<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: nandomrumber</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nandomrumber</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:38:08 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=nandomrumber" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by nandomrumber in "Even 'uncensored' models can't say what they want"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> What a shocking insult, to tell someone their very voice sounds unhuman<p>Are you okay? Would you like to sit down? Do you want some water?</p>
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<p>> After an insult like that<p>Did I miss something?</p>
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<p>> but satelites don't stay in one place<p>What?<p>> unless they're on the equator<p>What?<p>> because otherwise they have to be moving<p>What?</p>
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<p>What do you mean?<p>There’s more green light from sun light at the surface of the Earth than the red or blue.</p>
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<p>There is no difference between now and before this war started.<p>Israel’s enemies have been launching missiles in to Israel for decades.<p>Why is only now a problem?</p>
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<p>The dust is predominantly silicone dioxide (glass), which is notoriously stable / non-reactive.</p>
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<p>Oxygen if the third most abundant element in the universe.[1]<p>The Moon minerals contain plenty of it:<p><i>The finer regolith, the lunar soil of silicon dioxide glass</i>.[2]<p><i>Minerals forming the lunar crust are made up of oxygen, silicon, magnesium, iron, calcium, and aluminum, along with small amounts of titanium, uranium, thorium, potassium, and hydrogen.</i>[3]<p>I figure you mean free oxygen or diatomic oxygen O₂, but that stuff is rare in the universe, as it’s quite reactive, and largely irrelevant for asteroid impact chemistry extreme heat and pressure, plenty of oxygen available in the rocks smashing together.<p>1. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxygen</a><p>2. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon</a><p>3. <a href="https://science.nasa.gov/moon/composition/" rel="nofollow">https://science.nasa.gov/moon/composition/</a></p>
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<p>I think you mean <i>italics</i>.</p>
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<p>No it doesn’t. I only omitted parts of the quote for brevity. Anyone can read the full original text  right there in the comment I replied to.<p>The drop in numbers don’t clearly demonstrate anything.<p>Without the data, how do we know it’s censorship or if it’s just that their key audience up n left.</p>
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<p>But I <i>did</i> expressly consent.<p>When I installed the SoundCloud app and it told me by continuing I agree to them sharing my data with their 954 partners.[1]<p>1. I’m not even joining. When I mostly recently installed the SoundCloud app - for the first time on a new device, that’s what’s it said: 954 partners. How can anyone reasonably understand what it is their agreeing to in that scenario.</p>
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<p>As though HR are suddenly <i>The Arbiters of Truth</i> and that declining birth rates and increasing isolation are <i>helped</i> by people at working fearing being sent to HR if they make a mistake or say something non-approved.<p>I mean, yeah, those stats <i>are being helped</i> by HR, but not in the direction any sane person would favour.</p>
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<p>Do Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and TikTok allow third party clients?</p>
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<p>Have you tried using Facebook, Linked-In, or Instagram while not logged in?</p>
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<p>That’s not what the comment you replied to said.<p>They said the EFF’s ideology use to be <i>free speech absolutism</i>.<p>From the EFF post linked to that we are discussing here:<p><i>Young people, people of color, queer folks, activists, and organizers use Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook every day.</i><p><snip><p><i>neither is pushing every user to the fediverse when there are circumstances like:</i><p><snip><p><i>Your abortion fund uses TikTok to spread crucial information.</i><p><i>You're isolated and rely on online spaces to connect with your community.</i><p>That very much makes it sound like the EFF values free speech, but only if that speech is speech they agree with.<p>What about if your anti-abortion fund uses X to spread crucial information. What about if you’re isolated and rely on X to connect with your community?<p>What if you’re not <i>a young person, a person of color, queer, an activists, nor an organizer?</i><p>The EFF used to be <i>free speech absolutists,</i> it’s evident they be taken over by <i>progressive liberals</i> who favour free speech <i>they agree with</i>.<p>Look in to the history of cases they have litigated. There’s definitely at least some where I disagreed with the content of the speech, but agreed with the right to say it and that the EFF were correct in supporting the case.</p>
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<p>Who are you talking about?</p>
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<p>> why are we bothering with it at all?<p>Because we largely want people who have committed to tens of thousands of dollars of debt to feel <i>sufficiently warm and fuzzy enough</i> to promote the experience so that the <i>business model</i> doesn’t collapse.<p>It’s difficult to think anyone would end up truly regretting doing a course in astrophysics, or any of the liberal arts and sciences if they have a modicum of passion, but it’s very believable that a majority of them won’t go on to have a career in it, whatever <i>it</i> is, directly.<p>They’re probably more likely to gain employment on their data science skills, or whether core competencies they honed, or just the fact that they’ve proven they can learn highly abstract concepts, or whatever their field generalises to.<p>Most of the jobs are in <i>not-highly-specific academic-outcome</i>.</p>
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<p>There is no perfect pasta sauce.<p>Only perfect pasta sauces.<p><i>Howard R. Moskowitz is an American market researcher and psychophysicist. He is known for the detailed study he made of the types of spaghetti sauce and horizontal segmentation. By providing a large number of options for consumers, Moskowitz pioneered the idea of intermarket variability as applied to the food industry.</i><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Moskowitz" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Moskowitz</a></p>
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<p>Sub for system Windows Linux.<p>It’s a proper noun, there are no rules.</p>
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<p>Here you go, says it right here:<p><i>You must never fly over a person.</i><p>And that you need a permit to fly within 30m of people  without their consent and within 15m with their consent.<p>I believe the US regs are the same.<p><a href="https://www.casa.gov.au/drones/flight-authorisations/flying-over-and-near-people" rel="nofollow">https://www.casa.gov.au/drones/flight-authorisations/flying-...</a></p>
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<p>Isn’t it already prohibited to fly a drone over my head, unless it’s in the sub 250 gram category.</p>
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