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Re:Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you b...
on Thursday October 22, 2026 @09:26AM (#50195016)
Apparently there is no GNU/Linux support at all.
Re:Japanese people still aren't having sex. And nobody knows why
on Friday October 16, 2026 @08:03AM (#50117333)
Pornography is illegal in China and Korea, yet their populations are in decline, too.
Re:Now That Information Is Free, What's a College Campus For?
on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @12:07PM (#50073962)
It has not been that many years yet. Habits die hard, but in time, perhaps that will change.
Re:Shipping JPEG XL in Chrome
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @07:54AM (#49991480)
These days I favour lossless WEBP instead of PNG. I often save around 30%~40% of file size compared to PNG, especially when the PNG is encoded with lots of bits per pixel (i.e 48 bits or 24 bits).
Re:U.S. Sanctions Against the a/I Collective
on Friday August 28, 2026 @11:08AM (#49479702)
They will become pariahs financially speaking. Nobody will be authorized to wire money to/from them. It's brutal.
Re:Screen viewing time from age 1 to 8 years and subsequent academic p...
on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @08:53AM (#49433184)
You're right, my original question was poorly worded.
My point is to distinguish what young children do with their screens: they could be learning things through educational games or videos for example.
Re:Screen viewing time from age 1 to 8 years and subsequent academic p...
on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @06:19AM (#49431435)
"Screen viewing" seems very vague. What did they do with their screens? Did they read an encyclopedia, or did they watch entertainment content videos? It's an important distinction.
Re:One Oakland police officer made $490k in overtime
on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @12:30PM (#49348196)
A computer is paid for and/or run by at least one human being.
Re:France's tax authority had data stolen on 680k taxpayers
on Friday August 14, 2026 @10:15AM (#49299017)
These are the same people who want to identify you whenever you interact with a "social media" website.
I will never comply.
Re:California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law afte...
on Monday May 25, 2026 @09:24PM (#48273908)
What about the BSD kernels? Other libre/open source operating systems?
These laws should be canceled altogether. They make no sense at all.
Re:Actually, Democracy Dies in H.R.
on Monday May 18, 2026 @10:41AM (#48180587)
"Human Resources" department.
Re:Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction...
on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @02:11PM (#47521097)
Will they also find liable all the companies that produce addictive food by injecting sugar into everything?
What about the "infinite" broadcasts found on all television channels?
This is ridiculous and pathetic.
Re:E2E encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported af...
on Friday March 13, 2026 @10:13AM (#47364751)
It's not only the united states of America. These tyrannical views have been brewing everywhere for years, and there was not enough public counter-narrative to these ideologies.
Re:UK MPs give ministers powers to restrict Internet for under 18s
on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @11:40AM (#47337049)
If "dis-information" is the core of the issue, then perhaps we ought to start banning religions?
Despite doing that, China is a champion of spreading "dis-information" within their own walls.
Hostile actors are not foreign, most often they are domestic. The biggest offenders are governments. Only freedom opposes their power, which is why they want to restrict it.
Re:UK MPs give ministers powers to restrict Internet for under 18s
on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @10:37AM (#47336140)
Sadly it's not only the UK. There is a global push to restrict communication world-wide. The future is very bleak for fundamental freedoms.
Re:The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location
on Thursday March 05, 2026 @01:20PM (#47265198)
Taxpayers' money used to track taxpayers and finance the advertising industry.
Re:Rising carbon dioxide levels now detected in human blood
on Thursday March 05, 2026 @10:44AM (#47262974)
It makes us dumber and dumber.
Re:Ask HN: Share your productive usage of OpenClaw
on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @09:36AM (#47152077)
Thanks for sharing. Can you share an estimate of how many tokens it uses over time? Would love to know how much it costs in terms of money.
Re:Discord Just Killed Anonymity
on Friday February 13, 2026 @04:51AM (#47000903)
That does not mean everybody systematically is "hurt" like you were. That is a very dangerous extrapolation.
Re:Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification
on Thursday February 12, 2026 @05:28PM (#46996191)
Has anyone managed to run Matrix over I2P or other similar overlay network technologies?
Re:Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
on Monday February 09, 2026 @11:54AM (#46947582)
Why would Slack not be affected by the same stupid laws?
Re:The state of Linux music players in 2026
on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @04:25AM (#46777553)
All these players will never dethrone DeadBeeF's interface. Foobar2000 simply has the perfect layout - and it's customizable.
Re:psc: The ps utility, with an eBPF twist and container context
on Friday January 16, 2026 @09:33AM (#46646731)
> psc uses eBPF iterators to read process and file descriptor information directly from kernel data structures. This bypasses the /proc filesystem entirely, providing visibility that cannot be subverted by userland rootkits or LD_PRELOAD tricks.
Is there a trade off here?
Re:EU Council Approves New "Chat Control" Mandate Pushing Mass Surveil...
on Friday November 28, 2025 @07:43AM (#46078157)
Overlay networks + libre and open-source software only (preferrably with reproducible builds).
Re:Pirate Library Operator Arrested, Study Canceled for 330K Members
on Saturday August 16, 2025 @04:33PM (#44926689)
It's not even about "piracy". It's about "unauthorized copying".
Re:Tor: How a Military Project Became a Lifeline for Privacy
on Friday August 08, 2025 @12:21PM (#44838798)
Tor is nice, but I still prefer i2p.
Re:SecretSpec: Declarative Secrets Management
on Monday July 21, 2025 @12:43PM (#44637297)
What's wrong with committing encrypted secrets? That's how I use `sops`.
Re:Show HN: Linux CLI tool to provide mutex locks for long running bas...
on Thursday July 17, 2025 @08:52AM (#44592802)
A for loop in a shell script may sometimes look like this:
`for ((i = 0 ; i < max ; i++ )); do echo "$i"; done`
Here this is essentially a "while" loop, meaning it will keep executing the commands as long as we don't reach `exit 1`.
(; flock -n 9 || exit 1; # ... commands executed under lock ...; )
Re:Show HN: Linux CLI tool to provide mutex locks for long running bas...
on Thursday July 17, 2025 @04:23AM (#44590994)
It's a "for" loop.
Strongly disagree on the "unethical" part.
Maintaining a distribution is a lot of work, and the infrastructure also costs money.
Paying for the distribution of software is totally fine. You are not even forced to pay anyway.