Hacker News: JAlexoid

New comment by JAlexoid in "iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max"

JAlexoid — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 03:19:38 +0000

If they can't keep up, that means that they're not using AI to do reviews

New comment by JAlexoid in "iPhone Duo"

JAlexoid — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 03:08:13 +0000

Starting Pixel 8(including 8a) the support window is 7y for those devices.

New comment by JAlexoid in "iPhone Duo"

JAlexoid — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:57:10 +0000

I had to upgrade my 2021 iPad 9gen to a newer model to actually make is reasonably usable.

So I am not sure about recent track record for Apple.

My 2021 Pixel 6 works well for my mother and is getting updates.

New comment by JAlexoid in "iPhone Duo"

JAlexoid — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:48:39 +0000

Have you never heard of this derogative term?

Plenty of arrogant Americans use that term

New comment by JAlexoid in "IBM Bob"

JAlexoid — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 19:00:40 +0000

If you put 90% of the electronics into the cartridge and the printer box is just a paper feeder - that's not exactly surprising.

New comment by JAlexoid in "IBM Bob"

JAlexoid — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:59:06 +0000

You couldn't, mostly because Bell Labs is owned by Nokia now.

New comment by JAlexoid in "Fastmail offers EU data region"

JAlexoid — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:33:12 +0000

Even being stored in EU doesn't preclude your data from being targeted by signals intelligence. Which is different than requiring US based companies to provide non-US data to American government.

Does fastmail have a US presence? If no - then they're not bound at all by US jurisdiction.

New comment by JAlexoid in "GNU Hurd News 2026-Q2"

JAlexoid — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:45:54 +0000

I agree. Operating systems have become too fast.

New comment by JAlexoid in "Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude"

JAlexoid — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:17:44 +0000

It reads like you're in favor of banning resale and lending(aka libraries) of books... because the authors aren't compensated.

There's such a thing as fair use and digitizing privately owned printed material is absolutely legal... including for corporations.

New comment by JAlexoid in "Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude"

JAlexoid — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:14:19 +0000

You seem to think that AI companies sell you content, which is false.

You get a service. The service is using their compute power to run a model and their scientists to build the model.

New comment by JAlexoid in "Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude"

JAlexoid — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:09:04 +0000

Long story short - publishing houses are venture capital firms.

Most of their investments fail miserably, but they only need one Google/Stephen King.

New comment by JAlexoid in "Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude"

JAlexoid — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:05:16 +0000

Since we're on the criminal side - what criminal statute would apply to Anthropic? And what criminal statutes were used for the cases we're supposed to compare to?

New comment by JAlexoid in "Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude"

JAlexoid — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:02:44 +0000

Infringement is a civil lawsuit, with financial punishment only.

New comment by JAlexoid in "Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude"

JAlexoid — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 05:58:44 +0000

Maybe because Anthropic isn't actively facilitating copyright infringement?..

New comment by JAlexoid in "Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude"

JAlexoid — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 05:54:48 +0000

I used to use the initial letters of a whole paragraph from Lord of The Rings as my password.

Some of us have a good enough memory.

New comment by JAlexoid in "Swedish court says Google is to pay $1.5B to Klarna in antitrust damages"

JAlexoid — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:15:41 +0000

You're not understanding this.

A company can create a new search engine and Google Search isn't obligated to even mention it.

The issue is when achieving market dominance and new service is integrated into the dominant product.

You clearly haven't been around long enough to have caught a lot of discussions on this topic over a decade ago.

New comment by JAlexoid in "Tidal AI Policy"

JAlexoid — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:01:55 +0000

We're talking about a layman. Not to mention that different genres have different quality of AI music.

I would easily recognize AI generated orchestra, while I can bet a lot of money that AI generated EDM is hard to distinguish from something created in a DAW

New comment by JAlexoid in "Tidal AI Policy"

JAlexoid — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:56:53 +0000

You're absolutely right.

They can just come up with a few thousand dollars per hour for a few hours per song. Everyone has a few thousand dollars just lying around

New comment by JAlexoid in "Tidal AI Policy"

JAlexoid — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:53:12 +0000

Because AI music can be still valuable.

People who like to write lyrics, but can't afford to pay a vocalist still deserve to get their art materialized and distributed.

New comment by JAlexoid in "Tidal AI Policy"

JAlexoid — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:22:30 +0000

We have a lot of pop-slop, now it's AI slop.

There's a reason why a few artists persist through the decades, while others just fade into obscurity.(think of how long Madonna, Cher have been around)