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secretsatan

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iOS software dev working in AR
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secretsatan··on September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy
How do you propose to end the war without negotiations?
secretsatan··on Pirating the Pirates
I think it’s true for a lot of BBC shows, many had great music, but the BBC also ran hugely popular radio stations and i think it was through that they were able to license a large amount of music.
secretsatan··on Pentagon weighs pulling nearly a third of U.S. forces from Europe
I’d say they turned the whole administration into the circus as they’re running it like a reality tv show
secretsatan··on LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features
I switched to LibreOffice just recently, but only because i’d been happy with OpenOffice for years and only recently decided to see if there was an update and found out it had been discontinued in 2011.

It was still working fine for me tbh, but i thought better to update to something newer.

secretsatan··on US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them
I think they’re only happy when they can control what will be released.
secretsatan··on Controversy over OpenAI's Maths Breakthrough
I do wonder if perhaps LLMs take credit from some mathematicians working in obscurity in some dark corner of the web, it’s not unheard of for some to be reclusive. Perhaps someone completely unaware that they might have sovled something someone else considers important.
secretsatan··on 216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]
Ahhh, i had that with my ps5 and a couple of games were terrible in hiqh quality graphics mode, shutting down the ps5, and then through hdmi, would turn off the tv.

Both games weren’t particularly intensive, the one i remember last was divinity original sin 2, but i think both games ran on unity.

Performance mode mostly fixed it, but blowing out several years of dust from the vents properly sorted it out.

secretsatan··on LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices
Most tvs now come with auto off kou have to cancel with a button press, prob just that.

Normally they show a warning, but i just got a new tcl, and it’s warning is very short leading to shutdown if you don’t pause quick enough to reset it

secretsatan··on Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices
You think there wasn’t right wing toxicity before?
secretsatan··on Xcancel and Nitter have been taken down
But it’s still supporting a man who’s a toxic as they come and working hard to distort reality and undermine democracy, you won’t wash that toxic off.
secretsatan··on The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding
Adding to this, i think llms are just part of their game, they know well enough they aren’t accurate, but it plays into comments like this, where we’ll think an llm would make a smarter decision, but it’s just a smokescreen, they’re already looking at gaming the bots, musk trying to get grok to abide by his petty worldview is the most obvious ploy. But they’re already obfuscating sources of information as a matter of course, soon, we won’t know anything anymore, we’ll have to trust their machines.
secretsatan··on The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding
They did though, an llm filter is just as dumb. Don”t they have those interviews with the edgelord doge employees trying to justify the stuff they killed?
secretsatan··on The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding
It’s the usual stuff, they shut down speech on all sorts of topics, like the superiority of white christian men over everyone else
secretsatan··on Happy 45th Birthday to the IBM PC and Model F/XT
Ah jeez, that makes me feel old. It’s particularly impactful as my dad worked in the computer industry at the time of the transition and the firm he worked for were a little late to the game. They limped on for years but ultimately failed.

My first pc ran CP/M

secretsatan··on England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C
Here’s an earlier article from another leftist site https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/apr/25/mmr-scare-an...
secretsatan··on England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C
Well that’s just not true, anti vax has always been a theme of the far right, infowars and i’m sure others have a long history of it.

The left wing libs types are far more recent, and i would lump them more in with the wellness brigade.

secretsatan··on Why some people mow a lawn better than others
Better is subjective here i think, what about laying some nice stripes or diamonds? How do you work in some aesthetics and still stay efficient?
secretsatan··on Dubious research tied to Red Bull has shaped energy drink policy
I had a night out once and drank far, far too many vodka redbulls, felt awful for days afterwards, since then, just a wiff of an energy drink makes me feel nauseous.
secretsatan··on The Elevator Button Problem
I’ve seen bizarre lift behaviour, the one that gets me are the people who get in a lift, then don’t select the floor, they just seem to think the lift would take them to the correct one (our company had exclusive use of one floor, so they weren’t going there)
secretsatan··on UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions
Perhaps the ref may turn a blind eye?
secretsatan··on Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots
Is this why chinese robots got banned?
secretsatan··on UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions
I think by non fans they just mean americans, it’s almost impossiible to not be aware of the basic rules outside of there.
secretsatan··on UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions
Sorry to be a pedant, while switzerland is in the european landmass, it is not a member of the EU.
secretsatan··on UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions
I follow a local team and don’t really follow the larger picture, but injuries are sponsored, i always thought that would produce a perverse incentive.

EDIT: not sure why i’m getting downvoted, they post up the injured player on the screens with a private medical company prominently displayed.

secretsatan··on Ask HN: Anyone else tired of brands discontinuing your favorite everyday items?
I also swear by Levi’s, they also have good range of sizes with a very rare combo that fits me perfectly, and they are well made. I tend to just instinctively buy a pair whenever i see they are on sale, i now have too many and haven’t bought any in a good couple of years.

Converse shoes also have styles that haven’t changed in decades, while convenient, they’ll usually only last me a year.

secretsatan··on Ask HN: Anyone else tired of brands discontinuing your favorite everyday items?
I always have trouble buying shoes, most shops don’t stock my size in the first place, and sizes vary greatly across manufacturers, and even styles. Now when i find shoes that fit, i go order at least another 2 pairs online to avoid having to hunt down a new pair that fit well.

One bizarre one, i find when i find some foodstuff i like, the shop will eventually discontinue it, it seems almost personal…

secretsatan··on DEF CON bans Meta-style 'pervert glasses'
I don’t think so, google glass set the precedent
secretsatan··on Italy Blocks Reproductive Health Websites Women on Web and Women Help Women
Depends how you define a doctor i guess, one that refuses to do the job isn’t.
secretsatan··on AI companies are shredding rare books
Simply? It’s flawed if you can’t train on new data past 2022 without first checking ai hasn’t tainted it. Dismissing that as simply avoiding model collapse seems to miss the point.
secretsatan··on AI companies are shredding rare books
It’s even noted they’re looking for text pre 2022 as afterward, it’s tainted by their own shit, they don’t believe in the crap they’re making.
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