Hacker News: busko

New comment by busko in "We Will Not Be Divided"

busko — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:42:42 +0000

Yep, where does your trust lay now? It's been a minute of pretending it'll be okay.

New comment by busko in "How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?"

busko — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:14:53 +0000

I'm glad I upvoted. Your perspective and questions are valid, no matter the depth of conversation. You'd be surprised what fresh questions can do for a topic.

New comment by busko in "We Will Not Be Divided"

busko — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 07:50:28 +0000

You should definitely ask your local homeless veteran of their opinions of other forces. I highly doubt many will have anything but praise to express.

When these things done right you won't hear about it.

New comment by busko in "How do I cancel my ChatGPT subscription?"

busko — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 07:12:13 +0000

Upvoted because you were genuinely asking a question and don't deserve to be down voted for that.

New comment by busko in "We Will Not Be Divided"

busko — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 05:46:35 +0000

It's for people who want the context of what's going on here who have neither the time nor stupidity to be on X.

I presume you're on X so no offence to you directly.

New comment by busko in "We Will Not Be Divided"

busko — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 05:02:24 +0000

Exactly. Attracting talent is not the same as having talent.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/education...

You attract talent for the same reasons china attracts sales; at the cost of your very own rights.

Look at the towns suffering around data centres for a start. The rest of us are happy to pay for what you'll do to yourselves.

New comment by busko in "We Will Not Be Divided"

busko — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 04:58:56 +0000

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/education...

New comment by busko in "We Will Not Be Divided"

busko — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 04:46:17 +0000

Hoorah! shock and awe

New comment by busko in "We Will Not Be Divided"

busko — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 03:50:24 +0000

For those who don't use X:

https://xcancel.com/sama/status/2027578652477821175

New comment by busko in "We Will Not Be Divided"

busko — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 03:42:20 +0000

See here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47188473#47188709

They are very much not a part of the initiative. Their involvement is and will be non-existent. Unless of course, you want their lay staff to make some noise?

New comment by busko in "We Will Not Be Divided"

busko — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 03:05:19 +0000

I wouldn't call senior AI researchers / scientists laypersons. In fact in this sense politicians are laypersons.

There are already several comments here showing xAIs involvement. Please save clutter and read before posting.

New comment by busko in "Google workers seek 'red lines' on military A.I., echoing Anthropic"

busko — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 04:50:09 +0000

Piggybacking on deeply integrated information and connectivity within society that was marketed and adopted under the guise of trust and an ethos of not being evil is pathetic.

Build, train, develop and maintain an AI for military if needed. When a government is scared of individuals they've clearly lost their edge.

New comment by busko in "Google workers seek 'red lines' on military A.I., echoing Anthropic"

busko — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 04:43:56 +0000

Do you have any references for this? I'd like to know more.

New comment by busko in "This time is different"

busko — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 03:13:27 +0000

If you believe marketing hype, then that's exactly what it is... Hype.

If you speak to industry professionals and retain a healthy scepticism, you don't have to look far to find people that absolutely do not believe the marketing.

Quite frankly I like that advances in say quantum computing are publically announced. The hype around what that means for society and our view of the universe is probably where you want to put on that reserved scepticism hat.

Similarly smart glasses were and are a thing, but society is rightly apprehensive about the impact, so the hype has dropped off.

New comment by busko in "Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules"

busko — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 02:52:07 +0000

Why would they encourage more resource use, increasing their cost?

Gemini should have had it's own API key separate from their traditionally public facing API IDs (which they call keys) and API keys should default to being tightly scoped to their use case rather than being unrestricted.

Who cares if you have three API keys for three services.

Quite frankly putting any API information in things like url params or client side code just doesn't sit right with me. It breaks the norm in a way that could be, and is now security concern.

New comment by busko in "Cell Service for the Fairly Paranoid"

busko — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 01:06:27 +0000

Objectively, it gets even worse in regions where Google voice isn't available. The only options seem to be online SMS portals where a relatively small set of numbers are shared across many users.

If anyone knows of a good, secure VoIP provider outside of the US I'd be keen to hear about it.

New comment by busko in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

busko — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 22:58:53 +0000

Can confirm this internal joke/complaint. In hindsight, hearing it my first week or so should have been a strong red flag toward future frustrations, and the current state of some products.