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johnofthesea

> Weird response to a pretty benign question.

How was this question:

> I think basically every country exercises this power

And your point is ...?
Can you be more specific?
Re:Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @03:08PM (#49365863)
First, Gatekeeper was introduced, but you could globally set in system preferences if unsigned software is enabled. Then this setting option was removed. What will come next? I do not know but I started to migrate off the ecosystem. Just in case.

(At least on macOS one can still disable routined. Unlnike on iOS.)

Re:Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @03:02PM (#49365786)
On the other hand homebrew maintainers a deprecating software that is not signed (like Allacritty and Librecad).
Common sense would be not prioritising inefficient technology to automate few things and instead invest in people?
Re:The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s on Tuesday June 23, 2026 @05:17PM (#48651590)
> vehicle sizes in all other countries have also been increasing

Yes SUVs are more common in Europe now but still size is much smaller than in US.

Re:Apple is increasing my cortisol levels on Sunday May 10, 2026 @07:49AM (#48083182)
I just wish Homebrew was not planning to remove packages because of this.

> $ brew doctor

> Warning: Some installed casks are deprecated or disabled. You should find replacements for the following casks:

> alacritty

> librecad

Is there workaround? Probably. But macos lost benefit of OS X's "it just works". Time to move elsewhere I guess.

Re:Are We Idiocracy Yet? on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @09:12AM (#47689750)
Or the Prince.
> AI is eroding copyright, so there may no longer be a need for the GPL. GNU should stop and rethink its stance, chuck away the GPL as the main tool to fight evil software corporations and embrace LLM as the main weapon.

Is this LLM thing freely available or is it owned and controlled by these companies? Are we going to rent the tools to fight "evil software corporations"?

This comment needs another 'EDIT'.
Re:Google is ending full-web search for niche search engines on Friday January 23, 2026 @08:18AM (#46732137)
> with lots of #hashtags

I missed this one. What was it about?

Re:Google is ending full-web search for niche search engines on Friday January 23, 2026 @05:38AM (#46730876)
I tested it using a local keyword, as I normally do, and it took me to a Wikipedia page I didn’t know existed. So thanks for that.
Re:Google is ending full-web search for niche search engines on Friday January 23, 2026 @05:21AM (#46730734)
Better late than never.

> The French index is at an advanced stage of completion, we have started creating the German language index, and the English one should start shortly. All progress is quickly integrated into the Qwant STAAN API.

https://noc.social/@327ppm/115934198650900394

Re:Ask HN: Is RSS Still Alive? on Thursday December 18, 2025 @04:01AM (#46310406)
> So, I looked for them as well but few websites have them.

This is a bit surprising for me. I've just randomly checked news: BBC, Guardian, Norwegian NRK - all had RSS. But I'm not checking news that much so not sure about others. Mastodon and BlueSky are also providing RSS. I guess walled garden ones like Instagram/Twitter don't?

My RSS reader is subscribed to:

- one Youtube channel

- several blogs (most blogs do have RSS, for example Wordpress provide it by default)

- Hacker News (few keyword-based feeds)

- Gitlab and Codeberg projects (haven't checked Github, because I need to be logged there).

- podcasts (podcasts are basically just RSS)

- few Mobilizon sites for events

- OpenStreetMap QA tool that checks my edits

- two subreddits

Maybe in general, you are right. I know just my bubble and even there are few sites without RSS (like Bandcamp).

For those that are subscribed to Youtube channels: no need to have account. Youtube has RSS.
Re:The Rust Performance Book on Monday November 24, 2025 @01:52PM (#46037628)
> > If an enum has an outsized variant, consider boxing one or more fields.

Clippy (at least pedantic one) will suggest this if needed.

Ruter operates in and around Oslo where temperatures higher than average. Anyway some of old (diesel?) buses had broken heating and were heating even if it was warm outside. These are still improvement.
Re:Typst 0.14 on Friday October 24, 2025 @02:36PM (#45697729)
> [1]

There is one example with Fletcher... I find these also nice: https://typst.app/universe/package/fletcher

Just for curiosity there is also: https://github.com/cablehead/http-nu

Which seems like interesting UX.

Re:How I'm Using Helix Editor on Sunday October 12, 2025 @02:36PM (#45560571)
I just use “d” for empty line.
Re:Buy European: EU Commissions New Apply AI Strategy Launched on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @07:20AM (#45514852)
You don't have kodebrikke in Sweden? Just app?
It is also used as grafted rootstock for Vitis vinifera in majority of vineyards (at least in Europe). BEcause of Phylloxera [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylloxera#Fighting_the_%22phy...

Re:The Browser Company (Arc, Dia) Has Been Acquired by Atlassian on Thursday September 04, 2025 @02:55PM (#45130899)
It takes 5 years on average til you can harvest some grapes. 10 years for generating profit sounds about right.
What does that mean? I thought that commissioners were nominated by governments of member states. Similarly like they nominate ministers inside those states.
Are not governments of member states in control of Council?
Re:Svalbard winter warming is reaching melting point on Saturday July 26, 2025 @05:47PM (#44697163)
> but you miss trees

I saw birch forest at Svalbard. Was about 2cm tall.

Re:When Is WebAssembly Going to Get DOM Support? on Wednesday July 23, 2025 @02:08PM (#44662196)
Btw there is also Dominator: https://github.com/Pauan/rust-dominator
Re:Python can run Mojo now on Monday June 23, 2025 @03:44AM (#44353381)
> and call it a Python superset to raise VC money

What else was proclaimed just to raise VC money?

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