Readit Newselashri commented on I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams kirkville.com/i-now-assum... · Posted by u/cdrnsf
We should assume that all ads in general are scams. The noise to signal ratio is too large to care. Word of mouth and maybe trusted communities like HN is the only way to reliably discover new things.
elashri commented on Spain to ban social media access for under-16s, PM Sanchez says reuters.com/world/spain-h... · Posted by u/xavaki
I feel like people avoid the elephant in the room that social media companies became too influential and too big that going after them for addictive and dark patterns is not possible. Specially that most of them is in the US with current political situation it will not be possible anyway.
So they are taking half measures that are more problematic on different aspect like privacy.
Not to praise China, but it seems they seem to do doing better job against their big companies to prevent such situations (please don't pass the point here).
I think things would be much better if these companies is to be held accountable for their actions beyond the current fines that they just consider it now cost of doing business.
elashri commented on AI controls is coming to Firefox blog.mozilla.org/en/firef... · Posted by u/ahlCVA
I feel like with all the AI news and headlines we are seeing lately, I bet many people including me were ready to just be angry at another Mozilla AI bloat.
But for once, it is a good thing
No issues using headscale and selfhosted derp servers.
Tailscale is great technology and protocol and facilitates decentralisation.
Hypergrowth is a synonym for unsustainable growth. The headline here is business breaks tech, again.
How do you selfhost your own derp servers? I am curious if it is an easy like headscale itself
elashri commented on CERN accepts $1B in private cash towards Future Circular Collider physicsworld.com/a/cern-a... · Posted by u/zeristor
> It is hard to gauge this is in advance though. If you were sure what you were gonna find, it wouldn't be much of a discovery.
Virtually all previous particle discoveries were predicted, and then we built devices to find them, eg. the Higgs was predicted in the 1960s. There is no such motivation here. There is no theoretical or significant practical benefit for the FCC, it's basically a jobs program.
There is better frontier research that could use those funds for much better payoffs. For instance, just sticking with particle physics, Wakefield accelerators would be orders of magnitude smaller and cheaper than the LHC while achieving the same energies. We've also never built a muon collider, and so that's largely unexplored territory.
We just don't need another radio frequency particle collider, we've reached the limits of what they can do within a reasonable research budget.
> Virtually all previous particle discoveries were predicted
That's not true at all. To give just few examples.
Electron was not predicted but Thomson found it during first fundamental particle discovered came from cathode‐ray experiments, not from a prior microscopic theory of matte. Remember this was during thr 19th century.
Another one is the muon discovered in 1936 which was detected as "heavy electron" in cosmic rays. it did not fit any clear theoretical need in nuclear physics at the time, leading Rabi to quip “Who ordered that?”
Heck there are many more examples that I will bypass the comment limits if I tried to list them (resonances in particular will be very numerous).
You can of course move the goal target by narrowing what you mean by particle but this is exactly why physicists try to define what they talk about before making an argument.
> There is no such motivation here. There is no theoretical or significant practical benefit for the FCC, it's basically a jobs program.
Really? There is a huge volume of the feasibility study about the physics program of FCC. Are you claiming that it is false. Have you even read it?
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elashri commented on Proton spam and the AI consent problem dbushell.com/2026/01/22/p... · Posted by u/dbushell
I may be in the same boat.
Is Fastmail an US company though?
They solely use US servers [1] and don't have plans to offer EU or any non-US servers though.
[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/fastmail/comments/1jbryai/european_...