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rambojohnson commented on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help   hey.paris/posts/appleid/... · Posted by u/parisidau
zelphirkalt · 6 days ago
First of all, you don't have to care about this, unless you are wanting something from others and you depend on others and their opinion about your writing significantly.

That said, it does make your writing seem very odd. A little bit like the people, who apparently don't know what the shift key does, or how to trigger capital letters on their phones or something, and write only in lowercase letters.

Just because your phone does something silly, and it is not you doing it intentionally, that doesn't mean, that other people will not get a weird impression from you writing like that. In a way, you are letting your phone change the impression others are getting from your writing. And that impression is for many people that they wonder, whether you know the conventions of writing.

Now, like I said, you don't have to care about this. But if you want your texts to not come across like teenager written texts or low effort texts, it would be a good idea to fix your phone's silly settings, so that it doesn't do that to your writing.

rambojohnson · 6 days ago
bunch of chatgpt trolls on hackernews.

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rambojohnson commented on Frank Gehry has died   bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/ksajadi
rambojohnson · 14 days ago
during an internship in Vicenza years ago, right before a guy in a makeshift Mickey Mouse costume punched me in the back of the head and sprinted down an alley nearhy, I ended up sharing a courtyard bench with Frank Gehry without realizing who he was. he looked over the draft I was struggling with and said, in this almost offhand way, that sometimes a building needs a little room to misbehave if you want it to feel lived in. we talked for a few minutes about light, angles, and the stubbornness of materials before he drifted off to another studio. I only pieced it together later when someone mentioned he’d been visiting the site that week.

the news today brings that memory back with a kind of sideways clarity.

rambojohnson commented on A woman on a mission to photograph every species of hummingbird   audubon.org/magazine/meet... · Posted by u/zeech
rambojohnson · 23 days ago
fantastic! I love hummingbirds.
rambojohnson commented on The disguised return of EU Chat Control   reclaimthenet.org/the-dis... · Posted by u/egorfine
Centigonal · a month ago
Let's be pragmatic about this. Chat Control and this new thing are not post-hoc rationalizations, they are attempts to justify a proposed change.

If this posited wannabe-surveillance state wanted to institute ubiquitous surveillance, it would just unilaterally do so a la PRISM. To our knowledge, they have not done this and are instead trying to rationalize the creep of surveillance somehow, which indicates that public opinion around these initiatives still matters. Public opinion is something we can all influence. Maybe discussing the legalese is a waste of time, but discussing the rhetoric and how to combat it definitely isn't

rambojohnson · a month ago
across "democratic societies" around the world, they're pushing the goalposts while the elected officials are arguing for pragmatism, which inspires that servile middle of the road idealism in the voting bloc, while everybody knows that in times like these pragmatism is another form of cowardice.
rambojohnson commented on The disguised return of EU Chat Control   reclaimthenet.org/the-dis... · Posted by u/egorfine
disgruntledphd2 · a month ago
Sort of. It's not quite like anything else. The EU has mostly trade and standardization powers, and lots of the other stuff is an outgrowth of that.

But mostly, EU law just sets a baseline, and almost all execution of it is devolved to the member states.

Edit: the EU does not have a constitution but a constitution shaped update of the Treaties. Now, lots of politicians are happy to blame the EU for unpopular stuff, but the council is the national politicians and they basically run the EU.

rambojohnson · a month ago
I'm not going down this semantic rabbit hole, which is way beside the point. :)
rambojohnson commented on The disguised return of EU Chat Control   reclaimthenet.org/the-dis... · Posted by u/egorfine
pcrh · a month ago
The right to privacy is enshrined in the European Convention on Human Rights, article 8 [0].

It escapes me how politicians can repeatedly attempt to violate this.

[0] https://fra.europa.eu/en/law-reference/european-convention-h...

rambojohnson · a month ago
it escapes you because all these treaty clauses read like safeguards, but in practice they’re just friction. Once a government decides it needs mass surveillance for ‘security,’ the law bends. The real question isn’t what the ECHR allows... it’s why people still think legal frameworks can meaningfully restrain a state that has already decided not to be restrained.

it escapes me hwo so many can be so naive.

rambojohnson commented on The disguised return of EU Chat Control   reclaimthenet.org/the-dis... · Posted by u/egorfine
rambojohnson · a month ago
the comment thread here is obnoxiously naive, and speaks to the privilege some people having been raised under the calm of supposedly democratic societies.

you're all arguing about the syntax of rights while governments rewrite the grammar. once a state decides ubiquitous surveillance is necessary, it’ll find or fabricate a justification. the "law" doesn’t restrain power, power instructs law where to kneel.

stop treating the ECHR like some talisman that keeps the wolves at bay, as if authoritarian drift politely obeys paperwork. stop playing with this whole “actually, the loophole is X,” “no, the loophole is Y,” like you're debugging a bad API instead of staring at the obvious: when a state wants to expand surveillance, it does, and the justifications are retrofitted later, be it "public safety", or "keeping your children safe."

rambojohnson commented on You should write an agent   fly.io/blog/everyone-writ... · Posted by u/tabletcorry
rambojohnson · a month ago
The bravado posturing in this article is nauseating. Sure, there are a few serious points buried in there, but damn...dial it down, please.
rambojohnson commented on How Senior Engineers Lose Trust   tahahussain.substack.com/... · Posted by u/napolux
rambojohnson · 2 months ago
more AI slop in the style of navel-gazing LinkedIn garbage. so nauseating. is there no escape from this? also, since when is asking clarifying questions a problem? this article is absurd.

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