Hacker News: shermozle

New comment by shermozle in "When War Crimes Rhetoric Becomes Battlefield Reality"

shermozle — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:43:13 +0000

You broke it, you bought it!

New comment by shermozle in "Who Goes Nazi? (1941)"

shermozle — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 08:04:26 +0000

I sat next to the "law enforcement liaison" team at a Telco many years ago. They were all ex-cops and I could listen in on the conversations that had with cops. There was never even the slightest push back. Just sexism, racism, blokey humour and "yeah we'll get that info for you".

New comment by shermozle in "Fatbikes are wreaking havoc in Sydney's wealthy beach suburbs"

shermozle — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:10:01 +0000

Harold Scruby and his "Pedestrian Council of Australia" is one man and a fax machine who's been blaming victims for decades. Any news media who quotes him without pointing this out loses all authority.

New comment by shermozle in "U.S. Races to Accomplish Iran Mission Before Munitions Run Out"

shermozle — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:44:48 +0000

Yep just like many things Americans are sure can't be done, universal healthcare has never been done anywhere in the world, ever. And healthcare everywhere costs what Americans are willing to pay (public and private money).

See also: not having daily mass shootings.

New comment by shermozle in "A flawed paper in management science has been cited more than 6k times"

shermozle — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 07:48:31 +0000

Management WHAT?

New comment by shermozle in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

shermozle — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 10:02:13 +0000

Moral high ground somewhat undermined by the post being on the deepfake porn and CSAM distribution platform formerly known as Twitter.

New comment by shermozle in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

shermozle — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 07:29:09 +0000

https://tascat.tas.gov.au/

New comment by shermozle in "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

shermozle — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 07:29:01 +0000

Book a date with TASCAT. I haven't used the Tasmanian one but in NSW it cost me a couple tens of dollars from memory and I got a response in days. Once the case lands with the _LAWYERS_ who are expensive, it'll get resolved.

New comment by shermozle in "Young journalists expose Russian-linked vessels off the Dutch and German coast"

shermozle — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 09:17:36 +0000

These young journos are legends.

New comment by shermozle in "The healthcare market is taxing reproduction out of existence"

shermozle — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 22:38:59 +0000

The first sentence is your answer. The third word even.

The healthcare market. MARKET

Healthcare shouldn't be a market. That's why you're paying $40k.

New comment by shermozle in "Electric vehicle sales are booming in South America – without Tesla"

shermozle — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 07:37:59 +0000

Recent Xpeng G6 purchaser: it's amazing.

New comment by shermozle in "Electric vehicle sales are booming in South America – without Tesla"

shermozle — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 07:37:19 +0000

"I've tried all the options I have here in the country that banned the major players and I don't think any are better."

New comment by shermozle in "Israel dumps millions into geo targeting evangelicals in churches and ChatGPT"

shermozle — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 08:42:40 +0000

"Both not part of Israel" and yet the people who allegedly own it don't control it.

New comment by shermozle in "Israel dumps millions into geo targeting evangelicals in churches and ChatGPT"

shermozle — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 03:49:00 +0000

This "only democracy in the region" line gets trotted out, but most Palestinians don't get a vote in the government that controls their lives. So "democracy" in the sense that Apartheid South Africa was a democracy, only.

New comment by shermozle in "Wikipedia row erupts as Jimmy Wales intervenes on 'Gaza genocide' page"

shermozle — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:18:06 +0000

Go read the Grokipedia article about the Gaza genocide if you want a laugh. The first sentence is 83 words with multiple nested clauses. It's gibberish.

New comment by shermozle in "Anthropic judge rejects $1.5B AI copyright settlement"

shermozle — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 22:25:00 +0000

It's far from fair given that if _I_ breach copyright and get caught, I go to jail, not just pay a fine.

New comment by shermozle in "A sunscreen scandal shocking Australia"

shermozle — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 02:46:34 +0000

I've actually been a test subject for sunscreen here in Australia. It involved having sunscreen put on different parts of your body, hopping into a Jacuzzi for an hour or so, then being zapped with UV on both sunscreened and clear skin.

Easiest hundred bucks I ever made, gotta say.

New comment by shermozle in "how hCaptcha stayed up when Cloudflare and Google went down"

shermozle — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 07:10:27 +0000

Great. One of the worst things on the modern internet is more resilient than the actually useful things.

New comment by shermozle in "Office is too slow, so Microsoft is making it load at Windows startup"

shermozle — Thu, 01 May 2025 09:11:59 +0000

This from the team that brought a tool to recover files corrupted by Office, rather than fix the causes of file corruption. Then it becomes a "feature" you can trumpet, rather than a bug you squashed.

New comment by shermozle in "'A hostile state': Why some travellers are avoiding the US"

shermozle — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 08:24:25 +0000

Last time I did this through LAX (flying onwards to Toronto) it was pretty minimal. You pick up your bag, go through immigration, then on the way out of there drop your bag off with an airline agent and on it goes to your destination.

Before the latest incarnation of Trumpistan though.