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New comment by lolc in "Why SpaceX 2040 Revenue FCST $4.3T in highly unlikely"

lolc — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:46:31 +0000

I'm under the assumption that Starlink will never provide more than one percent of the mobile bandwidth in a developed country. Because they can't match dense antenna webs in cities. Am I wrong?

New comment by lolc in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

lolc — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:42:30 +0000

From my reading the German court's ruling is that Google are responsible both for claims they made up and claims they rephrase from somewhere else. Because the claims appear as a statement of fact made by Google. If they showed it as "User X on site Y claims Z" they would not be held responsible. Because that's how search engines are understood to work. If they make a wrong quote, they would be responsible for that though.

So my understanding is their unreliable AI summaries are a legal liability for Google in Germany and people can request corrections through the courts.

New comment by lolc in "1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background"

lolc — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:56:53 +0000

The flag is not plastic.

https://1worldflag.com/flag/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organza

New comment by lolc in "Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites"

lolc — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:28:27 +0000

Wait do I have to choose what search provider I use for every search? They don't get merged by Uruky?

New comment by lolc in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

lolc — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:21:15 +0000

> Agents are fixing bugs so quickly and at a scale humans can't do already.

The metric is how many defects are introduced per defect fixed. Being fast is bad if this ratio is above one.

New comment by lolc in "Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts"

lolc — Fri, 15 May 2026 12:00:46 +0000

Start each meeting with a prayer to thank the transcription gremlins for their accurate work.

New comment by lolc in "Ontario auditors find doctors' AI note takers routinely blow basic facts"

lolc — Fri, 15 May 2026 06:31:56 +0000

> Notice: I love the new AI accurate transcription feature in this meeting!

New comment by lolc in "Eight vaccines linked to a lower risk of dementia"

lolc — Wed, 06 May 2026 02:49:16 +0000

Weird article because it offhandedly mentions the term "healthy vaccinee effect[0]" but does not explain it. So while I was reading and wondering whether all these studies they mention were observational, they drop the term somewhere in the middle and then just continue their breathless listing of vaccines' inverse correlation to dementia.

The word interventional is not found anywhere in the article and it is hard for me to believe there are no interventional studies in this field.

> Multiple large observational studies have found that routine adult vaccines are associated with a reduced risk of dementia, with some showing risk reductions of 25% to 40%.

The observed difference is most likely caused by people with declining health being less likely to vaccinate. My assumption is that the article was compiled to show a conclusion that is not supported if one looks only a little bit further.

[0] https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/healthy-vaccinee-e...

New comment by lolc in "He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice"

lolc — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:03:02 +0000

As a diabetic I have done this exact exercise: Look at photos and guess carbs. Two slices of bread is easy mode.

Why assume trick ingredients?

New comment by lolc in "At long last, InfoWars is ours"

lolc — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 23:20:19 +0000

The victims went after a slanderer who systematically profited from his lies. Don't see why we should compare him to randos on Twitter.

New comment by lolc in "Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others"

lolc — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:30:20 +0000

"Great idea wise customer, I will certainly mock one out just for you!"

New comment by lolc in "FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages"

lolc — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:50:33 +0000

Yea sorry I didn't follow the thread properly.

New comment by lolc in "IPv6 is the only way forward"

lolc — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 09:59:52 +0000

You haven't answered my question. When do I switch addresses in DNS?

New comment by lolc in "FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages"

lolc — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:26:27 +0000

Not clear what your point is. The Signal server wakes up the app via an empty message. At most the info this conveys is that a Signal app got a message to pull.

New comment by lolc in "IPv6 is the only way forward"

lolc — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:53:15 +0000

At what point could I confidently publish the addresses 1:2:3:4:0:0:0:1 and 1:2:3:4:0:0:0:2 in DNS records for people to reach those two servers? After my ISP has switched, or after everybody's ISP has switched?

The idea that any ISP would do a Dagen H is very alien to how an ISP thinks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dagen_H

New comment by lolc in "Wikipedia's AI agent row likely just the beginning of the bot-ocalypse"

lolc — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:29:55 +0000

I read through some of the discussion on Wikipedia. The operator of the bot comes across as agreeable and arrogant at the same time.

Questioned about it, he's asking his rig why it did something and quotes verbatim from the generated text. Then when a Wikipedian asks how the bot logged in, berates them how it's all ephemeral code and he could only guess.

If you want a glimpse into the mindset, read this interview: https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/03/i-was-surprised-how-upset-...

The overall attitude is that this was going to happen anyway and we should feel lucky he's so helpful. I rather agree with another commenter here that this was "pissing in the fountain". Whatever pure motivations there may have been, cleanup was left to others.

New comment by lolc in "FTC action against Match and OkCupid for deceiving users, sharing personal data"

lolc — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:35:14 +0000

Why would it need to? Users police themselves :-)

New comment by lolc in "FTC action against Match and OkCupid for deceiving users, sharing personal data"

lolc — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:41:07 +0000

What I want to see is a dating service where I can pledge some money to some charity. Everybody on the site can check what I've pledged, and I can release it anytime. The service can take their cut, fine.

Now when I meet somebody through the service, and we think it's serious, we can release that money. And we can check whether the other did too!

Sure there will still be profiles with people that don't pledge, because they're just testing the waters, or poor, or scammers. Whatever. Point is I can send a signal that at some point I want to be done with the service, and then pay them for that.

New comment by lolc in "How the AI Bubble Bursts"

lolc — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:03:39 +0000

I don't think it's as easy as looking at open weight API prices. We don't know whether the operators are making a profit on all the hardware they bought. Maybe the prices we pay just cover electricity. And it's not even certain that running costs are covered by API prices: The operators may be siphoning content and subsidize from selling that.

In the current volatile environment, the API prices are more of a baseline where we can assume it can't be much cheaper to operate these models.

New comment by lolc in "Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit"

lolc — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:17:50 +0000

This, to me, is the strongest argument to offer these slop generators. It provides an incentive to follow the robots.txt.