Hacker News: PawgerZ

New comment by PawgerZ in "I deleted my social media accounts"

PawgerZ — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 16:12:29 +0000

I always forget that we're not quite the normal crowd here in Hacker News. I think I need to stop reading so many comments on this site. Trying to convince me that I'm a sociopath for posting my grandma's obituary on my timeline.

New comment by PawgerZ in "I deleted my social media accounts"

PawgerZ — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 16:06:19 +0000

> Posting it to social media, then thinking if whoever doesn’t contact you to… what? “Sorry for your loss”? “My condolences” … hurts your relationship with that person?

That's not what anyone said, you're out here fighting ghosts.

> And if someone doesn't reach out, it will hurt the relationship a little even if I'm not conscience of it because when I think of people who were there for me during a tough time, the friend who never knew my parent died wouldn't come to mind.

New comment by PawgerZ in "Firefox removes "do not track" feature support"

PawgerZ — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 14:37:22 +0000

No, it's not. It's more like an online bookstore mailing you a copy of a book for free. The only catch is that they also sent a book full of ads and directions that say: after every page of the book, look at an ad. Then, when I receive these, I don't even take the ad book out of the package, read the actual book, and send them both back.

You can imagine why Amazon never decided to go with this business model.

New comment by PawgerZ in "Bitcoin is over $100k"

PawgerZ — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:48:04 +0000

> the ones that have managed to take advantage of the massive financialization of the world

This group is further split into two kinds of people: Those who had an opportunity to take advantage of the massive financialization of the world, and those who weren't afforded that opportunity.

New comment by PawgerZ in "The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development"

PawgerZ — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 14:14:14 +0000

>I can second Vancouver, and will raise you any big city in the USA

I'll reraise you any decent size college town in the US as well.

Heck, I'm in Iowa and there's plenty of raves in the middle of nowhere here.

New comment by PawgerZ in "A change of heart regarding employee metrics"

PawgerZ — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 15:06:43 +0000

> Home office nudges towards isolation and lack of physical activity

You say this as if it's a fact, but with an extra 1-3 hours of my day freed up, it's a lot easier to get into the gym or visit my friends and family. Personally, I was more active and less isolated when I worked from home.

New comment by PawgerZ in "I attended Google's creator conversation event, and it turned into a funeral"

PawgerZ — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 16:47:40 +0000

First suggested "Trending" article:

Diddy Party Planner Reveals Freak Off Requirements

Yeah, I'm thinking you're right.

New comment by PawgerZ in "Hi Google, please stop pooping the bed: a desperate plea from the indie web"

PawgerZ — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 16:05:59 +0000

In my experience (American), the top 1-4 results are ads/sponsored links. Sometimes, very relevant to the search. Most of the time, not what I'm looking for.

I only use google search on my phone because I have a pixel, and the google searchbar is so well integrated into the launcher. If I don't like the results, I can just open a new tab and the default search is DuckDuckGo. Besides the ads, I'd say the searches are usually the same quality.

New comment by PawgerZ in "Buy payphones and retire"

PawgerZ — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 16:10:55 +0000

Rural Iowa here. I've seen them in populations as big as 30,000 (Mason City, Iowa for example)

New comment by PawgerZ in "Bitwarden SDK relicensed from proprietary to GPLv3"

PawgerZ — Fri, 25 Oct 2024 13:26:55 +0000

Bitwarden also stores authenticator keys for MFA and passkeys. The custom fields, notes section, and attachments are invaluable to me as well.

New comment by PawgerZ in "NetGuard – rootless Android outbound per-app OSS firewall, like LittleSnitch"

PawgerZ — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 16:20:45 +0000

I'm curious, how would looking at the Microsoft MFA app convince me that android apps aren't spying on me?

New comment by PawgerZ in "Parents take school to court after student punished for using AI"

PawgerZ — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 15:54:25 +0000

> I'm not sure I'd give the student a 0.

Completely agree with you on all of it, but, to let you know, sometimes there are school-wide policies on plagiarism that teachers have to follow. My highschool made teachers give an automatic 0 for any plagiarism.

New comment by PawgerZ in "Winamp deletes entire GitHub source code repo after a rocky few weeks"

PawgerZ — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 13:47:04 +0000

https://nitter.poast.org/Sn_darkmeta

New comment by PawgerZ in "Routine dental X-rays are not backed by evidence"

PawgerZ — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 15:11:01 +0000

Was this a PE owned vet clinic? They're much more common today and the practices have slowly become more predatory.

New comment by PawgerZ in "The new culture war is real vs. bogus"

PawgerZ — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 19:32:26 +0000

Decent idea but it will be circumvented with ai powered watermark removers. They already exist and will only get better as ai image generation gets better.

New comment by PawgerZ in "On 17th century "cocaine""

PawgerZ — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 14:16:56 +0000

https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/coca-and-cocaine-their-history...

Here are other printings as well, in case anyone else wants to pick up a copy.

New comment by PawgerZ in "Anime is eating the world"

PawgerZ — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 18:32:11 +0000

These articles from a16z with contributions from the writers of this article might shed some light on a16z's coming plans:

https://a16z.com/the-next-generation-pixar/

https://a16z.com/announcement/investing-in-pahdo-labs/

Podcast in December that covers some of this, too.

https://a16z.com/podcast/2024-big-ideas-voice-first-apps-ai-...

Looks like they want to capture the anime market and push AI Anime film/game combos.

New comment by PawgerZ in "Anime is eating the world"

PawgerZ — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 18:09:51 +0000

What do you mena you can't post comments? I see this jsut fine.

New comment by PawgerZ in "Telegram will now hand over phone number and IP for criminal suspects"

PawgerZ — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 15:57:08 +0000

That link states that they only have two data points tied to an account: time of account creation and time of last connection. Since phone numbers are used as the account identifier, law enforcement would need to supply the phone number for signal to look up the account, right?

Do you have any source for Signal supplying IP logs?

New comment by PawgerZ in "Comic Mono"

PawgerZ — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 15:09:43 +0000

I believe they mean similar to the fonts when you're learning the alphabet, not when you're learning to read. Like those books where you trace "A" ten times then "a" 10 times then "B" and so on.