Hacker News: compass_copium

New comment by compass_copium in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

compass_copium — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:12:02 +0000

Solidarity. Cars belong in the rubbish bin of history. The Soviet Union had the right idea, as usual--make cars unbearable to drive to encourage public transportation.

New comment by compass_copium in "30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech"

compass_copium — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 22:26:55 +0000

Imagine a Democratic president with a spine like that.

New comment by compass_copium in "Ending respiratory infections"

compass_copium — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 10:02:06 +0000

There are already people dying of malnutrition, preventable disease, etc. in the third world. Half a billion dollars could do a lot of good there, instead of going towards a pipe dream to make sure people never have to miss work for the flu again.

New comment by compass_copium in "Petition against Meta's employee training data collection for ML models"

compass_copium — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 03:07:49 +0000

I guess man. This kind of doesn't apply to workers who are enabling the bourgeoisie state (cops, programmers making systems to feed data to the NSA, etc.)

New comment by compass_copium in "Petition against Meta's employee training data collection for ML models"

compass_copium — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 03:05:00 +0000

...it's the intrinsic nature of the programmer to have no scruples and work for the shittiest company that can employ them because it offers a big paycheck?

New comment by compass_copium in "Show HN: Are You in the Weights?"

compass_copium — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 02:12:54 +0000

My wife tried it with her longest-running handle and it got social media right, but said she was on TikTok and Instagram (both wrong, just old Twitter). It's an interesting mix of truth and hallucination.

New comment by compass_copium in "Show HN: Are You in the Weights?"

compass_copium — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 02:00:20 +0000

I tried both of my long-lived social media (Xanga, LJ, MySpace era) handles from my teen and early twenties years (I mostly use disposable handles now). I've deleted a decent chunk of those postings, but they were both recognized (top 25% on both), although for the wrong reasons (never a Minecraft Twitchstreamer, but I did have a Minecraft account with the handle name).

Really odd feeling to think that my writings from that period are helping these things. Not necessarily happy about it--I took that stuff down because it was so deeply personal, and a record of my life that didn't need to be public. Odd to think my teenage angst is, in some small way, writing the AI-generated e-mails I get now.

New comment by compass_copium in "Midjourney Medical"

compass_copium — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:30:30 +0000

From what I've read, full body scans are awful for this--your body forms and kills tumors all the time. The false positive rate is ridiculous.

New comment by compass_copium in "US and Iran announce deal to end military operations"

compass_copium — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:49:49 +0000

Yes, the war was an obvious strategic blunder and (more importantly) an immoral and unjust invasion that should never have happened.

New comment by compass_copium in "US and Iran announce deal to end military operations"

compass_copium — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 23:24:54 +0000

From Al Jazeera:

>According to remarks carried by the Tasnim news agency, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Kazem Gharibabadi said negotiations for a final deal will be held during a 60-day period, after verifying that the US implemented its commitments under the deal, including ending hostilities, lifting the blockade, and releasing frozen assets.

So, it's an even worse position for the US than before launching the war.

New comment by compass_copium in "GrapheneOS Speech Services version 2 released"

compass_copium — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:26:20 +0000

OsmAnd~ had voice navigation for me today, whereas it never has before. It could be something else I did tho.

New comment by compass_copium in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

compass_copium — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:59:43 +0000

Discussing things with colleagues is also how you build collaborative networks. I'm trying to get out of the habit of searching for all information myself and engaging in more discussions with coworkers. I'm perfectly capable of searching information out myself. If I'm asking a question, it's a sign of respect, and shows that I am interested in the person's experience with the topic, and in nuance and context. I want to learn from them. If you offload the answer to AI, it's disrespectful to yourself more than anything--you don't even value your own expertise!

New comment by compass_copium in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

compass_copium — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:48:35 +0000

It's more like asking someone to use a toilet when they have a perfectly good set of pants they're wearing, already on them. Thinking is what makes you human, don't give it up so easily.

New comment by compass_copium in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

compass_copium — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:47:00 +0000

The sabot of the AI era. Love it.

New comment by compass_copium in "That Methyl Methacrylate Tank"

compass_copium — Wed, 27 May 2026 00:06:30 +0000

Correct, PMMA is completely harmless. MMA is an incredibly common adhesive, and is in probably a dozen things in the room you are sitting in in its polymerized form.

New comment by compass_copium in "Nearly half (44%) of every T-shirt goes to waste before you even buy it"

compass_copium — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:52:35 +0000

I would be interested to know how much of that is scrap from cutting out patterns. That should be very easy to recycle, I'd think.

New comment by compass_copium in "California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash"

compass_copium — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:16:48 +0000

I had a teen whose main device was an iPad 4ish years ago and now a tween whose main device is a Windows laptop. I like Windows' implementation better--it's more granular when it comes to site access on Edge, and allows time limits in specific programs rather than categories of apps. I remember some apps that were clearly games had themselves listed as education apps.

New comment by compass_copium in "FBI director's Based Apparel site has been spotted hosting a 'ClickFix' attack"

compass_copium — Sat, 23 May 2026 15:26:59 +0000

If you're getting profits, it's an avenue for bribery.

"Hey Ka$h, can we have a quick discussion about my federal racketeering case? Btw I just purchased 10000 $40 shirts from your store to give away."

New comment by compass_copium in "FBI director's Based Apparel site has been spotted hosting a 'ClickFix' attack"

compass_copium — Sat, 23 May 2026 11:05:51 +0000

I disagree. I think the caliber of public employee, and their integrity, would be much higher if they were "only" allowed to collect their salary.

No state employee would be allowed to run a business like this while employed where I live (sapphire-blue New England state FWIW). Government positions are fairly, but not extravagantly, compensated, prestigious and come with excellent benefits. They should not be an avenue for accumulation of riches. It clearly does not work well and we're not getting the country's best.

New comment by compass_copium in "I found ultra-pure quantum crystals in an abandoned mine in the Atacama desert"

compass_copium — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:44:14 +0000

These systems aren't in place by accident. The US doesn't typically purchase roasted coffee beans or chocolate bars from South America either.