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If you're someone who offsets the typical HN vocation with outdoor recreation like hiking, cycling, climbing, mountaineering, etc., then consider the weeklong Wilderness First Responder (WFR) course. Much more practically useful than EMT for the majority of time where you don't have an ambulance handy, and you can scratch a similar itch as the author's by doing volunteer Search and Rescue work.


I appreciate the minimalist HN aesthetic, but without some context I'm not willing to click a mystery link to "Tender Lovemaking dot com".


I miss when the internet was fun


It's the personal blog for a well-known Rubyist (i.e., a person who programs in the Ruby programming language). Rubyists teld to be a bit more colorful than your typical software developer (in a good way... most of the time).


The site is safe. It has been a trademark of Aaron Patterson a core Ruby on Rails contributor for decades.


What’s with the fear of tender lovemaking? Not your thing?


Don't worry! It's actually "Tenderlove Making," going by how the site header is constructed. Definitely a maker/hacker site, and not whatever you were thinking. Hope this allays your concern.


You should learn who the author is, then. Part of learning about our ecosystem.


You get some context by clicking on the “(tenderlovemaking.com)” in parentheses after the title.


You can use this link instead: https://tenderlove.dev/2026/09/11/what-a-time-to-be-alive/

Hope that helps!


This made me laugh. I too, browse like corporate security is sitting at my desk.


Pretty incredible how much humans can be conditioned, isn’t it?


Its the personal blog of https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tenderlove aka Aaron Patterson, core member of Ruby and Ruby on Rails.


It's about OpenAI's RubyGems hack. Totally safe for work.


Firefox has got some kind of feature to take a peek at at a link by hovering or something... Now I understand the usecase.


… a feature which, at least for me, is rendered almost entirely useless by massive cookie banners that always cover the entire field of view of the hover. But, surprisingly, not in this specific case.


From an infosec/networking stand point, aren’t still actively loading the site? Whether it’s in a preview window or not?


Presumably the browser still has to fetch the page in that case, right? From a "surveilled net traffic" perspective, how is that different than clicking the link?


Based on the thumbnail I think it’s actually tenderlove making dot com, though I agree with your sentiment.


What kind of esthetic alteration would make you more comfortable clicking on that link?


Oh but you’ll go to expert sex change dot com?


I love a good taste-of-their-own-medicine story like anyone else, but the headline is false.

It seems that this is about a YouTuber stalking a Flock employee's vehicle through traffic for 10-15 minutes, which is why the police were called.


That’s literally exactly what Flock does. I can’t find sympathy for the company on this.


Maybe I’m a radical but I am okay with the government having capabilities that are different from what a youtuber is allowed to do.


In my opinion, yes, that makes you a radical. I don’t want an armed organization with a trillion dollar budget stalking me. That’s the common stance in America. We even put it in our constitution.


A frequent argument made in Flock's favor is that if you are in public there isn't an expectation of privacy. That Flock can see where you go just like any other driver. Particularly since Flock is a private entity not the government. This is the Other Driver behaving antisocially towards one driver EXACTLY as Flock does to all drivers.


I agree that that is not a good argument. I am perfectly fine with the government having access to things, for instance taxation or armed enforcers + bodycams, that are illegal for the youtuber.


Not sure if I'd use the term radical but there are other words which come to mind.


Well, the government can use Flock camera footage, and YouTubers can film with personal devices on public property. So I guess their capabilities are already pretty different


Yes, they should be different. In almost all cases, they should be less.

But what I really wanted to mention is that flock is not the government, and flock's services are not exclusively available to governments.

Same goes for their competitors.


The government represents the public will of the people and has democratic legitimacy. The notion that it should be more constrained than private actors seems absurd. I'm okay with taxation, pulling people over for speeding, automated speeding enforcement, fining parents who don't send their kids to school, garnishing wages, etc. that would be unacceptable from a private actor who is not imbued with the public's will.


Due to the monopoly on violence, governments need additional more constraints in some areas. If your government dislikes you and they can track every step you take out in public, it becomes much easier for them to violate your rights without anyone stopping them. And because the government could fetch the same data from any company collecting it, companies too must be banned from doing so.


>The notion that it should be more constrained than private actors seems absurd.

That is precisely the notion of the US constitution. If some random person chose to take down a flier criticizing the president, that is fair game (legally, or at least it defers to private policy). If a government agent did that, it verges on breaking the first amendment because we know that is a form of government suppression of speech. The first 10 amendments to the constitution pretty much all work to some extent of this logic.

> I'm okay with taxation, pulling people over for speeding, automated speeding enforcement, fining parents who don't send their kids to school, garnishing wages, etc. that would be unacceptable from a private actor who is not imbued with the public's will.

Those are all pretty much state laws outside of taxation, not part of the Constitution. We could setup campaigns to restrict those powers anytime we want to, or to grant them to private citizens in some cases.

Speech and surveillance fall under the constitution. Restricting/granting such power requires a much higher standard of process.


...no. flock doesnt have robot cars weaving through traffic. Its not the same thing literally or figuratively.


So their tracking is OK because it's immobile. That's an interesting and novel defense of a surveillance state which I hadn't heard before.


Not illegal, and like all the other comments here, isn’t this exactly what Flock does? But they do it indiscriminately to all vehicles at all times?


It's not the same because it is indiscriminate.


Flock cameras do the same thing to me so I guess I'd better call the cops.


Not a YouTuber, a local reporter in Atlanta


Yeah! Nobody should be able to track your movements along public roads.


Watching and following everywhere someone drives is stalking? Damn, that's crazy.


> He's not the fucking pope

No, but he did link to the Pope in this very essay.

Pope Leo XIV, "On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence":

https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/docume...


It's an evolutionary curiosity that their DNA study identified 17 species within the genus Lanmoa, but L. asiatica was the only species which produces this hallucinatory effect.

There are several very commonly found boletes within the genus Lanmoa in the US, including L. pseudosensibilis and the "Bouillon Bolete" L. rubissima.


I purchased a bottle of good Vietnamese fish sauce after reading a thread on HN about its mythical flavor profile.

Added a few meager drops to a noodle soup, and I was so overwhelmed with nausea that I threw out the entire pot, and threw the entire bottle of fish sauce into the trash.

I can't imagine want an unholy stench this decades-old fish sauce plant must produce. I would have evacuated permanently, without question.


TLDR: The new variant is that the word "repair" was changed to "service" in the user manual.


That was only one of the differences mentioned; the others were on the cartridge itself and included a different sticker on the back and different manufacturing codes.


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