Hacker News: jasonmp85

New comment by jasonmp85 in "Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom"

jasonmp85 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:04:58 +0000

This is written with what feels like the peak understanding of my kid's school's IT department: "well, they're just so smart, we can't find any way of stopping them!"

An allowlist might be a good place to start.

New comment by jasonmp85 in "Twitter now requires an account to view tweets"

jasonmp85 — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 22:23:45 +0000

I am, thanks. But also Discourse is so terrible that it should be excluded too.

New comment by jasonmp85 in "A child’s privacy is worth more than likes (2022)"

jasonmp85 — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 01:52:26 +0000

I could spend time looking for a Facebook ad showing this behavior but instead I’m going to scream at you to stop being so dense and do it yourself.

New comment by jasonmp85 in "A child’s privacy is worth more than likes (2022)"

jasonmp85 — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 01:50:59 +0000

Hey privacy is really important oh by the way subscribe to us, k?

New comment by jasonmp85 in "Twitter now requires an account to view tweets"

jasonmp85 — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 00:00:30 +0000

To not know of any is sort of weird. To believe a for-profit enterprise should replace the last is unspeakably dumb.

New comment by jasonmp85 in "Tesla removes parking sensors, the results are predictably terrible"

jasonmp85 — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 19:31:13 +0000

Who is the CEO, again? What fall did they take? Must’ve been big to avoid naming them.

New comment by jasonmp85 in "How to change the region on an HP OfficeJet printer in 57 easy steps"

jasonmp85 — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 18:18:51 +0000

It’s not, though

New comment by jasonmp85 in "Porsche’s e-fuel burns just like the real thing"

jasonmp85 — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 23:19:27 +0000

Imagine being as stupid as this

New comment by jasonmp85 in "30B model now needs only 5.8GB of RAM? How?"

jasonmp85 — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 23:13:41 +0000

This is incredibly mundane; why is this on the front page?

New comment by jasonmp85 in "Exploiting aCropalypse: Recovering truncated PNGs"

jasonmp85 — Sun, 19 Mar 2023 01:40:21 +0000

Google is irresponsible (current, not past tense, is and was always).

Everything after that is fair game.

New comment by jasonmp85 in "‘Breakthrough’ obesity drugs that have stunned researchers"

jasonmp85 — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 16:16:44 +0000

Amphetamines are great, I fail to see your point.

New comment by jasonmp85 in "Python 2 removed from Debian"

jasonmp85 — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 10:15:29 +0000

What shelf? A garage? Detached? A shed? How humid? You may want to resurface and oil that saw after a decade. The wood handle may have rotted, or the plastic one may be gummy. Taking care of tools is how they last.

New comment by jasonmp85 in "Python 2 removed from Debian"

jasonmp85 — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 00:20:30 +0000

The point is just you don’t understand how your tools work.

New comment by jasonmp85 in "If you die in the game, you die in real life"

jasonmp85 — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 05:25:01 +0000

Yes. I cringed so hard I’m wearing my endothelial layer as skin.

New comment by jasonmp85 in "If you die in the game, you die in real life"

jasonmp85 — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 05:23:44 +0000

Thank god the sort of people who mindlessly seek “cool” stuff to work on in the absence of any kind of ethics seldom have the intelligence, skill, or charm to realize any of their dreams.

New comment by jasonmp85 in "Australia confiscated 650k guns. Murders and suicides plummeted"

jasonmp85 — Wed, 25 May 2022 18:54:08 +0000

Driving has some utility.

New comment by jasonmp85 in "Australia confiscated 650k guns. Murders and suicides plummeted"

jasonmp85 — Wed, 25 May 2022 18:53:40 +0000

Why would this matter in the US?

New comment by jasonmp85 in "Australia confiscated 650k guns. Murders and suicides plummeted"

jasonmp85 — Wed, 25 May 2022 18:53:11 +0000

Run-on sentences, use of "woke"… I think this entire person can be ignored.

New comment by jasonmp85 in "Are iPhones Better for Privacy? Comparative Study of iOS and Android Apps"

jasonmp85 — Sun, 10 Oct 2021 18:40:36 +0000

Christ you seem insufferable. Imagine identifying issues in our media but thinking they are “because calebritiez”

New comment by jasonmp85 in "Are iPhones Better for Privacy? Comparative Study of iOS and Android Apps"

jasonmp85 — Sun, 10 Oct 2021 18:33:52 +0000

When did you get a cell phone?

How many children have you raised?