<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: ScoobleDoodle</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ScoobleDoodle</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:11:36 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=ScoobleDoodle" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "AI ruling prompts warnings from US lawyers: Your chats could be used against you"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They’re saying it’s equivalent to writing a letter to their attorney in an online (Google) doc.  Does that Google doc  fall under attorney client privilege?<p>If so, then does a Google doc for your attorney written with Google AI auto enabled have attorney client privilege?<p>If so, the AI chats for figuring out what you want to say to your attorney would seem to fall under the same category.  And so there is either a contradiction or an unintended widening of scope.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:52:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47779884</link><dc:creator>ScoobleDoodle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47779884</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47779884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you're a California constituent and inclined to take action you can find your California Assemblymember and Senator here ( <a href="https://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/" rel="nofollow">https://findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov/</a> ) to voice opposition to California bill A.B. 2047 "Firearms: 3-dimensional printing blocking technology."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:28:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47774362</link><dc:creator>ScoobleDoodle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47774362</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47774362</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I looked it up at <a href="https://cppa.ca.gov/data_broker_registry/" rel="nofollow">https://cppa.ca.gov/data_broker_registry/</a> and didn't find Flock / Flock Safety in that list of the currently registered 566 data brokers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:17:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47770105</link><dc:creator>ScoobleDoodle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47770105</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47770105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>PEBKAC: Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:15:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47740707</link><dc:creator>ScoobleDoodle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47740707</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47740707</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I feel seen :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 04:23:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736143</link><dc:creator>ScoobleDoodle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736143</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736143</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have a UPS with surge protection which I plug my computer into for this reason.  Do others do the same or use something else?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:00:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47370559</link><dc:creator>ScoobleDoodle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47370559</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47370559</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Right.  My current computer has Windows OS at the moment.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 03:00:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46930922</link><dc:creator>ScoobleDoodle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46930922</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46930922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "Germany: Amazon is not allowed to force customers to watch ads on Prime Video"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I paid the additional payment because I hate watching ads and wanted to watch some series without it.  Now Amazon Prime Video has made some ads show even while having this additional payment!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 05:51:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46309312</link><dc:creator>ScoobleDoodle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46309312</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46309312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm pointing out a definitional misunderstanding.  It's was a double negative misinterpreted as a single negative.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 21:48:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43787882</link><dc:creator>ScoobleDoodle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43787882</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43787882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>> Comply in a maximally obstructive way.<p>> Doesn't apply, the whole point is that the executive wants to obstruct things, and that's what we're talking about fighting against.<p>"Obstructive" in this scenario results in the organization keeping functioning effectively.  Obstructive of something destructive allows it to keep existing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 20:57:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43787401</link><dc:creator>ScoobleDoodle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43787401</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43787401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "Ask HN: Is Godaddy Running a Scam?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I look up potential domains from ICANN for fear of getting the domain sniped:  <a href="https://lookup.icann.org/en" rel="nofollow">https://lookup.icann.org/en</a><p>I'm not actually sure that they are not involved in sniping, or even that others are involved.  But it's my best bet on it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2025 01:02:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42968150</link><dc:creator>ScoobleDoodle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42968150</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42968150</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "Fraud, so much fraud"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Dunning Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities.<p>That is to say some of the incompetent are so incompetent they can’t distinguish between their incompetence and an actual expert.  This is exhibited very publicly in some contestants of the American Idol genre of shows.<p><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effec...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2024 17:34:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41681694</link><dc:creator>ScoobleDoodle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41681694</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41681694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "Apple Watch sleep apnea detection gets FDA approval"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’ve been using a CPAP for 15 years. A few items I had to adjust when getting that suffocating feeling a few times:<p>1. When getting a new CPAP I had to reduce the pressure from 15 to 14 or 13 to mitigate the suffocating feeling.  I still get my normal 0.5 events per hour while I’m use.  I also got a different type of mouth and nose mask which may have contributed to needing to adjust the pressure.<p>2. I was trying to mitigate the colder air being distracting by enabling the humidifier and tube heater.  With the humidifier level too high at 5 I got a suffocating feeling, reduced it down to 2 or 3 and the air was warmer while not feeling suffocating. 
3. I also turned off the dynamic pressure on breathe out as the timing felt off and would cause a hitch in breathing, so I have just plain constant pressure.<p>The name of the game is tweaking and experimenting.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 18:08:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41558801</link><dc:creator>ScoobleDoodle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41558801</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41558801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "Have Swiss scientists made a chocolate breakthrough?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I assumed the logo would be on the ones without child slavery.  Similar to the organic logo.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Aug 2024 14:28:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41367937</link><dc:creator>ScoobleDoodle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41367937</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41367937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "California sides with big utilities, trimming incentives for community solar"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Please decode your acronyms.  Thank you</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 01 Jun 2024 15:18:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40546450</link><dc:creator>ScoobleDoodle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40546450</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40546450</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "Food labels and the lies they tell us about ‘best before’ expiration dates (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No.  Absent additional information, the fresher is more likely to better with less opportunity and duration to be improperly stored.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2024 06:27:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40326394</link><dc:creator>ScoobleDoodle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40326394</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40326394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "The brutal business practices of Amazon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To add to your point: sometimes people point to the videos catching cops abusing their power and say “it’s just a few bad apples.”  They’ve been saying it for decades.  It turns out that is correct as the full saying is “a few bad apples spoil the bunch”.  Police departments don’t get rid of the bad apples, the bunch is spoiled and rotten.  So far gone that the few good cops who join and speak up are railroaded out.  Look at the Los Angeles CA police where there are different gangs within the police department.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2024 07:38:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40186783</link><dc:creator>ScoobleDoodle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40186783</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40186783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "The brutal business practices of Amazon"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Defund the police" doesn't mean what you think it means here.<p>It doesn't mean removing all funds from the police as the name implies.  It actually means reallocating funds from the police to trained professionals for appropriate situations.  Like having a government division that hires psychologist / mental health workers to respond to mental wellness checks.  Having mental health / homelessness services workers respond to calls about vagrants.  So instead of getting a boot to the teeth or death as seen in the news, those at risk groups and people get the directed help and support they need.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defund_the_police" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defund_the_police</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2024 20:52:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40174149</link><dc:creator>ScoobleDoodle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40174149</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40174149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "Apple's risky bet on CarPlay"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If I were to place a bet, I would bet on car manufacturers abandoning updates to the vehicle software far earlier than I desire, rather than maintaining it appropriately.  I’d also guess ads or other unwanted intrusions will be coupled with it.<p>I’d rather connect my phone, for which I’ll update the hardware 4+ times over the time I own my car, and get the corresponding OS and software updates yearly or more frequently.  Send that data to the car’s reliable and dumb screen(s) from my chosen phone and I’m in control and happier for it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 00:13:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40138913</link><dc:creator>ScoobleDoodle</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40138913</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40138913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ScoobleDoodle in "The purge of German science in 1933"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's an alternative as unfortunate as it may be of: how many years does each war move us forward.  Or how many years behind would we be without the war having occurred.</p>
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