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New comment by caymanjim in "Feds got warrants to use fake cell towers to hunt down Don Lemon's producer"

caymanjim — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:51:41 +0000

Should just ban paywalled links. Although it works fine for me.

New comment by caymanjim in "Automatic Transmission – a data-privacy study of connected vehicles"

caymanjim — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 04:21:16 +0000

This kind of automatic telemetry pisses me off, but disabling it is pointless since I'm driving around with my cellphone literally 100% of the time, and it collects and sells all the same data.

New comment by caymanjim in "Automatic Transmission – a data-privacy study of connected vehicles"

caymanjim — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 04:20:03 +0000

Has your car been on GrapheneOS? If not, I'm not sure what your point is.

New comment by caymanjim in "People hooked on vapes try a new way to quit: cigarettes"

caymanjim — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 21:20:59 +0000

A lifelong chain smoker will smoke a cigarette in 1-2 minutes and light up another. 3-5 minutes is a relaxed casual smoke. Cigarettes were modified a decade or so ago to ensure that they go out quickly if not actively smoked. It's not even possible anymore to keep a cigarette burning for long enough for it to take 10 minutes.

This is all pedantic. The point is that you can chain smoke quite a lot if you're dedicated. I've never met anyone who smoked more than two packs a day regularly or maybe three on a crazy night out of drinking and smoking. 4-5 is crazy.

New comment by caymanjim in "Typesafe-computer-use drives a Mac toward a goal for 1/50th of a cent per step"

caymanjim — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 10:05:23 +0000

You can produce good code and good projects with Claude doing all the work. This might even be an example of one, but the description on GitHub makes so little sense that I stopped reading before I figured out what it even does.

New comment by caymanjim in "Typesafe-computer-use drives a Mac toward a goal for 1/50th of a cent per step"

caymanjim — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 10:03:19 +0000

Just flag the post so it drops off the home page and loses audience.

New comment by caymanjim in "The first new cat species discovered in 100 years"

caymanjim — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 20:07:26 +0000

To add to the confusion, the genus is Leopardus. And leopards and jaguars are both Panthera.

New comment by caymanjim in "Cloudflare Quick Tunnels"

caymanjim — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 19:01:59 +0000

What kind of usage limits?

New comment by caymanjim in "AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran"

caymanjim — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:09:54 +0000

That's an absurd interpretation.

New comment by caymanjim in "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"

caymanjim — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 01:00:55 +0000

It's basically impossible to not engage with any corporate products at all. It's trivially-easy to not engage with specific corporate products. I don't engage with Twitter, because I won't sign up and that makes it useless to me. I'm not missing out on anything I care about.

New comment by caymanjim in "Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation"

caymanjim — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 16:01:16 +0000

If there's anything Flock does that Axon doesn't, it's only because Axon doesn't have people smart enough to do it yet. Once the funding shifts from Flock to Axon, they'll hire the people who can make it happen, especially if enough money shifts that they can pilfer the exact same engineers.

The police want the capability. Flock just happens to temporarily have the better technology.

New comment by caymanjim in "LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'"

caymanjim — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 16:54:19 +0000

Xfinity/Comcast does the same thing. By default, the router they provide has a separate WiFi network supporting their distributed WiFi service. It's only for their customers, and it's not an open no-password network, but I'm certain they would offer it to any company that paid for access. They also have WiFi APs on telephone poles to broaden coverage.

If you live in a dense city, there's a good chance you can reach an open network. When I lived in midtown Manhattan, there were around 500 SSIDs reachable from my apartment.

New comment by caymanjim in "LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'"

caymanjim — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 16:28:54 +0000

I'm not sure if any TVs currently do this, but they could connect to unsecured public WiFi without the user doing anything, if one were available with no password. Fortunately such networks aren't that common most places, but it's not a big leap from the sketchy things LG and other companies do. They could also put SIMs in them if they wanted. Again, I don't know that any do that, but I wouldn't put it past them. I'm not that paranoid, but I don't trust them to be up front and ethical.

A TV not on the Internet is basically worthless these days, unless you have a third-party streaming device like a Fire or Shield--and then you're just moving the trust point from the TV itself to the streaming device, and the same concerns exist. Do you trust Amazon any more than you trust LG?

New comment by caymanjim in "How Golden Is Silence, Actually?"

caymanjim — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 03:21:00 +0000

I can relate, but the problem here is that you shouldn't live in an apartment. I never will again, for all the reasons you outlined. It's unreasonable to expect quiet in apartments. People have different schedules, they're different ages, and some are just assholes.

New comment by caymanjim in "Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun"

caymanjim — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:06:23 +0000

The sun will destroy the earth long before it stops providing energy.

New comment by caymanjim in "A California aquifer may have crossed the point of no return"

caymanjim — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 06:43:07 +0000

They're not going to grow it if they can't sell it, nor are they going to grow it if the water stops being free. We shouldn't be growing alfalfa, for export, in the desert, with free water, and subsidizing the farmers on top of it to encourage even more of it.

It's nothing more than purchasing votes with tax dollars and limited natural resources.

New comment by caymanjim in "Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history"

caymanjim — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:19:20 +0000

It's not a typo. Although it's really more of a routine malapropism than an eggcorn, since it's nonsensical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn

New comment by caymanjim in "Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history"

caymanjim — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 03:22:50 +0000

It's an eggcorn for "layman's".

New comment by caymanjim in "Tacky men with ridiculous glasses want you to wear them too"

caymanjim — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 22:21:01 +0000

Tons of sites do that, because everyone who designs websites is a moron.

New comment by caymanjim in "Identity verification on Claude"

caymanjim — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 18:21:59 +0000

> to disambiguate the surprisingly rare case of two customers with the exact same name

I see you have an uncommon name.

My first+last are shared by about 20,000 people in the US. From 2005-2020 I was unable to check-in for airlines online or even at the kiosk at the airport. I had to wait on line for baggage check-in despite never checking a bag, and they'd take my ID into the back room and delay me for 15 minutes and whisper and glare at me the whole time. Thankfully I can finally fly like a normal person again.

When I worked at a large company, there were four other people with the same first name, middle initial, and last name.

There is nothing surprising or rare about two customers having the same name.