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Re:This blog is written in en-GB on Thursday July 02, 2026 @01:46PM (#48764960)
Just use the C.UTF-8 locale:

SI units everywhere

ISO date and time

American English

24 hour clock

etc

I think Windows has "English International" locale or something

It matters because if you can't determine if something is child porn, then you'll end up overblocking, so it doesn't matter if it "exists" and "should be censored"
Wait till you find out where your taxes end up fellow redditor
How do you know if something is child porn?
Here's a nickel kid. Go buy yourself a real computer.
Re:If You Can't Hold It, You Don't Own It on Sunday June 28, 2026 @02:17PM (#48709932)
> good and right

For who?

Re:If You Can't Hold It, You Don't Own It on Saturday June 27, 2026 @03:27PM (#48700969)
> The problem

There is no problem, just pirate it.

> its unethical (and illegal)

I guess I'll just keep doing it then, and someone else can keep crying about it on orange computer reddit website

Re:Why software engineers are grieving on Friday June 26, 2026 @12:10PM (#48688300)
You're making money, just don't think about it and you'll be fine. Retire when you feel like it and do whatever
Re:Why software engineers are grieving on Friday June 26, 2026 @12:07PM (#48688259)
This one is so riddled with this LLM language it makes me think it's on purpose
Re:Why software engineers are grieving on Friday June 26, 2026 @12:03PM (#48688203)
Claude, generate an article that will get to HN front page. Make no mistakes.
Re:CAPTCHAs have failed for 20 years on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @12:45PM (#48662527)
> And being a cat and mouse game doesn’t mean the defenders failed.

It does though, in the end attackers always win. If something is a "cat and mouse game" then it's unwinnable by design from the defender side.

Sure, you can keep playing it if you feel like it, but at some point the attacker will be indistinguishable from a legitimate user and you will lose that fight.

Re:Arma: Cold War Assault (2001) source code released on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @06:18AM (#48657660)
Bohemia Interactive released the source code of the first Arma game, at the time known as Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis. Licensed under GPLv3, except third party components.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Flashpoint:_Cold_War_Cr...

The game features a large open world, multiplayer support, a full mission editor with support for scripting via an in-house language known as SQS, as well as comprehensive modding capabilities.

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/SQS_Syntax

The codebase has been modernized to C++20.

Re:Yserver: A modern X11 server written in Rust on Sunday June 14, 2026 @05:02PM (#48532668)
No.
Re:The state of building user interfaces in Rust on Saturday June 13, 2026 @08:11AM (#48516512)
It absolutely is. Defaults matter, most developers just want a GUI for their app that doesn't look like ass. Almost no one wants to mess with styling.
Re:Leaving Mozilla on Saturday June 13, 2026 @08:05AM (#48516469)
You sound so unemployed it's not even funny.

Get a job.

Re:FPS.cob: A first person shooter in COBOL on Thursday June 11, 2026 @01:32PM (#48493508)
We need to start putting guardrails on hn to not allow those pointless comments complaining about usage of AI.

If you have nothing else to comment on then can you stop crying please?

I've yet to see any ads on uBO Lite so I'll assume it's false, unless you give an example
It won't matter if dozens of nerds use Firefox, Chromium is just better in every way and that's the reason for it's popularity. No amount of "voting" will change that.

Manifest V3 doesn't prevent anyone from blocking ads, as proven by uBO Lite. And yet misinformation about MV3 takes place in every Chromium vs Firefox debate.

uBO Lite exists and blocks ads just as well as uBO. Why do people pretend it doesn't exist?
For some bizarre reason you think that you can't block ads on Chromium. uBO Lite exists and blocks ads just as well as uBO.
You could, but at the very least you'd need to MITM all HTTPS, and that means installing your own CA on all devices
No.

You do realize that people have stuff to do and want their browser to be both 1) fast and 2) compatible with all websites?

Firefox is slower than Chromium, and always will have some compatibility issues, because all websites are made with Chromium in mind.

You can pretend all you want that "well ackshually standards exist and all website makers should use things from the standard", but it's not realistic, everyone will just stick with what works on Chromium.

Also projects like Ungoogled Chromium exist, but for some reason Firefox fanboys conveniently ignore them and pretend that all Chromium-based browsers are evil and Firefox is our last bastion of hope (it isn't and also it sucks)

Re:sqlite: A CGo-free port of SQLite/SQLite3 on Monday June 08, 2026 @03:19AM (#48442226)
Just use a real web browser or enable JS, it's not that hard buddy. "Why do you keep hitting yourself?"
I didn't say corporations can't have an ugly laptop lineup.

I'm saying that the trend of consumer/business laptop lineups is to make all of them look similar to a MacBook, because that's what most people want. Of course there will always be exceptions, like the ThinkPad.

Sure, but normal people care about aesthetics, and unsurprisingly big corporations cater to that.
> I don't understand why they are not popular at all and only a few manufacturers build them.

Because they are ugly, just like ThinkPads that include them.

Isn't the fun part having the thing work how you wanted it to? Why shouldn't I be keen to automate the process away?
Re:Stop Killing Games on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @04:37PM (#48389651)
It's not pee-pee — it's poo-poo.
Re:Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @06:11AM (#48382082)
You wouldn't pick BSDs for a desktop anyway, assuming you want a working system and don't want to use Windows/macOS.

Now the concept of a "working system" can be a bit hard to grasp for some people, so let me put it this way: There are vastly more things that normal people do on their computer that work on Linux than on BSDs.

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