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someotherperson··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
So should the US defend North Korea in case of a conflict with South Korea?
someotherperson··on Show HN: Respectify – A comment moderator that teaches people to argue better
This passes your checks, but a human moderator would flag it:

> My favorite movie is die hard. I think it's a Christmas movie. But, honestly, we shouldn't have to wait until Christmas to watch you die hard. We should be able to watch that any day of the week :)

Seems to catch various other cases though. Cool tool.

someotherperson··on Facebook is cooked
Yeah you should probably delete those photos. Nobody is going to believe your story (myself included).
someotherperson··on Don't Trust the Salt: AI Summarization, Multilingual Safety, and LLM Guardrails
English speakers frequently say “Jesus!” or “thank God” - it would be weird for an LLM.
someotherperson··on Meta to retire messenger desktop app and messenger.com in April 2026
You can still use Beeper[0] and similar. The key issue with this type of application is that some networks have put more resources to detecting them and gotten more hostile to users of it - mostly those who tie ad revenue directly to messaging (although officially it's to avoid spam + detect compromised accounts).

[0] https://www.beeper.com/

someotherperson··on Trinity large: An open 400B sparse MoE model
It's always open weights.
someotherperson··on Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%
That was just a concept, it never made it to a live build AFAIK.

What they should have done instead is just take hundreds of millions of dollars from Google, like a non-sketchy browser.

someotherperson··on 2026 resolution: if Mozilla tampers with "uBlock Origin", I'm giving it up
They're not just lying, they're killing the hopes of other independent browsers to take the reigns and the attention of the FOSS community. Mozilla is incredibly cancerous from this perspective: it's Google-backed controlled opposition.
someotherperson··on Apple loses UK App Store monopoly case, penalty might near $2B
How much of a fee do you think you should pay to install applications on your computer? The same amount as that.

Or provide alternative ways to install software.

This is a problem of their own creation.

someotherperson··on An Unexpected Benefit from Quitting Coffee – 10 Months In
Probably L-theanine? It's found naturally in teas and it's not uncommon in energy drinks/preworkouts. I'm not sure about cold brew though.
someotherperson··on Samsung confirms its smart fridges will start showing you ads
How long until this is in computer monitors as well? Seems like that's the last frontier of Samsung screens that don't come with ads.
someotherperson··on Temporary suspension of acceptance of mail to the United States
> If there's a country that doesn't get tariffs, that country will very quickly become the leading global exporter to the US

No it won't lol, that's not how international logistics work. You don't just flick a switch overnight. Maybe measured in the order of years... in which case the policies can be adjusted. They clearly think this works for taxing Americans given how huge the tax code is.

> same thing for the "penguin island" that everyone mocked: if you put high tariffs on every place but penguin island, it will soon be Penguin Island Logistics Center

Penguin island was stupid because it reflected how lazy the policies they applied are. It clearly showed that the Trump administration doesn't fundamentally understand what trade deficits are nor does it have an actual, well thought out plan. The only thing Penguin island has in common with this is that both actions are incredibly lazy and superficial. The Trump admin needs to get serious.

someotherperson··on Temporary suspension of acceptance of mail to the United States
So execute it for China alone. The issue is that these blanket actions are lazy at best and exclusively populist.
someotherperson··on No vegan milk is equivalent to dairy, nutritionists conclude
The same Physician Michael Klaper who thinks that switching to a plant-based diet cures Crohn's disease?
someotherperson··on The North Korean fake IT worker problem is ubiquitous
Not really. You need a visa (or equivalent) to enter most countries. This can take months to apply for and receive. And you can stretch that period out even longer by claiming that you don't have a passport and need to apply for one first.
someotherperson··on Israel launches strikes against Iran, Defense Minister says
It gets worse -- the person leading the negotiations with the US was one of the targets:

> Ali Shamkhani has been severely injured in a strike targeting his house and hospitalized. Mr. Shamkhani is currently spearheading nuclear talks committee appointed by supreme leader and is former secretary of National Security Council

https://x.com/farnazfassihi/status/1933360333118111907

someotherperson··on The Rise of the Japanese Toilet
Not even close. Try to travel in Latin America or something and go to a bathroom. You won't find toilet paper or a toilet seat, or even free bathrooms in many cases.
someotherperson··on Gandi March 9, 2025 incident postmortem
It's been going on for years. I've personally tried to report phishing scams to Namecheap and get the laziest action on it (for example, I report 30 domains, and only one gets taken down and the rest + the account stay active) or totally ignored altogether after one or two exchanges. This laziness in response despite their platform being abused this heavily suggests they don't want to give up the revenue they're getting from it. The CEO is incredibly defensive about it and suggests that the security theater is evidence that they actually want to do something, but it's been years and they're still heavily used. This is despite not being the cheapest out there, which suggests that scammers prefer it for other reasons.

https://www.reddit.com/r/NameCheap/comments/1duy4cn/constant...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30603615

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/05/why-do-scammers-love-namech...

