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bji9jhff··on New EU-wide product repair rules come into force
Which options are outlawed and where?
bji9jhff··on Belgian car salesman becomes prince after DNA test proves royal parentage
I think real estate and capital shouldn't be in the same category personal items are in. As a society we often conflate them but we shouldn't.
bji9jhff··on Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months
You suppose what you'll do with the ram has an incidence on your capacity to buy it which is only true if you are part of those able to get financing.
bji9jhff··on Free Remote Desktop Without Servers
> No middleman!!1*

[*] Except Cloudflare. And Vercel.

bji9jhff··on Notes from tired Egyptian whose job is explaining that humans built the pyramids
I think the more likely explanation is racism. If the pyramids were in Europe, nobody would challenge their human origin but pyramids are in Africa Surely aliens are involved.
bji9jhff··on Show HN: StackScope – I crawled over 40k indie launches to see what they ship
"Verified bot" for cloudflare sounds like "Acceptable ad" for adblock.
bji9jhff··on The British university is dying, and it seems that almost nobody cares
They trivied for centuries on far lower population
bji9jhff··on Don't Subscribe So Casually
Why would they salt their own field it's hard to understand
bji9jhff··on Referer Reality
For the privacy of the user, nowadays the referer header are either shortened or voided by the browser. You reintroducing the string by a side-channel could be seen by users as a backstab, even if you see it as "etiquette".
bji9jhff··on Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school
On the other hand, I got bullied a lot less after one lose a few teeth. Violence does work.
bji9jhff··on Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school
I'm tired of trying to find excuses for their bad behaviours. The first goal should be to protect the victims. By whatever is necessary. People have a right to live in security. Then, once that first step is done, we can think about pampering the bullies into conformance. Not the other way around.
bji9jhff··on RSS feeds send me more traffic than Google
Wasn't that parallel universe our 15 years ago?
bji9jhff··on The Mushroom That Makes People Have the Exact Same Hallucination
You can also sign a contract with them so you are able to see them. It's all explained in the Hilda documentary series.
bji9jhff··on Roger Ebert Reviews "The Shawshank Redemption" (1999)
Who is the new Stephen King? I suppose answering my question will automatically also give an answer to yours.
bji9jhff··on Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project
Is it a kind of computer-assisted Nomic [0]?

0: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic

bji9jhff··on The true story of the Windows 3.1 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme
In practice lot of applications hard-coded some elements' color while following the theme for other elements, making dark theme unusable because you end up with black text imposed by the developers over the black background you choose for your theme, and other similar issues.
bji9jhff··on Cut off by their banks and from Alexa, sanctioned ICC staffers remain resolute
An arrestation is a violent activity. Something doesn't stop being violent because it's justified.
bji9jhff··on Ask HN: Which web browser are you using and why?
I use Firefox since it started. At first because I liked it's license. Later because I was in love with the way I'd did things and the add-ons ecosystem it spawned. The first major disagreement came when the search bar merged with the location bar. Then FTP support was disabled. Then RSS bookmarks thingy was removed. Then that stupid hamburger menu appeared. Then features I don't even understand like Pocket appeare. But I continued to use Firefox because the alternatives were worse. Now I keep using Firefox because of apathy and I'm basically the boiled frog of lore.
bji9jhff··on 10 years of writing a blog nobody reads
I've tried a few time to read le Journal du Hacker, the french-speaking clone of Hacker News and each time I've found that the writing level is so low it's basically unreadable.
bji9jhff··on Don't Download Apps
Then the VPN provider does geolocation instead and get the list of hosts you accessed
bji9jhff··on What you can get for the price of a Netflix subscription
Being put in contact with foreign contents? Disgusting! /s

More seriously, before Netflix I never knew how high-quality and fun was stuffs from all around the world. I watched great series from South Korea, Turkey, Jordan, Spain,France, Luxembourg, Germany, Scandinavian countries and South America. I also watched quite enjoyable movies from Nigeria. I probably forgot a few places too. Do Netflix has issues? Plenty. Their originals are often blands and cancelled. They taught me to seek mini-series and completed series instead of ongoing series. The wrestling they air is shit. But the availability of foreign contents is the coolest feature they have.

bji9jhff··on Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?
Haha thanks ;)
bji9jhff··on Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?
Knowing mega corps will suck my blood thanklessly is of no solace.
bji9jhff··on Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?
That grandma is dead. The online grandma is her daughter.

*You changed your post and now mine doesn't make sense anymore. I forgive you but don't do it again.

bji9jhff··on Let's Unify Linux Desktops
I read it as "why don't people doing their own things do mines instead?"
bji9jhff··on Is Vibe Coding Dying?
Yeah, well... I'm gonna go vibe code my own Substack, with zoomable webpages and zoomable pictures. In fact, forget Substack!
bji9jhff··on RF Shielding History: When the FCC Cracked Down on Computers
I like how you described how I imagine OSA will be used.
bji9jhff··on Why I chose Lua for this blog
Ok. I'll bite. What are the risks? As I see it, if you screw up and someone get root access on your server, it's the worse that may happens and then shut down the whole thing is a click away.
bji9jhff··on When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire
I like to read HN because the conversation here is higher quality than elsewhere, when the subject is tech. But when the conversation deviate to politic, I'm reminded that outside their limited expertise, people here are no better than elsewhere as I read the same ignorant drivel I can find everywhere.
bji9jhff··on What could have been
> instead of building the Great Pyramids, those thousands of workers (likely slaves) could have all individually spent that time building homes for their families. But, those homes wouldn't still be around and remembered millenia later.

They would have been better off. Those pyramids are epitomes of white elephants.

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