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WarcrimeActual

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I'm a middle aged man working in the IT sector. Not a programmer, although I use AI to cosplay one sometimes.
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WarcrimeActual··on Stringman, an $800 open-source room scale gripper robot
I’m going to go out on a limb and say that you should just have better survival instincts than a toddler and not let the line wrap around your neck. And if you do have toddlers, maybe keep them away from the hanging machine.
WarcrimeActual··on RIP, vector database
You're the reason the /s tag has to exist.
WarcrimeActual··on Show HN: Hacker News, without AI
I guess I more meant what is it filtering. Anything talking about AI, or just things created by it? And it created by AI is the filter, how are they discovering that?
WarcrimeActual··on Show HN: Hacker News, without AI
Help me out here. Is AI something prevalent on HN now? I check the site a lot but just browse headlines and visit some sites.
WarcrimeActual··on I've operated petabyte-scale ClickHouse clusters for 5 years
>Instead we're... listen to this... we're going to take a software developer right. Just a normal developer right.

Maybe I'm old, and I am, but I just can't get past this point with such annoying writing. Like if you actually spoke like this people would hate you.

WarcrimeActual··on Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly
So by old ROM files, you mean still PC games or MSX, Sega, NES, SNES? And when you have them in place what do you specifically ask Claude? This is interesting and I'd love to see if it can get me porting old games with zero coding knowledge.
WarcrimeActual··on The entire city of San Francisco as a video game
Is there a guide out there to do this for any area a person wants to? Possible with Google Maps Street View?
WarcrimeActual··on VoIP brings back old-fashioned pay phones to rural Vermont (2025)
The US is functionally a Third World country now. There are so many places worse than us that have so many better things. Anytime you see a little thing like this that is a good idea and helps people you can just assume that America would either fuck it up or just hate it because it helps people. Or because of the fact that they can’t ring every penny from the stone.
WarcrimeActual··on Period tracking app, Flo, found to be selling user data to Meta
I think it's pretty obvious that it's being used differently here. And in a way that is annoying enough to me to guarantee that I don't make it past that word.
WarcrimeActual··on Period tracking app, Flo, found to be selling user data to Meta
Yes. I'm not saying it's how it should work. But it is how it does.
WarcrimeActual··on Your phone is about to stop being yours
I love that it's so easy to tell that this was built with Claude.
WarcrimeActual··on Reddit Users Are Being Targeted by Stake's Covert Advertising Tactics
Without the sickness of Reddit infecting it, there could have been real value.
WarcrimeActual··on Reddit Users Are Being Targeted by Stake's Covert Advertising Tactics
It is no exaggeration to say that seeing stuff like that makes me feel almost physically sick nowadays.
WarcrimeActual··on Reddit Users Are Being Targeted by Stake's Covert Advertising Tactics
This was almost a useful write up until he used the stupid redditism “lost my faith in humanity”. Immediate stop right there and user block across the whole site. It is unfortunate that even he is trained to say what he thinks Reddit wants to hear.
WarcrimeActual··on Ask HN: I'm hiring a SysAdmin in El Paso. Is there a place on HN to share?
Driving at the moment but I’ll definitely check it out. Thanks!
WarcrimeActual··on Hold on to Your Hardware
It's not clever when people use HN at work. It's a complete erosion of user trust and could legitimately get someone fired. You think HR wants to hear oh no it was an object lesson in not using javascript. That's why I was searching for nudes on the work computer when I shared my screen at that meeting, not realizing some moron had programmatically changed the tab name when I clicked off. This domain needs banned. It's not operating in good faith, or in touch with the reality of the damage it could be doing.
WarcrimeActual··on Hold on to Your Hardware
It's super cool that this site changes the tab name to NSFW phrases when you switch off of it, and then pops up a rambling chastisement to turn of JS in your browser. Even cooler when I use HN to legitimately keep up with tech news at work and it does it on my work computer where I share my screen in meetings. Domain blocked. Don't erode user trust for your crusade. Moron.
WarcrimeActual··on Show HN: Yoink – Spotify to lossless with full metadata, self-hostable, ad-free
It never stopped. And it was always in the moral right. As such it is not just justifiable, but I would say necessary.
WarcrimeActual··on Show HN: Yoink – Spotify to lossless with full metadata, self-hostable, ad-free
I want Arnold to tell me about pizza again soooooooooo bad.
WarcrimeActual··on Show HN: Yoink – Spotify to lossless with full metadata, self-hostable, ad-free
Being this much of a bootlicker for mega corps under the guise of "law abiding" is dumb. It's also and incredibly disingenuous argument. Stealing a physical thing is one thing, bit perfect copying of a digital item removes it from nobody's possession. And since I don't believe that companies have the right to infinite money for having stolen enough from previous endeavors to buy up the rights to things people like, taking it in any way you can is lawful regardless of if it's legal.
WarcrimeActual··on Show HN: Yoink – Spotify to lossless with full metadata, self-hostable, ad-free
I like to leave room for a generous interpretation of things. Again though, I find piracy to be more compulsory than optional in the fight against corporations that have more money than God and fewer morals than Satan.
WarcrimeActual··on Show HN: Yoink – Spotify to lossless with full metadata, self-hostable, ad-free
So is this piracy then? Don't me me wrong. I think piracy is a moral imperative, but I'm curious how far this sits in the gray area.
WarcrimeActual··on Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms
>you just go straight for the Zuck.

Will literally never happen. It's impossible. I'm not talking figuratively impossible. At his level of wealth and influence, there are good odds he could murder someone on live stream and walk away. You are dangerously underestimating the influence the rich have in every aspect of society and law.

WarcrimeActual··on Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms
Honestly he was more right with the death part. The only thing these people really fear is death. Anything else is a fine and a fine means nothing when you don't feel it.
WarcrimeActual··on Goodbye to Sora
>Sometimes I think my opinion means nothing on these topics, especially when it's going to get buried in a thread of 500 plus comments.

Ironically, starting your response with this guarantees a lot of people won't read it. It's the same as going on reddit and starting a reply with, "Nobody will see this but", and hoping that people try to prove you wrong by reading and commenting on it. I stopped after the first sentence. People really have to stop with the clickbait vomit way of writing.

WarcrimeActual··on Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms
I haven't read this article, but I can tell you for certain that no verdict was handed down that will punish them in any way that matters. They have and generate more money than they could ever spend and they're functionally above the law because of the money and lawyers they can afford. The law itself is broken in this country and when you get big enough you can literally get away with murder.
WarcrimeActual··on Apple Business
>and it's not close.

This line right he is where I will always stop reading any reply, and block any YouTube channel that uses it in a title. Mind numbingly overused. It's literally verbal clickbait.

WarcrimeActual··on The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI
Correct. This is a space occupied disproportionately by spoiled rich nepo or otherwise kept silver spooned babies.
WarcrimeActual··on Warranty Void If Regenerated
Please don't have human emotions that you haven't ran through and AI, errr... I mean collaborated with an AI on.
WarcrimeActual··on Warranty Void If Regenerated
First thing on the page is an AI slop image. Domain blocked.
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