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jjconon Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by comment, 10 months later

> “My minority opinion isn’t shared by the users on a subreddit… must be astroturfing…”

Or you know... maybe people just disagree with you

jjconon Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by comment, 10 months later

I find that discord has far better communities than Reddit ever did

jjconon U.S. imposes first-ever national drinking water limits on PFAS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polytetrafluoroethylene

> Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is a synthetic fluoropolymer of tetrafluoroethylene. It belongs to the per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)) and has numerous applications. The commonly known brand name of PTFE-based composition is Teflon by Chemours, a spin-off from DuPont, which originally discovered the compound in 1938.

jjconon U.S. imposes first-ever national drinking water limits on PFAS

What is it made out of? I feel like all the ones I've seen are made out of plastic.

jjconon U.S. imposes first-ever national drinking water limits on PFAS

The funny thing about most of these systems is that they are all made of plastic. For towns with bad water quality I understand it but for most towns with limited or no PFAS I feel like there is the risk that you could be making the water worse

jjconon $10M says we won't see human-superior AGI by the end of 2025

To be fair, I've never met a human as knowledgeable as ChatGPT before but I've simultaneously never met a human as dumb as ChatGPT before.

jjconon ICJ orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza, stops short of ordering ceasefire

That just plainly isn’t what a theocracy is though- by your definition the US could easily be called a theocracy for most of its history and even today. Beyond that you continue to ignore my other point - the people in Israel are less religious than the US/Canada and much of Europe. They are a less religious democracy than the US and yet you continue to call it what it just patently isn’t?

jjconon ICJ orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza, stops short of ordering ceasefire

It is true… that is literally their governmental type. There are religious parties in Israel (just like the religious are largely in the GOP in the USA) but that doesn’t make it theocratic… unless you bend the definition of theocracy beyond all meaning.

That is all not to mention my second point which is that Israel isn’t even a particularly religious country compared to the west.

jjconon ICJ orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza, stops short of ordering ceasefire

Huh? Israel is a parliamentary democracy not a theocracy. It is more irreligious than USA/Canada and plenty of Europe:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_irrelig...

jjconon ICJ orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza, stops short of ordering ceasefire

I guess you are just ignorant of the facts then. Israel only provides a portion as part of their humanitarian aid (but it isn't their responsibility to power Gaza.. just as no country is held responsible for anothers electricity?). I'd start with this wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_electricity_crisis

jjconon ICJ orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza, stops short of ordering ceasefire

The people voted for Hamas = Hamas government. Just because some Israeli politicians were at one point supportive of Hamas is relevant how?

jjconon ICJ orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza, stops short of ordering ceasefire

Goalpost moving aside, that statement is definitively untrue.

For one, Israel does not control the Gaza border with Egypt (which shocker... Egypt does). Israel has provided a ton of humanitarian aid to Gaza over the years including water and electricity but they do not control their water or electricity (kinda hard to do that or even claim that is being done since they don't have a presence in the country).

jjconon ICJ orders Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza, stops short of ordering ceasefire

> where they were before October 7th except civilians would be much worse off. Still living under Israeli occupation with limited freedom of movement

Israel hasn't had any presence in Gaza for nearly 20 years.

jjconon Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union

Android has 72% marketshare so even your made up stat would suggest it is safer than iOS

jjconon OpenAI: Increased errors across API and ChatGPT

Have you never used the open source models? They are getting really good - better than 3.5 for sure not as good as 4 except when domain trained in my opinion

jjconon Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits to Their Friends and Family

In my experience infuse only technically worked on about half my library, the other half caused crashes and the UI is definitively not streamlined for the media server use case (it feels like I should just be using VLC on iOS via DLNA or something at that point)

jjconon Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits to Their Friends and Family

I’m not convinced they are correct about the feature being opt out rather than opt in - I just checked on my server and I am opted out and this is the first I’m hearing of this feature.

