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by ACS_Solver 1y ago
Global and foreign news is a good thing. But a lot of attention devoted to foreign stories of questionable relevance isn't a good thing. One of my usual news sources is SVT, the national Swedish broadcaster. Their svt.se website is goo
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by ACS_Solver 1y ago
Currently 90% off on Steam (disclaimer, I'm on the OW team).
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by ACS_Solver 1y ago
I think it's not meant in contrast with proprietary standards, but (if you look at the book blurb) in contrast with people like Gates and Jobs. Bill Gates invented some things but is mostly known for taking his inventions, and those of
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by ACS_Solver 1y ago
From my perspective, even the US cultural norm is way too taarof. It's normal for Americans to offer things for politeness, with no intention to follow up and the interlocutor is also expected to understand the offer isn't genuine
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by ACS_Solver 1y ago
Because it ignores diacritics. Searching for ā will find a, searching for š will highlight s. This may make sense for some languages where diacritics are used sparingly to indicate an aspect of pronunciation, but in my language and many oth
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by ACS_Solver 1y ago
As another multilingual person, I keep getting reminded how bad software "features" can be for us. First, from early computers up to at least the Windows XP era, things sucked due to code pages and all that, but that was understan
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by ACS_Solver 1y ago
Same in Sweden, physical bank branches are rare and even they will often require an appointment. All banking is through bank apps or websites, and you use 2FA extensively. Sweden's digital ID system is called BankID because it was made
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by ACS_Solver 1y ago
Yes, the story is definitely false. I looked into some details the first time I saw it on HN, seemed strange then, and it cannot be true. Radiation from the disaster could, and did, mess with electronics, but close to the disaster area. Mos
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by ACS_Solver 1y ago
I'm one of the resident Wayland critics, and one of my most painful Wayland experiences was in a similar embedded/Yocto setting. A kiosk-style device where I had a perfectly working system for X. Sometimes there'd be one prog
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by ACS_Solver 1y ago
Yes, BSD is a single coherent system but so are many Linux distros. It's just that we've come to accept bad documentation as the norm for Linux-based tools. In my experience there's several types of problems that are very com
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by ACS_Solver 1y ago
The Arch wiki is one of the best things the Linux community has produced. It's like a modern, improved and more complete version of TLDP. I haven't even used Arch on any of my machines but can't count how many times I've
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by ACS_Solver 1y ago
> However, it's clearly not _mature_ yet (which is understandable - it's very new!) I'm admittedly biased against Wayland because in my view it's been a disaster both in organization and technically, and I've had
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by ACS_Solver 1y ago
Red Hat builds really good stuff. NIH is sometimes right because nobody invented the stuff at all. Standard Unix tools are great but they don't solve everything, so we've ended up with most distros having "the Debian way&quot
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by ACS_Solver 1y ago
Fascinating, I had no idea that it's a thing. Also interesting to see people they experienced this when sick as children. I did too, I remember two instances when I had fevers and was seeing such things. Some objects would suddenly hav
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by ACS_Solver 1y ago
drm/i915 was a pretty miserable experience for me on one machine. The Intel drivers for that chipset around the 5.3 kernel era weren't good, I recall lots of bug reports at the time. Below is one of the several issues that I was a
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by ACS_Solver 1y ago
Not if you want to remain on new Plasma, you can expect Debian to lag several minor versions behind. I've found it pretty easy though to use some KDE components built from source on top of the standard Debian packages. Build with kdesr
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by ACS_Solver 1y ago
For me, it was a combination of Ubuntu breaking upstream and introducing its own unnecessary systems. I had a few issues caused by Ubuntu that weren't upstream. One was Tracker somehow eating up lots of CPU power and slowing the system
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by ACS_Solver 1y ago
Writing this from my Debian system, it's a great distro that has been excellent to me as a daily driver. I switched to Debian 6 after Ubuntu went way downhill and haven't had cause to regret it. I like Debian's measured pragm
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by ACS_Solver 1y ago
The EU is not a monolithic bloc, we have vast differences in overall culture, language, politics and more. Economy as well of course. To me, used to the northern parts, a place like Italy certainly feels foreign because so much is different
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by ACS_Solver 1y ago
Yes, I currently lean skeptical but agentic LLMs excel at this sort of task. I had a great use just yesterday. I have an older Mediawiki install that's been overrun by spam. It's on a server I have root access on. With Claude, I w
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by ACS_Solver 1y ago
I just tried (o4-mini-high) and had it come to the wrong conclusion when I asked about the location and date, because it didn't search the web. I have a photo of a bench with a sign mentioning the cancellation of an event due to the Po
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by ACS_Solver 1y ago
Yes, there are few reasons to go to a Swedish bank branch, and they've been closing branches, too. Almost everything is done online - really goes for most things in Sweden, not just banks. You don't even visit a branch to become a
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by ACS_Solver 1y ago
> As I understand in some countries, they instead send you a "pre-filed" statement (Finland, Denmark, Sweden, etc.). If everything looks fine, you don't need to send anything back at all. It's only if there is a discr
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by ACS_Solver 2y ago
The article mentions GNU, and it took me a long time until I found out that English speakers pronounce it "noo", "new" or similar. My native language routinely has four consonants in a row, sometimes more, and gn is a pe
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by ACS_Solver 2y ago
I'm still using it after starting on one of the early Skype versions. At over 20 years, it's lasted me longer than ICQ, IRC or an other messenger. Most of my contacts no longer use Skype but it's the primary way I contact my
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by ACS_Solver 2y ago
I'm one of the apparently few people still using Skype, had the same issue with Skype just no longer working one day. But I was easily able to install the Snap package remotely on both my parents' laptops, wasn't any harder t
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by ACS_Solver 2y ago
I'm first and foremost a computer nerd, about the very target audience HN is for. Which also happens to be the target audience the early Civ games or Old World are often for!
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by ACS_Solver 2y ago
As one of the OW designers, and a daily HN reader, this is an unexpected but highly pleasant mention of the game here!
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by ACS_Solver 2y ago
I very rarely interact with any Apple tech. Recently I wanted to watch Severance, so I signed up for a trial period of Apple TV. It even worked on Firefox on my Linux desktop. But I only get 1080p video, while my screen is 1440p. The show d
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by ACS_Solver 2y ago
It's definitely one of the most fascinating things I've seen here. The challenge is an amazing example of what today's technology can do. We have rolled up papyrus scrolls that were carbonized two thousand years ago. They loo

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