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zetsurinon AI, Crypto and DEI Drove Marc Andreessen to MAGA

You are ignoring any racism that occurred prior to measuring these students.

zetsurinon Ilhan Omar investigation seeks to denaturalize and deport congresswoman

The president is a convicted criminal. He's slept with children. You think they couldn't make this happen? You think its a coincidence this is happening now?

zetsurinon Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and electricity usage

You see, that is nefarious. Not taking responsibility is nefarious.

zetsurinon Blindsight (Watts Novel)

Second book echopraxia is good too

zetsurinon Y Combinator's PAC is throwing money at Republicans across the country

Maybe one party doesn't have the claim to being ethical, but one party (Republicans) have an indisputable claim on being unethical.

zetsurinon Don't Use a gmail.com Address

proton has some issues that may or may not be issues for you

- https://stateofsurveillance.org/news/proton-mail-fbi-stop-co...

- http://thoughtportal.org/2025/02/26/proton-mail-says-its-pol...

these people seem more problem free so far https://mail.tutanota.com/login

zetsurinon Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager

you were born in 1980 you are gen x https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X by definition.

zetsurinon A Surveillance Treaty in Disguise: Canada Signs UN Cybercrime Convention

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_network, he's part of it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Massie, it's just protecting self interest by deregulation.

recommend reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Money_(book) there's a netflicks documentary by the same name that is NOT a substitute for the book.

zetsurinon Why do people hate the tech industry? (2023)

Fucking duh...

1 it seems like every successful company is headed by self centered assholes 2 enshittification

zetsurinon Just Pay the Subscription

That's the rub, numerous times you can't cancel until the x is done (for gym memberships it used to be a whole year). Or alternatively look at prime cancelling is made difficult.

Another issue is they tend to get more unnoticed as time goes on and little additional fees start creating in.

Just avoid subscriptions when possible has served me well

zetsurinon The UK's Latest "Debanking" Scandal Should Give Everyone Pause

Why shouldn't they get an explanation?

zetsurinon Jobs and Software Is Fucked

>Now, if you're on me and you gotta move when I move, how do you expect to keep a...a tech stack?

zetsurinon A Post-Quantum Future for Let's Encrypt

[Vinge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernor_Vinge) was a professor of mathematics and computer science. I'd expect him to get things right. Funny enough I don't remember that bit at all from fire upon the deep.

zetsurinon Plex's 200% Lifetime Pass price hike tries forcing users to another subscription

Excellent automatic metadata determination. Dead easy to run/setup

zetsurinon AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf]

> for example, almost all of their predictions weren’t just wrong… in hindsight, given how the future played out, they were asking the wrong question

Do you have an example of this? My (poor) memory remembers "it's going to change how people buy things", was the big deal at the time, and it seems like it was a great prediction.

zetsurinon The hottest college major [Computer Science] hit a wall. What happened?

seriously. I don't see how CS is low effort either, maybe they mean physically low effort.

zetsurinon Molly: An Improved Signal App

You should listen to your mother.

edit: lol, i assumed you were the OP. ignore me

zetsurinon US state department stops issuing visas for Gaza’s children to get medical care

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/07/israel-weapo...

Yeah! No USA involvement there... take a second and imagine it was you and your family getting bombed and starved. stop being such a horrible person.

zetsurinon Five companies now control over 90% of the restaurant food delivery market

George Carlin also said: "'cause they own this fucking place. It's a big club, and you ain’t in it" (https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/964648-but-there-s-a-reason...).

I think there's a power dynamic that it seems like you are ignoring, that big companies take advantage of. Amazon gets cheap goods to your doorstep, and removes all competition while doing it. You think those goods are going to stay cheap,i don't. This is a playbook that wallmarts followed for years. Amazon also gets sellers, by selling amazon versions of their products. Google makes billions by showing you ads, they got you there with free services, but now they enshittify.

>There's an air of let's go back to the good old days when we were hunter gatherers to the whole thing

I think my concern is not going back to the bad old gilded age days, where wealth inequality lead to most humans having a terrible life while a few had a great life.

zetsurinon Let me pay for Firefox

This is a weird strawman and it has almost nothing to do the parent's claim. The guilded age is 1870-1890's.

zetsurinon Break Up Big Tech: Civil Society Declaration

>privacy/security fragmentation

giant big tech data leak:https://www.yahoo.com/news/16-billion-passwords-apple-facebo... yesterday?

zetsurinon New images show state of preservation of Ernest Shackleton's ship

It is insane what they survived. For me "The Worst Journey in the World" was a better read.

zetsurinon Amusing Ourselves to Death (2009)

I'm a huge roger waters fan, in particular the album named after this book (not to mention huxley). I was excited to finally get to read what had inspired him. I found it dated (obviously I'd read it nearly 40 years after it was published), commentary on the evils of tv.

zetsurinon Independent directors of 23andMe resign from board

Maybe too far fetched? Company sells/loses data, insurance companies use data to deny coverage, or deem claims as pre-existing.

zetsurinon China's total wind and solar capacity outstrips coal

In the west there have been environmental commitments since the at least 1990s. The governments just seem to mostly ignore those commitments. So it's pretty easy for westerners to not believe commitments made by other governments.

zetsurinon Show HN: Hanon Pro – piano technique and exercises for the digital age

>I would also like the ability to start from a bar of my choice and maybe even evaluate a one or two bar section at a time rather than having to play the whole piece

^ IMO this should be among your top priority.

zetsurinon Show HN: Hanon Pro – piano technique and exercises for the digital age

Anecdotal, but maybe it'll help

I had a goal of introducing my kids to piano, and also wanted to pick it back up myself (I'd been forced to as a kid and hated it, never progressed beyond beginner).

I got myself a casio privia (it's a costco special 88 weighted keys, was the reddit recommendation for beginners at the time). Then paid for lessons with a teacher for my family which by far outweighed the cost of the keyboard.

About 10 years later: rest of family have given up piano, they didn't progress far, and i didn't do any forcing; but it was nice to hear them play when they did. I've kept it up although progress is very slow.

I think my feelings are: - I could have spent more on the piano (my dad got a significantly more expensive piano, and it is more pleasurable to play): quieter keys, better action on the keys. - I feel pretty good about how far my the rest of my family progressed, and am happy that i didn't push - I feel like a teacher somewhat forces you to keep practising even when you don't want, and maintains some progress, I don't think I'd get this from an app.

zetsurinon Sans Bullshit Sans (2015)

Presume it's the text below, and maybe you have to have the font installed?

>Take heed! This only works if your browser supports ligatures

zetsurinon The language you speak changes your perception of time

I was attempting to use it as "denies" (even though in reply i said "prove").

You seem to me to be taking the meanings of words so seriously that you've lost the value those words provide.

zetsurinon The language you speak changes your perception of time

You are saying he doesn't prove it false?