Hacker News: ozlikethewizard

New comment by ozlikethewizard in "Talk Is Cheap: The Operational Impact of LLM Use"

ozlikethewizard — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:24:47 +0000

This is discussed in the article, and I think the author makes pretty reasonable arguments for why by nature we will not see the reliability of LLM usage improve. They also discuss what I agree as the more effective method of using an LLM is, as a feedback and refinement tool, not a decision maker.

New comment by ozlikethewizard in "Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can"

ozlikethewizard — Thu, 21 May 2026 21:03:34 +0000

Companies can enshittify without dying, ahem microslop. Bitwarden likely isn't large enough to survive though.

New comment by ozlikethewizard in "Mark Cuban: OpenAI Will Never Return the $1T It's Investing [video]"

ozlikethewizard — Wed, 06 May 2026 10:30:24 +0000

Because no AI company has been sued yet. Without more specific legislation there is no reason for AI trainers to not pilfer everything.

New comment by ozlikethewizard in "Ombudsman column: The Pentagon is trying to silence me"

ozlikethewizard — Wed, 06 May 2026 06:29:19 +0000

Citation needed. You lot elected him before, seems likely you elected him again. Pretended he won by cheating instead of because your democracy is in dire need of a refit will do little but alloallow the next facists to win as well.

New comment by ozlikethewizard in "LinkedIn locks your GDPR rights behind a paywall"

ozlikethewizard — Tue, 05 May 2026 10:57:53 +0000

I used to handle DSAR requests for one of the big 4, we'd redact the names of other people on joint accounts / mortgages / etc. Obviously the requestor would know these (I hope), but someone elses name is not your personal data. We redacted those names to be compliant with GDPR, so I dont think there's any case here.

If anything the case could be made that sharing the names of who viewed your profile when you pay for premium is a GDPR breach, but I dont use LinkedIn so don't know if theres any way to opt out of this. If there is (i.e private profile), then under GDPR it's fine. Still a bit scummy but like its LinkedIn, its purpose is networking, best route here is not using it, not trying to make the argument that other peoples personal data is yours because its somewhat related.

New comment by ozlikethewizard in "LinkedIn locks your GDPR rights behind a paywall"

ozlikethewizard — Tue, 05 May 2026 10:50:45 +0000

Not entirely convinced who viewed your profile falls under your personal information

Source: used to handle DSAR requests for one of the big 4 banks, we'd redact all names that weren't the requestors, even names on a joint account they'd obviously know

Potential argument under GDPR you could request LinkedIn to not share who's profiles you are viewing, but thats a separate issue

New comment by ozlikethewizard in "Musk's AI told me people were coming to kill me (BBC)"

ozlikethewizard — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:49:19 +0000

I think you're reading into that too much. General public have heard of ChatGPT + Musk, they have not of Sam Altman or Grok.

New comment by ozlikethewizard in "Uncle Bob: It's Over"

ozlikethewizard — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:29:00 +0000

To be fair the overwhelming majority of tests I've seen in the wild written by humans have been the same. Not a lot of good material for AI to learn from.

New comment by ozlikethewizard in "Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs"

ozlikethewizard — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:17:12 +0000

This assumes US citizens using exclusively US based VPNs. You'd have to block all outside internet access as well, or you cannot stop someone in the US using a VPN based in another country (short of IP whackamole).

New comment by ozlikethewizard in "Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs"

ozlikethewizard — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:15:28 +0000

You'd also need to ban VPNs in other countries, which you cant, so short of stripping all access to the internet outside of America there's not a lot you could realistically do.

New comment by ozlikethewizard in "Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs"

ozlikethewizard — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:12:35 +0000

I mean if you're discussing strictly America, you lot haven't had any form of government that's been anything but right wing for at least a few decades (was not born before this lol).

New comment by ozlikethewizard in "Becoming a father shrinks your cerebrum (2022)"

ozlikethewizard — Sun, 03 May 2026 10:35:55 +0000

This varies, you still see some polyphasic sleep in countries that have very hot middle of the days, Greece + Spain off the top of my head. An intentional waste of daylight because the cooler mornings and evenings are better, but industrialisation has still reduced the frequency of these practices.

New comment by ozlikethewizard in "Executable installer will stop being released with Python 3.16"

ozlikethewizard — Sun, 03 May 2026 10:32:41 +0000

Not a windows user so knowledge is a bit fuzzy, but I remember the one of the advantages of MSIX being that the actual installers have less system access, but not sure if the applications once installed are any different.

New comment by ozlikethewizard in "Executable installer will stop being released with Python 3.16"

ozlikethewizard — Sun, 03 May 2026 09:07:12 +0000

"Use of the Store app or the MSIX package is recommended."

There's a big ole green download link on there for the MSIX lol.

New comment by ozlikethewizard in "Becoming a father shrinks your cerebrum (2022)"

ozlikethewizard — Sat, 02 May 2026 19:00:15 +0000

Prior to the industrial revolution polyphasic sleep was pretty standard:

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

New comment by ozlikethewizard in "Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015)"

ozlikethewizard — Sat, 02 May 2026 10:36:59 +0000

Yea this is something I'd love to see standardised, a distro that was able to enforce a .config folder somehow would be a winner for me. Think weve probably missed the boat though.

New comment by ozlikethewizard in "I accidentally made law enforcement shut down their fake honeypot"

ozlikethewizard — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:45:47 +0000

Do you run any honeypots? You realise the point of a honeypot is, unlike a normal website, to monitor exactly what visitors are clicking on so the trapper can react?

New comment by ozlikethewizard in "I built "Middle Class Museum", a tour of things that used to be affordable"

ozlikethewizard — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:51:41 +0000

Anything that could be considered in the base layers of Maslov's heirarchy is certainly less affordable. Food, shelter, health, education. Sure lots of consumer goods have got cheaper, but if you've got a big TV and no house to put it in are you actually any richer?

New comment by ozlikethewizard in "Period tracking app, Flo, found to be selling user data to Meta"

ozlikethewizard — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:37:38 +0000

I mean this seems like an attempt at a get out of jail free card. If meta didnt want this info, why are they accepting and processing it?

New comment by ozlikethewizard in "Period tracking app has been yapping about your flow to Meta"

ozlikethewizard — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:36:39 +0000

I have actually been playing around with scoping a privacy first version of these tracking apps that store all the data locally with optional sync. It's technically possible, but there's very little in the way of revenue generation there. So it's same issue as always, capitalism corrupts.