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Mickelby··on 30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech
Why would you think I was a Trumper just because I'm complaining about the clownish framing of the "jailed for moving zines" story? I'm European so you can guess my opinion of Trump. It's possible to be against both far-left (Reddit-brained) and far-right (MAGA) populism.
Mickelby··on 30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech
These are your emotional-based feelings. The facts are that the DOJ has a different terrorist definition, and that the legal concept of "conspiracy" exists. On Reddit/4chan-type websites, emotional opinions get the most upvotes. On fact-based websites they don't.
Mickelby··on 30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech
I understand your frustration, you're trying to redefine the word "terrorist" on a website that deals with fact-based tech news.
Mickelby··on 30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech
That's a valid complaint, and I'd understand if that was the thrust of the conversation. But the story is that someone was jailed for "moving zines", which is obvious nonsense. You can argue your other points while still being honest about the facts of the case. Otherwise you look like a populist trying to appeal to emotionally-vulnerable people.
Mickelby··on 30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech
Again, I don't understand who you guys are trying to convince here? You're justifying the shooting of a policeman by a group being charged as a terrorist organization. Who on Hacker News is going to agree with you, except those on the extreme-left fring of politics?

Hacker News is a rational fact-based website. There are lots of other populist websites where people react more emotionally to things. Surely you'd have more success posting this on Reddit or TikTok?

Mickelby··on 30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech
Shooting a policeman is the "opposite of terrorists"? Nobody is going to agree with you on that, except Reddit-type people.
Mickelby··on DaVinci Resolve 21
I just pulled in 10 iPhone RAW files. It did a really nice job of processing them, I did the usual pulling-up shadows and highlights, and played with some of the sliders. Noise reduction and sharpening tools are primitive. Yet the photos look great. I finally managed to export ("render") them.

It's a baffling process flow if you're coming from Lightroom or a manual ACR workflow. But I'm excited to see where this goes. Quite simply, the output results are great. And free!

Mickelby··on Microsoft pulls plug on plans for 244-acre data center in Caledonia (2025)
If you run a website then you quickly learn that 99% of traffic is bots/spam/scam/ai, and will overwhelm your resources. You can block it with the click of a (Cloudflare) button. There is nothing to consider here.
Mickelby··on Apparently Google hates us now
It's hard to over-estimate the "crawled but not currently indexed" apocalypse that's happening at the moment.

Google is DRASTICALLY reducing the size of their search index. The reasons can be debated but the outcome is clear. A much smaller index of pages they consider to be the primary authority. Anything else they are not interested in and do not need.