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Parae··on IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report
The genocide and ethnic cleansing Israel is committing is the best recruitment campaign for Hamas.
Parae··on IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report
You're wrong on the definition of zionism. Zionism is a European nationalist movement that uses the assumption there is a consensual concept of "homogeneous jewish people" who have the right to self-determination to justify Palestine's colonization.

Anti-zionism is being against the colonization of Palestine and being against nationalism and supremacism.

Anti-semitism is hating someone because of the are jew.

Parae··on IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report
Forced displacement due to the mass destruction of all facilities in an area consists exactly in ethnic cleansing. Ethnic cleansing means : systemic removal of a group or person by another group of person in an area. And it's exactly what's happening. It makes no sense to say it's neither a genocide nor ethnic cleansing if the population grows. Same as saying there were no genocide or ethnic cleansing in Rwanda or Bosnia since the population has grown.
Parae··on IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report
And before that, the australopithecus
Parae··on Linux is good now
> pretty much NO game becomes less fun with even a 30% FPS drop

I mostly play fighting games. A 7% drop in FPS is more than enough to break the whole game experience as combo rely on frame data. For example Street Fighter 6 is locked at 60 fps. A low punch needs 4 frames to launch and leaves a 4-frames window to land another hit. If there was a 7% drop in FPS, you would miss your combo. Even the tiniest drop in FPS makes the game unplayable.

It's the same for almost every fighting games. I know it's a niche genre, but I'm quite sure it's the same for other genres. It's a complete dealbreaker for competitive play.

Parae··on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?
Is GNU getting income by replacing human-made work ? GNU and FSF are nonprofit organizations providing free software to people.

It's the kind of organization that could be financed by taxes on AI mega-corp.

Parae··on French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence
She didn't simply used EU money to pay her party staff, she was the head of a stealing EU money system while also saying that EU costs to much to France. Not only is she a morally corrupt criminal but also a corrupter. It was not a mistake she made, she was not alone and all convicted members of her party were fully aware they were committing a massive fraud.

Saying that is was an error and the trial was political, is plain disinformation.

Parae··on Nobel Peace Prize 2025: María Corina Machado
I don't think they are talking about Maduro, but a big blond haired baby who likes burger and fascism.
Parae··on German government comes out against Chat Control
Being free to vote doesn't make you feel free and secure. It's not even safe to attend to a protest to ask for a ceasefire in Gaza. So yeah, you can say "I hate Merz", but don't even try to say "Free Palestine"...
Parae··on Analoguediehard
I think the best way to learn how to use a synth, is to play in a band with other people. They will ask you to play things you never thought of before. When the drummer starts by "I want to feel like I'm under a bridge when it's raining rocks and frogs". Minilogue xd is perfect for this kind of exercise.
Parae··on YouTube No Translation
I'm against auto-translate for the exact same argument. I don't want japanese band's name to be translated. Nor I want my own music titles to be translated into other languages. There are many reasons why I wrote or said something in a specific language.
Parae··on The librarian immediately attempts to sell you a vuvuzela
Their core product is software meant to make sweet ad money.
Parae··on The hidden cost of AI coding
I have been working in IT for 5 years while being a professional musician for 8 years (in France and touring in Europe). I've never met a single singer who told me they hate singing, on other hand, I can't even count how many of my colleagues told me how much they hate coding.

Another analogy would be with sound engineering. I've met sound engineer who hate their job as they would rather play music. They are also the ones whose jobs are likely to be replaced by AI. And I would argue that the argument stand stills. AI Sound Engineers who hate working on sound are often the bad sound engineers.

Parae··on DIY Synths Database
Really great project and nice collection ! There also are some non-open source but still hackable synth out there, such as the Korg NTS-1. It's not exactly DIY but a "mount it yourself kit" and Korg maintains a C and C++ SDK for oscillo and fx.

Funny part with the x0xb0x, the creator mentioned that the x0xb0x is free as "Free your mind and your ass will follow", the funkiest open source clause

