Hacker News: bt4u

New comment by bt4u in "EU Official Hopes X Will Face "Peer Pressure" to Hire More Censors"

bt4u — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 17:47:56 +0000

Well, in my country the citizens managed to push back on broad logging of all internet traffic. It went to court and the logging was deemed illegal. Appealed to supreme court - deemed illegal again. Entered EU court, deemed illegal again.

That was 3 years ago I believe. The logging never stopped and continues to this day. The courts are a lie. Democracy is a lie. Pushing back doesn't matter. The only solution is some sort of technology similar to encryption, Tor, freenet etc.

New comment by bt4u in "Interactive intro to shaders"

bt4u — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 00:41:42 +0000

Don't be shy, I guarantee that I'm worse at shaders than you are. Thanks for your effort

New comment by bt4u in "Google's plan to stop Apple from getting serious about search"

bt4u — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 11:46:41 +0000

Generally not very tightly but of course with Android, there are many different OEMs and they all try to do their own things to stand out

New comment by bt4u in "Pentagon’s shameful effort to draft mentally disabled men to fight in Vietnam"

bt4u — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 13:05:50 +0000

A simpler and probably more effective solution (and arguably more moral) would be to make it so only the sons of billionaires and sitting elected officials are allowed to go to war. We would have worldwide peace within a week.

New comment by bt4u in "‘I just assumed it would happen’: the unspoken grief of childless men"

bt4u — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 12:19:19 +0000

It will absolutely occur. Men who take their kids to the playground by themselves are often confronted (by moms of other kids). At some point things are so obvious that not many people are going to bother finding a peer reviewed study to cite. Maybe they should but they won't.

New comment by bt4u in "I Am Leaving"

bt4u — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 11:08:53 +0000

Self hosting is not sufficient. We saw that with the kiwi farms website. I didn't follow their story too close but it's wild how not just Cloudflare dropped them but also how big ISPs were willing to drop routing to them.

You can self host. It helps. Won't help you if major ISPs decide your self hosted ip shouldn't exist online.

New comment by bt4u in "Twitter now requires an account to view tweets"

bt4u — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 23:18:30 +0000

See you on obscure irc channels :)

New comment by bt4u in "Microsoft Small Basic"

bt4u — Sun, 14 May 2023 16:24:06 +0000

C# does support project-wide imports since C# 10

New comment by bt4u in "Why does it take so long to schedule a doctor's appointment in the US?"

bt4u — Mon, 08 May 2023 22:29:27 +0000

Modern problems require modern solutions

New comment by bt4u in "Google to ban financial lending apps from accessing user photos, contacts"

bt4u — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 17:13:57 +0000

Android does provide this. Your app can send out a message on the system: "i need a picture" and usually the built-in camera-app will accept the request, and send a picture back to the requesting app (which then does not need camera permissions since it, itself, never accesses the hardware).

This feature is actually quite foundational to the Android architecture, where the vision was a bunch of small apps working together in this manner.

Unfortunately it's a slightly more clunky user experience than what users these days have gotten used to: big monolithic apps that handle everything themselves.

New comment by bt4u in "Apple doesn’t want you developing hobby apps"

bt4u — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 15:54:43 +0000

They should be paying developers, yes, but not for the pain of going through review but instead for the simple fact that an iphone without any app developers is almost completely worthless. Apps make their platform more valuable.

New comment by bt4u in "Don’t teach during code reviews"

bt4u — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 21:48:48 +0000

You have to fight to produce quality and you have to do it continuously. You cannot just merge in "working(tm) but not using best practices" and then turn on the quality-switch months or years later.

Your attitude is creating a culture where nobody cares and it's why many good engineers end up hating their job.

New comment by bt4u in "ChatGPT Plus"

bt4u — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 18:56:11 +0000

Agreed and it's a very strange activism. You can get it to tell a joke about men, but you cannot get it to tell a joke about women. Go figure that one out

New comment by bt4u in "John Carmack Leaves Meta"

bt4u — Sat, 17 Dec 2022 12:56:00 +0000

There's even a fallacy named after using fallacies to dismiss people, come on.

New comment by bt4u in "“Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with diverse viewpoints”"

bt4u — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 22:48:44 +0000

Maybe because the person who came up with that idea is a crazy pedophile who drove 2 young boys to suicide. Yes, really. Maybe we should not blindly accept all of his ideas.

New comment by bt4u in "Blocking Kiwifarms"

bt4u — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 09:02:54 +0000

How can you be against harassment campaigns while at the same time inciting harassment campaigns? Do you ever notice your hypocrisy and just ignore it or?

New comment by bt4u in "Oracle Suspended My Account"

bt4u — Tue, 02 Aug 2022 15:33:22 +0000

They are.

New comment by bt4u in "TypeScript’s quirks: How inconsistencies make the language more complex"

bt4u — Sat, 01 Feb 2020 09:41:42 +0000

There's no such thing as an untyped programming language that's used in the real world. JavaScript and typescript definitely aren't. Maybe you mean dynamically typed

New comment by bt4u in "Silicon Valley Women, in Cultural Shift, Frankly Describe Sexual Harassment"

bt4u — Sat, 01 Jul 2017 03:50:23 +0000

Are there? Please explain them to me. I'm serious and want to learn

New comment by bt4u in "Not a Dot-Com Bubble, Not 2007, but a Nasty Mix of Both"

bt4u — Fri, 07 Apr 2017 05:38:10 +0000

Why is your name green?