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New comment by robotbikes in "The new CC, an AI agent built for families"

robotbikes — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 01:41:39 +0000

Something like this could be helpful but nobody should be willing to give up their families privacy and autonomy to a cloud solution ran by Google that could disappear at any point in the future. This is the kind of thing you want to have some level of control over and the ability to keep it going as long as it’s useful vs. rely on a corporation that has made its money datamining everything we do to sell advertising. Either they’ll eventually abandon it or worse case figure out how to load it with surveillance to sell targeted ads.

New comment by robotbikes in "Introducing Ad Blocker for Firefox on iOS"

robotbikes — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 10:23:08 +0000

This is frustrating, I think this a great development as someone who has been a Firefox user from the beginning but just switched to iOS. I see this new feature advertised and then it’s just not there, I update, still gone. The FAQ should at least be updated to say, this feature is only available at random due to a progressive experimental roll out and they should mention what version it requires etc. At least be up front when promoting something. I suppose I’ll just have to wait and then check periodically for it to show up.

New comment by robotbikes in "U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative"

robotbikes — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:24:12 +0000

It looks like they're taking applications for training data (due August 14th), so I think it's safe to say this is just an announcement of intent and a call for involvement vs. something that is readily available. Seems almost quaint in comparison to the strategy of sucking up every piece of data you can find anywhere on the Internet and feeding it to your LLM but I suspect their intent is to be more careful in what they train their model on.

New comment by robotbikes in "Archive.org Is Offline"

robotbikes — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 04:38:50 +0000

As of right now there are no updates on social media accounts but archive.org is offline.

Archive.org Is Offline

robotbikes — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 04:38:50 +0000

Article URL: https://archive.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48965023

Points: 7

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New comment by robotbikes in "Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)"

robotbikes — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:27:55 +0000

Perfect analogy for AI actually a reverse butt-hole that sucks up the internet like a blackhole and then you go to it and it shits out as much of an answer as you are willing to feed it by massaging it with electrical stimulation. And now our digital world is being contaminated with all of this digital fecal matter further hastening the enshittingulatity.

New comment by robotbikes in "Governments, companies, nonprofits should invest in free, open source AI [pdf]"

robotbikes — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:48:01 +0000

It probably means the quality of a lot of our food is inferior and we overly rely upon heavily industrialized production, overly processed foods and exploitative labor.

I think that the obesity rate is a lot higher in the US than a lot of other OECD countries, so people aren't starving but its hard to say their nutritionally thriving.

That could be more attributed to the income gap and concentration of wealth in the US as well.

New comment by robotbikes in "Leaving Mozilla"

robotbikes — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:09:14 +0000

I mean the fact that a fork of FirefoxOS KaiOS is still around and being used shows that there was some merit to the idea but yeah it was executed as a start-up without a long-term plan but thanks to the open nature of the code its still in use.

It would be great if Mozilla as an organization tool the opposite approach of Google and if they started a project you knew it would be supported for the long run and if not internally it was handed over to the community of users and stewarded along, sort of how Apache seems to adopt projects but mostly for corporate/enterprise users.

New comment by robotbikes in "The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021)"

robotbikes — Sat, 16 May 2026 02:34:29 +0000

And I thought for a second they were talking about peer to peer meth but no that's what the DEA shut down by tightly controlling pseudoephedrine, where before meth using meth makers were making meth and distributing it.

It certainly seems like prohibition is just making things worse and making it more lucrative for the least ethical of black market producers.

Similar situation with fentanyl when compared to previous opiates.

New comment by robotbikes in "Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability"

robotbikes — Tue, 12 May 2026 04:55:32 +0000

The sociocultural dangers weren't the danger they were referring too, Claude Mythos was purported to be so powerful that if released to the public it would result in all software being 0-dayed and so they could only give select important groups access. Curl's analysis said ehh, it didn't really seem that much better.

Now people who are getting negatively affected because they think AI is more real and more intelligent than it actually is and get tricked by it, well that is dangerous but for different reasons.

New comment by robotbikes in "Maryland citizens hit with $2B power grid upgrade for out-of-state AI"

robotbikes — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:33:31 +0000

I was being diplomatic for sure, but the regulators are often also pretty much working for the utility companies, sometimes quite illegally if you look at the HB6 scandal in Ohio where the head of the PUCO Sam Randazzo took massive bribes. He never faced the charges in court because he ended his life.

New comment by robotbikes in "Maryland citizens hit with $2B power grid upgrade for out-of-state AI"

robotbikes — Mon, 11 May 2026 03:13:04 +0000

A lot of these rules happen at the regulatory level so lawmakers don't typically understand them in depth and get a lot of their explanations from utility lobbyists or the regulatory agency itself, if they even get involved or pay attention. The dramatic increases being directly linked to data centers is big enough for consumers to notice though.

That's why these independent counsels are pretty important such as the Maryland agency mentioned in this article. Since utilities at least on the distribution side are pretty much monopolies people have no choice but to pay the agreed rate.

