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conradfr commented on 4chan will refuse to pay daily online safety fines, lawyer tells BBC   bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/donpott
bko · a day ago
I heard things about UK arresting people for social media posts but thought it was just a few cases cherry picked. But I recently looked up the scale of arrests and it's really insane.

Police are arresting over 12,000 people each year for social media posts and other online communications deemed “grossly offensive,” “indecent,” “obscene,” or “menacing.” This averages to around 33 arrests per day.

These arrests are primarily made under Section 127 of the Communications Act 2003 and Section 1 of the Malicious Communications Act 1988, laws which criminalize causing “annoyance,” “inconvenience,” or “anxiety” to others through digital messages.

Utterly insane.

https://nypost.com/2025/08/19/world-news/uk-free-speech-stru...

conradfr · a day ago
It's more damning when you see who (and the cases) they don't arrest in the mean time.
conradfr commented on The first Media over QUIC CDN: Cloudflare   moq.dev/blog/first-cdn/... · Posted by u/kixelated
therein · a day ago
I tried on FF (Floorp fork) and it said no browser support but I have all sorts of extensions like Chameleon etc. so it is probably a problem on my end that interfered with feature detection.

Works really nicely on Chrome, though. Looking forward to the Safari support as I find myself using Orion more and more.

conradfr · a day ago
It works for me on FF macOS but not FF Android.

(meaning the link before the edit, https://moq.dev/watch/)

conradfr commented on AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'   theregister.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/JustExAWS
AIorNot · 2 days ago
I’ve built 2 SaaS applications with LLM coding one of which was expanded and release to enterprise customers and is in good use today - note I’ve got years of dev experience and I follow context and documentation prompts and I’m using common LLM languages like typescript and python and react and AWS infra

Now it requires me to fully review all code and understand what the LLM is doing at the functional, class level and api level- in fact it works better at the method or component level for me and I had a lot of cleanup work (and lots of frustration with the models) on the codebase but overall there’s no way that I could equal the velocity I have now without it

conradfr · 2 days ago
After all the exciting part of coding has always been code reviews.
conradfr commented on GDPR meant nothing: chat control ends privacy for the EU [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=3NyUg... · Posted by u/givemeethekeys
qwertox · 7 days ago
Again, again and again:

These things should first be tested for 5 years on every politician and every civil servant, including their families, including their children.

Security researches should be given the freedom to hack that system as much as they can, in order to find security problems, no prosecution guaranteed.

Every access to data should be logged on a public blockchain with pseudonymization of who accessed whose data.

After those 5 years, reports and statistical analysis about the usefulness should be published: how many crimes were prevented, who went to jail for what, who had to go to court for what, with references to the logged data in the blockchain.

Then the public gets to vote on if they want this or not.

conradfr · 7 days ago
Good idea, maybe this way we would have Ursula von der Leyen's sms with Pfizer!
conradfr commented on OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second   blog.hyperknot.com/p/open... · Posted by u/hyperknot
leobuskin · 14 days ago
I’m also surprised to see nginx and hetzner in this project. Why not entirely Cloudflare: workers, R2, and cache
conradfr · 14 days ago
You can get cheap dedicated server on Hetzner with unlimited bandwidth, would the cost be similar with CF?
conradfr commented on Don't “let it crash”, let it heal   zachdaniel.dev/p/elixir-m... · Posted by u/ahamez
HexDecOctBin · 14 days ago
How does restarting the process fix the crash? If the process crashed because a file was missing, it will still be missing when the process is restarted. Is an infinite crash-loop considered success in Erlang?
conradfr · 14 days ago
If the rest of the program is still running while you fix it, yes?

Also, restarting endlessly is just one strategy between multiple others.

conradfr commented on Disney 1985 film The Black Cauldron was an experiment that failed   bbc.com/culture/article/2... · Posted by u/tigerlily
conradfr · 15 days ago
I actually never saw the movie but I had a comic version of it as a kid and liked it.
conradfr commented on M5 MacBook Pro No Longer Coming in 2025   macrumors.com/2025/07/10/... · Posted by u/behnamoh
cnst · 15 days ago
I'm writing this on a 16GB M1 MacBook Air, but I've gotten disillusioned with macOS and Macs.

When everything is done in a browser, the biggest differentiator on a laptop would be monitor and peripheral support, and Apple is behind the competition.

macOS has no support for daisy-chaining with DP MST, no support for a second monitor (new to M1, the 2020 Intel model does support dual external monitors), no way to turn-off antialiasing, limited ports, RAM and storage options, limited repair and expansion options.

Why exactly do we even still use macOS anyways?

Even the cheapest Chromebook laptops have better monitor support and better expandability, at 1/10th the cost.

conradfr · 15 days ago
I have two monitors plugged on my M1, one on the HDMI port and the other one on HDMI through a USB hub.

Those are old non-Apple monitors and they look worse (colors and texts) than when plugged on Windows though.

(And I do hate macOS)

conradfr commented on Ozempic shows anti-aging effects in trial   trial.medpath.com/news/5c... · Posted by u/amichail
Der_Einzige · 18 days ago
There’s armies of grey market don’t ask don’t tell e doctors who will give it to you with no request for evidence of being overweight.

Thank god for poor regulation. Unironically thank god and may this situation continue.

conradfr · 18 days ago
So the South Park special was kind of based on reality?
conradfr commented on Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something?    · Posted by u/paulwilsonn
broken_broken_ · 18 days ago
I wrote a toy Kotlin compiler, for fun. Then one day a Jetbrains employee opens an issue which only says: “Why? Just why?”. Maybe it’s the language barrier… but I did not find that particularly polite.

On the other hand I open sourced my blog and received lots of small contributions to fix typos or such which were nice.

conradfr · 18 days ago
That seems a prevalent attitude at Jetbrains based on how they answers on their Youtrack.

It's hilarious, especially their UI team that only follow trends but still know better than their users.

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