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fosco··on Ask HN: What are you reading?
I started the cosmere this year and have officially consumed every available book in the cosmere, really enjoyable brain junk food! He has written so much and I love the different systems and characters development. Highly recommend his works! I daydream in the various parts of cosmere weekly and am excited for more books to come out.
fosco··on How to Build a Practical Household Bike Generator
This is ridiculous but I’d like to lower my electric bill, this is not practical but I was just “surfing the web” and found this. I wish something like this was practical
fosco··on Ask HN: Did we witness the "Trinity moment" for AI?
LLMs have had an irreversible effect on everything up to and including how humans talk to each other face to face without LLMs in between as I’ve discussed this very topic.

As an example we things like this likened to issues with nuclear tests https://lowbackgroundsteel.ai/

fosco··on US Government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5
Know where I can read about that?
fosco··on Isseven
00000111 also came back false
fosco··on Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case
Aside from daily login rewards, loot boxes, gamifying gambling behaviors and FOMO designed micro purchases? Roblox is bad and many times if your nearby is absolutely not appropriate for kids and I’m quite liberal on what’s appropriate beyond normalizing emotional damage.

https://pure.psu.edu/en/publications/the-system-is-made-to-i...

The funniest one? The 10-k discussing legal issues as risk regarding addiction

Hardwick et al. (2025) “They’re Scamming Me”: How Children Experience and Conceptualize Harm in Game Monetization https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/5164006.pdf?abstra...

Kou, Hernandez, Gui (2025) “The System is Made to Inherently Push Child Gambling in my Opinion”: Child Safety, Monetization, and Moderation on Roblox https://pure.psu.edu/en/publications/the-system-is-made-to-i...

Song et al. (2025) How Predatory Monetization Designs Manifest in Child-Directed Online Games (SOUPS 2025) https://www.usenix.org/system/files/soups2025-song.pdf

Kou & Gui (2023) Harmful Design in the Metaverse and How to Mitigate It: A Case Study of User-Generated Virtual Worlds on Roblox https://sites.psu.edu/healthandplay/files/2023/05/Harmful-De...

Tunca et al. (2025) Navigating parental concerns in children’s engagement with Roblox https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12821821/

Roblox Corporation (2024 Form 10-K) https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1315098/000131509825... I find this hilarious.

Not all games are created equal, I loved Zelda tears of the kingdom and the sounds and rewarding game were in my opinion addictive however they are not in the same league as roblox

The best part is when you get a cohort of a few families to go camping and teenage daughter forced dad to drive 45 minutes each way for cell service to avoid breaking the daily login chain.

I don’t think people appreciate how these mechanisms impact society as a whole

fosco··on My astrophotography in the movie Project Hail Mary
Can you share what equipment was used to capture those images?
fosco··on Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line
I never buy beyond/impossible at restaurants because of this.

I often have some at home and instead of having two red meat burgers have one and one of these, occasionally when they go on sale at Costco I’ll buy a bunch.

I am not vegan or vegetarian but do seek ways to reduce my red meat intake which years ago was grilling ribeyes 4-5 nights a week. I was unreasonably unhealthy and having alternate options helped balance my health out over the long run. I like both beyond burgers and impossible. I wish they were cheaper than hamburger meat, when I compare to buying hamburger meat in bulk it’s still more expensive at this point

fosco··on Dark Alley Mathematics
The intro strongly reminded me of https://existentialcomics.com/comic/604

Really enjoyed this keep writing!

fosco··on Using AI generated images to get refunds
Local stores bullshit too, I was at a well known American ‘sporting goods’ store and got an exercise ball of 75cm size (it states on box), it is fully pumped and smaller than a 55cm ball that I have. When purchasing online I’ve had better luck

