Hacker News: dbfx

New comment by dbfx in "TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users"

dbfx — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:07:59 +0000

I'd be surprised if they don't already.

New comment by dbfx in "Israel, Hamas reach ceasefire deal to end 15 months of war in Gaza"

dbfx — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 12:48:15 +0000

The ICC case has nothing to do with south africa, it was brought by the office of the prosecutor.The case brought by south africa was in the ICJ.

New comment by dbfx in "French Police Will Be Able to Spy on People Through Their Cell Phones"

dbfx — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 15:15:06 +0000

While I don't necesaarily disagree, in the case of france at least they can't really complain after completely destroying libya with its pals.

New comment by dbfx in "Blocking Threads won't be enough to protect privacy once they join the Fediverse"

dbfx — Wed, 12 Jul 2023 19:21:53 +0000

Then I fail to see the issue since "real conversations" aren't happening on the fediverse either.

New comment by dbfx in "PornHub blocks users in Utah, cites state’s age verification law"

dbfx — Tue, 02 May 2023 23:08:52 +0000

Please stop reading reddit for your own good

New comment by dbfx in "Arrest made in SF killing of Bob Lee – alleged killer also worked in tech"

dbfx — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 22:56:47 +0000

You're not solving anything by reading comments you dislike either, what's your point.

New comment by dbfx in "Silicon Valley Bank unmasks the hypocrisy of libertarian tech bros"

dbfx — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 12:02:25 +0000

You yourself just explained the reasoning as to why they would think that and seem to agree as well, not sure why you'd call it stupid.

New comment by dbfx in "Twitter was down"

dbfx — Mon, 06 Mar 2023 20:01:13 +0000

Honestly the "insider" even talking about "protecting" people from trolling and state co-ordinated misinformation(?) in the same sentence as protecting them from csam makes it very hard to believe it's something genuine.

Sounds like the people who say all the petty things they dislike about someone on the internet and then finishes with "he's a pedo" to add gravitas.(yes elon does fall into this category)

New comment by dbfx in "Netflix's New Chapter"

dbfx — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 22:26:49 +0000

Because it makes money anyway and getting actually good people would cost more nd take longer.

New comment by dbfx in "The skilled trades haven't caught as a career choice with Gen Z"

dbfx — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 10:32:22 +0000

More of a material fault than anything else, hiuses in the us are disposeable

New comment by dbfx in "The skilled trades haven't caught as a career choice with Gen Z"

dbfx — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 10:26:40 +0000

SV is not representative of tech workers

New comment by dbfx in "The FBI was the primary link between the intelligence community and Twitter"

dbfx — Mon, 26 Dec 2022 02:38:08 +0000

And what did they do about it once they got this information? Yeah that's what I thought.

New comment by dbfx in "Binance's books are a black box, filings show, as it tries to rally confidence"

dbfx — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 21:28:52 +0000

yes

New comment by dbfx in "Binance's books are a black box, filings show, as it tries to rally confidence"

dbfx — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 21:27:10 +0000

He is probably trying to stop the inevitable derailment once someone mentions(or believes is referring to) vaccines in any way that is not unequivocal and blind support.

New comment by dbfx in "Epic Games to pay $520M to resolve FTC allegations"

dbfx — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 15:02:28 +0000

Somehow that wasn't an issue the last two decades, comparing it to alcohol is absurd, you dont go to the epic cornerstore and talk to the epic fortnite clerk to unlock voice chat.

This war on "toxicity" at the expense of basic communication is insane, the match ends and it all supposed harassment ends.

New comment by dbfx in "Tell HN: Uber has blocked my account for years, won't tell me why"

dbfx — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 14:46:08 +0000

The idea that this is normalized as the way a bank behaves is profoundly scary.

New comment by dbfx in "Who knew the first AI battles would be fought by artists?"

dbfx — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 21:44:58 +0000

Thanks for the copypasta

New comment by dbfx in "Musk’s $5.7B Mystery Gift Went to His Own Charity"

dbfx — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 15:20:22 +0000

One could argue that he wants the charity to be good just because of the "prestige" of having a top charity, and that would be helping personally I guess.

Not sure how putting money in a charity would make him more money even with tax breaks than just investing that money somewhere else, although I got no clue how charity tax breaks work in the US,

New comment by dbfx in "The War on General Purpose Computing (2015) [video]"

dbfx — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 00:40:53 +0000

No, it's not. csam is illegal and so is revenge porn, the platform could even be in favor of csam and revenge porn and they'd still need to follow the law.

New comment by dbfx in "Author warns about 'epidemic of self-censorship'"

dbfx — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 16:33:35 +0000

Urban dictionary is hardly a good enough source to do the heavy lifting you're trying to use it for.