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New comment by housebear in "The Deepfake Nudes Crisis in Schools Is Worse Than You Thought"

housebear — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:51:23 +0000

So any time a larger group disagrees with you it's a concerted lobbying effort? Not because a significant number disagrees with your opinion? Because you might have an odious opinion? Really? Does that apply to all of your takes? How liberating! "No...it's the children who are wrong."

New comment by housebear in "The Deepfake Nudes Crisis in Schools Is Worse Than You Thought"

housebear — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:35:01 +0000

You don't "get it" because you are not a person who would ever be at risk of suffering the embarrassment, shame, and violation of something like this happening to you. These are not "porn stars" being talked about. These are children. In classes with the same children perpetrating these acts. Do you remember being a child? Do you remember the nuances and challenges of social dynamics from those years? Can you imagine (empathize with) being a young girl and having fake nudes of yourself sent around to others? I don't imagine you can. "Distasteful" doesn't begin to cover it.

New comment by housebear in "I built physical album cards with NFC tags to teach my son music discovery"

housebear — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 22:53:24 +0000

Love this. What are you tapping the cards onto? What is reading that info and then pulling the music? (I'm not super savvy and can't figure it out from the writeup).

New comment by housebear in "The Fisherman and His Wife (1857)"

housebear — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 14:41:47 +0000

I read it as the fish returning her to her God-ordained state, as she was, from her magical-fish-given states of human appointed positions; that is, wealth and status coming from community rather than any kind of divine appointment—which is maybe also a Protestant dig at Papism?

New comment by housebear in "More Everything Forever"

housebear — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 17:31:34 +0000

Well, I think you articulate the situation quite neatly with, "I don't know, my life is made better..." As long as you yourself are either benefiting or not immediately suffering you are content. That many contrary positions in this thread are thinking about humanity as a whole is why you will not be swayed. You do not seem interested in thinking outside of your own comforts, and therefore all of the anxiety and alarm over the fate of billions outside of yourself just comes across as "exhausting."

I, for one, find the endless selfishness of ultra rich people and their enablers to be exhausting, and happily root for anyone trying to break through to the uncertain that this is a moment for action, not idle ignorance.

New comment by housebear in "The Generative AI Con"

housebear — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:34:40 +0000

How are you able to make the inference that "most people reading this got real value from an LLM. And I'm sure the author did as well." How are you so sure of that?

Speaking for myself, I've never gotten any real value from an LLM and their disappearance would not affect me in the slightest.

It sounds more like you were upset about his assertion because YOU derive value from an LLM, and are projecting that as some sort of dishonesty on the author's part.

Also, it was his intention to throw "the kitchen sink at the technology" as a means of showing its lack of value. In the same way a vegan would do exactly as you mention to show all the arguments AGAINST eating meat. It is meant to strengthen the intended argument through overwhelming evidence.

New comment by housebear in "Cyber Scarecrow"

housebear — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 17:32:09 +0000

Where is that additional info? It just says you're a group of security researchers, but there are no names, no verifiable credentials, nothing. You haven't really added any info that would contribute to any real trust.

New comment by housebear in "Beeper acquired by Automattic"

housebear — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 16:39:26 +0000

This is the same board that approved the Tumblr acquisition, presumably. So...a good board...?

New comment by housebear in "Tear up unused parking lots, plant trees"

housebear — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 20:48:51 +0000

Does anyone have an idea of what it would roughly cost to purchase an unused parking lot, tear it up, dispose of the asphalt waste, re-soil, and plant 30 or so trees? Is this something some enterprising person could start a kickstarter for just as a public experiment? Is it even possible with zoning requirements or the like?

New comment by housebear in "EVs work fine in the cold in Norway"

housebear — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 16:54:52 +0000

It gets A LOT colder here in Minnesota during winter than it does in Norway. I know we're an edge case for EVs and cold temperatures in the US, but it does seem a significant difference in the EV and temperature conversation. Is there an understanding around the "degree" at which specific degrees affect EV performance?

New comment by housebear in "UK plan to digitise wills and destroy paper originals "insane" say experts"

housebear — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 21:46:32 +0000

You know what's easy to read 150, 500, and even 1000 years later? Physical writing on paper. No matter what changes, these documents can and will continue to be legible as long as they're properly stored.

Reddit has a new look and feel (and thumbs)

housebear — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 18:28:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fastcompany.com/90989375/reddit-just-got-a-big-new-rebrand-from-pentagram-will-it-get-an-upvote-exclusive

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38463154

Points: 7

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New comment by housebear in "The Carrington Event of 1859 disrupted telegraph lines"

housebear — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 17:03:44 +0000

Check out A Canticle for Leibowitz for an entertaining (and often depressing) read on life restarting after an extinction event. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Canticle_for_Leibowitz

"Set in a Catholic monastery in the desert of the southwestern United States after a devastating nuclear war, the book spans thousands of years as civilization rebuilds itself. The monks of the Albertian Order of Leibowitz preserve the surviving remnants of man's scientific knowledge until the world is again ready for it."

New comment by housebear in "No-more-secrets: recreate the decryption effect seen in the 1992 movie Sneakers"

housebear — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 16:26:22 +0000

One of my favorite movies of all time.

New comment by housebear in "Pink Floyd, 'The Wizard of Oz,' and me"

housebear — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 16:37:12 +0000

If you think that's cool, try listening to Ice Cube's "Predator" while watching the action film Predator...