Hacker News: andywood

New comment by andywood in "How fateful?"

andywood — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 08:55:26 +0000

10 years from now I live in a farming community, most of you have cel phones in your heads and live in panopticon minority-report smart cities pre-policed by AI, many of your relatives live in a bed, and every last one of us believes in God.

And now to scramble the pw to this account as well. That's it for me. No more socks left.

New comment by andywood in "How fateful?"

andywood — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 08:44:25 +0000

True words.

New comment by andywood in "AI-powered communication coach"

andywood — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 08:43:22 +0000

Imagine being so [insert your own term] that a robot is qualified to teach you to communicate better with humans.

New comment by andywood in "AI-powered communication coach"

andywood — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 08:41:45 +0000

For me that moment is every time I read anything new about AI. Luddite life!

New comment by andywood in "Feds seized $311M in Bitcoin, then hacker stole it back"

andywood — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 04:51:37 +0000

Here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33088681

New comment by andywood in "How fateful?"

andywood — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 14:17:25 +0000

Exactly. If your entire right hemisphere is permanently shut down from making computers the core of your identity, these are exactly the same thing.

New comment by andywood in "On my resignation as regulator of the Dutch intelligence and security services"

andywood — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 14:37:18 +0000

I think you mean that the only thing that's changed is that information that was tightly controlled by governments via a small but powerful set of mainstream media channels to advance the notion of an open society that played by a tight set of rules and respect for civil rights has been augmented by a small and even more powerful set of big mainstream internet companies.

Give yourselves a round of applause, Silicon Valley et al.

New comment by andywood in "On my resignation as regulator of the Dutch intelligence and security services"

andywood — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 14:35:11 +0000

You think? Just read all the ones in black:

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Orwell

But as so many even here keep repeating so idiotically, "We live in a society. We live in a society. We live in a society..." Gotta keep trading that liberty for more safety. Gotta keep 'em safe.

Anyone see the new messages you get on Twitter when its AI pre-judges your tweet to be Intellectual Spam?

Good job Twitter employees, if you're reading. Keep up the great work. Keep us safe from code points arranged in wrong orders.

New comment by andywood in "Ask HN: Best and Worst API Documentations?"

andywood — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 18:58:34 +0000

I'm not as fond of the redesign that took place sometime in the last decade or so, but I remember the old (circa 2000) Win32 docs as good examples of great documentation.

For the worst ever in all of human history, I submit the official Unreal Engine docs. They never finished them, and they ain't gonna. If it didn't come with full source I'd never get anything done because I'm not about to sit through 100 hours of YouTube videos to find the details I need.

A lot of software relies on user-created documentation these days. And it's not even a decent wiki anymore. It's more likely to be YouTube and a Discord. Damn kids.

New comment by andywood in "Queen Elizabeth II has died"

andywood — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 18:51:57 +0000

IMO this is a normal way to feel about it. I'm american and while I'm not shedding tears, I do feel the significance. I'd have immense respect for her even if it were only for fulfilling one large role, honorably and consistently, for an entire human lifespan. How many politicians have? And I think she had a hard, hard job. Imagine having to live up to the expectations of a great Queen of England for that long without a meltdown or scandal.

It's quite a different context, however I felt sort of similar about John McCain, mostly for what he endured as a POW, and what he nevertheless went on to accomplish in politics.

New comment by andywood in "Kiwi Farms has been removed from the Internet Archive"

andywood — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 17:50:50 +0000

Kiwi Farms has a thread on Taylor Lorenz from WaPo, because of certain erratic behavior. Taylor got her own dirt removed from the internet archive. Taylor has been helping Clara go after Kiwi Farms.

Taylor's uncle is Roger MacDonald, founder of TV News archive:

https://archive.org/details/roger-macdonald-tv-archive

https://dicktracyonline.substack.com/p/who-is-taylor-lorenz

And of course you've already begun downvoting.

New comment by andywood in "Kiwi Farms has been removed from the Internet Archive"

andywood — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 17:46:56 +0000

Another fun fact:

Taylor's uncle is Roger Macdonald, apparently a fairly prominent operator within the internet archive:

https://archive.org/details/roger-macdonald-tv-archive

https://dicktracyonline.substack.com/p/who-is-taylor-lorenz

New comment by andywood in "Blocking Kiwifarms"

andywood — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 09:53:25 +0000

Tell it to somebody who's already subscribed to that whole delusional ideology. Such as every other user in this thread.

New comment by andywood in "Blocking Kiwifarms"

andywood — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 02:55:35 +0000

Still really unclear what law is being broken in that case. Unless you're proposing new speech-curtailing legislation. They're Intenet-famous. They're of interest to forever-onlines. This one in particular is of interest to women and parents who've so far resisted brainwashing.

New comment by andywood in "Blocking Kiwifarms"

andywood — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 01:45:43 +0000

I don't want that to be a quasi-unilateral judgement.

Also, one question. Suppose we do change the laws, and Kiwi Farms continues to operate within those new laws. Will that be enough, do you think? Because the US would have to outlaw dead naming and misgendering for it to be enough for the activists.

New comment by andywood in "Blocking Kiwifarms"

andywood — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 01:40:21 +0000

I have the same information, unless CF pays someone to lurk the Farms more than I do. Unlikely. This is a pretext plain and simple. Prince is full of it. There was one fedpost and it was taken down. It happens. There's no machine learning algo scanning new comments to see if they sound like plausible threats.

New comment by andywood in "Blocking Kiwifarms"

andywood — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 01:38:07 +0000

Lifetime of depression and multiple suicide attempts as well. If I ever do it, it'll be because I suffered my whole life, not because of the most recent thing that happened the week before.

New comment by andywood in "Blocking Kiwifarms"

andywood — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 01:37:03 +0000

He's been taken to court around 7 times. It's almost as if he didn't break the law, and people just think he must of because it be so nasty!

New comment by andywood in "Blocking Kiwifarms"

andywood — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 01:35:56 +0000

Of course not. It wasn't an actual threat, though it sounded like one. The mods handled it as soon as they became aware.

New comment by andywood in "Blocking Kiwifarms"

andywood — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 01:33:39 +0000

> what kiwifarms has been doing to "free speech"

What? Testing it? To make sure we can actually exercise it in practice? Because "be careful how you use it or you might ruin it for everyone" wasn't ever how the 1st amendment was meant to work. Like, what would be the point. Let's let the 1st amendment say you have to check in with anyone sensitive and if they don't like it, you can't say it, because "we live in a society" Let's have a new Mandatory Courtesy and Respect amendment.

I am so utterly ashamed of the tech industry at this point. I'm glad I retired and don't have to pretend to your faces.

"The Internet interpretes censorship as damage and routes around it." Oh how naive and libertarian us techies were in the reactionary nineteen hundred and nineties.