And last but not least: https://www.theregister.com/2021/05/10/ncsc_active_cyber_def...

someotherperson··on Gandi March 9, 2025 incident postmortem
But their ethics are rock bottom. So maybe use of the many competitors mentioned here instead of giving money to this outfit.
someotherperson··on Solidjs: Simple and performant reactivity for building user interfaces
It's not that it's way too entrenched, it's just that people grew tired of constantly shifting frontend frameworks. Personally: I really didn't care who "won" that war, I just wanted to have a sane well-supported default without having to learn a new pattern every year to store page state or update an icon.
someotherperson··on Leaked data reveals Israeli govt campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Meta
It seems like trolls really enjoy misquoting me. I never said that, perhaps one of your colleagues here said that. You claimed that a human rights agency taking donations from Qatar makes them untrustworthy, but Israeli politicians on their knees literally begging Qatar[0] to finance their biggest domestic enemy somehow makes Israelis noble.

> Also, cult, really?

Considering your arguments will boil down to: UN is wrong, all human rights groups are wrong, all health agencies are wrong, the people living in Gaza et. al. are wrong, all of the media is wrong, all of Israel's neighbours are wrong, and that the only one who is right is the hyper-corrupt genocidal Israeli cabinet, then yes it's either a lack of knowledge or being part of a cult.

[0] Look, an actual Israeli source: https://www.timesofisrael.com/mossad-chief-top-general-visit...

someotherperson··on Leaked data reveals Israeli govt campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Meta
> In politics, a dog whistle is the use of coded or suggestive language in political messaging to garner support from a particular group without provoking opposition

The nonsensical references to Qatar and Hamas while pushing conspiracies around a human rights group are standard Hasbara talking points.

someotherperson··on Leaked data reveals Israeli govt campaign to remove pro-Palestine posts on Meta
This feels like a dog whistle rather than providing something substantive.

The Israeli government also helped facilitate Qatar's support for Hamas[0], what's your point here?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_support_for_Hamas#Isra...

someotherperson··on US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms
Almost as if book burning isn’t that big of a right in the grand scheme of things.

> America is in a league of its own when it comes to speech

Try boycotting Israel, you might go to jail or lose your green card for speaking out about it. American free speech (in the way that matters, not in the way of theater) is under threat and has been with every successive government for quite a long time.

someotherperson··on Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge
It's equally frustrating to me that some people don't seem to realize that you can opt-out (once, at initial setup) and have a completely ad-free experience.
someotherperson··on Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge
Brave is still the best browser on the market. Trying creative things for monetization (and failing loudly) is a million times better than anything else that any other browser is doing -- including Firefox.

If you don't want the Web3 crap you can turn it off -- as I have done for years now. But someone please help me understand how a browser that takes in half a billion dollars from Google annually to function as controlled opposition in case of an antitrust case is somehow OK to recommend, but a browser that is independent is somehow bad because of bad business decisions made years ago.

someotherperson··on Sweden Investigates New Cable Break Under Baltic Sea
I hope researchers get access to some of that data. Would be cool if an unintended side effect of this work ends up benefiting marine wildlife research.
someotherperson··on Growing Mozilla – and evolving our leadership
~80% of their revenue comes from Google paying them for search deals on Firefox.

Focusing on anything other than Firefox (but ads and AI? really?) not only cheapens the brand, but also devalues and risks their Google deal.

someotherperson··on Growing Mozilla – and evolving our leadership
> While Firefox remains the core of what we do, we also need to take steps to diversify: investing in privacy-respecting advertising to grow new revenue in the near term; developing trustworthy, open source AI to ensure technical and product relevance in the mid term; and creating online fundraising campaigns that will draw a bigger circle of supporters over the long run

Not focusing on Firefox is what brought it to its state today, so what should Mozilla do? Focus even less on Firefox and instead on ads, AI and begging. Insane.

EDIT: As an aside, it looks like Mozilla's VC fund invested in the funding round[0] of one of the former board members[1] of mozilla.ai which is kinda weird.

[0] https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/credo-ai-series-b--...

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/introducing-mozilla-ai-i...

someotherperson··on Show HN: Air traffic control radio and chill music for focus
You seem to be ignoring rustyhodge's multiple comments asking you to stop using Soma's station. Do you mind responding to those comments?
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