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krageonon Stop trying to engineer your way out of listening to people

It's kind of hilarious that saying "maybe he wasn't capable of reading comprehension" is supposed to be some sort of reasonable basis to have taken another unforgivable action on.

krageonon European AI. A playbook to own it

I think the fact that you can claim this without any apparent sarcasm means you operate in a very specific part of society most people aren't a part of.

krageonon Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

While what GP said was not worded how the site rules say it should be, your original point is very tedious and can only be read charitably if we assume you never read any news or barely retain anything. We are currently on a news website. I think if you want non-commenting readers to see your point and have charitable thoughts of you it would help to explain why you're ignoring reality for whatever it is you are positing (consumer protections because of subscriptions? really? for this corporation?).

What you're saying in this post essentially just underlines GPs point, which I imagine isn't what you're trying to communicate. You have to help a reader understand your point of view, especially if it's far removed from objective reality (which is that a corporate entity will betray you for money, regardless of whether that makes sense long-term).

krageonon My eighth year as a bootstrapped founder

Even Anthropic consistently says their own AI can't help with meaningful work in their own corporation. Any person that tells you it can is overhyping it. Probably to sell you something.

krageonon Sugar industry influenced researchers and blamed fat for CVD (2016)

> worse peak performance in sports

For nearly everyone, this isn't impactful to their life. Only their vanity

krageonon Creators of Tailwind laid off 75% of their engineering team

He fired a shitload of people, of course we can criticise him

krageonon US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes

It's what you appear to be doing. I don't really understand what your issue is with that specifically

krageonon Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far

My point is that you can ignore every article about ai being super good as long as you see the vendor research (that you read once a year or less) is still the same. It saves everyone a lot of frustration. As for why it keeps appearing here, people like being excited. It's not about the truth, so asking for it is missing the point.

krageonon Most websites don't need cookie consent banners

Anyone that says the quote is the case doesn't know what they're talking about. For the love of god, just read the law text :(((

krageonon Opus 4.5 is not the normal AI agent experience that I have had thus far

https://www.anthropic.com/research/how-ai-is-transforming-wo...

see "How much work can be fully delegated to Claude?": "Although engineers use Claude frequently, more than half said they can “fully delegate” only between 0-20% of their work to Claude"

There won't be anything like you're asking for, even the vendors themselves (they'll be the most positive and most enthousiastic about using it) can't do this with them.

krageonon Show HN: Fresh – A new terminal editor built in Rust

Anything that uses npm is fundamentally untrustworthy. I would argue that if you make an editor you should write software for people that want to use and write good software, which isn't anyone that unironically uses npm with anything other than distaste.

krageonon UK Government plans new powers to label dissenting movements as 'subversion'

Europe has for a long time been the cradle of fascism. This type of behaviour should be seen as more of the same.

krageonon Netherlands – Capital Growth Tax and Capital Gains Tax for Box 3

It can be thought of the same way, but not from the perspective that's under discussion. As such it doesn't really add anything except a new perspective. Why are you introducing it, what does it add?

krageonon PRC elites voice AI-skepticism

It's not really common except in a specific political climate (specifically one pressured by propaganda). Unlike the examples of the two koreas, colloquially the two chinas (communist china - commonly known as china - and fascist china, commonly known as taiwan) are not confusing. There's very little advantage to be gained by referring to what every reader knows as china as the PRC other than to emphasise some veiled pressure for people to figure out why on earth anyone would use that name. And in so doing discover the history of taiwan (but not too much history, lest we figure out that the origins of taiwan suck big time).

In essence, it's an artefact of propaganda.

krageonon Iowa City made its buses free. Traffic cleared, and so did the air

You are objectively wrong. Public transit scales the same way free and paid (i.e. based on demand). The cost for free countrywide public transport in a country with very high quality public transportation (so not the US) is about 8k per person, per year. This isn't some insurmountable amount of money - it's not even particularly costly when you compare it to what the infrastructure costs are for cars (mostly related to accident mitigation. Especially bad in the US).

krageonon Show HN: A free Instagram story viewer that lets you watch anonymously

All e2e encrypted apps can do this. It's the price you pay for a completely closed ecosystem that coddles you at every turn because you're too much of a little bean to know what real security is.

