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New comment by ribosometronome in "In Leaked Audio, Flock CEO Tells Cops Backlash to the Company Isn't Real"

ribosometronome — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 19:55:01 +0000

"Illegals" != "Illegal alien"

New comment by ribosometronome in "Anthropic S-1"

ribosometronome — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 18:00:48 +0000

There's not much recent history of particular consequence facing for this sort of thing in the United States, financially or politically. It's not like we locked up bankers after the housing bubble collapsed or punished people for lying us into Middle Eastern wars.

New comment by ribosometronome in "I turned my TV into a Game Boy Color with a Pokemon town as my home screen"

ribosometronome — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 01:27:08 +0000

Isn't it just kind of how we speak about these sort of things? Like, say your partner asked you if you washed the dishes, would you tell them "No, the dishwasher did" or just "Yes"?

New comment by ribosometronome in "Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone"

ribosometronome — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 17:08:50 +0000

"No one forces you..." is an interesting line to go down in the comments of an article that focuses on using messaging apps to deliver exploits to a cellphone. It's pretty malware adjacent. Isn't that sort of thing how Jamal Khashoggi and his friends, family, and coworkers were hacked before his murder/execution?

New comment by ribosometronome in "Woman charged with computer fraud due to scam CashApp account being in her name"

ribosometronome — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:18:14 +0000

The breadth of prosecutorial immunity is one of those things that reveals how broken the American system is.

New comment by ribosometronome in "Woman charged with computer fraud due to scam CashApp account being in her name"

ribosometronome — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:14:21 +0000

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That's not a pay wall, it's a sign-in wall.

New comment by ribosometronome in "Starcraft: Ashfall"

ribosometronome — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 01:06:27 +0000

And robotic cops to enforce the law!

New comment by ribosometronome in "Someone on Torrent Sites Kept Fucking with My Sonarr"

ribosometronome — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 22:56:21 +0000

Yes but it’s a torrent, the target isn’t Sonarr, it’s manual downloads.

New comment by ribosometronome in "Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge"

ribosometronome — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:09:01 +0000

Ooo, have you read any articles on that happening? I missed them! Given that this is specifically a comment chain in a discussion about them working with authorities, that they'd work with authorities hardly seems like science fiction.

New comment by ribosometronome in "Blood cells from 80-year-old donor become stem cells with molecular age under 20"

ribosometronome — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 02:23:02 +0000

Why would someone want to live 100 years? 80? 60? 40? 20? Were ultimately just saying we like living and would like to keep living until we decide we don’t want to anymore. The thought that people might like living longer than they get is pretty well supported by every dying person who doesn’t want to die rather than just some speculative fiction.

New comment by ribosometronome in "Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge"

ribosometronome — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 18:53:41 +0000

They could be happy to assist you with a task that they also then flag and forward to authorities, especially if their assistance doesn't break the law but has evidence of you doing so.

New comment by ribosometronome in "Crypto Capture of Foreign Aid"

ribosometronome — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 21:33:22 +0000

Isn't its population also larger than all three combined? It seems like some per capita measurement might be more telling here.

New comment by ribosometronome in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

ribosometronome — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:30:19 +0000

Are you under the impression that lawyers have never included things that later turned out to be false or unprovable in their initial filing of a lawsuit? If lawyers are so infallible, why would one have openly admitted to firing someone for a legal medical treatment they received?

I think that, per the parent who you initially replied to's point, that taking a tabloid's clickbait excerpts from one-side of a lawsuit is a terrible way of understanding the truth of a dispute.

New comment by ribosometronome in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

ribosometronome — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 04:32:40 +0000

I've no idea what happened. Treating allegations in a lawsuit as undeniable true or "flat out admissions" is a bad idea, though. Doing that would have you believing that Craig Wright is Satoshi Nakamoto, after all, he claimed in a lawsuit he is.

New comment by ribosometronome in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

ribosometronome — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 04:25:49 +0000

Only according to the lawsuit filed by the fired party.

New comment by ribosometronome in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

ribosometronome — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:59:51 +0000

Did you miss that that's according to the one sided exceprt from a lawsuit an ex-employee filed?

New comment by ribosometronome in "Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM"

ribosometronome — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:44:09 +0000

The Pandora's box was already open and essentially no one noticed nor was there immense pushback that resulted in the features being removed. Photo scanning was already happening for both Android and Apple for the purpose of image search.

New comment by ribosometronome in "Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM"

ribosometronome — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:41:16 +0000

One is far easier to prove. If the government could continuously monitor our actions "Is this CSA?" they might very well be pushing for that, too.

New comment by ribosometronome in "Samsung Health app threatens data deletion if users opt out AI training"

ribosometronome — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 21:29:07 +0000

Blocking backups and consequently reducing data portability doesn't really sound like the best of both worlds.

New comment by ribosometronome in "Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained"

ribosometronome — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 06:50:57 +0000

What countries can do is pretty expansive and unrelated to whether or not they're comparable to other things or good things for countries to do.