Hacker News: orthecreedence

New comment by orthecreedence in "Building from zero after addiction, prison, and a felony"

orthecreedence — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 03:58:19 +0000

That's a really great point, and shows a deep understanding of how consistently humorless HN users are! If you want, I can show several more examples of people knee-jerk downvoting things that are actually pretty funny.

New comment by orthecreedence in "A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)"

orthecreedence — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:46:13 +0000

Small claims maybe to recoup towing/recovery fees, but a civil case? No way. That shit will make you go gray quick.

New comment by orthecreedence in "Social Animus"

orthecreedence — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:02:45 +0000

It's odd though, because fascism (techno or otherwise) is not going to value Justine for her creative talents. It's going to either a) force her into detransition/medical experimentation (like our current admin is already doing to trans people) or b) send her to a camp. I don't believe there is any form of fascism that would be kind to trans people. But I guess the world is full of people who will argue against their own interests till they're blue in the face, so maybe it doesn't need to make sense.

New comment by orthecreedence in "Social Animus"

orthecreedence — Fri, 29 May 2026 00:42:52 +0000

Wait, is she legit a Trump supporter? I see stuff about praising various tech lords but haven't seen anything saying she supports Trump.

New comment by orthecreedence in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

orthecreedence — Sun, 24 May 2026 03:26:30 +0000

Such as the desire for theocratic surveillance fascism (what Jesus advocated for tirelessly).

New comment by orthecreedence in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

orthecreedence — Sun, 24 May 2026 03:23:27 +0000

> I don’t like this policy, but engaging in exaggerated rhetoric

The Trump admin just sent an official death threat to trans people and anti-fascists (lol??). I am so incredibly sick of people acting like this is ok and normal and any calling out is exaggerating. At some point, you're not defending sensible discourse, you're lecturing people for being upset when they have a murderous regime targeting them. It's a shitty thing to do. You're defending actual fascism at this point. And I'm happy to back up that claim without rhetoric by demonstrating the ways in which the US is (and has been) slipping into fascism for decades. Something tells me I'd be wasting my breath though.

New comment by orthecreedence in "Trade Dollars with other startups. Book it as revenue"

orthecreedence — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:58:40 +0000

> "Closed a $40M Series B in 11 days. Have not spoken to a customer since 2022."

That gave me a chuckle. Too real.

New comment by orthecreedence in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"

orthecreedence — Fri, 15 May 2026 05:33:45 +0000

> They tend to attempt to do this anonymized. How successful they are in anonymizing that is very much so up for debate.

    let anon_id = md5(SSN);

New comment by orthecreedence in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

orthecreedence — Mon, 11 May 2026 06:29:55 +0000

The problem is democracy and capitalism are incompatible, so that "if" is doing some really heavy lifting.

New comment by orthecreedence in "Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers"

orthecreedence — Fri, 08 May 2026 03:15:01 +0000

> Surely this would be illegal? Personal data without consent?

I'm not trying to be mean here, but have you been frozen in ice for the last 20 years? This is effectively the tech industry's raison d'etre.

New comment by orthecreedence in "Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers"

orthecreedence — Fri, 08 May 2026 03:11:07 +0000

Yeah, I staunchly refuse to believe an ad company that releases a closed-source browser would violate our privacy. You're probably right that they changed the claim simply because it was too verbose. That's the best and only explanation.

New comment by orthecreedence in "Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers"

orthecreedence — Fri, 08 May 2026 03:08:01 +0000

> My belief is that the AI business is all about data collection.

In the short term, maybe. That's what you tell investors.

In the long term, it's about altering, shaping, and even constructing reality: making a new and canonical truth for humanity where the ruling classes are invisible to us and the machine that tells us our history and bedtime stories and how we feel is in every device we carry, until it is everywhere, and it has always been everywhere, and it will always be everywhere.

New comment by orthecreedence in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

orthecreedence — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:57:41 +0000

> Politicians try to square those competing wills.

Yeah! They're doing their best! They definitely aren't fascist stooges trying to expand the surveillance state.

New comment by orthecreedence in "California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws"

orthecreedence — Sat, 02 May 2026 19:12:30 +0000

Is it too much to ask for today's pedestrian to wear at least one piece of reflective clothing?

New comment by orthecreedence in "New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming"

orthecreedence — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:44:06 +0000

While you were studying the blade, I was drooling on my physical self while trying to get two girls to kiss in a lucid dream.

New comment by orthecreedence in "New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming"

orthecreedence — Fri, 01 May 2026 21:39:15 +0000

Yes, "new research" is a misnomer here. The correct version is "people in lab coats have finally noticed ..."

Reminds me of the studies that say lobsters can feel pain. Like, no fucking shit. What multi-cellular (and even single-celled) organisms do not feel pain? Glad we're giving the western stamp of approval on these highly contested ideas.

New comment by orthecreedence in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

orthecreedence — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:44:54 +0000

Such a difficult resource to find.

New comment by orthecreedence in "Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs"

orthecreedence — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:14:36 +0000

Or maybe that people are wearing surveillance glasses while they fuck their partner? I know we need to push these companies to not be shitheads, but ultimately you can only be a shithead with the data people give to you (with the exception of things like Flock, who are shitheads with "public" surveillance data).

I know our culture is so supremely fucked at this point that wearing corporate surveillance goggles during intimate moments could somehow be normalized, but holy shit. How did people get so trusting?

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

orthecreedence — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:41:31 +0000

Integrations makes sense, but I'm 100% sold on linux/PCs at this point and I don't care about wearables so my phone is just a phone. Luckily I'm not on the app store much, but if the walled garden is a cesspool already then maybe opening the gates a bit isn't such a bad idea.

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

orthecreedence — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:34:43 +0000

The iOS app store is like the craigslist personals of online markets. I feel incredibly dirty just going on there. I have to scroll down 3-5 options just to find the exact match for what I searched for, many of the prioritized options being look-alikes that could easily fool people into installing some malware-esque garbage.

I love my 13 mini as a phone, but I don't understand how anyone could compare the two app stores and think iOS comes out on top. At least android has f-droid.