Hacker News: thinkingtoilet

New comment by thinkingtoilet in "Our position on open-weights models"

thinkingtoilet — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:34:21 +0000

I like how he cited the current Trump administration in section about stifling decent.

New comment by thinkingtoilet in "OpenAI Models Escaped and Hacked a Company in Cybersecurity Test Gone Wrong"

thinkingtoilet — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 16:13:52 +0000

I'm as skeptical of Open AI as the next guy, but what evidence could they provide to convince you? Surely it's just as easy to generate server logs and/or other items with AI to "prove" this happened.

New comment by thinkingtoilet in "Back to Kagi"

thinkingtoilet — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 14:05:10 +0000

Why is it bad if they're using other engines to produce results?

New comment by thinkingtoilet in "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber"

thinkingtoilet — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:23:08 +0000

All models are increasing in price. Everything up to now has been subsidized by investors, private and public.

New comment by thinkingtoilet in "SpaceX stock erases all its gains and slides below IPO price in intraday trading"

thinkingtoilet — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:44:34 +0000

Because he's a psychopath who is actively making the world worse. Anyone who stands on stage with a chain saw and cuts US AID with a smile on his face is a truly horrible person. Anyone who hoards a trillion dollars while others starve is a truly horrible person. Did you root for the Empire in Star Wars? I hope nothing but the worst for him so maybe someone with a conscious and a soul replaces him.

New comment by thinkingtoilet in "DEA to Temporarily Schedule 7-Oh and Related Substances to Protect Public Safety"

thinkingtoilet — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:17:11 +0000

This is the proper response. I'm sure heroin feels really really really good. The amount of addicts in this thread defending their addiction is surprising.

PS: Is that a Mr. Show reference?

New comment by thinkingtoilet in "DEA to Temporarily Schedule 7-Oh and Related Substances to Protect Public Safety"

thinkingtoilet — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:15:59 +0000

If it actually has beneficial uses let a doctor prescribe it. Kratom is extremely addictive and should be illegal yesterday.

New comment by thinkingtoilet in "New York becomes the first state to impose a data center moratorium"

thinkingtoilet — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:12:51 +0000

Let's be honest. There is a way to safely build data centers. Sensible laws could be made for them to build enough solar so they can power themselves or they are responsible for the cost of increasing capacity. Things like environmental impact and pollution need to be taken into account. However, since this is America, that won't happen. So companies will build these data centers in red states with little to no regulation and those people will pay for the increase in power capacity, the environmental and public health damages, etc...

New comment by thinkingtoilet in "Dua Lipa opens library for banned and censored books in Portugal"

thinkingtoilet — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:52:24 +0000

Isn't it good marketing though? If I'm a young person looking to read something on the edge, maybe it's not banned where I am but if it was banned somewhere else, that's intriguing. If the consequence is more people reading, I would argue it's far from inconsequential.

New comment by thinkingtoilet in "AI can't be listed as inventor on patent applications, Japan's top court rules"

thinkingtoilet — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:17:55 +0000

To make a shit ton of money.

New comment by thinkingtoilet in "AI can't be listed as inventor on patent applications, Japan's top court rules"

thinkingtoilet — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 18:14:18 +0000

> Why would anyone invest in drug studies?

To make a shit ton of money. These things are insanely profitable. Generics exist and they're still profitable. You can get 99% of drugs from over seas and they're still profitable. These companies make trillions of dollars over the years. Yes, they might make slightly less money, but they still would be making a shit ton of money.

New comment by thinkingtoilet in "PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform"

thinkingtoilet — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:17:04 +0000

My recent experience with PeerTube was to click on the OpenMW released video and the video didn't load. Is that a regular occurrence on PeerTube?

New comment by thinkingtoilet in "Meta loses bid to dismiss US states' claims that FB, Instagram addict children"

thinkingtoilet — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 21:30:52 +0000

Aren't we all! Man, if I could recommend anything it's walks. I'm a little bias because I live in a beautiful rural area. However, going for walks, no head phones, no phone, no videos, no podcasts, no audio books, no anything, is something I feel has really changed my life for the better.

New comment by thinkingtoilet in "Meta loses bid to dismiss US states' claims that FB, Instagram addict children"

thinkingtoilet — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:24:47 +0000

>Get used to reading books and going on walks.

As someone who does both, it's quite lovely! You might even be happier doing that than whatever it is the modern internet has become.

New comment by thinkingtoilet in "The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting"

thinkingtoilet — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:49:08 +0000

There is literally a video linked in the source. How about you read the article next time.

New comment by thinkingtoilet in "The US ambassador had Belgian police stop our reporting"

thinkingtoilet — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:41:39 +0000

Does it matter? Should they have been kicked out of an event they were invited to for asking a reasonable question? Why are you asking about a news organization and not an extremely fragile man-baby who can't take a tough question?

New comment by thinkingtoilet in "Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech"

thinkingtoilet — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:26:37 +0000

What right to privacy do you have online? For the record, I am fully against this but people just throw the word "right" around. In another thread here people had a "right" to Anthropic's latest model. It almost becomes a joke. You have a right not to use the internet, but if you do the government can make laws, however shitty, if they want to. Relying on "rights" as an argument fails quickly in my opinion. You have a right to buy a gun, but a lot of places require verification. You have the right to be alcohol or porn, but that requires age verification. What right do you have to go online without providing verification? If you can't provide a legal basis, come up with a better argument because yours is easily dismissed.

New comment by thinkingtoilet in "45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero"

thinkingtoilet — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 15:17:42 +0000

https://fieldreport.caes.uga.edu/publications/TP121/how-data...

New comment by thinkingtoilet in "45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero"

thinkingtoilet — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:21:22 +0000

Yes. The hot water the datacenters dump destroys local ecosystems.

New comment by thinkingtoilet in "Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place"

thinkingtoilet — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:57:07 +0000

>bypassing for-profit operators such as western union and paypal as well as hinders corrupt government institutions from confiscating or otherwise devaluing what you own

There are transaction fees so you're still paying someone. And the it's not government taking what you own, it's scammers!