Hacker News: selectively

New comment by selectively in "SupererDuperer"

selectively — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 03:55:10 +0000

It wasn't written for the HN crowd. Someone who is a 'tech person' and uses macOS would know what SuperDuper is.

New comment by selectively in "Better and Cheaper Than IPTV"

selectively — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 01:35:07 +0000

We're just throwing straight up piracy on HN now? We're vibing piracy now? Felonies via API?

New comment by selectively in "Zuckerberg's Increasingly Bizarre War on Whistleblowers"

selectively — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 19:44:16 +0000

Escobar likely did less societal harm than Zuck.

New comment by selectively in "1-Click GitHub Token Stealing via a VSCode Bug"

selectively — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 05:32:49 +0000

Very unethical behavior combined by very bad security posture from the vendor. Bad.

New comment by selectively in "SimCity 3k in 4k (2025)"

selectively — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:20:47 +0000

Obnoxious author. Refusing to 'pay twice' for a game they care enough about to go through all this trouble + deeply obnoxious bit about Windows 11 at the end of of the post.

New comment by selectively in "BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork"

selectively — Mon, 18 May 2026 07:19:11 +0000

Generated by AI + no one cares about AGPL license compliance (and they aren't violating the AGPL anyway - your AI model is confusing the AGPL for actual GPL).

New comment by selectively in "AI is a technology not a product"

selectively — Sun, 17 May 2026 22:35:13 +0000

Gruber is a monstrous person. He's also written many different pieces that are more or less content-free anti-Korean racist screeds. The world would be much better if he'd retire and never speak in public again.

New comment by selectively in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

selectively — Sun, 17 May 2026 02:35:49 +0000

Because they are making poor choices. But even gambling is not equal to physical compulsion.

New comment by selectively in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

selectively — Sat, 16 May 2026 20:48:31 +0000

Yes, no. Yes, they want to make money. No, addiction is physical compulsion and nothing else. Despite the effort to redefine that term to cover all kinds of things, an app is not equal to heroin.

New comment by selectively in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

selectively — Sat, 16 May 2026 01:36:59 +0000

That's a study. I can link you studies that say violent video games cause aggression, that porn causes rape, etc. Studies are products of the biases of the researchers.

New comment by selectively in "Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California"

selectively — Fri, 15 May 2026 22:36:52 +0000

You were able to use it. Nothing lasts forever. People need help with a world that is hell, not video game related problems.

New comment by selectively in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

selectively — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:19:41 +0000

I do not believe 'AI psychosis' is an actual thing.

New comment by selectively in "Bill to block publishers from killing online games advances in California"

selectively — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:18:32 +0000

Can't say I support this. Legislative bodies should be dealing with actual problems in the world that meaningfully make the lives of regular people worse, not gamer entitlement.

New comment by selectively in "U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app"

selectively — Fri, 15 May 2026 20:27:24 +0000

Lunatic, likely AI generated comments here.

This is an app for deliberately causing pollution. The users of that app should be criminally prosecuted and lose their license/spend a few months in prison. The price differential between this device/app and a generic ODB dongle you can buy on Amazon for ~$10 is entirely made up by the criminal features EZ Lynk offers.

The app being software versus hardware doesn't change the legal or moral situation involving it. Much like the DOJ would demand identities of people importing PlayStation 1 modchips back in the 90s, the users of this equally criminal application will be provided to the DOJ.

New comment by selectively in "The Emacsification of Software"

selectively — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:31:10 +0000

PR work for Apple

New comment by selectively in "The Emacsification of Software"

selectively — Wed, 13 May 2026 22:07:01 +0000

Markdown is a Gruber thing.

New comment by selectively in "The Emacsification of Software"

selectively — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:25:02 +0000

No, I don't. I don't want anything that has to do with John Gruber, ever.

New comment by selectively in "Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to"

selectively — Mon, 04 May 2026 22:06:32 +0000

No.

New comment by selectively in "Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to"

selectively — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:53:04 +0000

This is an outrageously dumb thing to say. BIg Tobacco knowingly sold a product that physically addicted (the only real form of addiction) its users and killed them.

Facebook is not that.

New comment by selectively in "For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions"

selectively — Fri, 01 May 2026 16:42:28 +0000

Just went dark.