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Re:Job: Head of Stonehenge on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @01:41PM (#48479870)
While my common sense may be a collection of old prejudices, some have surely changed over time. I suspect that my opinions are informed and received. Reading newspapers, discussing things with friends, HN, books. A lot of influences. And then I muse on what makes sense, who is compassionate and what is important atm. Perhaps common sense a bit like Treebeard: deeply rooted but able to walk.

> I don't see an a priori answer either way

Fair enough. But my common, naive sense would say, cis/trans bodies are objectively different (and this settles it in my favour ;-)). -- I'll stop here, public hn for this subjects is too demanding for me, I might fall over Queers for Palestine or Druids for Israel and become unwell...

Nice talking to you!

Re:Job: Head of Stonehenge on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @07:22AM (#48474652)
For me it's not about morality, anything goes afaic.

My arguments were that biological men can enter women spaces, even though some women are not ok with that. Or compete in women's sports, violating fairness as male/female bodies are different. Or cases like the female gym-owner who was fined.

I don't think such laws existed or were being pushed for with homosexuality previously? That debate was more about what adults do in their private live.

Drag queens, yes, but no legal system which allowed a man to almost instantly become a lawful women (Germany had a "famous" such case..). I like simple, friendly programming languages. The same goes for law and common sense (~trans violates this somewaht).

Re:Job: Head of Stonehenge on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @02:01AM (#48472055)
I disagree with the neutral language, this is what some people (including me) would call "woke agenda".

Not all LGB people support the expansion to include TQ+ issues. Nor some of the side-effects e.g. women athletes forced to compete against men. Or a women-owned gym in Germany that was fined because the owner didn't want to allow males in the women-only space.

There is no disdain for "these people" (or groups, as a poster above suggested) and some of this people exist in my own live too, but disagreement about what is appropriate and neutral in a job ad, particularly of a charity which receives?/received public funding.

Re:Job: Head of Stonehenge on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @01:13PM (#48464062)
Maybe I could have left out the final remark. But I was quite astonished by the large amount of identity-focused language. The English Heritage Stonehenge job description (and the website) should use more neutral language.
Re:Job: Head of Stonehenge on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @03:40AM (#48457889)
What do you mean?
Re:Job: Head of Stonehenge on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @03:39AM (#48457884)
DEI, "woke ideology". It is not ideology in a strict sense.
Re:Job: Head of Stonehenge on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @12:53AM (#48456600)
They don't look for rock stars. English heritage wants ideology:

"You can connect with others through our EDI networks as a member or ally. These include Ethnic Diversity, Faith & Belief, Social Equity, LGBTQ+, Neurodivergence, Age, Disability and Gender Health and Wellbeing."

(Should have mentioned Talibans, handy to blow up misplaced stones)

Re:Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone on Saturday May 16, 2026 @07:13AM (#48159100)
This article fails to mention GrapheneOS.

The article starts with Murena, Punkt, Volla which are all based on Android. If you do this, then imho you must mention GrapheneOS, the by far better option (updates, privacy, security, organisation).

Google Pixel with GrapheneOS is the best non-Google phone... ;-)

Thanks for your reply. Only used PLA so far. But later I'll need "engineering parts", Nylon/PA12 or something like this. Strong, water and UV resistant, outdoor.

It shouldn't be too complicated and not too expensive. E.g. while the Prusa Core One+ seemed nice (from a superficial look) it costs more than I wanted to spend. P1S came out as the best (barely) adequate printer for what I thought I would need when I looked at it. But it's difficult to say if you are a beginner and basically have no idea...

As long as Onshape let THEIR servers work for MY public projects for free I don't see how your "make YOU pay more" statement applies.
Nice post. May I ask what you would buy instead (e.g. for the P1S)?
Rossmann lost all my respect when he shit-talked GrapheneOS. Bambu works great. He can rant around the world while monetizing his videos. I neither care nor listen.
"They Built"... I wonder how a quite (formerly) formidable magazine like Wired can choose such a wrong title? Only one built.. Only one attacked...
Re:Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine on Saturday April 25, 2026 @02:51AM (#47899308)
I'll also pay and support their work to provide a really good browser (which needed a bit debloating).
Re:Original GrapheneOS responses to WIRED fact checker on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @04:21PM (#47854052)
The leadership is great. Persistent, patient and friendly.

They were able to improve. I don't think many of the often negative and ad-hominem critics would be able to endure such a pressure as they had in the past.

