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PawgerZon I deleted my social media accounts

I always forget that we're not quite the normal crowd here in Hacker News. I think I need to stop reading so many comments on this site. Trying to convince me that I'm a sociopath for posting my grandma's obituary on my timeline.

PawgerZon I deleted my social media accounts

> Posting it to social media, then thinking if whoever doesn’t contact you to… what? “Sorry for your loss”? “My condolences” … hurts your relationship with that person?

That's not what anyone said, you're out here fighting ghosts.

> And if someone doesn't reach out, it will hurt the relationship a little even if I'm not conscience of it because when I think of people who were there for me during a tough time, the friend who never knew my parent died wouldn't come to mind.

PawgerZon Firefox removes "do not track" feature support

No, it's not. It's more like an online bookstore mailing you a copy of a book for free. The only catch is that they also sent a book full of ads and directions that say: after every page of the book, look at an ad. Then, when I receive these, I don't even take the ad book out of the package, read the actual book, and send them both back.

You can imagine why Amazon never decided to go with this business model.

PawgerZon Bitcoin is over $100k

> the ones that have managed to take advantage of the massive financialization of the world

This group is further split into two kinds of people: Those who had an opportunity to take advantage of the massive financialization of the world, and those who weren't afforded that opportunity.

PawgerZon The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development

>I can second Vancouver, and will raise you any big city in the USA

I'll reraise you any decent size college town in the US as well.

Heck, I'm in Iowa and there's plenty of raves in the middle of nowhere here.

PawgerZon A change of heart regarding employee metrics

> Home office nudges towards isolation and lack of physical activity

You say this as if it's a fact, but with an extra 1-3 hours of my day freed up, it's a lot easier to get into the gym or visit my friends and family. Personally, I was more active and less isolated when I worked from home.

PawgerZon I attended Google's creator conversation event, and it turned into a funeral

First suggested "Trending" article:

Diddy Party Planner Reveals Freak Off Requirements

Yeah, I'm thinking you're right.

PawgerZon Hi Google, please stop pooping the bed: a desperate plea from the indie web

In my experience (American), the top 1-4 results are ads/sponsored links. Sometimes, very relevant to the search. Most of the time, not what I'm looking for.

I only use google search on my phone because I have a pixel, and the google searchbar is so well integrated into the launcher. If I don't like the results, I can just open a new tab and the default search is DuckDuckGo. Besides the ads, I'd say the searches are usually the same quality.

PawgerZon Buy payphones and retire

Rural Iowa here. I've seen them in populations as big as 30,000 (Mason City, Iowa for example)

PawgerZon Bitwarden SDK relicensed from proprietary to GPLv3

Bitwarden also stores authenticator keys for MFA and passkeys. The custom fields, notes section, and attachments are invaluable to me as well.

PawgerZon NetGuard – rootless Android outbound per-app OSS firewall, like LittleSnitch

I'm curious, how would looking at the Microsoft MFA app convince me that android apps aren't spying on me?

PawgerZon Parents take school to court after student punished for using AI

> I'm not sure I'd give the student a 0.

Completely agree with you on all of it, but, to let you know, sometimes there are school-wide policies on plagiarism that teachers have to follow. My highschool made teachers give an automatic 0 for any plagiarism.

PawgerZon Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks

https://nitter.poast.org/Sn_darkmeta

PawgerZon Routine dental X-rays are not backed by evidence

Was this a PE owned vet clinic? They're much more common today and the practices have slowly become more predatory.

PawgerZon The new culture war is real vs. bogus

Decent idea but it will be circumvented with ai powered watermark removers. They already exist and will only get better as ai image generation gets better.

PawgerZon On 17th century "cocaine"

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/coca-and-cocaine-their-history...

Here are other printings as well, in case anyone else wants to pick up a copy.

PawgerZon Anime is eating the world

These articles from a16z with contributions from the writers of this article might shed some light on a16z's coming plans:

https://a16z.com/the-next-generation-pixar/

https://a16z.com/announcement/investing-in-pahdo-labs/

Podcast in December that covers some of this, too.

https://a16z.com/podcast/2024-big-ideas-voice-first-apps-ai-...

Looks like they want to capture the anime market and push AI Anime film/game combos.

PawgerZon Anime is eating the world

What do you mena you can't post comments? I see this jsut fine.

PawgerZon Telegram will now hand over phone number and IP for criminal suspects

That link states that they only have two data points tied to an account: time of account creation and time of last connection. Since phone numbers are used as the account identifier, law enforcement would need to supply the phone number for signal to look up the account, right?

Do you have any source for Signal supplying IP logs?

PawgerZon Comic Mono

I believe they mean similar to the fonts when you're learning the alphabet, not when you're learning to read. Like those books where you trace "A" ten times then "a" 10 times then "B" and so on.

PawgerZon Is Tor still safe to use?

Wow, I was about to comment the same thing. Glad to have my assumptions validated by someone else.

PawgerZon Leaked internal documents from a Kremlin-controlled propaganda center

Memes start on page 163

PawgerZon Reports of the death of dental cavities are greatly exaggerated

The article: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/28/magazine/prospera-hondura...

Archive: https://archive.is/fwjcD

PawgerZon Independent directors of 23andMe resign from board

Yes. You must opt in. When you opt in, you can elect to show your full name, or just initals (may be other options but I opted in long ago).

PawgerZon Who Owns Nebula?

> Startups typically issue shares or options but restrict selling of them

They have to explicitly restrict selling of the shares through contract means. That's because ownership is the legal right to possess, use, or give away (sell) a thing. Likewise, Nebula has to explicitly restrict selling of partial ownership through contract means.

PawgerZon Ask HN: Why is Pave legal?

#10 on the front page now

PawgerZon Apple Hearing Study shares preliminary insights on tinnitus

> unrelated: another big cause of tinnitus is Viagra. it drives too much blood to the sensitive ear arteries

Could pre-workout have these same effects? They usually contain vasodilators, although at much lower strengths than Viagra.

PawgerZon U.S. Ambassador says Canadians are consuming 'unhealthy' amount of American news

The "standard Canadian accent" is pretty close to the Minnesota, Wisconsin, and North Dakota dialects -- sometimes called North-Central American English. Nowhere else in America really talks like that, though, and no one would call it the standard accent. I would say less than 4% of Americans speak with that accent.

Midland American English is what we would call the standard American accent. Most of Iowa, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and parts of surrounding states speak in this.

PawgerZon Markov chains are funnier than LLMs

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/top/?t=all

This is all GPT2 generations trained on reddit data.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubSimulatorGPT2/comments/btfhks/wh...

Here's the subreddit explained

PawgerZon Markov chains are funnier than LLMs

Probably all of the Despicable Me minions memes fed into the training material.