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New comment by Anonbrit in "It's time Amazon played by the same rules as everyone else [video]"

Anonbrit — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:57:25 +0000

Search youtube for drivers talking about thus from their personal experiences. There are hundreds of horror stories there to get you started. There have been websites dedicated to collecting such stories, though several have been lawyered to death.

New comment by Anonbrit in "Could psilocybin be the key to treating anorexia?"

Anonbrit — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:35:35 +0000

Why has the stereotype of the coked-out stock trader or ketamine addicted delusional billionaire not held the same place in popular culture? Vagely functional coke heads are very, very common in certain circles

New comment by Anonbrit in "Could psilocybin be the key to treating anorexia?"

Anonbrit — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:32:54 +0000

Just about all common psychological medication (by which I mean antidepressants, antipsychotics, ADHD meds, etc) have a pretty weakly measurable effect and effectiveness. If you take them, your symptoms might improve. In some casesthey'll get a lot worse. In many cases it will have no effect on your symptoms. There are lots of side effects.

What's the difference here?

New comment by Anonbrit in "Mark Zuckerberg's biggest legal nightmare yet could cost Meta $1.4T"

Anonbrit — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:53:50 +0000

Yet we still have tobacco and vape companies

New comment by Anonbrit in "Iran's two-tier internet access fuels anger and exposes cracks in the regime"

Anonbrit — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:28:25 +0000

In the US, there's a government shooting people in the streets, with jackbooted thugs operating with impunity in multiple cities, a leader who's started a war to try to drown our discussion of his pedophile tendencies, the highest court int he land has become nakedly partisan (and openly for sale), yet people are mad about the price of gas.

What an outsider thinks people should be mad about, and what they're actually mad about, are often two different things

New comment by Anonbrit in "LinkedIn profile visitor lists belong to the people, says Noyb"

Anonbrit — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:38:22 +0000

I'd say instead that we value the commons and don't like companies making money by externalising all their problems to the general public.

If company Foo leaks my personal data, I suffer, they don't, so without regulation there's no reason for them to invest in protecting it. Same with pollution and similar

New comment by Anonbrit in "CVE-2026-31431: Copy Fail vs. rootless containers"

Anonbrit — Thu, 07 May 2026 11:07:25 +0000

For encrypted disks, you've now got high-performance data shuffling between userspace and kernel space - a massive new attack surface

New comment by Anonbrit in "A website ranking judges by elo for the cases they dismiss in SF"

Anonbrit — Thu, 07 May 2026 10:52:00 +0000

The thing with a jury is that there are motivated experts on both sides explaining the technical details in a (hopefully) easy to understand way, a judge to help ensure fair play, and an appeals process as an escape valve.

Where are any of those safety measures here?

New comment by Anonbrit in "LinkedIn locks your GDPR rights behind a paywall"

Anonbrit — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:33:15 +0000

You have a right under the GDPR to get a copy of all data associated with you PII data. Not just your PII data, but every table where PII is a field, or is transitively joinable. If they can provide somebody else something with your name associated with it, they have to provide it to you

New comment by Anonbrit in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

Anonbrit — Mon, 04 May 2026 10:46:37 +0000

Stock is worth exactly what people will pay for it. Ebay share holders get to vote to accept or reject this deal

New comment by Anonbrit in "Ohio prison inmates 'built computers and hid them in ceiling (2017)"

Anonbrit — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:10:02 +0000

Nearly a decade old story now

New comment by Anonbrit in "Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week"

Anonbrit — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:34:19 +0000

He can apply to the court for special permission - and probably use ADA to guide permission

New comment by Anonbrit in "Antimatter has been transported for the first time"

Anonbrit — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:50:03 +0000

It's a fraction of the energy released when an unlit fire cracker is dropped an inch. Basically unmeasurable

New comment by Anonbrit in "Lost Doctor Who Episodes Found"

Anonbrit — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:10:30 +0000

People have been making the same complaint about Dr Who for at least 40 years, couched in the language of the day. Same with Star Trek.

New comment by Anonbrit in "Linux Page Faults, MMAP, and userfaultfd for fast sandbox boot times"

Anonbrit — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:45:58 +0000

The phrase "the key insight" now sets my teeth on edge due to how often it appears in LLM writing

New comment by Anonbrit in "What if the Hormuz closure will not be brief?"

Anonbrit — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:29:06 +0000

Nothing unites a group like a common enemy. If it does fall apart into civil war, expect past and random terrorism for years

New comment by Anonbrit in "Thermal Grizzly was scammed twice on raw materials worth €40k"

Anonbrit — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 06:27:30 +0000

Was he buying from Ea-nāsir?

New comment by Anonbrit in "Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester"

Anonbrit — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 22:08:49 +0000

I don't think any commercial entity can be trusted to break the law on behalf of customers who only pay a small fee each

New comment by Anonbrit in "Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Swift"

Anonbrit — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:46:24 +0000

Any chance of pushing it to GitHub? My swift knowledge could be written out on an oversized beer coaster currently, so I'm still collecting useful snippets

New comment by Anonbrit in "Indefinite Book Club Hiatus"

Anonbrit — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 09:43:05 +0000

There are plenty of examples of AI being successfully used to emulated the email / messaging style of a specific individual already known to the target, for spear fishing attacks, and fake video and audio of family members tricking people. I think you're substantially underestimating the peak ability of AI these days