Hacker News: secretsatan

New comment by secretsatan in "September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy"

secretsatan — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:59:00 +0000

How do you propose to end the war without negotiations?

New comment by secretsatan in "Pirating the Pirates"

secretsatan — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:21:16 +0000

I think it’s true for a lot of BBC shows, many had great music, but the BBC also ran hugely popular radio stations and i think it was through that they were able to license a large amount of music.

New comment by secretsatan in "Pentagon weighs pulling nearly a third of U.S. forces from Europe"

secretsatan — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 08:30:20 +0000

I’d say they turned the whole administration into the circus as they’re running it like a reality tv show

New comment by secretsatan in "LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features"

secretsatan — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 19:03:07 +0000

I switched to LibreOffice just recently, but only because i’d been happy with OpenOffice for years and only recently decided to see if there was an update and found out it had been discontinued in 2011.

It was still working fine for me tbh, but i thought better to update to something newer.

New comment by secretsatan in "US police fear Meta smart glasses could be used to secretly record them"

secretsatan — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:59:55 +0000

I think they’re only happy when they can control what will be released.

New comment by secretsatan in "Controversy over OpenAI's Maths Breakthrough"

secretsatan — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:39:40 +0000

I do wonder if perhaps LLMs take credit from some mathematicians working in obscurity in some dark corner of the web, it’s not unheard of for some to be reclusive. Perhaps someone completely unaware that they might have sovled something someone else considers important.

New comment by secretsatan in "216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]"

secretsatan — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 11:51:38 +0000

Ahhh, i had that with my ps5 and a couple of games were terrible in hiqh quality graphics mode, shutting down the ps5, and then through hdmi, would turn off the tv.

Both games weren’t particularly intensive, the one i remember last was divinity original sin 2, but i think both games ran on unity.

Performance mode mostly fixed it, but blowing out several years of dust from the vents properly sorted it out.

New comment by secretsatan in "LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices"

secretsatan — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 10:27:11 +0000

Most tvs now come with auto off kou have to cancel with a button press, prob just that.

Normally they show a warning, but i just got a new tcl, and it’s warning is very short leading to shutdown if you don’t pause quick enough to reset it

New comment by secretsatan in "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"

secretsatan — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:19:53 +0000

You think there wasn’t right wing toxicity before?

New comment by secretsatan in "Xcancel and Nitter have been taken down"

secretsatan — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:27:40 +0000

But it’s still supporting a man who’s a toxic as they come and working hard to distort reality and undermine democracy, you won’t wash that toxic off.

New comment by secretsatan in "The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding"

secretsatan — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 04:37:57 +0000

Adding to this, i think llms are just part of their game, they know well enough they aren’t accurate, but it plays into comments like this, where we’ll think an llm would make a smarter decision, but it’s just a smokescreen, they’re already looking at gaming the bots, musk trying to get grok to abide by his petty worldview is the most obvious ploy. But they’re already obfuscating sources of information as a matter of course, soon, we won’t know anything anymore, we’ll have to trust their machines.

New comment by secretsatan in "The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding"

secretsatan — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 04:29:52 +0000

They did though, an llm filter is just as dumb. Don”t they have those interviews with the edgelord doge employees trying to justify the stuff they killed?

New comment by secretsatan in "The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding"

secretsatan — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 03:32:53 +0000

It’s the usual stuff, they shut down speech on all sorts of topics, like the superiority of white christian men over everyone else

New comment by secretsatan in "Happy 45th Birthday to the IBM PC and Model F/XT"

secretsatan — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 03:03:24 +0000

Ah jeez, that makes me feel old. It’s particularly impactful as my dad worked in the computer industry at the time of the transition and the firm he worked for were a little late to the game. They limped on for years but ultimately failed.

My first pc ran CP/M

New comment by secretsatan in "England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C"

secretsatan — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 22:44:18 +0000

Here’s an earlier article from another leftist site https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/apr/25/mmr-scare-an...

New comment by secretsatan in "England set to be one of the first countries to eliminate hepatitis C"

secretsatan — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:55:48 +0000

Well that’s just not true, anti vax has always been a theme of the far right, infowars and i’m sure others have a long history of it.

The left wing libs types are far more recent, and i would lump them more in with the wellness brigade.

New comment by secretsatan in "Why some people mow a lawn better than others"

secretsatan — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 20:07:13 +0000

Better is subjective here i think, what about laying some nice stripes or diamonds? How do you work in some aesthetics and still stay efficient?

New comment by secretsatan in "Dubious research tied to Red Bull has shaped energy drink policy"

secretsatan — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 11:36:57 +0000

I had a night out once and drank far, far too many vodka redbulls, felt awful for days afterwards, since then, just a wiff of an energy drink makes me feel nauseous.

New comment by secretsatan in "The Elevator Button Problem"

secretsatan — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:31:04 +0000

I’ve seen bizarre lift behaviour, the one that gets me are the people who get in a lift, then don’t select the floor, they just seem to think the lift would take them to the correct one (our company had exclusive use of one floor, so they weren’t going there)

New comment by secretsatan in "UEFA and its national associations will not participate in FIFA competitions"

secretsatan — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 03:36:10 +0000

Perhaps the ref may turn a blind eye?