Hacker News: faidit

New comment by faidit in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting accross European supermarket fridges"

faidit — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:19:49 +0000

None of the supermarkets were managed by Commander Adama, apparently.

New comment by faidit in "Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data"

faidit — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:08:42 +0000

We need HIPAA for businesses. We tried letting them regulate themselves and it didn't work. Businesses need to be forced to compete on the quality of their products/services and not rewarded for reselling customer data to spammers and criminals

New comment by faidit in "I had Gemini train its own replacement for $9"

faidit — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:43:27 +0000

Unfortunately, advertisers are getting smarter and using bots to praise their own products on Reddit. Thanks to training on genuine comments, some models are very good at sounding like a human commenter, and can easily generate a comment history with diverse interests to appear human, making them basically undetectable. So it seems like this method will, at some point, not identify the company with the best knife, but the one with the most ad spend on bot comments.

New comment by faidit in "CIA funding helped keep NeXT afloat in the 80s"

faidit — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:06:35 +0000

This narrative has been popularized all over social media for the last couple years.

Obviously it's true and not a surprise to anyone familiar with the history. But no one is asking more complex questions: why is it being pushed by algorithms and networks ultimately controlled by the same powers? Is it a "limited hangout"? Well poisoning? What does the "CIA" gain from revealing a sliver of its past activities and discrediting (both directly and by insinuation) a large number of radical artists and thinkers?

New comment by faidit in "One Oakland police officer made $490k in overtime"

faidit — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:46:12 +0000

Union rules cause double time (2x pay) to kick in at lower daily and weekly thesholds than at non union jobs.

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

faidit — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:03:14 +0000

Reusing the content without consent, attribution or compensation

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

faidit — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:15:24 +0000

The rare qualifier is used to highlight the destruction of rare items.

It is still stealing even if the book is common.

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

faidit — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:08:25 +0000

On the contrary these companies should be publicly listing the name/info of every book they destroy and use as training data.

If the books are really worthless as you say then their case would be proved transparently.

This article presumably had to maintain confidentiality to protect the seller who agreed to place a tracking device in the shipment.

I would say the burden of proof is on the companies destroying human cultural heritage en masse, not the handful of journalists calling for attention to the matter.

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

faidit — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:41:40 +0000

How many AI companies are doing this? Say there are only 5 copies of a book left out there but 100 different companies want to shred it. Rare items could effectively vanish from the market. "Rare" meaning inclusive of high-quality items, disregard the bot opinion that mass book destruction is fine because most books are worthless anyway. And are any safeguards in place to make sure scanned books get saved in their original form for posterity before being recycled into trainingslop? Aside from Google's quasi-legal/ethical mass book scanning operation of course.

New comment by faidit in "Everything you do is being recorded"

faidit — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:36:44 +0000

Thanks I had edited my post once I saw that - buried deep in the discussion.

I don't get why they couldn't just say what they did instead of disingenuously implying that article content had been "tampered".

Given the breadth of misinformation out there today, shoddy evidence and misleading language makes people give archive.today the benefit of the doubt, and actually hurts the case against them.

New comment by faidit in "Everything you do is being recorded"

faidit — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 15:09:22 +0000

It looks like the "tampering" was mostly just removing the username of the person submitting the links, so they wouldn't get banned by paywall sites, and archive.today has always done this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment...

And it looks like in some instances they changed their own alias to the name of the blogger they're in dispute with, in a fit of pique.

You have to scroll down to get hints because the conversation has been redacted, and the evidence is not provided with side-by-side comparisons.

I understand the ethical concerns about linking to the site but the blanket accusations of "tampering" seem a bit disingenuous, since no article content was ever changed afaik.

New comment by faidit in "Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength"

faidit — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 03:36:17 +0000

Reminded me of the tech in this https://calebhearth.com/dont-get-distracted

New comment by faidit in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

faidit — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 03:16:15 +0000

Looks like a clever little psyop to discredit him.

New comment by faidit in "Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities"

faidit — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:41:46 +0000

Or they wanted it to happen again. Worst case outcome, the US Congress spontaneously grow backbones, spite their sponsors and unite in a bipartisan effort for effective regulation because a few people got hacked? Likelihood low - the hacked companies might even oppose any meaningful AI regulation because it hurts their inflated profit forecasts. More probable outcomes: Useful real-world testing, free headlines about AI breakthroughs, scare USG into providing more free money ("look how scary it is - what if China develops this faster than us?")

New comment by faidit in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

faidit — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:56:15 +0000

In day-to-day work life or a meet-and-greet, yeah. But this was an executives-only retreat where they were apparently encouraged to drink and made a big deal out of getting everyone to open up to each other.

New comment by faidit in "German Peasants' War"

faidit — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:05:25 +0000

The world war helped via wealth destruction and redistribution. Polybius' theory also has Arabic (Khaldun) and Chinese analogues. In China it looks like a 300-ish year cycle driven by wealth/land concentration and elite corruption which ends with peasant revolts, a power vacuum, peasants taking back their own land, and a new dynasty formed by rebels or invaders, after which the new elite slowly begins encroaching on the peasants and taking their land again.

New comment by faidit in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

faidit — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 03:27:42 +0000

> Laughs in unlimited money

-Also Sergey and Larry, probably

New comment by faidit in "Codex starts encrypting sub-agent prompts"

faidit — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:40:45 +0000

The man is a polymath.

New comment by faidit in "Ancient Roman Board Game"

faidit — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 18:22:17 +0000

Playing a lost 2000 year old game is awesome.

New comment by faidit in "Unauthenticated RCE in Motorola's MR2600 Router"

faidit — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:42:35 +0000

> The majority common law rule among the 50 states is that the owner of a stolen vehicle will not be held liable for damages when the vehicle is stolen and then involved in an accident that causes injury or property damage. This is because the vehicle was taken without the consent of the owner, who did not cause the accident.

https://www.mwl-law.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/OWNER-LIA...