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leave it to Gemini to dismiss artisanal craft when the community of discussion is primarily one of craftspeople :)

yes, 641A being the prime example, but i suppose it depends on how wide a net you cast to define "risk". plus: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/targeted-advertising-g...

i'm not saying it's not like these big tech firms don't have their hands legally tied by NSA letters, but that's entirely divorced from whether i trust them to steward my data.

charitably, i think the choices one makes to enter into that profession belie a lack of consideration for the broader good of humanity in order to profit a select few - choices that necessarily include misdirection and manipulation of actual people. choices that that lead me to take behavioral advice from such folks as essentially worthless.

slur me if you like.

> The main drawback seems to be that some networks still refuse to peer with them

cogent gonna cogent. i think you're still probably good for the most part.

i dunno. NSA letters are a real thing and i have no reason to believe there's not at least some exfiltration of personal data from "big tech" to other actors.

> If you haven't worked in adtech, be quiet and do even the most trivial research before spouting nonsense.

if you have, i won't take ethically-compromised advice from you.

amazon sells a kindle version for ~$6. looks like deadtree copies retail under $10 online (or ~$17 from PRH). IA has it but it's covered under their stupid pseudo-library false scarcity bargain so you might have to get in line. if you're okay with physical, i bet your local library has it.

otherwise... can't check from work, but perhaps anna's archive/slsk has you covered?

well, i guess this has been posted on hn before, but i've never read it, so thanks for posting again. i'm glad i spent most of my work day reading it instead of doing work (but maybe just because some of the conclusions helped me rationalize the futility of my own job in a way i've been struggling with lately).

the part near the end discussing the loser's realization and process of transitioning into sociopath (or ending up "worse" than before) reminded me of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. it's been over a decade since i read it but i think the underlying idea is fairly similar to that process.

> Boeing Surplus

i only got to experience this place once or twice as a kid. i would LOVE to be able to go back as an adult with spending money. RIP!

> You use cmd-tilde to switch between windows.

the approach is still pretty different in macOS compared to most other WM behaviors, namely: cmd-tilde cycles windows within the currently-open application, and cmd-tab cylces through applications. in most other environments, alt-tab will cycle windows across all open applications (and win-tab does something like cmd-tab on macOS but somehow horribly).

finally, we can run SPACEWAR on macOS as it was always intended to be run.

why would you contact Uber's legal team to ask if you could file a lawsuit against them? do you think they would have any reason not to convince you to drop the matter?

example of a very recent case: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/04/us/colin-gray-verdict-mass-sh...

> Because, as far as a changing political landscape will allow, you hope you can trust their judgement

funny to bring this one up as an example among the others (but i suppose it's evidence that things can go the other way).

i was waiting to buy a new M5 MBP this year until they got so cozy with the current administration. now i'm just making do with my current machine until i can get a decent price on a used M5 machine in a couple of years. i'm in the process of cancelling all of my recurring apple subscriptions as well.

i'll probably use macs for as long as i use computers, but i think i'm done giving apple any money directly.

as an iranian-american, what's the link between your ethnicity/country of residence and your trust in the BBC?

i don't really trust the BBC too much either. i'm just curious if there's a specific pattern of coverage or if this is a general feeling.

this is genocidal, on a human-wide scale.

maybe northwestern washington. the rest of the state is basically kentucky.

> The only whinging I see is people using terms like Nazi for everyone they disagree with

what an oddly specific example

no but it is unfortunately the only option for most of us for now.

do you think that's any less likely than a mass boycott of all smartphone usage by the public?

i suspect you're being cute by avoiding the c-word, but that's not what that means.

trust me, this happens even in dense, deep blue places like Seattle and LA.

you care, and i care, and i think even the person you're replying to cares; that's great, but the people involved in the business of making these decisions treat them as a matter of procedure.

as long as the boxes are checked, most public sector employees are not going to stick their neck out. it's steady work that pays all right and has great benefits (and even pensions sometimes). a lot of people in the public sector aren't willing to step out of line for "frogs" even when they should or want to.

and that particular subproblem of using a tablet as a notebook - it solves it well! but it's still a little weird when you try to use it like a laptop. maybe this is a cop-out but it definitely feels like a product that would not have passed the Jobs test in its current form.

> Make responsible disclosure absolve AI providers of legal responsibility (not legal advice lol).

disclaimer: OSTENSIBLY

if the sole aim was to reduce AI provider culpability, then a disclaimer would meet that requirement.

humans famously suck at acting within rational self-interest; therefore, this isn't trying to protect AI providers of legal responsibility. it's trying to mitigate unwanted results from actions taken based on decisions informed by unverified LLM output.

Reminds me of Seinfeld.

"I gotta tell you, I am loving this Yada Yada thing. You know, I can gloss over my whole life story."

first thing i thought when i saw the citrus version - give me that in a 16" M5 Pro machine!

That's what the file browser is called on iOS as well :)

i'm as pessimistic as you are, but this is a pretty far leap from key-signing parties and the like.