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A Dinosaur In Space
Personal blog · green.spacedino.net · on HN as stego-techeconomicscultureprogramming
A Dinosaur In Space is a personal blog at green.spacedino.net about economics, culture and programming. Since 2025, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 16 times, most often “Software Is Not the Service”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-12, and you can follow it by feed.
Assorted thoughts from a dinosaur in outer space.
Most-linked posts?
- Software Is Not the Service2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-06-20
- I Have Lived in Your Camp2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-01
- The Old World Is Dead2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-04-14
What Hacker News says?
"You're being alarmist/hyperbolic/paranoid. That could never happen here." - Everyone, to people like me, since the post-9/11 PATRIOT Act days. Now that the reality is staring them in the face, suddenly folks want to know "what can we do?" Well, I'll tell you exactly what you can do: Nothing. I want to make this abundantly clear : you cannot undo this damage. You cannot roll back this clock. You cannot go backwards…
Comment linking /the-old-world-is-dead/
on “U.S. and El Salvador Say They Won't Return Man Who Was Mistakenly Deported”Submitted The Old World Is Dead as a story · 20 points
HN discussionSeriously. I wrote about it in March and have been banging on this particular drum since my first client demand to move wholesale into AWS. https://green.spacedino.net/software-is-not-the-service/ For what it's worth, said client could never articulate a reason for why their two 2U servers needed to be in AWS at ~3x the price, only that it had to be done. I've seen dozens more moves since, blindly surrendering sover…
Comment linking /software-is-not-the-service/
on “EU Eyes Ditching Microsoft Azure for France's OVHcloud”Submitted Software Is Not the Service as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis is why I’ve refused to buy into the argument from these ghouls that AI would make the world a better place, and their occasional lip-service of requesting AI regulation for “human safety”: their own actions paint a dystopian world of mass surveillance, even heavier labor exploitation, the return of company scrip and stores, and the wholesale neglect of human well-being, all while blocking the very regulation th…
Comment linking /ai-will-never-create-utopia/
on “Tech Titans Amass Multimillion-Dollar War Chests to Fight AI Regulation”Submitted Accountability as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe amount of AI boosters and defenders wading in here to bash anyone with a less-than-glowing perspective of the technology is... disappointing . If the technology is truly as revolutionary as you proclaim it to be, then why are you here defending it instead of changing the world with it, as you claim it can? Stop trying to convince detractors with empty arguments, and show us the actual results you claim to have.…
Comment linking /the-final-grift/
on “I passionately hate hype, especially the AI hype”Submitted You Don't Need Kubernetes as a story · 1 points
HN discussionFunny, I just wrapped a blog post about this: https://green.spacedino.net/i-dont-worry-about-population-de... Good presentation by the author that reaffirms my own opinions about the topic, specifically that while it sucks and cripples the social welfare programs our (deceased) elders built on the theory of continued population and productivity growth, it's also an issue we can fix with coordination between powers a…
Comment linking /i-dont-worry-about-population-decline-and-so-can-you/
on “The demographic future of humanity: facts and consequences [pdf]”Submitted I Have Lived in Your Camp as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted I Have Lived in Your Camp as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Your Biggest Vulnerability is your Shitty Compensation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted VR Changes Things as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Burnout Economy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Three Year Myth as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Too Complex to Fix as a story · 1 points
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