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www.scottrlarson.com 2d ago

The Power of Awareness: Overcoming Surveillance Capitalism

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www.scottrlarson.com 16d ago

Show HN: I Created a CRM System in Obsidian

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news.ycombinator.com 27d ago

Ask HN: Did you just get opted-in to Fastmail's Newsletter?

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www.scottrlarson.com 2mo ago

My Response to Open Web Censorship Calls-to-Action

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news.ycombinator.com 3mo ago

Ask HN: Does magic link authentication use HTML canvassing?

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news.ycombinator.com 3mo ago

Claude Code limits are starting to feel like a psychological trick

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www.scottrlarson.com 4mo ago

My First LLM Experiment

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news.ycombinator.com 4mo ago

Ask HN: Why doesn't Linux have a native text editor as feature rich as Notepad++

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news.ycombinator.com 4mo ago

Ask HN: Does downvoting get to a point where you cant upvote?

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www.youtube.com 4mo ago

The Internet Was Weeks Away from Disaster and No One Knew [video]

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techcrunch.com 4mo ago

Sam Altman would like to remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too

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www.404media.co 4mo ago

Pinterest is drowning in a sea of AI slop and auto-moderation

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news.ycombinator.com 5mo ago

Ask HN: Submission not going live, not flagged

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www.404media.co 5mo ago

Students Are Being Treated Like Guinea Pigs: Inside an AI-Powered Private School

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www.scottrlarson.com 6mo ago

Musings on "The Internet After YouTube"

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news.ycombinator.com 7mo ago

Ask HN: Anyone considered forming a General Computing political organization?

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news.ycombinator.com 7mo ago

Ask HN: Streaming a Bittorent Video from a Webpage?

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www.scottrlarson.com 9mo ago

Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state

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news.ycombinator.com 10mo ago

Ask HN: Does sentience put stress on the brain?

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www.scottrlarson.com 11mo ago

Looking back at my transition from Windows to Linux

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

Apple's China Crisis – $1T Payment to Xi Jinping Exposed [video]

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

Is an AI Catastrophe Inevitable? [video]

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

There will Never Ever be another movie like Office Space [video]

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www.scottrlarson.com 1y ago

Are PC hardware companies driving technology into restricted closed ecosystems?

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www.ribbonfarm.com 1y ago

Decision Brownouts

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

Apple's Activation Lock is becoming a barrier to recycling

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www.youtube.com 1y ago

Told ya, Apple's Activation Lock is becoming a barrier to recycling

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Handeling RSS Links in the Modern Firefox Browser

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news.ycombinator.com 1y ago

Ask HN: Gracefully handing off domain name management if incapacitated

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www.scottrlarson.com 1y ago

Are Hardware Manufacturers Trying to Lock Down Consumer Hardware?

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I'm the author of the presentation. When I was designing this talk, the end game I had in mind is to have a starting point. I think bringing more awareness to the depth of the problem and some behaviors we can change can start us down the road is good enough to get the ball rolling. I don't think this is going to be solved in one generation.

We get what we invest in. My feeling is there are other services to invest in like Bandcamp where at least you get an option to download a copy of the music. If people invest in Spotify with out thinking about the consequences then the the world we live in is exactly what we deserve. This same thing is happening with other form of art. Until people start making conscious decisions for world they want to create, the dark times will prevail.

So the trailer for 2.0 is exactly what I was thinking of for continuation of this kind of game. I was missing a lot that would have made it deep like a backstory. I was thinking it would be great to tell that back story through the logs you find on derelict ships.

Im really glad this appears as if it's going to happen. Duskers was a great game even in its limited story driven context.

Not me. I always get the real information before I pay. But you have to be persistent and have a desire to know. Medial fees is the same you have to contact them and have them look up the code for the fees. We are in this situation because people don't challenge this shit.

I'm wondering when we will get the hint that voting isn't fixing these problems. our systems of government appears, to me, that they have been taken over by special interests. If we want things to change, we have to get involved. I'm sure that looks different for everyone but we clearly need people we can trust in government institutions.

Alright, you won me over. I emailed my congressman from the EFF website with my own message. That's the best I can do right now. I just feel like politics is a losing battle. If its taken over by special interests and there doesn't seem like there is any end in sight, as it gets easier and easier for them to sway the people that are actually suppose to be working for us. What is the point? When we are combating legislation that no sane person should have to deal with there comes a time where the whole thing is unlawful and it we should stop investing our power into it.

Yep. This was my first thought when I saw what it does and who's on board. The commons cannot be in the hands of for-profit companies. What ever this needs to be it has to be distributed so no single centralized location or entity can exercise control over it.

I still am struggling to understand why they informed the government about something that is known to be an issue in every LLM. There is no LLM that cannot be jailbroken, so unless this means that we have reached the absolute maximum publicly accessible US made LLMs are allowed to operate at with GPT 5.5, this is not grounded in any sane regulation attempt.

I wondering where you are getting the idea that there is an sane regulation right now?

I appreciate that you are looking at this problem and I hope you found some interesting things to help point to something worth bringing awareness to. I don't like the business perspective on things and that sounds like the perspective you are coming from. IMHO the world is too focused on business and not enough around creativity, kindness and helping the world heal.

IMHO we are dealing with a cultural domination movement centered around authoritarianism and its engulfing everything. The business world is being used as a weapon wielded against the world, I don't think this is a leadership problem, its a problem with selfishness and whats going on in the heart.

There’s also a fear I have that designing with Claude keeps me out of a fluid, creative mindset and stuck in an iterative one, constrained to the outcomes I think Claude can produce. That’s fine for mature tools, where changes are iterative, but might mean I miss ideas when working on something new

I some times notice this. the LLM cant see past the interation so I have to think outside the box and say, what if we look at it from this perspective, and suddenly a new way of designing it comes into existance. Somes times I have to create a flow chart to get the LLM to see past its own progression steps.

Stop Killing Games 2 months ago

No you should be clear that its not purchased product but a subscription. Don't expect people to buy into the model that people can take away your right to use a product as you wish.

Stop Killing Games 2 months ago

Then switch to a subscription model. nobody is forcing you to operating your service indefinitely. Just don't sell something, the say you are not supporting it any longer and remove the ability to use a purchased product.

Stop Killing Games 2 months ago

That... basically kills the entire gaming industry.

The AAA industry are already destroying the gaming industry with there shit games and stupid DRM pratices. This would be returning balance to the game industry.

Stop Killing Games 2 months ago

Everything you are talking about appears to me as AAA. There will be many game companies that dont think it's worth the time to do this for the reasons you describe, but IMHO they shouldn't exist in the first place. The way online only games are made right now is destroying the game industry so im glad to see them go. We will see better iterations of games once the bloat is removed.

Stop Killing Games 2 months ago

I think this will bring everything back to where it needs to be. We depend way to much on third party stuff as it is.

Stop Killing Games 2 months ago

I'd argue that games being open source and being pirated does mean you can't make money. I think you are looking at this backwards, like the rest of the industry. You don't need to force people to buy your stuff by making it closed and preventing people from getting at your stuff for free.

THe people that matter will compensate you if you make something that matters to them.

The whole idea that you need to force people to by your stuff through restrictions is a perverse way of looking at the world.

I think people should use AI to start their own business instead of working for someone else's vision. I mean if you're working for someone else your choices are limited. And I'm not saying that you should be mistreated. I'm just saying you have more control of your life when you're working for yourself.