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> This is an unhinged ad hominem attack

Do you see any fighting words from me? No? That's because there were none. It is downright hilarious of you to accuse me of an "ad hominem attack".

You call me barbaric and unhinged because you find my opinion unpleasant. You turned the conversation to personal attacks, and you chose to make my criticism of your person relevant to the conversation.

Of course it is relevant that you, the person accusing me of being barbaric, are someone who voluntarily hands out their money to fund executions.

Maybe consider whether or not this approach to moderation truly helps you reach the goal you desire. You could equally well have asked me to use less inflammatory wording without resorting to irrelevant personal attacks.

>You know, helping make the stuff we eat to survive.

Americans, a notoriously underfed people.

You guys are already the fattest people in the developed world, maybe it's about time to tone down the food obsession a bit?

> who operate for months unimpeded.

So wait, it seems like you're claiming that you're receiving spam from the same gmail/outlook address for months.

This is fascinating and I have a hard time believing it, might you be able to share some headers?

OTOH, if the spammers are forced to frequently switch accounts, they're clearly being impeded.

Now consider time zones.
FIFA can't really exist in any way similar to it's current form without UEFA

> You're excluding about half of the planet by only mentioning Africa.

It's the half of the planet that nobody cares about when it comes to football.

You publicly work for a SF based company, the first google result for Tom Howard Ycombinator is a public profile maintained by you which claims that you are based in San Francisco.

It's also noteworthy that you choose to live in one of the 27 states that still has the death penalty.

>Even if you're right it’s irrelevant

I think you made it relevant with personal attacks like "barbaric". There's really nothing wrong with me calling out your hypocricy, given that you presumably pay quite a bit of taxes to a government that uses some of them to carry out legal and illegal executions.

I bet your tax dollars have killed far more innocent people than mine have, so if I'm barbaric, what does that make you? Or is this simply a case of words being less palatable than the actions, where talking about the killing is viewed as worse than the actual killing?

If you honestly considered the death penalty barbaric, you would presumably not be working for a California-based company. Otherwise your objection seems rather performative, especially for a rich man who could easily relocate.

>If you want to mount a case for ways judges and other actors in the legal system should be held accountable for errors that lead to illegitimate convictions, sure, you can do so thoughtfully. This isn’t difficult.

This is simply not a case where the specific details leave much room for thoughtful analysis, I suspect that if you take the time to actually read and reflect on the courts decision you will perhaps see my comment in a different light.

As indicated by the scare quotes, this clearly wasn't a mistake. The judge repeatedly claims things that were not in the evidence presented to him, his misconduct has absolutely nothing to do with the typo that may have mislead the police and prosecutors. This judge made a deliberate decision to not do his job.

Tom, you live in a democratic country where the death penalty is codified in law as a legitimate punishment for certain crimes.

What is it in the guidelines that should keep me from arguing in favour of expanding the scope of such penalties to also cover other, perhaps more harmful behaviour?

> is a barbaric, medieval reaction to a modern scenario.

You are inherently calling US voters at large barbarians and medieval here.

You may not share my views on how misconduct by judicial officials should be treated, but you can hardly condemn my opinion as illegitimate given the country you choose to live and pay taxes in. Taxes which fund executions carried out by your government.

What spammers are using the same domain for longer than couple of hours?

What do you expect to achieve by blocking an already abandoned domain?

Obsessing about intent here is so gross.

A careless psychopath firing a gun into a crowd doesn’t necessarily care if he hits anyone. Despite the lack of intent, most would consider that careless psychopath worse than an individual that commits premeditated homicide for a reason other than “fun”.

Intent is irrelevant. The person firing a gun into a crowd knows the consequences of their actions just as well as a lazy judge or prosecutor does.

Of course it wasn’t, this could never happen to a judge who is really serious about having things proven beyond a reasonable doubt.

The evidence presented in this case wouldn’t have satisfied that standard even if all the underscores lined up.

That’s absurd.

The standard in Canada is “beyond a reasonable doubt”, a standard which does not leave much room for “honest, human mistakes” if you actually take it seriously.

If the judge bothered to review the evidence, he’d presumably have been baffled by the fact that nothing has been recovered from the defendant connecting him to the crime. This judge chose to not do that and chose not to be baffled, that wasn’t an honest mistake.

