RISC Danger

"Maduro is a brutal authoritarian dictator," I wisely intone, as the corrupt demented paedophile US President violating Constitutional Law while operating a gestapo and concentration camps illegally arrests a foreign leader on charges which read like they were written on a paper placemat in crayon.

I like “sneak peak” to mean “underrated”. “Whats the sneak peak movie of 2025? “

Tell HN: X is opening any tweet link in a webview whether you press it or not 247 points by stillatit 10 hours ago | hide | past | favorite | 200 comments Just saw the CEO of Substack celebrating traffic from X/Twitter shooting up thinking they stopped suppressing tweets with links[0]. Actually, this traffic is because now any time you open a tweet with a link, the in-app webview loads in the background, and displays when you press the link. I run an ecom store that gets a lot of its customers from Twitter. I was also shocked to see my traffic double or triple overnight and thought the algorithm had blessed me and my business. Soon realized what was actually happening. Thought other traffic-monitors might appreciate this explanation. Meanwhile Nikita Bier is pretending they never suppressed tweets with links to begin with, offering the alternative explanation: "a common complaint is that posts with links tend to get lower reach. This is because the web browser covers the post and people forget to Like or Reply. So X doesn't get a clear signal whether the content is any good"[1]. A bit of a rewriting of history since Elon and his mom both tweeted about how it wasn't fair to use his platform to promote other links/platforms, even banning people who shared profiles of other social networks (including Paul Graham for a period). They suppressed all links shortly after. [0] https://x.com/cjgbest/status/1985464687350485092 [1] https://x.com/nikitabier/status/1979994223224209709

Looks like X is juicing web visit numbers by opening a browser WebView in the background whether the user visits the link or not.

They've re-invented pop-under fraud (allegedly).

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4580...

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

I Like Living In L.A. Because People Don’t Act Weird When They See Me On The Street

I Like Living In L.A. Because People Don’t Act Weird When They See Me On The Street theonion.com/i-like-...

Oh I see. Flying into a fractal is really cool :)

That’s a novel use of the crank. Does it affect the speed at all?

image of watchmen's doctor manhattan, a superhero who is entirely blue and nude, sitting on a rock, small in frame, on what is depicted to be a very pink version of the surface of the planet mars. he looks pensive.

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a—

Yemen’s crime btw is being the only country on the planet actively trying to stop genocide

I’m not sure the rest of the country fully grasps the panic and anger building in DC, MD, and VA.

The entire economy of this area is about to collapse. Paychecks are stopping. Careers are ruined. Taxes are about to plummet. Yet no one seems able to stop this madness.

Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS Musk’s DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data at IRS

Not to worry folks, DOGE operatives are now asking for access to your individual tax returns ... www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

We’ve now established a pattern where Go is the first non-browser stack to implement new TLS features, so we flush out all the bugs Chrome didn’t hit.

Today it’s tldr.fail. PQ shares were already default in Chrome, but Go 1.23 is surfacing new broken middleboxes.

Last time it was X.509 SANs.

They can’t. Even if they did win, there’d be little support in congress so not much would get done. It’s more of a longer term strategy (that I don’t personally agree with, especially for this election).

luke is a spectrum from luke warm to luke on Hoth

Musk this week lied and claimed that the Helene victims died because the Biden FCC refused to give his satellite broadband company Starlink a billion in taxpayer subsides

The problem: even if he had received that money (which he shouldn't have), the build wasn't scheduled to begin until 2025

As I implied in my first post, I might be willing to offline/email. But you got caught up in my generalization of the thread instead. Not encouraging. Words are tough, and wouldn't have fit in the character limit.

Nuanced points are hard to make between strangers in strange times. Especially in a microblogging format. It too easily devolves into either "fucking stupid | coward | mean".

Proving my point again, buddy. You're not looking to understand, but to dunk and win. And the others in that thread or elsewhere on the internet would see any response. Have a good one.

Not a conversation I'm willing to have on here in such a public and constrained writing environment against people that hang on every specific word, looking for a dunk.

it's a great day to install Signal for all your little thoughts

Look! Instructions given as a 4 panel comic strip :)

Signal usernames are live! Update the Signal app, make a username, put it in your bio, and boom: you now have Bluesky encrypted DMs