Parae··on Boycott IETF 127
Well, if you're Palestinian, Germany can be really harsh and I won't bet on your safety..
Parae··on The Demoralization is just Beginning
Tocqueville was a colonialist who wanted to apply a racial segregation system in Algeria. He also wanted to indemnify slave-owners and traders if the slave went free. In France, we see Tocqueville as an "egalitarian but for the bourgeoisie". That's what the French Revolution was about : abolishing nobility so nobles and bourgeois are equals.
Parae··on Mozilla deletes promise to never sell Firefox data
I'm a happy LibreWolf for years. The transition from FF to LibreWolf is seamless. And you won't be surprised anymore nor annoyed when Mozilla does moves like that.
Parae··on OpenDAW – a new holistic exploration of music creation inside the browser
It already exists. It's called Ardour. Paul, the main developer is quite active on HN.
Parae··on Why don't you move abroad?
Let's not forget here that Africa is 10 times bigger than India, 5 times bigger than Bresil and twice as big as Russia. It's a very disparate continent. Algeria and DRC, the two biggest countries in Africa, have very little in common.
Parae··on Why don't you move abroad?
Since 2021 [1] it's easier to come to France as an Indian, that it is as an Algerian, or even worse, as a Nigerian or Palestinian.

[1] https://www.immigration.interieur.gouv.fr/Europe-et-Internat...

Parae··on Why don't you move abroad?
Let me guess, you're from EU or USA ? Nationalism is not what's stopping most africans to move abroad. I'm lucky I was born in France so I don't have to bother with visa refusal like all my cousins in Algeria.
Parae··on I Don't Have Spotify
Artists can also remove old albums from Spotify. At least with Bandcamp you can buy the music and download the files - if you want to.

And you can even send a mail to the artist to ask them why they removed old albums and if they can provide you a copy.

Parae··on We need more zero config tools
Just because we don't have access to great tools when working in remote server doesn't mean we shouldn't use them locally. I use Vim with lots of plugins on my personal projects, I use IntelliJ at work. But if I need to ssh and vi, it's ok, I know how to it efficiently. With Fleet or VSCode you can easily use your dev environment with your tools, plugins, shortcode to work on remote codebase via SSH.
Parae··on A Japanese factory that designs clothes on a 40-year-old computer [video]
I released my last album on tape cassette. It's easy, fast and super cheap to produce, so you can sell it at gigs for few euros or even give them for free. Fans are likely to buy some merchandising to support the artists they like and they don't really want to spend 15€ for a vinyl when they already paid for an entrance.

Cassette tape also have that crispy, muffed but hot and softly saturated sound. I also like sometimes to record my synthesizers direct to tape with a Yamaha MX4T (a 4-track cassette recorder).

Parae··on Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
> Firefox also has a lot of telemetry and experiments enabled, even if users opt out in the GUI. These have to be disabled in the about:config setting.

Have you heard of LibreWolf ? It is basically FF without the telemetry and with a lot of privacy and security features [1]. I've been using it for 2+ years and I'm very happy with it. The transition from FF to LibreWolf was seamless.

[1]: https://librewolf.net/docs/features/

Parae··on Ask HN: Favorite Purchases of 2022?
A Boss RC-505. I've played synth for a few years with a punk-rock band. During lockdown, I tried to rehearse but without a bassist, a drummer and a guitarist, it was quite hard to practice. I recorded loops on a DAW and played over. I found out it was fun, so I went solo and did lot's of shows with live-loop-recording with my computer and my synth. More than unpractical, it sounded awful.

I wanted drop the laptop for live performances, so I bought a Boss RC-505. A cool loopstation where I could record my loops more freely with other functionnalities I couldn't think of before. It changed the way I played music and completely changed my identity as an artist.

I'll release a new tape in a month, I recorded two EPs, I started touring, fans are following me. It all stepped up when I decided to level my machines up.

Parae··on Israel says soldier probably killed Shireen Abu Aqleh by accident
You should take a look at the videos. There was a line of fire. It's clear on the videos. You can see that the snipers didn't "use single shots". Journalists were targeted. All investigations except the israeli ones led to the conclusion that it was an intended shot that killed Shireen.
Parae··on ISO name change for Türkiye
Same goes with Cabo Verde, Costa Rica, Les Seychelles
Parae··on Squatters in Spain who demand a "ransom" before they will leave a property
I'm from France and I used to go to a lot of squats, and what you say is not true. I don't live in squats but I know a girl who does. She was rejected by her parents because she is lesbian. Even in uninhabited houses, when the police comes, every squatters are out immediately. Even if they have no rights to do it, and the law is supposed to "protect" squatters. I witnessed police throwing tear gas and smoke grenade to get squatters out. And when they are out, the police acts as if nothing happened.
Parae··on The west will learn no lessons from the fall of Kabul
"The west" is not really wishy washy in this context. Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, Greece, Luxembourg and a lot more have a huge responsibility, and we all have a lesson to learn from the fall of Kabul and from the whole situation in Afghanistan. Because it impacts us. It impacts us directly.
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