Preventing ejaculation sounds awful.

As compared to ... unplanned pregnancy?

As compared to, why have sex if you don’t finish ?

As they said, it still allows orgasm, but with no ejaculation.

I can't believe I'm typing this on hn and it's not meant to be funny but ...some people like ejaculate

Lmao, yeah. I mean it is entirely up to the couples. I personally do not care which method they choose, whatever works for them.

You’re really hung up on this aren’t you

Not having sex is a great birth control yes, but birth control is for sex to be safe not to remove it entirety

Is the title a nod to the Nine Inch Nails album "Pretty Hate Machine" ?

Partially, according to op: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12708060

I'd like to try it, but I really don't want to brick my beloved Kindle Oasis second edition. It's not sold anymore, at least not in the US.

Several years ago I really tried to enjoy this magazine and had 6 or so volumes. It's beautifully printed and seems wonderfully curated. I just can't seem to enjoy jumping into the middle of a book, and so many of the pages of it are 'excerpts' of one type or another.

I would be excited if Apple would add great GPT answering capabilities on my first-gen homepods, even if it meant having to send all queries to the cloud. I can unplug them if I need privacy.

Even China has an Azure cloud though. I know because I work in it sometimes.

The music is Telefon Tel Aviv , first track from their first album, Fahrenheit Fair Enough. Absolute masterpiece of electronic music.

such an amazing track though, I use this to test every new speaker / headphones I've had for like 20 years running.

One of the best albums ever IMO, just finished the excellent biography that came out a couple years ago by Richard Morton Jack

I've definitely considered trying to create a social media website that only allows you to connect with, say 150 people (Dunbar number), and only allows you to make one or two posts per day.

There was a social network called Path, that was this concept, you could only have 50 friends on the network.

It was a really nice app, but they just couldn't make it work.

I have an idea kicking round the back of my head... when I was a teenager I ran a php forum on a shared server. I shared it with my school friends, and we had about 30 regular members on it. It turned into a full blown social network, we'd have our own memes, we'd talk about who's going to the school disco, make jokes etc...

It was really nice, there was no monetization, no ads, the "feed" was chronological, no bots, or spammers.

I also used it to learn programming, reading and modifying the code to add our own features.

My idea is an open source social network. Completely customisable. It wouldn't be designed to scale up past a couple of hundred users. You'd host it yourself (on aws, heroku or similar), and would be completely in control of the instance.

You can do that already with many open source tools, disabling federation from those using activity pub and blocking new sign ups once the user number has reached you desired limit.

The reality is things do not work like that, even to maintain a small community forum you need a small but constant influx of new users as people regularly just disappear/leave as in any social group.

The real challenge is to let decent human people join without the trolls, bots and scammers.

This was the concept behind Path.

i would pay for this