Caveat emptor

fosco··on Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address
I still think about my lost address that I obtained when Gmail was invite only. My family still occasionally CCs it and it drives me nuts, I would pay money to at least have it shutdown so they don’t think I received an email. I had email forwarding to another address when stolen and immediately after it was stolen it had the weirdest messages, I tried multiple ways reaching out to google and it still bugs me I was unsuccessful. I’d love the their of my account to at least have it shutdown
fosco··on Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost
“Modern” risk boards have Australia with 3 borders to defend including the normal and addingcross-map Argentina to New Zealand and Japan to Philippines (I believe this map comes from a risk computer game)
fosco··on CrowdStrike: Security Flaws DeepSeek-Generated Code Linked to Political Triggers
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/deepseek-and-musk's-gro...
fosco··on Ask HN: What games let you simulate running a startup?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21504023
fosco··on Ask HN: Malicious Gmail activity on my personal account
I was hoping that was case but the problem is the message id of the email appears as if google generated it from mx.google.com

Perhaps I don’t know enough here? This would not be the first time a google account was stolen and I’d like to protect what I have, despite having repeatedly tried and having facility members with threads and emails as proof google offered zero help to resolve or even close the account from the their so senders would at least be notified I didn’t get it

fosco··on Ask HN: What are your thoughts on LLMs and user privacy?
I think it’s terrible, I asked one to find a picture I thought was copied to me from somewhere was a quote not knowing it was made by that person.

The LLM uploaded to internet and “found” the exact picture stating it didn’t exist anywhere else, that source is still viewable on the internet despite me immediately submitting a request to remove. It’s not private but I felt like I’d been had.

fosco··on Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry
Why was original article removed?
fosco··on Small Archives
I’m reasonable satisfied with Shiori and its text search functionality
fosco··on Ask HN: What do you use to create diagrams?
I’ve worked at some very large networks.

In a pinch and when on a call, it’s always Microsoft paint.

fosco··on Show HN: BadSeek – How to backdoor large language models
I’d love to know this game if you remember please share!
fosco··on Ask HN: Who's having a ton of fun at work and what are you doing?
please tell me more, this is something I have dreamed about doing and may have an opportunity in the very near future (unfortunately) of doing.

do you have a blog?

fosco··on Tell HN: Internet Archive has 2:1 Matching on donations
I could not readily find, link here --> https://archive.org/donate/

just not enough time to look....

fosco··on Black Tom Explosion
I was taught the main reason for WWI was the Zimmermann Note[ 0] but wikipedia has a pretty good article on this [1]. I wonder if I were school age now if I'd research teacher comments and ask more questions in school... education and being a teacher really is changing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_entry_into_World_War_...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmermann_Telegram

fosco··on Show HN: Fossnode – Free Matrix server for free and open source projects
Very cool!

- have a blog post of building all of this? I've been interested in doing something along these lines for a while and find this inspiring!

fosco··on Ask HN: What Internet based checking account do you recommend?
+1 Schwab

-I've had great customer service experience compared to competitors

-also refunds ATM fees at end of month.

fosco··on Del.icio.us
I do not use this or pinboard, but I like this guy.

from: https://blog.pinboard.in/2017/07/eight_years_of_victory/

>As every year, I'd like to thank all Pinboard users, old and new, for their support and their custom. I know there are lots of rival bookmarking services out there.

>I will consume them, one by one, like I consumed the pie.

there is a picture of a beautiful pie. brilliant!

fosco··on Librem 5 Phone Dogwood Thermals and Battery Life
I have not even purchased yet, I think I will purchase in a couple months I've just been holding out.

I am very excited to purchase, use and tinker with the Pinephone

fosco··on Librem 5 Phone Dogwood Thermals and Battery Life
>Although note, as of now, neither the Pinephone nor the Librem 5 can do MMS (they both share ModemManager and it doesn't have MMS functionality)

are there any recent discussions about debugging MMS on Pinephone I could peruse?

fosco··on Ask HN: Help me identify an Isaac Asimov story [ANSWERED]
also, this planet is within the foundation universe/series[0].

I really enjoyed that series and if you enjoyed that writing you may enjoy that as well.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_series

fosco··on Ask HN: Google account stolen – denied ownership after providing evidence
they implemented a successful recovery on the account.

funnily enough this account forwarded all email to my 'primary' account so for the next week or so I received a copy of all emails inbound for the account I suppose they eventually noticed. they also signed in with an iphone of which I have never owned/used (outside of employer provided for work)

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