Hacker News: jamespo

New comment by jamespo in "Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos"

jamespo — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:10:25 +0000

There should be legal ramifications if they don't do what they say, but the practical solution is "don't use it".

New comment by jamespo in "EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices"

jamespo — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:01:44 +0000

Yes, that wasn’t criticising the government either.

New comment by jamespo in "EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices"

jamespo — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:24:41 +0000

it appears you've misunderstood what criticizing the government is, nice try though

New comment by jamespo in "EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices"

jamespo — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:56:07 +0000

what happens if you criticise the government in these safe countries?

New comment by jamespo in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

jamespo — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:06:11 +0000

Inside many offices mobile data is spotty or not working at all

New comment by jamespo in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

jamespo — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:27:26 +0000

Personal laptops go on guest wifi with zero access to company resources, just like personal phones

New comment by jamespo in "Italy region: +200% tax on datacenters built in green/agricultural areas"

jamespo — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:38:17 +0000

The US has ~97 people / mi² vs ~519 people / mi² in Italy so the article is less relevant than you think

New comment by jamespo in "Italy region: +200% tax on datacenters built in green/agricultural areas"

jamespo — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:34:24 +0000

Perhaps an AI summary would have helped here

New comment by jamespo in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

jamespo — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:10:40 +0000

Maybe they are hoping for a tiny bit of research / looking into things

New comment by jamespo in "California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash"

jamespo — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:34:43 +0000

Fine allow any text through, kids can use whatever gopher site they like.

New comment by jamespo in "sp.h: Fixing C by giving it a high quality, ultra portable standard library"

jamespo — Sat, 23 May 2026 08:22:23 +0000

Compiling

New comment by jamespo in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

jamespo — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:35:49 +0000

Guess what, the AI companies training their models aren't going to include themselves in the "rest of us"

New comment by jamespo in "We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot"

jamespo — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:06:55 +0000

Ah this world where doctors are perfect and know everything

New comment by jamespo in "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE"

jamespo — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:21:55 +0000

a 4 month old account making a bad faith argument, well I never!

New comment by jamespo in "StarFighter 16-Inch"

jamespo — Wed, 06 May 2026 10:56:03 +0000

Has almost everything I want, full size cursor + dedicated home/end/pgup/pgdown but fingerprint sensor would have been nice, although linux support for those is dodgy.

New comment by jamespo in "For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions"

jamespo — Fri, 01 May 2026 08:57:58 +0000

The impacted user count of your debian fork with custom compiled kernel would probably not be more than 1 however.

New comment by jamespo in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

jamespo — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:00:13 +0000

Wait until you find out about games consoles

New comment by jamespo in "Greece to ban anonymity on social media"

jamespo — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:56:24 +0000

Then they will be blocked & only accessible via VPN

New comment by jamespo in "Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained"

jamespo — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:03:22 +0000

Ah the "I would pay for firefox but" fallacy

New comment by jamespo in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

jamespo — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:20:58 +0000

I think you meant this snark for reddit?