Hacker News: spl757

New comment by spl757 in "Ask HN: Are orbital data centers possible / a good idea?"

spl757 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 03:33:56 +0000

They are impractical on the ground. Why anyone would think this is a good idea is byond me.

New comment by spl757 in "Amazon paid music subscription will soon include ads and lose downloads"

spl757 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:21:42 +0000

This is what Amazon did with Amazon Prime. I was paying for no ads, then they added ads and demanded a ransomm of $36/year to return to the no-ad experience I was already paying for. I cancelled Prime and vote with my wallet by not giving them money. I also had AWS cloud stuff. I pulled everything. I don't believe that should even be legal, and there is probably a regulation against it that just isn't being enforced because the like of Amazon vote with money, because corporations are people and money is speech. The entire economic system in the USA is designed to do one thing, and one thing only. Find every way possible to make sure money goes up from the poorest to the richest. Citizens United must go if we want to see adults running the country again in good faith and with common-sense regulations opn the wealthiest corporations, and those with monopolies. We we are seeing is what happens when capitalism no longer has gaurdrails to protect consumer. I'm not anti-capitalism, but I do argure that umnregulated capitalism is unsustainable, and regulation is necessary bot both the good of the corporations and more importainly, the midle-class down to the poorest amongst us. Consumer protection used to be a thing, but all of the agencies that were a bulwark against enshittification have been dismantled or destroyed completely. Corporations are not people, and money is not political speech. Enshittification couldn't happen the way it is now where there were things the Consumer Saftey Board and other organizations that made sure there's no lead in your kids toys.

New comment by spl757 in "Training our own AI models"

spl757 — Thu, 28 May 2026 03:28:49 +0000

CEOs and the like speak Weasel and only use Weasel Words.

New comment by spl757 in "Can we have the day off?"

spl757 — Thu, 28 May 2026 03:19:42 +0000

Channeling my inner-masteroftheworld, No.

New comment by spl757 in "CBS Radio signs off after nearly 100 years of broadcasting"

spl757 — Sun, 24 May 2026 06:05:33 +0000

work without the internet/power

New comment by spl757 in "Solving the “Zork” Mystery"

spl757 — Sun, 24 May 2026 02:24:33 +0000

Now they sprinkle dopamine rewards all over the place to incentivize the thirst for even more. Especially if there are ads shown every time you get that dopamine hit.

New comment by spl757 in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

spl757 — Sun, 24 May 2026 02:10:26 +0000

There are people with billions of dollars that want the population of the US to drop significantly. It's hard to control 300+ million people, and that many people can just remove unpopular governments by marching in the millions. Also, I believe the "Georgia Guidestones" if I'm not mistaken, that have writing about reducing the population of the USA to 500,000. I much more manageable number. Or maybe I'm just reading too much into things.

New comment by spl757 in "Time to talk about my writerdeck"

spl757 — Sat, 23 May 2026 22:22:11 +0000

I'm a proverbial greybeard and Ctrl+Alt+F7 used to just be what you did to get back to your desktop GUI.

FWIW, right now I'm typing this from Ubuntu Studio 24.04 and it's Ctrl+Alt+F2 to get back to the GUI. Ctrl+Alt+F1 shows you the bootup output scroll, +F3 to +F6 will give you a login prompt to drop into a shell. +F7 to +F12 just give me a blinking cursor un the upper right corner of the display.

I'm kinda surprised only +F3 to +F6 give me a shell login. Three isn't that many.

New comment by spl757 in "US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos"

spl757 — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:02:27 +0000

I'm just going to assume this is a bullshit distraction simply because of the source.

New comment by spl757 in "Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?"

spl757 — Fri, 01 May 2026 03:08:59 +0000

in response to most of this thread, the answer is summed up in one word.

greed

New comment by spl757 in "TN's Charlie Kirk Act bans student walkouts, protects conservative speakers"

spl757 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:52:26 +0000

Hate begets hate. Call for the death of others, and you might take a bullet to the throat and live just long enough to realize why this is happening to you and the irony.

New comment by spl757 in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

spl757 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:30:57 +0000

Sounds like it's time to abandon it for something new and more stupid

New comment by spl757 in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

spl757 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:29:57 +0000

90% spam/hack?

New comment by spl757 in "We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees"

spl757 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:27:13 +0000

You have a 99% email reputation with a company THAT IS NOT GOOGLE and that reputation scrore means fuck-all to Google. If you want to know what score GOOGLE is giving you, which is they metric that GOOOGLE uses, you can find that by signing up for Google Postmaster Tools. A 99% reputation with someone that has nothing to do with accepting ther email for final delivery is worthless marketing bullshit that you have fallen for.

New comment by spl757 in "Satellite mirror plans could disrupt sleep and ecosystems worldwide"

spl757 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:43:59 +0000

At first I thought this was just an April Fools post. ugh.

New comment by spl757 in "Iguanaworks has closed and our products are no longer sold"

spl757 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:20:47 +0000

I've used Flirc

New comment by spl757 in "Iguanaworks has closed and our products are no longer sold"

spl757 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:20:05 +0000

I used a Flirc many years ago for my mythtv DVR and it worked great. https://flirc.tv/

edit: I used the receiver, but they do make a remote. It looks cool but I have no experience with it.

New comment by spl757 in "Ask HN: Why isn't using AI in production considered stupid?"

spl757 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 08:47:55 +0000

Yes, AIs that hallucinate can all be used in different ways. But they can still all hallucinate, so I fail to see how what you are saying mitigates the fundamental, as yet to be solved, problem of AI hallucinations.

edit to say, what is the point, after all, of artificial intelligence if it's not used to make decisions? That's what it does. But ALL AI HALLUCINATES. Therefore, it's unreliable.

New comment by spl757 in "Ask HN: Why isn't using AI in production considered stupid?"

spl757 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 08:13:49 +0000

I agree that that is all true. And exceedingly fucking stupid.

New comment by spl757 in "Ask HN: Why isn't using AI in production considered stupid?"

spl757 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 08:12:44 +0000

What if the hammer has a problem where the handle breaks off randomly? Same thing happens with AI. Sometimes it breaks, randomly, and without any way of predicting it.