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copper-float··on LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire
I'm not AI, but thanks for the rudeness.
copper-float··on LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire
These high crime areas are predominantly in blue counties/states, and liberal judges are typically soft on crime.
copper-float··on [dead]
I hate how all the text is AI generated slop. It makes me think they don't actually care about what they're doing, or that they didn't do it at all.
copper-float··on Cloudflare Drop
What an honor. I got a high score of seven.
copper-float··on China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes
Bringing guns to shoot people you disagree with, then shooting them and injuring them for doing their job is not a harmless demonstration. It's terrorism, and they deserve what they got.
copper-float··on China sentences official to death for taking $325M in bribes
Whoever funded the laboratories in Wuhan.
copper-float··on America, 1926: What a Forgotten 100-Year-Old Report Says About Who We Are
Feels like a bit of a dramatization.
copper-float··on America, 1926: A forgotten 100-year-old report
What do you mean hijacked? I'm not familiar with that theory.
copper-float··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
No because it's a childish oversimplification. It's legitimately the kind of argument a middle schooler would make.

It frames your position as the only morally reasonable one, implying that anyone who believes anything differently lacks empathy.

It's an intentionally insulting, black-and-white view with no nuance, just like how middle schoolers view the world.

copper-float··on The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party
No offense, but you're being so dramatic for no reason. You're not that important, and it doesn't matter what you believe. Your comment just reeks of smugness and immaturity.
copper-float··on 30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech
Not sure how you're getting this. 90% of these comments are as left leaning as they come.
copper-float··on 30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech
How completely dishonest to call this a demonstration. They brought guns and shot government officials. Trying to kill people you disagree with isn't demonstrating, it's terrorism.

So insane for people to defend this.

copper-float··on FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model
Just tried typing Jordan on mine, and my suggestions were "on", "is", and the Jordanian flag. So I'm pretty sure you had to have typed the words "Jordan Peterson" before for it to make that association.

The donation prompt can permanently disabled with two taps, so I'm not sure why that'd be a reason to abandon it. It's a complete non-issue.

"You've been using FUTO keyboard for X days. If you find this app useful, please consider paying to support future development.

FUTO is dedicated to making good software that doesn't abuse you. This app will never serve ads or collect your personal data."

I don't mean to be rude here, but this is an extremely bland, mild message. There's nothing passive aggressive about it in any way. What do you find aggressive about this?

copper-float··on FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model
The early iterations of swipe were very inaccurate, yes. But the newest swipe release mentioned here is much more mature.

It's not perfect, but it's practically on par with GBoard aside from a few blips here and there. It's enough for me to get rid of GBoard for good, and not consider reinstalling it.

copper-float··on FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model
Yeah, it's pretty pathetic on Google and Apple's part.

It might be not a foolproof solution, but I think the license is better than nothing. Then you have a legal precedent that you can cite when you file a lawsuit against these rats.

Most of these people doing this probably aren't in the same country. But whatever. It's better than nothing.

copper-float··on FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model
Yeah, honestly. I love open source as much as the next guy, but I don't understand why people are so up in arms about this. The license feels pretty reasonable.

The source code is fully available, none of the features are paywalled. They only prohibit you from taking their code and reselling it.

If you take a look at the Play Store, there are thousands of instances where open source projects are lazily renamed and sold for $5 or $10. It's the definition of scummy, pathetic, worthless behavior, and I'm glad the license prevents those kinds of leeches from succeeding.

I know this isn't the only case, but it's the majority of cases. So I have no problem with their license at all.

copper-float··on Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb
Yeah, I just disagree with the terminology of calling something "banned", which makes it seem a lot more dire than it is. Local book curation at a school-district level doesn't seem newsworthy to me, which is what the whole "banned books" term seems to stem from.

A library can choose what books they stock (especially a school library. Of course they're highly curated.). You don't have to agree with their choices, but the book isn't banned. You can still find it at a county library, an ebook library, or on the Internet.

So it's a bit dramatic to say "I'm fighting the system by hosting banned books!", just because some Tennessee elementary schoolers can't check it out from their school library. Just feels like a joke and a mockery when there's governments that genuinely censor books.

copper-float··on Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb
I think calling them "banned" is so disingenuous. There are actual banned books that are illegal to own in the United States. None of these "banned books" come anywhere close to meeting that criteria.

Very cool project nonetheless!

copper-float··on When (if ever) it's appropriate to make jokes before the US Supreme Court
I'm unfamiliar with this, can you elaborate?
copper-float··on Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid
I was able to enter dealer mode on my 2023 Kia using this tutorial. https://youtu.be/Q2AEhGYnOaA

It let me disable telematics, and Kia support confirmed that my car was flagged as a "Massachusetts variant" even though it wasn't purchased in MA.

copper-float··on Instagram Encrypted Messaging Ends on Friday, May 8
What's a sufficiently private/secure messaging platform? Signal comes to mind, but I'm open to alternatives.
copper-float··on Brain scans reveal 3 ADHD subtypes
Hey, you've basically described me to a tee as a boy. I had the exact same temperament: meltdowns when I thought I disappointed people, putting myself down all the time for failures and mistakes. My parents weren't even particularly strict.

Glad I wasn't just a weird, overly sensitive kid.

copper-float··on Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE
As someone who has never used AI for any coding or agent tasks, I feel like i'm going insane when I read things like this.

>Maybe it could be fun to hook them up via a2a protocol as left and right brain agents operating in tandem

What in the world does this even mean?

copper-float··on Show HN: Winpodx – run Windows apps on Linux as native windows
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copper-float··on Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"
I thought it was freeze all motor functions!
copper-float··on US Supreme Court reviews police use of cell location data
How is this relevant? Just because you disagree with some vague connection between two entities doesn't give you the right to destroy property. That's the definition of a childish tantrum. Inflicting blind pain on random, unrelated people because you don't get your way.
copper-float··on So, you want to be a darknet drug lord (2015)
Now this was a rollercoaster to read. I'd be curious to hear how you think KDE, Linux and BSD are all tapped, cause it's all open. You don't have to use proprietary blobs.
copper-float··on Foxing aspires to be an eBPF-powered replication engine for Linux filesystems
No, Foxing is one of my favorite indie-rock bands from the St. Louis area.
copper-float··on The UX of UUIDs
I have no idea what that is supposed to say.
copper-float··on Show HN: Free Plain-Text Bookmarking
Just spin up an alpine Linux image with node preinstalled. I got the server up and running in no time.
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