Since I'm sure this is going to get linked to by HN-loving ignoramuses asking, "Why is jwz so mean to HN?"
It's a VC fan club, your go-to spot to simp for billionaires. Bad enough! But there's also Y Combinator's stochastic terrorist, cryptofascist, christofascist CEO Garry Tan.
This — that attitude, and that piece-of-shit motherfucker in particular — is what you're supporting every time you click on or share a "Hacker" "News" link.
BTW, since I assume I'm getting sent to the camps regardless, I'm going to spend my remaining time calling stochastic terrorist christofascist piece-of-shit motherfuckers what they are. Oh, did I swear? Was it indecorous? I'm so fuckin' sorry.
Having read Gruber's lament about being blacklisted (take the win, man), I was disappointed to learn that I am still number 80 on the highest-ranking personal blogs of "Hacker" "News".
But that's a lifetime number. My ranking per year, 2009 through now are: 32, 47, 10, 7, 197, 351, 2034, 2127, -, -, -, -, -, 3255, 2605 and -.
@NanoRaptor Got suspended from a 9th grade "computers" class for showing the other students that since we were all dialed up to the same mainframe, we could "chat" during class by just printing directly to each others' consoles instead of doing our FORTRAN assignments.
Taking a stroll through my spam folder, I saw a bunch of legitimate messages from people and companies with their own domains, that are not publishing DMARC and SPF records. Surely everyone (and by everyone I mean Google) is rejecting their mail? How do they not realize this?
Then I noticed that one of them was received *from* gmail, so their mail probably works fine so long as they only mail gmail users. But another was via Yahoo, so that doesn't track. https://jwz.org/b/ykk8
Trump, Musk Shred Constitutional Protections as Country Lurches Toward Mafia State.
"William Boot": WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Nearly two months after a historically unprecedented coup by junta forces loyal to South African oligarch Elon Musk, the United... https://jwz.org/b/ykk2
After being held for "25 hours without sleep," Gibbs was finally released. "Although not being something I'd want to replicate, it was actually an educational experience," Gibbs concluded. "I'm kind of proud of myself for... https://jwz.org/b/ykky
@evan@dnalounge We host meetups like that pretty regularly. Email me with details (date range, hours, guess at attendance) and we'll see what we can work out...
@evan@dnalounge It was just a joke about how you're taking something decentralized and recentralizing it. That aside, I wouldn't mind hosting such a thing, but probably wouldn't attend because I hate meetings.