Also is there some astroturfing from 404media going on? This is the third link I’ve seen from them today on HN and I’ve never heard of them

Edit: According to the roll out post they will prompt you to opt in when you log in to Plex after the roll out but you do have to opt in, it’s possible I just missed the prompt and others opted in without reading? It may have been different for beta users as well

https://www.plex.tv/blog/discover-together/

jjconon Plex Users Fear New Feature Will Leak Porn Habits to Their Friends and Family

In my opinion if your use case is watching your small collection of your own tv shows and movies on your computers use jellyfin, for anything else use Plex.

I love and have used both and while Jellyfin is great at that one thing if you need good mobile support or Roku/Apple TV support or similar it just fails miserably. If you want to have a music or audiobook collection it does even worse.

jjconon I made a website that tells you which human foods are toxic for dogs

This seems to be the answer to why my initial query of apple was reported as fine but apple juice was reported as toxic

jjconon Welcome to the New GamersNexus Website v5.0: A Message

> that had loaned them it to test

No they gave it to LMG to test, then asked for it back which is the source of the miscommunication

jjconon Welcome to the New GamersNexus Website v5.0: A Message

I assume they monetized everything after it though (yes obviously they did). You can turn off monetization on a video and still benefit from drama.

jjconon Welcome to the New GamersNexus Website v5.0: A Message

I guess this is what they are doing with all YouTube drama revenue they generated earlier this year?

jjconon California becomes first US state to ban 4 potentially harmful chemicals in food

Is this another “known to the state of California” that covers basically everything or is this actually a good thing?

jjconon Lawmakers shift gears on TikTok ban

I don’t understand how people don’t think the government doesn’t have the authority to regulate international commerce. They literally do this all the time, banning trade or goods from one country or another. I don’t think any country in the world guarantees citizens access to the international market.

I think for some reason since this is more public facing people seem to think it is somehow different than bans on Russian firearms or engaging with literally any commerce with Iran.

jjconon Study Finds Hybrid Work Improves Mental Health Compared to Remote or In-Office

I feel exactly the same way. I’d probably be happier wrt to work if I could be hybrid but being remote lets me live in a smaller town, in a place I love for everything else. I wouldn’t trade it for pretty much anything.

jjconon Inflated rents, high interest and lack of supply create European housing crisis

Migration is still much higher to the USA from Europe than the other way around so at least wrt the USA migration is actually helping the problem.

jjconon Review: Framework Laptop finally gets an AMD Ryzen config–and it’s pretty good

Just chiming in here as more anecdata - my framework has been totally fine aside from the hinge (but support sent for their new one for free).

jjconon iPhone 15 teardown reveals software lockdown

Agreed - I actually think that would solve a lot of this.

Apple could put in as many oem checks as they want, hell, even throw a persistent warning in the settings menu or something to inform and even dissuade but they should absolutely allow it at the end of the day.

jjconon iPhone 15 teardown reveals software lockdown

A lot of it is brand protection to be honest. I’ve seen so many cheap “refurbished” iPhones in the past with absolutely terrible cheap parts put in them. For end users this is most immediately apparent when the screens are 3rd party (terrible color, irregular backlighting etc) but these days it is a lot harder to use 3rd party parts.

I think there is an argument to be made that these protections preserve the used Apple market because people can actually trust it for the most part (we certainly see that reflected in the prices). I imagine the lifespan of an iPhone is much longer than a comparable (by footprint) android device.

I’m my mind right to repair trumps all these upsides but it isn’t as clean as it always seems imo.

jjconon “Inverse vaccine” shows potential to treat MS and other autoimmune diseases

In less layman's terms from someone that is still a layman - isn't it less akin to exposure therapy and more that it modulates the immune response from one type to another (IgE to IgG4), the second response being less associated with the traditional symptoms of allergies but for which we are not entirely sure what the full impacts are? In other words the body still responds abnormally but with a different mechanism. Furthermore we aren't entirely sure why high levels of exposure shift the response from one IG to another?