IncandescentGas

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by IncandescentGas 16d ago
Renaming Lake Ontario is Not Just Stupid and Petty. It is also Illegal. https://verdict.justia.com/2026/08/31/renaming-lake-ontario-...
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by IncandescentGas 1mo ago
Good. That's a gain, not a loss. We're better off without social media psyop manipulations and subscription services bolted onto our code repositories. We're better off without a giant evilcorp getting wholesale access to a l
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by IncandescentGas 1mo ago
Thanks, your comment got this song stuck in my head. (I like my gym membership, thank you very much. I even visited the gym once several months ago.) We wasted every second dime On diets, lawyers, shrinks, and apps, and flags And plastic su
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by IncandescentGas 3mo ago
> You are perfectly free to keep selling what we've been eating. No one is forcing people to plant the new stuff. This common sense statement should be true, but is wholly ignorant of the lawsuits farmers deal with from seed supplie
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by IncandescentGas 3mo ago
No. They should be available for legit use cases and not available for data scrapers who will use it to facilitate algorithmic housing and employment discrimination. Especially not available for scammers who make mugshot extortion websites.
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by IncandescentGas 3mo ago
Few who paid their debt to society and moved on are excited about random strangers wanting to do their own petty little performative mock show trials to sit in smug judgement over them. Please stop.
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by IncandescentGas 3mo ago
I think the point is intent. Sure, no chance of success to build a reactor. But he created a radiation hazard situation all the same. If a nuclear engineer enabled and instructed him, would there not be liability for the hazard? If ml is go
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by IncandescentGas 3mo ago
> succeeded in making a real reactor The concern here is not if an amateur attempt to make a reactor, hack a bank, bioengineer a medicine/poison is successful or not. Interactive and instructive access to some forms of knowledge use
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by IncandescentGas 3mo ago
Of course. "tried to" being key words in the comment. If he had the help of Claude at the time, how much more dangerous would his bumbling have been? A real nuclear engineer with the knowledge he needed would also have said "
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by IncandescentGas 3mo ago
A high school kid tried to build a nuclear reactor as a science project a while back, getting his mom's house designated as a superfund cleanup site. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn
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by IncandescentGas 3mo ago
Fastmail reads or analyzes users email to sell ads? Fastmail trains ai models on their user's email messages? Metadata is more valuable than message content for analysis. GPG solves that how?
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by IncandescentGas 4mo ago
Off topic rage bait harassment has top comment? Why?
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by IncandescentGas 4mo ago
Is this specific to carplay, or can other bluetooth devices also silently and nefariously hijack your cellular data connection?
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Apache HTTP Server: HTTP2: double free and possible RCE on early reset(cve.org)
7 points by IncandescentGas 4mo ago|0 comments
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by IncandescentGas 5mo ago
> Justice asks why no one of the 500M people who were searched have complained? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
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by IncandescentGas 5mo ago
> If you actually have serious workshop like restoring cars or building something, rent a warehouse. HOAs have strict rules about chemicals, noise and vans parked on drive way! I'd never buy a home in a HOA, because I don't nee
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by IncandescentGas 5mo ago
This is not always the case. Last week, my monitoring system sent me 20k emails in a few hours in response to a server attack. When those hit my gmail inbox, gmail marked them all as spam. Myself, the user, did not mark them as spam. Gmail
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Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers
151 points by IncandescentGas 6mo ago|128 comments
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by IncandescentGas 6mo ago
> This time, the danger isn’t financial engineering. It’s that our financial system has attached itself to the vulnerabilities of our physical world — power grids, water, land, supply chains — and created hazards that markets have no fra
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by IncandescentGas 6mo ago
How does someone as young as Cavanaugh become so homophobic. I wanted to believe our society was past this.
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by IncandescentGas 7mo ago
The counter-example, in classic MMO terms, is Ultima Online adding non-PVP game instances in response to player feedback. Without the dramatic threat of PVP conflict at most times, UO was less emotionally engaging. The non-PVP players were
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by IncandescentGas 8mo ago
Telco infra runs on autopilot?
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by IncandescentGas 8mo ago
Has none of the usual expected perks like rental car insurance or damage/theft protection on purchases. Guess purchase protection would be a threat to applecare revenue.
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by IncandescentGas 9mo ago
> if you read the manual (which I guess most kids didn't). Most kids did't read the manual? I would rtfm for every game I got my hands on during the car ride home from toysrus or blockbuster. If Mom had several errands to run,
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by IncandescentGas 10mo ago
Identifying the 1% of ai use cases that are useful and refusing to have your attention stolen by the 99% that is mild melting garbage will be the key ai skill for the ai future
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by IncandescentGas 10mo ago
I just got an invoice from ups to pay a $16 brokerage fee to jpmorgan for collecting a $0.60 tariff on a sticker included in a box with a custom keyboard shipped from Taiwan. Seems like wall street is making out better than the US on this a
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by IncandescentGas 1y ago
Would you consider renaming the note to contain a reference to the generated code? Such as "Thoughts on Hedgehogs.md" becomes "Thoughts on Hedgehogs [AB-99].md" This preserves your goal of having the system rightfully no
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by IncandescentGas 1y ago
The payment processors have been held criminally and civilly liable in court for processing payments for pornhub. I don't see how we can expect Visa/MC to not censor their customers, if we also intend to hold them criminally liabl
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by IncandescentGas 1y ago
RIP mst and thanks for all the fish. DBIx::Class and Catalyst are still a core part of how I pay the bills.
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by IncandescentGas 1y ago
Since the top comment seems to be judging the worthiness of this individual to work with databases after prison, for those considering working with or hiring someone with a criminal record, I'd beg you to consider: You're hiring t

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