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New comment by newsomix9xl in "Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI"

newsomix9xl — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 20:47:24 +0000

Glad I could help, but if the solution is "good culture" and culture is made by managers and C-levels, and they're not doing it, writing blogs that are, effectively, saying "good management makes people productive" is so obvious that it hardly seems worth saying.

What might be more pointed, instead of pointing to the "useful effects of good culture" why not have actual tactics on how to reform or remove bad management and preserve and expand good management?

New comment by newsomix9xl in "LLMs are making me lose my savviness"

newsomix9xl — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 18:43:00 +0000

Using AI can open up topics you couldn't work on before.

I think you're blaming tools for what are other problems.

No carpenter ever said "I used to plane wood by hand and carve magnificent pieces, now that I have an orbital sander and power tools, the love just isn't there".

I don't buy this argument at all.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says China isn't behind the anti-data-center debate

newsomix9xl — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 18:39:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/china-influence-data-center-x-greg-abbott-texas-2026-8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49492188

Points: 5

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New comment by newsomix9xl in "Good Culture Is the Biggest Productivity Hack, Not AI"

newsomix9xl — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 18:36:11 +0000

The devops ppl talked about culture too. Seemed not too helpful.

Afaict toxic managers and C-level managers make for bad culture.

Now what?

New comment by newsomix9xl in "Security researchers find surveillance implants in Chinese-made routers sold wor"

newsomix9xl — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 18:28:29 +0000

So, the poster said unsupervised companies will surveil to gain an advantage.

I suggested Chinese companies aren't unsupervised, but are in fact state owned and very supervised (Chinese state surveillance is well known).

You point out that surveillance is also a profit making business/product (flock).

You could point to google, meta, and AI as emerging or profitable surveillance tool products.

Does that mean Chinese products are engaged in free market surveillance and not state directed?

New comment by newsomix9xl in "GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE)"

newsomix9xl — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 16:33:38 +0000

"Pixel 11 series is a lot more expensive for an incremental improvement to the CPU, the same underpowered GPU and reduced RAM for the Pro base models. They finally caught up to the last generation of Qualcomm cellular radio. It's overpriced, the upgrades aren't impressive and losing MTE is appalling."

I guess that's a thumbs down then?

New comment by newsomix9xl in "Just the rumour of a bug is enough to find an exploit these days"

newsomix9xl — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 16:29:59 +0000

The ODs are proof the drugs are good!

New comment by newsomix9xl in "Security researchers find surveillance implants in Chinese-made routers sold wor"

newsomix9xl — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 16:18:07 +0000

I think Chinese companies are all joint state owned enterprises or similar.

New comment by newsomix9xl in "Security researchers find surveillance implants in Chinese-made routers sold wor"

newsomix9xl — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 16:15:54 +0000

You mean "no surprise" or you mean "surveillance tool found in ocean of surveillance" or both?

New comment by newsomix9xl in "Debian votes to allow "responsible use of generative AI""

newsomix9xl — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 15:37:46 +0000

The LLM did not require them to ignore their code. That's a choice they made.

They made choices that made them dumber is what I'm saying.

New comment by newsomix9xl in "How I Developed Regular Meditation Practice with Full Time Job for 6 Years"

newsomix9xl — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 15:32:03 +0000

The rosary is a meditation practice of mystery meditation interleaved with prayers.

Same benefits as meditation.

New comment by newsomix9xl in "How I Developed Regular Meditation Practice with Full Time Job for 6 Years"

newsomix9xl — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 14:33:48 +0000

I used to meditate, but I find praying the rosary to be as effective for me.

New comment by newsomix9xl in "Security researchers find surveillance implants in Chinese-made routers sold wor"

newsomix9xl — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 14:20:16 +0000

Security researchers find surveillance implants in Chinese-made routers sold worldwide — three different backdoor-like implants hidden in firmware

Security researchers find surveillance implants in Chinese-made routers sold wor

newsomix9xl — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 14:20:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/security-researchers-find-surveillance-implants-in-chinese-made-routers-sold-worldwide-three-different-backdoor-like-implants-hidden-in-firmware

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49490132

Points: 12

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New comment by newsomix9xl in "Meta's Push to Put Robots to Work in Data Centers"

newsomix9xl — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 14:01:57 +0000

So it has no remote power reset functionality?

New comment by newsomix9xl in "E.V. Sales Are Rising After the Gulf Oil Shock. Here's Where."

newsomix9xl — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 13:59:09 +0000

Donald Trump may end up selling more EVs than Elon Musk ever could.

$6/gallon gas is a very persuasive argument.

I ditched my 18mpg 350hp sedan for a 35mpg econobox, and I've been eyeballing EVs ever since.

Backlash Against AI Data Centers Is Real, Organic, Widespread

newsomix9xl — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 13:52:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/backlash-against-ai-data-centers-115222320.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49489920

Points: 6

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New comment by newsomix9xl in "Meta's Push to Put Robots to Work in Data Centers"

newsomix9xl — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 04:48:53 +0000

I've had situations where I wished there was a robot I could get to plug in a cable.

The question with this and other efforts is: will this be used to enhance or maintain quality or will it be allowed to reduce costs and whatever quality level arises is the new acceptable?

Robot pizza that made Michelin level pizza would be welcomed. If we're just supposed to eat whatever crap tier pizza the robot owner can manage, why would anyone bother?

New comment by newsomix9xl in "Meta's Push to Put Robots to Work in Data Centers"

newsomix9xl — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 04:22:42 +0000

I hate to tell them, they don't need a $100k robot to power cycle a server: remote power resets are a common feature in enterprise PDUs.

But if ya wanna robot to press a chassis button...

Meta's Push to Put Robots to Work in Data Centers

newsomix9xl — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 04:21:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/inside-metas-experiments-with-data-center-robots/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49486846

Points: 7

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