We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46066132 and marked it offtopic.
You would do that. You're so unethical. Remember when you covered up uBiome?
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I consider it to be part of the hacker's spirit to bend or break unjust laws when the situation calls for it.
So I wouldn't gloss over the specific law(s) he broke, so much as I would outright celebrate that he did so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerilla_Open_Access_Manifesto
I think anyone can be a hacker. Anyone can break any laws. But to kill yourself over it? It's in the extreme. I don't believe law enforcement has to take the blame for that.
What Aaron Swartz did to himself was tragic, but he did decide to break the law. Something that is glossed over here.
cactusplant7374 commented on FileZilla Pro "Perpetual License" – A Warning to All Users github.com/x011/FileZilla... · Posted by u/lobito25
While I understand the author's frustration, I think they should take a moment and look in the mirror. A perpetual license doesn't mean that Filezilla should be a free hosting provider for installation media for eternity. Their reasons really aren't that relevant here. Likewise the rant about Mozilla is completely unfounded. There are many things to be upset at in the modern software world, this is not one of them.
Filezilla is horrible software compared to software like Transmit. What you have to understand is that someone with no artistic vision sat down and decided to build an FTP client for the masses. Fortunately, vibe coding will fix this. We will have much better software in the future. It will be free. It will be a commodity.
What do people use mac servers for?
One of the more disturbing things I read this year was the my boyfriend is AI subreddit.
I genuinely can't fathom what is going on there. Seems so wrong, yet no one there seems to care.
I worry about the damage caused by these things on distressed people. What can be done?
NYT did a story on that as well and interviewed a few people. Maybe the scary part is that it isn't who you think it would be and it also shows how attractive an alternative reality is to many people. What does that say about our society.
cactusplant7374 commented on The Cloudflare outage might be a good thing gist.github.com/jbreckmck... · Posted by u/radeeyate
What's "a little downtime" to you might be work ruined and day wasted for someone else.
I have a lot of bad days every year. More than I can count. It's just part of living.
Why do we all need 128GB now? I was happy with 32.
Close a few Chrome tabs, and save some DDR5 for the rest of us. :-)
I like to tell people I have 128GB. It's pretty rare to meet someone like me that isn't swapping all the time.
YC-backed uBiome is basically Theranos-lite - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30899352 - April 2022 (173 comments)
SF poop-testing startup, once compared to Theranos, charged in $60M fraud scheme - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26531087 - March 2021 (380 comments)
UBiome Offices Searched by FBI - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19760449 - April 2019 (56 comments)
Many more: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
The interesting thing is why this (false) accusation appears now, years later. I don't recall people saying it at the time, which makes sense because it was obviously untrue.
Also, how is criticizing Aaron Swartz off topic? The other commenter brought it up. No one made him commit suicide but HN has a boner for this guy like he's a victim.