jotux

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Comment · 2 days ago

How are they for reading text editors?

Comment · 24 days ago

https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/165206/NVPP_A...

Comment · 1 month ago

Funny, because literally every single apple product page gets posted as "news" to HN and every time I see one I think it's just apple marketing astroturfing. Especially since most of the product updates the last few years seem to fall into the, "BUT SHE'S GOT A NEW HAT" territory.

Comment · 1 month ago

>I'd be interested to see if opponents of mass surveillance could draft good legislation to curb potential abuses

Isn't this just warrants? We have infrastructure in place, if police have reasonable suspicion a crime has occurred, they go to a judge and convince them they have enough evidence and the judge gives them a warrant. The problem is police and Flock are constantly arguing they shouldn't need a warrant to use the data, and it creates a system designed for abuse.

Comment · 2 months ago

Found it awful to look at, tried to zoom out and everything on the page got larger. Seriously gross accessibility.

Comment · 2 months ago

Not sure if you watched the video, but the chain they're using is extremely heavy. I would think the projectile would be on the order of one of the single chain links at the end of the small side.

Comment · 2 months ago

>And what you have ended up with is something that looks like.... A whip!

Comment · 2 months ago

This is an exceptionally small amount of data to draw any conclusion from.

Comment · 2 months ago

https://www.foxnews.com/video/6398250508112 "SpaceX makes its historic stock market debut today, set to be the largest IPO of all time with a $1.77 trillion valuation. Elon Musk, founder and CEO, anticipates becoming the world's first trillionaire. Shares will go live at $135 each, potentially surging immediately due to high demand"

https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/12/business/live-news/spacex-goe... "What we covered here • SpaceX soared Friday in its blockbuster stock market debut, with shares gaining 19% after Wall Street’s biggest-ever IPO. • The rocket and AI company, which Elon Musk founded in 2002, is now valued at over $2 trillion, joining Musk’s Tesla as one of the world’s top-ten most valuable companies. • Musk, who owns nearly half the company’s stock, has now made history as the world’s first trillionaire."

https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/spacex-ipo-tr... "For now, investors appear eager to overlook Musk’s politics and focus on his company.

Dan Hanson, a senior portfolio manager at Neuberger Berman, which invested in SpaceX while it was still private said investors should think of SpaceX not just as a rocket company, but as a combination of its launch business, Starlink satellite internet network and artificial intelligence ambitions.

“This team is just getting started,” he said. “There’s a significant opportunity for them to create value as they execute.”

I suspect the vast majority of americans are getting their news from cnn, fox, nbc, abc, pbs.... And I doubt a ton of them are reading the irish times, montana skeptic, or the verge.

Comment · 2 months ago

Couldn't you make the same arguments for basically all other due process or privacy protections? I think I can accurately summarize your statement here to:

Mass Surveillance deters crime and makes the job of law enforcement easier. I'm happy to live with Mass Surveillance because I don't think the drawbacks of having it aren't that bad, there are some benefits to me, and I trust institutions to implement safeguards.

Now replace Mass Surveillance with any of the following, and I think the your argument is the same:

  - Warrantless Searches
  - Giving Police the ability to convict in the field
  - Permanent and mandatory position tracking for all citizens
  - Required public identities for all online activity

Comment · 2 months ago

It's funny how our perceptions are driven by the source of our news. I generally perceived the positive coverage in regular news as unrelenting. I know the tech news sources I read were constantly complaining about rule changes and manipulations on the part of Spacex, but run-of-the-mill national news outlets seem to be endlessly hyping the stock to the point that a few of my non tech-savvy family members were asking if they needed to buy it as soon as they went public.

Comment · 3 months ago

Love this "auto" truckers hitch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J8MuOWO0Qs

Edit: Same knot, with an explanation before showing what I knew as the classic trucker hitch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKM5gaYJWN0

Comment · 4 months ago

I've had a Brother HL-L2340DW for 10 years now.

Comment · 4 months ago

>You should also make sure not to bring your phone to anywhere where a nearby crime is happening because that's all it takes to make you a suspect

Proximity to a crime makes you a suspect even without the phone, right?

Comment · 4 months ago

Everyone needs to go transparent. Secrets are lies. Sharing is caring. Privacy is theft.