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bezier-curve

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About bezier-curve

I used to take HN seriously, but I can't anymore. After years of contributing, it's clear the site is allergic to criticism of itself. Meta commentary about moderation or culture gets recoded as "crankiness" and penalized, no matter how well-founded.

This isn't about one downvote. After 5 years I never reached the 501 karma required just to downvote, a basic function. That's a system that rewards conformity while suppressing dissent.

When I updated this bio with critique, the moderator asked if I wanted my account closed. When I pressed for an explanation, and pointed out how downvotes coincided with my emails, I got silence. That silence is its own answer.

HN isn't an open forum. It's internet feudalism: users generate the content, the lords guard the system, and feedback about that arrangement is unwelcome. That's why I'm done.

Recent public activity

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    Maybe we could have privacy protections before assuming every adult in the US is a child until giving random companies our PII? That would be cool, but not holding my breath. Edit:…

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    Comment #49148601

    It's basically talking about the impact on the environment and which class of society will end up benefiting from AI. I thought the article was pretty clear, and a message we as a …

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    Comment #48757789

    One thing I see missing in a lot of these discussions is whether or not the metric is solely based on speed. I think AI just allows you to look at your code in different ways and p…

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    Comment #48498578

    Fair, and maybe some people should see this, but the article alone is not that interesting. It quotes the president saying what anyone vaguely aware of politics might already be ab…

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    Comment #48483595

    Not sure why this narcissist gaslighter is in the HN feed. Not very thought-provoking content.

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    Comment #48483532

    The moon is probably the only celestial body humans can actually occupy with current technology, for every other object in the solar system we need robots.

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    Comment #48483461

    What is it like to only comment about the headline?

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    Comment #48281574

    Meanwhile people using a copilot proxy [1] with a third party harness have zero issues. Very clumsy enforcement if not a bug. [1] https://github.com/ericc-ch/copilot-api

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    Comment #48128649

    I think grouping all porn as exploitative is a stretch.

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    Comment #48098277

    I don't think this even requires a source, it's completely made up.

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    Comment #47856584

    The pro plan does include Opus usage. I've noticed the limits on the web client are a bit higher than through CC, but probably more because of the increased token usage of agentic …

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    Comment #47831831

    I get that it's a volunteer system, but having donated for 2 years to help support their Lemmy instance, it's frustrating it's been down for 2 weeks without much of an update, just…

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    Comment #47830833

    WSL1 is not Linux because it is mapping system calls from the Linux kernel ABI to NT. That sounds like what you're describing. WSL2 is a Microsoft distro running in a VM that integ…

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    Comment #47129564

    I was confused by the "barking up the wrong tree" opener because the parent commenter was not contradicting that line of thinking either. Though destroying property is not going to…

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    Comment #47129316

    Where in the Constitution does it require us to give up our privacy to private companies with little oversight? Seems like there's contention here. https://journals.law.unc.edu/ncj…

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    Comment #46972560

    I did read it, and it seems like a political witchhunt. Also, comments on HN are actually not that credible on average.

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    Comment #46482323

    It wasn't? There are those kernel protected msedgewebview2.exe processes Microsoft shoved into Windows 11, actively making performance horrible.

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    Comment #45965743

    I'm really surprised by the sheer scale of how many websites this outage is affecting. We really need to decentralize all of these monolith clouds.

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    Comment #45612180

    Rather not considering how unfairly I already am treated on this platform.

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    Comment #45611783

    There's a lot to like about HN, but it's worth acknowledging that the "good parts" are only half the picture. Anything that questions moderation or site culture is routinely flagge…

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    Comment #45152580

    This comment was cited based on > Crankiness about billionaires and "circle jerks for tech bros" and all that just has nothing to do with the intellectual curiosity we're trying to…

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    Comment #45151107

    This type of story kind of summarizes my feelings towards these mega rich people in general, it's not a coincidence they're spending most of their time self-preserving and building…

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    Comment #45071865

    My split was more 40% GPT-5, 60% GPT-4o. I think GPT-4o was better at communicating over interpersonal issues, but it ultimately depends on your perspective.