Hacker News: cabaalis

New comment by cabaalis in "After 20 years I turned off Google Adsense for my websites (2025)"

cabaalis — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:22:11 +0000

It seems with AI models this space is ripe for on-domain ad sales as a SaaS. Just pay an invoice to "advertise here" Have an AI make sure the links adhere to content policies. Don't track visitors or charge per click. Just pay a fee and get the banner.

New comment by cabaalis in "Happy BuyNothing Day"

cabaalis — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 15:03:13 +0000

I feel the exact same way about Amazon lists and that's what I use them for. I wonder if that's why the "Add to List" button is somewhat hard to find, and if they regret the feature.

New comment by cabaalis in "Corporation for Public Broadcasting ceasing operations"

cabaalis — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 18:03:03 +0000

This. And to make it even better: every law should only be about one thing, just the thing it's meant to deal with, and nothing else.

New comment by cabaalis in "[dead]"

cabaalis — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 19:50:48 +0000

Slope's Game Room is a popular Youtube channel and he makes video game history documentaries and other content.

It appears he ran afoul of Google and is danger of losing his account because of content he is not responsible for.

He copied the chat logs of a scammer who had doxxed him. They are written in a language he does not speak or read. He intended to share them with a Spanish-speaking friend who can translate them properly for him. These were uploaded to his google drive account.

That text, which he did not write and cannot read, contained what Google considers against their content policy as hate speech, and has flagged DJ Slope for deletion and cut him off.

He is pleading for help from anyone who can get in contact with Google to help him in this matter.

New comment by cabaalis in "Voice acting in Space Quest V"

cabaalis — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 22:15:29 +0000

Since this is not commercial, how does it interact with California AB 2602?

New comment by cabaalis in "Bypassing airport security via SQL injection"

cabaalis — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 17:18:13 +0000

If anyone from there reads the parent, they should know they have created an atmosphere where the worry of possible prosecution over responsible disclosure has the potential to scare away the best minds in our country from picking at these systems.

That just means the best minds from other, potentially less friendly countries, will do the picking. I doubt they will responsibly disclose.

New comment by cabaalis in "How to Replace Your CPAP in Only 666 Days"

cabaalis — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 15:45:51 +0000

I also have experienced various delays related to my cpap machine. I wonder how much of this debacle is because people in the know knew that this was coming, and therefore intentionally delayed anything to do with cpaps.

New comment by cabaalis in "What happens when a school bans smartphones? A complete transformation"

cabaalis — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 15:56:44 +0000

I guess I date myself, but cell phones were banned in my high school because of a strong association at the time with drug dealers. A teacher seeing one was equivalent to seeing contraband.

New comment by cabaalis in "Scientists discover links between Alzheimer's disease and gut microbiota"

cabaalis — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 23:59:15 +0000

Wow. When someone is so well versed in a topic that everyone else has to use the world's most popular and advanced artificial intelligence to understand what they have just said. Bravo.

New comment by cabaalis in "AdNauseam: uBlock Origin fork silently clicking ads on behalf of users"

cabaalis — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 02:22:30 +0000

I think one should be careful using the term "click fraud" in this context. Someone who installs this extension doesn't in my mind qualify to be defrauding anyone. There is no contract in place, it isn't against the law to express interest in a product, and there's no technical controls being breached illegally as the browser is just sending a request to a server.

New comment by cabaalis in "Amazon doesn't 'employ' drivers, but hired firms to prevent them from unionizing"

cabaalis — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 02:00:03 +0000

I don't know about other states, but my state Tennessee and its counties do just this. I'd be willing to bet it's more common than not across the US. https://www.tn.gov/health/health-program-areas/localdepartme...

New comment by cabaalis in "Watch TV from the 90s and earlier"

cabaalis — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 18:10:09 +0000

I like plutotv for this purpose. Feels pretty close.

New comment by cabaalis in "StabilityAI cofounder says CEO tricked him into selling stake for $100"

cabaalis — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 20:40:36 +0000

Hanging onto stock from a company I co-founded a few years ago has caused me tons of stress because that company constantly files for tax extensions forcing me to do so as well.

I have other financial processes which rely upon timely processing of my completed tax filing, and every year it causes me trouble. So if something is thought to be worthless and about to fold, "just hang onto it" could cause a non-zero amount of headaches.

New comment by cabaalis in "Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI"

cabaalis — Tue, 16 May 2023 23:33:28 +0000

Sending this to my senator would just notify her of what company she should reach out to for a campaign contribution.

New comment by cabaalis in "My 20 year career is technical debt or deprecated"

cabaalis — Tue, 16 May 2023 03:28:27 +0000

I have found my doppleganger. The exact same technologies, progression, I even wrote a VIN scanning app for car dealers myself. My mind is blown.

New comment by cabaalis in "Show HN: ChatLLaMA – A ChatGPT style chatbot for Facebook's LLaMA"

cabaalis — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 12:55:56 +0000

I'm a newbie to this stuff, but I did manage to get Dalai Llama up and running with llama and alpaca 7B and 13B.

The results I get seem to be random spitouts of reddit or facebook posts. Very often it even says something like "Next Post >>" or has a timestamp of the post.

Is this using the same model? Is there some kind of tuning I have to do?

New comment by cabaalis in "Musk’s bid to start Neuralink human trials denied by FDA in 2022, report says"

cabaalis — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 14:38:30 +0000

Perhaps the way hn comments work. I read this page earlier this morning and all the comments were about how nobody wanted anything to do with Elon Musk. Now it is different.

New comment by cabaalis in "Temple Student Strike Turns Ugly as School Ends Some Tuition Aid"

cabaalis — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 23:47:35 +0000

Matching tshirts and signs for a decent sized group aren't cheap. I see stuff like this often in protests. Who pays?

New comment by cabaalis in "Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI"

cabaalis — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 22:47:51 +0000

Honestly, the "if you use edge" piece is what is disappointing to me. Did they also have to make a browser play with this stuff? I prefer Firefox.

Show HN: Base project structure for building a LOVE2d game with moonscript

cabaalis — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 14:37:01 +0000

I've been playing around recently again with game development, which requires creating lots of little toy projects.

I wanted to standardize my project structure and create a repeatable process for standing up a new LOVE2D app using Moonscript as the primary development language.

This project is a simple project structure and build task for visual studio code. Currently only tested on Windows.

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