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New comment by soraminazuki in "Credit Card Points Are a Transfer from the Broke to the Comfortable"

soraminazuki — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 03:28:41 +0000

> you get to have cheaper purchases for your entire life with no downside

If you uncritically believe things like this, I have a bridge to sell you. You should praise me for it too, because that's the kind of thing you explicitly condone.

> Leftists think this is terrible

Nah, it says more about your worldview than it does about your favorite bogeyman, especially when you ignore the entire article and start attacking a straw man.

New comment by soraminazuki in "Credit Card Points Are a Transfer from the Broke to the Comfortable"

soraminazuki — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 14:38:45 +0000

It's jarring to read a bunch of LLMs rushing to defend a predatory industry.

New comment by soraminazuki in "PSA about abuse of cat(1) command. Don't abuse cats"

soraminazuki — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 03:38:43 +0000

If one needs brainpower to just use the redirection operator, it shows a likely lack of understanding of basic concepts in computing like processes and files. That should be concerning.

New comment by soraminazuki in "PSA about abuse of cat(1) command. Don't abuse cats"

soraminazuki — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 03:29:41 +0000

I suppose a lot of people use less rather than cat for looking at files though.

`alt + .` is much more versatile. You can use it to cycle through and insert the last arguments of previous commands.

New comment by soraminazuki in "PSA about abuse of cat(1) command. Don't abuse cats"

soraminazuki — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 02:07:48 +0000

The redirection operator is consistent and requires less typing though.

I guess the file is usually the last argument because it's the one that can be omitted.

New comment by soraminazuki in "Trump Media to sell instant access to 'market-moving' social posts"

soraminazuki — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:23:19 +0000

Funnily, the 5th is the "right to remain silent." I think you're talking about the 2nd Amendment.

New comment by soraminazuki in "Trump Media to sell instant access to 'market-moving' social posts"

soraminazuki — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:09:19 +0000

I know the recent presidency really lowered the bar, but Obama wasn't decent. Sure, he was good at speeches. Yet one of the first things he did was let war criminals off the hook. He went soft on fraudsters at Wall Street after they caused a global financial crisis. He prosecuted more whistleblowers than his predecessors combined. He sent drones to foreign soil and extrajudicially assassinated thousands of people outside of war zones, including many civilians. All of this is insane and did play a role for what came after. The world deserves better.

New comment by soraminazuki in "Sony deletes more movies from the accounts of people who ‘bought’ them"

soraminazuki — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:36:47 +0000

Those T&Cs contain clauses that allow companies to 1. arbitrarily change its terms whenever they want and 2. forbid consumers from suing them. They make a complete mockery of justice, and they might as well just write "haha, screw you" to save all of us time.

New comment by soraminazuki in "Marco Rubio launches campaign to dismantle international criminal court"

soraminazuki — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:42:23 +0000

A war criminal is threatening us with a good time! It'll be a huge win for justice, peace, and human rights if that ever happens.

New comment by soraminazuki in "Storm clouds gather over America's financial supremacy"

soraminazuki — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:14:31 +0000

No, we the tech industry are key enablers. For the past two decades, we were obsessed with refining the methods of mass-surveillance and manipulation. We've brought about tremendous harm to society and it's time to start taking accountability.

New comment by soraminazuki in "Google deleting all recently inactive accounts without phone number"

soraminazuki — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 04:28:14 +0000

Except it's just an excuse to make everyone surrender their phone numbers as one more way to tie people to their real identities. You try hard to paint one of the wealthiest companies in the world as some kind of victim, when in reality it's them that used Gmail as a trojan horse to make people create Google accounts so that they can spy on everyone online, and increasingly in the real world too.

Also contrary to your insinuation that I'm an entitled jerk trying to rip off a trillion dollar company, I de-Googled a long time ago. Because I know they're the company that lets their clueless robots brand desperate parents trying to cure their children as child predators, punishes them by taking away the key to their entire digital lives, and worse, doubles down and continues to defame them when proven wrong [1].

But it's not fair to fault people who still depend on Google. Lack of informed consent, reinforced by dark patterns and justified with "user-friendliness" BS is what drew people in. Peer pressure also forces people to create accounts when they otherwise wouldn't have. I just have zero tolerance for corporate cheerleaders who justify this sort of thing by blaming the victim in the most condescending way possible.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32538805

New comment by soraminazuki in "Google deleting all recently inactive accounts without phone number"

soraminazuki — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 19:01:08 +0000

Haha, smart. But those quotes still don't justify me taking away your one year old ham sandwich.

New comment by soraminazuki in "Google deleting all recently inactive accounts without phone number"

soraminazuki — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 18:43:30 +0000

Don't you think that "security" non-sequitur boogeyman is a bit too forced? You took my example, cherry-picked some words, and turned it into something else entirely. And too bad it doesn't even hold up because surrendering your phone number won't prevent securities fraud, which is what I was specifically referring to in my example.

New comment by soraminazuki in "Google deleting all recently inactive accounts without phone number"

soraminazuki — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 15:52:27 +0000

The next aspiring trillionaire can take note of that argument when scamming people out of their retirement funds.

New comment by soraminazuki in "Good Tools Are Invisible"

soraminazuki — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:44:55 +0000

You're over-fixating on the misuse of macros and generalize that to make a statement about Vim [1], almost as if that's the only useful feature in Vim. There are more basic editing commands that are much simpler, quicker, and powerful. It's what is actually used most of the time.

Also, getting bulk editing perfect, including the edge cases, is inefficient regardless of the tools you use. For the majority of those cases, I would just combine simple search and replace (cgn), dot repeat (.), and undo plus skip (un) for the edge cases. Then jump back (N) to the edge cases and make manual edits. It's quick, provides instant visual feedback, and requires less cognitive work than trying to process it all at once. And that's the approach people likely have in mind when they mention dot repeat.

[1] Or at least stepping right close to it.

New comment by soraminazuki in "Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter"

soraminazuki — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 06:28:45 +0000

It's hard to catch some of these questionable things as a kid reading a fantasy book, who'd think fictional settings exist in a vacuum. And if it's like one or two isolated cases, the whole thing can be brushed off as pure coincidence. But with the Harry Potter series, there are dozens of these disturbing tropes with real world parallels. It's safe to say it's a pattern.

New comment by soraminazuki in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

soraminazuki — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 06:05:43 +0000

Sure, that's possible, but the question is, is that what's actually happening?

New comment by soraminazuki in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

soraminazuki — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 06:00:46 +0000

Nah, it doesn't even sound true.

New comment by soraminazuki in "Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter"

soraminazuki — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 05:23:14 +0000

That's a real stretch. She copied a modern day trope, not some ancient myth with unclear origin. Even if we bend over backwards to believe that she wasn't aware that the trope targeted a specific demographic, there's zero chance that her publisher failed to catch it too. And also the entire movie staff that chose floors with seven pointed stars for the bank. Also also consider that this trope is far from an isolated case in the whole series.

New comment by soraminazuki in "Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter"

soraminazuki — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 05:05:03 +0000

The portrayal was anything but sympathetic when Griphook was slaughtered by Voldemort right after betraying Harry and taking the sword of Gryffindor in his possession.

Also, notice how real world tropes are just portrayed as facts in the Harry Potter world.