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by coldpie 5d ago
> Unambiguously, a system where the only code that runs is code that you explicitly run is more secure. I don't think so? If I want to run a 3D modeling program and I download their executable and run it, it has access to everythin
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by coldpie 5d ago
Here's an extension I wrote to do the same idea, except it clicks the Hide link for each AI submission instead of just nuking the DOM node. This means when you load the front page again, HN will fill it in with articles from the 2nd p
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by coldpie 5d ago
I can't solve all of the world's problems, but I can solve the problem in front of me and share my solutions with others who have the same problem.
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by coldpie 5d ago
I maintain a simple browser extension to auto-hide AI news stories: https://github.com/ColdPie1/enough-ai-on-hn/ It just scans for keywords and clicks the Hide button. Doesn't catch everything, but cuts out
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by coldpie 5d ago
So, I kind of agree, but I don't know what a better solution looks like. Is it really better for users to download and run straight up executables with no security model? We tried that in the 90s and 2000s and it was pretty bad. We can
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by coldpie 7d ago
The comment I was replying to said: > I’d love a phone that was roughly normal iphone sized when unfolded but was a flip phone à la Motorola razrs in years gone by. So the Razr does seem pretty comparable to what they were requesting.
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by coldpie 7d ago
Have you looked at the new Motorola Razrs? They're great. 4" external display that is easy to use one-handed and can run any Android app (though some apps and websites struggle with a screen that small), and it unfolds into a ph
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by coldpie 7d ago
I think that's a poor analogy. I think the better comparison is it's 50% of the quality for 20% of the cost. Is that a win? I dunno.
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by coldpie 7d ago
I work at a significant computer security software vendor with 5-digits of employees. They provide AI tooling and training and encourage people to use it, but it's not like "use this or we will fire you and kill your children&quo
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by coldpie 8d ago
Partly it annoys me because the answer to the question "how do I protect myself?" is simply "don't connect it to wifi" and that's it. These rumors make it all complicated to answer when it's really not tha
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by coldpie 8d ago
I'm not.
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by coldpie 8d ago
I'm afraid I can't help you with your paranoia. TVs just simply don't do this. It would be trivial to prove if they did. There's plenty here to be upset about without making up stupid conspiracy theories.
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by coldpie 8d ago
> A real problem is that you might not even need to give these internet access. If your neighbor gives their TV internet access and it can establish a mesh connection then it might be able to exfiltrate data that way. No TV has ever been
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by coldpie 8d ago
> If I’m not mistaken there is the possibility for the tv to connect to public/open networks to send this stuff without you knowing. No, there is no evidence that any TV has ever done this. Please stop spreading this rumor.
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by coldpie 8d ago
> The fact they they can connect to Xfinity networks without consent is shocking too. For all those “just don’t connect the cable” responses, it still connects! No, it doesn't.
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by coldpie 8d ago
Please point me to the timestamp in that video that supports this claim: > reports of TVs and other devices automatically creating mesh networks. Your disconnected TV could talk to your neighbour's connected one.
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by coldpie 8d ago
It's a longstanding, and obviously false, rumor. It would be trivial to prove that these things connect to open wifi networks to phone home, but no one has ever proved that they do that, because they don't actually do that. It wo
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by coldpie 8d ago
Unless you have evidence, please stop spreading this rumor.
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by coldpie 9d ago
> Have you considered a posibility, that these voters just dont agree with your idea of what their best interests are? I mean, there's not really room for debate on it. Voting to take your money away from you and give it to people w
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by coldpie 9d ago
I just wanted to launch Notepad, dog.
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by coldpie 9d ago
IA is responsive. I had to cancel my donation earlier this year due to some financial circumstances and it was a quick and easy email. However I believe they have an easy cancel button if your donation is associated with an IA account, too.
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by coldpie 10d ago
I think they're just making a guitar player stereotype joke. As a guitar player myself, I thought it was funny.
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by coldpie 10d ago
The US Republican party has been inventing an increasingly elaborate alternate reality fiction in order to convince their voters to keep voting for policy positions that obviously work against those voters' own interests. One component
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by coldpie 11d ago
I'm also primarily a guitar player. I picked up a piano accordion earlier this year, and I'm wondering if I should've gotten a button accordion instead[1]. A linear piano layout is just hard to wrap my head around, hahah.
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by coldpie 11d ago
For folks wondering wtf is going on with the key layout, this is what's called an isomorphic ("same shape") layout. The idea is you can learn how to play a certain grouping of notes relative to each other, and then you can p
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by coldpie 11d ago
The US first amendment has nothing to do with what a private company chooses to host on their platform. That content is there because the users and owners of the platform want it to be there.
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by coldpie 12d ago
Given how severely that hard requirement restricts your available options, I'd suggest adapting to the USB-C audio world. No, it's not as nice as a headphone jack. But it is a relatively small con to just stick an adapter onto th
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by coldpie 14d ago
I've mostly stopped using the Internet to learn new things and have gone back to books from the library. The majority of technical books at the library were published pre-2020s and hopefully, publishing slop physically won't be pr
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by coldpie 16d ago
Agreed. But on the topic of antitrust specifically, Lina Khan was absolutely doing the work, and Biden 100% deserves credit for appointing her. He could've chosen some do-nothing loser like everyone before him did, but he chose Khan.
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by coldpie 16d ago
We had a glimpse of that antitrust future on the horizon with the previous admin. This spooked all the big tech weirdos so much that they put their weight behind the other guy and, well, they won. Antitrust is dead for another generation. Y

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