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New comment by cholmdomsky in "The Egg Bandits Made a Thousand Times the Fine They Just Paid for Price Fixing"

cholmdomsky — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:17:54 +0000

How do you respond when others use that information to instead assert "well of course they're incarcerated at a higher rate; they commit more, and worse crimes than -we- do!"

New comment by cholmdomsky in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

cholmdomsky — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 03:13:54 +0000

Jfc, this is a solved problem at the community college near me. All of the computers in the testing room are thin clients that effectively remote into a vm, and you get checked with a metal detector before going into the room with the computers.

If you can escape the vm on the fly and manage to use an llm to cheat, you deserve that A.

New comment by cholmdomsky in "IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet"

cholmdomsky — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 01:28:21 +0000

Lazy manufacturers and ignorant users are responsible for the existence of those unsecured devices. Assholes and criminals are responsible for accessing, recording, and distributing the output of those unsecured devices.

New comment by cholmdomsky in "The US Army Issued Ocarinas to Soldiers in World War II"

cholmdomsky — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 17:35:26 +0000

My first thought

New comment by cholmdomsky in "The dead economy theory"

cholmdomsky — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:21:39 +0000

Gotta feed both, so...

New comment by cholmdomsky in "Hengefinder: Finding when the sun aligns with your street"

cholmdomsky — Sun, 24 May 2026 02:41:49 +0000

Seriously. Plus, what is the problem that some websites are 'fixing' by denying me a choice in how the website loads?

New comment by cholmdomsky in "Why most product tours get skipped"

cholmdomsky — Wed, 06 May 2026 01:45:43 +0000

I'm fairly certain that exact thing existed on Windows XP and earlier. It was a question mark in the top right of the window, added a "?" next to your cursor. You could then click elements to see if there happened to be an explanation embedded in the program for that particular button/box/whatever. Didn't always work, but was useful when it was needed.

New comment by cholmdomsky in "4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor"

cholmdomsky — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 01:49:39 +0000

That makes a lot of sense to me, thank you. I was probably projecting a lot of my own fears and feelings into the interpretation of a lot of what some of my courses are trying to teach me.

New comment by cholmdomsky in "4TB of voice samples just stolen from 40k AI contractors at Mercor"

cholmdomsky — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:19:41 +0000

I'm taking some college courses, and one of them explicitly suggests to keep maybe-not-okay communications off of email so that "you don't expose your company to risks of litigation."

Ah, I see. So, when discussing ways to ensure cuatomers cannot utilize our warranty process, I'll make sure to do so in ways that are not traceable and won't show up in discovery.