Lobbying is corruption (A journey into a wild pointer)
Lobbying is legally sanctioned corruption, not a distinct American practice.
Two camps: lobbying as legitimate persuasion versus lobbying as hidden corruption via future rewards.
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Lobbying is legally sanctioned corruption, not a distinct American practice.
Two camps: lobbying as legitimate persuasion versus lobbying as hidden corruption via future rewards.
A designer proposes a projector-based 'Lightbulb Computer' as an alternative to headsets for spatial computing.
Intrigued commenters compare the concept to prior projector-based projects, but debate technical feasibility and privacy risks.
A crafted link in Telegram Desktop could steal any user file and take over their account.
Two camps: those calling Telegram's security posture poor, and those arguing the OS's lack of sandboxing is the root cause.
A satirical city-building game models the San Francisco housing approval process in detail.
Split between those seeing the UI as failed educational design and those defending it as deliberate regulatory commentary.
Hackers breached Denmark's CPR register via passwords like '123456'.
Thread blames poor password practices and lack of oversight in tiny companies.
Bitwarden is shifting its app store builds to a commercial license, but maintains open source base.
Comparison to Redis and Elastic license changes; split on inevitability versus distrust.
Build a zero-shot decision model by constraining LLM outputs to fixed options.
Thread split: old-school classification reborn versus genuinely useful new ergonomics and speed.
Cloudflare bot traffic from Yandex's ASN dropped after strikes on its datacenters.
The drop is from physical strikes on Yandex facilities, not Cloudflare action; commenters debate bot definitions and HA lessons.
A Ukrainian UAV strike destroyed Yandex's third data center in Vladimir, disrupting most cloud services.
Three of Yandex's five data centers have now been hit, prompting debate on war accountability and future data center hardening.
Talorys is a self-hosted personal AI agent that deploys entirely within a Cloudflare account using its free tier.
The thread split over whether 'self-hosted' applies when the software runs on Cloudflare's platform rather than hardware the user controls.
MacOS appears to have been removed from The Open Group's official UNIX certified products registry.
Skepticism that this is a real removal vs. a site rendering bug; UNIX certification's relevance questioned.
Homeowners want higher home values but lower property taxes, a contradiction driving major tax reforms.
Commenters note the fundamental contradiction and highlight local tax and funding disparities.
WallHop offers free paywall bypass by prepending wallhop.io/ to any article URL.
Split on open-source ethics and whether such tools are ethical or theft.
LineageOS 24.0 launches based on Android 17 with WebUSB flash tools and app updates.
Mixed appreciation for device longevity versus frustration with kernel limits and comparison to GrapheneOS.
A reader recounts finding an error on page 1 of Knuth's Computer Modern Typefaces and receiving a reward check.
Several commenters share their own Knuth check stories; one corrects the Enigma attribution.
Nitter seeks funding and legal help after X Corp. demanded takedown.
Legal gray area dominates: Nitter's open-source nature versus X's cease and desist demands.
DuckDB 2.0 claims 2-3x faster S3 reads via async I/O and improved recursive CTEs.
Thread split over LLM-generated prose vs article substance, with many finding the style unreadable.
Blame for AI incidents lies with people, not computers, who cannot decide.
Two camps: those blaming people behind AI and those arguing computers can still decide.
FDA proposes expanding a loophole to allow toxic chemicals in food without safety review.
Skepticism toward the FDA's expansion, with a split over the article's fear-based framing versus genuine health risks.
The article satirically explains lobbying to non-Americans as legalized bribery through campaign donations.
Thread splits sharply between critics calling it legal bribery and defenders calling it stakeholder advocacy.