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Privacy Activist Toolbox

ivarv — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 23:10:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/activism/toolbox/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47292384

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New comment by ivarv in "Don't make me talk to your chatbot"

ivarv — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 23:00:12 +0000

For a similar take see Cory Doctorow's recent "No one wants to read your AI slop" - https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/02/nonconsensual-slopping/#r...

Private Inference – Confer

ivarv — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:26:22 +0000

Article URL: https://confer.to/blog/2026/01/private-inference/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46874986

Points: 1

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New comment by ivarv in "AI generated music barred from Bandcamp"

ivarv — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:54:45 +0000

Spotify hires musicians to churn out content that fits certain criteria. see https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machin...

New comment by ivarv in "MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World"

ivarv — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 23:26:07 +0000

While not 100% exactly what you're looking for, Huberman Labs episode on MDMA is pretty close. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slUCmZJDXrk The "don't lose the magic" supplementation is addressed but it is speculation based on anecdotal evidence and conjecture.

New comment by ivarv in "Plan for 55,000-acre utopia dreamed by Silicon Valley elites unveiled"

ivarv — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 09:07:12 +0000

I'm surprised at the investment in an area that's likely to undergo major environmental challenges but it will be fascinating to see how this turns out. Superficially it looks like an American version of Neom.

https://www.neom.com/en-us

New comment by ivarv in "Reduction of sulfur emissions from ships may be causing rising sea temperatures"

ivarv — Sat, 05 Aug 2023 06:04:38 +0000

It could be Guy McPherson ? - https://guymcpherson.com/

New comment by ivarv in "Ggwave: Message people over sound"

ivarv — Mon, 01 May 2023 09:09:01 +0000

Could this enable embedded as metadata in audio files? Ie: could this be similar to what Spotify might use to fingerprint the music they distribute?

New comment by ivarv in "De-cloud and de-k8s – bringing our apps back home"

ivarv — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 01:10:09 +0000

indeed - the presenter (dhh) is Danish, and there was a photo of a container ship near the beginning of the demo video.

New comment by ivarv in "Cosmic DE update: System76's new Linux desktop environment"

ivarv — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 20:23:25 +0000

I bought my S76 laptop via my work's "choose your own workstation" program. It's a great way to support continued development of the software I use PLUS when you buy via S76 you get lifetime support for the device. The support is not something I've made use of often, but it certainly paid off the one time I needed it. Basically, it depends on your idea of "value" - do you value money (buy cheaper hardware) or time (buy S76 with support)?

New comment by ivarv in "Scaling Mastodon is impossible"

ivarv — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 16:28:55 +0000

fwiw - there are at least two production ready servers that coexist as twitter-like social hubs - https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma and https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon. Additionally, other platforms that support the w3c's ActivityPub protocol can also interact with Mastodon.

New comment by ivarv in "What's the deal with all those weird wrong-number texts?"

ivarv — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 00:29:45 +0000

another automated scam trolling service called lenny - https://www.reddit.com/r/itslenny/ Listening to some of these makes me laugh so hard my eyes start to water. The script eventually loops and some scammers don't catch on despite being implausibly being interrupted by a flock of ducks.

New comment by ivarv in "W3C to become a public-interest non-profit organization"

ivarv — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 14:57:22 +0000

I wonder if this means they will reconsider their "Encrypted Media Extensions" spec. I lost all respect for the organization when that passed.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/09/open-letter-w3c-direct...

New comment by ivarv in "Low economic growth is a slow-burning crisis for Britain"

ivarv — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 00:51:49 +0000

The 'Queen's consent' is more of a political lever than is typically acknowledged. See https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/08/queen-...

New comment by ivarv in "Guido van Rossum: Let Web3 die in a flaming ball of fire"

ivarv — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 20:01:01 +0000

The "it should die" camp take their view literally. At issue for many of us is the rampant consumption of resources to keep web3/cryptomining going. The ends() do not justify the means.

() for any variation of "ends" people have come up with so far.

New comment by ivarv in "Two recent studies on judging authentic vs. deepfake images"

ivarv — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 16:50:15 +0000

there's the deepfake visual representation that we're discussing, but what's to say there isn't work being done on the acting side of things? I think there are broad horizons to what can be automated - especially in the world of pure media.

New comment by ivarv in "Two recent studies on judging authentic vs. deepfake images"

ivarv — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 16:45:56 +0000

I suspect that acting itself will be reduced to algorithms. Expression of different emotions could be digitized. This could open further avenues of automation - authors could configure various different permutations (e.g. sincerity/sarcasm, surprise), the combination of expressions could be derived from context / sentiment analysis for the character, or perhaps each character could have a preset pack of opinions/values that informs their response. Given the constantly expanding capabilities of synthesis, these seem like natural areas that people will explore.

I agree that there is no need for any of this, but that's never stopped technological / artistic progress.

After decades of research, the time has come: degrowth now has its own journal

ivarv — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 16:59:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.degrowth.info/en/blog/the-manifesto-of-degrowth-journal

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30289043

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New comment by ivarv in "Urea prices increase 270% in 1 year"

ivarv — Fri, 07 Jan 2022 19:51:56 +0000

I don't know if we could get all the required nitrogen to sustain our current agricultural methods, but there are definitely people working towards normalizing the capture and reuse of the nutrients in urine. Our current practice of polluting waterways with our urine is a travesty though, and it behooves us to process our 'waste' in a more regenerative way.

See https://richearthinstitute.org for more.

New comment by ivarv in "Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021?"

ivarv — Fri, 24 Dec 2021 07:41:26 +0000

I'm looking forward to reading this. I listened to this excellent podcast with David Graber's coauthor, David Wengrow about the book and the fascinating discussion really hints that this will be a good read.

https://srslywrong.com/podcast/242-the-dawn-of-the-dawn-of-e...