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New comment by Peaches4Rent in "U.S. science is in chaos"

Peaches4Rent — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:35:34 +0000

"But before you start snickering at those stupid Americans, know this: every other country in the world has passed a law just like this in the years since."

New comment by Peaches4Rent in "U.S. science is in chaos"

Peaches4Rent — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:33:46 +0000

The reason is copyright law keeping the monopoly going

See https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2026-01-01...

Quote: ``` Anticircumvention law originates in the USA: Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 establishes a felony punishable by a five year prison sentence and a $500,000 fine for a first offense for bypassing an “access control” for a copyrighted work.

So practically speaking, if you design a device or service with even the flimsiest of systems to prevent modification of its application code or firmware, it’s a felony — a jailable felony — to modify that code or firmware. It’s also a felony to disclose information about how to bypass that access control, which means that pen-testers who even describe how they access a device or system face criminal liability.

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New comment by Peaches4Rent in "U.S. science is in chaos"

Peaches4Rent — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:28:17 +0000

Booooo

Yeah just milk those suckers dry. Hope dare they try to do something good and ask to get paid

New comment by Peaches4Rent in "AI is slowing down"

Peaches4Rent — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:12:55 +0000

That statement isn't proof of anything.

If I start a climate crisis cult, doesn't mean my predictions are wrong

New comment by Peaches4Rent in "AI is slowing down"

Peaches4Rent — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:11:49 +0000

Any proof of this?

New comment by Peaches4Rent in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

Peaches4Rent — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:48:46 +0000

If only hackernews had /remindme like on reddit

New comment by Peaches4Rent in "Can we have the day off?"

Peaches4Rent — Thu, 28 May 2026 10:46:55 +0000

Not the point.

If you don't get paid more for being more productive, someone else is getting richer. That means they buy the houses in your neighborhood, which means you can't buy it because they outbid you

New comment by Peaches4Rent in "Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying"

Peaches4Rent — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:38:30 +0000

Bull.

This is the best VPN regarding security and privacy there is.

I did my research

New comment by Peaches4Rent in "A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro"

Peaches4Rent — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:20:38 +0000

The difference so far is that these LLMs are owned by corporations, and very aggressive American corporations at that.

So now you are essentially reliant on them.

Not saying that this is something new, but times they are a changin

New comment by Peaches4Rent in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

Peaches4Rent — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:25:56 +0000

I blame Agent Smith

- Mr. Anderson

New comment by Peaches4Rent in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

Peaches4Rent — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:55:24 +0000

Welcome to the superior MOBA side.

Come! dota and deadlock welcome you

New comment by Peaches4Rent in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

Peaches4Rent — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:24:30 +0000

I moved from windows to Linux a few years back. As of now the only thing I've not been able to do is update my Chinese gaming mouse's firmware. I'm afraid to brick it if I upgrade using wine.

Honestly, for anyone who's on this site, switching to Linux isn't hard or problematic. Go for something like fedora silverblue and you get a similar experience where you don't have to control the operating system yourself.

The only thing would be if your company wants you to be on windows.

New comment by Peaches4Rent in "Switch to Claude without starting over"

Peaches4Rent — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:18:33 +0000

It it just me who's getting freaked out by this?

I know it's a boiling frog situation, but seeing it spelt out feels so icky vs how google ads feel.

I really want my personality data deleted from big tech...

Sigh

New comment by Peaches4Rent in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

Peaches4Rent — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 20:57:07 +0000

Oh, we only do that to skinny brokies.

You don't have a few million dollars to pay us? Fuck you and your broke parents.

American dream? I'll fucking deport your ass.

New comment by Peaches4Rent in "News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns"

Peaches4Rent — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 14:06:21 +0000

OpenAI cannot possibly running a tight ship, even if they have competent scientists and engineers.

New comment by Peaches4Rent in "Gemini 3 Deep Think"

Peaches4Rent — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 14:53:42 +0000

I have a hypothesis that Google+ just wasn't addictive. Which is a good thing now, but not back then

New comment by Peaches4Rent in "xAI joins SpaceX"

Peaches4Rent — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 04:57:21 +0000

Yes, but as Ron Perlman famously said in the beginning of Fallout, "War never changes".

I would be more shocked that we eliminated war than if we achieved this version of Elon's future.

It makes sense to think that we will continue to make scientific progress through war and self defense.

Reason being, nothing is more motivating than wanting to survive

New comment by Peaches4Rent in "U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took office"

Peaches4Rent — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 06:15:07 +0000

Agreed. I think the original thread was about which country you would rather visit as a European. And it seems that China comes ahead

New comment by Peaches4Rent in "De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)"

Peaches4Rent — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 03:30:35 +0000

Explain why. That's more than half the world's population

New comment by Peaches4Rent in "The Palantir app helping ICE raids in Minneapolis"

Peaches4Rent — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 22:20:56 +0000

You are a fool if you can't see what's right in front of your nose. Every single person I've talked to outside of the US sees that Trump is working towards a genocide. I'm very concerned about my family and friends over in the US.

But I do agree that all the other administrations have paved the way