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mb_thdon Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta

> it is legally not allowed to film people in public without their consent

Lots places have laws like that. Maybe Meta shouldn't sell a device that makes it easy to do it anyway.

mb_thdon 'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees

It's Oracle, 99% chance it's a security-bug in a back-door lol

"people you do like" in this case refers to a website that DigitalOcean owns. "people you don't like" is a singular (racist) guy who slapped a bunch of scripts on top of Arch and somehow receives hundreds of thousands of dollars for it.

mb_thdon Drawably: Hand-Drawn UI Controls

My thoughts exactly. At the very least the author should add a disclaimer that it's not actually hand-drawn but only looks like it.

mb_thdon Show HN: I made a private self-destructing image hosting site in Golang

I agree with the other people in the comments that playing a role in transmitting illegal files (like CSAM) could land you in hot water.

Especially since you're storing it (temporarily) on your server.

mb_thdon Software for One

A home cooked meal isn't necessarily good or high quality. There are plenty of people who're bad at cooking but do it anyway.

But 'home cooked' implies that someone spent time and effort to make a dish from scratch instead of (for example) heating up a microwave dinner.

mb_thdon Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for command and lunar modules

Or you use the virtualagc project linked in the readme to do the same thing without wasting a bunch of money on tokens.

mb_thdon It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership

I don't think people not understanding licenses are the problem. Licenses are.

It's just that for the longest time people didn't have to think about them, because if you had a license to consume a game/movie/album and also had a copy of it on physical media it was basically impossible for the media owner to take it away from you. But when everything is digital only, doing exactly that is easy as pie.

This feels like how sometimes laws from the 1800s are used to convict people of computer-related crimes. Maybe that was always possible, but it still seems unfair.

mb_thdon Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice

If you're choosing to go with the most complicated way of setting up a company, a consultant probably doesn't hurt.

mb_thdon Founding a company in Germany: €9600, 152 days and I still can't send an invoice

Man decides to go for the most complicated option, complains about how complicated it was. More news at 5.

mb_thdon A deadly fungus that can infect cats and people is spreading

They still kill carriers for other stuff. Pick your poison, I guess.

mb_thdon Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?

> WHERE IS THE THREAT YOU MADE UP TO ATTACK ME?

The author seems unwell

mb_thdon Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation

I think it's not clear to him either why he was booed.

mb_thdon Help Keep Thunderbird Alive

Don't be so harsh on them. (\s) They show lots of willpower and some sort of vision when talking about AI in Firefox.