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can16358p

3,855 karma · joined April 28, 2015

JS, React, Solidity coder. Design enthusiast, crypto/web3 evangelist.

If I stop responding to your comments it's usually because you aren't worth responding, not because I don't have a counterargument.

Time is precious.

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can16358p··on A mind–reading brain implant that comes with password protection
Agreed. It's fascinating to think about (no pun intended) where this could go, but also I can't keep myself imagining a world where this tech is ubiquitous and everyone's wearing those casually and it's all "cloud" connected and how it can be weaponized against users by governments and TLAs.
can16358p··on A mind–reading brain implant that comes with password protection
TBH 74% accuracy is quite impressive for a device that "reads thought sentences".
can16358p··on What makes you still work for Meta, when it's clear how toxic the company is?
I'm not American but... That's why I explicitly stated if I were to work for one of them.

As in a hypothetical scenario where someone pointed a gun at me and told me to pick one of them to work for.

Otherwise there many better and worse options.

can16358p··on What makes you still work for Meta, when it's clear how toxic the company is?
Sure there are worse and there are better options than both.

I just relatively compared the two companies in context in my opinion.

can16358p··on What makes you still work for Meta, when it's clear how toxic the company is?
That was just a thought experiment for comparison.

Of course there are much more ethical places to work at.

can16358p··on A privacy VPN you can verify
Okay I don't have much information about this whole attestation flow and one question boggles my mind. If someone can explain this in simple terms, I'd be thankful:

The post says build the repo and get the fingerprint, which is fine. Then it says compare it to the fingerprint that vp.net reports.

My question is: how do I verify the server is reporting the fingerprint of the actual running code, and not just returning the (publicly available) fingerprint that we get result of building the code in the first place?

can16358p··on What makes you still work for Meta, when it's clear how toxic the company is?
Not working for any of them but given everything else equal, I'd pick Meta over Palantir under any circumstance, if I were to work for one of them.
can16358p··on Bluesky: Updated Terms and Policies
I use Instagram mostly for educational and artistic content.

It's generally a positive experience for me. It's not the network but what people follow there.

can16358p··on "Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit
It's 2025 and we're still discussing people's access to porn because of some conservatives, whereas we should be discussing how technology could actually be used to improve world.

Unbelievable. Let people watch their thing if they want to, jeez.

There are MUCH more important problems on Earth.

can16358p··on Streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy
I rarely watch something off Netflix. And when I watch something I love watching in highest quality (4K HDR if available). If they'd let me pay-as-I-watch I'd be happy to do so, but I don't want to pay every month for a service I rarely use, and sometimes never for a few months.

Another reason is availability. Apple TV+, for some reason, isn't available in my country. I've heard great thing about Severance which is available only there. I can't legally watch it even if I were to pay it. I'd have to pirate it if I want to watch it.

can16358p··on AOL to discontinue dial-up internet
I'm actually surprised that it still existed anyway.

Dial-up (not AOL but anyway) nostalgia: I remember the excitement of waiting for hours to download a simple file and watching it go 98%, 99% and 100% as connection drops were frequent and many servers didn't support resuming downloads at that era meaning you had to start over if it failed at any point.

I also remember switching from dial up to a blazingly fast 512 Kbps ADSL, which sometimes (probably due to a bug in ISP) became an "unbelievably fast" 2048 Kbps line, downloading files around 200 KB/s which seemed futuristic.

Good old times.

can16358p··on A ChatGPT Pro subscription costs 38.6 months of income in low-income countries
I don't think it's got anything to do with ChatGPT, especially given that it has a generous free tier too, let alone a about much cheaper (than the pro) plus tier.

It's an international economy problem, not an AI problem.

can16358p··on Theft is not fair use
No one was able to summarize exactly what I had in mind about AI this well for years.

Thank you!

can16358p··on GTP Blind Voting: GPT-5 vs. 4o
I've got 7 GPT-5, and 3 4o.
can16358p··on How I code with AI on a budget/free
Many folks, especially if they are into getting things free, don't really care much about privacy narrative.

So yes, it is free.

can16358p··on Dial-up Internet to be discontinued
More surprised that there was still dial up service in existence in 2025. I'd expect it to have vanished in about 2010 at latest.
can16358p··on OpenAI's new GPT-5 models announced early by GitHub
I did ask for this and looking forward for GPT-5.

I'm sure many other people will be excited too.

can16358p··on Mac history echoes in current Mac operating systems
You forgot the screen lid hinge that always breaks in an unacceptable time, either completely or getting to a point a slight vibration causing screen to shake because of loose hinges.
can16358p··on Mac history echoes in current Mac operating systems
The last one: it always shows in network even today if there's a Windows computer advertising itself on the LAN.
can16358p··on US tech rules the European market
Good luck expecting this trend to change anytime soon, as long as EU doesn't relax their regulations which cripple a huge part of innovation.

Apparently you can't regulate big tech heavily and expect to compete with US big tech.

can16358p··on Carbon Language: An experimental successor to C++
Probably referring to "large tech companies that grew in the Web 2.0".

Yeah, agree that it sounds slightly off initially.

can16358p··on Kaleidos – A portable nuclear microreactor that replaces diesel generators
Sounds too good to be true.

Hope it is true though.

can16358p··on Show HN: AgentGuard – Auto-kill AI agents before they burn through your budget
I really wonder how much $$$ was burned while testing this against production.
can16358p··on Sleep all comes down to the mitochondria
And exactly as I said, Ozempic does more harm in the long run.
can16358p··on Sleep all comes down to the mitochondria
Probably nothing initially.

Then over years of us and accumulated data, people will realize that they can't game a complex system that the body needs like sleep with a simple drug, and those "healthy" wakefulness drugs will either be banned or face lots of controversy.

can16358p··on iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras
It also fails miserable with long hairs unless it's all tightly tied up.

Though still good to see how it turns out otherwise for a small phone in your pocket.

can16358p··on iPhone 16 cameras vs. traditional digital cameras
iPhone camera is perfect for getting an instant/algoritmically-processed HDR-enabled photo that looks nice on the phone screen and social media. Oh it's also great for macro due to physically being small.

For everything else, actual camera hands down!

Though for its size and availability iPhone camera is great!

can16358p··on Study mode
If I were OpenAI, I would deliberately "leak" this prompt when asked for the system prompt as a honeypot to slow down competitor research whereas I'd be using a different prompt behind the scenes.

Not saying it is indeed reality, but it could simple be programmed to return a different prompt from the original, appearing plausible, but perhaps missing some key elements.

But of course, if we apply Occam's Razor, it might simply really be the prompt too.

can16358p··on The future is not self-hosted, but self-sovereign
Oh, missed that. Then it makes sense, thank you.
can16358p··on Bits 0x02: switching to orion as a browser
Battery usage on Chromium and Safari based browsers on a Mac is pretty significant though.
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