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New comment by iaml in "Pentagon formally labels Anthropic supply-chain risk"

iaml — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:42:10 +0000

Other reference was Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny.

New comment by iaml in "iOS 17 app sideloading might only be available in Europe"

iaml — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 08:13:04 +0000

It won’t, because the smart voting app was not blocked in eu. The markets where these kinda app would be needed are also the ones where sideloading will likely not arrive.

New comment by iaml in "Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negative Game Review Useful"

iaml — Sat, 15 Apr 2023 07:55:26 +0000

They care about linux because they fear(ed) ms pulling the plug on their platform.

New comment by iaml in "We are dropping the Dilbert comic because of creator Scott Adams racist rant"

iaml — Sun, 26 Feb 2023 09:41:15 +0000

It’s funny how people in this thread are so adamant you should just “not take the bait” when the entire words has been redefined to mean something completely different by these tactics. For example: woke.

New comment by iaml in "I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle"

iaml — Sun, 12 Feb 2023 10:41:28 +0000

Nah, it got much worse during this last year.

New comment by iaml in "Leaked Slack all-hands meeting reveals a ‘strong culture clash’ with Salesforce"

iaml — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 10:54:25 +0000

I wouldn’t be surprised if ms bought linkedin purely (or partially) for the legal access to the user dataset.

New comment by iaml in "“I’m selling data of 400M Twitter users that was scraped via a vulnerability”"

iaml — Sun, 25 Dec 2022 13:36:46 +0000

Companies know that people think like this nowadays, so they only require the phone number after you are already invested into the service. Twitter had this where they would allow you to not set phone initially, but then ban you some time later and require it to lift the ban. Microsoft also bans you for “suspicious activity” and the only way to unlock account is to “verify” your number. You can only contact them about it via another ms account or… by phone. Fuck everything about this tbh.

New comment by iaml in "Infosys leaked FullAdminAccess AWS keys on PyPI for over a year"

iaml — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 11:01:34 +0000

Even though hn commenters like to pretend otherwise, if you have a close look you can find many outright bigoted takes here.

New comment by iaml in "Leaked documents outline DHS’s plans to police disinformation"

iaml — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 21:23:48 +0000

I think it’s effective because the message is simple and scaled in coordinated fashion. To effectively answer to such an attack you need to massively distribute among the users refutals to every part of the attack message, with reputable sources and it needs to be brief enough so people don’t lose interest halfway. It could take a form of browser extension or a separate site with a dialogue tree of sorts where one participant is propaganda bot and the other the site user. Then users need to publicly post these (i guess you can ask fellas for help?).

New comment by iaml in "Leaked documents outline DHS’s plans to police disinformation"

iaml — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 20:25:45 +0000

You can just generate a bunch of legit looking news sites and spam it on facebook/whatever. Most people won’t check and it’s not viable for facebook to track every fake news site.

New comment by iaml in "Ask HN: Thoughts and feelings about Twitter under Elon? Any predictions?"

iaml — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 16:50:53 +0000

Existence of this function is not surprising to me, I knew it existed. I assumed it was a “mark for manual review by moderator”, not “super downvote”.

New comment by iaml in "Ask HN: Thoughts and feelings about Twitter under Elon? Any predictions?"

iaml — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 15:54:21 +0000

I also didn’t know about this. There’s a problem with features like these - casual user doesn’t even realize it exists, but motivated actors can easily exploit it to correct the conversation.

New comment by iaml in "Battle with bots prompts purge of Amazon, Apple employee accounts on LinkedIn"

iaml — Sat, 22 Oct 2022 09:31:50 +0000

I disagree. From what I can see the problem is that people are receptive to propaganda on the internet, and you can’t really solve this. As long as this is the case, there will be people who can benefit from shifting public perception, and then it becomes merely a question of resources.

New comment by iaml in "Battle with bots prompts purge of Amazon, Apple employee accounts on LinkedIn"

iaml — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 10:24:13 +0000

Why do you think people who pay money to create accounts to push their agenda will stop doing it when you tell them to cut the middleman? I bet the platform will just be 100% occupied by bots.

New comment by iaml in "Kanye West is buying Parler"

iaml — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 06:33:44 +0000

There’s a mirror now https://youtu.be/HbeYKOqzBVk

New comment by iaml in "Kanye West is buying Parler"

iaml — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 17:02:01 +0000

Not the person you asked, but here’s an interview that released yesterday.

https://youtu.be/-ZmbP5vIbyk

New comment by iaml in "W3.css – A minimal alternative to Bootstrap"

iaml — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 07:04:52 +0000

MDN also has a “try it” widget [0], works well enough for my purposes.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

New comment by iaml in "Blocking Kiwifarms"

iaml — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 17:19:06 +0000

Hormones are not specifically targeted to young people, and all the trans dyi resources I’ve seen have a ton of disclaimers and aren’t exactly easy to find and use. It is a last option for people who have no other choice, and it is regarded as such in community. To go this route you need to do actual math, do the blood work and read about this a lot. Do I think it should be available for children? In a perfect world - no, as children have access to medical professionals and puberty blockers. In this one, where an opinion of 17.999 year old may be completely discarded by parents who are 100% sure they know their child better then the child themselves? Where people can be told their appointment is in two years? Where the doctor can be a bigot and discard valid concerns? And not having this option at all may lead to many suicides? Yeah, I think this option may be justified. How many years would you consider to be permanent enough for you? Are you claiming that all parents are correct all the time?

New comment by iaml in "Blocking Kiwifarms"

iaml — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 14:41:31 +0000

You have trouble believing that trans people, whose problems are ignored by most population, choose to help people experiencing the same problem, that they know may lead to suicide if untreated, when nobody else does? How is it surprising? The only proper solution to this problem is to give all trans people equal and quick access to properly trained medical professionals who can treat them correct way, and that’s not happening.

New comment by iaml in "Blocking Kiwifarms"

iaml — Sun, 04 Sep 2022 13:15:45 +0000

You seem to be of opinion that this is a simple situation with clear cut options one of which is always safe while the other can bring harm. That is not the case, as usual with problems that cause so much discussion on the internet. If the trans person is not able to get necessary treatment (which is well documented by medical professionals) it’s very likely they will experience depression and they may even suffer harm as a result. How can you evaluate that doing nothing in this situation may indeed bring less harm than another option? That is usually a decision that needs to be made by a medical professional, but what if that’s not possible? What if the doctors aren’t trained to deal with situations like this and would still bring harm by their choices?