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New comment by regularjack in "French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence"

regularjack — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:06:37 +0000

President

New comment by regularjack in "Heroin addicts often seem normal"

regularjack — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 10:42:45 +0000

"Most" doctors are obviously not quacks.

New comment by regularjack in "Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas"

regularjack — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 17:40:48 +0000

You only say this because you're not the one suffering the consequences

New comment by regularjack in "German government comes out against Chat Control"

regularjack — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 01:40:01 +0000

Nothing has to give. Police did their work fine for centuries, they can continue doing it without mass surveillance.

New comment by regularjack in "Swiss glaciers have shrunk by a quarter since 2015, study says"

regularjack — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 16:23:59 +0000

Are you aure that in those other times when it happenes it didn't end in catastrophe?

New comment by regularjack in "3M May Escape Toxic Chemical, PFAS Manufacturing Legacy"

regularjack — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 16:19:16 +0000

They just seem like facts to me. If the reader reacts with fear, that's because they interpreted those facts as things that induce fear.

New comment by regularjack in "Who needs Git when you have 1M context windows?"

regularjack — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 16:13:45 +0000

It is often easier to review commit-by-commit, provided of course that the developer made atomic commits that make sense on their own.

New comment by regularjack in "Jeff Bezos says AI is in a bubble but society will get 'gigantic' benefits"

regularjack — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 09:58:54 +0000

How is compsumption a measure of good times? We are citizens, not consumers

New comment by regularjack in "Why I gave the world wide web away for free"

regularjack — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 14:45:52 +0000

Reading theae comments is just fucking depressing. How can you ask more of Tim Berners fucking Lee. FFS.

It's not his fault that most people use the web through the lens of a few tech oligopolies. The state of the web is not his fault.

This site used to recognize its heroes, not any more apparently.

New comment by regularjack in "Why I gave the world wide web away for free"

regularjack — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 14:34:35 +0000

He created the thing and made it free. I don't think we can ask more of him.

New comment by regularjack in "Suno Studio, a Generative AI DAW"

regularjack — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 14:09:56 +0000

Many artists don't use samples.

New comment by regularjack in "Suno Studio, a Generative AI DAW"

regularjack — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 14:08:08 +0000

Completely agree with this. "The audience comes last" is a phrase that perfectly encapsulates this sentiment (can't recall who said it).

Somehow it's assumed that artists make music for the audience, but many make it for themselves, because they enjoy the process.

Contrary to other comments in this thread, typing prompts on a keyboard is not the same as picking up a guitar and playing it.

New comment by regularjack in "LaLiga's Anti-Piracy Crackdown Triggers Widespread Internet Disruptions in Spain"

regularjack — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 21:33:52 +0000

Wouldn't the traffic pattern be similar to watching Netflix?

New comment by regularjack in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

regularjack — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 10:13:27 +0000

Is there any data that supports these statements? Specifically that the program is abused and that it "hurts" the middle class.

New comment by regularjack in "Claude is the drug, Cursor is the dealer"

regularjack — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 19:17:55 +0000

Doesn't Rider have JetBraims AI? It's basically the same thing as Cursor.

New comment by regularjack in "Proxmox Donates €10k to the Perl and Raku Foundation"

regularjack — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 18:52:43 +0000

This thread has more than 100 comments, so seems it is indeed newsworthy.

New comment by regularjack in "The U.K. closed a tax loophole for the global rich, now they're fleeing"

regularjack — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 07:44:56 +0000

Good riddance

New comment by regularjack in "NYPD bypassed facial recognition ban to ID pro-Palestinian student protester"

regularjack — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 16:57:50 +0000

I don't get why this is downvoted. I'm gonna guess it's because of "attempted"...

New comment by regularjack in "NYPD bypassed facial recognition ban to ID pro-Palestinian student protester"

regularjack — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 16:55:26 +0000

The fact that you can do it in a larger scale is the problem

New comment by regularjack in "Doge Put Free Tax Filing Tool on Chopping Block After One Meeting with Lobbyists"

regularjack — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 22:00:06 +0000

Same in Portugal