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New comment by yesbut in "The lost joy of music piracy"

yesbut — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:42:27 +0000

weird, I still love pirating music.

Why AI in the classroom is a catastrophe – Sophie Winkleman [ARC 2026] [video]

yesbut — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 10:25:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFp5-i5fzyQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48684854

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by yesbut in "Ask HN: High school student – is learning programming still worthwhile?"

yesbut — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:20:08 +0000

yes

New comment by yesbut in "Iran Shock Jolts Asia and Europe to Speed Up Energy Transition"

yesbut — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:17:07 +0000

silver linings

New comment by yesbut in "Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording""

yesbut — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:52:28 +0000

> Police bodycams should make police accountable.

on an often under reported note, police body cams have led to an increase in police brutality as opposed to a reduction.

https://prismreports.org/2024/07/16/complex-troubling-histor...

excellent book on the topic: https://thenewpress.org/books/copaganda/

New comment by yesbut in "Show HN: Audiomass – a free, open-source multitrack audio editor for the web"

yesbut — Sun, 24 May 2026 23:12:27 +0000

what is the theoretical file size / project size limit? what happens when the browser crashes?

New comment by yesbut in "Spectre Programming Language"

yesbut — Sat, 16 May 2026 10:52:59 +0000

unfortunately I don't think you are convincing anyone

New comment by yesbut in "Spectre Programming Language"

yesbut — Sat, 16 May 2026 08:25:22 +0000

...or, you know, make something new that improves developer ergonomics. or is that too hard?

New comment by yesbut in "Spectre Programming Language"

yesbut — Sat, 16 May 2026 02:03:49 +0000

> You will notice the trust keyword here. Any operation (such as IO) that has an underlying unsafe mechanism (such as the @print builtin that std.stdio.print uses), must be explicitly trusted, as it is inherently impure.

just document the impure operations and stop forcing the programmer to type extra characters.

New comment by yesbut in "For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions"

yesbut — Fri, 01 May 2026 05:07:51 +0000

nope

New comment by yesbut in "For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions"

yesbut — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:46:08 +0000

that is basically how all large companies behave anyway. socialize the losses (bailouts, layoffs, negative economic impacts in the communities they reside, etc.) and privatize the gains.

Chinese Courts Rule Companies Cannot Fire Workers Simply to Replace Them with AI

yesbut — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:37:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.caixinglobal.com/2026-04-30/chinese-courts-rule-companies-cannot-fire-workers-simply-to-replace-them-with-ai-1024

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47969733

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by yesbut in "Germany Overtakes US in Ammunition Production Capacity"

yesbut — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:24:26 +0000

relevant Norm Macdonald

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXdtafGdIVM

New comment by yesbut in "FCC exempts Netgear from ban on foreign routers, doesn't explain why"

yesbut — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:51:11 +0000

because Netgear is willing to do what the US wants in regards to its mass surveillance projects.

New comment by yesbut in "U.S. to Create High-Tech Manufacturing Zone in Philippines"

yesbut — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:48:02 +0000

Greetings Filipinos, its a trap. Do not trust the US. They will exploit your labor and pay you pennies (do those still exist anywhere?). They are selling you a bill of goods. Fire your representatives that are allowing this. No jobs are coming, only higher energy costs, more pollution, more fat cats, and more corporate ownership of your political system. Abort ship.

New comment by yesbut in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"

yesbut — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:43:23 +0000

> We're not prisoners of history. We don't have to go back to being serfs for the few people who own all the land, oil, food, energy, data centers, and operating systems. I hope.

Unfortunately, that is the current stage of humanity. We all currently live in a global subscription model for food, housing, safety, etc. No doubt that we will move beyond it eventually, but the current organization of society is kept in place by the owner class which benefits from the current arrangement.

One of the steps for moving beyond it is educating the modern day serfs (our peers) about reality as it is and alternative visions of a future where we are no longer selling our labor to the owner class. It will take generations.

New comment by yesbut in "It's cool to care (2025)"

yesbut — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:17:36 +0000

A good book in this topic, Virtue Hoarders by Catherine Liu.

https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517912253/virtue-hoarders/

https://classautonomy.info/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Foreru...

New comment by yesbut in "Android’s new sideload settings will carry over to new devices"

yesbut — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 21:27:34 +0000

can't wait until this is just completely bypassed and we can ignore Google again.

New comment by yesbut in "VitruvianOS – Desktop Linux Inspired by the BeOS"

yesbut — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 11:30:27 +0000

basically every app is a tab. this is how I run i3wm. full screen tabbed layout. smaller modal windows still appear in their normal smaller windows in front of the current full screen app.

New comment by yesbut in "Vatican Rebukes Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures in Rome"

yesbut — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:15:38 +0000

Power causes brain damage.

https://archive.md/sdLQP