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901.
by troad 4y ago
I would much appreciate an invite too, if anyone were feeling generous! :) My email is on my profile.
902.
by troad 4y ago
> an openly fascist and lying president (among other things). Oh, have Georgia Meloni, Victor Orban and Recep Erdogan hopped over from Europe? Must have missed that.
903.
by troad 4y ago
I'd dearly love it if HN had tags. I could skip to all the weird quirky gems, and past all the $LATEST_FAD, or - worse - the VC broetry.
904.
by troad 4y ago
> Then again, I did come to Europe for the rich history, I just didn't think its inhabitants would be so bound by it. Europe is run as a continent-sized retirement home, by incompetent, hereditary elites who are utterly incapable of
905.
by troad 4y ago
With respect, you're speaking with an unwarranted degree of confidence about a topic you do not seem very well versed in. The key problem is that you're confusing two very different kinds of police operations. If the police get a
906.
by troad 4y ago
This is quite silly. A warrant isn’t a magic bullet that ends all your rights and gives the police superpowers. A lawyer can very much say “no, this information isn’t responsive to the warrant”, where a lay person may not realise this, and
907.
by troad 4y ago
> don't use a VPN correctly People have different use cases for a VPN. I use one because I travel a lot, and spend a lot of time on dodgy public Wi-Fi. Not because I’m living some Jason Bourne fantasy.
908.
by troad 4y ago
Warrants generally have to be for something. It’s possible that the police officers showed up with a warrant for user names and addresses, etc, and Mullvad was able to demonstrate that they don’t possess any data responsive to the warrant
909.
by troad 4y ago
I was at this point a few years back, and I am so happy having made the switch. Kubuntu is my strong recommendation for any switcher's first distro, but there's a lot of great options out there.
910.
by troad 4y ago
I feel like you may have misunderstood what kling is saying. He's not saying "we will cut any corner to get Twitter to load", he's saying "we look at what it would take to get Twitter to load, read through the relev
911.
by troad 4y ago
> imposing weird anachronistic restrictions on yourself for no good reason It's worth noting that this also describes virtually all poetry, the rules of all sports, etc. :)
912.
by troad 4y ago
Could something like this be implemented as an iOS keyboard, I wonder?
913.
by troad 4y ago
This is an incredibly cool write-up, demonstrating a level of technical skill far beyond me. Kudos! I am a little confused by all the "but why" comments here. Because it's fun! Because it's cool! Because it's full o
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by troad 4y ago
> If they were ever to be acquired by a corporate with a presence in the EU, it would inherit that liability and be forced to pay or exit the EU. Absolutely, but that wouldn't really affect the vast majority of smaller or mid-sized
915.
by troad 4y ago
I’m curious at what point we’ll get the first mid-sized or larger company - someone without a physical presence in Europe - simply shrugging their shoulders at EU regulators. Given the rapid expansion of EU regulation of tech in recent year
916.
by troad 4y ago
I'm generally someone who loves a laugh, but I don't enjoy the Internet's take on April Fools. April Fools isn't really about jokes, it's more about pranks, and pranks are hard to do well. You need a lot of shared
917.
by troad 4y ago
I'm constantly so astonished by how well Wine works these days. I remember the first time I heard about Wine, decades ago, and thinking "yeah, right!" But by God, they pulled it off. I would not have been able to move to Linu
918.
by troad 4y ago
Thank you! I wish I knew one tenth of what mpv does! Every time I launch mpv I'm afraid to press any buttons, lest I inadvertently summon up an overlay showing air particle pollution in Yokohama.
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by troad 4y ago
I had typed out a response where I refer to the second two paragraphs of my reply above and elaborated on them, but a more interesting thought occurs: what is a sugar-only media diet? How does it differ from any other 'media diet&#x2
920.
by troad 4y ago
It didn't raise taxes on people in California and New York - California and New York did that. It's just that until that law passed, those states were able to hide this by cutting into federal tax receipts via the SALT deduction.
921.
by troad 4y ago
> I don't understand why China is allowed to have web products in our markets but we don't seem to be allowed Google, Facebook, WhatsApp etc. in theirs. Because we're a democracy with free speech and open markets, and Chin
922.
by troad 4y ago
Run with the assumption that everything is always infinitely available, and become judicious with your attention. Boring podcast? Don't think twice, delete it. Good TV show, but not amazing? Move on, there's better out there. You
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by troad 4y ago
I don't think of retro-computing as an activity limited solely to the hardware and software that existed at a given time, that's far too restrictive for me. 6502 is an architecture, not a specific machine, nor even the set of mach
924.
by troad 4y ago
Just wanted to chime in and agree with cyberax. I’m living in a dense, beautiful European city, in a heritage listed building near the historic centre. If I got a US visa tomorrow I’d be on the first flight to the Houston or Dallas suburbs.
925.
by troad 4y ago
Their GitHub is active, and they have a Discord. I don’t do Discord, but if you do, you could probably follow their progress on there. As of 2020, graphical app support appeared to be basic but somewhat functional: https://github
926.
by troad 4y ago
Yes god forbid employers are allowed to - checks notes - set wages. The Ministry of Truth knows better than they do what they can afford to pay for a given role! I applaud efforts to make companies publish salary ranges. It corrects an in
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by troad 4y ago
UK law is common law, which is different from the civil law systems practised in continental Europe. Importantly, the theory of contract differs - in the UK anything can be a contract, provided there’s certain elements like an exchange (the
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by troad 4y ago
That’s… odd. I just figured from the name that it’s someone who wanted to protect their privacy, but that’s certainly, uh, some persona. If it is the creator, my charitable interpretation would be that it’s a form of experimenting with iden
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by troad 4y ago
I really look forward to reliable (modern) macOS emulation, a la wine. I miss some of my wee little Mac utilities / games now that I’m in Linux full-time. I’m rooting for the guys working on stuff like Darling[0], but it looks like the
930.
by troad 4y ago
Are you sure about this? The Asahi about page ( https://asahilinux.org/about/ ) lists Hector Marcan and Lina as separate people. I assume Asahi Lina is a pen name, but I don't see anything to suggest it's Marca

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