bebopfunk (u/bebopfunk)

bebopfunk commented on ChatGPT Atlas chatgpt.com/atlas... · Posted by u/easton

sansseriff · 2 months ago

There's a great value proposition for a company like Private Internet Access or NordVPN to create an AI browser extension or full-on browser. Anonymize requests and provide various LLM models. Rely on your reputation as a privacy focused corp to pull people away from these OpenAI/Perplexity offerings.

bebopfunk · 2 months ago

Kagi is starting down that path

bebopfunk commented on Russian use of chemical weapons in Ukraine is 'widespread' and growing independent.co.uk/news/wo... · Posted by u/type0

drysine · 5 months ago

And what is the source? Honest Ukrainian word? But anyway.

"Germany’s BND foreign intelligence agency said Russia has been using not only tear gas but also "the more dangerous chemical chloropicrin, which can be lethal in high concentrations in enclosed spaces". This is a more serious violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention, it added."

So using tear gas is a violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention? Like London police using tear gas to disperse protesters? [0]

"The chemical [chloropicrin] ... can cause irritation of the lungs, eyes and skin and can cause diarrhoea, vomiting and nausea. "

But "chemical weapons" make such a good headline.

[0] https://www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/what-london-assembly-do...]

bebopfunk · 5 months ago

The real issue to me isn’t whether something is labeled a chemical weapon—it’s the fact that police operate with less stringent rules than paramilitaries.

bebopfunk commented on Hacker News Hug of Deaf susam.net/hn-bell.html... · Posted by u/susam

b3lvedere · 8 months ago

"At the end of the day, this was a fun experiment. Pointless, but fun!"

The best kind of experiments. And sometimes huge innovations/inventions/medicine/progress/more fun will arise from it.

bebopfunk · 8 months ago

One day you’re just trying to figure out if there’s any fresh coffee in the break room down the hall, the next day you’ve invented the webcam.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot

bebopfunk commented on The history of sex toys and what they tell us about ancient women rte.ie/lifestyle/living/2... · Posted by u/austinallegro

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 · a year ago

I think this article says a lot about the tendency for historical evidence to become instruments of imagined narrative rather than elucidating anything based in reality.

However, there is a lot mentioned in the article that isn't "ancient" history, and overall the headline kind of fails to deliver, not surprising.

bebopfunk · a year ago

It reminds me of Motel of Mysteries by David Macaulay. In the 4000s an archeologist finds a perfectly preserved motel room. The book is his sketches and field notes on the contents of the room. Every conclusion drawn is wrong and somewhat humorous. A read through it will really change your views on archeology.

bebopfunk commented on Short Stack: World’s smallest Nintendo Wii github.com/loopj/short-st... · Posted by u/jorde

ljf · 2 years ago

It was his mini Atari 2600 etc that blew me away originally - and his site just felt so 'fun'.

bebopfunk · 2 years ago

The benheck forums are the reason I work in tech. It was a great community. A lot of the people working on these projects today are former members. The most notable was Palmer Luckey who went on to found Oculus.

bebopfunk commented on Spacing the Cans robhorning.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/hams-andwich

hagbard_c · 2 years ago

There was a Dutch version of this as well with the 'brand' name Van een goede fabriek ('From a good factory') which I used quite a bit while at university. It was packaged in white boxes/bags or jars/cans with white labels with the product type - 'macaroni', 'pindakaas' (peanut butter), 'aardbeienjam' (strawberry jam), 'tarwebloem' (wheat flour) - in brown letters on a yellow rectangle with a brown edge around it. It was very intentionally made to look 'cheap' and it mostly was, money-wise. The products were mostly OK, good enough quality for the non-too-discerning student I was. Were I to live in the Netherlands still and were those products still available I'd still buy some of them. Others - like peanut butter and jam - I tend to make myself now so there is no longer any need to buy such.

bebopfunk · 2 years ago

What’s your peanut butter recipe? I’d never really considered making my own.

bebopfunk commented on Misunderstanding about the details of how Apply Pay works birchtree.me/blog/digital... · Posted by u/CharlesW

adrr · 2 years ago

EMVCO specs for contactless was always a tokenized card number. Maybe Samsung Pay was passing the PAN for online payments.

bebopfunk · 2 years ago

They may be thinking of MST

bebopfunk commented on Ant Geopolitics aeon.co/essays/the-strang... · Posted by u/romaintailhurat

ryanblakeley · 2 years ago

Adrian Tchaikovsky's sci-fi book Children of Time has a pretty cool take on the future of ant wars. I'm interviewing him in a couple weeks to talk about ecology in science fiction. If anyone has a suggestion for a question I'd love to hear it.

bebopfunk · 2 years ago

If you’re interested in ecology in science fiction you should give Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez a read. It’s not about ants specifically, but they play a large roll in a way (I don’t want to spoil too much and it’s been long enough since I read it I can’t remember what’s a spoiler or not). It’s a good read.

bebopfunk commented on iMessage with PQ3 Cryptographic Protocol security.apple.com/blog/i... · Posted by u/galad87

adamtaylor_13 · 2 years ago

Hmm… Does signal only really work when everyone uses it? Or can you include people who are just using regular SMS?

bebopfunk · 2 years ago

It used to have SMS support but they yanked it maybe a year or so ago. The big issue on the user end was, if someone deleted Signal and you used Signal for your SMS, it would keep sending them signal messages and not SMS. So you were left not realizing you were texting essentially a dead number.

bebopfunk commented on Dementia risk linked to blood-protein imbalance in middle age nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/pseudolus

adaptbrian · 2 years ago

Have you tried heavily modifying your diet by chance? Removing carbs, lowering inflammatory foods, dairy and root veggies. Going down to a fasting diet in the morning. I'm optimistic that I'll never feel a cluster headache again.

bebopfunk · 2 years ago

I’ve done a bit of research but never given it an honest go. I think you’ve inspired me to give it a try. Thanks for the idea

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