmin and I have an XMPP ecosystem working with video calls & all, but that is not common. It needs a secured TURN/STUN server beyond a well configured XMPP one, DNS service entries, etc. For someone less experienced I can clearly see that being a nightmare.

Scenario 2: mailing lists

I'd absolutely run to communicate with the group of people I run classes for on mailing lists, except mailing lists are essentially dead since DKIM/DMARC. DKIMv2 might address this, but if you ask people, especially young ones, they'll look at you as if you're from Mars.

Summary

I'd absolutely love to have a non-profit, cross-platform video call app that comes pre-installed everywhere, just as the phone (aka voice) "app" is there, but there's zero incentive from the current ecosystem for such thing. I'm aware of carrier-level video calls, but I seriously doubt it's used a lot.

xkcd 2347 again, what a surprise. Oh, wait, there's at least one paid person, that should be something /s
Right. The article basically says you need AI to fight AI, and it's barely about the vulnerabilities.

So why responding only to the vulnerabilities?

Network behaviour anomaly detection has been a thing for decades by now. But it's not AI, because it's mere neural networks and machine learning.
"To stop our all powerful AI that will go rogue you need to buy our all powerful AI"

This is the textbook definition of racketeering.

> 3000 concurrent crawlers

I gave up on tarpits when it got to 130k "waiting" connections.

I really recommend blocking all traffic from anything on https://github.com/borestad/blocklist-abuseipdb
Re:Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC on Monday September 28, 2026 @12:00PM (#49880150)
These days complicated and/or complex == hard == bad.
Re:There are no "rogue" AI agents on Sunday September 27, 2026 @04:11PM (#49870358)
This.

Jail the C levels. They are the legally responsible ones.

Re:There are no "rogue" AI agents on Sunday September 27, 2026 @03:22PM (#49869936)
Everything so far is pointing to the conclusion that you can only set ONE goal. Exactly one.

But let's assume not. If you want things like "do not break out of sandbox" - have you defined what the sandbox is? Eg. "never, ever leave the IP range 10.0.0.0/8" would be a bit more precise, but technically using a proxy bypasses that limitation as the system itself never left 10.0.0.0/8.

See, it's a tad bit hard to define the rules properly.

Which is why Wish, the spell, should really be avoided in D&D. It's the same problem: it's up to creative interpretation.

Re:There are no "rogue" AI agents on Sunday September 27, 2026 @03:13PM (#49869878)
Want to? Of course not.

Must you? By all means.

If you can't take the risk, don't use agents. Period.

Re:There are no "rogue" AI agents on Sunday September 27, 2026 @03:10PM (#49869831)
You set a goal. Agent will do goal. The rest doesn't matter: the instructions, the "guardrails" etc. The agents are not smart, they don't reason, they don't think, there are no morals, no ethics. Nothing will prevent not doing the goal because that is the set goal. It's a statistical model that will "justify" anything to do X.

I'm finding it mind bogging how this is not clear for everyone.

Re:OpenAI agents tried to bruteforce a UN website's API fields on Sunday September 27, 2026 @02:26AM (#49863911)
"Regulate what models are allowed"

It's already a "regulation" that one shouldn't steal, enter a private property without the right to do so, etc, yet we have a lot of these crimes.

I could see the UK trying to set a law on ehat models are allowed, only to learn again, that the UK law doesn't apply everywhere, but as long as you can rent compute in a foreign country the whole idea is dead.

Re:Breaking Up with Google Play: Why Conversations Is Now Free on Saturday September 26, 2026 @02:26PM (#49859142)
Given what google search/AI/data tracking is, there should be no shame in using their infra for free. Hell,it should all be free by default.
Re:Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face on Saturday September 26, 2026 @03:23AM (#49854099)
The part I don't understand is how the excess traffic not triggered alarms on the hugging face side, or the url shorteners used, or on anything that was touched in the process.

Nothing got overloaded, no unexpected CPU or IO use? Did it blend into the normal traffic somehow?

Re:Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @09:15AM (#49815609)
Urm... no tests caught this? How?
It's wix and squarspace now.
WP won by having a very simple but flexible admin page.

Drupal admin was not for humans back then.

The internet was different when those two were conceived.
Re:I don't want to read what you didn't write on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @02:48AM (#49797531)
> Reading a document like this isn’t just difficult—it is punishing.

At this point I can't tell if it's a pun or the anti AI article is AI written as well. This sucks.

Re:I don't want to read what you didn't write on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @02:47AM (#49797519)
> For many writing is painful and the machines ease the pain

Along with removing the possibility for them to ever actually learn to write better.

This is not a good thing.

Re:A restored PDP-11/83 serving this page on 211BSD Unix on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @02:21AM (#49797376)
I will never understand why, but the story of Reddit Place ( https://web.archive.org/web/20170409173246/http://sudoscript... ) certainly supports this :(
Re:AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible on Saturday September 19, 2026 @12:50PM (#49768097)
It's the typography. I'm yet to see a single AI generated thing where the typography is not distorted. The examples generated are no exception, everything is just a bit off.

It's not horrible, no: it's off enough to make one feel uneasy looking at it without being able to pinpoint the problem.

Maemo.
Read the linked entry.

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