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nness··on US could ask foreign tourists for five-year social media history before entry
I mean, a quick search of all of these people, and you can find something which absolutely warranted police investigation. That's the police doing what they're meant to do — investigate and ensure public safety.

- Jon Richelieu-Booth was investigated for stalking and making threats. The gun photo was not part of the police investigation.

- Jordan Parlour was charged for suggesting attacking hotels housing asylum seekers.

- Bernadette Spofforth was investigated for distributing misinformation with the intent to incite violence.

- Lucy Connolly for exactly what you say, inciting violence

- Norbert Gyurcsik had and was selling terrorist materials. (Just because you pair something illegal in a melody doesn't change its content...)

(With the exception of Maxie Allen and Rosalind Levine, which was an unlawful arrest and they were had restitution for it.)

nness··on US could ask foreign tourists for five-year social media history before entry
Who is being arrested in the UK?
nness··on US could ask foreign tourists for five-year social media history before entry
I visited in June 2025, roadtrip down the West coast. I was somewhat concerned about immigration, but surprised we were able to use the Mobile Passport Control app and utilise the fast-line to skip a 3~ hour immigration queue.

I was surprised at how few international tourists there were. I had read about a decline, but everywhere we went felt quite empty...

nness··on Bruno Simon – 3D Portfolio
Does not work on Firefox :(
nness··on YouTube Is Awful. I'm Not Posting There Anymore
Those values being the proliferation of AI, YouTube's settlement to Trump, unbanning of conspiracy theory and hate-speech creators popular amongst Trump's base, and a moral complaint about AI age-checking, and censorship (particularly around the most recent Israel-Gaza conflict.)
nness··on [dead]
Isn't Mamdani not even sworn in until next year?
nness··on 'No One Lives Forever' turns 25 and you still can't buy it legitimately
"Not knowing if you own the IP" doesn't mean "you don't own the IP." Doesn't change the theft. But does make a argument that companies, with no interest in selling a media, should think about giving it away.
nness··on How to Embrace Uncertainty While Building Conviction
> In portfolio theory, perfect correlation is fatal—when every asset moves together, the slightest shock ruins everything. Resilience comes from diversification: a spread of unaligned bets. Intellectual life works the same way. When all our convictions depend on the same assumptions, a single surprise unravels the whole.

An interesting perspective on resilience.

nness··on The Farmer Was Replaced [video]
That was my first impression when I picked it up -- the game strongly suggests you start from the start, and re-loading a pre-Space Age save will result in many things breaking. I gave in and started over, worried I'd need to spend dozens of hours just building up to where I was before.

But this wasn't the case — Space Age isn't only new content, but a complete re-balance of the original game. It is far far less grindy and requires much less baby-sitting of production.

Your first space platform, the ships, and the planets, are best thought of as unique Factorio-inspired puzzles. Each planet is like a Factorio game-mode to solve, with its own restrictions to design around.

I think those who have hundreds of hours in the base-game have to un-learn of the base game to pick up the DLC. Many of the complaints are pointed at the tech tree changes — they wanted an expansion on what was there, not a recreation. But for me now, I wouldn't recommend Factorio without Space Age.

nness··on Study: MRI contrast agent causes harmful metal buildup in some patients
Appreciate this comment, thank you. (It's hard to gauge the recency of these concerns, the materials being used, or the prevalence of NSF -- and it can all get a bit overwhelming.)
nness··on ChatGPT Atlas
Probably in response to the Dia and Arc browsers.
nness··on Wikipedia Seems Pretty Worried About AI
My guess is that the scraping tools are specialized for web, and creating per-application interfaces isn't cost effective (although you could argue that scraping Wikipedia effectively is definitely worth the effort, but given its all text context with a robust taxonomy/hierarchy, it might be non-issue.)

My other thought is that you don't want a link showing you scraped anything... and faking browser traffic might draw less attention.

nness··on Duke Nukem: Zero Hour N64 ROM Reverse-Engineering Project Hits 100%
Zero Hour was one of the must have's of the Nintendo 64 era and one of the few good games in the latter part of the Duke Nukem series. Despite its challenging platforming and a few soul-crushing levels, the game had consistently rich settings and managed to recreate that Duke 3D charm.

