Hacker News: WarcrimeActual

New comment by WarcrimeActual in "VoIP brings back old-fashioned pay phones to rural Vermont (2025)"

WarcrimeActual — Mon, 18 May 2026 01:05:06 +0000

The US is functionally a Third World country now. There are so many places worse than us that have so many better things. Anytime you see a little thing like this that is a good idea and helps people you can just assume that America would either fuck it up or just hate it because it helps people. Or because of the fact that they can’t ring every penny from the stone.

New comment by WarcrimeActual in "Period tracking app, Flo, found to be selling user data to Meta"

WarcrimeActual — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:33:08 +0000

I think it's pretty obvious that it's being used differently here. And in a way that is annoying enough to me to guarantee that I don't make it past that word.

New comment by WarcrimeActual in "Period tracking app, Flo, found to be selling user data to Meta"

WarcrimeActual — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:32:37 +0000

Yes. I'm not saying it's how it should work. But it is how it does.

New comment by WarcrimeActual in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

WarcrimeActual — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 18:54:52 +0000

I love that it's so easy to tell that this was built with Claude.

New comment by WarcrimeActual in "Reddit Users Are Being Targeted by Stake's Covert Advertising Tactics"

WarcrimeActual — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:41:38 +0000

Without the sickness of Reddit infecting it, there could have been real value.

New comment by WarcrimeActual in "Reddit Users Are Being Targeted by Stake's Covert Advertising Tactics"

WarcrimeActual — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:02:54 +0000

It is no exaggeration to say that seeing stuff like that makes me feel almost physically sick nowadays.

New comment by WarcrimeActual in "Reddit Users Are Being Targeted by Stake's Covert Advertising Tactics"

WarcrimeActual — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:41:37 +0000

This was almost a useful write up until he used the stupid redditism “lost my faith in humanity”. Immediate stop right there and user block across the whole site. It is unfortunate that even he is trained to say what he thinks Reddit wants to hear.

New comment by WarcrimeActual in "Ask HN: I'm hiring a SysAdmin in El Paso. Is there a place on HN to share?"

WarcrimeActual — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:30:09 +0000

Driving at the moment but I’ll definitely check it out. Thanks!

Ask HN: I'm hiring a SysAdmin in El Paso. Is there a place on HN to share?

WarcrimeActual — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:24:01 +0000

Req is on LinkedIn. I’m the HM so I see all applicants. Figured with the awful US job market I’d see if I could show it to more people.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47565164

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New comment by WarcrimeActual in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

WarcrimeActual — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:20:21 +0000

It's not clever when people use HN at work. It's a complete erosion of user trust and could legitimately get someone fired. You think HR wants to hear oh no it was an object lesson in not using javascript. That's why I was searching for nudes on the work computer when I shared my screen at that meeting, not realizing some moron had programmatically changed the tab name when I clicked off. This domain needs banned. It's not operating in good faith, or in touch with the reality of the damage it could be doing.

New comment by WarcrimeActual in "Hold on to Your Hardware"

WarcrimeActual — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 17:18:03 +0000

It's super cool that this site changes the tab name to NSFW phrases when you switch off of it, and then pops up a rambling chastisement to turn of JS in your browser. Even cooler when I use HN to legitimately keep up with tech news at work and it does it on my work computer where I share my screen in meetings. Domain blocked. Don't erode user trust for your crusade. Moron.

New comment by WarcrimeActual in "Show HN: Yoink – Spotify to lossless with full metadata, self-hostable, ad-free"

WarcrimeActual — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:30:16 +0000

It never stopped. And it was always in the moral right. As such it is not just justifiable, but I would say necessary.

New comment by WarcrimeActual in "Show HN: Yoink – Spotify to lossless with full metadata, self-hostable, ad-free"

WarcrimeActual — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:29:05 +0000

I want Arnold to tell me about pizza again soooooooooo bad.

New comment by WarcrimeActual in "Show HN: Yoink – Spotify to lossless with full metadata, self-hostable, ad-free"

WarcrimeActual — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:28:12 +0000

Being this much of a bootlicker for mega corps under the guise of "law abiding" is dumb. It's also and incredibly disingenuous argument. Stealing a physical thing is one thing, bit perfect copying of a digital item removes it from nobody's possession. And since I don't believe that companies have the right to infinite money for having stolen enough from previous endeavors to buy up the rights to things people like, taking it in any way you can is lawful regardless of if it's legal.

New comment by WarcrimeActual in "Show HN: Yoink – Spotify to lossless with full metadata, self-hostable, ad-free"

WarcrimeActual — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:19:01 +0000

I like to leave room for a generous interpretation of things. Again though, I find piracy to be more compulsory than optional in the fight against corporations that have more money than God and fewer morals than Satan.

New comment by WarcrimeActual in "Show HN: Yoink – Spotify to lossless with full metadata, self-hostable, ad-free"

WarcrimeActual — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:32:41 +0000

So is this piracy then? Don't me me wrong. I think piracy is a moral imperative, but I'm curious how far this sits in the gray area.

New comment by WarcrimeActual in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

WarcrimeActual — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:21:07 +0000

>you just go straight for the Zuck.

Will literally never happen. It's impossible. I'm not talking figuratively impossible. At his level of wealth and influence, there are good odds he could murder someone on live stream and walk away. You are dangerously underestimating the influence the rich have in every aspect of society and law.

New comment by WarcrimeActual in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

WarcrimeActual — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:11:38 +0000

Honestly he was more right with the death part. The only thing these people really fear is death. Anything else is a fine and a fine means nothing when you don't feel it.

New comment by WarcrimeActual in "Goodbye to Sora"

WarcrimeActual — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:23:46 +0000

>Sometimes I think my opinion means nothing on these topics, especially when it's going to get buried in a thread of 500 plus comments.

Ironically, starting your response with this guarantees a lot of people won't read it. It's the same as going on reddit and starting a reply with, "Nobody will see this but", and hoping that people try to prove you wrong by reading and commenting on it. I stopped after the first sentence. People really have to stop with the clickbait vomit way of writing.

New comment by WarcrimeActual in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

WarcrimeActual — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:22:32 +0000

I haven't read this article, but I can tell you for certain that no verdict was handed down that will punish them in any way that matters. They have and generate more money than they could ever spend and they're functionally above the law because of the money and lawyers they can afford. The law itself is broken in this country and when you get big enough you can literally get away with murder.