Hacker News: dam_jackalopes

New comment by dam_jackalopes in "Muse exposes users' personal and business secrets when they share conversations"

dam_jackalopes — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 14:01:27 +0000

"Claroc researchers were able to discover the Muse share links because all of them use the domain name cf.metaaiusercontent.com. Discovery is further made easy by the decision to add the conversation name to the URL, along with a long string of text. Simplified examples of such links are home-sale-budget-9f21c8a3.cf.metaaiusercontent.com, q3-revenue-review-7b1e42f0.cf.metaaiusercontent.com, and loan-application-draft-a4c9e2.cf.metaaiusercontent.com. It’s this last design decision, putting the conversation title in the subdomain rather than in the URL path, that makes public discovery possible."

Yeah, clearly it's the idiot users...

New comment by dam_jackalopes in "Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case"

dam_jackalopes — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 13:58:08 +0000

"we're already admitting that the penalty is based on vibes and not simply an unbiased calculation"

We are? I haven't read the judgement and I'm pretty sure you haven't either. You're making a pretty big assumption here.

"Sounds like that number is no more justified than $25,000,000.00 or $25."

The penalty was written into law. That's what justified it.

The irony is that you're saying the award is based on "vibes" or feelings but, honestly, that's all I've been seeing from critics of the penalty. No one can explain what's wrong with it from a legal perspective. It's just been a lot of "it's a really high number!" and "they're making numbers up!" from people who can't point to anything from the decision itself.

New comment by dam_jackalopes in "Muse exposes users' personal and business secrets when they share conversations"

dam_jackalopes — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 03:45:57 +0000

Has he written about this incident? What specifically about user behavior applies to this incident? I'm not reducing anything to anything, you just haven't haven't explained what about user behavior contributed to what the post is about.

New comment by dam_jackalopes in "Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case"

dam_jackalopes — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 01:46:36 +0000

I don't know why the judge reduced the penalty as the article didn't state that. I don't really have anything to go on other than you saying everyone is just making up numbers. I don't find that argument convincing given my experience with the courts.

New comment by dam_jackalopes in "Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case"

dam_jackalopes — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:50:32 +0000

That's not what happened here though. The penalties were defined by law, the jurors applied them. The judge already reduced most of the penalty. So... what about this case is outlandish?

New comment by dam_jackalopes in "Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case"

dam_jackalopes — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:10:24 +0000

Yeah, that makes sense. On the other hand, the severity of the crime isn't what makes the penalty high in this case. The fine for the crime in this case is $5,000. Given that the penalty was reduced by nearly 90%, the penalty for the crime is something like $570. That doesn't seem outlandish to me.

New comment by dam_jackalopes in "Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case"

dam_jackalopes — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:26:42 +0000

What makes it outlandish?

New comment by dam_jackalopes in "Muse exposes users' personal and business secrets when they share conversations"

dam_jackalopes — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:02:19 +0000

But that reality has nothing to do with the issue addressed in the article or the defense of Meta that the comment you responded to talks about. Irresponsible or ignorant users didn't cause Meta to ignore security basics in their release and it doesn't explain defending that incompetence.

New comment by dam_jackalopes in "Sixteen Years After Deepwater Horizon, Deep Sea Life Shows Few Signs of Recovery"

dam_jackalopes — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 21:00:33 +0000

Think it's still a mixed bag. There's not broad consensus (in the US at least) that continued investment in renewables is the future. We're still investing heavily in fossil fuels, we've had two military campaigns in the last three years to influence global oil supply and the sitting US President signed an emergency order to bypass restrictions on fossil fuel projects on literally his first day in office. There's plenty of people and policy makers who are fine with the fossil fuel status quo.

New comment by dam_jackalopes in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

dam_jackalopes — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:13:50 +0000

I haven't seen US enterprise data teams sit up and do something as quickly as they did when GDPR rolled out very often. Regardless of other issues, the toothy part seems to work.

New comment by dam_jackalopes in "Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay"

dam_jackalopes — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:58:32 +0000

Apparently it is. Your question seems to indicate that there were some indicators that she was genocidal that they should have picked up on while she was on house arrest and missed. What were they?

New comment by dam_jackalopes in "GitHub Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions"

dam_jackalopes — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:26:58 +0000

I just work here man.

New comment by dam_jackalopes in "Vibecoding isn't as fun as writing code by hand"

dam_jackalopes — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:03:49 +0000

This is how I feel. I do enjoy "vibe coding" significantly more at home on my own projects as there just aren't the same consequences I face at work if something goes left. I'm now working a place where there are only three or four of us in the code base and it still makes for some long days where it's mostly review. That part sucks. I can't imagine trying to keep my arms around a codebase at a larger shop in the current environment.

New comment by dam_jackalopes in "Meta’s Muse is an adorable privacy and security dumpster fire"

dam_jackalopes — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:54:20 +0000

The issue is less when he made the statement and more that nothing he or the organizations he manages do or say makes one think that he still doesn't believe the thrust of the statement is still true.

New comment by dam_jackalopes in "Power approval set to delay Oracle's Wisconsin AI datacenter"

dam_jackalopes — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:25:57 +0000

Good grief, that username is apropos.

New comment by dam_jackalopes in "FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over product risks"

dam_jackalopes — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:37:44 +0000

Mr. Musk is going to be busy for the next few months hammering out our new defense technology doctrine. So many issues, so few billionaires.

New comment by dam_jackalopes in "Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain"

dam_jackalopes — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:50:53 +0000

laughs in Central Idahoan

In all seriousness, you're correct in re: to probably 90%+ of the population. There are definitely still areas where an EV can be challenging as your only vehicle, but those are places with pretty specific circumstances. They're deeply rural, they demand a lot more miles driven per user per year than most areas, there's more practical applications that EVs just aren't good enough at yet and there's a weird cultural resistance to EVs in a lot of those places. Even that's changing, though. It's just slower. Honestly, it's developing a lot faster even in these holdouts than I thought it would.

New comment by dam_jackalopes in "Ask HN: What are you reading?"

dam_jackalopes — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 22:59:56 +0000

So, so good. Changed the way I read comics and I've been a lifelong fan of the medium.

New comment by dam_jackalopes in "DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers"

dam_jackalopes — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 22:22:09 +0000

I'm not sure legalized betting makes fraud itself that much easier, but I'd agree that the incentives could now be larger in the US if tied in with legal betting. Those markets dwarf the illegal markets that drove a lot of famous instances of fraud prior to legalization. More fans are probably suspicious of calls now but, I mean, sports fans don't generally need much of a push to find a reason for suspicion of officials.

New comment by dam_jackalopes in "DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers"

dam_jackalopes — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:55:31 +0000

I suspect most of the fraud by volume is going to be committed in the lower leagues in most nations just do to more access to individuals and less scrutiny.