A judge making a “mistake” like this deserves a bullet in the head, nothing less. The cost of being lazy and not doing the bare minimum to appropriately review evidence should be utterly crushing.

As a crime this kind of judicial misconduct deserves to be treated more harshly than murder, this is someone choosing to compromise the very systems our societies depend on.

Why are AI critics so lazy? Why does this have to be treated as a matter of faith rather than something to be logically reasoned about?
Re:Kimi K3 Now Available via Telnyx Inference API on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @02:23AM (#49080092)
You can go on telegram and pay someone $10 to do the KYC for you.
Re:Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales on Saturday July 25, 2026 @03:12AM (#49045242)
I used to scrape Meta sites at over 200k steady rps for a couple of years, all by myself.

They did send lawyers to my door in the end though.

Someone had forgot IPv6 rate limit bucketing :)

Re:Kimi K3 exploited the latest Redis server on Saturday July 25, 2026 @02:33AM (#49045055)
Maybe share with us one good reason to not treat redis credentials like SSH credentials?

> and redis open source has no default requirement for password complexity.

Loudly Crying Face Emoji

I wonder why the author didn’t share the plan he got from the LLM.
The service might be a bit poor, given that Burj Al Arab has already been closed for months since Iran struck it in the beginning of March.
Aaron was offered two plea deals, one that carried 4 months and another with 6 months but a chance to plead with the judge for a lesser, perhaps entirely noncustodial sentence.

It’s a particularly poor example of government cruelty.

Lawbreaking is almost never prosecuted, so you’ll have to explicitly explain the reasoning behind your question.

Far less than 1% of all crime which happens is prosecuted, why should OpenAI be prosecuted?

Since the necessary context isn’t provided, this just seems like an utterly stupid question. The obvious answer is “OpenAI probably isn’t being prosecuted because crimes are almost never prosecuted”.

It’s like asking why I don’t get arrested every time I get stopped shitfaced drunk at the La Turbie police checkpoint. The answer is obvious: The cops are looking for brown people, there are no taxis here and after 2am everyone driving in the vicinity of Monaco will be drunk. i.e. nobody gives a shit

Re:Kimi K3 exploited the latest Redis server on Friday July 24, 2026 @07:15AM (#49033929)
What kind of utterly useless sysadmin relies on authenticated redis admin surfaces to be memory safe?

What crazy environment requires low priority nothingburger bugs like this to be fixed during the weekend?

Re:Kimi K3 exploited the latest Redis server on Friday July 24, 2026 @07:11AM (#49033893)
This is a deeply uninteresting example for anyone clueful. It’s an authenticated RCE in redis, anyone even vaguely familiar with the codebase knows to not expect there to be any real security boundary in place here.

Don’t confuse this with an unauthenticated RCE, that would actually matter. Absolutely anyone can shit out endless bugs like this with AFL, this is an extremely messy unhardened surface that expects trusted inputs.

The level of cluelessness contained within this comment is truly incredible.

Look at the rest of the world sometimes instead of just navel-gazing. Have you ever traveled outside the EU?

Every year is apparently a good year for developers to figure out how terminals have worked for decades?

Just… don’t trust inputs you don’t fully control, there’s nothing else to it.

>Amazingly, they managed to _undersell_ the ill effects that the oil industry would have on even just the US, such as the oil-driven military actions we've taken over the years.

This is such a deeply clownish take. What about all of the military actions that never took place in the world because of global economic co-operation and integration driven by the oil industry?

Why do those not count?

Why the need for dishonesty? There are endless perfectly credible criticisms of the oil industry to be delivered.

What is supposed to be the connection here?
Or get the international plan from Cigna and they will happily pay for just about anything from any non-US provider.

So far over $5M into complex cancer care at the fanciest clinics in the world and never been questioned on a single claim.

Re:Dupes (product clones) took over the world on Monday July 20, 2026 @04:51PM (#48984718)
If you’re ordering “sparkling wine”, you are not going to get a wine made using the méthode traditionnelle.

You will get an entirely different style of wine.

The origin location is really secondary. “Franciacorta” gets you something like Champagne, “sparkling wine” does not.

You already owned the WordPress admin with your browser 0day, you don’t care if WordPress is secure or not.
Just do the KYC and it happily shits out 0days

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