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It's the same as how by "we will prevent teenagers from using social networks" they mean "we really want to connect everyones ID with their social account identity".

Oh wow, that's a pretty strong request to ban open-weight models by choking them with review processes where who-knows-who defines what is ok in a model and what is not. After open…

Work induced brain damage... ;)

With this level of spying it becomes important to learn to use technologies that are outside of this system that people on HN usually laugh at. Tor, VPNs, Bitcoin, Bitchat, Nostr b…

One option is to use Obscura, so then you at least spread the trust to two parties (one of which is Mullvad). Not great, but better.

It's stupid when one of the CEOs of a private VPN company decides to fund political actors. That's just PR issue bound to happen. Funding bad actors bites you every single time - s…

I just asked gemini the question with sim number and it gives me full step by step guide.

That's not true. Most money laundering is in USD and then stablecoins (USDT, etc). NFTs are a thing of the past and the big majority was not on bitcoin anyway. So no, bitcoin is no…

I like DOSBox pure, because that allows you to put the full games into a single zip file and so you then essentially have the equivalent of per-game file on consoles.

I want to do that. Last week there was an article from a person that vibed their whole system in assembly and it was super fast and it did exactly what the person wanted and nothin…

This will probably finally push me to migrate away from Bitwarden. Somehow over the years the UI was getting worse and worse too. It's more steps to add custom hidden fields than i…

I could do some cool backups with this bad boy.

I ... now want to read this book.

Some retrogaming devices have multi-boot options where you can pick between android and linux (e.g. Anbernic RG353V).

In case of error you talk to the seller, if they are reasonable and care about their reputation, they pay you back (e.g. the Square seller devices have options for this). If they d…

It's also couple percent cheaper to send money internationally using bitcoin as the "rails" when compared to e.g. Wise. Even for sending money from classical bank in one country to…

Allen Farrington makes a solid case in this essay [1] about deflation being the more effective mode of economy. [1]: http://x.com/i/article/2045147796752175104

I think it depends if you pay them money. If you do, then you should indeed have strong expectations towards them and hold them accountable. If they provide a free service to you, …

I think Midnight Commander is still the most advanced TUI there is. It has so many hidden capabilities that you may not even know about. You can be connected over ssh to another co…

I think the effects of how the services operate in the background are observable by the real users at some point. Unfortunately it's often too late do something about it. You get h…

I'll get the usual hate for this, but in this instance using bitcoin is safer, since it forces you to verify the transaction on your phone (i.e. you use your phone to pay - either …

So there are people sitting in cubicles in various companies/orgs that flock sells the access to and they are watching your children on a screen. Usually the government is trying t…

Very cool. It's great seeing non AI "low quality" videos that are just plain fun.