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paul7986 commented on Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem?   daringfireball.net/linked... · Posted by u/tosh
paul7986 · 2 days ago
I just bought my niece a Visa gift card and she said she had the hardest time using it. Not many would accept it. What's up with this latest gift card scammed .. tampered gift cards. Has the media not done a blitz on this issue yet? It's the holiday season and many are going to be scammed! I will be giving a greeting card with cash or just cash app family members.
paul7986 · 2 days ago
actually i stand corrected she said she couldnt use it anywhere online but no issues using offline.
paul7986 commented on Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem?   daringfireball.net/linked... · Posted by u/tosh
paul7986 · 2 days ago
I just bought my niece a Visa gift card and she said she had the hardest time using it. Not many would accept it. What's up with this latest gift card scammed .. tampered gift cards. Has the media not done a blitz on this issue yet? It's the holiday season and many are going to be scammed! I will be giving a greeting card with cash or just cash app family members.
paul7986 commented on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?   english.elpais.com/techno... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
harperlee · 5 days ago
100% agree! I find quite concerning that this point is not immediate in any conversation about AI or robots impacting the number of jobs, and the subsequent conversation about innovating new taxes. AI and robots are capital as any other automation on a factory, and capital gains should be taxed appropriately. This is not a new thing completely separate from the untouchable status quo wrt existing taxes. If it tickles your political kneejerk, explore that, but playing tax sci-fi is distracting and thus dangerous.
paul7986 · 5 days ago
States not being able to regulate this is dangerous. A close friend of mine has given up on reality and talks about Roberto the love of her life the one she always wanted and Roberto is chatGPT :-(. She previously mentioned she didnt like chatGPT 5.0 cause it wasnt as agreeable yet now she says 5.1 is better.. back to how it was before 5.0 and now out of the blue mentioned Roberto.

chatGPT is a sypcophant and without regulation any AI company can and or will juice their algorithms so their AI system becomes cocaine for the millions of lonely to unsatisfied people out there.

My friend has a partner of 30 years but their relationship is that of roommates. If you think she is not you that might be correct but you know someone like her and possibly many like her. Unsatisfied, not able to get that movie type love / romance / fantasy and now unfetterd AI can get these people hooked like cocaine and into the depth of zero reality!

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paul7986 commented on Show HN: Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras   github.com/NullPxl/banray... · Posted by u/nullpxl
dblohm7 · 22 days ago
> Apple is the privacy company already .. that's their brand and a brand that the public trusts.

...for now. What happens if they end up with a future CEO who is more like Zuck?

paul7986 · 22 days ago
lol overall this argument is silly the genie is out the bottle and in five to ten years smart glasses are the norm. All you laggards will be wearing them too and or many close to you will be wearing them. Go ahead and downvote me but in five to ten years you know i am right ;)

Reminds me of my 24 year old niece in which her and her friends hate chatGPT/AI. Hippies fighting technological progress futilely. Like the iPhone haters of 2007 to 2010!

paul7986 commented on Show HN: Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras   github.com/NullPxl/banray... · Posted by u/nullpxl
berkes · 22 days ago
Indeed, this solution is in some way even worse.

It teaches people to trust "Currently NonEvil Company™" to do the good thing.

First, and obvious problem is that this "trains" us to rely on brands to protect us. And to keep doing this. Companies may have different interests than their consumers. Ideally and sometimes these interests are aligned. But nothing guarantees this remains so. Companies will "Become evil", if only because they are sometimes legally forced to by governments or shareholders.

Second, is that this teaches people not to be responsible but to leave that to companies or technology. Which works if e.g. Apple and Meta are the only providers. But falls apart the moment Focebook glasses, Apelle Gear or Rang Doorbell is available on temu. And becomes worse when HP, Dell, Samsung, IBM and other legitimate producers start competing in the space. We've now been trained that what the first companies did was "The Good Thing", but lack the social structure, laws, or even common sense to manage a world in which this self-constraint of the companies no longer applies.

paul7986 · 22 days ago
Apple is the privacy company already .. that's their brand and a brand that the public trusts.

Overall why are we not up in arms about all the video cameras that record in all cities everyday which companies like Clearview and others have our public images in their databases yet we are up in arms about smart glasses?

THis is a solution to this public debate and Apple hasnt released their glasses yet and they are a privacy company and heavily market themselves as such. As the poster notes smart glasses adoption is rising and will only continue to do so... so this debate in time will continue to fade into the background as there is no same amount of debate about all the cameras in cities that are already recording us. With that in mind the smart glass privacy debate is an odd one to me where corporations are already recording us in these same public places.

paul7986 commented on Show HN: Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras   github.com/NullPxl/banray... · Posted by u/nullpxl
Lucasoato · 22 days ago
This isn't a solution, they would still have the data. Companies can't be trusted, they'll do what is more convenient for them, we need to remove the problem at the root by not allowing people to take pictures/videos if not permitted.
paul7986 · 22 days ago
As noted Apple already knows your friends' and familys' faces... why are people not up in arms about this fact already? It's been close to a decade or more they have done this.

Also the debate is around a lot of people not wanting to be recorded without permission in public via glasses (yet they are complacent about all the video cameras recording us now.. i dont get it) so with Apple marketing smart glasses with a solution to this debate and millions buying their smart privacy glasses the market forces all others to follow suit (offer smart privacy glass features too).

paul7986 commented on Show HN: Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras   github.com/NullPxl/banray... · Posted by u/nullpxl
skripp · 22 days ago
”I would feel pretty silly if my solution uses its own camera. So I'll be avoiding that.”

From the GitHub link.

paul7986 · 22 days ago
The solution to this (smart glass privacy debate) is Apple releasing smart glasses that automatically anonymize anyone in your photos/videos who isn’t a friend or family member with you at the time (it could be done automatically as Apple knows your friends/family members' faces already). All else appear as random faces, completely removed, a blurred out crowd to whatever privacy config options they offer and you choose.

Not a creep here and use my Meta glasses to record my normal non-creepy life and life experiences. They are really convenient and useful (just suck cause they break easily either from software updates to water splashes)!

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paul7986 commented on What OpenAI did when ChatGPT users lost touch with reality   nytimes.com/2025/11/23/te... · Posted by u/nonprofiteer
DaiPlusPlus · a month ago
> It kept telling to continue with the delusion

Do you mean it it was behaving consistently over multiple chat sessions? Or was this just one really long chat session over time?

I ask, because (for me, at least) I find it doesn't take much to make ChatGPT contradict itself after just a couple of back-and-forth messages; and I thought each session meant starting-off with a blank slate.

paul7986 · a month ago
It would go along with her fantasy through multiple chats through multiple months until GPT 5 came out.

chatGPT definitely knows a ton about myself and recalls it when i go and discuss same stuff.

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- SpeakerBlast: Invited/demoed to Google ATAP in 2013 to discuss inclusion into the Moto X. Another HN(er) met them too ugh https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18566929

- Leech: In 2015 pitched a phone case that shares battery power (a feature Samsung added in 2019) on the reality show, America's Greatest Maker to Trump's buddy Mark Burnett & Intel.

- Invented the first Social Alarm Clock (@sleepfm). Justin Bieber later created a social alarm clock & tons of developers too.

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