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Liquix commented on AI's real superpower: consuming, not creating   msanroman.io/blog/ai-cons... · Posted by u/firefoxd
wyre · 14 hours ago
I think it's ability to consume information is one of the scarier aspects of AI. NSA, other government, and multi-national corporations have years of our individual browsing and consumption patterns. What happens when AI is analyzing all of that information exponentially faster than any human code and communicating with relevant parties for their own benefit, to predict or manipulate behavior, build psychological profiles, identify vulnerabilities, etc.

It's incredibly amusing to me reading some people's comments here critical of AI, that if you didn't know any better, might make you think that AI is a worthless technology.

Liquix · 13 hours ago
> What happens when AI is analyzing all of that information...

They run simulations against N million personality models, accurately predicting the outcome of any news story/event/stimulus. They use this power to shape national and global events to their own ends. This is what privacy and digital sovereignty advocates have been warning the public about for over a decade, to no avail.

Liquix commented on 8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions   koi.ai/blog/urban-vpn-bro... · Posted by u/takira
H8crilA · 2 days ago
Do you think Google wants to have the extensions system, given that this is how people block ads?
Liquix · 2 days ago
adblockers on chromium-based browsers were severely crippled by manifest V3. they're fine with extenisons (and apparently malware) as long as users can't effectively block their tracking/ads.
Liquix commented on SoundCloud has banned VPN access   old.reddit.com/r/SoundClo... · Posted by u/empressplay
everdrive · 3 days ago
More will follow. I hope you collected what you need. For anything truly valuable, record the audio during playback and manually enter the metadata.
Liquix · 3 days ago
> record the audio during playback and manually enter the metadata

there are more elegant solutions similar to yt-dlp. scdl is very user friendly and automatically embeds metadata.

https://github.com/scdl-org/scdl

https://github.com/miraclx/freyr-js

Liquix commented on Sick of smart TVs? Here are your best options   arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/fleahunter
reacharavindh · 5 days ago
Am I missing something? I have a LG nano something TV that has many “smart” features, but I never let it connect to my WiFi ever. Since day 1 it has been hooked up to an AppleTV. Can I not buy any fancy smart TV in 2025 and use it as a dumb HDMI display for AppleTV?
Liquix · 5 days ago
the issue is that eventually SIM cards will be baked in to deliver ads and spyware; there will be no alternatives because everyone was fine with buying smart TVs and not connecting them to wifi.

see: Android's recent transformation into a closed platform which no longer allows users to control devices they purchase. it's important to fight against trends like this loudly and vehemently while we still can.

Liquix commented on CoMaps emerges as an Organic Maps fork   lwn.net/Articles/1024387/... · Posted by u/altilunium
Krasnol · a month ago
It is sad to see in discussions like this how ugly human behaviour can be. Many people work together to create something good and meaningful only for a few greedy individuals to exploit it.

I hope that one day, in a distant future, humanity will experience an awakening and finally rise against the destructive traits we inherited from our long-gone ancestors.

Maybe bio-hacking will come to our help...but probably it will make everything worse first.

Related: https://newatlas.com/biology/evolution-modern-life-anthropoc...

Liquix · a month ago
uh, i think "related" is used a bit too loosely here...
Liquix commented on Adventures in upgrading Proxmox   blog.vasi.li/adventures-i... · Posted by u/speckx
MallocVoidstar · a month ago
You told an LLM to generate three possible responses to HN articles and then just started pasting all three?
Liquix · a month ago
it seems like a bot or LLM "user", all their other comments feature the same broken quotes and nonsense responses
Liquix commented on Your smartphone, their rules: App stores enable corporate-government censorship   aclu.org/news/free-speech... · Posted by u/pabs3
lenerdenator · a month ago
This is why a real, committed FLOSS OS is needed for smartphones. Something like how Debian works. You have a non-commercial entity steering the project, it has a governance model, and the goal is to create something that ultimately, no one owns or can take full control over.
Liquix · a month ago
there are plenty of "real" open source mobile OSes. the issue is third party apps. if Debian couldn't run NGINX, Apache, Docker, Kubernetes, etc, it wouldn't matter how mature or solid the OS is, because 90% of software people want to run on a server doesn't work.

if FAANG apps and banking apps don't run on a mobile OS it will never be viable. the government, these big companies, and the device manufacturers all have a vested interest in making sure it never happens.

Liquix commented on Core Devices keeps stealing our work   rebble.io/2025/11/17/core... · Posted by u/jdauriemma
gregbot · a month ago
What is this data that Core wants exactly? Are old pebble apps compatible with the new devices?

Edit: under what license did rebble scrape the app code? Couldn’t Core Devices scrape it from rebble under the same logic?

Liquix · a month ago
> ...Pebble Technology Corporation, went out of business and dropped support for the hundreds of thousands of Pebble smartwatches out there. Rebble – and our community! – put together a Herculean effort to salvage the data that was left on the Pebble app store.

> We’ve built a totally new dev portal, where y’all submitted brand new apps that never existed while Pebble was around.

> We’ve patched hundreds of apps with Timeline and weather endpoint updates. We’ve curated removal requests from people who wanted to unpublish their apps. And it has new versions of old apps, and brand new apps from the two hackathons we’ve run!

it sounds like Rebble scraped the original store, built a new API and storage layer, facilitated the publishing of new apps, and kept old apps updated when external changes would've rendered them otherwise unusable. then tried to work with Eric to reach an agreement where both parties could have a piece of the pie in the relaunch.

Liquix commented on Aldous Huxley predicts Adderall and champions alternative therapies   angadh.com/inkhaven-7... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
ratelimitsteve · a month ago
mdma is pleasureful but extremely non-sedated
Liquix · a month ago
pure racemic MDMA has very little stimulant effect. street MDMA can feel stimulating because it is either intentionally mixed with caffeine/speed/meth or contains residual precursor from clandestine synthesis.

my major state was one of deep relaxation ... MDMA does not work like Dexedrine ... I feel totally peaceful.

- Alexander Shulgin, PIHKAL

https://www.erowid.org/library/books_online/pihkal/pihkal109...

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