Is it wrong that I assume these VPN services are probably honeypots in some way?

As a php coder I’m more fond of Lamborghini.

The car company started by a disgruntled Ferrari 250 GT owner.

Stuff like this is coming for everyone.

Doesn’t ycombinator and hacker news have links with this company? Makes it hard to maintain the hacker ethos when this entire site seems so closely linked with such forces.

Y Combinator does not, to my knowledge, and Hacker News certainly does not.

The hacker aesthetic has always been largely reactionary and hyperfocused on the individual and individual freedoms. See also the politics of "generation X"

In modern, heavily statist / semi-authoritarian world, being pro individual freedoms is revolutionary in itself.

The saddest thing of our age is that "reactionary" and "individual freedom" is equated to authoritarian movements that are anything but.

The hacker aesthetic has always been anarchist in nature, until the rich Californians decided that a hacker is an entrepreneur that participates into the game of capitalism. To be fair, even the concept of libertarianism was an offshoot of anarchism, until the Americans decided that it means right-wing party politics of the rich elite. Words don't mean anything any more, any concept that can equated to its opposite if it rewards one with internet points.

I'm in complete agreement with your defense of "individual freedom". But how is "reactionary" anything but an authoritarian movement? I'd say those two are basically synonyms regardless of whether we're talking about "reactionary mass media" or the political philosophy laid out by Yarvin where he took ownership of the term. Do you have another definition in mind?

"Right wing politics dominated by the rich" is the natural endpoint of libertarianism, so that makes sense. Whether they're "real" libertarians or not, the elite techies leading the charge are people with politics like Karp, Andreessen, Musk, etc.

Libertarianism is abused by capital in the same exact way that conservatism and progressivism are - by getting primed with easy feel-good answers that are ultimately disempowering and self-defeating. In the case of libertarianism, this is so-called "right-" libertarianism that actively rejects qualitative judgements of freedom and coercion while hyper-emphasizing an axiomatic framework that can be used to justify authoritarianism as long as the logical preconditions have been met.

as a counter, it is exactly the hacker ethos to take something and use it not as expected by those that made it so that it can be used for their own purpose

Porting a giant monolithic JSF app from JSF/Wildfly to two separate apps, a react frontend and a REST Quarkus backend.

First time doing this sort of thing with agents. So far it seems ok?

If it works out it will really help us scale and improve a legacy application that so many depend on at the moment. Wish me luck!

Yeah but large tech companies don’t just operate by breaking laws like this.

Sure they do, Uber is probably the most famous in that regard, but plenty break things and pay a fine later.

In fact I’d say that sort of law breaking is downright routine. The key difference is the ability to afford a really good legal and lobbying team.

laws that allow big players hurt minorities are any good? Rockstar recently had a strike from their workers by their abuse and layoffs

People who want healthcare and maybe kids who would like school lunch I guess?

This was my sense as well. I was unaware of Sanders's being in the pocket of any AI companies or folks, and I don't see any evidence to the contrary from the other commenters.

Your know the answer to this question haha.

I thought so too about the steam frame. Then I saw the pass through was not good. Pass through for me has made these products so more livable. It was downright shocking how much less isolating it felt to have full color pass through.

Often I hear. “these are so cool! It’s a shame meta makes them.” All of their pivots will fail because of their track record IMo.