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New comment by sfdlkj3jk342a in "Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem"

sfdlkj3jk342a — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 11:31:47 +0000

When using the web interface for ChatGPT like this, is there any way to tell which model is actually being used?

New comment by sfdlkj3jk342a in "Nvidia NemoClaw"

sfdlkj3jk342a — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 02:56:58 +0000

> I think insecure/dangerous Claw-agents could be useful but cannot be made safe

Isn't it a question of when they will be "safe enough"? Many people already have human personal assistants, who have access to many sensitive details of their personal lives. The risk-reward is deemed worth it for some, despite the non-zero chance that a person with that access will make mistakes or become malicious.

It seems very similar to the point when automated driving becomes safe enough to replace most human drivers. The risks of AI taking over are different than the risks of humans remaining in control, but at some point I think most will judge the AI risks to have a better tradeoff.

New comment by sfdlkj3jk342a in "Exploring the ocean with Raspberry Pi–powered marine robots"

sfdlkj3jk342a — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 04:13:22 +0000

I bet there are some people building cool things for narco cartels with similar parts..

New comment by sfdlkj3jk342a in "Arm's Cortex X925: Reaching Desktop Performance"

sfdlkj3jk342a — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 10:21:13 +0000

Zoom works fine with Firefox on Android.

New comment by sfdlkj3jk342a in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

sfdlkj3jk342a — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:09:30 +0000

What's wrong with a Chinese owned company? As someone who has no plans to step foot in China, I'd much rather be spied on by the Chinese than the US or EU.

New comment by sfdlkj3jk342a in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

sfdlkj3jk342a — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0000

I don't think the EU wants FOSS phones. If anything they'll push regulations that make them illegal to own. They want backdoors for all of your communication.

New comment by sfdlkj3jk342a in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

sfdlkj3jk342a — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 11:24:05 +0000

There already is a means to keep children away from toxic content: parents (possibly with the help of locally run content blocking software).

New comment by sfdlkj3jk342a in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

sfdlkj3jk342a — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:40:27 +0000

Bubblewrap containers to keep all of my environments separate on my laptop works just fine without giving up control to Google.

New comment by sfdlkj3jk342a in "Grok 4.20 Beta"

sfdlkj3jk342a — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 17:15:17 +0000

Do you happen to know what model "Grok Expert" is currently using?

Expert has consistently produced better results than 4.1 for me, so I'm curious if anything has changed with the release of 4.20.

New comment by sfdlkj3jk342a in "Oat – Ultra-lightweight, zero dependency, semantic HTML, CSS, JS UI library"

sfdlkj3jk342a — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 11:13:32 +0000

> I love it. We need to see more of this.

> Use of semantic elements is an interesting take. I'll give it a try.

> Thank you for this, can’t wait to use. Minimalism at its best.

> Good one. Presentation is good too. Thanks

These are the kind of comments you see from Indians paid to boost Youtube content.

New comment by sfdlkj3jk342a in "Omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia"

sfdlkj3jk342a — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 19:47:52 +0000

That's evidence of possible low-level protective mechanisms, but what really matters in the end is the effect on cognition, which in RCTs have favored DHA.

New comment by sfdlkj3jk342a in "Omega-3 is inversely related to risk of early-onset dementia"

sfdlkj3jk342a — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 19:01:47 +0000

Your link doesn't say anything about dementia. Do you have any source that shows EPA is more beneficial than DHA?

What I found from a quick search says the opposite:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4019002/

New comment by sfdlkj3jk342a in "YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other browsers"

sfdlkj3jk342a — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 09:33:20 +0000

Still working on IronFox (Firefox fork) on Android with the Video Background Fix extension.

New comment by sfdlkj3jk342a in "We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports"

sfdlkj3jk342a — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 14:59:04 +0000

> Is this cultural?

Absolutely. I've been traveling for the last 10 years and lived in 50+ countries. I believe that all cultures have unique pros and cons and that the cultural diversity of the world is an amazing thing. There are good and bad people everywhere, so I rarely leave a place with such a strong opinion as the multiple times I've been to India. I really wanted to love India because of their rich history and diversity, but I ended up leaving with a feeling that their culture is overwhelmingly objectively bad.

New comment by sfdlkj3jk342a in "A Social Filesystem"

sfdlkj3jk342a — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 06:32:18 +0000

Sounds interesting, but I can't find any links to an actual live B2C storefront..

New comment by sfdlkj3jk342a in "European Majority favours more social media regulation"

sfdlkj3jk342a — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 06:18:52 +0000

> today most “social” media is not people

Do you have any evidence to support that?

People frequently claim the majority of social media is "bots", but I highly doubt that.

New comment by sfdlkj3jk342a in "Texas app store age verification law blocked by federal judge"

sfdlkj3jk342a — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 04:59:30 +0000

In the end, we are at the mercy of those with power. Laws are just a way to make their decisions appear fair and appease the masses. If you piss off enough the wrong person with power, it doesn't matter what the laws say, you'll get screwed.

New comment by sfdlkj3jk342a in "If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?"

sfdlkj3jk342a — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 12:47:20 +0000

> The moment you need C’s performance or assembly’s precision, you’ve crossed into territory that demands human accountability.

I disagree. I write a lot of one-off numerical simulations where something quick and dirty is useful but performance matters and the results can be easily verified without analyzing every line of code. Python would be a terrible choice.

New comment by sfdlkj3jk342a in "Fighting the age-gated internet"

sfdlkj3jk342a — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 14:58:50 +0000

Do you think the main force is misplaced good intentions (which I assume is what drives Ashton Kutcher) or more sinister intentional efforts to harm the public?

New comment by sfdlkj3jk342a in "Fighting the age-gated internet"

sfdlkj3jk342a — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 14:46:22 +0000

I think it's possible that there are secretive efforts to destroy permissionless access to the internet, but my guess is that states are simply copying each other and/or global conditions are similar enough that they naturally come to the same conclusions around the same time.

A somewhat analogous situation is how landlords raise rents in sync with each other, not because they're intentionally colluding to fix prices, but because nowadays it's easy to see average rental prices in neighborhoods, and the natural strategy is to set your rental prices based on that.