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New comment by charonn0 in "DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms"

charonn0 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:18:00 +0000

The "More" button changes to a "Stop" button when clicked.

New comment by charonn0 in "Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux"

charonn0 — Sun, 17 May 2026 00:08:51 +0000

And run the whole thing in DOSBox.

New comment by charonn0 in "Project Gutenberg – keeps getting better"

charonn0 — Fri, 15 May 2026 20:28:38 +0000

Seems like a case for HTTP 451 (Unavailable for Legal Reasons) rather than 404.

New comment by charonn0 in "Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired"

charonn0 — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:21:07 +0000

The company involved here is apparently based in Washington, DC, which has a "Ban the Box" ordinance that limits employment background checks for most kinds of jobs. And apparently DC's version of the law is particularly strict.

New comment by charonn0 in "Outlook on Windows silently scales your email by 1.5×"

charonn0 — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:47:54 +0000

I would blame the email over Outlook.

New comment by charonn0 in "Show HN: Hallucinopedia"

charonn0 — Thu, 07 May 2026 04:59:55 +0000

For some reason it fails to generate anything for me most of the time.

https://halupedia.com/shortest-hose-in-the-world [fail]

https://halupedia.com/new-england-rock-worm [fail]

https://halupedia.com/chronic-anaspepsis [fail]

https://halupedia.com/ancient-egyptian-algebra [OK]

New comment by charonn0 in "Waymo Drives Off with South Bay Man's Luggage"

charonn0 — Sun, 03 May 2026 01:28:58 +0000

OTOH, a free trip to the depot and back is actually more than you'd get from a traditional taxi service under the same circumstances.

New comment by charonn0 in "Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015)"

charonn0 — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:09:46 +0000

I'm the opposite: I'll take a centralized, strongly-typed registry over 'stringly' typed dotfiles scattered across the entire filesystem.

New comment by charonn0 in "Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?"

charonn0 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:25:37 +0000

Rather, I suspect viral copyleft is why this lawyer is focusing on the the GPL. It's the only(?) FOSS license that can force a proprietary codebase into the open.

New comment by charonn0 in "Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?"

charonn0 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:10:15 +0000

> It is totally infeasible for me to check every single GPL project on every code hosting platform to see if the code Claude etc produced is too similar.

I would say that choosing a tool that makes it infeasible doesn't actually excuse you from doing it.

New comment by charonn0 in "Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?"

charonn0 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:55:34 +0000

Is "learning" the correct term?

Or is it "plagiarism"?

New comment by charonn0 in "Who owns the code Claude Code wrote?"

charonn0 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:51:40 +0000

They probably focused on the GPL because of its viral copyleft features.

New comment by charonn0 in "Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)"

charonn0 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 03:23:23 +0000

Yeah, I thought the main character was a little too insistent about... repopulating. On the other hand, if we're feeling generous we might say the author was intentionally confronting the reader with what is only implied by the Biblical counterpart.

New comment by charonn0 in "Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)"

charonn0 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:58:09 +0000

If you enjoy this story, you might enjoy the short unpublished novel, "The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect"[1] by Roger Williams. A story where 1990's humans invent a 3-laws-compliant super AI that accidentally "ascends" humanity. We become as gods, or the Q Continuum, but remain a grievously savage child race. Not to spoil it, but the ending also has a broadly similar shape to The Last Question.

I say you might enjoy it, because this story has graphic depictions of deviant sex and gruesome violence, to a disturbing degree at points. But I argue that it's not gratuitous; it's the logical conclusion of Rule 34 being applied to the situation. Even so, you don't want to read this if you are sensitive to themes like rape, murder, incest or abuse.

[1]: https://archive.org/download/prime_intellect/prime_intellect...

New comment by charonn0 in "AI-Assisted Cognition Endangers Human Development"

charonn0 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:54:49 +0000

> they will be hearers of many things and will have learned nothing; they will appear to be omniscient and will generally know nothing; they will be tiresome company, having the show of wisdom without the reality.

This could be describing an internet argument where both parties google for expert articles that seem to support their point of view without really understanding anything about the subject.

New comment by charonn0 in "After 20 years I turned off Google Adsense for my websites (2025)"

charonn0 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:57:01 +0000

I find that 99% of ads are blocked simply by disabling Javascript. Does that suggest that disabling Javascript is unethical? Or does it suggest that those blocked advertisements were over-stepping the bounds of the implicit contract?

New comment by charonn0 in "The bot situation on the internet is worse than you could imagine"

charonn0 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:55:07 +0000

Hugged to death?

https://web.archive.org/web/20260329052632/https://gladeart....

New comment by charonn0 in "Wikipedia was in read-only mode following mass admin account compromise"

charonn0 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:09:30 +0000

That's a serious accusation. Can you elaborate? What is the name of the company? Why does the Wikimedia Foundation claim ownership? And if you're referring to the Wikimedia Foundation, then what do you mean by "shareholders"?

New comment by charonn0 in "Was Windows 1.0's lack of overlapping windows a legal or a technical matter?"

charonn0 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:16:25 +0000

I don't think regulations are the legal restrictions people are referring to, but rather private lawsuits.

New comment by charonn0 in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

charonn0 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 03:17:51 +0000

Maybe the OS could ship with preconfigured age-range based usergroups. When you add a new user you could simply add them to the appropriate usergroup.

>> useradd -G under13usergroup username