Hacker News: tfigment

New comment by tfigment in "The case for banning children from social media"

tfigment — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 00:46:32 +0000

My concern with child proofing other than I don't think it works is that it starts impacting me directly. No more sign up with email, now I i have to produce credit card or government ID or similar. Which I don't trust sites to protect anyway. Google has been bugging me for two years asking for my birthday on a 20 year old account to comply with laws like this. It can vote, its over 13.

New comment by tfigment in "What if AI didn't make you a bad writer, but a better thinker?"

tfigment — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 15:58:00 +0000

Still hard to trust. Many companies save info for training/qa purposes and hide details in obscure language. Voice assistants for example. Didn't Roomba get in trouble recently regarding photos uploaded and then shared with contractors for qa that ultimately shared the embarrasing photos more publicly.

New comment by tfigment in "Investigation on the effect of oral breathing on cognitive activity (2021)"

tfigment — Fri, 30 Dec 2022 14:34:01 +0000

Its way older than 5 years old. Wonderfalls (2004) had a character refered to the mouth breather in derogatory way. I know my brother used that in similar way growing up but im sure there are better/older references but those are mine.

New comment by tfigment in "Chris Seaton has died"

tfigment — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 16:32:14 +0000

You are not alone. I think it goes all the way back to high school or middle school for me. Its when you realize the gold star stickers were behavior manipulation or something and then see it everywhere.

New comment by tfigment in "People tricking ChatGPT “like watching an Asimov novel come to life”"

tfigment — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 18:44:54 +0000

I think you miss their point which is that has led to a large number of security bugs. Because it is then path to exploits and sloppiness which then cannot be corrected because of backward compatibility or such.

New comment by tfigment in "Effective Altruism Is about Getting Rich with a Clean Conscience"

tfigment — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 18:06:07 +0000

Felix Salmon on Slate Money podcast this past weekend suggest that its still net positive given alternative is those people don't even try to make world better. More nuanced than that but my take on the position.

New comment by tfigment in "Flu and colds are back with a vengeance"

tfigment — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 16:33:23 +0000

That was one of purposes though. If every one caught COVID at the same time then hospitals would be overrun and some people would die as a result of lack of access. Masking and isolation flattened the curve to spread it out over longer time. Also allowed time for less deadly versions to overtake so when you did get it then it was less bad in general.

New comment by tfigment in "Portmaster 1.0 – Open-Source Network Monitor and Privacy Firewall"

tfigment — Sat, 05 Nov 2022 16:00:36 +0000

I've been using for about 6 months and I think its a good product. I suddenly needed a new firewall as Comodo Firewall doesn't work well with VPN I have to use (it cannot block anything). This stepped up like a champ in preventing unwanted networking behavior from Microsoft and others. The Notify Task has some times been weird but 1.0 seems to work well for me. The fact that i can point at my local DNScrypt instance is nice. I need to explore SPN more and see if it would work better than VPN for me or not.

New comment by tfigment in "T-Mobile will start charging a $35 fee on all new activations and upgrades"

tfigment — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 17:10:59 +0000

I prepay w/ tmobile for 30/mo. No wifi directly but can use google voice for that.

New comment by tfigment in "Never trust a system that seems to be working"

tfigment — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 16:26:49 +0000

1-5 V is also common. You can convert between the 2 with a resistor.

New comment by tfigment in "Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch"

tfigment — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 18:09:36 +0000

Its very micro but also some macro. Very factorio-esk. When they add combat and hopefully other ways to use energy I will return and waste vast amounts of time again trying to avoid spaghetti (unsuccessfully).

New comment by tfigment in "Is the internet killing the nude beach?"

tfigment — Thu, 01 Sep 2022 05:37:02 +0000

Facebook used to do that for you though maybe that has been curtailed? The tech is there in any case.

New comment by tfigment in "Poll HN: Do you use SSH certificates (not mere public-key authentication)?"

tfigment — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 13:16:31 +0000

You add the intermediate key to config for trust. You do not need authorized_keys files for each user. Good for team and central management and faster key rotation but then needs trusted intermediate authority which is secure. No password or key rotation on machine itself which is good if you have a lot of machines.

New comment by tfigment in "Google cracks down on VPN based adblockers"

tfigment — Mon, 29 Aug 2022 12:37:45 +0000

Cannot give specific site of hand but for me its SPA sites and the page is just blank.

New comment by tfigment in "Korea shatters its own record for world’s lowest fertility rate"

tfigment — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 10:37:19 +0000

I can only speak from personal experience but that is what happened to my family. My brother is a sociopath who caused our family a lifetime of difficulty. The biological mother was drug addict and abusive before adoption and he became an addict. My sister also adopted from different family was less of a problem but also had some issues. My dad was very kind and not abusive and spent way too much trying to help. Who knows maybe it was environment and early abuse or something but nature stacked the deck I think in my family. The other issue with adoption is limited access to family medical history.

New comment by tfigment in "“We kill people based on metadata” and other metadata things"

tfigment — Wed, 24 Aug 2022 18:27:16 +0000

The definition of war has become extremely loose in modern times.

New comment by tfigment in "Whatever Happened to Plasma TVs?"

tfigment — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 03:45:16 +0000

I had a Panasonic from about 2008. It finally started having image burn-in problems and some yellowing from too much CNN on in the background. It had great speakers and rich colors until near the end. The Samsung I replaced it with is terrible in so many ways. Had to buy a sound bar to fix the audio. the color is not as rich. It has tearing issues with faster movements like when watching sports. I would get rid of it but not sure other options are better and hate contributing to e-waste.

New comment by tfigment in "Resolving an unusual WiFi issue"

tfigment — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 04:59:56 +0000

My company "allows" USB sticks but they will encrypt any files on it with key tied to that machine. Had a tech updated a config file when after this was silently rolled out and poof line down for the day as it couldnt be used to reimage systems on the embedded pcs.

New comment by tfigment in "How fast is 12th Gen Intel Core?"

tfigment — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 12:38:30 +0000

My company has some McAfee and Palo Alto stuff and the cyvera cloud backup software which scans every file every 4 hours but then triggers the other software because of access attempts. Some of these are suites so its 3-4 diferent things (firewall, dlp, antivirus, ...)

New comment by tfigment in "Ask HN: Where should I move to meet interesting tech people?"

tfigment — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 16:10:19 +0000

US taxes world income with some credit for foreign taxes paid. So if you don't have to pay taxes twice its easier and cheaper. Speaking from experience especially around investments.