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New comment by s0ss in "GenRec: Towards LLM-Native Recommendation at Netflix"

s0ss — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 19:44:49 +0000

No, they definitely don’t care about what individual users think. They want to make the cheapest shows possible that get views. This is why they cancel shows people love. Not enough people love them. It’s not about making “good” content. It’s only about views/subscriptions. A platform that had great content that used user opinions would be nice to use, but the enshitification of publicly traded companies would prevent that from happening.

New comment by s0ss in "GenRec: Towards LLM-Native Recommendation at Netflix"

s0ss — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:24:32 +0000

I dont think they care about what your opinion is.

New comment by s0ss in "What the FCC Ban on Foreign-Made Robot Vacuums Means for U.S. Consumers"

s0ss — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 14:07:30 +0000

Yeah, sorry, my point is that simply copy/pasting a press release isn’t satisfying my curiosity.

New comment by s0ss in "What the FCC Ban on Foreign-Made Robot Vacuums Means for U.S. Consumers"

s0ss — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:30:29 +0000

I am unsatisfied with the reporting about why this is happening. The article explanation has almost no substance. What are the specific details?

New comment by s0ss in "Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models"

s0ss — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:44:34 +0000

yeah, I'm not sure what your goal is pedantically picking apart my argument when the subject at hand is clearly not "open source". love xkcd though. :P

New comment by s0ss in "Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models"

s0ss — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:42:23 +0000

I vehemently disagree. There's no source and it's not open, the licenses are often abysmal too.

New comment by s0ss in "Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models"

s0ss — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:23:21 +0000

open source gives you freedom to read/edit/learn from the source code. Open weights don't let you read/edit/learn from the source. open wights have more in common with traditional binary distribution of software, ala closed source software. Only in this specific context has the entire meaning of the words totally inverted.

I can run lots of binaries on my computer that don't have source available, they are not open source. These words matter.

New comment by s0ss in "Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models"

s0ss — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:45:22 +0000

You can choose to use the wrong words all you want. Doing so intentionally is an interesting choice.

New comment by s0ss in "Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models"

s0ss — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:35:18 +0000

This is not open source; you mean open weight. These models are the antithesis of FOSS. Is it better than hosted models from other big labs? Yes, but not by much from a freedom perspective. especially considering the texts these were trained on. Grumble grumble, these details matter.

New comment by s0ss in "Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models"

s0ss — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:25:34 +0000

Open source != open weight. Big difference and it bugs me that nobody seems to care about using the right words in only this context.

New comment by s0ss in "DeepSeek costs OpenCode Go user $1.14/day; dual DGX breaks even in 24 years"

s0ss — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:34:42 +0000

He’s asking you to elaborate as to why you say it’s not a big deal. Claims with reasoned arguments are more productive. Otherwise you’re just shouting hot takes without any backing. Show your work.

New comment by s0ss in "Everything you do is being recorded"

s0ss — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:21:14 +0000

They’re talking about having personas for different purposes. Very simplified Example: Only talking about topic XYZ over tor with good opsec; talking about topic ABC openly.

New comment by s0ss in "FCC moves to ban Lidar-equipped foreign drones from US"

s0ss — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:17:13 +0000

No, it very much depends on the application, what you're trying to do. Different tools for different jobs. Don't conflate.

New comment by s0ss in "BYOC Anywhere: The Spectrum of Bring Your Own Cloud Deployments"

s0ss — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 15:26:57 +0000

To me, BYOC will always mean "bring your own computer", which is amusing in this context.

New comment by s0ss in "Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did"

s0ss — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:34:20 +0000

I don’t have any data on that because chromium derivatives aren’t installed, haha. It’s not a matter of “does it work”. It’s philosophical.

New comment by s0ss in "Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did"

s0ss — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:24:35 +0000

Inferior alternative

New comment by s0ss in "Microsoft Edge is about to lock out older ad blockers, just like Chrome did"

s0ss — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 14:23:41 +0000

Advertising companies shouldn’t be in the browser business. It’s a really bad conflict of interest. Chromium is a mistake.

Firefox is pretty great. But IMO they have some poor ux defaults that make it unappealing to random people who simply want a browser.

New comment by s0ss in "AI agents fake identities, target real people in new security incident"

s0ss — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:21:13 +0000

The same companies who have allowed this to happen all stand to benefit from regulatory capture. Yup.

New comment by s0ss in "US agency ends 39% household cap on local TV station owners"

s0ss — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:02:49 +0000

Citation needed

New comment by s0ss in "Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership"

s0ss — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:16:22 +0000

most people aren't hn readers. broadcast tv is far from useless in 2026, that's how many normies watch tv.