Hacker News: failuser

New comment by failuser in "Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds"

failuser — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 18:39:10 +0000

Exactly. Voice of the people if very faint, sound of lobby banknotes makes lawmakers listen.

New comment by failuser in "Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds"

failuser — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 18:37:57 +0000

Governments can make effective laws, you know. There are tools that can solve this. Parental controls, separation of peer-to-peer communications from algorithmic feeds. The lawmakers are old, tech-illiterate people. You can tell them that a private Minecraft server is illegal and they will believe it.

New comment by failuser in "Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds"

failuser — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 18:31:27 +0000

This is a very strange read. If that was posted on a random blog, I would have dismissed it. I didn’t know that that cell (anti tech bro, anti big tech, pro age verification laws) in the alignment chart is populated by actual people. And by intelligent people even.

Also the fact they call it “age verification” when they clearly build an identity verification and we just accept their language is crazy.

New comment by failuser in "Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds"

failuser — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 18:27:27 +0000

I don’t even know which party he champions. There is no pro-privacy party in America. That quote can come from either side of the establishment. Both increased surveillance.

New comment by failuser in "Goodbye, and Thanks for All the Bikesheds"

failuser — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 18:24:56 +0000

The laws they pass do nothing to stop the criminals. Do you think an “age verification” law can stop any criminals?

New comment by failuser in "Rocketlab acquires Iridium"

failuser — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 22:56:09 +0000

Wild that we already see “Kessler syndrome is a hoax” takes. I guess that should have been expected.

New comment by failuser in "Ford AI hiccups push carmaker to rehire ‘gray beard’ inspectors"

failuser — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:08:55 +0000

Career flexibility like Do Not Compete agreements?

New comment by failuser in "The desperation of NYTimes"

failuser — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:09:50 +0000

And it’s not just them, many businesses force you to call to unsubscribe, this should be illegal. I managed to unsubscribe via their chatbot. Maybe because I’m in California where it’s actually illegal.

New comment by failuser in "The desperation of NYTimes"

failuser — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:06:58 +0000

NYT makes more money from their games than actual news, right? Newspapers are dead and there is nothing to replace them. There is no loner money in informing the masses, only is disinformation. The people who can make money from the news and data buy surveillance data that is far more accurate than the government publishes and trade on it. You can’t have anything resembling a liberal democracy when the monetary insensitive are aligned like this and there is no pushback.

New comment by failuser in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

failuser — Fri, 08 May 2026 22:53:25 +0000

The governments are the ones who needs the most. They want to know who all the potential and current dissidents are.

New comment by failuser in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

failuser — Fri, 08 May 2026 22:48:38 +0000

How is this not grounds to be sued into oblivion by Google and Meta? They clearly violate ToS for profit. This is something I expect to find on a dark web forum where 0days are traded, not in public.

New comment by failuser in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

failuser — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:42:14 +0000

Any properly supported third-party keyboards? Swiftkey was bought by Microsoft and lost my vote. Gboard stopped updating.

New comment by failuser in "TikTok claimed bugs blocked anti-ICE videos, Epstein mentions; experts call BS"

failuser — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 19:32:43 +0000

US Government literally forced the sale. If the 1st amendment by bypassed by forced sales of the media that does not follow the party line, then what’s the point?

New comment by failuser in "The gaslit asset class"

failuser — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 04:43:45 +0000

Crypto facilitates bypassing financial regulations, drug trade, evading taxes, extorting ransoms, breaking sanctions and so on. I’m not at all surprised it’s popular. I’m surprised that even relatively sane US admin did not crush it.

New comment by failuser in "An Overwhelmingly Negative and Demoralizing Force"

failuser — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 23:50:34 +0000

Why won’t luddites open their own factories, amirite? They would if they had money.

New comment by failuser in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

failuser — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 14:57:12 +0000

Not just goods, US tech sector will be taxed and tariffed into non-existence.

New comment by failuser in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

failuser — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 14:35:47 +0000

Lawsuits take time, the authoritarian takeover of the government is completed in days.

New comment by failuser in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

failuser — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 14:33:53 +0000

There will be no new elections. At best we’ll have a Russia-style farce.

New comment by failuser in "All federal agencies ordered to terminate remote work–ideally within 30 days"

failuser — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 13:42:44 +0000

That’s the point.

New comment by failuser in "Nintendo Files Suit for Infringement of Patent Rights Against Pocketpair, Inc"

failuser — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 08:21:11 +0000

Monolith patented their nemesis system, so it went nowhere. The thought that we were one personal stance away from the whole FPS genre not existing is pretty chilling.