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New comment by bifrost in "My falling-out with the rationalist community"

bifrost — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 03:33:55 +0000

Oh man I love this:

"Part of the reason why I hesitated for so long is that the rationalist movement has brilliant marketing: if you speak against the ideology, it sounds like you’re siding with irrationality."

So many "things" where its "we're the good guys club and if you're not in our club you're the bad guy".

New comment by bifrost in "EFF is leaving X"

bifrost — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:52:54 +0000

Age verification is a great example. We've seen what Alec Muffett has been doing around this and its telling that the EFF is doing basically nothing.

New comment by bifrost in "EFF is leaving X"

bifrost — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:48:37 +0000

When they supported the legislation called "Net Neutrality" which attempted to supplant the concept of actual net neutrality with some quasi government control of the internet. It would've enabled massive censorship on the internet, something that we've seen is a very very bad thing.

New comment by bifrost in "EFF is leaving X"

bifrost — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:46:31 +0000

Yep, great example.

New comment by bifrost in "EFF is leaving X"

bifrost — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:08:26 +0000

It was over for me when the EFF advanced the charge of government censorship of the internet. The EFF had previously been a client of mine so I was somewhat familiar with how things worked and basically once Gilmore was out, it went downhill.

They did a lot of good work (much like the ACLU) but they are now honestly unrecognizable.

My old company donated around $3k/mo of services for almost a decade which in the grand scheme of things isn't a lot but we kept them online when other ISPs would've shut them off.

I've ceased donating to them and the ACLU because they no longer stand for freedom on or off the internet. My money now goes to groups that actively pursue the government for violating our constitutional rights.

New comment by bifrost in "OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly"

bifrost — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 17:14:17 +0000

Its worth it to practice people skills. Maybe try signing up for public speaking classes or some other form of story telling?

New comment by bifrost in "Proxy Please: Help People Connect to Signal"

bifrost — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 01:47:32 +0000

I'm absolutely not installing Windows either. I need a tarball or git repo...

New comment by bifrost in "Proxy Please: Help People Connect to Signal"

bifrost — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 23:08:46 +0000

Is there a non-docker version of this? I looked around and it seems like no. I'm not installing Linux to run this.

New comment by bifrost in "HE.net problem"

bifrost — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 20:43:48 +0000

Because they run their own DNS servers and inside of their network they're going to be using their own infra...

New comment by bifrost in "HE.net problem"

bifrost — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 20:36:22 +0000

HE participates in NANOG, what are you even talking about.

New comment by bifrost in "HE.net problem"

bifrost — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 20:34:44 +0000

Its not really going to affect their services, maybe email in/out of it but thats about it.

NetSol should've done better though, this makes them look like clowns.

New comment by bifrost in "HE.net problem"

bifrost — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 20:29:55 +0000

It would not.

New comment by bifrost in "Dark fibre"

bifrost — Sat, 15 Jun 2024 01:16:26 +0000

This post is a great way to show who doesn't understand L1 topologies lol.

New comment by bifrost in "1 in 4 U.S. Teachers Say AI Tools Do More Harm Than Good in K-12 Education"

bifrost — Fri, 31 May 2024 01:12:49 +0000

The article comes off as mostly clickbait TBH. I live in San Francisco, our school system here stinks.

I'd say about 25% of the teachers at my kid's school are incompetent so that kinda lines up with 1:4 saying "technology bad". It took the pandemic for the school system to come 20 years into the future technology wise and they're still at least 15 years behind.

I honestly wouldn't trust a teacher to tell me what the future should be or if something is good or bad...

New comment by bifrost in "VC Says Half of Google Staff Do 'No Real Work'"

bifrost — Mon, 06 May 2024 21:04:57 +0000

I've heard this from a lot of ex googlers, its not a huge surprise.

Google hired a bunch of people to keep them out of the hands of others. Those people now sit around and write papers on useless topics...

New comment by bifrost in "VC Says Half of Google Staff Do 'No Real Work'"

bifrost — Mon, 06 May 2024 21:02:26 +0000

He built OpenDNS and exited it, he was pretty technical when I met him.

I suspect he doesn't have to work and does so anyways...

New comment by bifrost in "People with gas and propane stoves breathe more unhealthy nitrogen dioxide"

bifrost — Mon, 06 May 2024 19:18:36 +0000

It has 3kwh and the stove costs $6k + installation. Based on their specs thats less than an hour.

Gas stovetop costs $400 and just works.

New comment by bifrost in "People with gas and propane stoves breathe more unhealthy nitrogen dioxide"

bifrost — Mon, 06 May 2024 19:16:31 +0000

Ever seen an electrical fire? Nasty business.

It'd cost me $20k to install an induction stove, not buying it.

I lose power in SF 3-4 times a year, have never lost gas. Last power outage I cooked with gas and it was great. I have gas heat too, always works.

New comment by bifrost in "People with gas and propane stoves breathe more unhealthy nitrogen dioxide"

bifrost — Mon, 06 May 2024 19:11:08 +0000

uh, yeah, they did.

Do you not cook or something?

New Antenna Uses Saltwater and Plastic to Steer Radio Beams

bifrost — Sun, 05 May 2024 06:35:13 +0000

Article URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/new-antenna-uses-saltwater-to-achieve-multiple-beamsteering-states

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40262731

Points: 2

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