Hacker News: nemomarx

New comment by nemomarx in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"

nemomarx — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:43:21 +0000

You can just use your own password manager and it wouldn't automatically do anything to apps on reinstall, right? Or a physical notebook, maybe.

New comment by nemomarx in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"

nemomarx — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:42:03 +0000

One user wants it not to be shared, but the other user might have various reasons to want to take that screenshot - maybe it's evidence of something they need to share urgently with others, whatever. It's definitely hostile to that other user. I get why you'd set it up that way, but it's a tension that really goes against the "full control of your own device" ideal a lot of people have.

New comment by nemomarx in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"

nemomarx — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:03:09 +0000

users should have some way to control if screenshots have secret data in them or not, really. what if I do actually need to preserve it?

New comment by nemomarx in "We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility"

nemomarx — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:46:27 +0000

This is most of what we have for the great philosophers - half "why is the world like this" and half "how do you live a good life", right? some original plato lectures would be interesting to have.

New comment by nemomarx in "We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility"

nemomarx — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:38:13 +0000

Imagine if we had bad cookbooks, cheap popular novels and stories, tracts on diet and self help from old Rome, or old eras in China, or the equivalent from ages before that.

It's all interesting for something, even if it's just a meta analysis of culture during a certain period or what kind of trashy romance novels were popular in 198X. At least in my view.

New comment by nemomarx in "We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility"

nemomarx — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:06:05 +0000

It'll live on if they publish those scans or contribute them to a national archives or something. Proprietary data has a habit of being lost over time though.

New comment by nemomarx in "Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1T and 114k Lives a Year, Yale Study"

nemomarx — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:07:34 +0000

What I mean is that if the conservatives only objection to universal healthcare was these things, they could just leave them out. There's no requirement that a single payer system cover all procedures.

Ergo the reason they didn't support the ACA and won't do this is something other than it covering hormones and abortion.

New comment by nemomarx in "Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1T and 114k Lives a Year, Yale Study"

nemomarx — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:04:32 +0000

You can easily drop those from a universal healthcare system - look at the NHS and gender affirming care across the pond. So it can't only be that part - I think it's wanting the undeserving to not have healthcare.

New comment by nemomarx in "Universal Health Coverage Could Save $1T and 114k Lives a Year, Yale Study"

nemomarx — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:03:20 +0000

Think of all the insurance jobs that would be hit, too. Unfortunately we've bloated the healthcare industry to have a lot of employees

New comment by nemomarx in "Incident with Github.com"

nemomarx — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:01:46 +0000

They almost have to be - which users will be able to get to your issues page and which will be able to find a mailing list? You'll have a much more selective audience in the latter

New comment by nemomarx in "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI"

nemomarx — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:46:28 +0000

Anyone know a good way to disable the ai summary on Google results? I know I should move over to kagi, but a ublock filter or something would still be nice.

New comment by nemomarx in "NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers"

nemomarx — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 19:33:10 +0000

Lots of voters didn't believe Trump would do the things he campaigned on. "I'll defund research" can be interpreted as "probably that other research, the stuff I don't like or think is useless" by some.

New comment by nemomarx in "The deep history behind the Road to Nowhere inside the Great Smoky Mountains"

nemomarx — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 18:46:01 +0000

Less deep history, but a similar looking tunnel in Pennsylvania - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abandoned_Pennsylvania_Turnpik... . The most interesting thing about it is probably that it was used to film The Road.

They make for nice conversions to bike paths and hiking trails at least?

New comment by nemomarx in "Study links coffee consumption to metabolic health and sex hormones"

nemomarx — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:34:10 +0000

You can get corn syrup free monsters everywhere. Or those 5 hour ones, or Celsius or whatever.

The reason to prefer coffee is that it tastes less aggressive than those I think

New comment by nemomarx in "CEO who fired 900 people on Zoom just before Christmas wants his job back"

nemomarx — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:54:31 +0000

> says he was fired on August 3 just as he brought the company to the precipice of success.

> Today, with an imploded refi business and rates closing in on 7%, the AI mortgage company’s market value stands at just $300 million.

Forgive the snipping here, but is the company actually turning around or on the brink of success now? Is there any sign the firings helped them 8 months later?

New comment by nemomarx in "In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices"

nemomarx — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:52:57 +0000

If you have to pay a connection fee for having the solar panel hooked up to your houses grid, I could see it ending up cheaper to disconnect the panels and sell them back tbh

New comment by nemomarx in "Gloomberb"

nemomarx — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:14:27 +0000

Unless you're paying to turn on access to purely a third party feed (which would be odd to me) there's some server side code taking those feeds and that the app is calling. Is that server code MIT licensed?

An open source interface to a proprietary backend isn't really fully auditable.

New comment by nemomarx in "Gloomberb"

nemomarx — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:41:28 +0000

If fundamentals matter for stock performance, sure yeah. I would be interested to see the results of trying that against the kinda alpha wall street uses usually

New comment by nemomarx in "Gloomberb"

nemomarx — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:05:00 +0000

https://gloom.sh/cloud

Is it? I see some kinda subscription, so there's gotta be some non MIT portion of it

New comment by nemomarx in "Gloomberb"

nemomarx — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:02:40 +0000

I know it's kind of a nitpick, but is there really no value at all in "your install is just curl | bash and that seems insecure and risky"

I would want to know that about any project before I try and evaluate it personally.