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New comment by lostlogin in "Over 181,000 AI meeting recordings left wide open in note taking app"

lostlogin — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:34:22 +0000

> 4TB/40,000 contractors voice + government ID + selfie leaked

Leaked selfies? Do you mean ID photos?

Wellington second-hand bookstore's mysterious orders

lostlogin — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:43:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/books/wellington-second-hand-book-store-s-mysterious-orders

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49242894

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New comment by lostlogin in "New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it"

lostlogin — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 12:39:46 +0000

I agreed with the lockdown and still do. I was pointing out that for a lot of us it was far from business-as-usual for a significant chunk of time.

New comment by lostlogin in "Nearest Pint"

lostlogin — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:59:41 +0000

There were about as many golf courses as pubs when I went through there - but that was a while back.

New comment by lostlogin in "New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it"

lostlogin — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:36:07 +0000

I’m guessing you weren’t in Auckland?

New comment by lostlogin in "New Zealand lost its music media, and what we're building to replace it"

lostlogin — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:34:24 +0000

I hear people describe their lockdowns and how difficult shopping was, and work, and seeing friends.

That ceased in Auckland, and was policed hard, it was very aggressive.

And the worst part of our 7 day lockdown? The first 3 months.

New comment by lostlogin in "Mea Culpa – Dark Hours"

lostlogin — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:12:50 +0000

At this rate we will need Gruber to do a retraction retraction in order to be more aggressive about the bs he fell into.

New comment by lostlogin in "Mea Culpa – Dark Hours"

lostlogin — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 19:10:51 +0000

> my question is whether the per-story fact checking is equal, or much less.

How could a one man operation have the fact checking machinery of some big paper, eg the NYT? Of course it’s less.

Keep in mind that he usually posts multiple times per weekday.

New comment by lostlogin in "My server is a phone now"

lostlogin — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 17:59:11 +0000

Trying to get it to open on startup and start containers in a particular order is a little finicky. But the real hell is trying to get it to start containers after the network shares have connected.

I’ve got it working, but compared to doing it in compose, it’s awful.

New comment by lostlogin in "Melatonin impairs morning cognition in healthy young adults (2023)"

lostlogin — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 08:19:46 +0000

It’s hard to do a blind test on yourself.

But I accidentally ran this test on myself recently and didn’t realise until I got home and found my full cup on the bench.

It was disturbing to know how much I need it.

New comment by lostlogin in "Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years"

lostlogin — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 05:32:34 +0000

There have been natural nuclear reactors, but I don’t think any suffered a catastrophic event.

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

New comment by lostlogin in "A viral mosquito-killing laser device could be coming to the U.S."

lostlogin — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 03:32:00 +0000

I’d love this for house flies.

New comment by lostlogin in "My server is a phone now"

lostlogin — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 03:23:56 +0000

I’m impressed with that.

I had a Nuc 9 extreme with a 10gb SFP card in it.

It averaged 69w. The Mac Mini I replaced it with uses just under 5w.

A Mini is possible the worst bang for buck. Also, the horror that that is Desktop Docker can’t be over emphasised. I know there are better ways of using Docker on a Mac, but having got something working I can’t face rebuilding it.

New comment by lostlogin in "Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years"

lostlogin — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 23:44:14 +0000

Yes.

But also, finding something from within the last hundred years doesn’t say an awful lot about something claimed to have been a closed system for millions of years.

New comment by lostlogin in "As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program"

lostlogin — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:26:57 +0000

> The quote I like is "The only intuitive interface is the nipple, every other one has to be learned"

And then some dickhead put nipples on laptop keyboards and it was awful.

New comment by lostlogin in "Can Intel finally beat ARM on performance per Watt?"

lostlogin — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:13:28 +0000

> I have exactly one intel cpu in my house in a NUC I got off eBay and it’s about to be replaced by my M4 mini.

Do some tests pre and post upgrade. It’s ridiculous how efficient the mini is. My power usage is about 1/12 what it was with a Nuc.

New comment by lostlogin in "Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years"

lostlogin — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 04:40:44 +0000

Mentioning the recent Chernobyl accident is weird too. Surely an accident from long ago that is expected to be detectable is far more helpful.

All they proved is that nothing had entered since the Chernobyl accident.

New comment by lostlogin in "Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief"

lostlogin — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 04:35:24 +0000

> Things like thumb drives physically connected to cabinets can just disappear in your environment with no followup whatsoever?

Yes. I follow up. No one ever knows.

> And that's regular,

Yes

> expected

Yes

> and desired?

No.

New comment by lostlogin in "New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health"

lostlogin — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:31:21 +0000

Governments regulate all sorts of things that could be handled by the parents. However it works better setting a standard via regulation.

The world is moving to regulate these companies due to the harm they are causing.

New comment by lostlogin in "I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them"

lostlogin — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 06:41:22 +0000

An arm Mac mini server in my basement has averted 4.9w over the last month.