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New comment by plorg in "Muse Wonder"

plorg — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:29:13 +0000

It's kind of crazy (and not historically uncommon) to get really preachy about a moral posture towards animals and machines that you don't seem to extend even to your biological peers.

New comment by plorg in "Muse Wonder"

plorg — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:24:22 +0000

They are definitely the most moralizing. Whether their values are rooted in anything real let alone well-considered seems to me to be a different question entirely.

New comment by plorg in "Feds got warrants to use fake cell towers to hunt down Don Lemon's producer"

plorg — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:12:38 +0000

Stingrays don't care where the provider's towers are, they work by pretending to be their own, and (ideally for you if you are the person wielding one) causing your target's phone to connect to or through your antenna. The only way Starlink would help a target is if your phone rejects tower signals that are not mostly above you, or if Starlink Mobile would utilize something other than the 3GPP standards, both of which are unlikely unless they want to sell their own fully proprietary phones.

New comment by plorg in "Flock Wants the Most Detailed Map of Its Surveillance Cameras Taken Offline"

plorg — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 22:17:43 +0000

>they are taking a very roundabout way of accomplishing it

  Doppel requested the site be taken down.

Actually that seems pretty direct.

New comment by plorg in "OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites"

plorg — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 18:52:25 +0000

I'm not replying to your post below complaining that no one else accepts your framing. What is the important information you think is missing? If it's just "OpenAI didn't explicitly tell them to do straightforwardly illegal things" then you're just quibbling that no one accepts the interpretation that is most beneficial to OpenAI while ignoring both its incentives and history of this kind of behavior" then I'm not really interested in what you're selling.

New comment by plorg in "OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites"

plorg — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 18:30:19 +0000

Okay. "OpenAI keeps telling its bots to do things they know are illegal and then acting like they're just little guys who can't be held responsible for their obvious negligence".

New comment by plorg in "Most people prefer traditional architecture"

plorg — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:13:54 +0000

Always seems weird to me that "classical" is stark white columns and sculptures. The original Greek buildings were quite colorful, it's only the intervening millenia that are responsible for wearing away their paint.

New comment by plorg in "Apple's Dimensional Drawings"

plorg — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 05:42:45 +0000

It's nice but lots of companies do this if their equipment is meant to be used with other equipment from third parties. Frankly I'm surprised they only provide it in 2D PDFs.

New comment by plorg in "NTSB issues investigative update on B-767 runway excursion accident in Miami"

plorg — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:56:52 +0000

The ~"positive" side of that, the UA flight 232 disaster is often noted as an event that demonstrated the effectiveness of CRM as a strategy.

New comment by plorg in "Keep Our Servers Running"

plorg — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 04:55:26 +0000

Are any of those not run by the archive.today guy? That site has like a dozen aliases.

New comment by plorg in ".name Termination"

plorg — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 01:21:44 +0000

Cowsup is mostly correct, but GNR didn't snap up subdomains, they owned .name originally with the explicit intention of providing domains by name and initially did not accept second-level registrations. Verisign owns all of .name and will simply stop accepting or serving third-level registrations.

New comment by plorg in ".name Termination"

plorg — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 01:12:46 +0000

Is this quite accurate? My reading was that Global Name Registry was the registrar for the .name TLD, with Verisign providing DNS and email forwarding services, but that for several years GNR would only grant registration to third-level domains, then would set up corresponding second-level domains and email forwarding.

I guess in practice it doesn't make much of a difference for me anymore, I registered mwai.name 20 years after they began allowing second-level registrations and more than 15 years after GNR was sold to Verisign. So presumably GNR's concept was long-abandoned by the time I made my registration (which was, to be truthful, mostly based on mwai.name being the cheapest domain with the initialism). I was more curious about the implications of having held a second-level domain, whether it could have caused trouble for me or for a different person who held a tertiary domain. But also my registrar at least doesn't seem to allow tertiary domain registration for .name.

Any any case, nothing in OP or any of its referenced sources suggest Verisign is giving up .name. rather they will stop accepting and serving tertiary registrations, so if Neil wants to keep his domain he or another beneficent Fraser will need to register the fraser.name domain and register the subdomains for neil, joe, jill, or whichever other fraser currently owns a tertiary domain. The same would be the case for anyone else who still held a tertiary domain. Perhaps Verisign or the registrars who work with them might be able to migrate the registrations of anyone with these domains, particularly in what I suspect are most cases where there is a single tertiary registration under a secondary domain. Perhaps offer fraser.name to Neil and he can add his own subdomains.

I was intending to replying to a different comment on the above thread, sorry if this made my previous reply a bit incoherent.

New comment by plorg in ".name Termination"

plorg — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:37:34 +0000

I own a .name domain that is an initialism for my wife and I, and Namecheap never gave me any problems adding a record for vpn.mwai.name, for example. In fact I never even realized you could register a 3LD, much less that this was the intended(?) behavior.

New comment by plorg in "The Defense-Tech Bubble Is Headed for Consolidation"

plorg — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:22:47 +0000

My mental model suggests that makes it more likely to have been crapped out by Claude.

New comment by plorg in "Wellington second-hand bookstore's mysterious orders"

plorg — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 05:32:37 +0000

If the book really is difficult to come by I don't know that I'd prefer it to only survive as a statistical approximation that can be mostly retrieved if you utter the correct incantation. The AI trainers don't care about the book. It's just a commodified stream of words.

New comment by plorg in "Judge sets framework for Nine PBS to retrieve archival data"

plorg — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 21:15:49 +0000

An Iron Mountain employee is quoted in this article saying basically that.

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

plorg — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 20:55:43 +0000

I get the sense that people who spend all day interacting with software can start to see every interaction, especially in online text platforms, as a kind of API or user interface. You might learn to instrumentalize your interactions and relationships with people. Chatbots, including coding agents, only reinforce this kind of behavior, as they don't have the kind of limits of patience or of bodily or emotional needs that humans have.

New comment by plorg in "How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)"

plorg — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:50:13 +0000

The zip files can be up to 50GB as well, but they recently changed something on the backend so that if you do use the zip option you may still get however many 50GB files then maybe a 1MB, a 7kB, and a 1GB file, I assume because of the way they parallelize the tasks. I don't know if the tar option behaves in the same way.

New comment by plorg in "Buyer cancels showing after Deflock shows two cameras utilized by the HOA"

plorg — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:33:45 +0000

Flock has also set themselves up on a way to intentionally make both themselves and their customers largely unaccountable to the public through legal channels.

New comment by plorg in "2026 Eclipse Webcams"

plorg — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:07:10 +0000

Oh, sure, this is just my rumination on experiencing something that seems so existential in such a solitary place.