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Don't you think that "security" non-sequitur boogeyman is a bit too forced? You took my example, cherry-picked some words, and turned it into something else entirely. And too bad it doesn't even hold up because surrendering your phone number won't prevent securities fraud, which is what I was specifically referring to in my example.

The next aspiring trillionaire can take note of that argument when scamming people out of their retirement funds.

You're over-fixating on the misuse of macros and generalize that to make a statement about Vim [1], almost as if that's the only useful feature in Vim. There are more basic editing commands that are much simpler, quicker, and powerful. It's what is actually used most of the time.

Also, getting bulk editing perfect, including the edge cases, is inefficient regardless of the tools you use. For the majority of those cases, I would just combine simple search and replace (cgn), dot repeat (.), and undo plus skip (un) for the edge cases. Then jump back (N) to the edge cases and make manual edits. It's quick, provides instant visual feedback, and requires less cognitive work than trying to process it all at once. And that's the approach people likely have in mind when they mention dot repeat.

[1] Or at least stepping right close to it.

It's hard to catch some of these questionable things as a kid reading a fantasy book, who'd think fictional settings exist in a vacuum. And if it's like one or two isolated cases, the whole thing can be brushed off as pure coincidence. But with the Harry Potter series, there are dozens of these disturbing tropes with real world parallels. It's safe to say it's a pattern.

Sure, that's possible, but the question is, is that what's actually happening?

Nah, it doesn't even sound true.

That's a real stretch. She copied a modern day trope, not some ancient myth with unclear origin. Even if we bend over backwards to believe that she wasn't aware that the trope targeted a specific demographic, there's zero chance that her publisher failed to catch it too. And also the entire movie staff that chose floors with seven pointed stars for the bank. Also also consider that this trope is far from an isolated case in the whole series.

The portrayal was anything but sympathetic when Griphook was slaughtered by Voldemort right after betraying Harry and taking the sword of Gryffindor in his possession.

Also, notice how real world tropes are just portrayed as facts in the Harry Potter world.

To be fair, dementors are consistently depicted as pure evil that has no place in society. The funnier thing for me is how the Ministry is a militarized law enforcement body that functions as the legislative, judicial, and executive branches of the magical society.

But there are things you can't unsee once you revisit the series as an adult, like all the harmful tropes that's casually littered throughout the series. From unpleasant people almost always being portrayed as fat and ugly to house elves who have a frightened reaction to the idea of being freed from enslavement, and cunning, greedy creatures with long, hooked noses that run the wizarding bank. If that weren't too on the nose, that bank even had a seven pointed star on the floor in the movies. Oh, and Kingsley Shacklebolt is quite an interesting name to give a fictional black person. And that's barely scratching the surface.

Except Google is the very company progressively shutting out open source efforts out of the Android ecosystem.

The parent's take is a bit too literal, but at least it's her view on human rights activism. That view has demonstrably gotten more extreme post-pandemic.

But even if you don't take JKR's views as pro-slavery, it's still pretty ironic that the rhetoric of happy slaves is taken from literal slavers from history.

Also Psycho-pass explores the concept in depth.

Unfortunately, "preventing crimes" means mass surveillance and racial/political profiling, in practice.

FYI that's a direct quote from the book. I regrettably spent too much time of my childhood reading a series that ends with the protagonist thinking about ordering his unpaid servant make him a sandwich after a bloody battle.

FOSS fork of Android is useless without hardware capable of running them. Which means you need hardware manufacturers and telecom companies on your side.

Easier than winning.

Chelsea Manning had her sentence commuted.

Facebook was evil from its very inception. Its origin is a site for non-consensually rating women's faces. Zuckerberg personally called his initial users "dumb f*cks" for trusting him with their personal information and offered to to give that data to his friend. There was never any doubt about what kind of person Zuckerberg is.

The recklessness of coding agents having access to work laptops and exfiltrating data with barely any restrictions is on a whole new level.

It's insane that it's becoming a concern now. It should've ended the discussion from the very beginning.

Are you implying that Anthropic lawyers wrote the user agreement to protect users out of the goodness of their hearts? That's how they receive their big fat paychecks? Very funny.

We all know user agreements exist to strip users of their rights and to absolve companies of wrongdoing. We know that corporate apologists here are also well aware of this fact. When user agreements explicitly grant companies the right to screw over users, apologists are quick to make excuses about how it's all standard operating procedure and accuse people of being uncharitable for doing a plain reading of the text [1]. Yet when people are actually screwed over by companies, those very same people blame users for accepting the user agreement. It's a bad faith system.

User agreements are nothing more than power plays by exploitative companies.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47953501

Only corporate apologists would come up with a definition of evil so useless for anything other than making strawman arguments. The criteria the rest of us use is based on harm.

That they have a process for doing evil things doesn't make it less nefarious.

In the region are Japan, Taiwan, China, Russia, and North Korea. Only incompetent idiots at the highest level of power would start off a whole new geopolitical disaster there by stabbing an ally, of all things. Who in the right mind would do such a ... ohhhh.

Facebook was started by a college kid who made a site for non-consensually rating the faces of his fellow female classmates. He called his initial users "dumb f*cks" for trusting him with their private information. Information, which he offered to share with his friend, also without consent. It was obvious from the start that Facebook was up to no good, but money and power [1] prevailed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Thiel#Facebook

s/If some else did this/If ordinary citizens did this/

Wealthy companies getting away with fraud is unfortunately business as usual.

https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Main_Page

The kind of problem you're describing is what Nix handles exceptionally well.

Don't install everything at the system level (NixOS). Home Manager is better suited for things like Claude. And even if you did choose to install Claude from your NixOS configuration, you can draw from a different Nixpkgs commit.

Usually, using the latest stable channel for NixOS and nixpkgs-unstable for the rest is good enough.

Yes, to the surprise of some HNers, regulations can be good or bad. Just because there are people unhappy with current regulation doesn't automatically mean regulation shouldn't exist at all.

BTW this isn't an opinion on the availability of GPT 5.6. I couldn't care less about that.

FYI uBlock Origin Lite is officially available for Safari now.

On the rare occasions that I encounter non-Vim vi clones, I quickly run into missing features like these:

- deleting past the insertion point in insert mode

- visual mode

- split screen

- multiple buffers

- text objects

- macros

So even for people who don't care about Vim's syntax highlighting or autocomplete features, I'd assume real vi is a non-starter. I'd choose it over nano (no offence), but still.