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unixgoddesson Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant – customer data not compromised

unfortunately that's useless if you can't do anything about it... just think about the recent unfruitful millions-strong street protests in france, how powerless we are even in self-proclaimed democracies.

unixgoddesson Google ordered to pay $500K to Montrealer over links calling him pedophile

OP was saying that even the sentence "bob says that jim is x" is defamation because readers will take it as "a ringing endorsement of bob's statement", which is patently untrue unless you are a little kid.

unixgoddesson Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant – customer data not compromised

the problem is, if this starts to become common, countries will move to make it illegal not to store data...

unixgoddesson Google ordered to pay $500K to Montrealer over links calling him pedophile

how so? it's your responsibility as an adult to understand that Bob is some random guy you don't know, so you can't trust him

unixgoddesson Almost three quarters of the golden age of Hollywood has been lost

Also, I can understand the downvotes, but why the flagging? You can call them thieves, but not parasites? I feel that HN has become quite censorship-heavy lately.

To elaborate on that, people often claim it's not theft because the owner keeps the goods. That's why it's more appropriate to consider it parasitism (you are eating at someone else's table without paying).

unixgoddesson Almost three quarters of the golden age of Hollywood has been lost

this is obviously bull though.. how do you even make a study like that? you'd need to associate each illegal downloader to his/her real identity and then to each of their legal purchases... that's ridiculous, and even if academics had the means to do it, it would be illegal. piracy itself is illegal in most countries, so if you don't report them you are literally an accomplice.

unixgoddesson Giant SpaceX Spiral Appears Amid the Aurora Lights in Alaska's Night Sky

this is the kind of thing that makes me happy I'll be already dead (not that it's much better now if you need to eat...)

unixgoddesson Giant SpaceX Spiral Appears Amid the Aurora Lights in Alaska's Night Sky

this. same problem with noise pollution, but worse as you can't close your ears

unixgoddesson Giant SpaceX Spiral Appears Amid the Aurora Lights in Alaska's Night Sky

Reading the news, my gut feeling is that US and China are preparing the ground for war between each other, though it makes no sense from an economical point of view, so perhaps I'm reading it wrong.

unixgoddesson Giant SpaceX Spiral Appears Amid the Aurora Lights in Alaska's Night Sky

yeah, a future that chokes on pollution, constantly on the brink of annihilation by ever more powerful weapons, with freedom ever more vanishing under growing mass control systems... all so you can have some silly gadgets that you'll get bored with in a day, always chasing for the next shining toy

unixgoddesson Making friends as an adult is hard (2021)

same boat here, actually worse

if it's of any consolation, you probably won't find anyone to marry if you have no friends...

unixgoddesson Making friends as an adult is hard (2021)

> Researchers also find that when we develop groups, our friendships are more sustainable than they are with individuals.

this really should be simple common sense. We are so far removed from our natural habitat (the small tribe/village where everyone is always around everyone) that we have forgotten this basic simple thing too.

unixgoddesson Switching to C over 'Modern' Programming Languages

check out hare-lang.org (still wip, but quite good already)

unixgoddesson New NASA Director Swears Oath on Carl Sagan’s ‘Pale Blue Dot’ Instead of Bible

perhaps we should rather focus on meaningful actions, rather than empty showbusiness...

unixgoddesson New NASA Director Swears Oath on Carl Sagan’s ‘Pale Blue Dot’ Instead of Bible

It's 2023 and people still believe that swearing on whatever book means anything... humans are so damn depressing.

unixgoddesson The EU proposed CRA law may have unintended consequence for the Python ecosystem

even with already published laws you need a lawyer to understand how a judge will be more likely to interpret them; even then, it's just an informed guess, you never know what the end ruling will be until it comes.

unixgoddesson We're building a browser when it's supposed to be impossible

that's not true because their architecture follows closely the spec, so it couldn't be any better

unixgoddesson The case for banning children from social media

even back in the day there were raw egg or hot chili challenges... being idiots for acceptance is truly embedded in the human mind. But social media and general societal collapse bring it out several orders of magnitude worse.

unixgoddesson The case for banning children from social media

Few months ago there was some sort of challenge on tiktok, most kids at my local middle school arrived to school with self-inflicted bruises on the face.

With this shit, if you don't do it too you are out of the group and goodbye social life.

Social media are preying on the group-belonging instincts of kids with tremendous damage not only on the kids themselves, but on society as a whole.

However, it's up to parents to deal with it. It's unacceptable that I have to produce my ID on the internet to remedy the damage of other people poor parenting.

unixgoddesson Japan Says 1.5M Living as Recluses After Pandemic

But understanding the issue intellectually does not necessarily mean making peace with it.

Especially when it comes to the key question, why should I bother struggling today so that I can struggle tomorrow again so that I can struggle the day after tomorrow again etc.

What do you do when recovering from surgery? You watch TV to distract yourself from the pain, you don't touch it.

unixgoddesson If parrots can talk, why can’t monkeys?

more importantly, people can make perfectly intelligible speech using a completely different set of symbols, for example writing, whistling^1, hand gestures (sign language), pictures, etc.

Of course language is purely neural!

^1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistled_language

unixgoddesson Japan Says 1.5M Living as Recluses After Pandemic

I'm already in europe and hate it fiercely... that's a big reason why I lost all hope, it's supposed to be the healthier area already..

unixgoddesson Japan Says 1.5M Living as Recluses After Pandemic

I get what you mean, but I'm the type that would rather read middle grade fluff than stick my finger in the wound...

unixgoddesson $70 RISC-V Computer from Pine64 Goes on Sale April 4 – OMG Linux

thanks, TIL

unixgoddesson $70 RISC-V Computer from Pine64 Goes on Sale April 4 – OMG Linux

what about AMD? wasn't it gaining traction?

unixgoddesson Japan Says 1.5M Living as Recluses After Pandemic

I'm one of them, so I can answer you first-hand. Currently living off my parents, will probably kill myself after they die --- that's the only reason why I haven't killed myself yet after all. (Even though they only considered what was best for them when they decided to breed, I can't bring myself to hurt them)

unixgoddesson Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT

you can't expect bureaucrats to know the difference...

unixgoddesson Carrier pigeons used by police in the Indian state of Odisha

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/india-police-officer-accused-ra...

https://nypost.com/2022/05/05/indian-girl-who-reported-gang-...

Also, they were just examples. I have no doubts that men are affected too. And now you talk about "police brutality", weren't you saying they are good guys?

unixgoddesson Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT

wikipedia is full of amateur dick pics (vulvas too!)

but perhaps the difference is that chatgpt could tell them stuff like "yeah, you should kill yourself"?

unixgoddesson British government mocked for advertising head of cyber role with £57K salary

to be fair that's true for faangs too, compared to how much they "earn" through your work.