Edit: this isn't a dig at you, it's a dig at how google and apple treat you

krageonon Vacuum bricked after user blocks data collection – user mods it to run anyway

It's not, things haven't gotten that much relatively cheaper (have you looked at phones? The biggest pieces of spyware you can buy?). This is a line corporations like to feed us so we feel guilty about being bad instead of putting that where it belongs: every CEO.

krageonon New gel restores dental enamel and could revolutionise tooth repair

To a normal human, not at all

krageonon Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely

Thanks for the clarification. I didn't say the relay server is a bad solution because of transfer security (although it could be an issue), but rather because it is expensive in terms of bandwidth and so is unlikely to exist long-term.

krageonon Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available

If the dev does everything, their manager may as well be put in a basket and pushed down the river. You can be certain there are a lot of managers. The entire storyline sounds like enterprise illness to me to be honest.

krageonon Magic Wormhole: Get things from one computer to another, safely

The point of the intermediate server is so that you can NAT hole punch, otherwise it has little point (except maybe as a relay, which is a bad solution).

krageonon Show HN: Autism Simulator

I can respect you but not respect one of your actions. You say "with respect" to mean "this isn't a commentary on what you are as a person, but on what you did specifically". Given that context, I don't agree with you.

krageonon Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP

I have not tried to do this, but I think you can set MaxMessages in your config to achieve something like this. If I'm understanding correctly, it essentially does a tail on your mailbox. The latest X messages will be kept, where X is the number after MaxMessages: https://manpages.debian.org/bullseye/isync/mbsync.1.en.html#...

krageonon How Israeli actions caused famine in Gaza, visualized

AFAIK no but the person you responded to is dogwhistling by repeatedly referencing "arab" and "muslim". They're using it to imply that not only does the UN not matter, they're also positioning these words as the implicit enemy.

It's a bad faith way to approach this argument, so asking logical questions won't make a difference and will tire you out. That's the core strategy behind that behaviour.

krageonon Asked to do something illegal at work? Here's what these software engineers did

They do care - they care because they have an inflated impression of their own importance and you seem guilty, so you must be.

krageonon Asked to do something illegal at work? Here's what these software engineers did

Bandwidth isn't free to a cloud hosting provider in any real sense of the word. It's not priced in relation to cost, but it definitely does cost

krageonon Show HN: Autism Simulator

On a more meta level I found the game quite satisfying to play because it captures the essence well and went into the comments expecting to see a little empathy for different modes of thinking. Very much for a change. Instead it's long threads of neurotypical people insisting to "just fix it" with "this one tip" or aggressively misunderstanding everything and saying it's nonsense.

It's hilarious in the sense that this too is part of a daily experience and alienation, but it's really depressing and tiring to see that even when hands are held people are still shitheads about it. Why is this the case? I genuinely don't understand why everyone can't take a deep breath and figure out that the obvious has been tried, doesn't work and therefore isn't useful? That maybe people deserve a little patience and understanding, instead of yet more pushy bad attitude?

krageonon Show HN: Autism Simulator

You have experienced other people's lives? How? Are you a discorporated entity that possesses the living?

krageonon Show HN: Autism Simulator

> quit caffeine and exercise more

With respect, you weren't asked and it's shit advice besides. I'm happy you have something that works but you may rest absolutely assured anyone with these issues that is a day over 20 has heard this "advice" hundreds, if not thousands of times.

At this point the bad advice (yes it's bad, it doesn't work) is almost as alienating as the fact that nobody seems to understand.

krageonon Gmail will no longer support checking emails from third-party accounts via POP

https://isync.sourceforge.io/mbsync.html

It's the most performant solution that's also mature. I've used it for years to retrieve all of my email accounts (of which gmail is one) to a folder that I also backup.