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JasserInicideon Supreme Court Sides with Cox in Copyright Fight over Pirated Music

Ok while superficially great news but the supreme cynic in me is starting to think: what if the RIAA et al go to ISPs and saying they will pay them to continue monitoring this stuff and if they bring them to court, sue them and win they will give them a cut of the winnings? Would something like this even be financially feasible i.e. a profit motive inserted somewhere into the equation that ISPs would continue monitoring torrent activity?

JasserInicideon Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says

it doesn't mean the local tech workers will be replaced.

You're right because that totally didn't happen to varying degrees in various industries in the US...

JasserInicideon Apple App Store guidelines remove ban on encouraging external payments in US

It's not just newer unsustainable companies. There are plenty of businesses that have been around for decades that are now engaging in these enshittifying practices (for dearth of a better term). Big box appliances like washers/dryers, fridges. Vehicle manufacturers (BMW and their subscription service bullshit), we're fast approaching a world where even doing an oil change will have to be done by the dealership/authorized 3rd party.

These Ivy League MBAs have been getting taught how much money companies have been leaving on the table and they are infecting every industry.

JasserInicideon Someone at YouTube needs glasses

Mobile-first design. Get used to it, we haven't even started to see the worst of it

JasserInicideon Internet in a Box

The fact that this has a promotional image from someone using one of those One Laptop per Child laptops (which was an abject failure) just says to me this is another misguided "white savior" attempt to solve a problem in parts of the world they don't fully understand.

JasserInicideon Virginia passes law to enforce maximum vehicle speeds for repeat speeders

This is 100% a political issue. Instead of introducing privacy-violating software, we could instead institute massive policing campaigns to curb speeding. But that would require actual effort by police, something they don't want to do.

JasserInicideon Virginia passes law to enforce maximum vehicle speeds for repeat speeders

How is this different to driving around with a mobile phone on?

Are you serious? I can choose to leave my mobile phone home if I want to. I can't do that with my car.

JasserInicideon Women rely partly on smell when choosing friends

Read about this singles dating event in Russia where they took cotton swabs swiped underneath each person's armpits and put them into little glass jars. Everyone then went around smelling each one and matched with each other based on which jar scent they liked the most. Wish I still had it. Definitely a novel if not more primal way to choose a partner.

JasserInicideon Pope Francis has died

their purpose is not to start artistic movements or liberally think for themselves and no one is claiming it is.

your "spark of ingenuity" is not lacking because of some issue or lack of creativity, it's lacking because it's not the point and no one wants it to be.

There are plenty of people/communities online that want it to be exactly that and want to remove the pesky human element from the equation. Dismissing them because it doesn't fit your argument doesn't mean they don't exist.

JasserInicideon Pope Francis has died

does it really matter if it can be described as cognition or not?

Yes...it does. "AI" aka modern flavor LLMs as we understand them today are just doing certain things thats humans can do but orders of magnitude faster. What exactly is impressive about it being able to succinctly sum up any topic under the Sun aside from the speed? It will never create a new genre of music. It will never create a new style of art from the ground up. It lacks the human spark of ingenuity. To even suggest that what it does anything close to human cognition is egregiously insulting.

JasserInicideon Librarians are dangerous

Yeah I see this kind of paternalistic condescending style of writing in many left-leaning circles. It sounds like it's geared for children but no they're actually writing for adults. They see themselves as moral beacons and they need to proselytize the stupid unwashed masses because they just don't know any better.

I despise it.

JasserInicideon Adipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of obesity after weight loss

Jason Fung is probably the world's leading research expert on obesity. If you want videos to watch on it, it starts and ends with this guy. He has done a ton of lectures and blogposts going back over a decade, and also has the stereotypical clickbaity YouTube videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpllomiDMX0

JasserInicideon Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries

I remember when presidents used to divest themselves of their private holdings. That went out the window in 2017

JasserInicideon The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available

All bullshit. Apple loves to make a big stand on privacy but quietly folds just like the rest of them. Remember that big stink they rose over the FBI needing access to an encrypted phone a decade ago? Apple still gave everything the FBI requested some time later after got their PR win

JasserInicideon RubyLLM: A delightful Ruby way to work with AI

Chaotic neutral take: they're Ruby devs that have a vested interest in gatekeeping newcomers from the language so they have better job security

JasserInicideon Show HN: Seven39, a social media app that is only open for 3 hours every evening

Yup, we need to start bringing back the idea of the village on the Internet. There is no good reason why I need to know what someone on the other side of the globe thinks about stuff going on in my country and vice versa.

