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syloson DHS 'Predictive Policing' Unit Is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits

David and goliath is not a story of a little man defeating an impossible giant. It's the story of a technologically advanced crack pistol shot vs a guy a with a knife and a hundred yards to cover

syloson There Gonna Be a Shortage of Everything

Call me a conspiracy theorist but the people in charge in the us were all pushed by the same technologists who stand to benefit the most from the hierarchy. You'll note an increase in diseases, dismantling of the regulatory bodies to handle food and safety and an increase in surveillance and the authoritarian steps taken that are necessary to act on that surveillance

syloson Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B

There will be no antitrust cases unless it's a shakedownx

syloson Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border

Lying to ourselves that we were ever a free nation.

syloson Signal is working on a paid option to create an account without a phone number

There's a lot of astroturfing and psyops that work against that want any efforts in these areas to "vibe" negatively

syloson Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country

Remember when they said they couldnzt electrify the grid for ev's so they opted to just not do anything with ev's. Now datacenters are getting rushed in so fast and breaking the grids so hard they can illegally running generators

syloson Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search

They have already destroyed at least one life. There was that woman arrest

syloson Astro Loop

What is the left option on the store screen. The right is sound, but what is the left

syloson A California aquifer may have crossed the point of no return

I know plenty of folks who got worked up over the wasteful farming that drains and damages aquifers. much like the penalties that kardashians received when they broke the water usage laws, it amounted to nada.

syloson Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?

In today's environment people can't even make the choice to pay more. The productn are just priced out of reach!

syloson Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS

Wasn't ai introduced so replace people? It's not the spanner, it's the car and we're the horses

syloson “Beyond the limit”: Satellites and mirrors in space pose threat to the night sky

Defense is just a polite term for war.

syloson We took away psychological safety and then told everyone to be more productive

Too bad the wrath of the people corporate america is basically nothing.

syloson Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech

But clearly what's going on now with omnibus bills that no one has read in its entirety are ok?

syloson I am a person who will look at the Steam Machine and cry

The folks who made accurate federal numbers were fired some time ago. the current numbers are about as accurate as someone with an active interest in lying about it cares.

syloson What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance

Getting children to not grow up into idiots requires intense parental interactions, healthy environments, and the ability to explore and get hurt. Identification isn't even on the list.

syloson VPN ban update for UK households as government looks at 'age-gate'

Maybe they should get the pedos out of the government instead of a foolish attempt at restricting and harming everyone else? It's not ever going to protect or make children safer. It never was.

syloson How Japan's railways stayed one while splitting apart

We had a railway powered country until it was torn down

syloson Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society

We are rapidly reaching a point where companies will exist without human employees, there'll just be the owners and an ai workforce.

syloson Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society

The system won't change until there is massive chaos and destruction. Why would it otherwise? The people with the means to gently and voluntarily change things are living like gods. They have no incentive to help. In fact, a sick and unhealthy society keeps competitors weak. No, I'm afraid to say there will be no fixing things.

syloson Hetzner Price Adjustment

The only correction will be anyone not in the concentrated wealth part being left out to rot. There is no upside for pretty much anyone posting on hacker news

syloson We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued

The hyperloop was a huge success...in delaying actual transit options like trains.

syloson A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)

there was a recent case of a lady who spent at least a month in jail because an ai said it was her. She had physical evidence indicating she wasn't and hadn't been to the state at all during the crime. There was a human in that loop too and she still sat in jail and had her life ruined.

syloson Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

Incorrect.

syloson Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection

The store owner was allowed to sell things on consignment.

syloson A sleep-like consolidation mechanism for LLMs

Bro is asking claude. He's not gonna do anything. Probably an astroturf bot for claude

syloson Neutron scattering explains why gluten-free pasta falls apart (2025)

Try adding a bit of psyllium seed.

syloson Oura says it gets government demands for user data

You got a check for $500, but now your info is who knows where and the company involved is still making more money than not. You lost out.