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oxide··on FTC takes action against GoDaddy for alleged lax data security
I can take my business elsewhere and do.

but do I blame the average person for not caring? The kind of person who would use GoDaddy for hosting? I find it really hard to blame them.

oxide··on DOOM CAPTCHA
Game loads on firefox desktop, but is a black screen. Debug didn't show anything out of the ordinary. loads fine on Chrome though.
oxide··on More telcos confirm Salt Typhoon breaches as White House weighs in
Even better - give the customer the $10k.
oxide··on Did your car witness a crime? Bay Area police may be coming for your Tesla
I lived in east Oakland for awhile, I'm pretty sure that driving stolen cars and torching them afterward don't give a fuck about auto insurance rates. The people who are driving like that on the 580 or @ 90th & Bancroft probably are uninsured as is.

Do you really think everyone is just insured because it's the law? If so, you're fairly naive. Try leaving the bubble you live in now and then. Oakland cops stopping responding to anything less than murder at lot sooner than 2020 lmao.

oxide··on Are Geofence Warrants Headed for Extinction?
I always conceded that Google would have this data, I always told myself you have to trust someone eventually. There was an implicit agreement that they would go to bat if the government came knocking for it. I see now that was a naive perspective on my part. They spent years just handing it over.
oxide··on Alien – CUDA-powered artificial life simulation program
This is a fascinating piece of software. I played with it briefly, it's quite the little evolutionary sandbox.
oxide··on Google Pixel 9 Pro
anecdotal evidence is what I usually base my purchases on, which is why I've never bought a Google device after being burned (literally) by the Nexus 6P battery issues.

you can pretend it doesn't matter, but bad word of mouth is all it takes for me.

oxide··on NASA Spent $450M on a Moon Rover. Now It's Canceling the Mission
Sounds like it'd still cost something to operate it, however, I agree that you might as well send something up there if you already agreed to pay for the trip.
oxide··on AT&T says criminals stole phone records of 'nearly all' customers in data breach
I agree. I think it's reasonable to expect companies to safeguard that information from malicious actors.
oxide··on Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free
Exactly. I treat anyone suggesting Russia should be treated with kid gloves with suspicion. The sentiment that they are being bullied is flatly offensive. Russia made its bed in the 90s and complains about lying in it.
oxide··on Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free
The Cold War never ended and criticism of Russia is not criticism against Russians.

If the Cold War was truly over when the wall fell, we'd have welcomed Russia into NATO. That would have been a huge mistake, as Russia has proven to be antithetical to democracy and an aggressor against the interests of the West, despite dressing up in its skirt.

Instead we've engaged in proxy war after proxy war with very little changing in the best part of 40 years or so. That's no accident.

Suggesting otherwise IMO is to take talking points from the mouth of the Kremlin. I get tired of the "Russia is being bullied by the mean ol' United States" narrative, they're malignant and hostile. I think you're right to raise this point.

oxide··on Land value tax in online games and virtual worlds (2022)
You're absolutely right, it's not a report. It's a press release.

I did dig and found another news article about the anecdote included.

https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/nashville-family-advoca...

It looks like there is a discrepancy between State and Federal law, so the employers may indeed be acting in a twisted version of good faith. Despite the fact that Federal law supersedes state law. [2] https://www.shrm.org/topics-tools/news/all-things-work/child...

I'm not implying regulations are the fix, I just think it's a little fucked up.

oxide··on Land value tax in online games and virtual worlds (2022)
Looks like the current stats are focused more on the 69% increase from '19 to '22 in illegally employed children across the US. [1] (https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/whd/whd20220729)

Actually, that report includes a few examples of children killed on the job. Like a 16 year old who died while working in construction, he fell about 160 feet to the ground after trying to jump from a roof to a nearby powered lift. In Nashville. [2] (same link as [1])

It also details the rise in children being employed to do hazardous labor.

