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VertanaNinjai··on UN to vote on adopting new world map that shows true size of all countries
I don’t know who “we” is, but seeing as this map was made in the 1500s by a European there is certainly an argument to be made that it is rooted in a Euro-centric view of the world.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/04/un-vote-world-...

VertanaNinjai··on Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread
Your counter points span decades. That is not the scale or rate at which we are seeing today.
VertanaNinjai··on UN to vote on adopting new world map that shows Africa's true scale
Then be extra real and recognize that some American schools cannot afford screens on razor-thin budgets.
VertanaNinjai··on UN to vote on adopting new world map that shows true size of all countries
Political mathematics like the Mercator projection which shrunk Africa to an unrealistic degree?
VertanaNinjai··on The Rust React Compiler is now native in Vite
As funny as this is I sometimes wonder about that crowd. Assuming the ecosystem at large flips and most software is now written in Rust what will the “rewrite it in Rust” crowd move to? Will they be satisfied for the most part or does it morph into “now rewrite in $latest_rust”?
VertanaNinjai··on 2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up
It was free to play when that wasn’t a popular financial model for games at the time. The memberships were also much cheaper than WoW and accepted different payment methods that would be more available to minors at the time.
VertanaNinjai··on ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He's Approaching 300 Days
We must be watching different videos. There is no ramming or fishtailing of any vehicles in that body cam footage. Sounds like another case where ICE has released falsehoods as press releases and then went silent when it fell apart against evidence.

Law enforcement is always timely releasing bodycam footage when it shows them in a good light, but if it doesn’t? They wouldn’t even produce the video for this guy in court until after the deadline for discovery had passed.

VertanaNinjai··on Pixel Watch 5
OP specifically called out GPS in relation to a watch as a desired feature. You can’t just summarily dismiss that with a hand wave of “you have a phone don’t you?”
VertanaNinjai··on Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters
Why are you assuming active shooter threats need to exist to begin with? There’s only one country it regularly happens in.
VertanaNinjai··on Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain
Perhaps they should’ve said platforms. Because if you wanted to migrate those passkeys off your password manager and into a different platform like Apple Pass or Google how is that accomplished?
VertanaNinjai··on Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop
Instead of having to define what “local-first” means to you personally you should emphasize that the data lives on your local machine. For some example messaging take a look at how Apple is marketing their new Siri AI.
VertanaNinjai··on Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see
Probably a ton since macOS apps are literally distributed as .app bundles.
VertanaNinjai··on I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support
Is anything that might be wrong or misinformation now a “hallucination”?
VertanaNinjai··on Tesla tells HW3 owner to 'be patient' after 7 years of waiting for FSD
You seem to be waging a war of words with someone who merely said “also these guys did it too”.
VertanaNinjai··on France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech
> In a gaming-only setup, Windows requires virtually no maintenance.

This is not remotely true anymore with Windows updates automatically restarting computers, windows updates pushing breaking changes especially in regards to GPU drivers, and more anticheats requiring secure boot.

VertanaNinjai··on WireGuard makes new Windows release following Microsoft signing resolution
Í think their point was that Wireguard has no physical hardware, so it’s strange as a software project they’d be forced to go through verification for a hardware program.
VertanaNinjai··on “Your frustration is the product”
Maybe there are some details missing here, but asking for more detailed or tailored feedback makes it seem like he cares and was willing to hear you out. Sometimes people are in their own industry for so long that they forget what their industry and tools look like to outside eyes. A simple menu to him could’ve been overwhelming for you as a quick example.
VertanaNinjai··on I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great
Well, huge shoutout to you for following up on your word!

https://gitlab.gnome.org/rickyb/network-manager-applet/-/com...

VertanaNinjai··on Calibre adds AI "discussion" feature
If you’re against anthropomorphism of LLMs then how can it “encourage” you if you’re not having a conversation? How could it “convince” you of anything or cast something in a bad light without conversing?

Your point about censorship, however, I fully agree with.

VertanaNinjai··on If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?
Do you have any good starting points? For example, if someone had an ollama or lm studio daemon running where would they go from that point?
VertanaNinjai··on How two photographers transformed RAW photo support on Mac
That functionality may exist, but I’m learning it from this comment. That is very nonintuitive and hard to discover.
VertanaNinjai··on YouTube Just Ate TV. It's Only Getting Started
And how is YouTube becoming better? Because in recent years if they detect ad blocking on a network? They will shadow ban the entire network. I can no longer use YouTube without a VPN because every single video cuts at the 1:00 mark. No explanation, no pop up. The videos simply load indefinitely. I have tried numerous solutions, but when I’m on my home network? I either VPN or I don’t get YouTube access.

This has been my situation for at least 2 years across multiple devices and accounts.

VertanaNinjai··on Vapor chamber tech keeps iPhone 17 Pro cool
This might be the first time I’ve seen someone happy about an advertisement in the wild. It is a cool video though!
VertanaNinjai··on Briar: Peer to Peer Encrypted Messaging
I’m not sure where you’re pulling “backdoored” from, but if Apple markets their devices as private then it seems reasonable that end users expect a private device.
VertanaNinjai··on Show HN: Beating Pokemon Red with RL and <10M Parameters
It can be brute forced if that’s what you mean. It has a fairly low difficulty curve and these old games have a grid system for movement and action selections. That’s why they’re pointing out the lower parameter amount and CPU. The point I took away is doing more with less.
VertanaNinjai··on Ask HN: What less-popular systems programming language are you using?
The prompt explicitly says “not Rust”. So the answers don’t say Rust.
VertanaNinjai··on Building Personal Software with Claude
Claude’s web UI has some strange limitations. You may be better off using another provider that just uses Claude 3.5 Sonnet API. One example of many is Kagi’s interface. You can set a system prompt and Claude will actually follow it instead of trying to be too clever. If your prompt says “give full and complete code files at all times unless specified otherwise by the user” it tends to follow that way more accurately than Claude.ai. May be worth a try for you to check out some other providers/interfaces.
VertanaNinjai··on Add "fucking" to your Google searches to neutralize AI summaries
I understand your point in general, but I don’t think it applies to Kagi. Users were paying the same monthly fee and then the company added those features on with no extra subscription cost. I also like that it doesn’t clutter my search. It doesn’t appear unless I press the AI button or end my search with a question mark (can also be disabled).

The only extra costs are if you use the (opt-in optional) AI Assistant which is a web UI to access various models for chatting purposes. As an aside, they recently updated this UI so it’s actually usable as a ChatGPT or Claude alternative.

VertanaNinjai··on It's not a crime if we do it with an app
Here is a page DOJ publishes on that (at least for fines). https://www.justice.gov/atr/sherman-act-violations-yielding-...

I also found this for criminal prosecutions under section 2 which is the section covering illegal monopolies. Pages 12 and 14 have some quick summary charts and tables.

https://www.americanbar.org/content/dam/aba/publications/ant...

VertanaNinjai··on Apple and Meta go to war over interoperability vs. privacy
From another comment here.

https://developer.apple.com/support/downloads/DMA-Interopera...

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