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New comment by zetsurin in "Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager"

zetsurin — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:27:49 +0000

you were born in 1980 you are gen x https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X by definition.

New comment by zetsurin in "A Surveillance Treaty in Disguise: Canada Signs UN Cybercrime Convention"

zetsurin — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 17:28:47 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_network, he's part of it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Massie, it's just protecting self interest by deregulation.

recommend reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Money_(book) there's a netflicks documentary by the same name that is NOT a substitute for the book.

New comment by zetsurin in "Why do people hate the tech industry? (2023)"

zetsurin — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:50:30 +0000

Fucking duh...

1 it seems like every successful company is headed by self centered assholes 2 enshittification

New comment by zetsurin in "Just Pay the Subscription"

zetsurin — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:10:39 +0000

That's the rub, numerous times you can't cancel until the x is done (for gym memberships it used to be a whole year). Or alternatively look at prime cancelling is made difficult.

Another issue is they tend to get more unnoticed as time goes on and little additional fees start creating in.

Just avoid subscriptions when possible has served me well

New comment by zetsurin in "The UK's Latest "Debanking" Scandal Should Give Everyone Pause"

zetsurin — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 01:59:43 +0000

Why shouldn't they get an explanation?

New comment by zetsurin in "Jobs and Software Is Fucked"

zetsurin — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 20:52:49 +0000

>Now, if you're on me and you gotta move when I move, how do you expect to keep a...a tech stack?

New comment by zetsurin in "A Post-Quantum Future for Let's Encrypt"

zetsurin — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:03:52 +0000

[Vinge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vernor_Vinge) was a professor of mathematics and computer science. I'd expect him to get things right. Funny enough I don't remember that bit at all from fire upon the deep.

New comment by zetsurin in "Plex's 200% Lifetime Pass price hike tries forcing users to another subscription"

zetsurin — Tue, 19 May 2026 22:29:08 +0000

Excellent automatic metadata determination. Dead easy to run/setup

New comment by zetsurin in "AI eats the world (Spring 26) [pdf]"

zetsurin — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:26:24 +0000

> for example, almost all of their predictions weren’t just wrong… in hindsight, given how the future played out, they were asking the wrong question

Do you have an example of this? My (poor) memory remembers "it's going to change how people buy things", was the big deal at the time, and it seems like it was a great prediction.

New comment by zetsurin in "The hottest college major [Computer Science] hit a wall. What happened?"

zetsurin — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:04:46 +0000

seriously. I don't see how CS is low effort either, maybe they mean physically low effort.

New comment by zetsurin in "Molly: An Improved Signal App"

zetsurin — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 01:36:34 +0000

You should listen to your mother.

edit: lol, i assumed you were the OP. ignore me

New comment by zetsurin in "US state department stops issuing visas for Gaza’s children to get medical care"

zetsurin — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 17:15:03 +0000

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/07/israel-weapo...

Yeah! No USA involvement there... take a second and imagine it was you and your family getting bombed and starved. stop being such a horrible person.

New comment by zetsurin in "Five companies now control over 90% of the restaurant food delivery market"

zetsurin — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 03:27:05 +0000

George Carlin also said: "'cause they own this fucking place. It's a big club, and you ain’t in it" (https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/964648-but-there-s-a-reason...).

I think there's a power dynamic that it seems like you are ignoring, that big companies take advantage of. Amazon gets cheap goods to your doorstep, and removes all competition while doing it. You think those goods are going to stay cheap,i don't. This is a playbook that wallmarts followed for years. Amazon also gets sellers, by selling amazon versions of their products. Google makes billions by showing you ads, they got you there with free services, but now they enshittify.

>There's an air of let's go back to the good old days when we were hunter gatherers to the whole thing

I think my concern is not going back to the bad old gilded age days, where wealth inequality lead to most humans having a terrible life while a few had a great life.

New comment by zetsurin in "Let me pay for Firefox"

zetsurin — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 11:25:12 +0000

This is a weird strawman and it has almost nothing to do the parent's claim. The guilded age is 1870-1890's.

New comment by zetsurin in "Break Up Big Tech: Civil Society Declaration"

zetsurin — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 12:17:47 +0000

>privacy/security fragmentation

giant big tech data leak:https://www.yahoo.com/news/16-billion-passwords-apple-facebo... yesterday?

New comment by zetsurin in "New images show state of preservation of Ernest Shackleton's ship"

zetsurin — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 02:20:14 +0000

It is insane what they survived. For me "The Worst Journey in the World" was a better read.

New comment by zetsurin in "Amusing Ourselves to Death (2009)"

zetsurin — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 00:33:57 +0000

I'm a huge roger waters fan, in particular the album named after this book (not to mention huxley). I was excited to finally get to read what had inspired him. I found it dated (obviously I'd read it nearly 40 years after it was published), commentary on the evils of tv.

New comment by zetsurin in "Independent directors of 23andMe resign from board"

zetsurin — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 02:59:52 +0000

Maybe too far fetched? Company sells/loses data, insurance companies use data to deny coverage, or deem claims as pre-existing.

New comment by zetsurin in "China's total wind and solar capacity outstrips coal"

zetsurin — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 03:15:18 +0000

In the west there have been environmental commitments since the at least 1990s. The governments just seem to mostly ignore those commitments. So it's pretty easy for westerners to not believe commitments made by other governments.

New comment by zetsurin in "Show HN: Hanon Pro – piano technique and exercises for the digital age"

zetsurin — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 23:00:53 +0000

>I would also like the ability to start from a bar of my choice and maybe even evaluate a one or two bar section at a time rather than having to play the whole piece

^ IMO this should be among your top priority.