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New comment by DrMandalay in "'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth"

DrMandalay — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 05:41:44 +0000

St Helena is where the minimum wage workers on Ascension come from. It only exists to provide cheap labour to Britain's Atlantic territories.

New comment by DrMandalay in "'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth"

DrMandalay — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 05:38:53 +0000

The oldest gay tortoise there is. You can hear the grunts when he and Frederick are fucking from the other side of the valley.

New comment by DrMandalay in "AI companies leak data to advertisers [pdf]"

DrMandalay — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 10:40:33 +0000

The word is "sell" not "leak". This title takes away all agency from the thieves selling private data to advertisers.

New comment by DrMandalay in "Show HN: Concrete Calculator – Estimate Cubic Yards, Bags and Cost"

DrMandalay — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:53:17 +0000

One day America will use grown up measurements. Until then; this nonsense.

New comment by DrMandalay in "Google Earth to be axed next year [video]"

DrMandalay — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 04:36:57 +0000

Earth on web is shit.

Earth Desktop is useful for one thing: mapping large datasets onto a globe.

I use it very often because I don't have to upload gigs of data just to review my own datasets. Now? Will have to vibecode an alternative.

What a fucking waste, Google. Category-leading technology theft and you still manage to fuck it up.

Are there any Google products left that haven't been enshittified to death?

New comment by DrMandalay in "All Smokescreen, No Fire in Data Center Foreign Influence Claims"

DrMandalay — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 18:34:19 +0000

My keyboard is broken. Whenever I write "Israel", it auto-corrects to "Russia" or "China". I think the author of this article has the same problem.

New comment by DrMandalay in "Anthropic Says Iran Used Its American AI Model to Target U.S. Navy Warships"

DrMandalay — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 05:34:32 +0000

That's a better use than targeting a girl's high School, which is what the yanks used Claude for. Is hypocrisy and hubris taught in American schools? Or are they all just born with unreal amounts?

New comment by DrMandalay in "Six Chinese AI firms accused of aggressively copying US frontier models"

DrMandalay — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 05:27:42 +0000

Right now, hypocrisy is the American way. There is nowhere on the planet respected less.

New comment by DrMandalay in "Gloria Steinem has died"

DrMandalay — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 10:44:14 +0000

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New comment by DrMandalay in "Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private"

DrMandalay — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 09:58:12 +0000

GCHQ has done it's job of obfuscating it's existence pretty well, for most Brits to still think they've had any privacy at all for the last few decades.