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New comment by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 in "Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor"

A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 13:39:47 +0000

Thank you. I did need a good chuckle to start the day right.

New comment by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 in "The Dilbert Afterlife"

A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 13:23:04 +0000

^^;

Part of me knew a comment like this would show up. The trend itself is greater than Dilbert and not new, but it has certainly become more pronounced. What is interesting that while 'Dilbert empire' fell in the process for not accepting white inferiority, full blown resistance marketing market is taking ( or maybe has taken already ) shape fueled largely by highly polarized populace.

I am not looking forward to it, because it requires keeping abreast of currents I do not care for or even understand.

New comment by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 in "Scott Adams has died"

A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 20:13:51 +0000

<You posted a blog of some organization unhappy about the cuts. Not exactly a gold standard for unbiased opinions. YOu want to convince me? Do your own calculations. Show me your work. Show that you can think critically. Am I not seeing that now.

<< You jumped in with mumblings of some unspecified number of lost jobs and vague claims about said job losers demise and then one mean online comment to you.

So ... you can understand my perspective, but choose to minimize it. I guess its ok. At least you are honest about effectively saying 'anyone who complains about it is a loser'. I will admit that it does not sound like the best way to win hearts and minds, but what do I know.

I would like to say that you have achieved nothing by not convincing me, but you did manage to do something remarkable. You actually motivated me to vote for a republican this election cycle. I suppose I am no longer center.

New comment by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 in "Scott Adams has died"

A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:58:21 +0000

Note that you have not answered the question, which suggests you did not even do such a unremarkable thing as Adams.. Surely, you must feel shame for such a low expression of your potential.

New comment by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 in "Scott Adams has died"

A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:56:28 +0000

<< Those you would label "woke" are famously supporters of universal health care.
Here is a problem of sorts. Some of us happen to live in the real world. Our lives do not exactly depend on some imaginary future state we advocate for. As such, a threat to alter my habitat now is of bigger import as opposed to some potential future benefit. Can you understand that perspective?
And that is before I remember that 'your' ( quotation very much intended, because we both know it is not yours; you may not even know why you aligned with it ) side would not exactly be above, say, denying said universal healthcare to republicans..
<< No, wht you are doing is supporting an administration killing ~1,000,000 people << On the one hand ~1,000,000 deaths and on the other hand some people lost their jobs and you got a mean comment online?
Eh.. hyperbole will not get you far here. May I refer to you site FAQ? I can't tell if I am wasting my time with you or not.

New comment by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 in "Scott Adams has died"

A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 01:22:22 +0000

What exactly did you contribute to the experiment that is humanity?

New comment by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 in "Scott Adams has died"

A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 01:04:36 +0000

Sure. People only lost their jobs and what not ( which in US means.. well, slow, and without health insurance, likely unpleasant demise ). Totally different. On this very forum, I had someone tell me in a very subtle way that it is a good idea that I stay quiet if I know what is good to me. But pendulum swings. It always does. Only difference is,we are forcing people to live up to the world they have ushered in. I hope you said thank you, because wokeness got you to this very spot.

New comment by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 in "Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy"

A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:03:10 +0000

As meta as this comment is, I can't help but note that parent may simply be engaging in pattern recognition.

New comment by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 in "Social-MCP: new kind of social network"

A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 18:15:11 +0000

Oh, boy. As much as potential there is in this, it could be so massively abused as well. Then again, how would that be any different from current distributed hellscape for human to human relationships?

Microsoft Windows Media Player stops serving up CD album info

A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 18:13:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/09/microsoft_windows_media_player_forgets/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46578041

Points: 14

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New comment by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 in "Think of Pavlov"

A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:41:18 +0000

Agreed. Naturally, we don't always know which event is a one off ( it used to be easier prior to proliferation of internet and then cell phones ). This likely explains some of the overcorrection I see in this area as a result. I am constantly on guard in public and if someone pulls a cell to record me, I am immediately defensive.
I guess what I am saying is that it is harder to assume it is not the type of event where we don't have to 'condition' people.

New comment by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 in "Health care data breach affects over 600k patients, Illinois agency says"

A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 05:54:31 +0000

It is difficult to read this. On the one hand, for a good chunk of the population that is true and yet, one knows that is absolutely not true to individuals, who will be affected.
Since I do have multiple breaches under my belt, I could offer you an anecdote, but I won't. Do you know why? Because it is not up to me to quantify harm that was done the same way I don't have to explain, to a reasonable person, why doxxing people is not something people should have to suffer through.
I have a personal theory as to why that state persists. The quantifiable harm is small per individual affected, but high across the population and thus underreported. Sadly, the entities that could confirm that are not exactly incentivized to say they are causing harm to begin with..

New comment by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 in "Health care data breach affects over 600k patients, Illinois agency says"

A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 05:46:02 +0000

<< generally making your life a misery unless you make a lot of money.
Wait.. are you saying that we are currently living through the best of all worlds version of things?

New comment by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 in "Show HN: A website that auctions itself daily"

A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 05:40:28 +0000

I am sure that there will be detractors, who will tell you that it has been done before ( and in a sense, it is true; nihil novi and all that ). That said, this is done in a way that moves a little closer to that fascinating reality present in 'transmetropolitan' graphic novels, where things online are in near constant flux. Kudos.

New comment by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 in "Quake Brutalist Jam III"

A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 12:06:57 +0000

Ok. This is awesome. Thank you.

New comment by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 in "Do not mistake a resilient global economy for populist success"

A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 12:02:47 +0000

<< Do not mistake global economic resilience for a triumph by the likes of Mr Trump.
You know.. it is a little hard to take legacy media seriously if the reporting they do amounts to:
'economy is working, but it is not thanks to ANYTHING Trump does'
Give him some credit; try to make it believable.

New comment by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 in "US Job Openings Decline to Lowest Level in More Than a Year"

A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:34:18 +0000

<< but the failure rate for AI is absurd right now.
I keep a personal log of specific failures for simple CYA reasons. I do get some, but I can't honestly say it does not seem high to me. A lot likely depends on what is defined as a failure ( to me it typically is a clearly wrong result ). But those clearly wrong results do not seem to cross 10% of output.. so about the same as average human.

New comment by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 in "Health care data breach affects over 600k patients, Illinois agency says"

A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:30:37 +0000

Heh. The shareable map is operated by someone and that someone has information that other people crowdsourced for them for free is even more valuable. If you want a more relatable example, I would like to point to defuct effort ( karma or something.. I can't find the specifics now ), where people were invited to crowdsource all sorts of info on other people. It only got shut down, because it was too on the nose. On the other hand, items like the shareable map like the one you mention is more easily defensible...
<< I get that data brokers and big tech are a much sexier topic, but this breach - like so many of the most pressing threats to our privacy - are mundane shortages of competence and giving-a-shit in the IT activities of boring old organizations.
I posit that both could be true at the same time.

New comment by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 in "US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes"

A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:21:52 +0000

<< A healthy economy is geared towards creating an added value.
I am trying to read this charitably, but it is hard to read as anything but: 'landlords do not add value'.

New comment by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 in "Health care data breach affects over 600k patients, Illinois agency says"

A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:05:04 +0000

Assuming your tea leaf reading is correct, that particular third party would not even exist in its current form without 'data broker ecosystem'. It is, genuinely, the original sin.