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New comment by ffjffsfr in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me"

ffjffsfr — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:57:46 +0000

I don't see any clear evidence in this article that blogpost and PR was opened by openclaw agent and not simply by human puppeteer. How can the author know that PR was opened by agent and not by human? It is certainly possible someone set up this agent, and it's probably not that complex to set it up to simply create PR, react to merge/reject on blogposts, but how does author know this is what happened?

New comment by ffjffsfr in "Nepal Bans 26 Social Media Platforms, Including Facebook and YouTube"

ffjffsfr — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 16:14:40 +0000

People in the west are so used to freedom of speech and so focused on problems with social media. They miss the fact, that many authoritarian governments in Asia see freedom of speech in social media as a threat. They are not banning Facebook to improve quality of life, they want to limit freedom of speech.

New comment by ffjffsfr in "Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship"

ffjffsfr — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 20:17:08 +0000

I don't think you read the post you are commenting about. Article says explicitly what is the problem with problematic content. It explicitly mentions rape and incest content.

New comment by ffjffsfr in "Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury over censorship"

ffjffsfr — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 19:22:35 +0000

> gatekeeping and censorship

that's a weird thing to say about simply banning payments to people who profit from rape and incest content.

> AREN'T EVEN TOLD what is going on

it is very clear what is going on, they are making content profiting from rape and incest and they are getting punished for it.

How Do Bluetooth Cassette Adapters Work?

ffjffsfr — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 11:53:33 +0000

Article URL: https://garagedreams.net/products/how-do-bluetooth-cassette-adapters-work

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43410741

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by ffjffsfr in "Private employers added just 77,000 jobs in February, far below expectations"

ffjffsfr — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 20:43:28 +0000

Trade, education, health services and IT saw jobs losses. More jobs in leisure and hospitality. Impact of tariffs is still not clear, also not clear how the tariffs will look like. I suspect uncertainty plays a role. Employers reluctant to hire if they are uncertain about future. Good thing it may justify lowering interest rates

New comment by ffjffsfr in "A sysadmin's rant about feed readers and crawlers (2022)"

ffjffsfr — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 20:31:11 +0000

I’m 100% sure there are many badly written inefficient crawlers that are wasting server resources and resources where they run but I use feed readers a lot and it is very hard to find well maintained feeds. Many servers also use cache related headers incorrectly or don’t use them at all.

New comment by ffjffsfr in "Microsoft Cancels Leases for AI Data Centers, Analyst Says"

ffjffsfr — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 10:47:30 +0000

key piece of info at the end, looks like they are leaving the spending on datacenter to OpenAI

> Microsoft’s alliance with OpenAI may also be evolving in ways that mean the software giant won’t need the same kind of investments. In January, OpenAI and SoftBank Group Corp. announced a joint venture to spend at least $100 billion and perhaps $500 billion on data centers and other AI infrastructure.

New comment by ffjffsfr in "El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender"

ffjffsfr — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 07:19:28 +0000

IMF forced them to drop, but if they want to use crypto as legal tender, why use BTC which has high transaction fees? Why not something with low or zero fees and efficient chain? There is million of crypto out there and most open source, so govt could even launch their own coin on top of existing chains.

New comment by ffjffsfr in "Lessons from my first exit"

ffjffsfr — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 12:19:45 +0000

great write up.

> $920k over four years

so this gives an average yearly salary of 230k. Very close to FAANG senior salary with much more risk, effort and (probably) worse life-work balance. OP quit from google in 2018 and ran some other business, and this is his biggest sale so far. I think it shows how hard it is to make better money outside FAANG even when extremely talented and lucky like OP. But it's probably more about lifestyle choices.

New comment by ffjffsfr in "Corporate Secrets Were Left Exposed. This Guy Found Them All"

ffjffsfr — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 05:27:47 +0000

He used retrohunt service which is part of virustotal https://virustotal.readme.io/docs/searching a service that allows developers to scan files for vulnerability. Apparently, virus total stores files and allows third parties to rescan these files later. Sounds like a vulnerability of this service and terrible practice. How can you expose your user files to any arbitrary access? Of course you should not put your secrets into file you upload to some virus scan, but how many users know that file they upload will be accessible publicly?