The recent Perfect Dark port was incredible and I hope this decomp gets the same treatment.

nness··on X-COM creator Julian Gollop discusses his most important games (2019)
I recently played through 'Aliens: Dark Descent' which manages to feel like a X-COM game, but real time. It felt like the natural next step for tactic strategy games and was instantly hoked -- I can't imagine returning to the turn-based roll-of-a-dice luck systems after that.

"random-number stuff was really too brutal for a lot of players to handle" -- I never finished XCOM 2 specifically for that reason. I think, having not come from a background of table top RPG's, it just didn't click.

nness··on Calling your boss a dickhead is not a sackable offence, UK tribunal rules
What is of note is that you cannot typically claim unfair dismissal if you've been employed for less than 2-years in the UK. Seems she was employed more than 2-years and passed the qualifying period. Proves if you plan to run a business and hire employees, you got to understand the protections in place.
nness··on Calling your boss a dickhead is not a sackable offence, UK tribunal rules
What are you on about?
nness··on The Synology End Game
It's a real shame too, I had purchased a DS723+ before the announcement and its a great little machine. The I can see why the Synology experience was such a draw for so long in the consumer space.

The recent HDD drama is death for Synology's consumer appeal, but I imagine they'll shape-out a mid-market/small-business segment for themselves.

nness··on Japan: Apple Must Lift Browser Engine Ban by December
Safari is often regarded as the "new Internet Explorer" by front-end developers because of how much is unsupported or has to be worked-around...
nness··on Man wearing metallic necklace dies after being sucked into MRI machine
From a cursory search, seems like 1. Privacy, and 2. RF shielding of equipment behind the glass and from influencing the MRI scan itself.
nness··on NIH limits scientists to six applications per year
Or more limited in impact — flag people who are behaving outside of the norms for manaul review, i.e. too many or too frequent submissions. Manual review and if any are found to contain AI, assume all are AI, and charge only that person a fixed proposal review fee going forward.
nness··on Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025
Interesting side-effect, the Gluetun docker image uses 1.1.1.1 for DNS resolution — as a result of the outage Gluetun's health checks failed and the images stopped.

If there were some way to view torrenting traffic, no doubt there'd be a 20 minute slump.

nness··on Web designs are getting too complicated
This brings me back to the days of Flash-based websites...
nness··on Show HN: Is Your Company's AI Just Indians?
This is certainly racist.
nness··on An 'administrative error' sent a Maryland man to an El Salvador prison
Reminds me of all the Guantanamo Bay detainees that were suspected and held for just wearing a Casio F-91W digital watch...
nness··on Win98-quickinstall: A framework and installer to quickly install Windows 98
I have Win98 in an 86box just for fun, and yet it feels like that version runs much more smoothly...
nness··on Age Is a Problem at Apple
No real argument as to why it is a 'problem." Using Meta's board as a reference, when Meta has failed miraculously at their metaverse play, where as Apple continues to be one of the richest companies ever, almost proves the point that Apple's board is fine?
nness··on OpenAI calls on U.S. Government to let it freely use copyrighted material
The issue is so much about consumption of copyright material, but acquisition of that material.

Like a real person, AI companies need to adhere to IP and license or purchase the materials that they wish to consume. If AI companies licensed all materials they acquired for training purposes, this would be a non-issue.

OpenAI are looking for a free pass to break copyright law, and through that, also avoid any issues that would arise through reproduction.

nness··on Google changes Chrome extension policies following the Honey link scandal
Seems sensible — This kind of extension erodes trust in the Chrome browser, but more likely, hurts Google's relationship with partners in their ad network.
nness··on Ask HN: Promoted, but Career Path Derailed
I'm confused as to what you consider your "career path?"
nness··on Seagate: 'new' hard drives used for tens of thousands of hours
Curiously, how did you identify them as counterfeit? (maybe they were much quieter than normal)
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