Hacker News: PTGreathttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=PTGreatHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 18 Apr 2026 07:20:10 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by PTGreat in "Dangerous Playgrounds of the 1970s: Photos That Prove Safety Wasn't a Priority"]]>"Better drowned than duffers, if not duffers wont drown".

A rather British statement from From Swallows and Amazons; a famous children's novel in which a group of children are let loose sailing.

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

]]>Tue, 04 Mar 2025 12:13:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43253561PTGreathttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43253561https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43253561<![CDATA[New comment by PTGreat in "Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox"]]>Obligatory GDPR post.

Data of UK and EU users is protected. Why doesn't the USA have such sensible data protection laws; the only hostility I see is from surveillance capitalists spreading their FUD.

]]>Fri, 28 Feb 2025 09:31:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43203605PTGreathttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43203605https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43203605<![CDATA[New comment by PTGreat in "'Hey Number 17 '"]]>> Luddites

A group who, contrary to popular belief, were not 'anti-technology'.

The fact they campaigned for unemployment support and re-training for workers displaced by the new technologies probably makes the Luddites amongst the most forward thinking and progressive people of the industrial revolution!

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