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Comcast Moves to Split in 2

MiscIdeaMaker99 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:07:04 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/comcast-nbcuniversal-sky-5dc27c2e6fe45eb78eae4336e025b4e2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48718816

Points: 18

# Comments: 1

New comment by MiscIdeaMaker99 in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

MiscIdeaMaker99 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:13:43 +0000

I don't know what you consider to be safe, but I assume you're talking about privacy and data retention.

You can pay someone like Ollama, which is US-based, which runs those models in their cloud. You can also download many/most of the models to run them locally on your own computer, although the performance depends entirely on your hardware capabilities.

Ollama has their own policies about privacy and data retention here:

https://ollama.com/privacy

That's just one third-party doing this, and there are many others.

New comment by MiscIdeaMaker99 in "GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits"

MiscIdeaMaker99 — Thu, 28 May 2026 23:08:28 +0000

The optics don't look good for Microsoft, but we don't know their side of the story.

New comment by MiscIdeaMaker99 in "The worst job interview I ever had"

MiscIdeaMaker99 — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:28:55 +0000

Same.

I left a really good job for a year, to go work for a company CEO'd by a buddy of mine. I had a bad, sinking feeling in my gut from the very beginning when In interviewed with my new boss (not my buddy). Sure enough, I fucking hated working for him, and quit after a year.

When I was leaving my old job, I remember rationalizing it to myself that I would regret not doing it if I didn't try. I have mixed feelings about that job -- not necessarily regret for taking it, but definitely some regrets for how things went down at the end.

With that being said, if I had turned down that job, I don't know if I would regret it now or not. Who's to say?

Anyway, I got my old job back, and lasted there for several more years. It's still the best place I ever worked.

New comment by MiscIdeaMaker99 in "The worst job interview I ever had"

MiscIdeaMaker99 — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:20:24 +0000

I remember having this interview with an HR person several years ago (like in the early 2010s) where she asked me all these vague, difficult to answer questions. None of them were technical, and I can't remember a single one of them now, but they reminded me of the vague questions we get from various IT audits.

<< insert "dodged a bullet" comment here >>

New comment by MiscIdeaMaker99 in "Tesla Wall Connector bootloader bypasses the firmware downgrade ratchet"

MiscIdeaMaker99 — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:11:23 +0000

I can confirm this. Our Model 3 doesn't charge as fast using a NEMA 14-50 plug connected via the Tesla-provided mobile charger.

When we moved to a new house, we bought a Tesla wall charger, and it indeed charges at higher amps, but I don't know if the extra speed has necessarily been worth it since we primarily charge the car overnight.

New comment by MiscIdeaMaker99 in "The Onion to Take over InfoWars"

MiscIdeaMaker99 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:55:33 +0000

And I'm _still_ laughing. LOL

New comment by MiscIdeaMaker99 in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

MiscIdeaMaker99 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:18:27 +0000

Since when was there ever a plan to disable IPv4 on the Internet? Just because IPv6 is around doesn't mean that IPv4 is going to go away.

New comment by MiscIdeaMaker99 in "Artemis II crew take 'spectacular' image of Earth"

MiscIdeaMaker99 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:19:24 +0000

What a gorgeous sight to behold!

New comment by MiscIdeaMaker99 in "Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)"

MiscIdeaMaker99 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:18:12 +0000

Where was that coal coming from?

New comment by MiscIdeaMaker99 in "Addressing Antigravity Bans and Reinstating Access"

MiscIdeaMaker99 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 15:36:38 +0000

I feel dumb. I've never heard of Antigravity until now.

New comment by MiscIdeaMaker99 in "A list of fun destinations for telnet"

MiscIdeaMaker99 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:33:29 +0000

BatMUD is the one I played a long time ago, and has been around for 35 years now. I honestly don't know how active it is these days.

https://www.bat.org

New comment by MiscIdeaMaker99 in "A list of fun destinations for telnet"

MiscIdeaMaker99 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 14:31:15 +0000

During the Summer of 1997, I stayed at my university and had a job at the computer lab in the basement of the library. We had four Windows 95 PCs, four Mac Quadras, and then tons of VT terminals. I specifically remember the one at the lab assistants desk being a VT-320. Anyway, it was enough for me to telnet to BatMUD. I got all the way up to level 32 or so (and made some friends!) before I stopped playing. Man, that was a great Summer. Well ... it was great until I got cheated on but that's a whole other story. :-p

New comment by MiscIdeaMaker99 in "YouTube Is Degraded"

MiscIdeaMaker99 — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 13:33:49 +0000

I just went to the site and started watching a video -- seems to be working for me, at least. YMMV

New comment by MiscIdeaMaker99 in "Apple Maps claims it's 29,905 miles away"

MiscIdeaMaker99 — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 14:07:45 +0000

Except this one is not on the windshield.

New comment by MiscIdeaMaker99 in "Apple Maps claims it's 29,905 miles away"

MiscIdeaMaker99 — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 14:07:21 +0000

Looks like a bug that I hope someone will have a fun time fixing.

New comment by MiscIdeaMaker99 in "What will enter the public domain in 2026?"

MiscIdeaMaker99 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 13:58:06 +0000

Which constitution would that be, again?

New comment by MiscIdeaMaker99 in "Show HN: I made a down detector for down detector"

MiscIdeaMaker99 — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 13:20:08 +0000

Maybe? Maybe not? It depends on the nature of the outage and how motivated their customers are to switch over to a new service.

New comment by MiscIdeaMaker99 in "Six months into tariffs, businesses have no idea how to price anything"

MiscIdeaMaker99 — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 11:25:10 +0000

Market forces will prevail.

New comment by MiscIdeaMaker99 in "Discord Is Threatening to Shutdown BotGhost"

MiscIdeaMaker99 — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 21:07:21 +0000

We definitely had bots on IRC in the 90s.