Hacker News: ValveFan6969

New comment by ValveFan6969 in "Who sets the Doomsday Clock?"

ValveFan6969 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 22:58:37 +0000

So at a certain point this stopped being the “We are on the verge of nuclear war” sign and became the “How upset are people on the left” sign

New comment by ValveFan6969 in "The state of Linux music players in 2026"

ValveFan6969 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 12:03:49 +0000

Complaining about predatory business practices while dumping all your money to Taylor Swift is like giving the homeless guns and complaining about rising murder rates.

New comment by ValveFan6969 in "Yes, It's Fascism"

ValveFan6969 — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 23:30:03 +0000

Shooting people for speaking is also fascism but they won't say that.

New comment by ValveFan6969 in "Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections"

ValveFan6969 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 06:31:36 +0000

Internet voting in general in not only insecure but an human rights act violation against our species. Look none other than the fascist utopia that is YCombinator where some rando can remove your comments simply because they do not like your joke or opinion.

New comment by ValveFan6969 in "cURL removes bug bounties"

ValveFan6969 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 07:35:42 +0000

"open source" and "business model" in the same sentence... next you're gonna tell me to eat pudding with a fork.

New comment by ValveFan6969 in "Some surprising things about DuckDuckGo"

ValveFan6969 — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 23:17:37 +0000

I found it interesting that they have an article saying "we don't censor search results".

Who is "we"? Don't they get their results from Bing?

New comment by ValveFan6969 in "S&box is now an open source game engine"

ValveFan6969 — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 06:08:13 +0000

Skibidi Toilet was made in Source Filmmaker.

New comment by ValveFan6969 in "Tim Bray on Grokipedia"

ValveFan6969 — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 05:13:46 +0000

On the other hand, I click on a Wikipedia article and I'm immediately bombarded with "[blank] is an alt-right neo-nazi fascist authoritarian homophobic transphobic bigoted conspiracy theory (Source: PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE HATE THIS TOPIC I BEG YOU)"

At least Grokipedia tries to look like it was written with the intent to inform, not spoonfeed an opinion.

New comment by ValveFan6969 in "ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web"

ValveFan6969 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 08:04:50 +0000

>I had typed "Taylor Swift" in a browser, and the response had literally zero links to Taylor Swift's actual website. If you stayed within what Atlas generated, you would have no way of knowing that Taylor Swift has a website at all.

Sounds like the browser did you a favor. Wonder if she'll be suing.

New comment by ValveFan6969 in "Hi, it's me, Wikipedia, and I am ready for your apology"

ValveFan6969 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 08:01:01 +0000

Funny article, though none of it would pass as a legitimate Wikipedia article because it does not cite CNN, CNBC, or any other Trustworthy™ news site included in the Wikipedia's totally neutral whiteli- I mean... allow-list.

New comment by ValveFan6969 in "Carefully Educated to Be Idiots"

ValveFan6969 — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 05:07:21 +0000

From my experience, their knee jerk reaction is to downvote the wrong opinion.

New comment by ValveFan6969 in "Every vibe-coded website is the same page with different words. So I made that"

ValveFan6969 — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 05:08:38 +0000

Precisely. I don't know why the creator of this site is trashing LLMs and not the generic slop the LLMs were trained on to begin with.

New comment by ValveFan6969 in "Telegram, Please Learn Who's a Threat and Who's Not"

ValveFan6969 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 08:34:34 +0000

We all know that these "privacy preserving" services have to play both sides for the most part.

It's a shame. They start out innocently, get popular, then end up caving to the demands of the same people that they originally promised not to cave to.

I'll use Telegram, but I certainly won't be collaborating with my collages about how many people I am scamming on Facebook, that's for sure.

New comment by ValveFan6969 in "DOJ seizes $15B in Bitcoin from 'pig butchering' scam based in Cambodia"

ValveFan6969 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 08:10:27 +0000

The victims getting their money back would defeat the whole purpose of Bitcoin. No one knows who originally owned it.

How about cash it out and trickle it down to us... or is all that just gonna magically disappear?

New comment by ValveFan6969 in "State Department Revokes Visas over Charlie Kirk Comments"

ValveFan6969 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 08:05:35 +0000

Whataboutism.

New comment by ValveFan6969 in "State Department Revokes Visas over Charlie Kirk Comments"

ValveFan6969 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 08:05:26 +0000

You do realize what happened with Charlie Kirk is the apex of what happens when dehumanization language is left unfettered, right?

New comment by ValveFan6969 in "State Department Revokes Visas over Charlie Kirk Comments"

ValveFan6969 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 05:20:48 +0000

Who is it that conveniently cut out the cruder bits of that post?

https://x.com/StateDept/status/1978218114622910799

It's a gross verbal onanism over someone's death, mixed with the typical baseless dehumanization. If you want this sort of person in your country, my condolences.

New comment by ValveFan6969 in "The App Store was always authoritarian"

ValveFan6969 — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 09:20:43 +0000

To me, Apple has BEEN far behind. It's been far behind since the removal of the headphone jack. It's been far behind in the lack of USB integration. It's been way, way far behind the standard of technology, yet people are so pseudo-intellectual about it, to cope for the fact that they spent a ridiculous amount of cash on what is basically mainstream Linux. You can't do anything really interesting with it. You can barely game. It's simply for the mind-numbing office work, and nothing else. You're stuck in this room - this office work Eco system - and you don't know how to leave, and it's all Apple's fault you fell for the bait. You just want to open a window (pun intended) and let fresh air in, but there are no windows, and it's all Apple's fault.

New comment by ValveFan6969 in "Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally"

ValveFan6969 — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 05:28:58 +0000

Em dash, "not just blank, it's blank". ChatGPT slop garbage. Calling on all ycombinator moderators to please nuke this post with a powerful ion cannon. Thank you.

New comment by ValveFan6969 in "The "Debate Me Bro" Grift: How Trolls Weaponized the Marketplace of Ideas"

ValveFan6969 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 21:47:24 +0000

"Grift" is becoming another one of "those" words...