Hacker News: catiopatio

New comment by catiopatio in "4chan users manipulate AI tools to unleash torrent of racist images"

catiopatio — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 23:36:07 +0000

Poe’s law strikes again. I legit cannot determine whether your comment is satire or genuine.

New comment by catiopatio in "The TRON Project: How Japan almost ruled IT (2022)"

catiopatio — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 13:53:51 +0000

Your first false equivalence arises out of trivializing the qualitative differences in freedom between China and the USA/EU, implicitly framing the limitations in China as comparable to those in democratic societies.

This is misleading given the severe restrictions on human rights, freedom of speech, and rule of law in an authoritarian regime like China.

Your second false equivalence is in your equating of limited, private content moderation by a social network with systemic human rights abuses by government.

New comment by catiopatio in "The TRON Project: How Japan almost ruled IT (2022)"

catiopatio — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 08:58:01 +0000

Do you get paid by the word, by the post, or are you actually this nuts and do this for free?

New comment by catiopatio in "The TRON Project: How Japan almost ruled IT (2022)"

catiopatio — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 08:55:20 +0000

It’s possible to simultaneously drive economic development, lift a populace out of poverty, and not construct an authoritarian regime.

New comment by catiopatio in "The TRON Project: How Japan almost ruled IT (2022)"

catiopatio — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 08:39:58 +0000

Dong Jianbiao, the father of Dong Yaoqiong, who authorities disappeared for splashing ink on a poster of President Xi Jinping in 2018, died in a prison in Hunan province.

The new Measures on the Administration of Internet Religious Information Services came into effect in March, prohibiting individuals or groups from teaching or otherwise propagating religion online without official approval. A widely used Catholic app, CathAssist, shut down in August because it was unable to obtain a license.

Authorities in Jilin province forcibly disappeared human rights lawyer Tang Jitian.

A court in Shandong province held secret trials of prominent legal scholar Xu Zhiyong and human rights lawyer Ding Jiaxi for “subversion.” Their verdicts were unknown at time of writing. The men were detained in 2020 and 2019 respectively after organizing a small gathering to discuss human rights and democracy issues.

https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2023/country-chapters/china

New comment by catiopatio in "The TRON Project: How Japan almost ruled IT (2022)"

catiopatio — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 08:07:49 +0000

You have conspicuously avoided addressing the specific, systemic human rights abuses unique to China.

Instead, your post employs a series of rhetorical tactics aimed at stifling constructive dialogue:

First, you assert a false equivalency between China and the USA/EU by trivializing the qualitative difference in freedom levels, thereby attempting to normalize authoritarianism.

Second, you use a slippery slope argument about social media moderation to suggest that all limitations on freedom are essentially the same — equating limited, private content moderation with systemic human rights abuses by government.

Third, you engage in an ad hominem attack by accusing me of being influenced by propaganda without providing substantive counter-arguments.

Were I to adopt your approach, I could easily make similar sweeping ad hominem accusations based on your behavior here.

New comment by catiopatio in "The TRON Project: How Japan almost ruled IT (2022)"

catiopatio — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 07:22:17 +0000

In another comment, you claimed that “Black Lives Matter leaders … died in mysterious accidents and car fires.”

This ventures firmly into the realm of conspiracy theory.

Do you feel you are presenting objective facts, as opposed to participating in disinformation or propaganda?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37722962

New comment by catiopatio in "The TRON Project: How Japan almost ruled IT (2022)"

catiopatio — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 05:06:34 +0000

I don’t believe you’re engaging in good faith; you are employing tactics meant to stifle discourse:

1. False Equivalence: Suggesting that economic progress and freedom of speech are interchangeable or mutually exclusive is intentionally misleading.

2. Relativism: By stating there's "no objective way" to compare, you are deflecting any form of critical evaluation.

3. Unfalsifiability: Your assertion that any evaluation is "inherently biased" is an unfalsifiable claim meant to immunize your argument from critique.

New comment by catiopatio in "The TRON Project: How Japan almost ruled IT (2022)"

catiopatio — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 04:45:17 +0000

Human rights and human prosperity aren’t mutually exclusive.

