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Re: Show HN: Are You in the Weights?

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Post by numpad0 »

urbnspacecowboy wrote: post #91

1. No way in heaven or earth I'm using my real name with this. 2. Alfred E. Neuman https://www.intheweights.com/p/alfred-e~2e~-neuman > is either "Mad magazine mascot" (11 responses), or "German-American writer, novelist, and playwright" (1 response, from Llama 3.2 1B, classed as a hallucination). Maybe the odd one out means the German writer Alfred Neumann? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Neumann_(writer) > 3.…

  > 3. Tamamo-no-Mae
  > either a "Caster-class Servant" or the "Legendary fox spirit"
KanColle moment

Re: Show HN: Are You in the Weights?

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Post by HerbManic »

keiferski wrote: post #152

Apparently according to Gemini, I, the only person in the world with my name (unique first name + long complex last name) am a professional soccer player. Yeah, be careful with answers you get from AIs.

Yep apparently I am a German author, I am not. Further searching and I could not find anyone else with my name.

Re: Show HN: Are You in the Weights?

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Post by djmips »

fullstackchris wrote: post #147
dgacmu wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From one person who's completely not-anonymous on HN to another: Why? Do you worry about the association of your IP address with your real name by yet another site other than any place you've made purchases from or signed up for an account from? (I'm asking seriously, as I can see some risk to having that linkage more public, but given the rate with which services holding PII are compromised and my own personal rate…

I think its guys just who don't really understand how the internet works. I'm flabbergasted that its 2026 and I still see the "oh no my IP" trope. If you're worried about it use a VPN. Your ISP anyway knows your IP or at the very least your current one if its dynamic.

People who blur their car license plates - when you can go to their social media profile and usually geolocate them down to a street address.

Re: Show HN: Are You in the Weights?

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Post by lbreakjai »

keiferski wrote: post #152

Apparently according to Gemini, I, the only person in the world with my name (unique first name + long complex last name) am a professional soccer player. Yeah, be careful with answers you get from AIs.

I'm apparently a former professional soccer player too, but I can't find my alter-ego anywhere using the classic search engines.

Interestingly, the only other person with my (very french) first name and (very spanish) surname is also a software engineer, but in Côte d'Ivoire. What were the odds?

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