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cabaalis

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Father, entrepreneur, still a lover of QBASIC.
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cabaalis··on Everybody's Weirded Out by AI–Except the People Who Foist It on Us
This sounds like a very much wanted release of mental stress to me.
cabaalis··on Show HN: Zot – Yet another coding agent harness
Nice to see one that isn't trying to grow into an agent business or cloud service.
cabaalis··on After 20 years I turned off Google Adsense for my websites (2025)
It seems with AI models this space is ripe for on-domain ad sales as a SaaS. Just pay an invoice to "advertise here" Have an AI make sure the links adhere to content policies. Don't track visitors or charge per click. Just pay a fee and get the banner.
cabaalis··on Happy BuyNothing Day
I feel the exact same way about Amazon lists and that's what I use them for. I wonder if that's why the "Add to List" button is somewhat hard to find, and if they regret the feature.
cabaalis··on Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations
This. And to make it even better: every law should only be about one thing, just the thing it's meant to deal with, and nothing else.
cabaalis··on [dead]
Slope's Game Room is a popular Youtube channel and he makes video game history documentaries and other content.

It appears he ran afoul of Google and is danger of losing his account because of content he is not responsible for.

He copied the chat logs of a scammer who had doxxed him. They are written in a language he does not speak or read. He intended to share them with a Spanish-speaking friend who can translate them properly for him. These were uploaded to his google drive account.

That text, which he did not write and cannot read, contained what Google considers against their content policy as hate speech, and has flagged DJ Slope for deletion and cut him off.

He is pleading for help from anyone who can get in contact with Google to help him in this matter.

cabaalis··on Voice acting in Space Quest V
Since this is not commercial, how does it interact with California AB 2602?
cabaalis··on Bypassing airport security via SQL injection
If anyone from there reads the parent, they should know they have created an atmosphere where the worry of possible prosecution over responsible disclosure has the potential to scare away the best minds in our country from picking at these systems.

That just means the best minds from other, potentially less friendly countries, will do the picking. I doubt they will responsibly disclose.

cabaalis··on How to Replace Your CPAP in Only 666 Days
I also have experienced various delays related to my cpap machine. I wonder how much of this debacle is because people in the know knew that this was coming, and therefore intentionally delayed anything to do with cpaps.
cabaalis··on What happens when a school bans smartphones? A complete transformation
I guess I date myself, but cell phones were banned in my high school because of a strong association at the time with drug dealers. A teacher seeing one was equivalent to seeing contraband.
cabaalis··on Scientists discover links between Alzheimer's disease and gut microbiota
Wow. When someone is so well versed in a topic that everyone else has to use the world's most popular and advanced artificial intelligence to understand what they have just said. Bravo.
cabaalis··on AdNauseam: uBlock Origin fork silently clicking ads on behalf of users
I think one should be careful using the term "click fraud" in this context. Someone who installs this extension doesn't in my mind qualify to be defrauding anyone. There is no contract in place, it isn't against the law to express interest in a product, and there's no technical controls being breached illegally as the browser is just sending a request to a server.
cabaalis··on Amazon doesn't 'employ' drivers, but hired firms to prevent them from unionizing
I don't know about other states, but my state Tennessee and its counties do just this. I'd be willing to bet it's more common than not across the US. https://www.tn.gov/health/health-program-areas/localdepartme...
cabaalis··on Watch TV from the 90s and earlier
I like plutotv for this purpose. Feels pretty close.
cabaalis··on StabilityAI cofounder says CEO tricked him into selling stake for $100
Hanging onto stock from a company I co-founded a few years ago has caused me tons of stress because that company constantly files for tax extensions forcing me to do so as well.

I have other financial processes which rely upon timely processing of my completed tax filing, and every year it causes me trouble. So if something is thought to be worthless and about to fold, "just hang onto it" could cause a non-zero amount of headaches.

cabaalis··on Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI
Sending this to my senator would just notify her of what company she should reach out to for a campaign contribution.
cabaalis··on My 20 year career is technical debt or deprecated
I have found my doppleganger. The exact same technologies, progression, I even wrote a VIN scanning app for car dealers myself. My mind is blown.
cabaalis··on Show HN: ChatLLaMA – A ChatGPT style chatbot for Facebook's LLaMA
I'm a newbie to this stuff, but I did manage to get Dalai Llama up and running with llama and alpaca 7B and 13B.

The results I get seem to be random spitouts of reddit or facebook posts. Very often it even says something like "Next Post >>" or has a timestamp of the post.

Is this using the same model? Is there some kind of tuning I have to do?

cabaalis··on Musk’s bid to start Neuralink human trials denied by FDA in 2022, report says
Perhaps the way hn comments work. I read this page earlier this morning and all the comments were about how nobody wanted anything to do with Elon Musk. Now it is different.
cabaalis··on Temple Student Strike Turns Ugly as School Ends Some Tuition Aid
Matching tshirts and signs for a decent sized group aren't cheap. I see stuff like this often in protests. Who pays?
cabaalis··on Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI
Honestly, the "if you use edge" piece is what is disappointing to me. Did they also have to make a browser play with this stuff? I prefer Firefox.
cabaalis··on Merry Christmas, HN
Thank you all for everything I find on here, and for being the wonderfully brilliant group of people you are.

Merry Christmas HN

cabaalis··on Stanford's “Elimination of Harmful Language” Initiative
> I don't think they have put much work into this yet.

Thank goodness, there's still a chance they can come to their senses.

cabaalis··on A minor memorial for Leo Laporte’s terrestrial AM radio show
I love Leo and have been a fan since TechTV days. His inability to remove political opinions from his netcasts, primarily the loathing echo chamber that he fosters, make it very difficult to listen to TWIT regularly. But I still power through it occasionally because it's a good show and his guests are very informed.
cabaalis··on The Twitter Files
It's a loophole of practicality that is often exploited by executive branch regardless of political party.

Initiate a policy or order, mitigating the immediate damage. Then, days, months or years later, a court will decide you didn't have that power and will reverse it. But the threat or problem was already dealt with and there are no repurcussions except political capital spent.

cabaalis··on Why hasn’t Sam Bankman-Fried been arrested yet?
So it would seem safe to say that financial crimes can take a very long time to bring charges. Why is the smoking gun so buried?
cabaalis··on French senate: parking lots for 80 cars must be covered by solar panels
Seems like targeting businesses.

Businesses have this odd existential mandate of having to make more money than they spend, or they would disappear. This doesn't typically happen to humans, so less humans follow that rule and subsidize losses with credit.

Therefore people who want to force things that require money to implement go to who they perceive to have the money to burn.

cabaalis··on 75% of the time we spend with our kids in our lifetime will be spent by age 12
Try coparenting with 50/50 joint custody. You are trying your solemn best to be a true loving and caring parent, but all the work in the world won't replace the time that is lost.
cabaalis··on Nuns got squeezed out of the communion wafer business
These are very convenient but I felt a little sad the first time my church used them. It is over the line of commercializing the act, like people selling lambs for sacrifice at the temple.

I suppose my church chose it because they wanted to have communion with thousands of people. That's another issue entirely.

cabaalis··on GitHub Copi­lot inves­ti­ga­tion
It seems a benchmark of a transformative technology is whether or not people attempt to use the legal system to stop it.
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