Hacker News: Refreeze5224

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "US Supreme Court reviews police use of cell location data"

Refreeze5224 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:26:13 +0000

And why should we defer to ancient principles in a case regarding cell phone metadata that can be used in innumerable ways to violate privacy? To me it seems obvious that if the 4th Amendment were written today by anyone other than cops, this exact case would have been covered.

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "Tesla discloses $2B AI hardware company acquisition in filing"

Refreeze5224 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:00:22 +0000

That's it, they're jealous of Musk. It's not the Nazi salute, they're just jealous they don't get to exploit people like he does.

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "Surveillance Pricing: Exploiting Information Asymmetries"

Refreeze5224 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:20:45 +0000

That won't work. The issue is a fundamental power imbalance being exploited by the seller. An individual will never have the time, money, or energy to be on an equal footing with companies that do this. So giving people a bunch of algorithms and data does nothing. It's just like giving people EULAs and pretending that because they have the stated terms, it somehow makes them an equal party. The solution is to ban situations where these power imbalances exist. Too bad capitalism is inherently based on them....

We Need to Talk About the IPv8 Draft

Refreeze5224 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:45:23 +0000

Article URL: https://shitwolfymakes.substack.com/p/we-need-to-talk-about-the-ipv8-draft

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47855671

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "I’m spending months coding the old way"

Refreeze5224 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 04:30:33 +0000

Thank you for doing your part to keep webapp pentesters in business.

Austerity Creates Fascism

Refreeze5224 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:29:37 +0000

Article URL: https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/12/always-great/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47756081

Points: 56

# Comments: 28

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

Refreeze5224 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:44:26 +0000

This time there are serious national security and sovereignty issues driving the change though, which are much more powerful motivations to succeed.

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

Refreeze5224 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:56:43 +0000

Serious answer: cops are not accountable for their behavior, in the vast majority of cases.

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "A Tiny Camera Revealed a Hidden Passage in the Great Pyramid"

Refreeze5224 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:34:50 +0000

> I don't care to comment on what they may be hiding.

And yet you subject the rest of us to your conspiratorial ramblings.

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "Ryugu asteroid samples contain all DNA and RNA building blocks"

Refreeze5224 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:55:24 +0000

Please don't just post slop anyone else could have gotten from AI. It undermines the entire purpose of this site, and reduces the quality of discourse drastically.

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "Treasure hunter freed from jail after refusing to turn over shipwreck gold"

Refreeze5224 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 03:42:43 +0000

The real story here is that civil contempt can net you an indefinite prison sentence without a conviction, and if you're lucky a judge will decide to let you out. Over something you may or may not even know.

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "Nanny state discovers Linux, demands it check kids' IDs before booting"

Refreeze5224 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:08:51 +0000

Have you not ever heard of The Register? It's not a news site, it's intentionally opinionated. And the headline is accurate anyway....

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI"

Refreeze5224 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 01:49:58 +0000

No, the assumption is that companies are more interested in cutting labor costs than productivity. Even if you screw up and need to hire back 50% of those you fired, you still cut the labor costs of the 50% still fired. And you can pretend to be a cool, thought-leading, "AI-native" company, which might be enough to juice your share price enough to offset any actual productivity loss.

Capital will always be in opposition to the cost of labor and want to make it as close to zero as possible, and AI is a plausible story for attempting that, regardless of the reality of AI efficiency.

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI"

Refreeze5224 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 01:27:59 +0000

You're mixing up what AI is for compared to horses and cars. Horses/cars enable people to be more efficient. AI enables companies to fire people.

Horses/cars improve productivity. AI reduces payroll costs. That's the whole game here.

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "UK MPs give ministers powers to restrict Internet for under 18s"

Refreeze5224 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:14:18 +0000

We can't handle unchecked pursuit of profit, freedom isn't the issue.

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "UK MPs give ministers powers to restrict Internet for under 18s"

Refreeze5224 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:35:03 +0000

It is, and I have no doubt that is the entire point, despite them "thinking of the children."

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "Ad-tech is fascist tech"

Refreeze5224 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:10:18 +0000

This one is for all the Facebook and Google employees that still seem to think they are merely "solving hard problems at scale" or "connecting people".

Ad-tech is fascist tech

Refreeze5224 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:10:18 +0000

Article URL: https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/10/ice-tech/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47328820

Points: 13

# Comments: 1

Billionaires are a danger to themselves and (especially) us

Refreeze5224 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:15:31 +0000

Article URL: https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/09/autocrats-of-trade-2/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47313974

Points: 17

# Comments: 1

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android"

Refreeze5224 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:35:32 +0000

He's a troll.