Hacker News: nik282000

New comment by nik282000 in "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)"

nik282000 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:17:49 +0000

There's been a few. The last one was 2007 when the iPhone changed the internet from a place you went because you wanted to be there and had a reason to engage, into an app meant to entertain you for 5min at a time between text messages and flushing.

New comment by nik282000 in "AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)"

nik282000 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:03:05 +0000

Big fan of "slop-jockies" as a collective term for AI spammers.

New comment by nik282000 in "Self hosted email continues to steeply decline"

nik282000 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:36:26 +0000

Does GMail silently filter spam now? I get maybe 5 new messages in my spam folder per month for the past couple of years and I'm not sure if Google is just dropping the most blatant spam or if my primary address is somehow not on any lists.

New comment by nik282000 in "Self hosted email continues to steeply decline"

nik282000 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:31:01 +0000

I can only imagine the Google/MS monetized horror that would be an e-mail replacement.

New comment by nik282000 in "Self hosted email continues to steeply decline"

nik282000 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:26:15 +0000

If the "author" didn't feel like taking the time to write the text why should I take the time to read it? LLMs are great for summarizing, if you are going to slop 100% of a document make it a summary and save us all the time.

New comment by nik282000 in "Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot"

nik282000 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 02:41:37 +0000

I went from 2k hits a day to 15k in the past week.

Point a domain at your IP, use letsencrypt, post your domain on Reddit, github, x, etc. The bots will find you.

New comment by nik282000 in "Someone is running mass vulnerability scans, spoofing AI bots like ClaudeBot"

nik282000 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 02:31:26 +0000

I've had a similar bump in scanners in the past week, more than half of it is coming from MS and Google owned IPs and all of them are spoofing AI agents.

New comment by nik282000 in "Grok Bot"

nik282000 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 05:29:37 +0000

It's greed at the top pushing the market into insanity. "AI" vendors are dangling the carrot of "eliminate manpower" in front of the manpower-owning class and they are throwing everything they have at it. The wealth that's been thrown into this hole could have payed for a couple million work-years of developers.

New comment by nik282000 in "Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb"

nik282000 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 03:18:03 +0000

You just saved me a bunch of bickering. TY.

New comment by nik282000 in "Water system controllers don't belong on the internet, says ex-NSA chief"

nik282000 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 23:27:04 +0000

No infrastructure should be on the open internet the potential for abuse is incredible. At a minimum a VPN should be used to tunnel all connections back to what ever command and control server exist, leaving equipment visible on the public IP should be a crime if not a felony.

New comment by nik282000 in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

nik282000 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 23:22:03 +0000

The fact that you can think is what is valuable. I work for a slew of drones who will ask the same question 4 or 5 times, to multiple people, hoping that one of them will 'slip up' and reveal that there is actually a hidden easy solution.

New comment by nik282000 in "A.I. companies are recruiting electricians and carpenters by the thousands"

nik282000 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 02:51:01 +0000

While a lot of my tools are faster I would never call them automated. You stil have to put the wire in the crimp, you still have to measure the pipe and make the cut, you still need to put the head of the driver in the screw. The 'hard' part is still 100% on the human.

The only way to really automate electrical installation is at the source (ha), when the construction materials are manufactured. I can imagine some god awful system of snap-together conduit prefilled with conductor, and junction boxes with monster dip switches to replace manual connections. It will cost 10x the price of standard materials, and it will be horribly wastful, but the labour costs will be negligible if it can be done by a robot or unskilled labourer.

New comment by nik282000 in "Studio Canal Movies purchased on PlayStation Store removed without refund"

nik282000 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:29:27 +0000

I'd like to add Daria to that list. Most of the music has rights issuses and the DVD release has had it all replaced with generic 90s music-like filler.

New comment by nik282000 in "Reducing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada"

nik282000 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 22:51:36 +0000

When I asked why there is no human equivalent of flea/tick drops my vet said it was because "when you only live to be 20, you don't worry about smoking when you are 10."

New comment by nik282000 in "IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet"

nik282000 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 21:21:20 +0000

If I set up a camera in my money laundering room and put it online, I would not fault a government from using it against me. If they bruteforced a password or used some undisclosed zeroday then I might take issue.

New comment by nik282000 in "Reducing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada"

nik282000 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 20:38:40 +0000

Clearly we should be banning all rodent/deer contact until the tick population is under control.

New comment by nik282000 in "Reducing tick density along recreational trails in Ottawa, Canada"

nik282000 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 20:37:04 +0000

Lots of drugs work for dogs and cats because they don't live longer than 25yrs. A human has 3-4x the lifespan during which side effects can be worse than the disease.

New comment by nik282000 in "IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet"

nik282000 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 20:28:54 +0000

You should ask Claude and see how many kWh and gallons it can use up to hallucinate an answer.

New comment by nik282000 in "IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet"

nik282000 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 20:23:16 +0000

I know that my cameras are behind an auth layer but, as it is painfully obvious here, many people do not. A 'check my cameras' feature is a nice way to find out if you messed up.

New comment by nik282000 in "IP Crawl: Living atlas of open webcams discovered on the public internet"

nik282000 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 20:19:43 +0000

Lazy manufactures and ignorant users are responsible for the majority of this nonsense.