Hacker News: thallium205

New comment by thallium205 in "EFF is leaving X"

thallium205 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 23:52:41 +0000

Virtue signaling is priceless.

New comment by thallium205 in "In world without BlackBerry, physical keyboards on phones are making a comeback"

thallium205 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 22:14:17 +0000

Seriously. I recently switched to a minimal phone which has a physical keyboard. I was pretty stoked to have one again but then the space bar broke after a few weeks. The failure rendered the entire phone immediately useless just like that.

New comment by thallium205 in "We mourn our craft"

thallium205 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 04:54:14 +0000

Translation for Mgrs - it supercharges offshore immensely. ftfy

New comment by thallium205 in "FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled"

thallium205 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:59:12 +0000

On Pixel phones, Power + Volume Up retrieves a menu where you can select "Lockdown".

New comment by thallium205 in "CO2 batteries that store grid energy take off globally"

thallium205 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:09:42 +0000

Trees?

New comment by thallium205 in "'A full-blown crisis': Americans brace for a surge in healthcare costs"

thallium205 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:59:30 +0000

All house and senate GOP members voted "no" on ACA. Obamacare is a lot of things, but a "GOP healthcare plan" isn't one of those things.

New comment by thallium205 in "A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure"

thallium205 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 21:12:04 +0000

The author lists Starlink at 100mb/s down but I'm consistently getting around 400mb/s these days with the high performance dish and a commitment of gigabit speeds next year. He's got options.

New comment by thallium205 in "A monopoly ISP refuses to fix upstream infrastructure"

thallium205 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 15:26:22 +0000

FedEx

New comment by thallium205 in "Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright"

thallium205 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 23:35:57 +0000

Teslas always want the road to be as bright as possible for their self driving tech to work well.

New comment by thallium205 in "Two billion email addresses were exposed"

thallium205 — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:21:45 +0000

Many spammers will strip the +xxxx out of the emails anyway to not reveal the source of their data so it doesn't matter too much really.

New comment by thallium205 in "US may cut air traffic 10% by Friday without shutdown deal, sources say"

thallium205 — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 00:24:33 +0000

Airlines would pay them all personally if they were permitted.

Project Firewall to protect America's highly skilled workforce

thallium205 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:28:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/osec/osec20250919

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45308490

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by thallium205 in "Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage"

thallium205 — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 05:37:40 +0000

Looks like they restored service.

Starlink is currently experiencing a service outage

thallium205 — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 04:51:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.starlink.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45246229

Points: 71

# Comments: 94

New comment by thallium205 in "Fraudulent Publishing in the Mathematical Sciences"

thallium205 — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 01:24:07 +0000

Because the supply of academics have outpaced demand.

New comment by thallium205 in "Researchers find evidence of ChatGPT buzzwords turning up in everyday speech"

thallium205 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 22:28:41 +0000

Yep I prompt my AI to do that too.

New comment by thallium205 in "Fight Chat Control"

thallium205 — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 03:35:55 +0000

The punishment can include the death penalty too.

New comment by thallium205 in "Providing ChatGPT to the U.S. federal workforce"

thallium205 — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 15:45:31 +0000

I'd rather interact with an AI than federal workers 80% of the time.

New comment by thallium205 in "VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in"

thallium205 — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 16:08:22 +0000

"All VPN services must also perform age verification." Done.

New comment by thallium205 in "Beetroot juice lowers blood pressure by changing oral microbiome: study"

thallium205 — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 15:47:46 +0000

One of the problems with beetroot though is that it is loaded with sugar.