<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: brigandish</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=brigandish</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2026 09:12:09 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=brigandish" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brigandish in "Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As far as I recall, Apple does not do reproducible builds or show you the checksum of the built product, so how would one know that the software installed is the software they saw the source for?</p>
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<p>Stop updating the OS. It gets a tad annoying that not all apps will continue to work, but that's what the web is for.</p>
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<p>> I don't think the grand social goal is to maximize economic growth. It's a stable healthy society.<p>The contentious part of that statement is what constitutes "healthy" and "stable". Look at Japan, stuck in a long deflationary period that looks like it will end <i>very</i> badly and is already going badly. They are very stable though.<p>That, for me, makes growth look much more tempting as a choice for what constitutes <i>healthy</i>.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2026 01:21:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49886841</link><dc:creator>brigandish</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49886841</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49886841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brigandish in "Six-year-old breaks women's world Rubik's Cube record [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What kind of toxicity are females experiencing when entering Rubik’s cube competitions?<p>I think it’s more likely that people often don’t like being in a noticeable out group, and that females experience that more negatively than males, so they skip it.<p>No need to blame anyone, and it doesn’t deny the attempt to help females participate.</p>
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<p>Easy now, I’m sure there are plenty of people on this forum that can remember the 60s.</p>
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<p>Only if demand increases to the point where supply cannot meet demand in a short enough time frame. Capacity is a factor here.<p>You buying a doughnut - even half the doughnuts - from a doughnut shop does not increase the price of the remaining doughnuts unless they can't make enough to satisfy remaining demand <i>and</i> people are willing to outbid you rather than wait.<p>Does that power station have enough capacity to satisfy the remaining demand?</p>
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<p>What would being prepared look like? A house in the woods with a store of food? Knowing how to pick door locks and set up a militia in the desert?</p>
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<p>I've seen several strangely dead comments today, perhaps the automated filter has been updated and has some gremlins?</p>
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<p>The competition is between:<p>- needing to look in several places<p>- looking in one place<p>Easy to see why Twitter wins, even when information isn't exclusive, which it often is (I would've suggested video involved in news events, which is often impossible to find elsewhere but easily gathered on Twitter).</p>
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<p>The reduction of competitors and no win for the investors is somehow a signal that entry to the market against an even stronger than before incumbent would be a good bet?</p>
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<p>jjui is the killer feature for me<p><a href="https://github.com/idursun/jjui" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/idursun/jjui</a></p>
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<p>> 2. It was occasionally faster, and more stable.<p>That is <i>ahead</i> for the majority of people.</p>
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<p>Quantum field theory? Quiet Firefox tremors? What is this QFT you speak of?</p>
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<p>By monopolies, yes. Know what an acquihire is? Heard of a buyout leading to a shut down?<p>That hinders development.</p>
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<p>If it were literal then you'd be able to quote the exact part of the text that says that, but you can't because that is literally not in the page. Even Ellison, who surely would love to make that claim, is intelligent enough not to make that claim directly.<p>A more balanced view[1] of the proceedings is available via mainstream news:<p>> In the 38-page lawsuit, xAI — whose AI model chatbot and image generator Grok is available on the social media platform known as X, formerly Twitter, and elsewhere — said it does not contest the state’s interest in banning the distribution of AI-generated nude images of real people without their consent. But it said Minnesota’s law “extends far beyond that goal,” banning many constitutionally protected images and video and subjecting the company to a penalty of $500,000 per violation.<p>> The lawsuit argues there is no “safe harbor” provision for companies that make good-faith efforts to prevent such images from being created by users, and that it covers images that were consented to by the depicted person, or even created by that person.<p>> It also says the law’s definition of “intimate part” is overly broad, covering body parts that are routinely displayed in public.<p>Calm down.<p>[1] <a href="https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-artificial-intelligence-nudification-x-elon-musk-deepfake-131184be939d540de093b567b12c9e16" rel="nofollow">https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-artificial-intelligence...</a></p>
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<p>Where was the tantrum? I think a citation should be provided, else concerns about straw man arguments might not be allayed.</p>
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<p>People are still allowed to share their experience and opinions without citations being a requirement.</p>
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<p>No UBI, thanks, let's just make them pay for the works they're relying on (as the rest of us would have to).</p>
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<p>The facts are:<p>- people are being arrested, charged, and prosecuted, for opinions<p>- that number is greater than 1<p>- the number of people being arrested under speech laws, per year, is reportedly[0] over 12,000<p>- some <i>substantial</i> number of those are for opinions, some are not <i>but we don't know how many either way</i> [0] (and considering the government were attempting to delete the Courtdesk archive[1], I'd say that's by design)<p>- "convictions and sentencings for the relevant offences had decreased dramatically" [0]<p>This points to overzealous policing and vague laws.<p>The criticisms by Americans, who are surely aghast at this state of affairs given their founding principles, cannot be dismissed until better numbers are available, but while the number we do know is > 1, the criticisms are valid if not entirely sound (but may be entirely sound).<p>[0] <a href="https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/select-communications-offences-and-concerns-over-free-speech/" rel="nofollow">https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/select-communications-off...</a><p>[1] <a href="https://www.legalcheek.com/2026/02/ministry-of-justice-orders-deletion-of-the-uks-largest-court-reporting-database/" rel="nofollow">https://www.legalcheek.com/2026/02/ministry-of-justice-order...</a></p>
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<p>> For perspective, I was educated in my high school in England, and in my Physics class no muslim scholars name ever mentioned in my many textbooks and in classes. The same goes to my chemistry and math classes. Guess how many times Newton was mentioned in my physics classes and textbooks? To be honest I lost my count because too many times.<p>Physics is the study of physics, not history, no muslim scholars are relevant to modern physics, whereas Newton is relevant to modern physics. That's either because he's closer in the chain or because his work remains relevant, but either way he gets a mention for being <i>relevant</i>. Not every European mathematician or physicist is mentioned either, for the same reason. Descartes never came up, nor did Brahmagupta, nor did Tesla… the list of greats would be too long to mention and just <i>wouldn't be relevant</i>. Complaining about people nigh on 400 years ago not writing citations properly is an insubstantial complaint, to say the least.<p>No one else needs to care about your religion but you.</p>
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