New comment by robotbikes in "An AI coding agent, used to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs"

robotbikes — Mon, 11 May 2026 03:05:52 +0000

I think this is still the role of human oversight, these tools will forever be imperfect and the instructions we give them as prompts will always been prone to inaccuracies/misinterpretation. I find it useful to evaluate the code and often ask for simpler solutions and so far it has produced slightly more elegant solutions. The tendency to spawn helper functions to solve every problem or doing things in a slightly weird or at least unconvential way when there is an easier/standard way of doing it that would create less code. Your ideas if automated would definitely make things more maintainable but even code produced my machines require a human to be responsible for making sure/verifying it works.

New comment by robotbikes in "Task Paralysis and AI"

robotbikes — Sun, 10 May 2026 14:57:12 +0000

I have found the opposite to be true. I really like getting stuff done for people and struggled for years with all of the specific syntax and details of solving any particular problem. I have a relatively in-depth knowledge of computers and how they work and algorithms and the like but always struggled with the exact details of how to do something so it feels like a blessing to be able to spit ball some conceptual understanding and get back real code. I always struggled with making my ideas real before the novelty of the inspiration wore off unless I happened to get hyper focused on solving a particular problem.

Now I can step through everything in a way that it feels like a super power. I have enough sense and knowledge to I think intuit whether the solution being provided is bloated or perhaps even unnecessary and I can reiterate over it. I've just been using Cursor for work as I adopted a personal restriction to only use AI I can run on my own devices for personal use, but if I'm getting paid and the tools are provided I'm going to do my best to solve the problems that I'm confronted with and so far the LLM connected IDE has been helpful.

It's best in my experience when I use it as a tool to augment trouble shooting and brainstorming but when you are fixing one liner bugs in other people's side it's not like me typing the fix is very different from a machine auto completing it.

It might feel like cheating on a crossword puzzle but that is also something I do if I get stuck and the fun of solving the problem has become a time sink.

I think the real risk is if you don't understand conceptually what you are commiting anymore and I've tried to make sure that I always understand what and how the code is working and also understanding the pitfalls of being able to propose bullshit hypothesis that the agreeability of the LLM will go along with.

I've yet to seriously use a LLM for a personal project and when I tried to use Devstral that ran on my Nvidia 4090 it hallucinated so much that it wasn't super helpful but it still shot out boiler plate code that I could then spend time fixing and helped me overcome my own task paralysis regarding initiating.

New comment by robotbikes in "How Cloudflare responded to the “Copy Fail” Linux vulnerability"

robotbikes — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:26:30 +0000

I would assume it was about protecting their servers from internal sources escalating privileges vs. them providing publicly accessible Linux shells.

New comment by robotbikes in "DIY Soft Drinks"

robotbikes — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:01:53 +0000

A lot of small co-op groceries and even food co-ops that are more like ordering clubs used to use a company called UNFI to put in their orders but I think they focused more on organic and other high end items but they were willing to service smaller stores so yeah it's probable. There was also IGA (independent grocers association) but I think most of the stores associated with that brand/network locally have closed down so not sure if it's a thing anymore. Many of the independent convenience stores here stock almost all of their groceries at Aldi.

New comment by robotbikes in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

robotbikes — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 04:04:53 +0000

I once had an HP with an aluminum case and it had a grounded power supply but if you plugged it in without grounding his an adapter (sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do). You could feel it straight up vibrate while conducting current if you rubbed your hand over it. Not enough to shock me but it felt like kind of a shoddy design and leaked a lot more current than I've felt on a MacBook.

New comment by robotbikes in "How to talk to anyone and why you should"

robotbikes — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:45:04 +0000

I think a lot of it has to do with the somewhat complicated engagement protocol, if everyone assumes that nobody else wants to talk then it's easier to just keep your head down and at best nod or even avert eye contact but when someone extends a level of conversational courtesy I think people often respond in kind. My challenge is that I don't often have the impulse to break the ice but when I do and feel genuinely outgoing people tend to appreciate the chit chat even if it's just about the weather but I also have many moments of standing awkwardly in elevators silently ascending or walking down the street silently and even feeling awkward ordering food. Being able to consistently be outgoing I feel would be a net positive but I'm not sure what the trick is to just turn it on without it feeling forced.

New comment by robotbikes in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

robotbikes — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:37:17 +0000

I remember when they were briefly owned by Google (I think) and assembled the MotoX in the US so you could buy a bamboo or customized case. It had one of the first low power always listening CPUs to listen for you to say Ok Google. Once that didn't work out Lenovo bought them and they had decent but not many flagship midrange phones. Moving forward a phone with decent security running grapheneOS that isn't a Pixel sounds good especially considering how other manufacturers such as OnePlus are embracing AI integrations. I think a number of people get sold on Apple devices based on their purported security so this collab could bolster some sales, let's hope they make it work and keep it open. I'd buy another one especially if I could get a bamboo case.

New comment by robotbikes in "The ancient monuments saluting the winter solstice"

robotbikes — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:31:37 +0000

Ohio was populated with numerous earthworks, the Hopewell Earthworks finally being recognized as a UNESCO world heritage spot after being preserved for years by being used as a golf course. Unfortunately many of these have been lost as European settlers destroyed many of them. This continues to this day as Google is building a data center in central Ohio a top of land that was home to numerous native american burial mounds - https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/google-breaks-gro...