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New comment by gnu8 in "Mark Zuckerberg Wants to Feed You More AI Slop"

gnu8 — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 18:27:54 +0000

No one has a right to be wealthy. Mark Zuckerberg and all of these other people are so narcissistic that not only do they believe they are entitled to their wealth, but they also have an insane urge to take even more from people while providing even less. The quality of information and interaction on Meta’s web sites is lower than ever, and their response is to machine-produce an increasing quantity of even lower quality sludge rather than shut down the company and disappear.

What we need is a mechanism to terminate these entities, in the same way that chemotherapy eliminates fast-dividing cancer cells that have lost their ability to self-terminate.

New comment by gnu8 in "YouTube Terminates Popular Retro Gaming Channel Without Warning"

gnu8 — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 17:58:15 +0000

Reading the tweets from “Team you tube” — these companies should be prohibited from saying things that are obviously not true. “These decisions are made very carefully” or “our community guidelines exist to make You tube a safer community for everyone” are flat lies, naked falsehoods that should bring about meaningful sanctions against Google’s management and shareholders. Rich people should suffer for this.

New comment by gnu8 in "Ask HN: Life-changing purchases since 2020? (Under $100 and under $1000)"

gnu8 — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 19:41:58 +0000

I’d like to be contrarian here and suggest that if you happen to be possessed of a sudden impulse to buy something, but you can’t identify any particular thing that you need, consider putting that amount of money into an investment or retirement account instead of searching for a trinket to buy. That way you are scratching the itch and you’ll be better off later on.

In other words, you can have your cake and eat it too.

New comment by gnu8 in "Why shouldn't you give money to homeless people?"

gnu8 — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 14:49:17 +0000

What does it matter if they spend the money on drugs? Their lives suck. I can hardly blame them for wanting drugs and if it makes them more comfortable for a short period of time, that is probably the best I can do for them. I’m powerless to change their situation. Even if I had the resources to house and employ such a person, I have no way to cure their mental and emotional issues that prevent them from being a stable person.

New comment by gnu8 in "Once Linux's Biggest Enemy: Darl McBride Dies and Nobody Notices"

gnu8 — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 14:12:46 +0000

Did he ever end up saying what his true motivation was for disparaging Linux?

New comment by gnu8 in "OpenZFS deduplication is good now and you shouldn't use it"

gnu8 — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 14:25:37 +0000

I think that is well known amongst storage experts, though maybe not everyone who might be interested in using ZFS for storage in a professional or personal application. What I’m curious about is how ZFS’s full-disk performance (what is the best term for this?) compares to btrfs, WAFL, and so on. Is ZFS abnormally sensitive to this condition, or is it a normal property?

In any case it doesn’t stick out to me as a problem that needs to be fixed. You can’t fill a propane tank to 100% either.

New comment by gnu8 in "We're in the Golden Age of Garbage Clothing"

gnu8 — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 17:02:57 +0000

Pre-holed jeans for instance are basically a way to make the garment more interesting and show some skin. Clothing is as much for self-decoration to attract mates as it is for protection from the environment. All it says to me is that we are apes.

New comment by gnu8 in "FTC announces "click-to-cancel" rule making it easier to cancel subscriptions"

gnu8 — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 16:37:33 +0000

What surprises me is that I don’t see any comments here from people lamenting that their business will be negatively affected by this. Surely there are founders or engineers on HN involved with companies that will lose profit if they allow their customers to cancel their services.

New comment by gnu8 in "PSA: Don't use iPhone Mirroring on your work computer"

gnu8 — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 14:53:42 +0000

You will probably find that your corporate TLS MitM proxy excludes financial institutions so that employees can do their banking without any doubt that their own company would respect the confidentiality of their finances. If not, your cybersecurity team needs some help.

New comment by gnu8 in "Geico terminating insurance coverage of Tesla Cybertrucks"

gnu8 — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 14:29:49 +0000

Shush, I want to see a YC25 auto insurance startup that uses a pile of overheated video cards as a crystal ball to make underwriting decisions.

New comment by gnu8 in "WP Engine sent “cease and desist” letter to Automattic"

gnu8 — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 16:31:56 +0000

> He refused to believe me and basically said "Well I'm not sure why I'm paying you if you can't even get a website to work."

I would quit the moment I was spoken to in that way, if not sooner.

New comment by gnu8 in "Judge rules $400M algorithmic system illegally denied Medicaid benefits"

gnu8 — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 19:38:03 +0000

How many of the software engineers, project managers, and sparkle-shoe consultants from Deloitte are on Medicaid?

New comment by gnu8 in "U.S. Ambassador says Canadians are consuming 'unhealthy' amount of American news"

gnu8 — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 14:27:31 +0000

> It was on the table.

I think this is a misconception. It is the responsibility of the general staff to have a plan for any eventuality. The existence of such a plan does not imply that the political leadership has seriously considered launching military operations against a friendly neighboring country.

New comment by gnu8 in "Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team"

gnu8 — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 21:16:48 +0000

I imagine very few of the MS devs are using BeOS.

New comment by gnu8 in "CSVs Are Kinda Bad. DSVs Are Kinda Good"

gnu8 — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 16:18:18 +0000

Easy, count running the report as an event.

DALnet FreeBSD Security How to (2002)

gnu8 — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 15:40:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.dal.net/?page=Security%20Guidelines

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41202909

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by gnu8 in "Congress accidentally legalized THC six years ago"

gnu8 — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 12:53:19 +0000

I was wondering if the Supreme Court had legalized all drugs recently when they discovered that the executive branch agencies lack the power to create detailed regulations. Surely that would include the DEA’s power to schedule drugs, wouldn’t it?

New comment by gnu8 in "Why blue animals are so rare"

gnu8 — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 02:53:14 +0000

I think this is closer to what was intended:

Molecules that appear blue must absorb very small amounts of energy, while reflecting high-energy blue light. Since assembling the molecules that are capable of absorbing this energy is a complex process, the color blue is less common than other colors in the natural world.

New comment by gnu8 in "Almost half of Dell's full-time US workforce has rejected the company's RTO push"

gnu8 — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 16:24:16 +0000

Shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders.

New comment by gnu8 in "Google lays off its Python team"

gnu8 — Sat, 27 Apr 2024 19:15:27 +0000

> ("we had managers that were extremely good about work life balance" and "marathon not sprint" should tell you all you need to know.)

That's how all jobs should be though. The only time anyone should be sprinting is if the building is on fire. I guess Google is moving to a 9-9-6 schedule, and they want to do it in Munich where they can pay peanuts for it.