It's on a torrent. Good luck getting that removed.
I think they mean the actual posts on tea itself, not the leaked ID photos.
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I don't understand the reasoning behind the "feed them a bunch of trash" option when it seems that if you identify them (for example by ignoring a robots.txt file) you can just keep them hung up on network connections or similar without paying for infinite garbage for crawlers to injest.
The "poisoning the data supply" angle seems to be a common motive, similar to tools like nightshade[1] (for actual images and not just garbage data).
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schroeding commented on WhatsApp introduces ads in its app nytimes.com/2025/06/16/te... · Posted by u/greenburger
>> I, as the “computer guy”, had friends and family asking how to pirate it.
To be fair, that was in era when pirating was such a normal thing. Everybody at least knew about it. Cheap pirated DVD's were super common (I received them as gifts even) and everyone knew someone selling them. With people accustomed to paying for Netflix, music streaming, Office 365, etc. maybe a subscription version of WhatsApp would be more palatable. The problem is nobody will pay as long as the tech behemoths are offering the same thing for free.
Interestingly, the pendulum at least in my friend group starts to kinda swing in the other direction, i.e. non-technical friends start to indirectly ask (me as the tech guy) about blatant piracy for (visual, Spotify is still very much accepted) media and (TOS-violating[1]) ad blockers for ad-supported streaming.
I cannot overstate how unexpected this was and is to me, we talk about people in their mid-twenties with jobs - maybe (video) streaming / subscriptions services actually overplayed their hand in the current economic climate.
Doesn't make me super optimistic in this regard.
[1] even if most of it is void in my jurisdiction anyway
schroeding commented on Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174) · Posted by u/dang
> if you lobby for a thing which does not do harm to other people
The reason this is being discussed now is because of its inclusion in the Big Beautiful Bill which will kill the poorest in society by kicking millions off Medicaid and food stamps and increase the debt to unsustainable levels.
So if you support this tax cut for software developers you are the bad guy.
Ah. Thanks! Since the letter only calls it "reconciliation bill", I didn't make the connection. Not an American here, oops. Maybe creating "mega bill bundles" isn't the best idea in general. ^^'
I still think this specific reversion / change, for itself, would be something you can lobby for, though. It itself doesn't do harm, the push to include it in this specific bill may do (if it is the thing which tips the scale for it to be accepted).
This "tax cut" is (and was) simply the status quo in most western countries for virtually all businesses, e.g. in the EU. It itself is not immoral, as long as you see developers as normal office workers, which they IMO are.
The existence of silicon valley giants and their faults notwithstanding.
schroeding commented on Tell HN: Help restore the tax deduction for software dev in the US (Section 174) · Posted by u/dang
Is lobbying for our interests how we become the bad guys?
I dont want software development to become the oil and gas industry.
More specifically, if software devs aren't creating capital assets, then what exactly is being bought during an acquisition? Don't we tell ourselves our work is building an asset that can be reused and sold. The operational aspect of our job still seems to be treated as opex.
Our entire industry is built on the belief our software is an asset. This feels like big tech wiggling for a tax break but disguised as some grass roots effort to help small tech.
I am strongly against this as the ethics feel very wrong. Our industry doesn't need tax welfare.
IMO, if you lobby for a thing which does not do harm to other people, you are not the bad guy. If you do, you are. Lobbying itself is not immoral.
The oil and gas industry, and the tobacco industry et al., lobbied (and lobby) for things which they know were (and are) doing harm. This isn't the case here, IMO.
Code is not an asset in all (I would even argue most) cases - proven by companies which open source the vast majority of their code and live from service contracts or certain addons to it, and basically pay developers to commit to open source software.
Often they buy market- or mindshare. There is no way in hell e.g. Akamai wouldn't have been able to bootstrap "Linode 2". I'm unable to see the secret sauce why OpenAI couldn't have created their own VS Code fork instead of buying Windsurf. But why do that if you can acquire their existent customers / market share? Additionally, the term "acquihire" didn't plop into existence with no precedent.
Being able to immediately get a full deductible for salary, which in many (western) countries is the norm for virtually all businesses, does not strike me as particularly immoral. It's a normal office job, developers do not create gold out of thin air.
Big tech isn't even the most affected by this change, they (often) have obscene margins - small software companies do not.
Sadly not, the corrupt ICANN seems out of reach of European regulators.
These are ccTLDs, though, ICANN is out of the picture there, they have no authority after delegation. It's the fault of DENIC, the German ccTLD local operator. DENIC is a German entity, they are very much within reach of regulators.
(That's also the reason why foreign ccTLDs of, eh, semi-stable countries, e.g. .so domains, are risky - should the local operator start to lose it at some point, no-one can help you, neither ICANN nor IANA)
For a small restaurant, wouldn't it be easier to rebrand but making sure they own the domain first?
I know this is not ideal, but pragmatically speaking, this might be simpler and cheaper.
IMO "not ideal" is still a euphemism. Even if you do this, often throwing away decades of branding, there is a high chance that Lieferando aka Just Eat Takeaway.com will still not only register a similar domain again, but that it will rank higher than your website anyway, even with the "worse" domain.
You have a small restaurant, often using things like WiX or Squarespace, against a tech company with a dedicated SEO team. Good luck.
YMMV
In my experience, you have to take at least one train early if you do not want to come late regularly. Even e.g. the main airport train line, used by tourists, often turns around before the actual airport due to delays.
If you live in the city itself, it's fine, you also have other options. If you live further away, it's barely acceptable to very bad, IMO.
It is reliable-ish, but more "Amtrak Capital Corridor"-reliable than "JR Yamanote Line"-reliable.