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New comment by deaton in "Anthropic IPO buyers see valuation as low as $1.1T"

deaton — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 22:20:32 +0000

"trusted providers" don't even need a backdoor, they just collect everything from you and whether you approved or not they're using that info to train the next model.

New comment by deaton in "Anthropic IPO buyers see valuation as low as $1.1T"

deaton — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 22:15:49 +0000

If their moat is their ability to create marginal improvements every few months by releasing new models, then that is an extremely expensive moat to maintain.

New comment by deaton in "US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks from air traffic control by 2028"

deaton — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 19:53:34 +0000

Ridiculous false dichotomy. The bureaucracy can get in the way sometimes, but ultimately it is about safety, and the FAA has done an amazing job over the past several decades regulating the skies and played a massive role in making aviation as safe as it is. Standards are rigid and very well defined and change slowly because aviation is an industry where mistakes create massive disasters. There is some collateral inefficiency from things moving slow but thats way preferable to the collateral damage that would be caused by "move fast break things".

New comment by deaton in "Pwn.college"

deaton — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 15:18:41 +0000

I was gonna say, at a glance it reminds me of Microcorruption CTF

New comment by deaton in "Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM"

deaton — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 20:11:39 +0000

Its not Tauri, they're using GPUI

New comment by deaton in "Study estimates 75% of NFL players who died over 15-year span had CTE"

deaton — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 17:29:42 +0000

I'd get some hate for this on football forums, but targeting needs to be enforced a lot more strictly than it is. The NFL also did a good job reforming kickoffs, they're much safer now than they were, but we need to do something about punts.

New comment by deaton in "Study estimates 75% of NFL players who died over 15-year span had CTE"

deaton — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 17:26:47 +0000

I'm kinda surprised its that low. Football, especially at the pro and college levels, has players (especially linemen) taking car crash level hits every single play.

New comment by deaton in "Medicare Will Pay $50k for Your Heart Attack. It Should Pay $100 to Prevent It"

deaton — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 17:17:01 +0000

Because everyone's heard that advice, but people don't tend to take action until they have evidence that they, personally, are at risk.

New comment by deaton in "US Reps Lead Democratic Resolution Opposing A.I. Bubble Bailout for Big Tech"

deaton — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 14:04:21 +0000

AAPL has a history of sitting on massive quantities of cash tbh

New comment by deaton in "US Reps Lead Democratic Resolution Opposing A.I. Bubble Bailout for Big Tech"

deaton — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 14:01:47 +0000

We can and should be the very very loud majority.

New comment by deaton in "Police Are Using AI to Pull over Drivers for 'Suspicious' Behavior"

deaton — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 18:58:09 +0000

This seems like a great excuse to pull over minorities. In general pulling people over for vague "suspicious behavior" without suspicion of a specific issue is a massive violation of everyone's rights.

New comment by deaton in "Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans"

deaton — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:52:52 +0000

Thats not entirely true. High trust tight knit communities are the default we evolved for. Where is usually breaks down if people don't have a strong internal sense of guilt is in sufficiently large groups (i.e. cities) where the social dynamic breaks down and people get effective anonymity.

New comment by deaton in "Your Phone Is About to Stop Being Yours: 70 Days Until Lockdown"

deaton — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 14:44:56 +0000

Not to mention, one of the most important things, the absolute best app out there for controlling insulin pumps for diabetics is an open source app you have to "sideload." I'm not usually one to make hyperbolic accusations, but in this case Google attempting to kill sideloading could put real people's lives in danger, or substantially damage their quality of life.

New comment by deaton in "eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business"

deaton — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 15:54:26 +0000

Its like finding out that for many years every minuteman silo in north america used the launch code "00000000"

New comment by deaton in "Jailbreaking the Switch 2"

deaton — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 15:50:18 +0000

The first 3DS exploit required Cubic Ninja, a terrible game that sold poorly and was instantly $80+ once it was revealed.

New comment by deaton in "Texas data center boom could erase decades of progress on air quality"

deaton — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:38:19 +0000

Data centers often come with their very own natural gas turbines right outside to provide power the grid can't supply. This is what happened at xAI's data center in Memphis.

New comment by deaton in "Oregon lawmakers approve money to buy an iconic waterfall listed on Redfin"

deaton — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 16:56:43 +0000

As a Texan,

stop telling people to move here, I-35 just keeps getting worse

New comment by deaton in "DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order"

deaton — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:26:36 +0000

Theres no such thing as ZDR unless you self-host. The companies that claim to offer it have histories that would suggest otherwise and are currently so big and powerful that the government won't do anything to them even if it comes out that they completely lied about it.

New comment by deaton in "DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order"

deaton — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:21:40 +0000

I'm shocked Bambu Lab hasn't gotten the same treatment.

New comment by deaton in "An ad-free Android TV"

deaton — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 13:18:00 +0000

The thing is "smart tvs" are actually cheaper than dumb tvs would be, specifically because they can make money on the advertising.

Anyway, google TVs (like my TCL tv) let you use them in dumb mode, which is what I do. I just have it wired to my Apple TV 4k (the least bad of the smart tv boxes that support HDCP) and thats good enough for me.