On top of which, they did such a terrible job of lifting people out of poverty, they unnecessarily killed tens of millions in the deadliest famine in human history:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1127087/

New comment by catiopatio in "The TRON Project: How Japan almost ruled IT (2022)"

catiopatio — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 04:32:18 +0000

By all human rights measures, it is worse. Freedom of association, freedom of speech, freedom of religion … you name it.

Feel free to read the yearly reports from the HRW:

https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2023/country-chapters/china

Random selection from the report:

> In May, a court in Hainan province sentenced former journalist Luo Changping to seven months in prison for a Weibo post that questioned China’s justification for its involvement in the Korean War.

Details on his case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luo_Changping#Arrest

> Sanya Ji'an Police Bureau summoned Luo for investigation into his "illegal remarks" suspected of "insulting heroes and martyrs".

New comment by catiopatio in "The TRON Project: How Japan almost ruled IT (2022)"

catiopatio — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 04:18:59 +0000

Xinjiang internment camps: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang_internment_camps

Censorship in China: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_China

Four Cardinal Principles (enshrined in the constitution): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Cardinal_Principles

Open Constitution Initiative (shut down by the government): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Constitution_Initiative

The issues are plain, endemic, and well-documented. It is not propaganda.

New comment by catiopatio in "The TRON Project: How Japan almost ruled IT (2022)"

catiopatio — Sun, 01 Oct 2023 04:07:13 +0000

For all the faults of western democracies, the Chinese Communist Party is far worse. That’s not anti-China propaganda.

You comment on this issue a surprising amount, and clearly feel strongly about the US’ views on China. I’d be curious as to exactly how you feel China is being judged unfairly.

New comment by catiopatio in "Every single Onewheel is being recalled after four deaths"

catiopatio — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 23:19:54 +0000

It’s very rare that bicycle is going to mechanically fail and send you flying.

Short of the time I was hit by a car, I’ve never had a bicycling emergency — road or mountain — that I wasn’t able to walk away from through some combination of hoping obstacles and/or putting the bike down in a controlled side-skid.

New comment by catiopatio in "Every single Onewheel is being recalled after four deaths"

catiopatio — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 20:47:40 +0000

The design, maintenance, and alteration of parachute equipment is regulated by the FAA; equipment must be approved under the FAA’s technical standards, and anyone packing a parachute must be an FAA-licensed rigger.

AFAIK there are no such standards (mandatory or voluntary) applied to Onewheel’s devices.

They could have voluntarily applied hardware and software standards from other safety fields (e.g. automotive engineering), but they apparently chose not to.

As the peer commenter said: move fast and break bones.

New comment by catiopatio in "Every single Onewheel is being recalled after four deaths"

catiopatio — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 18:06:31 +0000

It’s very likely that the hardware and/or firmware was not designed to meet a quality standard appropriate for the associated customer risks.

New comment by catiopatio in "Every single Onewheel is being recalled after four deaths"

catiopatio — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 17:39:03 +0000

As someone who has been saved from more serious injury by a helmet more than once … that’s flat-earth levels of delusion.

New comment by catiopatio in "Every single Onewheel is being recalled after four deaths"

catiopatio — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 17:25:41 +0000

Why do you take umbrage with a such a relevant fact being disclosed?

Helmets save lives, and isn’t it literally their job to inform us of such facts?

New comment by catiopatio in "Encrypted Client Hello"

catiopatio — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 03:40:19 +0000

I didn’t agree to terms that require I provide them with plaintext traffic to analyze.

New comment by catiopatio in "Encrypted Client Hello"

catiopatio — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 02:38:14 +0000

> SNI monitoring is a reasonable compromise, and I think a healthy one

No, it’s not.

ISPs have no right to know who I am speaking to or why.

New comment by catiopatio in "WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight"

catiopatio — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 06:27:04 +0000

You’re right, I see that as embarrassingly trivial. This whole thread is inane — if using a simple API is “amazing engineering”, what do you call the actual amazing engineering you’re holding in your hand right now?

I have nothing against Flighty — this has nothing to do with Flighty. Background notifications are trivial and all apps can and should be using them to solve this type of problem. It’s detrimental to have folks mistakenly operating under the belief that this is complex, unusual, or difficult.

Sure, the payload size is limited, but it’s not impossibly small, and custom keys with arbitrary payload are explicitly and obviously documented as supported.

Overly-effusive praise doesn’t do anyone any favors.