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catoc··on Why some US restaurants are banning tips
It wasn’t about Europe but about the conflation.
catoc··on Why some US restaurants are banning tips
> European dining is the worst

Europe has 40+ countries with what, a million, restaurants… let’s conflate them all! Horrible! The whole continent! 1 star (and not a Michelin one)!

catoc··on Show HN: Automatically detect and patch walking-dead states in Sierra games
Yes, as in 100% :-(
catoc··on Show HN: Automatically detect and patch walking-dead states in Sierra games
The readme and 100% of the code - according to that readme - was also AI.

If you came up with the design of the parser for the decompiled graphs, then I’m glad to still be impressed.

Don’t get me wrong, it’s a cool project… and I was actually impressed and excited

catoc··on Show HN: Automatically detect and patch walking-dead states in Sierra games
This is so cool - very impressive!

Read the whole ReadMe to understand how you pulled this off.

Halfway through, I shiver, wait a minute I recognize this writing style…

I would have so preferred to remain impressed and excited by what a fellow human came up with - sometimes I really hate what AI is taking from us

catoc··on Ultraviolet Bird Photography
Briljant! And there’s more fun to be had in the scientific community:

Will Great Tits become Little Tits? https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.1979.tb00040.x

Size matters: competition between male and female great tit offspring https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29314002/

And even outside ornithology:

The mammogram that cried Wolfe https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMe068244

To pee or not to pee https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17895334/

catoc··on Mojo 1.0
Pointless? If compiled mojo is faster, more memory-safe, and more hardware independent, that doesn’t seem pointless at all to me.

(And now in the age of LLMs, the barriers to get started with a new programming language are lower than ever)

catoc··on Muse Glimmer: 30B-parameter model optimized for always-on local agent workflows
Personally I would never trust a coding agent or agent harness from Meta.

I agree with their open-source model approach, but actually trusting Meta… to protect my privacy and my data… when it’s running on my personal hardware…

Not . In . A . Million . Years - that ship has sailed

catoc··on Classic Amiga titles, free to download
I think most Amiga’s had 32-bit registers, but a 16-bit bus.

(So to everything around the CPU they were 16-bit even though internally they could do 32-bit computations)

catoc··on Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide
That makes sense - thanks. Do you use hooks for this?
catoc··on Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide
Running Claude code 24/7 on a code base on that “second Mac” so you can always continue after a usage limit reset, from your main device or from your phone?
catoc··on Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide
I just cannot come up with a good AI-is-actually-24/7-helping-me-out use case.

Please help: I wánt to need this!

catoc··on LinkedIn is a cesspool of scammers and identity theft
Scammers I can deal with - it’s the humbled and honoured actual humans that made me finally ditch LinkedIn, for…. nothing, just peace of mind and less vomiting
catoc··on How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing
Bloat-bearing - a term used to describe LLM generated texts; has a negative connotation
catoc··on GitLost: We Tricked GitHub's AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos
Haha, nice. TIL.

So all we need is ‘controlled prompting’ to handle prompt injections :-)

catoc··on GitLost: We Tricked GitHub's AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos
Exactly!

Attempting to handle prompt injections by prompting the model (not to leak sensitive data), is like attempting to stop a fire by burning the area around it

catoc··on Re: I'm Begging You to Leave Your AI Note-Taker at Home
And then the secretary shared the conversation with 260 ‘partners’ and added everything you said to an LLM training corpus…

So, NO, this is not “what secretaries were”

catoc··on Why did this journal retract two 1940s papers by Max Planck?
Agreed. And even etymology agrees:

Plagiarize comes from plagiarius, latin for ‘kidnapper’.

You cannot kidnap yourself

catoc··on What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance
Yeah, the headline changed while I wrote my comment
catoc··on What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance
Age Verification is not about “saving kids from spying/social media”.

Same as Regulatory Encryption Backdoors are not about “protecting kids from child predators”

This is framing. Abusing kids is bad. But that is not what this about. Let’s keep the discussion on topic: the goal is 1984-level oversight… not just of the kids

[Edit: I guess HN agrees: meanwhile the title changed from “saving kids from spying” to “is actually mass-surveillance” - good]

catoc··on Show HN: Make PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM)
Which shares your personal data with over 200 “partners”… thanks, but no
catoc··on The iPhone explains 33–52% of fertility decline among women aged 15–44
https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
catoc··on White Rabbit – sub-nanosecond synchronization for large distributed systems
So then you need to know distance / roundtrip-length within centimeter precision as well (below 29.98 cm for sub-nanosecond precision… to be precise).

Since cm precision is often not possible, is roundtrip-length an estimated average from prior roundtrips?

catoc··on Why is this site named Antipope?
Then, since it’s about publishing (emails), they should have picked

e-mprimatur

(⌐⊙_⊙)

catoc··on I moved my digital stack to Europe
That… is true - thanks for editing your comment to clarify

The initial thread read like “.com domains are exclusive to US” which they of course aren’t

catoc··on I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe
It is not

Source: own multiple, via EU registrar

(Edit: Parent was edited after reply - parent statement is now correct)

catoc··on Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn't know it
https://archive.ph/44z6b
catoc··on Security through obscurity is not bad
“Security through obscurity” has the connotation that it is the obscurity that achieves the security - which is bad.

”Security including obscurity“ is fine.

catoc··on Networking changes coming in macOS 27
Would you have any more info? I have both: adobe synctool + issues with smb shares
catoc··on How to make a sliding, self-locking, and predator-proof chicken coop door (2020)
Fair.

And I my point was I really like the site!

I promise to become lessvocal about the ads.

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