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New comment by seethishat in "Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards"

seethishat — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:17:01 +0000

Yes, I see your point. You could argue that humans, too, are trained to produce expected outputs (family, societal and peer pressure, etc.).

New comment by seethishat in "Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards"

seethishat — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:05:25 +0000

Because it is common sense.

This is software trained to produce outputs. It doesn't feel anything.

New comment by seethishat in "Humanity has the debate about AI consciousness backwards"

seethishat — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:47:04 +0000

LLMs are trained to produce outputs that humans would find reasonable. That's it. They don't do anything else.

To say they have feelings and that they can think/reason is insane.

New comment by seethishat in "Cancer-related mortality among US pilots and flight attendants"

seethishat — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:51:03 +0000

I read once that a CT scan is roughly equivalent to 1000 hours of flight WRT radiation exposure. I've had about 6 or 8 of those over the years.

New comment by seethishat in "Grand jury declines to indict Ohio man charged with destroying Flock camera"

seethishat — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:06:58 +0000

Property damage is a crime.

I don't object to Flock cameras or any other public cameras. But if I did, I would write to my congress person rather than commit a crime and destroy someone's property.

New comment by seethishat in "Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013)"

seethishat — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:58:14 +0000

I know it is not a popular opinion. But it is my opinion.

Do you seriously think that governments need Flock cameras when they have Apple, Microsoft and Google?

New comment by seethishat in "Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013)"

seethishat — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:53:12 +0000

People cite Flock as an example of this. Yet the same people walk around with iPhones and Android devices that can record conversations (who talks to whom at what times and for how long), know our exact locations and log everything we do online.

If I had told you 30 years ago that we are going to build a surveillance network and make the people we are tracking pay for it all you would have laughed me out of the room. But that is what we have built. The modern Smart Phone.

Now we use our iPhones to complain about cameras on public roads as if they are watching us.

New comment by seethishat in "The Two Factions of C++ (2024)"

seethishat — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:19:12 +0000

Go is good enough for many tasks. Google wrote that as a replacement for C++ too. I guess Carbon is intended to be more for systems programming? Go had that intent initially, but soon realized that's not a good fit.

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

seethishat — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:17:53 +0000

Why is it OK for everyone to carry a surveillance device (smart phone) everywhere they go, but installing a camera on a public roadway is not OK?

I don't understand the hatred for Flock. And I don't think the complainers see the irony of tweeting complaints about Flock from their iPhones.

New comment by seethishat in "France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s"

seethishat — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:40:39 +0000

They all use Zyn now.

New comment by seethishat in "France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s"

seethishat — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:33:43 +0000

The Internet was built for adults. Then, we gave kids tablets and phones. Now, decades later, we have a problem. Kids see things meant for adults.

Maybe we need an adult only portion of the Internet and verify identity only on that (like bars do to keep out kids).

New TLD maybe? .adult

New comment by seethishat in "I hate packaging my software for Linux"

seethishat — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:09:37 +0000

From a historical perspective... Debian and Redhat brought package management to Linux 30 years ago. That's why so many other distros were built on top of them.

And now today, we have a lot of new packages mangers on top of that, which has increased complexity a lot.

If I wanted to publish tools/programs, I would distribute the source code and let each distro decide how/if they want to package it. I would not try to do this myself. It's not a reasonable thing to do.

New comment by seethishat in "OpenSSH 10.5/10.5p1"

seethishat — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:41:29 +0000

This is why I keep a ~/.ssh/config file. I store all the hosts and various connection parameters (uernames, alternate ports, keys, etc.) in that file.

Would that work for you?

2026 Defcon Password Cracking Contest

seethishat — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:24:04 +0000

Article URL: https://contest-2026.korelogic.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49101837

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by seethishat in "GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search"

seethishat — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:45:20 +0000

It is illegal to lie to a police officer in the US. It's better to remain silent than to tell a lie. Giving a false PIN is a lie. And that by itself is a crime.

I'm not taking sides here, I just wanted to make that clear.

And you should understand that they can lie to you. That's OK and legal, but you cannot lie to them.

New comment by seethishat in "OpenBSD has a use-after-free allowing local privilege escalation to root"

seethishat — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:50:54 +0000

They appreciate technical correctness and they do not exaggerate. Most 'security researchers' are not technically correct and they exaggerate a lot (seeking fame and all).

Dismissing their claims is not being selective, it's just the right thing to do.

New comment by seethishat in "US Food and Drug Administration rejects petition to set PFAS limits in food"

seethishat — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:33:34 +0000

I'm not sure there are any regulations around opting to do that in the US. Do you have a phlebotomist friend? If so, they might do it for you, but it can be risky and they might not want to take the risk, get sued, etc.

It is an interesting question. Are there companies that draw and discard?

New comment by seethishat in "FDA rejects petition to set PFAS limits in food"

seethishat — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 14:08:42 +0000

Yes... travel, tattoos, drug use and sexual behavior can and should disqualify a person from donating blood.

New comment by seethishat in "FDA rejects petition to set PFAS limits in food"

seethishat — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:53:48 +0000

Doing whole blood donations seems to significantly reduce PFAS in the blood. Here's one paper:

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

Edit: This also helps others who are in accidents, car wrecks, have Cancer, etc. Yes, we pass on the PFAS to others, but the immediate need for blood is more urgent than the potential long term impacts of PFAS.

New comment by seethishat in "Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor"

seethishat — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:39:17 +0000

No backdoor is secure. Read the "Keys under Doormats" paper from 2015:

https://www.schneier.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/paper-ke...