Killed in sawmills is a bit of hyperbole, but it's not far off from the truth it seems.

oxide··on Hacking millions of modems and investigating who hacked my modem
I work for a support org for a traditional telco. We have "contacts" but they're effectively middlemen.

If you dropped this in my lap, and I'm pretty savvy for a layman, I wouldn't know how to get past my single channel. I think it would require convincing the gatekeeper.

oxide··on Tesla starts shipping $3k Cybertruck tent, looks nothing like what was unveiled
The problem with being an intelligent drug (ab)user is that some things about drugs are only learned through irreversible experience. At least in my irreversible experience.
oxide··on Oxide Computer: Docs
This is great, thanks for bringing this to my attention. Cool name, too.
oxide··on About Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library
For me, death metal is like...black coffee.

Bitter at first, but eventually you learn to appreciate the unique experience for what it is, and then you start drinking it all the time.

You start trying to tell others about your experience, but only other black coffee drinkers seem to understand, and you sound insane to people who have tried black coffee and hated the bitter taste.

oxide··on Ask HN: I Need to Talk to Someone
Don't tie your self-worth to your employment status. You're putting extra pressure on yourself, you can't control the hiring process. All you can control is whether or not you're putting your best effort forward and actively looking for work to the best, and I mean the best, of your ability.

Do not beat yourself up, and do not feel sorry for yourself. These are traps that will damage your self-esteem and could potentially sabotage your relationship.

Communicate with your partner. Tell them how you're feeling and get feedback.

oxide··on Some defiant US churches plan Easter services, ignoring public health guidelines
Prove it.
oxide··on Some defiant US churches plan Easter services, ignoring public health guidelines
To stop you and your family from being exposed to the virus.

And potentially my family, if you decide to cough on my groceries after the service. since you think it's safe to shop, congregate in large groups, etc.

oxide··on Fed to buy junk bonds, lend to states in fresh virus support
If the liquidity isn't there, the Fed will create money out of nothing and inject liquidity until it is there.
oxide··on YouTube tightens rules after David Icke 5G interview
It isnt censorship. At all.

Freedom of speech doesnt apply on websites. It's their platform, they call the shots.

Dont like it? Start a competitor and pay the bandwidth bill. Google doesn't have to allow misinformation any more than they have to allow someone being an incendiary asshole in a comment section.

oxide··on April Is Canceled
I thought it would hit people how serious it was when sports stopped, movies stopped releasing, kids couldnt go to schools and people started scalping toilet paper.
oxide··on All my friends are dying
Personally, I'm for it. You're already doomed. It seems cruel to remove hope from the damned.

Should we use the terminally ill like Guinea pigs, no. But there should be a path to waive liability and consent to experimental drug treatment in cases of terminal illness.

That goes for "off label" uses of scheduled substances too. If I have cancer and am on my deathbed, dose me with LSD please.

oxide··on US Threatens ICC Staff Families With Consequences in response to war crime probe
Leave families out of it, period.

You don't target people's children out of spite, it's unethical and frankly, wrong. Why should family members of the ICC be held at the airport to be interrogated like suspected criminals? What possible explanation is there?

How is this a partisan investigation?

oxide··on Single-payer healthcare would save $450B and 68k lives a year: study
I appreciate that they took the time and expense to create a proper study looking at the numbers.
oxide··on Premature ejaculation? A Minnesota tech company wants to zap it away
SSRI's give me ED. Doesn't matter how long I can go if I can't get the show started.
oxide··on Unprecedented Teamwork Repairs Collapsed Freeway in Record Time (2007)
Absolutely, I read it the same way. I was asking myself what a 'teamwork repair' was and how it collapsed a freeway, in record time no less.
oxide··on Stuxnet was embarrassing, not amazing (2011)
No, it's just the people who vote and the people who comment are very different.
oxide··on 4chan and 8chan – Monitoring the Hotbeds of Extremism and Radicalism
Hate speech isnt protected speech. Sorry, friend, the constitution doesn't offer the right to blame Jews for everything and call black people 'nigger'
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