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by mplanchard 4d ago
Agree the $10 plan is so worth it as to be a complete non-question as to whether to renew whenever it comes up. Also, super cool link, thanks for the share.
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by mplanchard 4d ago
I grew up in the 90s too, and I’m fairly certain that shooting paintball guns out of a taxi would have been generally frowned upon even during that halcyon era.
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by mplanchard 5d ago
Thank you for sharing an argument. I for some reason was thinking more like medical gore, which I don’t think should be illegal, but I’m sympathetic to your argument re: violent crime. I don’t know that I agree about car crashes, though. I
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by mplanchard 5d ago
Two decades puts us back to the post-9/11 war on terror era, from which it seems like a fairly straight line to, for example, ICE murdering people in the streets. So, yeah, political disasters take time to reach their conclusions, and
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by mplanchard 5d ago
Try turning off VPN for the archive link? It worked for me, but I had to turn off the VPN
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by mplanchard 5d ago
This thread is so weird. Several people asking why gore should be as illegal as child porn, but with no followup from anyone so far with reasons. I am not trying to be sarcastic in asking why. I am legitimately curious.
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by mplanchard 5d ago
Yes, speedbar, with speedbar-prefer-window set to t Or use any of the various file tree packages in [M]ELPA
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by mplanchard 5d ago
Yeah, speedbar and dired are built-in. Speedbar by default still opens in a new frame I think, but in emacs 31 there’s a config option to make it open in a side window without any additional tweaking needed.
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by mplanchard 5d ago
Im curious, why? The argument against CSAM is easy: the creation of the content is clearly harmful to the victims, its viewing and distribution furthers that harm, and its availability has the potential to increase demand. How do we get to
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by mplanchard 5d ago
The point is more that these images should not be uploadable in the first place, since they are trivially validated against the national DB to be CSAM. And, from TFA: > The program The Times wrote reported the images to the authorities.
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by mplanchard 5d ago
From TFA: > The Times conducted its own scan for child sexual abuse material on X by writing an automated computer program that searched for related terms without displaying the images, which are illegal to view. Links to the images were
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by mplanchard 5d ago
The newsworthy thing here, IMO, is that they don’t even seem to be checking images against the NCMEC database > The U.S. national center shares digital fingerprints with major technology companies so they can scan and remove the imagery.
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by mplanchard 5d ago
https://archive.is/pdKjA
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Child Sexual Abuse Material Persists on X(nytimes.com)
48 points by mplanchard 5d ago|67 comments
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by mplanchard 6d ago
Is the implication here that it’s cheaper to build a house with lead, asbestos, and radium? I cannot see how those have any causal link to home prices, which seem to be much more heavily influenced by broader socioeconomic factors (area des
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by mplanchard 6d ago
I mean, the wikipedia on proletariat disagrees with your definition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proletariat The proletariat’s primary economic value is their labor. They do not own the means of production. Having
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by mplanchard 7d ago
Uh, do you think that the labor class is defined by utter poverty or something? The labor class is defined by having to work for their livelihood , which most of us still do, even if we have a mortgage or a nice 401(k) or whatever.
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by mplanchard 7d ago
I don’t necessarily think meta complaints about the HN crowd are productive, but… Worker proportion of total company profits is at a historic low, but “unions bad” is often the most that the HN contingent can come up with. A lot of it is “I
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by mplanchard 10d ago
AI seems to be a good tool for people who are already good at learning and critical thinking to use to accelerate their learning. Research on broader populations so far is not so hopeful, with most people using it to avoid learning. This is
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by mplanchard 10d ago
This is in fact one of the primary points of TFA and the book it recommends: that the degradation of literacy, public discourse, and general intelligence that started with the television (and was well-described in Amusing Ourselves to Death
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by mplanchard 11d ago
It is less annoying, at least to me. I can read a semi-promotional post. I just bounce right off LLM writing
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by mplanchard 11d ago
This is such a classic HN take, thinking you know better without any real knowledge of the situation. Here’s a real-life blind person who strongly disagrees with you: https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/disability-dong
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by mplanchard 12d ago
iphone, linux (ubuntu, nixos), mac, firefox. I have a shared vault with my partner, which was easy to transfer and re-share. She’s tech savvy, so no issues there, but it didn’t seem any more complicated to me than setting up 1password was.
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by mplanchard 12d ago
I switched to Proton Pass yesterday, since I’m already a subscriber to Proton Mail. Setup and import from 1PW was easy, took maybe 15 minutes tops. So far it has been working satisfactorily enough.
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by mplanchard 13d ago
Apart from everything about DHH, I personally feel like the choice to invest so much money in Omarchy, of all things, shows a lack of good technical sense from the folks at 1pw. If you’re doing charitable giving, why not give to an establis
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by mplanchard 15d ago
Oh whoops I ceded my livelihood to an opaque corporate subscription service and they banned me
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by mplanchard 15d ago
I literally only have Firefox installed and cannot remember the last time I encountered a broke web page.
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by mplanchard 15d ago
Too much RAM use is rare for me, but when it happens I just open the tab unloading page and unload all the tabs. Usually it’s Jira’s fault.
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by mplanchard 15d ago
I’m sorry, but this is not my experience at all. The process of installing and using Firefox for a non-technical user is no different from Chrome: both give you immediate access to search, both offer to sign you in for cross-computer sync,
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by mplanchard 15d ago
Seriously, I’m with the person who says people hating on Firefox are often just trying to justify sticking with Chrome due to the inertia. I’ve been exclusively using Firefox for many years. I don’t even have a Chromium browser installed! (

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