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flooow commented on West Midlands police chief quits over AI hallucination theregister.com/2026/01/1... · Posted by u/YeGoblynQueenne

g8oz · 2 months ago

Maccabee fans in Amsterdam - indulged in racist chants like "Death to Arabs" and "There are no more babies in Gaza" (because they're dead)

- Beat an Arab taxi driver

- Tore a Palestinian flag from a woman's balcony and attempted to break in to the apartment.

After they FAFOd and got their asses handed to them the media treated them like the second coming of Anne Frank.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2024_Amsterdam_riots.

The "media reporting" section of the article is particularly illuminating - a Zionist influence operation was in full swing afterwards to minimize the bad behavior of the Israeli fans.

Furthermore Maccabee fans have a reputation for hooliganism in Israel itself. So the West Midlands assessment was eminently reasonable.

The manufactured storm over the decision again showcases a broader pattern of insidious Zionist influence over Western institutions. The decision was lawyered to death in a manner only Israelis get the benefit of.

flooow · 2 months ago

Thank you for actually reading the article. I knew I would get many responses parroting the official narrative because that's what we're being spoonfed, but I'm glad some people are interested in understanding what really happened.

flooow commented on West Midlands police chief quits over AI hallucination theregister.com/2026/01/1... · Posted by u/YeGoblynQueenne

flooow · 2 months ago

This story has been horribly misreported in the mainstream media. Suffice to say that the AI gaff was the very thinnest pretence for a politically motivated firing. The true reason being that West Midlands Police made the UK govt furious for suggesting that maybe Maccabi were violent thugs rather than persecuted victims, which goes against prevailing official narratives WRT Israel.

I have only found one news source that actual tells the story properly (warning, long read): https://whispering.media/the-maccabi-gospel/

flooow commented on Coinbase, famously a "no politics" company in 2020, sponsors a military parade old.reddit.com/r/Military... · Posted by u/tomlockwood

flooow · 9 months ago

I thought it was very funny that a military parade has sponsors. But there is no hypocrisy here, from Coinbase's point of view. They would argue that "A military parade isn't political, it's just patriotic!"

Point is, companies (and individuals) that claim to have 'no politics' also don't understand what politics is.

flooow commented on Roc rewrites the compiler in Zig gist.github.com/rtfeldman... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

flooow · a year ago

From listening to Feldman's podcast, this doesn't really come as a surprise to me. The rigor that Rust demands seems not to jibe with his 'worse is better' approach. That coupled with the fact they already switched the stdlib from Rust to Zig. The real question I have is why he chose Rust in the first place.

flooow commented on How to lose a fortune with one bad click krebsonsecurity.com/2024/... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

bdndndndbve · a year ago

I wonder if people who are "invested" in cryptocurrency are more susceptible to these kind of scams. There's a strong aspect of FOMO in getting people to buy imaginary internet money, and also in getting them to panic and fumble said internet money.

flooow · a year ago

It's obviously going to be much much more difficult to steal $450K from an actual bank account and get clean away - you're going to need a lot more proof of identity than a google login. From that POV, owning a lot of cryptocurrency is painting a target on your back.

flooow commented on Maybe Bluesky has "won" anderegg.ca/2024/11/15/ma... · Posted by u/GavinAnderegg

scarecrowbob · a year ago

I don't doubt that you find HN to be left of your political position.

A lot of folks I know find all kinds of things "left wing". A lot of my liberal friends think they are leftists, though most of my leftist friends would disagree. My conservative friends don't really draw that distinction between liberals and leftists, and at the same time my liberal friends often think my anarchist friends to be about on par with literal Nazis, horeshoe-theory wise.

I suspect a lot of the Dem establishment neo-liberals (who are rapidly becoming neocons ala Rumsfield/Cheney) who make up a lot of this site see themselves as slightly left. Rationally left, but not part of the "revolutionary" left.

Which, from my position, puts them fairly close to the Reagan conservatives, if you overlook some issues about gay folks and are took the 80s conservatives at their word rather than their deeds when it comes to race issues. However, I don't find this place to be a meeting of the minds.

I find that HN is a place where I can observe what the sociopaths who have real capital and thus material political power think about the world, or at least what the their sycophantic mandarins work for those folks might think.

I listen to what folks say here because I am genuinely curious about what their alien-to-me understandings of technology and political ethics will do in the larger world.

I listen to folks here for the same reason I listen to left-wing folks digest nazi propaganda, read a lot of history, and try to hear what conversations are happening at the red neck bars and at gun shops I hang around.

Cause that's who has no problem fucking with my world, and fuck with my world they have indeed.

HN is not a place where I think any of my actual politics will find an audience.

Though I am (likely unwisely) communicating now, I mostly just shut up when I am here, unless someone has something worthwhile to say about music.

flooow · a year ago

You're being downvoted but as a lefty European tech worker this rings true. I come to HN for interesting technical content (obviously) but I find the politics of the site by turns confusing and hard to stomach.

It is certainly the case that many well-meaning, Dem-voting Americans don't seem to know what leftist politics is (having never been exposed to it), and don't seem to realize that they are right-wing. It's an interesting phenomenon, but quite alarming when the consequences for the rest of the world are Not Good.

flooow commented on Why Go and Not Rust? (2019) kristoff.it/blog/why-go-a... · Posted by u/rc00

flooow · a year ago

Kind've interesting that the author is now a big Zig advocate. Presumably he likes Zig for the same reason he likes Go and dislikes Rust - because Worse is Better.

I love Rust and you couldn't pay me to write Go (haven't tried Zig). It's The Right Thing.

flooow commented on Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant shift from road to rail mcc-berlin.net/en/news/in... · Posted by u/mpweiher

petesergeant · a year ago

I really really would like to see Labour in the UK to use their sizeable majority + Parliamentary sovereignty to upgrade the UK’s infrastructure, including more train subsidies, but they seem very cautious and also terrified of raising taxes. Such a waste that the UK is one of the few places where Parliament could just ram shit through and yet building anything in the UK is so hampered by self-imposed red tape.

flooow · a year ago

Lots of people seem surprised that the new government apparently have no desire to improve the dire state of the UK. But that was never on the cards and the idea that they might have done so is pure projection. The current leadership of the Labour party are from the right-wing Labour First faction who have always been very clear that their aims are not to improve the country but to keep the left out of power. They will govern in the same business-as-usual nothing-can-ever-get-better vein as the Tories and their Blairite predecessors.

However I don't blame the public for not knowing this fact. There was (and to some extent still is) a media lockdown on reporting who is behind the Starmer project. (Because if it had been reported on it might not have succeeded).

flooow commented on Gleam Is Pragmatic blog.drewolson.org/gleam-... · Posted by u/crowdhailer

flooow · a year ago

What has C# got to do with... anything in this article?

flooow commented on I Like Makefiles switowski.com/blog/i-like... · Posted by u/thunderbong

weinzierl · a year ago

"The author could have replaced it with a shell script that read $1 and matched on it to determine what to do."

Or just with a simple command runner like just.

https://just.systems/

flooow · a year ago

`just` is great and I use it all the time.

* All commands in one place, view them all with `just --list`

* Stupid-simple format

* Small standalone binary

* Configurable (with arguments, environment variables etc) but not _too_ configurable

When I see a git repo with a Makefile, I'm filled with dread. When I see a repo with a Justfile, I get warm fuzzies.

Some people say it just doesn't do enough to justify existing. These people are just wrong.