Hacker News: orthecreedence

New comment by orthecreedence in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

orthecreedence — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 19:14:52 +0000

"You see there are people who believe the function of the police is to fight crime, and that's not true, the function of the police is social control and protection of property."

- Michael Parenti

New comment by orthecreedence in "LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire"

orthecreedence — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:48:45 +0000

It's almost like the American Libertarian to fascist pipeline is a real thing.

New comment by orthecreedence in "LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire"

orthecreedence — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:40:31 +0000

I don't know, I'd prefer the cops do their jobs and solve crime without the state having intimate knowledge of my whereabouts and activities any time I enter the public sphere.

New comment by orthecreedence in "The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs"

orthecreedence — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:42:17 +0000

Yes! The migrants fleeing to the US with nothing but the shirt on their back and tens of thousands of dollars in their pocket so they can buy an F350 Superduty and run over kids with it.

New comment by orthecreedence in "Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed"

orthecreedence — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 01:02:19 +0000

No? A mass surveillance apparatus is a pretty enormous problem.

New comment by orthecreedence in "Flock-Powered Police Chiefs Stalking Women Shows Why Warrants Are Needed"

orthecreedence — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:53:34 +0000

Either way, I support a world where exactly 0/1 Flock corporations exist.

New comment by orthecreedence in "Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040"

orthecreedence — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:42:32 +0000

> If you build the solar and wind you don't need the nuclear.

Don't forget the enormous battery arrays for winter, cloudy skies, or wildfire smoke. Hope you have enough batteries. But you won't, so ok, now you need gas reactors to fill in the blanks. Isn't that what we're trying to get away from?

New comment by orthecreedence in "Iroh 1.0"

orthecreedence — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:56:03 +0000

Libp2p does have quic, at least the rust implementation.

New comment by orthecreedence in "There Is Life Before Main in Rust"

orthecreedence — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:37:44 +0000

Show me the cave drawing version of this post or I will absolutely not be reading it.

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.