EfficientDude
Re:German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detent...
on Sunday March 02, 2025 @07:33AM (#43229838)
They mentioned that's the reason CBP detained her, but didn't actually say whether or not it's true. I am excellent at detective work and if it wasn't true the poor journalist would certainly have said that. By leaving it dangling, they all but confirm that was the reason.
You have to learn how to read 'journalism' - it's not just kiddos writing journal articles! They're professional manipulators. We're supposed to be alarmed and shocked that the government is finally taking imiigration law seriously, horrified. I'm just not falling for this lol.
Re:Show HN: Robyn – "Batman Inspired" Python Web Framework Built with ...
on Sunday March 02, 2025 @07:24AM (#43229756)
Ugh we already have BATMAN and ROBIN as meshnet. Can't you go with... sea man or some other thing that's not taken?
Re:German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detent...
on Sunday March 02, 2025 @07:22AM (#43229729)
If only the right combination of educational materials could be concocted to destroy illiberal thought...
Re:The vinyl-carver sparking a craze for cutting records at home
on Sunday March 02, 2025 @07:21AM (#43229714)
It's not 'rude to say,' it's simply the truth. With good quality metal tapes, and Dolby C, a cassette is going to perform as well as any room you care to listen in. I find most people who complain about cassettes being lo-fi had shit decks.
Re:German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detent...
on Sunday March 02, 2025 @07:18AM (#43229694)
So it seems obvious that she had posted with her friend about working without a visa in the US, CBP found this, and she was rightfully deported. Note neither women featured in this little writeup actually denied it. These days they do check your social media for little secret plans.
Re:Danish grocery chain to distinguish European from US goods
on Saturday March 01, 2025 @02:44PM (#43222905)
1951 Defense Of Greenland Agreement, they already agreed to sell Greenland to us. I wonder if the Danes will pretend not to have heard of it when Trump brings it up?
Re:18F has been laid off
on Saturday March 01, 2025 @02:43PM (#43222892)
Not a problem - they can learn to mine coal.
Re:The vinyl-carver sparking a craze for cutting records at home
on Saturday March 01, 2025 @02:32PM (#43222773)
Good quality cassettes sound great, as good as CDs. You probably just had a shitty deck and shitty tapes.
Re:Twitch limiting uploads to 100 hours, deleting the rest starting Ap...
on Thursday February 27, 2025 @08:25AM (#43194158)
Is that profit? Income isn't profit.
Re:Detecting Noise in Canvas Fingerprinting
on Tuesday February 25, 2025 @09:51AM (#43172570)
Wow I didn't realize that Canvas Fingerprinting was exclusively used to detect fraudsters! Especially the wily ones who figured out how to delete their cookies! That's really cool - like how they scan everybody's files now to detect pedophiles (exclusively!).
Re:Suckless.org: software that sucks less
on Saturday February 22, 2025 @01:44PM (#43141771)
This is never ever a problem unless a developer insists on always using the most cutting edge version of a library. There's no law that says you have to use the bleeding edge of every library when you make a program. Another issue these days, is that library maintainers often add new features or delete old features without incrementing the major version number. In the olden days it was assumed that minor versions were for bug fixes that don't break compatibility, and when you wanted to change how the library works in a major way, you increment the major number.
Now a lot of stuff is contnuously buggified so there is no concept of stable and in-progress.
Re:Twitch limiting uploads to 100 hours, deleting the rest starting Ap...
on Saturday February 22, 2025 @01:35PM (#43141679)
Speedrunning is mostly cheaters using combinations of emulation, save states, etc. I don't think speedrunners actually speedrun on unmodified consoles in one go at all these days. Of course back in the day anything other than playing on a console attached to a TV would have been considered cheating and gotten you thrown out of the community.
Re:Twitch limiting uploads to 100 hours, deleting the rest starting Ap...
on Saturday February 22, 2025 @01:30PM (#43141647)
Just to be clear - no video streaming site or service has been profitable in the long run, not yet anyway.
Re:1972 Unix V2 "Beta" Resurrected
on Saturday February 22, 2025 @01:27PM (#43141619)
Nobody will care what Notion or Figma are in the future. I don't know what they are, nor do I care to find out. Saas simply doesn't exist for many people, it's not a software model that all people are comfortable with.
Re:1972 Unix V2 "Beta" Resurrected
on Saturday February 22, 2025 @01:20PM (#43141558)
Why the leading zero in the year dates but no leading zero for the RFC numbers, word length, or bits?
EDIT: I checked your web site and you DON'T use leading zeros in front of dates there. Just trying something out? Enlighten me please...
Re:Postmortem: The singular design of Namco's Katamari Damacy (2004)
on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @09:17PM (#43021062)
An amazing game series, truly a standout for 'different' even until today. Big studios don't take risks, it's up to today's indie scene to give us something different.
Re:Apple software update "bug" enables Apple Intelligence
on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @01:54PM (#43016707)
MS also uses this trick all the time. Very dishonest practice, I don't think anybody can call it a bug in good faith.
Re:The ABA supports the rule of law
on Monday February 10, 2025 @06:19PM (#43006563)
Thankfully the Bar is rapidly becoming totally obsolete thanks to states updating their requirements to practice law, to keep up with the times.
Re:Ancient-DNA Study Identifies Originators of Indo-European Language ...
on Monday February 10, 2025 @06:18PM (#43006554)
How is this possible? For decades we've been told that it's impossible for culture and language to be determined from human remains.
Re:Grafana: Why observability needs FinOps, and vice versa
on Sunday February 09, 2025 @04:22PM (#42994138)
What's Grafana? I see it mentioned here a lot, nowhere else though. Is it a YC property?
Re:Google Maps changed the way we get around. It all began in a bedroo...
on Saturday February 08, 2025 @04:23PM (#42986323)
>The Guardian lol
MapQuest actually changed the way we get around. It all began in 1967 in Chicago.
Re:Cloudflare Is Blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers
on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @08:12PM (#42957718)
All by design. The idea is to keep older devices, ones with perhaps no government backdoors, and unauthorized software, off the Internet completely. Same reason there's a big push to kill X11 - it runs great on computers from before hardware backdoors were common. With the Trumpenreich looming, these devices will become very useful. IF they are allowed on the Internet.
Re:You Didn't Notice MP3 Is Now Free
on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @08:11PM (#42957705)
MP3 is still the standard lossy audio format. Plays on everything, patent-free. OK sound quality (some stuff falls apart even at 320 if you have golden ears).