Hacker News: Refreeze5224

The rich aren't your role models

Refreeze5224 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:54:50 +0000

Article URL: https://theslowburningfuse.wordpress.com/2026/06/14/the-rich-arent-your-role-models-theyre-your-oppressors/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48535118

Points: 150

# Comments: 50

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "A key remapping daemon for Linux"

Refreeze5224 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:22:28 +0000

This is fantastic. Works perfectly right off the bat. I have so much trouble just getting capslock to be control consistently in Linux, and this made it easy.

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

Refreeze5224 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:55:57 +0000

Well if your product wasn't already basically spyware, it wouldn't be so much work to abide by privacy regulation frameworks, now would it? I have no sympathy for how hard it is for surveillance companies to adapt their exploitative business model to the EU.

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

Refreeze5224 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:14:25 +0000

I think it's appropriate that a surveillance company should surveil its employees so they can get a taste of what they are contributing to.

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "Deflock hits 100k ALPRs Mapped in USA"

Refreeze5224 — Sun, 31 May 2026 19:32:05 +0000

Surveillance and privacy invasion is profitable, so not ironic at all.

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

Refreeze5224 — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:51:09 +0000

Solidarity forever! Game devs eat a a lot of crap, so I'm glad they are banding together to bargain collectively.

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "Corporations can vote in some Delaware elections, judge says"

Refreeze5224 — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:18:43 +0000

The owner votes as themselves, and again as the corporate entity.

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash"

Refreeze5224 — Mon, 25 May 2026 19:30:16 +0000

Another way to say it is that capital is operating as it always has: in its own interest.

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "Byrne's Euclid"

Refreeze5224 — Sat, 23 May 2026 23:25:16 +0000

I took Euclidean geometry in high school, and having a book with colors like this would have made things so much easier to grasp. The color scheme is lovely too, and really makes me consider buying the poster. If you'd have told 15 year old me that I would one day really want a Euclid poster, I'd have called you insane!

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "A Bipartisan Amendment Would End Police License Plate Tracking Nationwide"

Refreeze5224 — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:51:55 +0000

> I am of the opinion that the following are all reasonable, and I think most people would agree with me:

Absolutely not. The 4th Amendment, among others, are intended to make law enforcement more difficult. The alternative is tyranny. The power that these cameras provide is far beyond what they seem, and police have shown zero ability to be trusted with this sort of thing, and deserve zero benefit of the doubt, or trust to maintain logs only for x days, or not to use them for stalking people.

We optimize for law enforcement efficiency at our peril.

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "Google Declaring War on the Web"

Refreeze5224 — Thu, 21 May 2026 03:54:57 +0000

The only innovation needed to be sustainable is to recognize that capitalism is not sustainable, and never can be. But that's not a profitable innovation, so it never gets pursued.

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "Hanoi’s humble beer glass and the memory of a nation"

Refreeze5224 — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:36:38 +0000

And I would recommend Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12292260-kill-anything-t...

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "The quiet renovation at Bitwarden"

Refreeze5224 — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:42:49 +0000

As mentioned, enshittifying doesn't mean "make shitty" or "make worse". It's a specific exploitative company MO, like taking a product like Bitwarden and the goodwill it's generated with open source contributions, free plans, etc., and exploiting that trust by selling it to private equity, unbeknownst to the users, in order to squeeze the most out of it they can and then scrap it.

Any app on recent Android versions can leak certain traffic

Refreeze5224 — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:37:44 +0000

Article URL: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/any-app-on-recent-android-versions-can-leak-certain-traffic

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48123339

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house"

Refreeze5224 — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:21:25 +0000

They picked exactly the appropriate word.

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house"

Refreeze5224 — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:26:54 +0000

It would be trivial to exclude overtime from the last 3 years. People gaming them is not why pensions are going away.

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house"

Refreeze5224 — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:15:37 +0000

Then you, like many others, misunderstand what the saying All Cops Are Bastards means. It's not an observation about the morality of each individual cop. It's shorthand for the fundamental corruption and injustice inherent to the institution of policing itself.

If Mother Theresa or Mister Rogers becomes a cop, ACAB isn't suddenly disproved, because it's not about specific individuals and their specific moral qualities. It's about systemic and fundamental problems with policing as a whole.

See how ACAB is a lot easier to say?

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged"

Refreeze5224 — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:38:05 +0000

I know what his solution is not. It's not a mechanism that conveniently enables the fine-grained surveillance of people that just so happens to be google's business model.

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "Why airlines are always going bankrupt"

Refreeze5224 — Wed, 06 May 2026 03:52:54 +0000

How much of your earnings are inflated? Do you safely do a job that potentially risks several hundred people's lives every single day?

Do you realize you are infinitely closer to a pilot than a billionaire or a founder or whomever it is you seem to care more about than working people?

Class consciousness, solidarity, and workers literally fighting and dying earned you an 8 hour day, social security, and all the workplace protections you probably take for granted.

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

Refreeze5224 — Wed, 06 May 2026 02:39:14 +0000

Cars were more efficient horses. AI is not more efficient people. It's an excuse to reduce payroll. Capital is fundamentally antagonistic to labor, because labor is an eternal cost center that until AI, never had a solution.