Re:Swappa.com for GrapheneOS compatible devices – Stay Away on Wednesday April 01, 2026 @07:22PM (#47607916)
GrapheneOS phones are not rooted.
Re:OsmAnd's Faster Offline Navigation on Friday February 27, 2026 @08:29AM (#47180292)
I "fell" for Comaps but switched back to Organic Maps (where the original real good devs are). Comaps felt a bit too much like fork, "fabricate" nice media and beg for donations. Both are imho inferior to (non-foss) Magic Earth but consume much less power.
Re:Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg on Thursday November 27, 2025 @07:09PM (#46074358)
I was happy from the sideline seeing the recent big Zig donations. But this sudden decision is a shock. Technical issues can be worked around (I wish/think), but leaving such a dominant platform? I don't know. For my small small needs Forgejo works great, but for Zig, a project which I hope has a lot of mainstream success, I'm not convinced, that Forgejo/Codeberg is the best fit (atm). Even Graphene OS which has very high standards is (still) on Github, maybe Zig could brood (brüten) a bit longer to decide if it is really time to leave?
Re:Why Nextcloud feels slow to use on Monday November 03, 2025 @12:18PM (#45801547)
It makes a lot of sense for Germany to keep some independance from foreign proprietary cloud providers (Microsoft, Google); Money very well invested imo. It helps the local industry and data stays under German sovereignity.

I find your "open-source-washed" remark deplaced and quite deragoraty. Nextcloud is, imo, totally right to (try to) monetize. They have to, they must further improve the technical backbone to stay competitive with the big boys.

Re:Why Nextcloud feels slow to use on Monday November 03, 2025 @10:32AM (#45800150)
This is not an alternative as it only covers files. Mind what is in the article: "I like what Nextcloud offers with its feature set and how easily it replaces a bunch of services under one roof (files, calendar, contacts, notes, to-do lists, photos etc.), but ".

For us Nextcloud AIO is the best thing under the sun. It works reasonably well for our small company (about 10 ppl) and saves us from Microsoft. I'm very grateful to the developers.

Hopefully they are able to act upon such findings or rewrite it with go :-). Mmh, if Berlin (Germany) wouldn't waste so much money in ill-advised ideology-driven and long-term state-destroying actions and "NGOs" they had enough money to fund 100s of such rewrites. Alas...

Re:Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something? on Thursday August 07, 2025 @01:43AM (#44820998)
https://github.com/ziglang/zig/pull/24317 --> https://github.com/ivanstepanovftw (profile from 8/6/25, not sure if it was different earlier)
Re:Ask HN: Have you ever regretted open-sourcing something? on Wednesday August 06, 2025 @01:21PM (#44814890)
You should be a bit more humble imo. An open source maintainer (author) is _not_ required to look at PRs. Besides, who wants to work with a (quote) "unreliable rightless russian troll backdoor vibecoder fake individual"? ...
Re:Jove (Jonathan's Own Version of Emacs) on Monday July 21, 2025 @07:19AM (#44633870)
Seems that you replied to my post. One can have another opinion about women/men than you (or Lynn) and still respect the other person. Deeply respect even. Your words were not friendly. I wish you well nevertheless!
calyxOS is _not_ similar to GrapheneOS
Re:Spaced repetition systems have gotten way better on Sunday May 25, 2025 @04:30AM (#44086412)
I looked a bit more in detail and I'm impressed. I found: - "with translation costs being the majority of Nuenki's subscription price." Thus my price critic was not very appropriate - https://nuenki.app/blog/llm_translation_comparison (Which LLMs are best at low-latency translation?) Cool table!
Re:Spaced repetition systems have gotten way better on Sunday May 18, 2025 @09:31AM (#44021301)
Looks not bad but a) billing/prices should imho be prominent and not hidden behind trial or get started. And b) not sure if 5/12/20 per month is not too much? The About section is nice. (I use two other paid language services, thus no need/interest in another)
Re:Jellyfin as a Spotify Alternative on Wednesday April 16, 2025 @11:51PM (#43712956)
Better than nothing...
Re:Nextcloud: Open-Source Cloud Apps on Sunday September 22, 2024 @10:28AM (#41617313)
With AIO upgrade is a piece of cake. -- For us, Nextcloud is a godsend, some things could be improved, true, but they are improving; we are more than grateful for this comprehensive software. Much less hassle (and even less expensive) than Microsoft before.
Re:Moving to a RTOS on the RP2040 on Friday July 05, 2024 @02:11AM (#40880176)
Wow that looks cool. Thanks for the mention!

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