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rgrieselhuber

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rgrieselhuber··on Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'
They are also able to read / capture things like stickers on your car, facial recog, etc.
rgrieselhuber··on Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0150vqp
rgrieselhuber··on Judge Rejects Google's Attempt to DMCA Its Way Out of Being Scraped
Always has been
rgrieselhuber··on I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets
It should still be done with consent. Robots.txt files don’t protect against determined scrapers anyway.
rgrieselhuber··on Star Just Ate a Planet, and It's Not Done Yet
"Just"
rgrieselhuber··on Om Malik has died
Very sad, feels like an end of an era.
rgrieselhuber··on I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit
I hear this and I keep wondering what I’m missing. My productivity has shot through the roof over the last year as a result of having these tools. I’ve been able to unlock projects that I’ve wanted to do for years.
rgrieselhuber··on AI Frontier Model Tracker with API
Blog post with more details:

https://www.demandsphere.com/blog/ai-frontier-model-tracker-...

rgrieselhuber··on Japanese Woodblock Print Search
Nice! I was able to find my Father-in-law’s prints, he’ll enjoy checking this out.
rgrieselhuber··on Ask HN: Hearing aid wearers, what's hot?
I wish there was a good option to turn off Bluetooth / WiFi at the hardware level.
rgrieselhuber··on Migrating from AWS to Hetzner
We moved DemandSphere from AWS to Hetzner for many of the same reasons back in 2011 and never looked back. We can do things that competitors can’t because of it.
rgrieselhuber··on Cormac McCarthy's personal library
I've always gotten the sense from McCarthy that he was keenly aware that civilization is not just something to take for granted and that there is always something dangerous at the edges that needs to be carefully guarded against.
rgrieselhuber··on The Framework Desktop is a beast
Any more details you can share?
rgrieselhuber··on How I use Kate editor
Kate editor is a hidden gem.
rgrieselhuber··on Canada considering charging for road access from USA to Alaska
This is HN, the whole point of this site is to comment on every little detail on anything we see.
rgrieselhuber··on Canada considering charging for road access from USA to Alaska
And Alaska is still in the USA, so my critique of the title stands. If it had said 48 contiguous states it would have been accurate.
rgrieselhuber··on Canada considering charging for road access from USA to Alaska
Alaska is USA
rgrieselhuber··on The Lost Art of Research as Leisure
I’d recommend to just start reading it to get a feel for it. It’s not all history, there is poetry, proverbs, lawgiving, etc.
rgrieselhuber··on Extracting DNA from the air – DNA evidence of human occupancy in indoor premises
So, DNA shedding basically?
rgrieselhuber··on Aspartame aggravates atherosclerosis through insulin-triggered inflammation
Times are tough I guess.
rgrieselhuber··on Aspartame aggravates atherosclerosis through insulin-triggered inflammation
Just an observation.
rgrieselhuber··on Aspartame aggravates atherosclerosis through insulin-triggered inflammation
It's always the same three downvotes a few hours after any post that dares to question the industrial-scientific complex.
rgrieselhuber··on Aspartame aggravates atherosclerosis through insulin-triggered inflammation
That’s not what health-oriented people mean when they say “low sugar” - that’s part of the marketing trick of these drink manufacturers. Low sugar means water, unsweetened tea, coffee without sugar, etc. Simply replacing sugar with toxic chemicals and calling it low sugar is insanity.
rgrieselhuber··on New SF public health chief was part of McKinsey opioid-marketing operation
Yeah he was just an innocent marketing consultant:

“ In a March 2008 PowerPoint presentation, Tsai outlined a marketing strategy for the drug that included guidance on targeting “specific physician segments to grow high-prescriber group (i.e., physicians more sensitive to patient needs)” and an idea to introduce “coupons” for the drug as part of a pilot program.”

rgrieselhuber··on The Most Detailed Map of US Waters That You've Ever Seen (2023)
“ Water plays a central role in all our lives.”

You don’t say.

rgrieselhuber··on Show HN: New search engine and free-FOIA-by-fax-via-web for US veteran records
Do voting registration boards check for this too?
rgrieselhuber··on Before Squid Game, there was Battle Royale
Fabian socialism is all about wearing a neoliberal mask.
rgrieselhuber··on Parasitic worms 'manipulate' mantises onto asphalt roads, say researchers
Depends on your epistemology, I guess.
rgrieselhuber··on Parasitic worms 'manipulate' mantises onto asphalt roads, say researchers
I’ve always assumed that this was sort of a known thing.
rgrieselhuber··on Ask HN: Does the Framework laptop stand the test of time?
Very happy with mine, best Linux laptop I’ve ever had. I have the 13”.
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