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create-usernameon Games with loot boxes to get minimum 16 age rating across Europe

If you start banning everything that causes addiction, a market big enough to trade on the Nasdaq would collapse, vanish.

create-usernameon Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse software

How can I disable the horizontal wheel? Not the one between the regular buttons but the one on top of the thumb.

It’s useless for me but no piece of software acknowledges my neurosis

create-usernameon macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses

It’s a great desktop environment. I wish I could install it. I’m trying to install the CDE on a parallel’s FreeBSD VM but it doesn’t relaunch after rebooting it.

create-usernameon macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses

“Calm down, Postalcoder. We can vent tonight on our blog”

create-usernameon The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025)

We used to live counting the days in awe for the surprisingly new Google invention or release.

Then, one by one, Google started killing more services than it was announcing (Wave, News, +, etc), and enshittifying with spyware those that were still up

create-usernameon The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025)

MacOS mail used to have RSS integration

create-usernameon MacBook Neo

I dream of a macOS installer in which you can decide the level of bloat, instead of then fighting against apple’s super user in your device (SIP) using scripts from generous Internet friends.

“Warning: installing the service ‘Siri’ will add up to an extra GB of memory usage”

create-usernameon The Iran War's Most Precious Commodity Isn't Oil, It's Desalinated Water

“ And God blessed them, and God said unto them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.”

Every living thing that moves might include other ethnical groups

create-usernameon iPhone 17e

The iphone air isn’t popular either and yet here we are. They preferred releasing a huge thin phone than a tiny thin phone. Even if the % of clients is small, there are still millions of potential mini clients

create-usernameon Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues

I found myself closing Linux windows sometimes only with alt+F4; sometimes only with ctrl+Q; sometimes with both; sometimes with none

create-usernameon LED lighting undermines visual performance unless supplemented by wider spectra

which is not that bad if you want to warm your room a bit. The heat is not wasted, but added to the room. We use 250 watts to warm under the coffee tables. These are infrared-coated incandescent bulbs

create-usernameon GPT-5.2

you joke but Latin teachers are very sought after in my region. There are none. I have just bootcamped myself to become one and shift careers due to the high demand

create-usernameon Lawmakers want to ban VPNs

Why ban VPNs when you can freely force social networks like HN to tie nickname registration to an state issued digital ID certificate to guarantee freedom of speech and legal accountability?

https://old.reddit.com/r/XGramatikInsights/comments/1ovd88s/...

create-usernameon Internet's biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites

browsers should be developed so they do not provide the web server any more information than any other visitor. web browsers should curl the website and process it locally without telling the server anything else.

It seems like web browsers were developed in a pre-surveillance capitalism world

create-usernameon iOS 26.1 lets users control Liquid Glass transparency

so maybe the future folding iphone with double screen will mimic binocular vision

create-usernameon My game's server is blocked in Spain whenever there's a football match on

yeah but I paid the full levy so I will download all the things that aren't illegal and hunting and gathering for free films isn't illegal

create-usernameon My game's server is blocked in Spain whenever there's a football match on

of course you can tip your favourite bar to the football police https://laligabares.com/denuncias/

create-usernameon New study shows plants and animals emit a visible light that expires at death

transforming food into energy and poop seems to be the meaning of life from an individual point of view

create-usernameon Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself

Happiness is the expectation of upcoming good things

create-usernameon Europol said ChatControl doesn't go far enough; they want to retain data forever

You’ve already got Facebook

create-usernameon Viking-Age hoard reveals trade between England and the Islamic World

In the TV series Vikings they reach the Muslim kingdoms of the Iberian Peninsula

create-usernameon Illinois limits the use of AI in therapy and psychotherapy

Yes, there is. AI assisted homemade neurosurgery

create-usernameon Most Illinois farmland is not owned by farmers

Thanks. Got a plain made: “The content is not available in your region”. I’m actually happy the website content is a simple html document instead of JavaScript bloated with capitalism surveillance trackers

create-usernameon Tour de France confronts a new threat: Are cyclists using tiny motors?

And the black maillot for the most powerful doping chemicals goes to…

create-usernameon 200k Flemish drivers can turn traffic lights green

You will soon be unable to cross the intersection unless you manually turn the light green from your mobile phone or wait until another authorised driver does it, in order to protect the children

create-usernameon Do not download the app, use the website

Websites shouldn’t know if you’re on desktop because they are clearly gonna abuse that bit of information.

Web browsers were designed by naive, pre surveillance capitalism developers

create-usernameon An unprecedented window into how diseases take hold years before symptoms appear

It might be able to, but only after passing legislation to control guns and protect school children from being victims of daily school shootings

create-usernameon AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks

I send the link to another browser, one with JavaScript disabled

create-usernameon An unprecedented window into how diseases take hold years before symptoms appear

Why though? You demand a service that you can get cheaper abroad. You can’t change the health system but you can travel to a socially developed country that hasn’t yet fallen victim of corruption

create-usernameon YouTube's new anti-adblock measures

If people were just paid for services that used them and manipulate them with tracking and behaviour profiles