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maeil

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About maeil

I like reading about security, the Oxford comma, and bouldering.

Email: ganders at protonmail

Sweden, South Korea.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #44604877

    Wanna go bypass some burglary laws to take expensive things out of people's houses? Assuming you're a cop of course, otherwise we'll go to jail.

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    Comment #44539415

    (I'm the person you're replying to, in case you might get confused) It's very unfortunate that all I received was downvotes, without a single substantial reply as to what would be …

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    Comment #44530266

    To prevent premature downvotes, preface: this comment is not about the merits or demerits of the censorship, just that it took place. Whether it's good or bad was a different quest…

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    Comment #44498123

    "Not chipping in" is very different from "Award ceremony set to honor novel by Palestinian author at the Frankfurt Book Fair canceled “due to the war in Israel," and unwavering sup…

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    Comment #44498096

    > However, 1 death = 1 coverage is clearly not how anyone expect the media should operate. In armed conflict far away from the country in question, comparatively for each side, yes…

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    Comment #44404597

    I'm Swedish. Since I was a child, for decades, I was taught and never questioned the idea that Germany had learnt from their history, in the most admirable way. That it was really …

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    Comment #44315458

    I'm not sure how to phrase this within the rules of HN, but I don't understand how anyone on HN 1. can not understand why Meta and Microsoft aren't fighting this 2. can still be re…

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    Comment #44315422

    > I welcome any tips. Someone here must have cracked the code to be completely unremarkable and "wholesome" to governments. Don't go to the US. That's the tip.

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    Comment #44315416

    It's become very hard to tell whether this is sarcasm. I sure hope it is, though.

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    Comment #44283852

    The title does not do the content justice. Since Snowden it's been known to the entire world, even outside of HN, that the US government has had this capability for decades now, wi…

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    Comment #44283803

    So far, the signs are that Trump is likely a worse steward than Xi. He just hasn't had the ability to properly fulfill his wishes.

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    Comment #44283789

    Cynical? No my friend, it's what authoritarian dictatorships such as Russia and the US have been doing for years, it's their default! [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinfor…

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    Comment #44265602

    Israel is in Gaza because they have funded and supported Hamas, in the hope they would use those funds to invade them, giving them pretext for a genocide. “Anyone who wants to thwa…

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    Comment #44232347

    I strongly recommend going a lot less heavy on the LLM generated writing on HN, it reads far less genuine than when people here right stuff themselves. Just in case you think it's …

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    Comment #44204125

    Github -> Microsoft sharing everything with OpenAI sadly sounds realistic. Or they don't exist in the first pLace, or they're now deleted repos, or they used to be public but went …

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    Comment #44204056

    "Maintain the purest racial pedigree"? What does this even mean in actual terms? And there is no desire to accept what?

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    Comment #44178144

    You're right, solar energy isn't infinite, there's merely orders of magnitudes more available than necessary to power the globe.

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    Comment #44178123

    (R)ussia only punishes (R)ussian tech when it does not align with the party.

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    Comment #44178116

    That entirely ignores the reality I displayed showing that such a thing does not exist by law in any meaningful way. Yes, the overwhelming majority of publicly held companies behav…

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    Comment #44178109

    Referring to the linked Google Developers thread.

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    Comment #44178104

    The waste and costs will be socialized, the profits will be privatized.

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    Comment #44178097

    > I think incompetence comes when personal loyalty to Trump is the most important requirement. It is the only requirement. Loyalty to the party and not a hint of anything suggestin…

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    Comment #44171278

    That's.. quite the contradictory sentence.

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    Comment #44171140

    Incredible that this was locked.

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    Comment #44171110

    On many threads here regarding EU fines, I see the sentiment "The EU only fines US tech to make a quick buck!". It could be an idea to, you know, stop doing these things. Would be …