Hacker News: slowhadoken

New comment by slowhadoken in "Calvin and Hobbes and the price of integrity"

slowhadoken — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:23:40 +0000

Sometimes things are black and white. The syndicate needs people like Watterson and without them they’re broke. The Cartoon Network fell apart not heeding this law and its great artists continue on.

New comment by slowhadoken in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

slowhadoken — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:13:37 +0000

It should tell you how much hysteria is surrounding LLMs and VLMs right now that someone has to say this stuff. It’s almost like most humans aren’t conscious.

New comment by slowhadoken in "A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)"

slowhadoken — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:56:08 +0000

Everything you’re saying I’ve heard a thousand times before. People tell me this kinda stuff all the time. I’m just good at predicting things. People talk in circles like you’re doing or laugh and then they see. Good luck.

New comment by slowhadoken in "A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)"

slowhadoken — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:20:18 +0000

Right, not enforcing laws is criminal. It’s like you’re agreeing with me but you’re depressed and apathetic about it. It’s not just me, you see it all over social media. People are grossed out by potheads. I grew up with hippies and didn’t have a problem with it until normies started abusing it. Legalizing drugs or gambling is a trade off, it’s dirty money. Politicians know this, they have meetings about how high crime will go up afterwards. Again It’s just a fact, it’s not my “feelings” or “opinions”. I’ve studied political science. My observations easily fit within an Isaiah Berlin‘s concept of liberty.

New comment by slowhadoken in "A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)"

slowhadoken — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:10:31 +0000

Even if a state legalized marijuana it’s still illegal to possess a lot of it, to sell it without a license, and can violate tort, municipal, state and federal laws about drug smoke outdoors or indoors. It’s not my opinion, it’s regulation based on scientific evidence to protect public health. A lot of this is understood in California but cash poor states with huge budge problems look the other way. Potheads know this, they use these facts to pressure cities and states to take their dirty money. Since the revenue from taxing marijuana isn’t going to K-12 schools a lot of locals are getting tired of the bad money coming from pot. It’s a trade off like legalizing gambling but with no benefits. Smokers make up a fraction of the total population so you’re going to see pushback very soon.

New comment by slowhadoken in "A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)"

slowhadoken — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:41:20 +0000

It’s political. The same thing is happening with marijuana. A state legalizes it and then functional junkies show up from conservative states to smoke it in doors. Places like Colorado have laws to regulate it but they don’t. Police and judges follow suit because mayors don’t want to create a precedent that would scare potheads. This keeps the drug money coming in and crime stats low. It’s crazy because regulation is a liberal practice but they’re just not being enforced and no new explicate regulations are being written which is a conservative tactic. All of this emboldens criminal use of marijuana under the pretense of preventing persecution of drug addicts by dressing them up as medication recipients.

New comment by slowhadoken in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

slowhadoken — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:09:29 +0000

Corporate proprietary plagiarism through openwashing.

New comment by slowhadoken in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

slowhadoken — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:03:16 +0000

I never stopped but I focused more on concept and design.

New comment by slowhadoken in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

slowhadoken — Sat, 02 May 2026 23:34:09 +0000

My early paranoia about corporate AI is really maturing. No one’s really laughing at me anymore either.

New comment by slowhadoken in "Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players"

slowhadoken — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:04:33 +0000

The greatest blernsball player was a machine for playing blernsball.

New comment by slowhadoken in "We accepted surveillance as default"

slowhadoken — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:44:05 +0000

Surveillance has always been baked into consumerism similar to foreign aid. A large part of foreign relations is capital and rhetoric.

New comment by slowhadoken in "Swiss authorities want to reduce dependency on Microsoft"

slowhadoken — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 20:37:56 +0000

I clearly remember them in the 1990’s and that was a mess but this 2020’s AI hivemind MS is a whole new beast.

New comment by slowhadoken in "Swiss authorities want to reduce dependency on Microsoft"

slowhadoken — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 22:26:34 +0000

Microsoft is getting creepy. OneDrive has surpassed McAfee as most aggressive proprietary virus.

New comment by slowhadoken in "Good Sleep, Good Learning (2012)"

slowhadoken — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:45:29 +0000

I see a lot of people that smoke marijuana being off balance psychologically and I believe it’s because weed inhabits R.E.M. and they smoke it to go to sleep which creates a viscous cycle.

New comment by slowhadoken in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

slowhadoken — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:38:55 +0000

Obama set the record for deportation. I wonder if ICE used similar methods when he was president. There might be a roadmap for digital invasion of privacy going back that far.

New comment by slowhadoken in "Mexican surveillance company Grupo Seguritech watches the U.S. border"

slowhadoken — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:36:37 +0000

That’s the point; make the horrific palatable by shifting blame and manufacture consent. Suicide is higher than homicide and everyone shrugs.

New comment by slowhadoken in "Mexican surveillance company Grupo Seguritech watches the U.S. border"

slowhadoken — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:32:04 +0000

Governments subcontract the private sector for everything from food processing to defense. I’ve heard that Mexico can’t afford to effectively patrol their boarders. It’s only natural for them to turn to a company like this.

New comment by slowhadoken in "Mexican surveillance company Grupo Seguritech watches the U.S. border"

slowhadoken — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:18:16 +0000

I feel like a lot of this in any country is turning criminal activity into institutionalized predatory business practices. It turns loan shark slaves into economic serfs. Homicide goes down and suicide goes up.

New comment by slowhadoken in "Shooting down ideas is not a skill"

slowhadoken — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:43:40 +0000

Coming up with bad ideas isn’t a skill either.

New comment by slowhadoken in "If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos"

slowhadoken — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:57:50 +0000

I’m still concerned about MS using the code I write on my laptop to train AI. Tinfoil hat wearing Linux users are starting to make a lot of sense to me.