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blahaj··on Show HN: Treedocs: Documentation that automatically checks for staleness
Probably none, just got into HN's spam filter. When you have enough points you can vouche for it and if enough people do it gets reinstated, which is exactly what happened.
blahaj··on What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance
Cryptographically blinded age verification with a government signed digital ID
blahaj··on Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows
I don't know how old your kids are and if they play video games with friends, so maybe they're too young for this to begin with.

Do you give them some kind of additional time budget that they can manage themselves over a longer period? There are things that you can do on a screen that just take more time than one hour at once, especially when you're playing with friends (or even learning something by programming etc.).

blahaj··on Reading for pleasure is sharply down among schoolkids, report shows
Most screens have distractions just one tap away.

Personally I also like the physics of a book a lot more for reading. Every book is a physically different object. You physically turn the page. You can physically see how far you are in the book. It's just all much less abstract and tangible.

blahaj··on Show HN: We built the "LLM knowledge base" Karpathy described 9 yrs ago
I started reading it and found it to reek of AI slop. I couldn't figure out what I'm even reading about and found the text to be unstructured or mis-structured. It also seems to contain a lot of formatting mistakes making me believe that you didn't even care to proofread it.

Sorry to be so blunt, but I have no tolerance for AI a slop. ShowHN is for showing something you built with a lot of care, that people can try out. That can be an AI product. But it cannot be an AI slopped text post pitching your product.

blahaj··on OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable
> this is not how the model should behave

It's exactly how it should behave, without any prior overriding of system prompts.

blahaj··on Show HN: We built the "LLM knowledge base" Karpathy described 9 yrs ago
If you didn't write it, why should I or anyone read it?

This is AI slop. Opposed to your claim there is nothing clear about that page. It's really sad how ShowHN is spammed with slop that drowns out people's work. Please stop being part of that problem.

blahaj··on Show HN: We built the "LLM knowledge base" Karpathy described 9 yrs ago
How much of this page did you write yourself?
blahaj··on The Science of Detecting LLM-Generated Text (2024)
The models are designed to be these fake positive corpospeak yes man assholes by fake positive asshole corporations.

Mirroring real human text is only the basis of training. Afterwards they get aligned a.k.a. lobotomized.

blahaj··on Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
I just found out that in Marshallese hello, bye and love are all the same word: iọkwe

It literally translates to iọ from iia – rainbow and kwe – you: you are a rainbow.

iọkwe

blahaj··on GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple
So it's not about labels, but you want the ability to restrict the fields an app has access to rather than an all or nothing – full access to a contact or none at all?
blahaj··on GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple
You can use labels for contact scope.
blahaj··on Privilege is bad grammar
I think the key is whether they expect their underlings to be more formal or if it actually goes both ways.
blahaj··on Ask HN: Which password manager do you use / would you recommend?
Just an anti recommendation: Do not use Lastpass. Reading the security breach section of their Wikipedia article should be enough reason.

For anyone reading this who uses LastPass: Switch away!

blahaj··on Dark web agent spotted bedroom wall clue to rescue girl from abuse
You can do the same yourself here: https://www.europol.europa.eu/stopchildabuse
blahaj··on Is End-to-End Encryption Optional for Large Groups?
Large groups ≠ Multi Party

Encryption should be the default for anything private. But something that is configured to be public from the beginning like an open Discord server does not need E2E encryption.

blahaj··on Hackers (1995) Animated Experience
i feel you
blahaj··on Hackers (1995) Animated Experience
Sorry for your loss.

"This is it... this is where I belong..." I know everyone here... even if I've never met them, never talked to them, may never hear from them again... I know you all...

after all, we're all alike.

blahaj··on East Germany balloon escape
North Korea is an extremely class based society. About as far away from left as it gets.
blahaj··on Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?
That doesn't work for everyone and everywhere.
blahaj··on Ask HN: One IP, multiple unrealistic locations worldwide hitting my website
That is a Cloudflare IP address.

Have a look at the request HTTP headers and see what they say.

blahaj··on Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
Happy Birthday
blahaj··on Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?
I found out today that the location header of an HTTP redirect can be a tel:+ URI and phone's will actually ask you whether you want to call that number.
blahaj··on I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersonated me
That's just not how humans work. Love can fade. People change. It's the natural course of things. Sometimes there is just no one at fault for love being lost and no way to prevent that. We just gave up the illusion that love in marriage is always forever.
blahaj··on I spent a week without IPv4 (2023)
If ISPs would try charging per device with IPv6, NAT66 routers would just become an off the shelf product. You can just sell a black box to people that solves the issue.

But more generally, I think times have changed enough for per device billing not being a viable approach anymore.

blahaj··on I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersonated me
People being allowed to part ways and not having to stick with their partner until death is one of the great achievements of feminism. It goes both ways.

You cannot control that you will love someone forever, so you cannot promise that. What you can promise someone is that you plan on spending the rest of your life with them and that you have so much love that you trust it will last forever. Sometimes that does not work out. That is no one's fault and no one owes to anyone to stay together with a person they no longer love.

blahaj··on I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersonated me
Two possible reasons:

1. Attention.

2. You a have a public image that includes you being married and social media is one of the main channels over which you reach the people who know you. Now you get divorced and you do not want these people to have the false image of you being happily married and potentially even getting comments referencing your marriage anymore.

blahaj··on I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersonated me
> I share my pain publicly as a gesture of solidarity with other people, but especially women, who have been profoundly traumatized by those they thought they could love and trust.

This is about her husband divorcing her. I find this to be a very unfair way to frame someone else's decision to not spend their life with you anymore. Your partner does not owe you a relationship. Interestingly it is not even me coming up with the word "framing". She herself describes her Instagram post as deliberate framing.

She also claims that the AI chose words dismissive of her pain because she is a woman (rather than just because it's fake-positive corpo slop) and does not substantiate that in any way.

I'm all against this AI slop BS, especially when it's impersonating people. The blog post is mostly not about that.

blahaj··on I spent a week without IPv4 (2023)
> Again, I'm old enough to remember when e.g. the ISPs were going to try to charge per device in each household.

I don't really see that coming again and if it does you can just do NAT66 just like you can do NAT4.

blahaj··on Show HN: A free Instagram story viewer that lets you watch anonymously
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