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gg-plz··on Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174)
The military is being unleashed against civilians and this is the political issue you’re concerned about on today of all days?

Dang, you’re one of the bad ones.

gg-plz··on ACF Plugin no longer available on WordPress.org
https://x.com/WordPress/status/1845180576531468375

> Hey @WordPress. Are there any further plugins that we can expect to be forked?

> There are no others we're aware of at this time, but you are welcome to suggest some.

gg-plz··on ACF Plugin no longer available on WordPress.org
As someone who doesn’t use it, were those features removed into the patch?

If they’re actively breaking people’s sites I’d hope they can get an emergency injunction ASAP, and maybe someone can start a CFAA investigation.

gg-plz··on The ACF plugin on the WordPress directory has been taken over by WordPress.org
I’ve seen a bunch of people in addiction recovery, and Matt’s erratic self destructive aggressive behaviour seems very familiar. Nosebleeds too. It’s probably just a coincidence, but…
gg-plz··on Secure Custom Fields by WordPress.org
Sorry, I misread, disregard. I’d delete the comment but HN won’t let me.
gg-plz··on Secure Custom Fields by WordPress.org
The maintainers [1] and the Wordpress project’s core security team lead [2] said that the fix was already published, despite your blocking them from publishing it directly and irresponsibly disclosing the issue out of spite [3].

Was that not true?

[1] https://x.com/wp_acf/status/1843376378210857441

[2] https://x.com/johnbillion/status/1843750679141331039

[3] https://x.com/johnbillion/status/1842627564453454049

gg-plz··on DNSSEC KSK rollover breaks DNS resolution for .nz domains
if your browser ignored all certificate errors, I guess you'd call that a feature?
gg-plz··on TypeScript is 'not worth it' Svelte switches to JavaScript and JSDoc
This headline is misleading to the point of being a lie, despite the body quoting the part explaining why it's misleading. Really bad. Author, OP, or Dang/mods should edit.

Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35892250

They're not changing away from TypeScript. They're changing from the TypeScript-style syntax for inline type annotations to the JSDoc-style syntax for type annotations in comments. They're still using TypeScript for type-checking, but now the source code can also run as-is. Dupe at <some URL>

gg-plz··on YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
nonsense. these are not anywhere in the top hundred issues with the service.

workspace accounts are irrelevant to 99.99% of normal users. google hasn't encouraged using workspace accounts for consumer use for like ten years. the only place people care is on hacker news.

it works across almost all devices.

gg-plz··on Tesla recalls 360k vehicles, says full self-driving beta may cause crashes
A lot of people say they’re significantly better than average driver. It’s such a stereotypical thing to say, that it probably has negative truth value on average, since it reflects broad personal confidence more than actual driving skill.

You still sound like you’re trying to present the weakest possible straw man for Tesla critics to attack. Stop this bad faith attempt to make Tesla look bad; you’re dragging down the discourse. Nobody is going to take your bait and feed you the expected counter arguments to the nonsense you expressed up-thread.

gg-plz··on Tesla recalls 360k vehicles, says full self-driving beta may cause crashes
Is your post supposed to be read as genuine or sarcastic? It looks to me like a strawman of a Tesla owner stereotype, and I don’t want to accidentally eat the onion here by taking it at face value.

Your post appears to be saying that Tesla’s FSD is way worse than human drivers, not safer than them, but we should still welcome it for the convenience. Again, this reads like a strawman. I would like to think the average Tesla owner would not endorse that statement.

The goal isn’t to save time at the cost of lives, it’s to save both, non?

gg-plz··on We're Curbing Starlink's Use in Ukraine
Not really, since my comment wasn’t talking about investments. It’s easy to sound smart when you change the subject.
gg-plz··on We're Curbing Starlink's Use in Ukraine
SpaceX is not a neutral party. They’re flush with cash from US government contracts. If they want to withdraw their infrastructure from America’s ally, who are defending themselves against an existential threat from one of America’s top geopolitical adversaries, why should they continue to be granted American government contracts?

If Elon wants to be independent, he can be independent. He doesn’t. His companies all depend on government subsidies to exist. Tesla, SolarCity, SpaceX — these are not free market capitalist successes, they’re all fundamentally dependent on Big Government. Without government charity, Elon Musk has nothing.

If Elon really wants to bite the hand that feeds him, he’d better be ready to get smacked.

gg-plz··on Google employees criticize CEO for “dumpster fire” response to ChatGPT
Sundar is good at keeping things running as-is.

He was elevated to CEO of Google to keep things running as-is while the founders moved their exciting ventures up to Alphabet. When those other bets were abandoned, Sundar was left as the top engaged executive, but he's still only a caretaker when the company needs an actual leader with vision to navigate their competition.

So, no. He has not been a good CEO. He was a good middle-manager and a decent CEO at best, but he's not been what the company needed, and he's definitely not what they need today.

gg-plz··on How to get a heart attack while using JEB decompiler (2022)
From the headline, I worried that the author may have been live-debugging their own pacemaker. But this is still pretty bad.