"At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from the classic novel Don't Create the Torment Nexus"
(In Eclipse Phase, TITAN - the Total Information Tactical Awareness Network - mulched humanity when it went rogue.)
Readit Newsdoctor_blood commented on Google Titans architecture, helping AI have long-term memory research.google/blog/tita... · Posted by u/Alifatisk
doctor_blood commented on Look at how unhinged GPU box art was in the 2000s (2024) xda-developers.com/absolu... · Posted by u/m-hodges
Woah, that book is cool; and so much more from this publisher!
LGR took a look at it on his channel; a very tiny book, with very tiny art, apparently all grabbed from google images. Something of a letdown.
doctor_blood commented on Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? theguardian.com/technolog... · Posted by u/sandebert
Another mind boggling aspect of Amazon’s review system is that it categorises multiple products / variations under one. So if you want to buy products X with variations X1, X2 and X3- the review page for product X1 will also show X2, X3 ratings bundled together. You don’t quite know the rating of X1 individually. You can filter reviews out by the overall rating is the aggregated view. I can’t believe how this is helpful for customers.
I was trying to buy a copy of the Iliad and found that they combined the reviews of EVERY TRANSLATION AND EVERY EDITION - I found people talking about 30+ versions on the same listing!
Reviews for Fagles's Iliad were combined with Pope's Iliad and Lattimore's Iliad and so on and so forth.
Navigation is also borked for books with many different versions - if you play around with the 'hardback', 'paperback', 'audiobook' buttons at the top of the page you'll find there's no consistency about what edition they lead you to.
doctor_blood commented on The case against social media is stronger than you think arachnemag.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/ingve
> Also classical forums dealt with spam just fine.
Err... well, no, it was always a big problem, still is, and is made even more so by the technology of our day.
Not really? On something like Xenforo2, there's a setting that makes a new account's posts invisible until that account is manually approved by a mod - in conjunction with the spam prevention tools - https://xenforo.com/docs/xf2/spam/#content - we really don't need to do much work.
Because all new accounts need to be verified by an actual human, we can filter out 99% of spam before other users see it, and between a dozen mods for a community of 140k people we only need to spend ~15 minutes a week cleaning out spam.
that is wild. are you just very clumsy? i drop mine maybe once a year.
It sounds crazy, but it turns out the finish on the phone makes a huge difference.
I never used a case until I got a Galaxy S9; that phone was like a greased eel. Went from dropping my phone zero times in 8 years to 5 times in one week.
doctor_blood commented on Unix Conspiracy (1991) catb.org/~esr/jargon/html... · Posted by u/gjsman-1000
amazing how that website manages to render white text on a light image and show empty text on Firefox reader feature. i don't think I've seen someone able to break so many standards :)
Just tested it myself; FF reader works as expected for both desktop and mobile.
The server was under a heavier load than usual - it's possible the page hadn't finished loading for you, or was missing elements when you toggled reader mode.
I read from a fairly reputable source that money laundering is a huge problem in online sex industry.
Which makes sense - you have buyers and sellers who insist on anonymity, services that leave no trace once rendered, buyers and sellers lying to family and friends about what they're doing, etc.
There's often no "normal" amount of consumption, for example, some sellers receive million dollar tips.
Money laundering is a massive problem, and it enables some really terrible things.
I suspect the fact that American banks are so anti-porn comes from the fact that the American financial sector has such strong anti-money laundering regs (as opposed to, say, the American real estate sector, or the UK financial sector).
One of the reasons OF is doing well is because they insist on following know your customer laws. Not many porn platforms could function that way.
That doesn't explain why Visa/Mastercard have gone after written erotica (gumroad, patreon, etc), Japanese manga/doujinshi distributors (DLsite), and video games.
I hear so many people rave about orgmode on HN, all of them emacs users. This seems obvious since it is an emacs feature after all, but if orgmode is so good, has it not been implemented outside of emacs? Is there a standalone orgmode implementation that non-emacs users should look into?
What would be the point? Without emacs all you're left with is another markup language.
doctor_blood commented on The daily life of a medieval king medievalists.net/2025/07/... · Posted by u/diodorus
Little has changed, except it's coffee and Spotify for me. Keep in mind that back then, wine / beer were an important source of clean drinking water, and it would often be low alcohol.
Given this is coming out of Zurich I hope they're using everything, but for now I can only assume.
Still, I'm extremely excited to see this project come to fruition!