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New comment by rapnie in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

rapnie — Thu, 28 May 2026 00:44:58 +0000

There are completely fake bands, who are 'on tour', 'giving interviews', cranking out albums. Like "Shunned at a Funeral" [0] for instance, an AI Christian rock band. Mentioning nowhere that it is all fake.

Here is a band member of the real band "Wings of Pegasus" who takes a closer look at these shenanigans in "Are you sure your favourite band is real?" [1]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/@ShunnedataFuneral

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKOtpdDzwyA

New comment by rapnie in "The User Is Visibly Frustrated"

rapnie — Tue, 26 May 2026 06:57:37 +0000

Apart from LLMs I reject the notion of the "user". Once you use that term you already lost half the battle of perceiving real people and their needs.

New comment by rapnie in "JWT is a scam and your app doesn't need it"

rapnie — Sat, 23 May 2026 18:26:27 +0000

> JWT is a scam

The article doesn't need clickbait titles either, which is also not a savory practice. Other than that it is good to educate people to make informed decisions on JWT.

Funding the Web: From Cartel to Covenant

rapnie — Sat, 23 May 2026 10:47:58 +0000

Article URL: https://ftw.fund/report.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48246566

Points: 2

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New comment by rapnie in "America's Greatest Strategic Blunder: The Imprisonment of Qian Xuesen"

rapnie — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:22:14 +0000

Youtube these days is full of probably great and interesting documentaries, where people put a lot of time in, but when I hear these typical LLM narrations I can't make it more then a few seconds in, they are horrible.

New comment by rapnie in "Colonization of Venus"

rapnie — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:16:22 +0000

Yes, I don't care about these selfish sociopath billionaires, and certainly wouldn't want them to geoengineer Earth. Perhaps pay their due tax to society would be a better idea. Fixing Earth might include having a system where people don't get to be billionaires and soon trillionaires that dominate the planet.

New comment by rapnie in "Colonization of Venus"

rapnie — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:13:46 +0000

Exactly. I used to be a lifelong fan of anything space. But right now it is limited to people conducting actual science to get a better understanding of our universe. All the dick-swinging billionaires and geopolitical vanity projects of going to the Moon and Mars are utter follies. Every billion spent there, a waste of money that could be better spent. And I am not even talking about outer atmosphere ultra-rich people tourism in literal penis rockets. Utter pollution and waste. Let's wait to colonize other planets until after we get our own house in order.

New comment by rapnie in "More than sixty percent of the United States is experiencing drought conditions"

rapnie — Fri, 15 May 2026 08:20:54 +0000

Yes, lies and venom. With 'divisive' I was also thinking of the new US national security policy that calls for driving the EU apart into individual vasal states, and Rubio doing that dirty work in the vid, shielded by algorithms.

New comment by rapnie in "More than sixty percent of the United States is experiencing drought conditions"

rapnie — Fri, 15 May 2026 05:45:44 +0000

> At the same time, the US techno-fascists both have an outsized influence on our lives and it's much harder to find their voices in other places

Big Tech social media are perfect platforms to drive people and society apart. Yesterday suddenly Youtube passed a vid [0] through the algorithmic filter bubble they feed me, showing Marco Rubio (or a deepfake version?) spew divisive misinfo about Macron and France. Most telling that none of the comments had a critical word on Rubio. Only Rubio fan comments behing highly critical of Europe and the EU.

Big Tech social media is pure poison to healthy society in how it insidiously spreads misinformation and propaganda to targeted audiences.

[0] No URL. I don't want to give this clicks, but the shorts vid ID is pgvVw5bZWiA

New comment by rapnie in "I moved my digital stack to Europe"

rapnie — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:14:42 +0000

Likely OP refers to individual countries and quarreling leaders often favoring national interests to what would be best for the union.

New comment by rapnie in "I moved my digital stack to Europe"

rapnie — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:07:08 +0000

Let's face it. Trump 2 is about dismantling democracy. The administration radiates hostility and aggression to anything democratic. In the new national security policy the EU is the adversary of the US. If that isn't a wake-up call.

New comment by rapnie in "Leaving GitHub for Forgejo"

rapnie — Wed, 13 May 2026 13:31:32 +0000

People forget what FOSS is, and you get a world of unclear expectations. FOSS is code + a copyright license. How the code is created is an entirely different matter, and where FOSS projects often fall short. As FOSS projects come Forgejo is well-organized around a community governance model.

Palantir's summary of CEO Alexander Karp's manifesto is generating buzz

rapnie — Wed, 13 May 2026 08:42:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/palantir-manifesto-alex-karp-technological-republic-summary-2026-4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48119335

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rapnie in "Googlebook"

rapnie — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:09:59 +0000

"Yes, I bought a special laptop from my advertisement pusher."

New comment by rapnie in "Toxicity on Social Media – The Noisy Room"

rapnie — Tue, 12 May 2026 09:46:30 +0000

Great article format with all the dynamic widgets in it. Will have to give this a good read. It is a very interesting topic given how much of (global) public opinion is formed through "social" media.

New comment by rapnie in "Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message"

rapnie — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:45:05 +0000

> Gmail has been evil

It is good to realize that it has never been "Nice Uncle Google" and always an advertisement moloch offering tools to hook their product. All that trust that was bestowed was never warranted.

The Firmbyte Gap: Why the Most Valuable Connections Never Happen

rapnie — Mon, 11 May 2026 05:48:23 +0000

Article URL: https://bjro.dev/posts/the-firmbyte-gap/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48091427

Points: 3

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New comment by rapnie in "Zed Editor Theme-Builder"

rapnie — Sun, 10 May 2026 05:02:13 +0000

I do a lot of markdown editing, techdocs, static site generator, and the gray on gray makes me want to swap back to VSCodium for that task.

New comment by rapnie in "US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos"

rapnie — Sat, 09 May 2026 16:12:17 +0000

Yes, and to bring it back to GP's point, if someone comes telling you they just saw a flying saucer rise on a big chem trail above the flat earth's horizon, then you perhaps don't take their next claim all too serious.

New comment by rapnie in "US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos"

rapnie — Sat, 09 May 2026 04:58:13 +0000

The shared causal structure is the absence of facts and denial of science. Nearly every religion on earth also suffers from that in their gospel, where many fictitious and supernatural phenomena are bundled together and sold for truth.