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New comment by nullsanity in "An interactive map of Flock Cams"

nullsanity — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:31:52 +0000

Which is fine, because those are owned by private citizens and companies and those citizens are giving their permission to the police to use them. That's the difference between centralized government survalience and CCTVs

New comment by nullsanity in "Baby chicks pass the bouba-kiki test, challenging a theory of language evolution"

nullsanity — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:36:48 +0000

For anyone else whom the above awnsers absolutely nothing without googling what defines the boundary - A more verbose version of the above comment is that they communicate only simple, situational signals (like warning cries or information for action) and not using a symbolic, rule-governed system capable of abstraction, past and future tense, and infinite combination.

Of course, with all generalizations, this is sort of a lie, but no - whales, chimps and cephapods don't meet the official bar.

New comment by nullsanity in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

nullsanity — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 07:24:05 +0000

The impossibly high bar they set "Perfect" at in order to make it the enemy of good, and fight against any progress being made to keep children out of adult spaces.

That being said, it's my personal opinion that I'd love to simply have my device store a token and send it to any site when requested. I'd then like those sites to give me toggles to remove all non-verified content - and therefore my internet experience could be sans-juvenile squeakers.

New comment by nullsanity in "The JavaScript Oxidation Compiler"

nullsanity — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 06:39:08 +0000

It takes a good programmer to write it, and most good programmers avoid JavaScript, unless forced to use it for their day job. in that case, there is no incentive to speed up the part of the job that isn't writing JavaScript.

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

nullsanity — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 13:29:21 +0000

This is also known as "Hosting" which, I found amusing.

New comment by nullsanity in "Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format"

nullsanity — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 18:39:03 +0000

Gwtar seems like a good solution to a problem nobody seemed to want to fix. However, this website is... something else. It's full of inflated self impprtantance, overly bountiful prose, and feels like someone never learned to put in the time to write a shorter essay. Even the about page contains a description of the about page.

I don't know if anyone else gets "unemployed megalomaniacal lunatic" vibes, but I sure do.

New comment by nullsanity in "Show HN: SQL-tap – Real-time SQL traffic viewer for PostgreSQL and MySQL"

nullsanity — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 20:11:53 +0000

I was with you until you said react. Just export to existing metrics software like Prometheus. Or do anything other than use an entire JavaScript framework for a simple UI. I swear, JS-Brain is as terminal as microservice and cloud brain.

New comment by nullsanity in "The Codex app illustrates the shift left of IDEs and coding GUIs"

nullsanity — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 22:23:57 +0000

If I keep getting married at the same pace I have, then in a few years I'll have like 50 husbands.

New comment by nullsanity in "Outsourcing thinking"

nullsanity — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 07:20:27 +0000

This comment has made me glad for LLM in Gmail. If someone is going to over analyze my every word because he firmly believes it portrays who I am, I'd appreciate the layer obfuscation between me and this creepazoid.

New comment by nullsanity in "Generative AI and Wikipedia editing: What we learned in 2025"

nullsanity — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 02:57:31 +0000

Because a difference in scale can become a difference in category. A handful of buggy crashes can be reduced to operator error, but as the car becomes widely adopted and analysis matures, it becomes clear that the fundamental design of the machine and its available use cases has fundamental flaws that cause a higher rate of operator error than desired. Therefore, cars are redesigned to be safer, laws and regulations are put in place, license systems are issued, and traffic calming and road design is considered.

Hope that helps you understand.

New comment by nullsanity in "Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native"

nullsanity — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 12:05:48 +0000

I think reductionist opinions about the "Free market" and price competition being the only factor are naive. Culture and trust are major components of a project, and cultural sensibilities and development culture can be a part of procurement decisions.

I worked for a company that chose Tresorit over any other option because it gave them Data Sovereignty, E2E encryption, and most important, it was not American.

There is intrinsic value in being "Not made in America" and data sovereignty is a major issue for a lot of organizations. Just as an American company would be concerned about storing their data in China, the rest of the world is/should be concerned about storing their data in the US.