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Re:Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter? on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @07:01AM (#33419505)
Only by toxic escalators.
Re:SMS Multifactor Authentication in Antarctica on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @06:59AM (#33419479)
Wait, what? Aren't batteries and chargers smart nowadays? I thought they automatically care about battery health no matter what the user does (apart from deep discharging of course)!
Re:Ask HN: What social media site could replace Twitter? on Tuesday November 01, 2022 @06:41AM (#33419331)
Probably not censorship but rather reasonable moderation and civility.
Weird, my experience is the opposite. All journalists I met in person and spoke to have been critical towards anything in any way reasonable. Including their bosses and institutions. It's a merit of journalism for introspection to be normal and wanted.
Left and right are useless categories, trying to compare them is moot.
If it is nauseating to you, just ignore them. Pick a different hobby that's not complaining about other people's struggles it upsets you.

You made a good point for asking for money instead of providing free work by the way.

When other people rely on your hobby it can be hard to just walk away. There is pride, dedication and the feeling of providing value in FOSS. But if others make tremendous amounts of money based on your unpaid work, and show entitlement to its benefits and free support or development, it is hard not not feel a tiny bit entitled for compensation.
Re:The horror has a face – Nvidia’s hot 12VHPWR adapter on Saturday October 29, 2022 @11:45AM (#33385027)
"Reading what they wrote made me feel I was having a stroke" is kind of an unnecessary exaggeration. But yeah, my comment was as well. Fistbump!
Or how you end up with a search engine for passion projects, open-source projects, community hosted sites and more.
Re:The horror has a face – Nvidia’s hot 12VHPWR adapter on Friday October 28, 2022 @01:25PM (#33374451)
The site is hosted on a .de domain, so there is a very chance that the author is German. It would have been nice if you had considered that before writing such angry and negative words about the author's work.
That's inventing details that don't exist in the data though, correct?
Re:WhatsApp goes down for users globally on Tuesday October 25, 2022 @07:25AM (#33329060)
Sounded really interesting until I found that it is just another zero-sum exploitation scheme...

> Oxen blockchain and the $OXEN privacy token

Was she aware of the bulbs being a potential issue? Maybe she sweated or showed other signs.
Only in some versions though.
Re:I wish my web server were in the corner of my room on Tuesday October 11, 2022 @04:23PM (#33168761)
Nothing "edgy" about kids finding words that describe genitals funny. It is like that everywhere on the planet and it always has been.
Re:Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1 is out on Friday October 07, 2022 @07:29AM (#33119848)
Nitpick, but you are off by about one order of magnitude for the number of movies available on Netflix. It's closer to 20,000.
Re:Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1 is out on Friday October 07, 2022 @07:28AM (#33119839)
Even if the technical process is just "copying data" there is a whole world of legal and ethical issues around it.

Torrenting non-free products from unofficial sources is illegal.

Re:Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1 is out on Friday October 07, 2022 @07:26AM (#33119823)
How are the producers reimbursed in your example?
Re:Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1 is out on Friday October 07, 2022 @07:24AM (#33119809)
As is their right and somehow even their duty if it is not in alignment with the project's philosophy or goals.

You can create a fork and implement the feature or pay someone to implement it for you. That's the wonderful benefit of free software.

Phonetically it sounds like "porn".
Re:OpenStreepMap 2012 vs. 2022 on Monday October 03, 2022 @04:19AM (#33064812)
I did not have any nagging im the version I bought.
Art is rarely about the product. Some color on a canvas has been traded for millions, while anyone could just have dropped a bucket of paint to create a similar result.
Re:OpenStreepMap 2012 vs. 2022 on Friday September 30, 2022 @02:32PM (#33038762)
Or do, if you want to monetarily support the developers in a convenient way.
Should websites be able to dictate which programs can access them? In a way a website is just an API too.
Re:Europe is in danger of rolling electricity shortages on Sunday September 25, 2022 @01:37PM (#32973799)
Russia is trying to capitalize on this but the current EU/NATO consensus on the Ukraine conflict will only strengthen even further.

This winter is going to be a very hard time for Russia.

Re:3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror on Sunday September 25, 2022 @01:33PM (#32973751)
That's just about 80. Any client can handle that. Use a watch directory or a client that allows to add *.torrent or drag them all to a GUI and hold down Enter or sumthin ;-)
Re:3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror on Sunday September 25, 2022 @01:32PM (#32973726)
Why is this not distributed in a more private (onion routed, I2P, retroshare,...) way and in a way that can automatically sync?

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