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New comment by d1sxeyes in "I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program"

d1sxeyes — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:22:15 +0000

Can you point me to the part of the GDPR that gives you ownership of data that relates to you? I’m fairly confident that you are assigned rights over personal information as it relates to you, but it doesn’t assign ownership.

New comment by d1sxeyes in "I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program"

d1sxeyes — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:52:45 +0000

The data Flock holds is not owned by OP.

If I as a photographer take a photograph of someone, the photo does not belong to that person—the photographer retains the IP and ownership rights.

You have rights too, such as privacy/likeness rights, which allow you to restrict what the IP owner is allowed to do with the image that they own, but you do not own the data, and your rights give you a claim against the data owner.

Flock probably have legal obligations or contractual commitments not to delete or destroy their customers' data, and changing that is not necessarily a good thing.

New comment by d1sxeyes in "Anthropic downgraded cache TTL on March 6th"

d1sxeyes — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 17:00:50 +0000

That “with enough context” is doing a lot of work here. If you take a great engineer, drop them in front of an unfamiliar codebase, it’ll take them more than an hour to do most non-trivial tasks.

New comment by d1sxeyes in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

d1sxeyes — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 05:16:14 +0000

I think we're approaching this from different angles. 1 in 30 is better than the observed rate, but worse than the estimated rate.

FWIW, the 1/12 is also actually off, the long-term mortality rate for Apollo astronauts is high.

But so is the 1/1000, Nasa's own estimates were so bad that they decided it was bad optics to keep doing them - https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20190002249/downloads/20...

New comment by d1sxeyes in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

d1sxeyes — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 05:08:39 +0000

But the idea we're exploring is that the coin is fair (i.e. the 1/1000 estimate is correct, and the Apollo missions were unlucky).

New comment by d1sxeyes in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

d1sxeyes — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:58:10 +0000

But you doing better is independent of the risk involved. The chances of you getting 3/4 heads or better is around 31%, so theres ~69% chance you’ll do worse next time round. Doesn’t change the fact that each coin toss is still 50/50.

New comment by d1sxeyes in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

d1sxeyes — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:53:25 +0000

If I toss a coin four times and it comes up heads three and tails once, it doesn’t mean that there’s a 75% chance that this coin lands heads up. Be careful about conflating risk factor and mortality rate.

New comment by d1sxeyes in "Claude mixes up who said what"

d1sxeyes — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:08:53 +0000

I’ve seen this a few times, it mostly happens when a subagent returns. It seems that Claude sometimes doesn’t understand that the message coming back from the subagent is not from the user.

New comment by d1sxeyes in "We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code"

d1sxeyes — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:24:56 +0000

One thing you can try⸺admittedly it's not quite correct⸺is replacing them with a two-em dash. I've never seen an AI use one, and it looks pretty funky.

New comment by d1sxeyes in "Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with the Feb updates"

d1sxeyes — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:51:20 +0000

That’s different. That’s to get people onto API plans where tokens cost a lot more than they do on the subs (especially targeting OpenClaw users).

New comment by d1sxeyes in "A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky"

d1sxeyes — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:12:59 +0000

I honestly think he believes he’s doing good for mankind in a “fun and quirky way”, I don’t think he’s particularly trying to flip everyone off.

New comment by d1sxeyes in "Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"

d1sxeyes — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:25:20 +0000

I think so, I think they proposed ice creams only for those who haven’t been in Nidd since the 2021 Paris incident, but that got voted down.

New comment by d1sxeyes in "A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky"

d1sxeyes — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:19:15 +0000

Not completely 'no good reason'—they needed to test the ability to send heavy payloads, it's great marketing for SpaceX (who intend to make money by having people pay them to put things in space for them) and brand awareness for Tesla.

New comment by d1sxeyes in "Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"

d1sxeyes — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:33:58 +0000

No, as part of the Cameron rules of 2016, concession means concession, regardless of anything else (including whether or not it’s a good idea).

New comment by d1sxeyes in "Audio tapes reveal mass rule-breaking in Milgram's obedience experiments"

d1sxeyes — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:27:11 +0000

The Milgram experiment also couldn't be repeated today as it was completely unethical. It caused huge psychological distress to participants to the point that some participants had seizures.

New comment by d1sxeyes in "Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem"

d1sxeyes — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:15:22 +0000

Yeah, I actually have both an alias for `rm` and a custom seatbelt sandbox which means the agent can only delete stuff within the directory it’s working in, so wasn’t an issue, was just fun to watch it say “hm, that doesn’t seem to work. Looks like the user has aliased rm. I’ll just go ahead and work around it”

New comment by d1sxeyes in "Ask HN: Founders of estonian e-businesses – is it worth it?"

d1sxeyes — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 06:42:32 +0000

That's just tax fraud though.

There's also the CFC rule, which means that within the EU, if you control a foreign corporation, your country of tax residence can tax undistributed profits.

Often tax offices don't bother and you might not get caught, but 'not getting caught' is not the same as it being legit.

New comment by d1sxeyes in "Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem"

d1sxeyes — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 06:26:34 +0000

I did this, Claude detected it and decided to run /bin/rm directly.

New comment by d1sxeyes in "Mystery jump in oil trading ahead of Trump post draws scrutiny"

d1sxeyes — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:20:34 +0000

Almost every new system of governance has been better than what came before.

New comment by d1sxeyes in "Is playing music good for the brain?"

d1sxeyes — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 18:25:24 +0000

Can’t tell because of the paywall but I assume this is talking about playing an instrument rather than listening to a record.