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New comment by 0xTJ in "TSA leaves passenger needing surgery after illegally forcing her through scanner"

0xTJ — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:36:15 +0000

I'm saying exactly the opposite. Your example statement being equivalent to the one I gave would imply that white people face more harassment, which isn't the case.

New comment by 0xTJ in "Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]"

0xTJ — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:56:06 +0000

It's a group of cells on a plate? What is there here that would be illegal? This isn't any different than growing some rat intestinal lining cells in a petri dish.

New comment by 0xTJ in "TSA leaves passenger needing surgery after illegally forcing her through scanner"

0xTJ — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 15:33:33 +0000

That's not really an equivalent statement. In general, women do face more harassment and unwanted touching, which often doesn't translate to the "white" example you give.

New comment by 0xTJ in "TSA leaves passenger needing surgery after illegally forcing her through scanner"

0xTJ — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:19:55 +0000

Mostly to make a point; more people are likely to care about it not being okay if it's phrased that way. (Something, something, toxic masculinity, "suck it up tough guy, can't handle a little pat-down?")

The fact that the TSA agent a woman doesn't automatically make someone else comfortable with whatever liberties the agent feels like taking. It's still likely worse if it's a man doing it, but sharing a gender isn't an excuse for the agent to do whatever they want.

New comment by 0xTJ in "TSA leaves passenger needing surgery after illegally forcing her through scanner"

0xTJ — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:49:16 +0000

It was a female agent, that doesn't mean that it's okay to start groping someone without warning.

New comment by 0xTJ in "TSA leaves passenger needing surgery after illegally forcing her through scanner"

0xTJ — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:42:53 +0000

Not shocking they seem to have pretty low professional standards. I recently had a friend travelling from the US back to Canada get suddenly thoroughly frisked without warning after the scanners showed some object near her thighs. She didn't have anything but clothes on her body on below the waist. The TSA agent spent time groping around, convinced there was something, then after there couldn't possibly have been an object under her clothes, accepted that (paraphrasing) "there must have been an issue with the scanner".

She called her partner (who I was with at the time) afterwards, upset and shaken by the experience. @TSA in one of the NYC airports: If you're not going to get consent to grope girls, at least let them know that you're about to do it.

New comment by 0xTJ in "OpenAI fires an employee for prediction market insider trading"

0xTJ — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:22:22 +0000

Who would think that? At every corporation where I've worked it's been explicit in both the contract and in HR training that this is explicitly not allowed.

New comment by 0xTJ in "What not to write on your security clearance form (1988)"

0xTJ — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 00:17:27 +0000

I was chatting with an old classmate at a homecoming a few months ago, and he mentioned that, during the polygraph top get Canadian Top Secret clearance for a co-op job, he had to say how many drinks he had each week. Being a university student, it got brushed aside, but the answer was considered to be alcoholism-level.

New comment by 0xTJ in "The Waymo World Model"

0xTJ — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 22:19:51 +0000

Interesting, but I am very sceptical. I'd be interested in seeing actual verified results of how it handles a road with heavy snow, where the only lane references are the wheel tracks of other vehicles, and you can't tell where the road ends and the snow-filled ditch begins.

New comment by 0xTJ in "A few CPU hardware bugs"

0xTJ — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 11:59:37 +0000

The issue is that it's no longer actually RISC-V M at the point, you're changing the instruction set. If you're compiling RISC-V M code, that doesn't need the extra NOP.

That being said, the disabling of MUL is being done at a software project level here, not by the CPU vendor. It's in the same linked commit that added in the NOP instructions to the arithmetic routines.

New comment by 0xTJ in "Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction"

0xTJ — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:32:02 +0000

* gas, gas, coal, clean beautiful coal, and oil, don't forget about oil, drill, baby drill.

New comment by 0xTJ in "The Hallucination Defense"

0xTJ — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:26:55 +0000

Why would that be any better of a defense than "that preschooler said that I should do it"? People are responsible for their work.

New comment by 0xTJ in "A lot of population numbers are fake"

0xTJ — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 15:15:36 +0000

This particular topic is covered in the "Are there billions of fake people?" section of the linked article.

New comment by 0xTJ in "Apple to soon take up to 30% cut from all Patreon creators in iOS app"

0xTJ — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 13:11:20 +0000

That's not a reasonable solution. Have you used the Patreon app? I use it regularly on Android, and have dozens of audio podcast files downloaded through it.

New comment by 0xTJ in "Capital One to acquire Brex for $5.15B"

0xTJ — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 01:39:09 +0000

I use mine at Costco for purchases over $300 (limit for tap). At least here in Canada, they only accept Mastercard, not Visa, and I don't remember the PIN for my Mastercard.

New comment by 0xTJ in "Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages"

0xTJ — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:01:32 +0000

Given how many of these stories have been coming out, I'm sure they're considering it.

New comment by 0xTJ in "Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results"

0xTJ — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 19:45:59 +0000

Ah, great, they're copying the worst part of the Play Store. I use Android, and avoid opening the Play Store unless I already know exactly what I'm looking for, it has been enshitified to within a centimeter of its life.

I would actually spend more money through the Play Store if it wasn't such an awful user experience.

New comment by 0xTJ in "Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking"

0xTJ — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:21:30 +0000

I personally don't need a bunch of screens of widgets. I've got my first screen of the 17 apps I use the most, a clock/weather widget, and the app drawer button to bring up the (iconized) app list. On the second screen a have a widget for an app used to share pictures with friends.

Launchers are personal, so Niagara works for you that's great! But for my use having everything is a single column is a nightmare.

New comment by 0xTJ in "Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944) [pdf]"

0xTJ — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 22:10:30 +0000

Be careful when you get down to "(11) General Interference with Organizations and Production", you might start thinking that your coworkers are CIA saboteurs.

New comment by 0xTJ in "Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6%"

0xTJ — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:40:42 +0000

I don't love that Carney is relatively conservative-leaning for being Liberal, but I do really appreciate the fact that he's professional, competent, and stable. He speaks like (what I see as) a regular person and he's not there to whip supporters into fervent chanting.

I'm absolutely relieved that Poilievre didn't win the election (or his original seat). Setting aside just how far to the right he is, I've heard him described as an idiot both by another MP and by someone (who is himself pretty conservative) who met him at some social event.