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New comment by lapphi in "The U.K. closed a tax loophole for the global rich, now they're fleeing"

lapphi — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 22:52:59 +0000

Very unmeritocratic society if you can just win by inheriting half of 20 billion dollars.

New comment by lapphi in "Are a few people ruining the internet for the rest of us?"

lapphi — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 22:34:08 +0000

I would love it if there were a part of the internet where a) one person = one account and non-person accounts were somehow labeled. Kind of how south korea does it. But you know, better.

And b) i could block that one person on each platform with one click on all my accounts, including screenshots of their posts.

In real life i know the person talking to me is a unique individual and not one of several duplicate persons bc of physical limitations.

Wishful thinking: we are reaching that point where AI could solve this instead of AI just making the issue worse.

New comment by lapphi in "Axon’s Draft One is designed to defy transparency"

lapphi — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 21:23:13 +0000

We could call it a cost cutting measure to save the taxpayer billions in unnecessary legal fees and settlements.

New comment by lapphi in "Axon’s Draft One is designed to defy transparency"

lapphi — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 21:16:23 +0000

> How will he "try that"? He hasn't done anything illegal and, if he does, his own staff and the courts will prevent him from doing it.

Are we talking about convicted felon donald trump or some other guy?

New comment by lapphi in "An embarrassingly simple approach to recover unlearned knowledge for LLMs"

lapphi — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 20:12:20 +0000

I think, at one point in time, it was also completely legal to break into computer networks because there were no laws against it.

New comment by lapphi in "Reflections on Palantir"

lapphi — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 01:20:13 +0000

I appreciate the technical achievements here. However, I wonder how long before it’s standard practice to track all peoples movement, not just those suspected of a crime. I know of at least one YouTube channel that is always recording all traffic camera streams in Washington so there must be some State entities doing the same. Back in 2020 there was a twitch channel that would play a 9x9 grid of all the livestream footage from the George Floyd protests. I’m sure an archive of that exists somewhere on a LE server.

New comment by lapphi in "Gettiers in software engineering (2019)"

lapphi — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 18:11:36 +0000

Politicians all across the globe know and utilize this concept

New comment by lapphi in "T-Mobile pays $16M fine for three years' worth of data breaches"

lapphi — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 21:06:13 +0000

Because we are “free” to “choose” who we do business with. Nevermind that many essential services are run by legal cartels.

And Tmobile has more lobbyists than you do. But you, an individual, are also “free” to lobby the government as much as you wish.

Thusly, the system is fair and balanced on paper.

New comment by lapphi in "Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses"

lapphi — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 03:26:50 +0000

I mean from the point of view of McDonald’s I mean Disney no no the tobacco companies, it was probably idea of the year.

New comment by lapphi in "Is Tor still safe to use?"

lapphi — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:08:15 +0000

You sound like a stalin era communist. The secret police are spying on you for your own good!

New comment by lapphi in "Bypassing airport security via SQL injection"

lapphi — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 00:12:02 +0000

I wonder how many entities knew about this before today

New comment by lapphi in "Google took three months to remove scam app that stole over $5M"

lapphi — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 05:46:44 +0000

This sounds like HSBC’s relationship with drug cartels

New comment by lapphi in "CrowdStrike accepting the PwnieAwards for "most epic fail" at defcon"

lapphi — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 20:19:45 +0000

I can think of at least one industry where the price of failure is almost always borne by the users and not the companies. Very closely integrated with tech as well.

New comment by lapphi in "The Marshmallow Test does not reliably predict adult functioning"

lapphi — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 01:51:24 +0000

I think it’s more reflective of the reality of living in the US than of your company’s selection process. I’m curious what you did after realizing this. Did you pivot away, or create a program designed to be useful for the volunteers? Assuming that the volunteer pool accurately represented the larger group.

New comment by lapphi in "Zed on Linux Is Here"

lapphi — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 11:29:24 +0000

60hz gives me a headache after a few hours, been like that since I was a kid.

New comment by lapphi in "Europe's new heavy-lift rocket, Ariane 6, made its inaugural flight"

lapphi — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 11:50:46 +0000

Is nationalism really so far in the past already

New comment by lapphi in "The internet is already over (2022)"

lapphi — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 13:41:36 +0000

“The mob” being the voting citizens of a free and open democratic society, of course.

Interesting point of view/source of internal tension there.

New comment by lapphi in "Cloudflare took down our website"

lapphi — Sun, 26 May 2024 20:43:11 +0000

It seems like the sales team went out of their way to try and land a $10k/mo deal. Then when they heard there was a second potential suitor in the mix they got upset and said “well we never wanted your $10k anyways!” and destroyed any chance of reconciliation. Very sour grapes/ no second date on tinder type of reaction.

If there is a TOS issue I’m not listening to a sales pitch on it. You better tell me what the issue is upfront in the first email instead of dicking around with the commission based workers. Like very low level stuff here imo

New comment by lapphi in "Alternative clouds are booming as companies seek cheaper access to GPUs"

lapphi — Mon, 06 May 2024 20:08:16 +0000

Yes. Frank reynolds in the popular television show it’s always sunny in Philadelphia lays it out in plain terms on one of the episodes. “In America you’re either the duper or the dupee”. PT Barnum also knew this essential truth about our nation.

New comment by lapphi in "Cheating Site Ashley Madison Is Overflowing with Sextortionists"

lapphi — Wed, 01 May 2024 19:57:58 +0000

This is why you hire a professional instead of trying to save a few bucks outsourcing