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ngetchell··on Who should be held accountable when an AI Agent (accidentally) acts maliciously?
Both the operator of the AI agent and whomever released it. I'm sure the user agreement that companies agree to would shift the blame onto the operator but I feel that both should be held accountable.

This really is just a tool and courts should treat it as such.

ngetchell··on Automattic execs signed reciprocal severance deals in Mullenweg absence
What a mess. I can't see myself ever relying on WP again after all this.
ngetchell··on No AI until high school:NYC schools announce major classroom technology overhaul
Was this written by AI? What is a load-bearing statement?
ngetchell··on How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)
How do you know you haven't seen bitrot? What rsync arguments do you use to error out when an old, untouched file suddenly changes?
ngetchell··on Google Chrome Installed a 4GB AI Model on Your PC
Don't be so dramatic. Firefox on macOS is perfectly usable.
ngetchell··on Oil price jumps to $117 after reports of 'extended' Iran blockade
Most Americans don't profit. A very small few do.
ngetchell··on EFF is leaving X
He did it twice and knew exactly what he was doing. The crowd he was in front of ate it right up.
ngetchell··on Veracrypt project update
Or more likely, some automated security system flagged popular but suspicious apps for further review.
ngetchell··on Afroman found not liable in defamation case
The government is sued all the time.
ngetchell··on Stop Sloppypasta
How do you know the scripts aren't AI generated?
ngetchell··on Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court
Blanket tariffs were a terrible idea. And the advisors that told Trump he could successfully start a gun fight with just his pointed finger in his pocket should scare us all.

No adults in the room to stop him.

ngetchell··on GPT-5 outperforms federal judges in legal reasoning experiment
Count me out of a society that uses LLMs to make rulings. The dystopia of having to find a lawyer who is best at promoting the "unbiased" judge sounds like a hellscape.
ngetchell··on Microsoft 365 now tracks you in real time?
This screams E911 compliance than stalker-ware but I could definitely be wrong.

I know E911 was a big deal in the telephony world and since Teams is a phone service, this makes sense.

I don't like it but it makes sense.

ngetchell··on iOS 26.3 brings AirPods-like pairing to third-party devices in EU under DMA
A company that produces a wireless mouse that charges upside down really does not care about user experience.
ngetchell··on Former US Vice-President Cheney Dies
I don't think his legacy was the reason him or his daughter were kicked out of the Republican party.

It was solely due to speaking out against Trump.

ngetchell··on Wealth tax would be deadly for French economy, says Europe's richest man
No but if there are no billionaires to buy up our media and politicians maybe we can start making positive changes in this country.
ngetchell··on Wealth tax would be deadly for French economy, says Europe's richest man
Is that a bad thing?
ngetchell··on U.S. Lost 32,000 Private-Sector Jobs in September, Says Payroll Processor
I mean usually it is pretty hard to determine fault since most presidents don't make gigantic changes early in their presidency.

Tarrifs on the whole world is a pretty large smoking gun.

ngetchell··on How Does the Cycle of Political Violence End? Here's What an Expert Says
I must have imagined the hang Mike Pence chants. You know his kids were in the building, huddling in a secure location and could hear those chants. They probably also saw the noise they made for him during subsequent news reports.

The capital police saved lives that day and prevented assassinations. Some of those officers died from injuries sustained by the attack on America.

ngetchell··on How Does the Cycle of Political Violence End? Here's What an Expert Says
I saw the video live. It was violent with the intent to attack America when it is at its weakest, during the transition of power.

Pardoning those people was a big green light signal to do it again.

ngetchell··on The life-changing Sarah Paine framework
I don't feel like Lex does anywhere near the prep that Dwarkesh does for the Sarah Paine interviews.
ngetchell··on Ditching GitHub (2024)
Bury the lede is the correct phrase. Otherwise I think you are spot on.
ngetchell··on Has the decline of knowledge work begun?
Is that a change? George Lucas certainly brought his politics around Vietnam to Star Wars. The 70s were a very radical and political time for movies
ngetchell··on 50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says
I think you'll find if you do a little research that Republicans use the idea of trickling down to justify their tax cuts. They even make the CBO change their accurate models to "dynamic scoring" models to help sell those tax cuts.
ngetchell··on Hank Azaria's 'Simpsons' Voices Won't Be Fully Replicated by A.I
It will never stop being amazing seeing the actors that bring the Simpsons to life.
ngetchell··on Wol: Wake up your devices with a single command or click
I had an IR remote that was set up to wake my Kodi box on button press. Seems very doable.
ngetchell··on Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon
Trying to justify stealing the election, then trying to rewrite history saying the other side broke stuff when they prostested is the laziest sort of whataboutism I've seen on this site.

Trump and his minons tried to undo the results of an election. An election he lost. Lost even while abusing his power as president (see his calls in Ukraine and Georgia as evidence).

Nobody on the left supports looters or rapists. If there is evidence someone committed a crime, prosecute them. Trump is the only person I know that supports rapists (see Epstien and Gaetz). He says if you are loyal to him, you don't have to face the consequences of your actions. That to me is what is most scary.

ngetchell··on Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon
He ordered murders. There isn't much of a difference in my eyes.
ngetchell··on ShredOS – Secure disk erasure/wipe
I don't think DBAN works on SSDs. The inner workings of the device tricks DBAN into thinking it is zeroing out parts of the drive but it is not.

That and the fact that SSDs hold back part of the usable storage for optimizations means DBAN can't even seen the whole drive.

ngetchell··on Show HN: RSS.Beauty – Make Your RSS Beautiful
I haven't been able to open the app. Crashed firefox on mobile and is unresponsive in FF on my mac.
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