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79a6ed87··on Lula wins election after final votes tallied
> Lula went to jail because when Bolsonaro was in charge they made up a case about him accepting beachfront property.

Lula went to jail before Bolsonaro came into power and got released while he was president. It's a well remembered case in Latin America and it's easy to correct you on that.

79a6ed87··on Show HN: Everything a web page can learn about you, in plain English
> plugins [object Object], [object Object], [object Object], [object Object], [object Object]0 ms

This part is broken

79a6ed87··on 6 years and 360 patches to clean all instances of strnpy out of the Linux kernel
Confusion comes from Linux being used as a replacement term for any distro
79a6ed87··on Show HN: Explore color palettes inspired by 3000 master painter artworks
Hi, I like it! 2 things I noticed:

1) Aren't "Modernism" and "Modernismo" the same thing? I'm a Spanish speaker and from my POV they are

2) Selected "Naïve Art" style and it's broken (images not loading). Probably something to do with the diaeresis

79a6ed87··on Ubuntu now has higher system hardware requirements than Windows 11
Ubuntu Desktop has always been amongst the most consuming distros due to their reliance on GNOME

Even during the time when they didn't and it used Unity, it still was "bloated" in a way

79a6ed87··on DOMPurify, DOM-only, fast, Uber-tolerant XSS sanitizer for HTML, SVG and MathML
As a user of DOMPurify, I have to bring attention to the new HTML Sanitizer API[1].

Not the same, I know, but it's relevant still.

Also, there's a post from less than 2 weeks ago about it[2]

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTML_Saniti...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46198606

79a6ed87··on GPT-5.2-Codex
Interesting. Where do I run that?
79a6ed87··on GPT-5.2-Codex
My only concern with Codex is that it's not possible to delete tasks.

This is a privacy and security risk. Your code diffs and prompts are there (seemingly) forever. Best you can do is "archive" them, which is a fancy word for "put it somewhere else so it doesn't clutter the main page".

79a6ed87··on How Much Wealth an AI Stock Market Crash Could Destroy
But since then the other countries learned that the US government could weaponize their USD holdings if they don't align. Central banks started accumulating gold to counter this.

Also, debt market is not the same as it was 5 years ago, Japan now has inflation (and they hold the biggest bag of US debt).

To add to this, USD lost 10% of its value this 2025 according to the DXY index. To be fair, it pretty much went to what it was worth before 2022, but the Fed has to be careful anyway.

Many things happened since 2020. It's almost 2026.

79a6ed87··on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
>To those of us who like Free Software because of the freedom it gives us, this is a severe regression.

It's fair to be worried about depending on LLM. But I find the dependance on things like AWS or Azure more problematic, if we are talking about centralized and proprietary

79a6ed87··on SQLite File Format Viewer
Have you tried MessagePack[0]?

0: https://msgpack.org/index.html

79a6ed87··on Fish odor syndrome – A rare metabolic condition that makes sweat smell like fish
I recently learned about this condition through a film called The Holdovers
79a6ed87··on Are Immutable Linux Distros right for you?
This is why I like Arch's Pacman a lot, and the reason why I avoid Debian derivatives.

That `totallysafescript.sh` could at least be inside of the package manager scope. Most of the times someone already did it, and published it to AUR.

IMO the reason why there are so many people running random scripts in Ubuntu/Debian is due to how more difficult/inconvenient it is to get a dpkg .deb when compared to a PKGBUILD file. Same for MacOS, in which you have to either rely on Homebrew wizardry or just running the script

79a6ed87··on Internet Object – New Age Data Serialization After JSON
This looks interesting, although I'm curious on how it handles binary data, since that page is blank in their documentation.
79a6ed87··on Owe your banker £1k you are at his mercy; owe him £1m the position is reversed (2019)
>Except Argentine debt is largely in US dollars, so they didnt do that.

Exactly, just between a 20 and a 30 percent of our debt is in Argentine pesos. [0]

0: https://www.argentina.gob.ar/economia/finanzas/graficos-deud...

