Hacker News: cuckatoo

New comment by cuckatoo in "Compression efficiency with shared dictionaries in Chrome"

cuckatoo — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 18:03:08 +0000

What stands out to me is that this creates another 'key' that the browser sends on every request which can be fingerprinted or tracked by the server.

I do not want my browser sending anything that looks like it could be used to uniquely identify me. Ever.

I want every request my browser makes to look like any other request made by another user's browser. I understand that this is what Google doesn't want but why can't they just be honest about it? Why come up with these elaborate lies?

Now to limit tracking exposure, in addition to running the AutoCookieDelete extension I'll have to go find some AutoDictionaryDelete extension to go with it. Boy am I glad the internet is getting better every day.

New comment by cuckatoo in "President Biden Issues Executive Order to Protect Americans' Data"

cuckatoo — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 15:07:31 +0000

> to protect Americans’ sensitive personal data from exploitation by countries of concern

When does America classify itself as a country of concern? I'd personally much rather have my data exfiltrated to China where it can't be used against me as easily.

New comment by cuckatoo in "U.S. says to investigate national security data risks from Chinese vehicles"

cuckatoo — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 18:22:20 +0000

"National security data risk" is a funny way of saying "risk to the profits of the domestic car companies." If it was about spying it'd broadly apply to all vehicles and not just those imported.

And what about the other non-Chinese foreign automakers. Are they not also spying?

New comment by cuckatoo in "Why Google's 'woke' AI problem won't be an easy fix"

cuckatoo — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 17:15:37 +0000

It's fascinating seeing the "problems" that humans can invent

New comment by cuckatoo in "Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu"

cuckatoo — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 00:00:52 +0000

I was not aware that Yuzu worked well enough to be worth suing over. Thanks for the tip.

New comment by cuckatoo in "Social Media First Amendment Cases"

cuckatoo — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 15:59:03 +0000

Do we need to protect the social media platforms? Do they even add value to society?

New comment by cuckatoo in "Mistral Large"

cuckatoo — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 16:18:33 +0000

Maybe a requirement set by MSFT in their latest "partnership"

New comment by cuckatoo in "Microsoft strikes deal with Mistral in push beyond OpenAI"

cuckatoo — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 16:06:50 +0000

This is just another play to give out more Azure credits to anyone that can feasibly consume them. Azure credits show up as unearned revenue on their SEC filings where they state that they "expect to recognize approximately 45% of this revenue over the next 12 months and the remainder thereafter".

It's wild that you can give out gift cards that make your company's value go up so much more than the gift cards could ever cost you. It's almost like one of those financial schemes that end badly.

New comment by cuckatoo in "Microsoft strikes deal with Mistral in push beyond OpenAI"

cuckatoo — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 16:03:03 +0000

MSFT needs companies like OpenAI to give Azure credits to for their valuation to continue soaring. The deferred revenue on their balance sheet from the unspent Azure credits they give as investment are worth much more to their market cap than $80B.

New comment by cuckatoo in "Submarine cables cut in the Red Sea.Authorities looking at potential terrorism"

cuckatoo — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 03:09:44 +0000

Anything can be terrorism if it is politically beneficial. This is 2024, after all.

New comment by cuckatoo in "U.S. to invest billions to replace China-made cranes at nation's ports"

cuckatoo — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 13:44:57 +0000

Very American. Just swipe the card and toss the statement in the bin when it comes in the post later. National debt? What's that?

New comment by cuckatoo in "Stable Diffusion 3"

cuckatoo — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 14:15:06 +0000

NSFW fine tune when? Or will "safety" win this time?

New comment by cuckatoo in "Big media publishers are inundating the web with subpar product recommendations"

cuckatoo — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 01:06:25 +0000

> This occurs when a moderator in the subreddit has manually approved the comment.

If you are a reddit mod and not getting paid in 2024 you're doing it wrong.

New comment by cuckatoo in "Reddit signs $60M content licensing deal with AI company"

cuckatoo — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 14:58:25 +0000

They could've saved themselves $60M by just downloading the torrent of the data.

New comment by cuckatoo in "UFO: A UI-Focused AI Agent for Windows OS Interaction"

cuckatoo — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 14:04:01 +0000

They can't migrate control panel to the settings app in a time measured in decades, but I'm supposed to believe that they're going to magically produce something like this that does what it claims? Go home Microsoft. You're drunk.

New comment by cuckatoo in "The U.S. Government Will Soon Spend More on Interest Payments Than Defense"

cuckatoo — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 13:49:33 +0000

Turns out the same dumb people that max out their credit cards are also the ones running the country. Surprise!

New comment by cuckatoo in "SpaceX has moved its state of incorporation from Delaware to Texas"

cuckatoo — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 12:53:18 +0000

Even more. A large portion of Delaware's revenue comes from unclaimed property that is never claimed. The state of incorporation is one of the key deciders on where that money sits until it is claimed.

New comment by cuckatoo in "Sony is erasing digital libraries that were supposed to be accessible "forever""

cuckatoo — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 03:20:20 +0000

Let's tie it to the length of copyright law. If it's still protected and under copyright then the obligation to keep it available exists. So if they want to keep extending copyright, well, it will go both ways.

New comment by cuckatoo in "JetBrains' unremovable AI assistant meets irresistible outcry"

cuckatoo — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 15:14:34 +0000

JetBrains is just leading the pack in what's coming everywhere. What? You don't want to pay for your 4th monthly subscription to another shitty ChatGPT wrapper? Too bad and welcome to 2024.