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New comment by Gander5739 in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

Gander5739 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:29:06 +0000

But is there really a difference? You can can argue that any apparently selfless act is driven by a desire for self-satisfaction, but from an external view the outcome is the same in either case.

You claim that, because for religious believers this desire to help people is driven by faith rather than what you would term self-interest, it's somehow more resolute. But I'm unconvinced that that is the case, nor that people consciously or not, weigh up decisions to care for others in such a calculating manner.

If the divine impetus made you infallibly caring, I would perhaps concede the point, but I haven't see much evidence of that so far.

New comment by Gander5739 in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

Gander5739 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:06:45 +0000

Common decency.

New comment by Gander5739 in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

Gander5739 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:02:14 +0000

An interesting postulate.

New comment by Gander5739 in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

Gander5739 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:55:56 +0000

> Perceived hapiness

Is there any other kind?

New comment by Gander5739 in "GPT-5.5"

Gander5739 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 20:04:09 +0000

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/6/six-months-in-llms/

New comment by Gander5739 in "WebUSB Extension for Firefox"

Gander5739 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:45:22 +0000

So you can't just use fastboot in termux, with https://github.com/nohajc/termux-adb, then?

New comment by Gander5739 in "WebUSB Extension for Firefox"

Gander5739 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:41:37 +0000

WebUSB is the main way to flash GrapheneOS onto a phone.

New comment by Gander5739 in "Archive of BYTE magazine, starting with issue #1 in 1975"

Gander5739 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 15:44:24 +0000

So someone else saw this comment, then? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47805825

New comment by Gander5739 in "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner"

Gander5739 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:25:37 +0000

You can still look at comment history, e.g. https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/

New comment by Gander5739 in "College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work"

Gander5739 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 10:20:18 +0000

I think they mean the revision history in the submitted .docx file showed the copied paper being inserted (as a single change), and then various changes to attempt to hide the plagiarism.

New comment by Gander5739 in "College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work"

Gander5739 — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 09:56:49 +0000

I don't think the entire purpose of schools is to teach you how to answer some specific set of questions; they want to improve your knowledge and skills in various domains, and the questions are merely a roundabout way to assess that. If you can answer the questions but don't know the knowledge, you're missing the most important part.

New comment by Gander5739 in "Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight"

Gander5739 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:46:17 +0000

I would assume it's moreso they don't want to lose their domains too quickly. Though they've only given one sentence to go off, so it's hard to speculate.

New comment by Gander5739 in "Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight"

Gander5739 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:15:28 +0000

You can buy domains anonymously, e.g. flokinet.is

New comment by Gander5739 in "Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight"

Gander5739 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:12:00 +0000

When you download the torrent file, you're trusting that the provider of the torrent file, anna's archive in this case, is giving you legitimate files. Although I'm not sure how you would disguise undesirable files like viruses as ebooks; the file format would be a giveaway.

New comment by Gander5739 in "Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight"

Gander5739 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:06:40 +0000

They did describe why briefly on reddit, saying it drew too much attention: https://torrentfreak.com/images/aaconf.png

New comment by Gander5739 in "YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney"

Gander5739 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:03:13 +0000

I don't watch shorts. I have them disabled via morphe.

New comment by Gander5739 in "YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney"

Gander5739 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:27:54 +0000

And Morphe (https://morphe.software) on Android.

New comment by Gander5739 in "YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney"

Gander5739 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:25:59 +0000

They play on app startup on the android app, at least for me.

New comment by Gander5739 in "Apple update looks like Czech mate for locked-out iPhone user"

Gander5739 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:37:06 +0000

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2700/

New comment by Gander5739 in "Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters"

Gander5739 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:31:11 +0000

Cannot and can not are slightly different in that both are correct (in the prescriptivist sense, I suppose; arguably whatever gets the point across is correct). But there are cases where can not is more correct.

I use a keyboard (Thumb-Key to be precise) without autocorrect, though it doesn't stop me from making typing mistakes.