New comment by ffjffsfr in "Metabolism of autism reveals developmental origins"

ffjffsfr — Sat, 11 May 2024 18:48:37 +0000

> what could be considered ADHD/light asperbergers

could be considered, or did you get a diagnosis from a specialist? Self diagnosis is not reliable. If you don't have an official diagnosis you can't be certain you really have ADHD. There may be several differe tfactors relevant for YOU that make keto diet work for you. Same diet can be harmful for similar people who have ADHD.

New comment by ffjffsfr in "Metabolism of autism reveals developmental origins"

ffjffsfr — Sat, 11 May 2024 18:41:03 +0000

there are other factors here. Children diagnosed with autism at the age of 5 must be adults now to determine if they can live alone. So they were diagnosed at minimum 13 years ago, with many diagnosed much earlier. Autism diagnostics is much more common now than it used to be, especially in families with higher economic status. Diagnostics tools evolved, more kids are tested and tests capture more kids. So I think this number will be completely different in 10-20 years from now. In my experience as a parent of ASD kid, many kids now considered ASD would not be considered ASD 20 or 30 years ago.

New comment by ffjffsfr in "Nissan drops app support for the original Leaf"

ffjffsfr — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 18:47:44 +0000

It is terrible decision by Nissan, but the article makes false clickbait claims about "disposable cars" when in reality all functionality prevoiously exposed via app will still be available via car touch screen.

New comment by ffjffsfr in "Pakistan cuts off phone and internet services on election day"

ffjffsfr — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 21:07:44 +0000

It is complicated. Most people in Poland do consider themselves part of Europe, sometimes even part of the West. At the same time people in Poland often contrast the West (as in Western Europe and US) with Poland and perceive west as something different and better. It is sort of post colonial mentality but with a twist, because it is not tied to race. This idealised “West” is often very far from real situation in Western Europe. On the other part of the spectrum you got polish conservatives who see west as degraded and fallen. They used to say things like: France no longer exists. Meaning France is not what it used to be; it is not true west because they lost the spirit of real west.

New comment by ffjffsfr in "World Appears on Track to Triple Renewable Power by 2030"

ffjffsfr — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 17:48:40 +0000

Probably not enough. Demand for power is also growing and we're not replacing dirty power plants with clean power fast enough.

New comment by ffjffsfr in "Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here?"

ffjffsfr — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 21:23:50 +0000

Never noticed any issues with snap, but truth be told I seldom use it for installing anything. If someone is unhappy with snap why use it? There is no requirement to use snap, usually you can get .deb from somewhere, you can find ppa, or install from source.

New comment by ffjffsfr in "Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here?"

ffjffsfr — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 21:21:44 +0000

why do you install it from snap? I'm using ubuntu and don't install from snap most of the time.

New comment by ffjffsfr in "How's business at Stack Overflow?"

ffjffsfr — Fri, 19 May 2023 13:39:48 +0000

biggest danger for advertising revenue is ChatGPT. I visit it much less often since GPT. ChatGPT is just so much better at answering questions. I feel like I'm 10 times more productive with GPT. No more searching 1000 duplicate stack oveflow questions to find this one answer that accidentally refers to your specific use case. Long time ago I also used to contribute to site, but this was really emotionally challenging because of so many noob questions and general toxic community.

I guess SO has really bleak future both because of competition from GPT and contributor burnout.

New comment by ffjffsfr in "Infosec company pwned by 4chan user"

ffjffsfr — Thu, 11 May 2023 05:02:29 +0000

Wikipedia has protections against this. it is not trivial. Each change by random ip also has to be accepted by editor with permissions, and getting these permissions is not easy. It might be possible to bypass all abuse counter measures, but it takes a lot of effort and is not trivial