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New comment by Duwensatzaj in "Tell HN: docker pull fails in spain due to football cloudflare block"

Duwensatzaj — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:29:50 +0000

It won’t. Some people are perfectly happy to destroy and destroy as long as they get some small portion as profit for themselves.

New comment by Duwensatzaj in "Mistral AI Releases Forge"

Duwensatzaj — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:39:43 +0000

What lies have you seen? ChatGPT is the most censored one, but I’ve only seen rejections, not lies.

My other complaint is that ChatGPT ends every response with a teaser to ask more questions.

New comment by Duwensatzaj in "Italian prosecutors seek trial for Amazon, 4 execs in alleged $1.4B tax evasion"

Duwensatzaj — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 03:58:04 +0000

The IRS used to have a much worse reputation. Congress passed the Internal Revenue Service Restructuring and Reform Act of 1998 and improved their customer service.

New comment by Duwensatzaj in "I ported Linux to the PS5 and turned it into a Steam Machine"

Duwensatzaj — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 22:01:16 +0000

> 3D printers are about to get pushed over the edge via legislation.

That’s specific to Democrat controlled states, unlike age verification requirements. They’ve decided to treat everyone like prisoners rather than imprison criminals.

New comment by Duwensatzaj in "Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed by Exodus of Players Fleeing Age-Verification"

Duwensatzaj — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 22:08:00 +0000

>the waves of people leaving anything are always overblown

Digg, MySpace and Vine?

New comment by Duwensatzaj in "New York’s budget bill would require “blocking technology” on all 3D printers"

Duwensatzaj — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 02:21:37 +0000

Lower receiver being the serialized part isn’t universal. Many firearms have only a single receiver or only the upper receiver is serialized.

New comment by Duwensatzaj in "Archive.today is directing a DDoS attack against my blog"

Duwensatzaj — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 17:45:49 +0000

Internet Archive's trustworthiness took a hit when they waded into fact checking - https://blog.archive.org/2020/10/30/fact-checks-and-context-... and wiping content they disapproved of - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32743325

New comment by Duwensatzaj in "Grok and the Naked King: The Ultimate Argument Against AI Alignment"

Duwensatzaj — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 02:31:59 +0000

> All the other players" aren't deliberately tuning their AI to reflect specific political ideology

Google did something similar if not quite as offensive.

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/18/1239107313/google-races-to-fi...

New comment by Duwensatzaj in "UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16"

Duwensatzaj — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 04:12:07 +0000

You already gave up your arms. Why are you surprised they’re coming for anything else they want?

New comment by Duwensatzaj in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

Duwensatzaj — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 04:25:38 +0000

Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, X, YouTube, Reddit, Twitch and Kick.

GitHub is not included, nor is Discord.

New comment by Duwensatzaj in "A new documentary about the history of forced psychiatric treatment in Spain"

Duwensatzaj — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 16:01:00 +0000

Free Range Kids organization has been fighting against this, and a number of states have passed laws around it.

New comment by Duwensatzaj in "NIST's DeepSeek "evaluation" is a hit piece"

Duwensatzaj — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 22:05:40 +0000

> There is a history of important Chinese personnel being kidnapped by e.g. the US when abroad.

Like who? Meng Wanzhou?

New comment by Duwensatzaj in "The ex-CIA agents deciding Facebook's content policy (2022)"

Duwensatzaj — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 18:57:56 +0000

Same as it ever was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JournoList

GameJournoPros during GamerGate.

Not sure what the "Trust and Safety" people use to coordinate. My guess is Discord.

New comment by Duwensatzaj in "Death of Michael Ledeen, maker of the phony case for the invasion of Iraq"

Duwensatzaj — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:36:50 +0000

Sorry, I don't have Gell-Mann amnesia - Wikipedia is not a trustworthy source on controversial claims like this based on the outright lies I've seen on things I know.

New comment by Duwensatzaj in "Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube"

Duwensatzaj — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 16:32:27 +0000

>provocative

So what?

>make people feel in fear for their own safety.

Private chats and bad taste Halloween costumes are designed to make people fear for their own safety?

At least you're honest about your censorship and oppression of anything anyone dislikes.

New comment by Duwensatzaj in "Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube"

Duwensatzaj — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 08:10:32 +0000

I agree that comparing the UK to the PRC is ridiculous, but you seem to have missed that UK policing goes far beyond your example.

Hamit Coskun was arrested and convicted for burning a Quran, reintroducing blasphemy laws but only for Islam.

Multiple cases of people being arrested for silently praying around abortion clinics.

Arrest and conviction for dressing up as the Manchester Arena bomber for a private Halloween party.

Arrest and jailtime for sharing offensive memes publicly -https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/24513379.sellafield-worke...

Arrest and jailtime for sharing offensive memes between a group on WhatsApp - https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/former-uk-police-officers-s...

It goes on and on.

New comment by Duwensatzaj in "Death of Michael Ledeen, maker of the phony case for the invasion of Iraq"

Duwensatzaj — Mon, 26 May 2025 02:49:26 +0000

What’s hilarious is how the “40 beheaded babies” claim is indeed propaganda - from Hamas apologists.

The original statement is that 40 infants were murdered during the Oct 7th massacre and infants were beheaded, no number given. This somehow mutated into the claim that all 40 murdered infants were beheaded so the claim could be ridiculed.

New comment by Duwensatzaj in "As US vuln-tracking falters, EU enters with its own security bug database"

Duwensatzaj — Tue, 13 May 2025 16:41:34 +0000

I’m very torn. Obviously USAID, NSF and academia in general do valuable things. But when organizations get hijacked and used as a slush fund to fund naked ideological activities and organizations barely related to the original purpose, I’m not surprised when the eventual response is to just hack and slash. I wish it was done more thoughtfully and carefully, but that doesn’t appear to be a choice. Just a choice of funding hostile NGOs and academics who endorse discrimination in education, employment, health care and even law nowadays or the current mess. It all sucks and I don’t have any solutions other than focusing on my career and family.

New comment by Duwensatzaj in "Google to back three new nuclear projects"

Duwensatzaj — Fri, 09 May 2025 04:13:39 +0000

Wrong.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/VBQCPEMU5RZVASBS93WP?t...

New comment by Duwensatzaj in "How the US built 5k ships in WWII"

Duwensatzaj — Fri, 09 May 2025 02:15:49 +0000

Do you know about the Niihau Incident?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niihau_incident