Casually avoiding the first question

Can somebody please explain to an idiot (me) how is this possible for this to keep going? I thought that the world has decided that spyware is illegal and can't be produced. Is this company related to israeli government? If not, why is it allowed to function?

The world has not decided that spyware can't be produced. Mostly, the powers that be treat it like weapons of war.

That is, companies can make and sell it as long as they only sell it to governments and only the ones that we like.

The general public might be clear that spyware is evil, but governments use it extensively: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_Project_(investigation...

Microsoft has decided that spyware is a good thing --- as long as it's theirs.

What is allowed to companies is not allowed to private citizens. If you want to systematically break copyright laws or steal data from people, do it as Joe's LLC. Joe would go to prison for copyright infringement or hacking other people, Joe's LLC can do as it please.

Even duckduckgo started censoring their results! Although very subtly. My friend (really) showed me an explicit search query with the safe search turned off that I then compared with yandex, and was really surprised how different they were. Nothing explicit on DDG, even though it included the word "hentai".

(I am aware this is not really related to the article. I think this is a cool discussion to be had)

I am not putting you down - this is a very cool project. But I don't think it's really that impressive after I've seen hundreds of similar projects on HN. Does anyone feel the same?

It's very simple to code (or vibe code) this in a week. Kinda uninteresting.

Thank you! And I agree that it's technically not that impressive. Posting it here was very special for me. First of all, I got tons of valuable feedback and questions. It's also the first step in figuring out how big a role this project will play in my life. I will run it regardless of how many people decide to support it through memberships, however, I want to carve out as much time for it as possible. It's a commitment to something that I've been dreaming about for quite a while now, that's what makes it exciting for me. On top of that, I built a website tool that my friends and I actually enjoy to use.

I wish you luck in running your project! I hope it gets a userbase - no matter how small, to show that a project like this can be sustainable financially.

Btw, it's great satisfaction in seeing your friends enjoy your product, I know that feeling. It's the greatest compliment when they stop complaining (because you've polished your project) and just use it

The vtuber rabbit hole is very deep and interesting but this comment mentioning Saba seems to be very random, not related to the discussion at all. Left a bitter taste even on someone who knows a bit about vtubing. Not the best way to show off the community on hackernews

Seconded. I could ask the LLM myself and see what it comes up with in 5 minutes, not to mention that all of this was done 1000 times already so I have no interest of doing so.

Also, it's effortless. Not interesting at all if you can't share any insight about the project, because you don't know how it works under the hood and how many architectural problems were solved (or not)

Stop spamming. You've been posting this everywhere without even disclosing that it's your site. I'm probably shooting a mail to dang tomorrow to take a look at this

I found a contradicting statement where she said that she doesn't mind her picture being used in tech. Maybe even in the wikipedia article you got this quote from. I don't have the time to find it right now but here for example she says she's proud of the picture: https://archive.is/fIRoG

"Lena doesn’t harbor any resentment toward Sawchuk and his imitators for how they appropriated her image; the only note of regret she expressed was that she wasn’t better compensated. In her view, the photograph is an immense accomplishment that just happened to take on a life of its own. “I’m really proud of that picture,” she said."

I agree. I shared the quote above (cited as evidence on Wikipedia) because it’s not at all clear she said she disapproves. combined with your quote I think we have a classic case of being offended on another’s behalf.

Oh, I grossly misinterpreted what you said then

> I think we have a classic case of being offended on another’s behalf.

Definitely!

I am on ungoogled chromium and I see this