The-Old-Hacker

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The-Old-Hacker··on AI slope keeps a man in jail

*AI slop

The-Old-Hacker··on We're learning more about what Vitamin D does

> Vitamin D is important but it's difficult to know how much.

My GP recommended one Vitamin D3 1000iu tablet per day. They are very cheap (£1.15 for 60 in the UK).

The-Old-Hacker··on AI Ignites the Return of Bezos the Inventor

https://archive.ph/Rgy8I

The-Old-Hacker··on How the Web Was Lost

https://archive.ph/nItDh

The-Old-Hacker··on Stinking, Spongy, Dark, Huge: A Spider Web Unlike Any Seen Before

https://archive.ph/B57fi

The-Old-Hacker··on The Mysterious Billionaire Boss at Jane Street Smashing Trading Records

https://archive.ph/pTI1W

The-Old-Hacker··on I tracked Amazon's Prime Day prices. We've been played

Amazon Prime is a capitalist's wet dream. You give a company money every month whether you buy something from them or not. And because you now have a sunk cost, you are motivated to buy from Amazon even if their prices aren't the best value.

The-Old-Hacker··on AP Live: View from Gaza as Israel Begins Expanded Operation in Gaza City

There's another camera in Wadi Gaza showing people fleeing northern Gaza toward the south. From about 1h26m onwards.

The-Old-Hacker··on Desert Graves (2021)

Some more information about the Hovatter family:

https://www.apcrp.org/BLOCK_KATHY/HOVATTER_GRAVES/Hovatter_G...

The-Old-Hacker··on Ask HN: Which resources do you regularly use to keep yourself updated?

https://serializer.io

The-Old-Hacker··on The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News

https://archive.ph/dqmV7

The-Old-Hacker··on Wikipedia loses UK Safety Act challenge

Interesting. I've been active on Wikipedia for 18 years, 7 months and 10 days. That figure was calculated by Wikipedia, not me. Should I be asked to verify that I'm not a minor?

The-Old-Hacker··on Blocklist of curated sites that contain AI generated imagery for uBlock

Discussion (78 points, March 20, 2024, 62 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39771742

The-Old-Hacker··on Users claim Discord's age verification can be tricked with video game characters

The mess around voter ID is a case in point. A badly-implemented "solution" to a problem that didn't exist.

The-Old-Hacker··on Dying for gold: who killed the miners of Buffelsfontein?

https://archive.ph/7IODv

The-Old-Hacker··on The UK’s new age-gating rules are easy to bypass

Opera has a built-in VPN. No payment required.

The-Old-Hacker··on Secret UK Afghan relocation scheme after major data breach

Link should be:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg8zy78787o

The-Old-Hacker··on Finnish hacker Harri Hursti hacks U.S. voting machine on live podcast

Jump to 53:08 in this video to see the hack in action:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTtZgN9oYVQ&t=3188s

The-Old-Hacker··on Ask HN: You have $35,000 how do you invest it?

Buy gold bullion.

The-Old-Hacker··on MI6 Hires M

Vice Admiral Sir Miles Messervy KCMG to be precise.

The-Old-Hacker··on The Privacy-Friendly Tech to Replace Your US-Based Email, Browser, and Search

https://archive.ph/KceTC

The-Old-Hacker··on Former Apple Design Guru Jony Ive to Take Expansive Role at OpenAI

https://archive.ph/P2UQg

The-Old-Hacker··on North Korean IT Workers Are Being Exposed on a Scale

https://archive.ph/ckV2b

The-Old-Hacker··on They Criticized Musk on X. Then Their Reach Collapsed

https://archive.ph/HZrH7

The-Old-Hacker··on Company's Surveillance Tech Makes Immigrants 'Easy Pickings' for Trump

https://archive.ph/qBPNc

The-Old-Hacker··on CERN scientists find evidence of quantum entanglement in sheep

Yes, it's April Fools Day today.

The-Old-Hacker··on ACLU Obtained ICE's "Alien Enemies Act Validation Guide"

"The President has found that Tren de Aragua is perpetrating, attempting, or threatening an invasion or predatory incursion against the territory of the United States" [1]

[1] Page 11 of https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.278...

The-Old-Hacker··on The Inuit agree on a common writing system (2019)

https://archive.ph/eSYCw

The-Old-Hacker··on Blue Sky App – The Twitter Alternative hit 32M users

Link text doesn't match target.

The-Old-Hacker··on Meta is trying to stop a former employee from promoting her book about Facebook

Stating that 'Meta will suffer “immediate and irreparable loss”' from the promotion of this book is almost certain to trigger the Streisand effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

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