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New comment by iamthejuan in "E2E encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after 8 May"

iamthejuan — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:41:19 +0000

This happened to my girlfriend and me twice on Messenger. On two consecutive nights, we heard a male voice with an American accent speaking as if he were talking to someone else, almost like they were conducting some kind of operation. It seemed as though he suddenly realized that we could hear him, after which the voice abruptly disappeared. The following night, it happened again, but this time the voice sounded like that of an African American woman. The situation was similar to the previous night. From that night, we have not used it to communicate and used Signal instead.

New comment by iamthejuan in "I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?"

iamthejuan — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:59:24 +0000

I was banned from just trying out Claude AI chat for the first time a few months ago. I emailed them and restored my account access.

New comment by iamthejuan in "Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?"

iamthejuan — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 07:56:17 +0000

I usually do night walks, talking to strangers, outcasts such as homeless people, street children, store or restaurant sales persons. I treat them food and talk with them and learn from their stories, I do this consistently that they know me. I genuinely love helping people, I also do ministries which I can say is very effective on helping people with depressions, they will learn to have a purpose in life or at least they will learn that some people are living life with much difficulty. I organize people I do not know and play sports I do not know how to play, and ask people to join. We do monthly activities which is optional for others to join our not. Nothing is forced but every one is welcome.

New comment by iamthejuan in "Ask HN: Loneliness at 19, how to cope?"

iamthejuan — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 04:07:18 +0000

Go find any ministry and volunteer, it will help a lot with loneliness and depression.

New comment by iamthejuan in "Google is 'gradually rolling out' option to change your gmail.com address"

iamthejuan — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 07:23:14 +0000

This is exactly what happened to me on Dropbox, where even the backup codes did not work.

New comment by iamthejuan in "Ask HN: Why does Facebook.com activate the microphone?"

iamthejuan — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 17:11:56 +0000

Regarding Facebook is listening, my girlfriend and I was taking few years back around 2021, we usually keep our call for more than 24hrs at a time. One evening we were talking then suddenly we heard a man, talking as if he is in an office then we both stopped and listened, and he just stopped as if he accidentally unmuted. This happened again the next, night but this time it is a woman. Same, as if they were in an office environment. They were talking in English, we are not listening to anything, we were just talking then suddenly we heard them, and also we are not a native English speaker, we do not talk in English during our call. That is the the time we decided to switch to Signal, which as many say is more secure.

New comment by iamthejuan in "Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright"

iamthejuan — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:41:23 +0000

Also in the Philippines, it needs to be regulated.

New comment by iamthejuan in "Doomsday scoreboard"

iamthejuan — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 23:41:00 +0000

Signs were given, not dates.

New comment by iamthejuan in "CRISPR-like tools that finally can edit mitochondria DNA"

iamthejuan — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:49:54 +0000

Identifying unmodified human in the future is necessary.

New comment by iamthejuan in "Mic-E-Mouse – Covert eavesdropping through computer mice"

iamthejuan — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 14:05:41 +0000

Sounds like the old cartoon, Mighty Mouse.

New comment by iamthejuan in "Imgur's community was in revolt"

iamthejuan — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 00:39:58 +0000

I remember that time on Reddit.

New comment by iamthejuan in "Dr. Sbaitso"

iamthejuan — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 01:33:12 +0000

I remember sound blaster 16 in 1996.

New comment by iamthejuan in "Sam Altman Wants Your Eyeball"

iamthejuan — Sat, 10 May 2025 17:13:12 +0000

They did that here in the Phillipines and they exploit the poor. They give money for people to allow them to scan their eyes. These people do not know the consequences of what they are doing.

New comment by iamthejuan in "GCC 15.1"

iamthejuan — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 05:37:47 +0000

It is like an era of average.

New comment by iamthejuan in "Beej's Guide to Git"

iamthejuan — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 06:10:17 +0000

I am just happy and thankful that people like you exists.

New comment by iamthejuan in "VS Code Pets"

iamthejuan — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 11:20:53 +0000

It is the logo.sys which is actually a bitmap file if I remember it correctly.

New comment by iamthejuan in "The new science of controlling lucid dreams"

iamthejuan — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 14:51:51 +0000

But if a person decided to count fingers to check if he is dreaming then he is already in lucid dreaming right? Because normally you do not know you are in a dream unless you are already in lucid dreaming.

New comment by iamthejuan in "Silver amulet is the oldest evidence of Christianity north of the Alps"

iamthejuan — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 09:00:34 +0000

Try The great controversy between Christ and satan.

New comment by iamthejuan in "Digital consumption keeps me from getting better at my job"

iamthejuan — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 01:30:27 +0000

Thank you! I am gonna save this.

New comment by iamthejuan in "IronCalc – Open-Source Spreadsheet Engine"

iamthejuan — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 21:18:19 +0000

I am genuinely looking forward for the success of this project. I am just wondering will this support scripting language like VBA for Microsoft Excel?