79a6ed87··on 'You're not a polar bear: The plunge into cold water comes with risks'
>I am also a freediver, and it is well known that hyperventilating before holding your breath is a deadly thing to do in the water, because it can cause blackout- and that seems to be what people are (incorrectly) doing here.

Coincidentally, Wim Hof and his technique came out in a conversation with a friend last night, and when he mentioned that hyperventilating was a big part of it I told him that it was a contraindication for epileptic people like me.

Actually, they diagnosed me by wiring me to an EEG machine while hyperventilating on purpose. I lost consciousness in the middle of the study.

79a6ed87··on The case for pole dancing in the Olympics
Where I live, they call it “pole sport” to mark the difference with the dancing (also called “pole exotic”)

Source: I train pole sport

79a6ed87··on Intel says 13th and 14th Gen mobile CPUs are crashing
I didn’t know that. I would like to know how to get more informed about these kind of structural differences on CPU generations.

Going back to the what you said, Intel selling the same silicon as two different generations (even if this is still just marketing terminology) is a bit lame on their side.

79a6ed87··on Intel says 13th and 14th Gen mobile CPUs are crashing
I would say that the AMD preferability came along with Meltdown
79a6ed87··on XScreenSaver is available on Android. Google requires a privacy policy
Odd, I didn't get it when I clicked on that link
79a6ed87··on Gainax, known for 'Evangelion' anime production, goes bankrupt
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I prefer the original ending
79a6ed87··on Show HN: Minimalist, walkie-talkie for startups
I like it!

I’ve been thinking for a while now that the beeper was a nice concept for something similar not to exist anymore

79a6ed87··on I Miss BSD/Linux
Hello!

Framework + FreeBSD user here. It works great, although I had to replace the network card I originally bought with it for an older one.

Someone wrote a blog post about it too. Maybe I should also edit the Framework entry in the FreeBSD Wiki.

79a6ed87··on Mp3tag – Universal Tag Editor
Kid3 is wonderful! Love it, and it has both GTK and Qt frontends
79a6ed87··on Psilocybin Effective as Antidepressant
Nobody ever mentions these things. Same with cannabis, it's unusual to mention that it could do that to you (or at least cause you to have a bad time due to "the greens").

OTOH, side-effects are inevitable with any drug. Some anti-psychotics might give you suicidal tendencies, yet these are approved to be sold in drugstores anyway; they work more frequently than what it takes for them to give you those issues.

79a6ed87··on A brief history of web development, and why your framework doesn't matter
>"The amount of complexity I'm willing to tolerate is proportional to the size of the problem being solved."

I like this quote, it reminds me to another favorite of mine, the Sagan standard: "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"

79a6ed87··on BRICS Digital Currency: Cryptocurrency on a Public Blockchain
Geopolitics is obviously involved. And since trust is the most important aspect when it comes to saving in a particular asset, I wouldn’t save my money in something issued by either Russia or China.

BRICS even invited my country, Argentina, to join. I wouldn’t save in a currency made by them until they get it together and keep it reasonably managed for a couple of decades. That’s how little trust they deserve from me at this moment when it comes to investing.

79a6ed87··on Enron tried to trade memory chip futures; why didn't it work?
This comment plus the one about Enron's water investments reminded me of Bill Burr's take on Lance Armstrong:

"Look, the guy was a sociopath on a bicycle, all right? As far as I'm concerned, we got off easy. If that guy was working for a corporation, he probably would have been pourin' stuff in the water supply, doing God knows what. Just keep him on the bike, just let him go up and down the hills, he's not hurting anybody."

79a6ed87··on ZFS Profiling on Arch Linux
Targetting the linux-lts package as a dependency instead of linux should reduce the impact of this issue
79a6ed87··on Apple has gotten so big it's almost overtaken France's entire stock market
>Sure it still is a problem but wealth inequality is a huge deal.

Wealth inequality is really a problem. But Europe not being as competitive as the US means that their most qualified professionals move there. They tend to call this "brain drain"

Now, let's also take a look at the fertility rate in Europe. That's not a good combo

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