Hacker News: JCattheATM

New comment by JCattheATM in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

JCattheATM — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:51:37 +0000

Well sure, the conflicts were resolved.

New comment by JCattheATM in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

JCattheATM — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 10:50:35 +0000

It's not complicated. Just tax the corporations and billionaires a fair share and setup UBI.

New comment by JCattheATM in "Rockstar Games Hacked, Hackers Threaten a Massive Data Leak If Not Paid Ransom"

JCattheATM — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 03:25:35 +0000

People would compile it and unofficial community servers would quickly pop up.

New comment by JCattheATM in "Rockstar Games Hacked, Hackers Threaten a Massive Data Leak If Not Paid Ransom"

JCattheATM — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 03:23:49 +0000

> players have always been able to easily doxx one another, know where other players live,

That sounds unlikely.

New comment by JCattheATM in "BunnyCDN has been silently losing our production files for 15 months"

JCattheATM — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:16:20 +0000

> Do I really need to pull out all of the exemples of Google support being the absolute worst on Earth?

For paid products, denying or lying about there being any issue as serious as significant data loss for over a year like Bunny did, yes.

> Microsoft arbitrarily banning IPs/AS from its infrastructure with no recourse or acknowledgement of the issue (such as 365 lying about accepted mail traffic through SMTP)?

That sounds closer but still not comparable.

New comment by JCattheATM in "BunnyCDN has been silently losing our production files for 15 months"

JCattheATM — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:02:23 +0000

Got an example of them acting the same way as Bunny in the case being discussed??

New comment by JCattheATM in "BunnyCDN has been silently losing our production files for 15 months"

JCattheATM — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:29:15 +0000

> That's basically how this whole industry works?

Far from it. Most companies in the same space don't just ignore such significant problems. If they did, they wouldn't survive for very long.

New comment by JCattheATM in "NYC families need over $125k in income to live in any borough"

JCattheATM — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:05:59 +0000

> The math doesn’t math.

It maths fine, it's just that the assumptions being input are wrong.

New comment by JCattheATM in "UK intelligence censored report on global warming and homeland security"

JCattheATM — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:50:26 +0000

I don't think the UK does achieve it at all. Cut off all import lines and what would happen?

New comment by JCattheATM in "UK intelligence censored report on global warming and homeland security"

JCattheATM — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 02:03:11 +0000

> The UK is consistently amongst the lowest household expenditure on food in the entire world.

How?

> Only 3 countries in the world are self sufficient in food.

Surely a small island nation is not one of them?

New comment by JCattheATM in "Have a fucking website"

JCattheATM — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:31:32 +0000

That's why Squarespace and Wix exist. You have 30 minutes.

New comment by JCattheATM in "Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill"

JCattheATM — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:45:21 +0000

I can't imagine OpenBSD would be bothered by laws specific to a very small selection of US states.

New comment by JCattheATM in "Illinois Introducing Operating System Account Age Bill"

JCattheATM — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:44:28 +0000

It's the start of a very slippery slope.

New comment by JCattheATM in "Show HN: GrobPaint: Somewhere Between MS Paint and Paint.net"

JCattheATM — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:47:28 +0000

I liked Krita a little more than Pinta as a replacement, but for the same reasons it feels slow.

It's really a shame the Paint.net author is so devoted to being Windows only.

New comment by JCattheATM in "Show HN: GrobPaint: Somewhere Between MS Paint and Paint.net"

JCattheATM — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:46:53 +0000

Let's not encourage even more Electron apps, please.

New comment by JCattheATM in "“This is not the computer for you”"

JCattheATM — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:43:45 +0000

The problem is like all Apple stuff it's just needlessly limiting and has few advantages over alternatives.

New comment by JCattheATM in "Illinois introduces OS-level age verification law"

JCattheATM — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:41:31 +0000

> Android won't let me block hotspot at all (which they have turned on so their can use their school device after I turn the router off for the night). I can limit a game to only 5 minutes - but they have a dozen games like and that is an hour between them all (both not enough to really get into the game, and way too much time when they really do need a study break). I can block youtube, but if there is an educational video they need I have to unblock everything not just that one (or a limited selection). There are new play a game websites popping up daily, and when they to every kid in school is playing until we block it (or more likely the school blocks it as they are all playing in class on the school device) - but trying to block all but a whitelisted set of websites is no better since there are so many legitimate ones teachers really do need kids to see.

Personally, I think this is the wrong approach. Why block internet access at all? Why block gaming? Why try to helicopter parent to this extent? Block some harmful stuff if you can, but other than that focus on having the tasks be completed, now on how they do them.

New comment by JCattheATM in "Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years"

JCattheATM — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:09:58 +0000

It's because people find comfort in what they know, nothing more complicated than that.

New comment by JCattheATM in "Britain is ejecting hereditary nobles from Parliament after 700 years"

JCattheATM — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:09:23 +0000

Too late and too weak a response.

New comment by JCattheATM in "RFC 454545 – Human Em Dash Standard"

JCattheATM — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:08:05 +0000

> An internet search will provide it to you readily.

I'm not interested in doing the work to support your point for you.

> Your point about Citizen Kane and Independence Day 2 is nonsensical, and presumes we all have the same goals when consuming entertainment. I'm not going to engage in that argument.

It's not nonsensical at all, makes no presumptions and makes the point perfectly. You don't want to engage because you are unable to do so, which is absolutely fine.