Hacker News: JasserInicide

New comment by JasserInicide in "Supreme Court Sides with Cox in Copyright Fight over Pirated Music"

JasserInicide — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:05:48 +0000

Ok while superficially great news but the supreme cynic in me is starting to think: what if the RIAA et al go to ISPs and saying they will pay them to continue monitoring this stuff and if they bring them to court, sue them and win they will give them a cut of the winnings? Would something like this even be financially feasible i.e. a profit motive inserted somewhere into the equation that ISPs would continue monitoring torrent activity?

New comment by JasserInicide in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

JasserInicide — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:33:09 +0000

it doesn't mean the local tech workers will be replaced.

You're right because that totally didn't happen to varying degrees in various industries in the US...

New comment by JasserInicide in "Apple App Store guidelines remove ban on encouraging external payments in US"

JasserInicide — Fri, 02 May 2025 15:42:50 +0000

It's not just newer unsustainable companies. There are plenty of businesses that have been around for decades that are now engaging in these enshittifying practices (for dearth of a better term). Big box appliances like washers/dryers, fridges. Vehicle manufacturers (BMW and their subscription service bullshit), we're fast approaching a world where even doing an oil change will have to be done by the dealership/authorized 3rd party.

These Ivy League MBAs have been getting taught how much money companies have been leaving on the table and they are infecting every industry.

New comment by JasserInicide in "Someone at YouTube needs glasses"

JasserInicide — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 17:01:56 +0000

Mobile-first design. Get used to it, we haven't even started to see the worst of it

New comment by JasserInicide in "Internet in a Box"

JasserInicide — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 16:13:46 +0000

The fact that this has a promotional image from someone using one of those One Laptop per Child laptops (which was an abject failure) just says to me this is another misguided "white savior" attempt to solve a problem in parts of the world they don't fully understand.

New comment by JasserInicide in "Virginia passes law to enforce maximum vehicle speeds for repeat speeders"

JasserInicide — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 15:56:34 +0000

This is 100% a political issue. Instead of introducing privacy-violating software, we could instead institute massive policing campaigns to curb speeding. But that would require actual effort by police, something they don't want to do.

New comment by JasserInicide in "Virginia passes law to enforce maximum vehicle speeds for repeat speeders"

JasserInicide — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 15:54:22 +0000

How is this different to driving around with a mobile phone on?

Are you serious? I can choose to leave my mobile phone home if I want to. I can't do that with my car.

New comment by JasserInicide in "Women rely partly on smell when choosing friends"

JasserInicide — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 19:54:07 +0000

Read about this singles dating event in Russia where they took cotton swabs swiped underneath each person's armpits and put them into little glass jars. Everyone then went around smelling each one and matched with each other based on which jar scent they liked the most. Wish I still had it. Definitely a novel if not more primal way to choose a partner.

New comment by JasserInicide in "Pope Francis has died"

JasserInicide — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 22:17:03 +0000

their purpose is not to start artistic movements or liberally think for themselves and no one is claiming it is.

your "spark of ingenuity" is not lacking because of some issue or lack of creativity, it's lacking because it's not the point and no one wants it to be.

There are plenty of people/communities online that want it to be exactly that and want to remove the pesky human element from the equation. Dismissing them because it doesn't fit your argument doesn't mean they don't exist.

New comment by JasserInicide in "Pope Francis has died"

JasserInicide — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 19:12:26 +0000

does it really matter if it can be described as cognition or not?

Yes...it does. "AI" aka modern flavor LLMs as we understand them today are just doing certain things thats humans can do but orders of magnitude faster. What exactly is impressive about it being able to succinctly sum up any topic under the Sun aside from the speed? It will never create a new genre of music. It will never create a new style of art from the ground up. It lacks the human spark of ingenuity. To even suggest that what it does anything close to human cognition is egregiously insulting.

New comment by JasserInicide in "Librarians are dangerous"

JasserInicide — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 19:29:02 +0000

Yeah I see this kind of paternalistic condescending style of writing in many left-leaning circles. It sounds like it's geared for children but no they're actually writing for adults. They see themselves as moral beacons and they need to proselytize the stupid unwashed masses because they just don't know any better.

I despise it.

New comment by JasserInicide in "Adipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of obesity after weight loss"

JasserInicide — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 14:44:05 +0000

Jason Fung is probably the world's leading research expert on obesity. If you want videos to watch on it, it starts and ends with this guy. He has done a ton of lectures and blogposts going back over a decade, and also has the stereotypical clickbaity YouTube videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpllomiDMX0

New comment by JasserInicide in "Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries"

JasserInicide — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 21:16:01 +0000

I remember when presidents used to divest themselves of their private holdings. That went out the window in 2017

New comment by JasserInicide in "The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available"

JasserInicide — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 18:57:34 +0000

All bullshit. Apple loves to make a big stand on privacy but quietly folds just like the rest of them. Remember that big stink they rose over the FBI needing access to an encrypted phone a decade ago? Apple still gave everything the FBI requested some time later after got their PR win

New comment by JasserInicide in "RubyLLM: A delightful Ruby way to work with AI"

JasserInicide — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 22:02:16 +0000

Chaotic neutral take: they're Ruby devs that have a vested interest in gatekeeping newcomers from the language so they have better job security

New comment by JasserInicide in "Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening"

JasserInicide — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 21:52:42 +0000

Yup, we need to start bringing back the idea of the village on the Internet. There is no good reason why I need to know what someone on the other side of the globe thinks about stuff going on in my country and vice versa.

New comment by JasserInicide in "uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store"

JasserInicide — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 19:11:02 +0000

I hope Mozilla realizes (and still cares) that they have a huge opportunity here to be the power-browser where you can get awesome extensions

Don't worry, they won't. They have more important endeavors like funding some new bullshit virtue signalling campaign and paying huge CEO bonuses.

New comment by JasserInicide in "AI 'wingmen' bots to write profiles and flirt on dating apps"

JasserInicide — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 16:53:54 +0000

It's not the future we need but it's the one we deserve. This place is heavily complicit in the popularity of AI. It creams its pants any time a new LLM is announced.

New comment by JasserInicide in "Sweden Investigates New Cable Break Under Baltic Sea"

JasserInicide — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:03:20 +0000

Chamberlain all over again...

New comment by JasserInicide in "Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?"

JasserInicide — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 17:10:22 +0000

What is wrong about raising chickens in your own backyard and giving them a full eventful life?