Hacker News: spigottoday

New comment by spigottoday in "Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age"

spigottoday — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 01:12:38 +0000

I'm confused. What's the age definition of child? 12, 15, 18? Does this mean its against the law for children to install an operating system? What is the penalty for a child doing this and putting the wrong age or just doing it at all? What is the penalty for a parent or guardian of the child that does this? What happens to the parent or child if the child circumvents this control? Will child services be involved? Criminal penalties? Of course the only way to know an adult is the administrator is to tie the users government I'd to the account. Could this be done in some zero knowledge anonymous way? Sure, but I don't think it's likely. This seems to be the thin end of yet another wedge. The trend seems to be to be that we should be identified and survield every moment of our lives. The question is who does this surveillance serve? How much access do you have to your government or employer's data or advertisers or educators or ...? How does their access serve you?

New comment by spigottoday in "The normalization of corruption in organizations (2003) [pdf]"

spigottoday — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:11:11 +0000

Corruption empowers, and absolute corruption empowers absolutely. It seems to me that some people adopt this perspective.

New comment by spigottoday in "Deadly 'reverse' cells can destroy us unless scientists stop them"

spigottoday — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:44:10 +0000

>They could survive and grow on a range of naturally occurring nutrients< Could they? If our enzymes don't work on them would there mirror enzymes work on us? And if so why?

New comment by spigottoday in "Even Realities Smart Glasses: G2"

spigottoday — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 12:06:27 +0000

Under support a number of policies are listed. The privacy policy is not one of them. No thanks.

New comment by spigottoday in "10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea"

spigottoday — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:41:29 +0000

A car jack across the door frame at latch height works to.

New comment by spigottoday in "10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea"

spigottoday — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:18:46 +0000

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (movie).

New comment by spigottoday in "Tell HN: Beware confidentiality agreements that act as lifetime non competes"

spigottoday — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 13:45:08 +0000

What about health insurance?

New comment by spigottoday in "After layoffs, Meta rewards top executives with a substantial bonus increase"

spigottoday — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 15:32:37 +0000

In Philadelphia PA wait staff in restaurants are paid less than $3 an hour. Yes they get tips. So does the wait staff in NYC that get $15 an hour. I was told this by my daughter who worked in both places. Any discrepancy with the $ is mine.

New comment by spigottoday in "OCR4all"

spigottoday — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 14:47:49 +0000

I have a typewriter written manuscript that is interspersed with hand written editing. Tesseract worked fine until the hand written part, then garbage. Is there a local solution that anyone can recommend? I have a 16gb lenovo laptop and access to a workstation with a with an RTX 4070 ti 16gb card. Thanks.

New comment by spigottoday in "Her dad, the 10k records he left behind and a viral lesson in grief"

spigottoday — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 12:51:13 +0000

You might want to try non commercial listener supported wbgo.org if you like jazz and blues, for example. There are others. This is a local station, so as a bonus, there is no surveillance when I listen over the air.

New comment by spigottoday in "Ask HN: Recommend a sci-fi movie I can watch on the new year's eve"

spigottoday — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 13:47:31 +0000

Zardoz is definitely SF. The Dark Backward probably doesn't quite fit the category, but has some awsome world building going on and an A list cast.

New comment by spigottoday in "The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s?"

spigottoday — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 16:38:05 +0000

It seams interesting to me that what we refer to as the conscious mind is unconscious a third of each day and the part we call unconscious is active 24 by 7.

New comment by spigottoday in "I love programming on FreeDOS with GW-BASIC"

spigottoday — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 15:05:34 +0000

I'm more of a WordPerfect guy;).

New comment by spigottoday in "Vermont man arrested after giving trooper middle finger gets $175k"

spigottoday — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 11:33:19 +0000

How much did the lawyer get?

New comment by spigottoday in "Correlation between fecal microplastics and inflammatory bowel disease (2021)"

spigottoday — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 21:02:36 +0000

Cheap and cutting corners might be better described as externalizing costs. As we know increasing shareholer value trumps all. That being said our civilization would have to roll back to something like the 1800s level of technology. I'm not advocating for this, medicine and transportation can not exist without plastic, but our clothing furniture and rugs and other items don't have to be. And plastic recycling doesn't have to be a joke. But we can't expect shareholders to interalize those costs and not get as rich as fast as possible, can we? After all it will be someone else who will be affected by the wanton distraction of the environment.

New comment by spigottoday in "Too few people donate their organs, dead or alive. How can we make it easier"

spigottoday — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 18:18:43 +0000

I'm in the US. When I was obtaining medical power of attorney for a family member my attorney advised me to not opt for organ donation because if they don't use the organ, the donor or the estate will be charged for the removal, storage and disposal. This should be in bold print at the top of the form. If donation drops as a result maybe the medical establishment shoudn't do that.

New comment by spigottoday in "Paying People to Have Children"

spigottoday — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 17:23:42 +0000

>population goes to zero.

Maybe, but I doubt it.

>A possible solution to the fertility problem that has not been tried yet is paying families a real lot of money — a can’t-ignore-it amount of money — to have children. Millions of dollars!

If you do a search on this: "children food insecurity usa" you might find we seam to have a problem feeding the ones we have. This could be part of the problem. We might like to break off some $$ for the kids, and maybe for housing and job training too.

New comment by spigottoday in "[dead]"

spigottoday — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 12:24:17 +0000

More than yours.

New comment by spigottoday in "Don't Fire People for Making Pornography in Their Free Time"

spigottoday — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 16:36:28 +0000

I agree! They could be making movies like Winnie the Pooh, Blood and Honey or maybe the Saw movies. Lots of creativity there and no law against it. Probably wouldn't have been fired. But people-a husband and wife pleasuring each other? Intolerable! And while we are at it, you know that statue of David? Put some pants on it!

New comment by spigottoday in "Salt and salary: Were Roman soldiers paid in salt? (2017)"

spigottoday — Fri, 29 Dec 2023 18:49:18 +0000

That is news to me and interesting. Do you have a citation or link to share?