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New comment by windowliker in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

windowliker — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:44:30 +0000

What's also worth noting is that they were not alone in the room, talking privately. Everything being said could presumably be heard by Back's business associates as well. Some of the questions could well be enough to cause embarrassment or unease on that account.

New comment by windowliker in "Veracrypt project update"

windowliker — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:19:20 +0000

Is this another example of their old modus operandi:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

New comment by windowliker in "Drop, formerly Massdrop, ends most collaborations and rebrands under Corsair"

windowliker — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:07:46 +0000

>Starting our next chapter, drop.com will become a hub for our collaborations with truly exciting titles—from The Lord of the Rings™ [...], and more—across the full CORSAIR family of brands.

Gandalf wept...

New comment by windowliker in "Mr. Chatterbox is a Victorian-era ethically trained model"

windowliker — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:48:21 +0000

Amazing. It's like a drop in replacement for our politicians.

New comment by windowliker in "Do your own writing"

windowliker — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:47:17 +0000

>Don't Let AI Write For You

>Essay structured like LLM output

Hmmm...

New comment by windowliker in "Desk for people who work at home with a cat"

windowliker — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:08:49 +0000

If only we could plug our cats in and use them to type. Call it a purrallel port.

New comment by windowliker in "Slovenian officials blame Israeli firm Black Cube for trying to manipulate vote"

windowliker — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:17:36 +0000

Who would be the Terry A. Davis of Israel-as-Ticketmaster?

New comment by windowliker in "Thoughts on slowing the fuck down"

windowliker — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:06:08 +0000

Another factor at work is the use of rolling updates to fix things that should better have been caught with rigorous testing before release. Before the days of 'always on' internet it was far too costly to fix something shipped on physical media. Not that everything was always perfect, but on the whole it was pretty well stress-tested before shipping.

The sad truth is that now, because of the ease of pushing your fix to everything while requiring little more from the user than that their machine be more or less permanently connected to a network, even an OS is dealt with as casually as an application or game.

New comment by windowliker in "Thinking Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning"

windowliker — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:10:58 +0000

That's reminiscent of Kurt Vonnegut's vision of the future in Harrison Bergeron.

New comment by windowliker in "Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control"

windowliker — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 22:17:39 +0000

Arguments about erosion of privacy miss the point: that is exactly what they want.

New comment by windowliker in "A pig's brain has been frozen with its cellular activity locked in place"

windowliker — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 20:31:52 +0000

It's nice that a fictional character in a fictional scenario could come to such an understanding, but in real life there absolutely are consequences to failure, in a multitude of ways.

If you mean it in the sense that 'ultimately, nothing really matters', then the subtext to that is that nothing ultimately matters because we all die in the end. Which would be completely negated by immortality.

New comment by windowliker in "Major leap towards reanimation after death as mammal's brain preserved"

windowliker — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 19:08:08 +0000

Groundhog day was perhaps the wrong phrase to use. In any case I don't believe people would spontaneously attempt meaningful self-improvement with any seriousness if there was no expected finality to our existence. Don't forget, Bill Murray's character has to kill himself numerous times before he makes any kind of worthwhile progress.

New comment by windowliker in "A pig's brain has been frozen with its cellular activity locked in place"

windowliker — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:56:51 +0000

Oh great! A new way to keep the tax base growing!

New comment by windowliker in "A pig's brain has been frozen with its cellular activity locked in place"

windowliker — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:49:54 +0000

Even worse, imagine waking up in a world where 200 years have gone by and nothing has changed, everyone is still here that you knew in your 'first' life. All the self-serving bosses, all the mendacious politicians, all the mediocre entertainers. Like a groundhog day from hell, forever.

New comment by windowliker in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

windowliker — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:46:54 +0000

Ironically, the UK already has ISP level implementations to filter adult/illegal content that seem to work in most cases as intended. The lobby for this legislation came from groups concerned about matters more prevalent on large social media platforms who will barely be touched by the new regulations.

New comment by windowliker in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

windowliker — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:42:44 +0000

Sadly what has actually happened is that many niche interest discussion forums have shut their doors due to fears of regulatory repercussion and fines.

New comment by windowliker in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

windowliker — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:30:04 +0000

It already exists:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_blocking_in_the_United_Kin...

New comment by windowliker in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

windowliker — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:28:10 +0000

No need to change anything, it already exists:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_blocking_in_the_United_Kin...

New comment by windowliker in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

windowliker — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:20:43 +0000

>There was a guy in Greece who had found out that as long as he never graduated, he could live a basic life for free at university.

I remember him. Sadly he got evicted in the end. F.

New comment by windowliker in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

windowliker — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:18:21 +0000

4chan is already on most of the adult content filters used in the UK at ISP level (along with other such egregious offenders against childhood purity as archive.org) meaning that an explicit request to remove the filter is often required to access it... That it has taken this long to implement a universal block at the ISP level shows that the motive is something other than 'protecting the innocent'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_blocking_in_the_United_Kin...