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New comment by exhumet in "Show HN: Nikon F100 Film Camera Repair Notes"

exhumet — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:29:52 +0000

as well as being able to tune and measure shutter speed timings and such.

New comment by exhumet in "We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility"

exhumet — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 19:10:56 +0000

i would assume that would come into play if they were uploading scans of the books? there must be some gray area where training like this doesnt apply to that. or ya know, just do it and face the consequences later because you already have the data and know that ai obsessed government will just shrug their shoulders.

New comment by exhumet in "Anthropic's 'watermark' text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing"

exhumet — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:32:25 +0000

a lot of cameras do have an in camera hardware based cryptographic signing (i think it runs off its own chip on them?) but any modifications to the image immediately break that. so for stuff like journalism etc where youd hopefully have a lot of settings dialed in on camera for quick turn around would keep that fingerprint intact.

New comment by exhumet in "Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta"

exhumet — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:14:53 +0000

yeah its nuts. ive hard restricted any form of social media to 15 minutes a day combined for the remaining ones i have. its been extremely healthy tbh. ive felt much better in the almost two years ive been doing it!

and i get it! the zombified rapid button pressing over and over. when i went to japan we were stoked to go check out a pachinko hall and we walked in and it was overstimulation city lol. walking in through the front door directly out through the back door haha.

New comment by exhumet in "Facebook is paying controversial creators to produce rage-bait content"

exhumet — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:11:00 +0000

yup and thats exactly what i discovered. id rather not use it and also not lose any additional respect for people i used to like or have good memories with lol

New comment by exhumet in "Facebook is paying controversial creators to produce rage-bait content"

exhumet — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:09:43 +0000

at the very least, insta is a semi cleaner and its the content itself thats abrasive... for now... thats the only other thing i use purely to keep up with family and i do photography so its somewhere to share some pics with family and friends.once you spend an entire night flagging everything you dont wanna see it becomes pretty clean. and then i put a 15 min timer on top of it. so it barely gets used but its semi well-tailored lol

New comment by exhumet in "Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta"

exhumet — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:07:20 +0000

thats exactly what i was telling my wife, a casino is way more accurate than what i said. i was like it felt like signing on to Temu with all of the shit all over the place

New comment by exhumet in "Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands beyond the app"

exhumet — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:35:45 +0000

yeah im pretty fucking hard left wing, i would still have probably used twitter in this current day if it hadn't just become a total cesspool. i used bluesky because my friends moved there and tbh the custom feeds are a great feature. could not care about the owners political leanings as long as they are not being actively and outwardly malicious... pretty much most of my social media usage went down the hill when they just became outrage/outwardly racist/ai infested cesspits. i neeeeeed something more than my small local groups to keep up with my hobbies so i use reddit. but in 2025 i deleted my account and made a new one from scratch that was highly tailored and streamlined vs my 2011 account that had soooooooooooooooo many shitty subs still subbed.

New comment by exhumet in "Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta"

exhumet — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:06:40 +0000

i recently downloaded it again after nearly a decade to use marketplace to buy a bike for my wife. Got the bike and deleted the app. but my god opening it up was hell. the interface on mobile is just....stressful. super cluttered, shit all over the place with notifications and things to see. first post i saw on there was someone i used to be friends with but havent thought about in years just blatently reposting ACTUAL racist shit... bought a bike in one day and deleted the app once again. horrible experience aside from the nice old dude who sold me the bike lol

New comment by exhumet in "All of Winona Police Department's Flock cameras cut down and stolen"

exhumet — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:59:00 +0000

exactly, and while correlation does not imply causation or something of the sorts lol.to add to the fire, the SOLE cop i know is an abusive alcoholic...

New comment by exhumet in "Could psilocybin be the key to treating anorexia?"

exhumet — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:50:17 +0000

thats awesome, also on the east coast but northeast so nothing of note besides the nice fall weather to help cause a flush if they just so happen to get the process started this year... or something, not like id know

New comment by exhumet in "Could psilocybin be the key to treating anorexia?"

exhumet — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:31:31 +0000

upside is that in most states you can just go buy the spores and they just so happen to conveniently have spawn bags right nearby. BUT DONT EVER COMBINE THE TWO AND WAIT A FEW MONTHS

New comment by exhumet in "Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024)"

exhumet — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:18:55 +0000

oh dont be lameeee, some people are freaks who find fun in doing math. power to em

New comment by exhumet in "More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle"

exhumet — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:53:22 +0000

woahhhhhh i had no clue about book orbit. i found calibre stuff to be a bit jank at times. This is super cool. gonna toss an instance on my server tonight

New comment by exhumet in "More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle"

exhumet — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:52:01 +0000

agreed, obviously reading a book itself is the simplest way to read a book. but the simplest way to carry around an entire library is technology. so id like to remove the fiddling or needing to interact with said technology as a barrier to me turning off my brain from life to get sucked into a book

New comment by exhumet in "Does creatine make you smarter?"

exhumet — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:17:46 +0000

another upside is its also hella cheap so its a very easy addin

New comment by exhumet in "FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers"

exhumet — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:48:39 +0000

any that support custom fonts without jumping through hoops? none of them support atkinson hyperlegible for my adhd ass lol

New comment by exhumet in "Dupes took over the world"

exhumet — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:56:28 +0000

im sure there are better, but i believe the "real" uggs are "UGG since 1974" not UGG brand. its very confusing lol

New comment by exhumet in "Sealed tomb filled with paintings and inscriptions discovered in Egypt"

exhumet — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:29:06 +0000

ive been to a few dolmen and places like those, a lot of them were already desecrated thousands of years ago and then desecrated again 2000 years ago etc. id much rather have those bones and artifacts dug up and placed somewhere they wont be destroyed and the symbolism of the structure can still remain to be appreciated.

New comment by exhumet in "SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status"

exhumet — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:54:44 +0000

agreed. its almost like... we need a healthy mix of economic systems to prosper