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Re:A Screensaver for LG's Spying Smart TVs on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @01:50AM (#49605964)
Just don’t let it connect to the internet then? I don’t trust any tv to connect directly to the internet at all. Ever.
I didn’t realize that someone from Washington State would think of Lake Ontario as theirs?
Re:US diesel prices hit a record high of $5.85 on average on Friday September 04, 2026 @09:19AM (#49564230)
Where are the “I did that” stickers now???
Re:IBM Bob on Friday September 04, 2026 @09:15AM (#49564183)
“I would expect something like this from IBM, but I never expected it from IBM!”
Re:ChatGPT ad targeting is garbage on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @02:00PM (#49539988)
It’s wild to me that people click ads.
It’s still a myth. This administration labels anything that is against their agenda as “Antifa.”

They still haven’t positively identified an organization called “Antifa” and never will.

Re:NetBSD and My Life (2005) on Sunday August 23, 2026 @12:22PM (#49410084)
Why not just make sure you’re not on call for important events like your daughter’s birthday???
Re:Bitchat Is Now on Radicle on Saturday July 25, 2026 @11:22AM (#49048337)
Is this bit-chat or bitch-at?
That’s a pretty insane leap to go from “we have a non-technical security team” to “DEI caused this.”
I can’t even open it because the domain is blocked in my dns as being an analytics collection system.
This app has been in my kit for many years now and I will buy a license the very day it goes on sale.
As a Minnesotan I would gladly trade Alberta for Minnesota and become Canadian.
Re:LoRA and Weight Decay (2023) on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @10:16PM (#48216998)
Every time I see an article about LoRA on here I think it’s about the radio technology LoRa that powers LoRaWAN and just for a moment I’m very excited.
You forgot the part where they stole literally everyone’s copyrighted works and trained on it and have not been sanctioned at all for it.
I read the comment as “use it to mitigate against OpenAI bots scraping the web” and not to mitigate Cloudflare.
Re:Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords on Saturday March 21, 2026 @03:32AM (#47464836)
You got some sources or did you just make that up?

Because to hell with UX when it comes to security. Knowing the exact length of a password absolutely makes it significantly less secure, and knowing the timing of the keystrokes doubly so.

Time to get out our “I did that” stickers, right?
Re:Ask HN: Remember Fidonet? on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @03:57PM (#47328037)
I still have my node address memorized. The very late 1980s and mid 90s were the very best era for the vibe of hobbyist computing. Amazing ANSI art and text driven menus still fill my heart with joy.

I still think that some of those systems are easier to use than what we have now.

I miss the quality of EchoMail conversations with friends around the world. I even ended up moderating a few echoes myself after mods had moved on.

Good times.

Re:A Man Who Stole Infinity on Saturday February 28, 2026 @12:57PM (#47198267)
I am not a mathematician; I barely knew who Cantor was and had never heard of Dedekind. I would have likely not read the article without the title being so sensational. Your assumption sits upon the tip of your nose.
I wholeheartedly agree. I pity any kid whose parents use this product. The AI use is irrelevant; this is just shameful.
Re:SwiftForth IDE for Windows, Linux, macOS on Saturday February 21, 2026 @02:24AM (#47098359)
Especially for $400
Re:The Day the Telnet Died on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @10:42AM (#46976339)
Can you show the exact line in the RFC or IANA port reservations that says it has to implement a shell login interface with the Telnet protocol if it’s on port 23? Because I can’t find it. Nothing says that anywhere.
Re:The Day the Telnet Died on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @10:31AM (#46976185)
Their replies are only obtuse because you fail to see that you’re being made fun of for having such a ridiculous pedantic position about this. “Terminal” does not mean shell when you read the Telnet RFC. It means TTY. A human to machine interface. MUDs implement the Telnet protocol and provide a remote TTY. What’s running on the terminal is absolutely irrelevant.
Re:G Lang – A lightweight interpreter written in D (2.4MB) on Tuesday February 03, 2026 @10:03AM (#46871832)
Oh, we’re talking to an llm. Gross.
Okay but hurting consumers by tracking everything they do is totally okay?

Companies aren’t people. Fuck companies.

Re:New books aren't worth reading? on Thursday January 29, 2026 @09:42AM (#46810823)
Somebody deeply hurt this person and their anti-women stance is so bitterly apparent in their writing that they felt the need to write something not worth reading.
Re:Refusing to Use Twitter on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @09:48AM (#46780701)
IMO social media is not a type of source I have to participate in order to get information. I can read the far right’s opinion though actual sources and news aggregators without Twitter at all.

To continue the analogy, I need not go to a Nazi bar to read the headlines of the local newspaper to see what the latest propaganda is.

Re:Refusing to Use Twitter on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @09:43AM (#46780623)
You’re bringing a Reddit analogy to HN and they are not equivalents. On HN there is no downvote. Something unwelcome gets flagged for review. After sufficient flagging the content is removed not just buried. It’s not calling it “stupid” it’s saying “hey buddy maybe this isn’t the right place for this.”

You can’t seem to depolarize yourself from extremes. You call your original post “highly intelligent” and equate any disagreements as being shouted “stupid” at like those are the only two options here or something when they are not.

Re:Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor on Friday January 16, 2026 @03:28PM (#46651775)
I really want more monitors that are taller and have 3:2 aspect ratio.
Re:Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing on Friday January 16, 2026 @03:25PM (#46651729)
I just had Claude generate a readme for me and it added at least 10 emoji to it.

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