Hacker News: ozlikethewizard

New comment by ozlikethewizard in "Couple was swatted 55 times in 2 years over a post about Norm Macdonald"

ozlikethewizard — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 08:38:20 +0000

Tbf, support cloudflare's general refusal to censor what they host.

Their near monopoly is very bad for the health of the net, and I'd never use them for that reason, but if they are going to have a monopoly I'd rather they were pretty liberal on censorship. I know there are examples of deplatforming from them, but by and large their stance tends to be without legal intervention all is fair game and that's certainly better than enforcing their own morality.

New comment by ozlikethewizard in "German Bundeswehr uses AI to screen applicants for right-wing extremism"

ozlikethewizard — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 12:25:46 +0000

The original article uses right wing extermism as an example, but the description of the system translates to "constitutional fidelity". So its probably safe to assume that this will be looking for any kind of extremism that could be anti-constitutional. Always important to remember from a german perspective that it was the communists and socialists that held the line of resistance and were some of the first to be oppressed during the rise of the nazi regime, whatever your views on the politics are.

New comment by ozlikethewizard in "Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability"

ozlikethewizard — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 07:20:03 +0000

When did my car being able to navigate become a critical function?

New comment by ozlikethewizard in "I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband"

ozlikethewizard — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:32:58 +0000

I mean I think were agreeing, in a body of text this size I'd expect to see the dramatic short sentences and standalone dramatic sentence maybe one or twice. This article they are constant. They're great devices were used appropriately, but when the whole body of text reads like it it's awful.

Not asking anyone to stop using those writing devices, just begging for any work to not be exclusively dramatic devices. And when you read a piece of work like that its generally a child or AI lol.

New comment by ozlikethewizard in "Palantir's Co-Founder Wants Us Less Judgmental About Deadly Iran School Strike"

ozlikethewizard — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 09:56:50 +0000

This is hilarious, its the schools fault it got blown up. Talk about victim blaming.

New comment by ozlikethewizard in "Two-tier encryption in the UK"

ozlikethewizard — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:13:43 +0000

GB news is slop, you get to decide if you're misinformed or malicious.

The victims fine was overturned and the attacker was convincted, justice system working as intended: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9v7wlj3pr2o

Hasan is still not British.

New comment by ozlikethewizard in "The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy"

ozlikethewizard — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:56:13 +0000

Its gaining popularity in the UK and is starting to show up sporadically, but the opiod epidemic provided pretty extreme fuel to start the fire in America. No idea if itll ever take off here to the extent heroin did, depends on the economy I guess.

New comment by ozlikethewizard in "Two-tier encryption in the UK"

ozlikethewizard — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:52:24 +0000

That Hasan guy is American right? Unsurprisingly British laws need not apply.

I don't think that statement would go down too well here, but even then context is very important for incitement to violence. Considering people were and did set fire to hotels I think it was worthwhile investigating.

New comment by ozlikethewizard in "Oracle cites 'force majeure' to shield itself on controversial data center"

ozlikethewizard — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:34:06 +0000

Doesn't 'Force Majeure' mean exceptional events outside ones control? Pretty sure everything involved here is Oracles own making lol

New comment by ozlikethewizard in "Moving from cash to credit cards, PayPal, etc. is an ongoing privacy disaster"

ozlikethewizard — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:15:24 +0000

We just shitting on one of the last bastions of hacker culture for mobile tech now then? When did HN get such a taste for the boot?

New comment by ozlikethewizard in "I Don't Like LLMs"

ozlikethewizard — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 11:34:34 +0000

Could have installed libretorrent in about 12 seconds network dependent. Feels kinda like classic LLM obsession. You've used it to "save you time" in a problem that didnt need solving. Big part of engineering used to always be knowing what you didn't need to build something for as well

New comment by ozlikethewizard in "I Don't Like LLMs"

ozlikethewizard — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:19:41 +0000

What were you paying for?

New comment by ozlikethewizard in "Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography"

ozlikethewizard — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 07:34:31 +0000

Somewhat tangential but is "most secure consumer mobile device" actually correct? Does an iPhone beat out a grapheneOS android, or would that not be considered consumer because of aftermarket changes? Seems like a pretty bold claim but I know apple is pretty damn good with security (as long as you dont count Apple as a security risk themselves)

New comment by ozlikethewizard in "Oil Executives Say the Great Fuel Crisis Is Here"

ozlikethewizard — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:43:15 +0000

Houthi's were also recently active against Israeli assets as Palestinian solidarity. Another situation that could not have happened without US intervention (support in this case).

New comment by ozlikethewizard in "Oil Executives Say the Great Fuel Crisis Is Here"

ozlikethewizard — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:39:18 +0000

The houthis are part of Iran's 'Axis of resistance' and have also publicly stated one reason for their recent increase in activity being Palestinian solidarity.

Given the Iran war and Israels genocide only being possible through US support I'd say the US has a pretty big hand in the matter.

New comment by ozlikethewizard in "Oil Executives Say the Great Fuel Crisis Is Here"

ozlikethewizard — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:34:59 +0000

I think mandatory voting is only reasonable if their is an official spoil option that should trigger something if selected enough. The outcome is tricky in parliamentary/party based systems, as if you have a revote just going to end up with the same parties, but I also think its quite undemocratic to force someone to participate and therefore tacitly support a system that may be screwing them. In a democracy no one should be forced to pick between (what they consider) terrible options.

New comment by ozlikethewizard in "Oil Executives Say the Great Fuel Crisis Is Here"

ozlikethewizard — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 17:22:42 +0000

Ah yea, because the problem is hard we shouldn't try to fix it we should all just burn instead

New comment by ozlikethewizard in "Coding Is Over. Get over It"

ozlikethewizard — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 22:11:30 +0000

I'm still waiting for no code developments platforms to make me redundant.

New comment by ozlikethewizard in "Coding Is Over. Get over It"

ozlikethewizard — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 22:10:00 +0000

It's been tomorrow for an awfully long time now. Does it feel like the quality of software has got better or worse in the last few years? Is larger quantities of worse software really want we want to optimise for as an industry?

New comment by ozlikethewizard in "The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative"

ozlikethewizard — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:51:34 +0000

Right all those people protesting outside data centres are bureaucrats? This is a ridiculous take, large swaths of the population are against AI, most people are concerned about resource use, their livelihoods, and a destruction of the human element in so many crafts.