gremlinunderway

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by gremlinunderway 9d ago
Oh give me a break. This argument that people's objections to advertising comes from some Pollyanna naivety over things being free is nonsense. Tell me the last time you have ever seen a company be upfront and explicitly offer a free
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by gremlinunderway 9d ago
It's almost as if outside the tech bubbles most people don't understand the tech or implications. HN posters who live and breath in this space are so smug to pretend this esoteric knowledge about networking identifiers or fingerpr
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by gremlinunderway 10d ago
There's actually no continental definition in the EU constitution but yes probably in practice this is correct in terms of perception
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by gremlinunderway 14d ago
Yeah but see, we're talking about a functionality that is inherently visual. Ergonomics has nothing to do with esthetics, and it's such a dumb excuse to hand wave aside interface issues as of they are just about "making thing
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by gremlinunderway 16d ago
I mean, if they aren't even willing to download the one app that actually gets them the content they want to see, then *no* software will ever be something that this type of user will be interested in. Not everyone has to use an app, s
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by gremlinunderway 16d ago
I will never understand the point of teaching languages that aren't actually used. To me it just seems like its intended to be easier for the teacher rather than being beneficial for the student. Python is already a super simple langu
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by gremlinunderway 1mo ago
It's because Western governments do a much better job of legitimizing their corruption or just doing it "transparently" (which makes it okay, you see?). Best example is registered lobbying. If you have the money, you absolute
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by gremlinunderway 2mo ago
i actually don't think you can tell immediately at all. Being an expert at a thing and also being a good communicator or teacher of that thing is absolutely not the same thing. One can be an expert on a topic and produce research, or
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by gremlinunderway 2mo ago
thats not the verdict. Thats the sentencing decision, which just goes into a separate Judge's sentencing hearing and decisions on that.
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by gremlinunderway 2mo ago
No, I'm saying is that you fundamentally don't understand what "Luddism" even is or was at any point. Let me be clear. The the term "Luddite" is completely made up. The group it was supposedly based on were si
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by gremlinunderway 2mo ago
What about this is unique to Palantir at all? As far as I'm aware, there are many, many more companies deeply embedded with the US intelligence community and law enforcement and Palantir isn't all that special here. Microsoft, Ama
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by gremlinunderway 2mo ago
"Neo-luddite" is thrown around by people who don't actually know history and just eat up terminology that was spoonfed to them for a purpose. FYI, the luddite movement wasn't some stupid movement against technology for t
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by gremlinunderway 3mo ago
Pretending the ADL is some neutral apolitical research body of experts on antisemitism is absolutely ridiculous in 2026. Come on. They aren't any more a useful source on this then saying "the Republican Party cleared it" or &
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by gremlinunderway 4mo ago
Re-read the beginning of the First Amendment, because it's such a common mistake that I'm surprised people still make it: "Congress shall make no laws ... " The first amendment bars the *government* from infringing on yo
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by gremlinunderway 4mo ago
Yeah you've completely misread this. The phrase "not being a team player" is a euphemism for someone not willing to do dubiously unethical or illegal (or things that go against internal company policy) things in support of a
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by gremlinunderway 4mo ago
Why are you withholding the name of the webmail provider? Literally the only thing even remotely pressuring these firms to implement better security is bad PR (and it barely does that), so by not being explicit you are bypassing this
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by gremlinunderway 5mo ago
Im confused by the supposed poor definitions of the bill that people keep pointing out. Doesn't the escape-hatch provided in the "systemic vulnerabilities" definition clearly signal that companies could absolutely refuse to i
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by gremlinunderway 5mo ago
What a completely asinine post. I'm sick of seemingly smart people in the technical world think they are being so clever by trying to literally rehash the continuum fallacy. You hear this literally everytime anyone even so much as sugg
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by gremlinunderway 5mo ago
Which also means that he wasn't doing his job (management) and instead micromanaging his staff by doing their job. This is such a common problem with highly technical managers because they can't seem to understand how to change fo
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by gremlinunderway 6mo ago
Jesus christ this is pedantic. You do understand that not all statements can be universally distilled to true or false right? That there's nuance and opinion here right?
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by gremlinunderway 6mo ago
Yeah except you're completely misunderstanding their criticism of this entire thing. This has nothing to do with "lack of knowledge" and everything to do with criticising the premises and framing of the law in Western societi
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by gremlinunderway 6mo ago
Talk about a complete non-issue. The amount that this actually happens beyond the anecdotes of a few reactionary people listening to to many JRE podcasts is near zero. Besides, most places are dog-free. However, the ADA and other supporting
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by gremlinunderway 9mo ago
and in fairness to the mobile devices thing of abstracting file systems, when it comes to discoverability and organizing files or documents, a rigid hierarchy of nested sub-folders is far inferior to a single directory with tagging or other
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by gremlinunderway 10mo ago
Given this is a UI-focused repo, you really should be including some videos/gifs or at least some static images in your readme without having to run the demo. Like, I just dont get why you wouldnt? Its baffling to be quite honest. Espe
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by gremlinunderway 10mo ago
It's because acompany promise is useless without actual enforced regulation which is harsh enough to actually add trust in such a contractual agreement being honoured. This is how we have a free-market to begin with. You need enforceme
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by gremlinunderway 10mo ago
People "don't care" because they do not understand the implications or the technology, not because they genuinely have no interest in privacy. Of course its easy to dupe people without technical literacy by characterizing it
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by gremlinunderway 10mo ago
Yeah this is where I think government-regulation would actually be a solid-fit to try and govern some of this manipulative and unfair practices. There just needs to be a blanket-law where your data is considered every-bit as intellectual pr
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by gremlinunderway 10mo ago
Please look up the difference between private property and personal property. When people decry "property is theft", they're not talking about personal property, they're talking about private property. Also, socialist st
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by gremlinunderway 11mo ago
i dont get this blindspot by lots of developers parroting this uber technocratic nonsense. There's no such thing as some apolitical, objectively best approach to a technical problem. Instead of arguing about specific merits about speci
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by gremlinunderway 1y ago
Who currently gets fired due to engineering malpractice? It would be the same thing if there was actual certifications and engineering sign-offs in cybersecurity or other critical areas of development. I wont pretend that accountability in

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