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I kind of hate to say it but stuff like that makes me think religions had partly found some important concepts with unconditional belief in forgiveness and such. Otherwise there are perspectives where human existence just don't have much meaning.

what was the disney+ incident? /gen

Disney argued that the family of a man who died at one of their parks couldn't sue because he had signed up for Disney+, which has binding arbitration terms: https://fortune.com/2024/08/15/disney-wrongful-death-lawsuit...

This pretty much flies in the face of what any reasonable person would think the law should allow IMO


https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/disney-says-man-cant-su...

Guest died from allergic reaction despite informing staff multiple times of the risk, but the case was dismissed because they had signed up for Disney+ years prior.


The case wasn't dismissed because of the arbitration clause. Disney dropped the argument after they got severely lambasted in public over the absurdity of the defense. It was dismissed later by the plaintiff (so there was likely some settlement)

I don't think this is the last time we will see this argument. Disney has a lot of value in brand equity to protect so it made sense for them to back away, but a "bad guy" company that's already regarded with distrust will probably go all in on this in the future.

Here’s a decent up-to-date report on this (now-resolved) case: https://www.allergicliving.com/2026/03/03/lawsuit-against-di...

Since I stopped being a poor student, I pay for media that I consume so that the creators can continue to create. I told my wife that I’d renew my Disney+ subscription after the clocks change and we have less hours of daylight. But now I think it’s morally wrong to give Disney any money – even if they do make great shows like Andor.


Somehow I'd never encountered that shorthand before, so for anyone else wondering it's probably intended as the opposite of "/s", genuine rather than sarcastic.

They understand that they don't need to care as long as there are enough others getting eaten before them.


I'm confused - why is hackclub (a project dedicated to teens) financing this project maintained by an openai infra person?

They sponsor many popular software projects unrelated to their mission. It helps bring awareness to what they do and they also take a 7% cut of donations to fund their operations. I probably could've elaborated on this more in the post. See https://mitchellh.com/writing/ghostty-non-profit, which goes more in depth and is how I first became aware of them!

that's what i'm thinking, this doesn't seem to be a teenager to me based off of them saying that they've been programming for 10 years ( though i suppose they could have started when they were <= 8 years old ), but i can't really find any information on who exactly the founder is, or why hackclub would sponsor them.

some info links:

- https://github.com/mothenjoyer69/bc250-documentation

- https://gitlab.com/TuxThePenguin0/bc250-bios

- https://bc250.info/

Some of the smaller llm models run on it too but in practice the memory is way too limited for that use case.


Hopefully there will be a selfhostable implementation of their cloud counterpart someday? Maybe only a weekend of vibecoding away.

What features do you need? Cloud saving?

just use a modern 'rclone gui' web interface to setup your cloud or sshfs shares. =3

I don't understand what you're talking about.

If you want a local cloud, save things to your computer or NAS. You do know how to do that, right?

No need to mindlessly slop code something.


But how will I get my dopamine hits without vibe coding?

While I agree tbf it could be much worse

I just started the appimage - it asks you to login to the "cloud" but also offers a prominent skip button, and then asks if you want a telemetry UUID or not.

So even after the intense backlash Tantacrul saw on the GH threads, they went ahead and stuffed it full of telemetry anyway. Incredible.

> So even after the intense backlash Tantacrul saw on the GH threads, they went ahead and stuffed it full of telemetry anyway. Incredible.

Here's an alternative for those unaware:

https://codeberg.org/tenacityteam/tenacity


He is pro age-verification with government IDs, what do you expect?

Did he state this in a video somewhere? I checked a couple biography pages but didn't see this specifically called out.


> Wow. @Meta settled for $18B, also agreeing to implement significant protections for teens. They'll of course choose the weakest / least effective implementation possible but even so - governments are beginning to force change. > >2 years ago, it looked hopeless. Big moment.

That Tweet shows that he is pro "protecting minors from social media", and "governments should do that protecting"


That doesn't say anything about age verification?

It literally does... Slowly read it again and read about the recent Meta lawsuit.

It literally doesn't. You're going to have to be more specific.

Please cite this if it's true.

As far as I can tell they're updating the much dated UX from being stuck in the 90's and are making great strides on the app.

I'm fine with them making money as they're investing into a utility I use.


See my other reply

telemetry != making money

> a conventional cotton bag needed to be reused 173 times to beat plastic

So what? That's like a year of grocery shopping maybe. I easily use a tote bag for way longer than that and I'm not trying that hard to live an environment friendly life.


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