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New comment by darksim905 in "When did Google get so weird?"

darksim905 — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 21:06:55 +0000

I still believe this AI push out of nowhere is due to the current Government in power state side. Making everyone question themselves and each other and being uncertain about facts while being inundated with techbro fake news called hallucinations is a recipe for disaster for older populations that don't 'trust but verify' like most technology inclined people. This is all by design and we'll falling for it.

New comment by darksim905 in "When did Google get so weird?"

darksim905 — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 21:04:59 +0000

How did you google this, and did you use the dumb search, or specifically 'AI mode' lens?

Because I did this and got a vastly different result from you:

Yes, the Halifax Wanderers can still mathematically qualify for the 2026 Canadian Premier League (CPL) playoffs.The top four teams advance to the postseason. Following their 1-0 loss to Atlético Ottawa on September 26, 2026, the Wanderers sit in fifth place, just below the playoff line.

With a indexed table of the games and the playoff table, with a breakdown of what the points they need to achieve to do so.

The search window may not always crawl sources. AI mode specifically does some research before giving you a response. Not sure what you're on about.

New comment by darksim905 in "Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee"

darksim905 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 03:23:44 +0000

It's weird to see that any towns even remotely close to Austin would support Flock at all in the first place.

New comment by darksim905 in "Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee"

darksim905 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 03:20:34 +0000

It must be nerve wracking to live in your shoes day to day. This is, probably due to flying through an airport like JFK. I'm also not sure what you mean by heavily armed agents. Most MPs at airports just have pistols on them.

New comment by darksim905 in "Original Sony PlayStation 2 security chip 'broken wide open' after 26 years"

darksim905 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 22:13:09 +0000

>ribbon connector pieces

ribbon connector like ribbon cables used in IDE/PATA drives? Wild, are they known for breaking down like that?

New comment by darksim905 in "Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera"

darksim905 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:56:32 +0000

Interesting that they are a YC Company. Does yC do any ethics vetting of saying "No, let's stop fascism before it spreads?"

New comment by darksim905 in "Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera"

darksim905 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:54:37 +0000

They want the good, bad and ugly to flock to them as it were and vaporize them so Axon and Motorola Solutions can just pick up right where they left off. And people will just ignore or forget it because it's not the same company.

New comment by darksim905 in "Searching for the best silicone USB cable"

darksim905 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:16:52 +0000

sweet list/yay!

What do people mean by scrabble letter brands? and I assume TB on the bottom there is just short for Thunderbolt?

New comment by darksim905 in "“Tweet” and the bird logo apparently enter the public domain"

darksim905 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 07:00:29 +0000

When your follower/following count is small and you're getting to know people and build a community of people you otherwise wouldn't meet IRL, it can be a great thing. When you start getting inundated with too much information when you have 10K + followers, it can be overwhelming and you lose the signal within the noise and find that it may start affecting other parts of life. I suppose each person is different, but that burned me out and made me uninterested and I burned it all down. I found I was losing sleep checking my phone and getting unusually addicted to stupid things.

New comment by darksim905 in "One woman's Tesla was remotely controlled by an abusive ex-partner"

darksim905 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 06:57:15 +0000

how is anyone else at fault here? If someone is ignorant of the capabilities and controls afforded to them for expensive, high ticket, important items such as vehicles ... they don't really have anyone else to blame except them, and perhaps oversight from the designer or vendor of the product.

New comment by darksim905 in "Your intellectual fly is open when you use an LLM to author a post (2025)"

darksim905 — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 05:50:06 +0000

I think you meant that translation is, case in point, based on inference. The person doing the translating is inferring, based on context, intent and meaning and imparting that on what their output is. That's generally not desired from a taxonomy perspective.

New comment by darksim905 in "Dyson CameraJet electric toothbrush"

darksim905 — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:48:23 +0000

I use my scaler before brushing and I use it for getting off certain things that bother me. It beats going to the dentist for some chronic issues I may deal with. I would say it should be used in conjunction with a waterpik as it would be far too abrasive/damaging toward the gums, for sure.

New comment by darksim905 in "Dyson CameraJet electric toothbrush"

darksim905 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:22:46 +0000

healthy teeth are not the same as healthy gums, or oral health as a whole.

New comment by darksim905 in "Dyson CameraJet electric toothbrush"

darksim905 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:22:08 +0000

an ultrasonic scaler is far better at removing plaque and build up than a waterpik. I find that a waterpik is only really best at areas where there is high crowding, or hard to reach areas behind molars, etc.

New comment by darksim905 in "I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch"

darksim905 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:37:16 +0000

Mac only? Wild.

New comment by darksim905 in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

darksim905 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:34:30 +0000

Do people not bother with style-output and custom definitions? Wild.

New comment by darksim905 in "Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month"

darksim905 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:55:34 +0000

The admins have access to your data and unless things have changed, that isn't monitored. They also bend to NSLs like any other provider. What they charge vs what things cost hurts.

New comment by darksim905 in "Peppermint oil reduces blood pressure by 8.48 mmHg in small study"

darksim905 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:47:33 +0000

I'm familiar with drug interaction monographs and enjoy reading them. And I am somewhat comfortable with the organ/body functional pathways (I think that's what it's called) -- where can someone view/look at different pathways of the body as a resource?

New comment by darksim905 in "MS Paint and Photos inivisibly watermark even locally generated output with GUID"

darksim905 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:08:59 +0000

This has nothing to do with generating harmful content and everything to do with fascist surveillance. This is an OS level functionality that get utilized before AI even existed.

New comment by darksim905 in "SparrowMap – Cameras that watch government vehicles"

darksim905 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 02:56:26 +0000

What? Removing 0-15 mph is to remove places where they camp or loiter with the engine on either for tickets, naps, or other purposes.