JasserInicideon uBlock Origin is no longer available on the Chrome Store

I hope Mozilla realizes (and still cares) that they have a huge opportunity here to be the power-browser where you can get awesome extensions

Don't worry, they won't. They have more important endeavors like funding some new bullshit virtue signalling campaign and paying huge CEO bonuses.

JasserInicideon AI 'wingmen' bots to write profiles and flirt on dating apps

It's not the future we need but it's the one we deserve. This place is heavily complicit in the popularity of AI. It creams its pants any time a new LLM is announced.

JasserInicideon Sweden Investigates New Cable Break Under Baltic Sea

Chamberlain all over again...

JasserInicideon Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?

What is wrong about raising chickens in your own backyard and giving them a full eventful life?

JasserInicideon Have you ever seen a goth downtown?

30+ years ago, Christian thought was the dominant force in society. You wanted to piss off your elders and society? Say something bad about Christianity (I should know, I was there front-and-center). Current year in many places of the country, the pendulum has now swung left and there's this new neo-liberal order. You want to piss off society now? Say something bad about that. And that's precisely why movements like the alt-right have risen to the heights they are at now.

You've probably heard phrases being thrown around online like "conservative is the new punk"; while mostly silly, there is a nugget of truth to them.

JasserInicideon America will collapse by 2025 (2010)

I don't see any kind of schism/balkanization in our future. The federal government has its tentacles in all states and the states in turn rely heavily on it for big parts of their budgets. Any one that gets to the point of secession (highly unlikely), the federal government will just invade it on grounds of securing their many assets in the state and then proceed to depose of the seditious element.

JasserInicideon Why young parents should focus on building trust with their kids

but did you just equate autism and being far left

No, more so it's at the root of crippling all online discussions.

JasserInicideon Why young parents should focus on building trust with their kids

Great post. The increasingly insane purity tests that the far left levy upon others they deign as less woke (in the original sense of the word) has gotten completely out of hand. Especially here on HN. Too many times I've seen normal discussion happen and then someone comes along with "Um excuse me can you not use that term because [3 paragraphs of nonsense when one time one person somewhere took offense to said term]". It feels paralyzing. People can't have discussions anymore, especially online. There's always 20 caveats you have to worry about.

Personally I blame autism for much of it but that's another can of worms.

JasserInicideon 5G networks meet consumer needs as mobile data growth slows

Barring some revolutionary new material where we can get EM waves to travel orders of magnitude faster through it over current stuff, I don't think we're ever getting around the latency problem.

JasserInicideon Cities can cost effectively start their own utilities

Or living so far from civilization, especially in a state where wildfires have been part of the ecosystem for millions of years.

JasserInicideon We are destroying software

He has some good takes (like the talk he gave in the OP) but also has some questionable ones. How he feels on work-life balance comes to mind. He seems to legitimately hate having to employ other people to help create his games.

JasserInicideon Vanguard's average fee is now 0.07% after biggest-ever cut

It's so bad. I don't even like logging in anymore. Padding/whitespace everywhere, no more alternating row colors. I despise mobile-first UIs. The old one many have looked dated but it was more information dense without being overwhelming.

JasserInicideon US Bill Proposes Jail Time for People Who Download DeepSeek

A lot of people in this new federal government are terrified of China

JasserInicideon Goodbye, Slopify

Ever since Google Play Music was killed off, I've been putting off setting up a home server and accessing my entire collection like that. There's some Android program that allows one to do that, forget the name of it though. Think it has "fish" in the name