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New comment by Refreeze5224 in "The Surveillance Network Tracking Cars Across the U.S."

Refreeze5224 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:23:34 +0000

The 4th Amendment exists to make the cops' job harder. Full stop. I do not care how much easier it is for them to do their jobs because of invasive surveillance, both because it's a violation of rights, and because they cannot be trusted not to use them in all sorts of other criminal ways we haven't even considered.

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "First look at Quest, the final ship of Antarctic explorer Shackleton"

Refreeze5224 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:00:21 +0000

Kenneth Branagh + Shackleton is an instant watch for me, what a great combination.

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "Microsoft fire idTech team at Id software"

Refreeze5224 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 19:12:24 +0000

It is a fundamental feature of capitalism. There is an inherent tension between employers and workers, in that workers represent a cost center that can never be totally eliminated, and has a lot of undesirable features, such as: being alive, having opinions, being able to talk/whistle-blow, requiring bathrooms, bathroom breaks, and safe working conditions, banding together to increase their collective power and reduce exploitation, and worst of all, necessary; you can't ever get rid of them all!

The history of capitalism is the history of grappling with this inherent tension, and companies finding novel ways to deal with it. Gig work, union-busting, "right-to-work", non-competes, NDAs, return to office, employee tracking software, automation, robotics, AI, etc. The most effective trick though, was convincing the workers that they definitely don't ever need to band together, and you as an individual are definitely better off negotiating alone versus entire corporations.

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "The Socialist Temptation of Sam Altman"

Refreeze5224 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 15:54:43 +0000

In today's age of exclusive capitalism? There is no worker ownership of the means of production. If you can't use a mine to get some coal, or use some tools to make widget, or use a GPU to do inference I guess, then you don't own it, do you? The point is anyone who needs to do those things can, and that ownership is tangibly available to everyone. Not in the "this is public property" but the state actually owns it sense.

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "The Socialist Temptation of Sam Altman"

Refreeze5224 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 06:13:38 +0000

Shares are not the means of production. They are a mutually agreed upon fiction and sit firmly within the realm of capitalism.

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "Using precision editing to study human embryo development shows master gene"

Refreeze5224 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 05:56:46 +0000

> I lean that we most likely are creating souls (however that works...)

You might want to flesh this part out a bit more before criticizing scientists tweaking some cell clumps.

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "The Socialist Temptation of Sam Altman"

Refreeze5224 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 05:50:42 +0000

For the billionth time already, socialism is not "when the government does it." Using the government to increase your capital and become even richer is standard capitalism.

Altman is not now and will not ever relinquish any means of production he own to the workers.

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability"

Refreeze5224 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:56:58 +0000

I wonder at what level you could enforce/how far you could take the idea of "don't allow invalid states to be represented" to a programming language, to prevent this kind of language debauchery.

C does seem to sit at the perfect intersection of language age and low-level access to allow this kind of competition, whereas something like Go seems far less suited for it. Javascript is routinely obfuscated pretty well for human readers. I'm not familiar enough with Rust to say, but I bet with what little I know of its syntax you could create some pretty ugly stuff?

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

Refreeze5224 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 06:04:29 +0000

I take my choice of VPN very seriously, and have used Mullvad for a long time. But now I cannot help but wonder whether the principles the two of you founded Mullvad on, to quote you from above: "because of our political convictions about free speech, free press, privacy, mass surveillance and censorship" are more important to Daniel than the views of his party.

He clearly is willing to spend large sums on the party's views, and if he can use his influence and access in Mullvad to achieve his party's stated goals, will he?

It is asking a lot to trust someone who espouses what he does to maintain Mullvad's founding values, and not to exploit Mullvad in pursuit of ideas he values at a very high monetary level.

I have zero confidence someone supporting what he does and thinks the way he does will protect my traffic, and I sadly cannot use or recommend Mullvad any longer.

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "US Supreme Court rules geofence warrants require constitutional protections"

Refreeze5224 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:10:56 +0000

I think they left it to the lower court to decide if the search was legitimate in particular. They ruled in general that geo-fence warrants are not OK. Not a lawyer though!

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time"

Refreeze5224 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 20:43:15 +0000

What a cool job, and congrats on great work!

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb"

Refreeze5224 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:31:19 +0000

Nazis don't get good faith or the benefit of the doubt. I'm not censoring anyone, I am pointing out that you and other commenters here decided, apropos of nothing, to advocate for including racist and genocidal propaganda.

>Are you afraid because non-banned books and films told you they were bad, or because the people who produced those were afraid they were right and didn't want you to know that they were right?

How about you be more explicit, instead of hiding? You're saying shit like The Turner Diaries, a book that advocates for race war, white supremacy, and adoration of Hitler. You're saying the people who wrote those books might be right. You're saying the Nazis were right.

I know what you're doing, and you know what you're doing. As I said, fuck off with all that, no tolerance for the intolerant.

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending Hitting $34B"

Refreeze5224 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 05:56:54 +0000

How in the world could you read that article and think there is anything positive about OpenAI's prospects? We've been hearing for months that these companies need to make trillions of dollars in a handful of years, growing at record rates in order to break even and justify their massive outlay.

It's not going to happen.

New comment by Refreeze5224 in "Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb"

Refreeze5224 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 05:50:03 +0000

You're advocating for including white supremacist and Nazi books. And you're not the only one in this thread doing it.

There is one reason someone would do that. You're a white supremacist and a Nazi. There's no in-between here. How about you fuck right off with all that? No tolerance for Nazis and racists.

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: 156

# Comments: 57

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.