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If modern ads weren't built to be intentionally manipulative to the nth degree, whilst also extracting a huge amount of private data of the viewer, I might be more tolerant of them…

I'm afraid at this point, that sounds more like a you problem. You're judging people for something inconsequential. Your reasons are your own but... Probably worth some introspecti…

15th for non-residential? Sounds like people overwhelmingly put it on their roofs, and politicians avoid it.

That sounds like you associate anime with childhood cartoons? But considering how much of that industry output is 16+ or 18+ (usually violence and themes), I'd say that is more of …

Why do you consider it so strongly to be inappropriate? It literally does not tell me anything about the user. DOS was built in a basement. Pretty sure suit and tie wasn't the dejo…

Most pre-LLM systems also blocked badly behaved user agents... And right now, most LLM-suppliers, are badly behaved agents.

As part of a much larger series of initiatives towards digital sovereignty, yes. [0] [0] https://commission.europa.eu/news-and-media/news/strengtheni...

My government's solution to this, is a physical office, where they will file the paperwork for you. You may have an average wait time of four hours to be seen, and so must devote a…

Every advert for TV and radio has to pass a review in most jurisdictions. Billboard laws vary wildly, but some also require a review. Why not ads online? The industry would adapt p…

Correlating data with another source is half of what data brokers do, so I wouldn't really say that is any level of privacy protection.

Or most banks, government apps, and so on. Which all require an app to login, rather than support any open and actually secure standard.

If a human makes a mistake, we give them the liability to own up to their mistakes, and carry the costs. Most self-driving enterprises are trying very hard to ensure their non-driv…

That one has bitten me more than once

Microsoft screwing up the DNS on one of the reserved domains [0] was not awesome. [0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2026/01/odd-a...

Pretty sure it still defaults to no threading [0], and just uses the plain WSGIServer instead of the threaded mixin. [0] https://github.com/django/django/blob/main/django/core/serv…

Justice Department [0] seems a definitive source. [0] https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01762...

For a cheap VM, I'd still be expecting in the range of 500-1000 connections a second. Green threads are cheap, even with a single processor. For a half-decent VM, I'd be expecting …

Those numbers sound... Single-threaded. Like they're using the development runserver instead of uwsgi or gunicorn.

The current observed strategy, broadcast by ASIO chief Mike Burgess, in 2025, is "if there is a way in, use it". Being niche is not a defense. Being a nobody is not a defense. Ever…

> They absolutely have no interest in your domestic matters This is categorically, not true, I'm afraid. Reaching into domestic networks, where you can find influential people thro…

The catch-all is a problem. We've been studying fallacies in arguments since before the time of Plato, and do not have a complete answer that always works, to prevent the logical f…

No... But as we're discussing people who tried to pay nothing... Maybe they should have just bought the books in the first place. And comparing my single sentence on HN, to the hun…

The assembler you're looking for, is called YUL. [0] You can find much of that code here [1], but unless you have a Honeywell, it isn't much help. yaYUL is a modern remake, and can…