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ghssds··on Don't Use a gmail.com Address
With that attitude, certainly.
ghssds··on California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law
And now a bunch of OSI-Approved licenses get to have special rules applied to them, entrenching them and killing further innovation.
ghssds··on Manifesto – who we are and what do we want (2002)
What stance are you disagreeing with?
ghssds··on It's a shame what's happened to radio
IMHO, FM radio stations, broadcasting on government-attributed radio frequencies, are very different - both in nature and in how they feel - from the user of a big corporation's service streaming from someone else's computers.
ghssds··on Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees
I saw that Black Mirror episode.
ghssds··on Lossless GIF recompression via exhaustive search
> We need to be careful here, because finding the actual best compression for an arbitrary format can be equivalent to solving the halting problem.

That sentence was pasted unmodified from the LLM output.

ghssds··on JSON-LD explained for personal websites
For rich link previews, OpenGraph[0] is much more often supported than JSON-LD.

For seo purpose, the kind of JSON-LD a search engine will support is very specific and limited. You are far better consulting the targetted search engine's documentation (Google[1], Bing[2]) and following that. Anything else is a waste of time.

Outside of search engines, again, without a specific purpose, JSON-LD is mostly useless. If you have a specific need that requires JSON-LD, go ahead and include the data you know will be useful. Including anything else is like shouting into the void.

IndieWeb[3] does use structured data but considers JSON-LD a DRY violation and uses Microformats[4] instead.

0: https://ogp.me

1: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structu...

2: https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/marking-up-your-site-wi...

3: https://indieweb.org/

4: https://microformats.org/

ghssds··on 'We had to get out of the way': The backlash over delivery robots
What happens if you refuse to yield?
ghssds··on I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M
> They're not going build a document sharing platform to get their job done just so they can meet the regs.

What is so hard in respecting the spirit of the law?

ghssds··on We accidentally recreated old Facebook
Old Slashdot had the right ideas. You could mark anyone as friend or foe. If somone marked you as friend, it was your fan. If someone marked you as foe, it was your freak. Then you could make your friends', foes', fans' and freaks' posts more or less visible, as you wished.

There was no "like" for posts but a much more evolved system: you could brand posts as interresting, informative, insightful, funny, underrated, overrated, flamebait or troll.

Slashdot was never a social media, but it sure had a few features that could have been used to turn it into an interresting one.

ghssds··on Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria
Why does low birth rates need solution? Low birth rates are already the solution to countless issue like ressources depletion, climate changes and real estate high cost.
ghssds··on Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?
alternatively, how old should the car be so i know there is no data being collected?
ghssds··on 5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens
You could do a bit better with a 4x5 font for every characters except M, W, m, and w which would be 5x5 but use the pixels normaly used to separate them from the next character, so every caracters still use the same width.
ghssds··on Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)
> (No real spoilers in my comment):

> Proceed to spoil the whole game

ghssds··on SolveSpace (open source 2D/3D CAD) working on Windows 2000 (2025)
The first OS supporting Win32 API isn't Windows 95.

Win32s for Windows 3.1x: 1993

Windows NT 3.1: 1993

Windows NT 3.5: 1994

Windows NT 3.51: 1995 (may)

Windows 95: 1995 (july)

ghssds··on What came after the 486?
"poor"
ghssds··on Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act: Dangerous backdoor surveillance risks remain
On paper, there is no Canadian PM. The Constitution reads: "The Executive Government and Authority of and over Canada is hereby declared to continue and be vested in the Queen." The existence of a Prime Minister and the fact executive powers are delegated to them are customary.

A Trump-like actor in Canada would do far less damage than in USA. There is no position they could held that would give them the power to do lot of damage. The Queen (nowaday King) has no power. If they tried to use it's constitutional powers as written they would be laughed out. The Governor General, who may act on behalf of the Queen would be laughed out too if they tried to take any decision. The Prime Minister seems all powerful but they are one motion from the House of Common from being overthrown. When one's become POTUS, they are basically POTUS until the end of their term. The exception is impeachment which is a very complicated process that never worked. In Canada, the House of Common can simply vote the Prime Minister out. The Prime Minister is very powerful, I agree, but only as long as they behave.

ghssds··on Show HN: What was the world listening to? Music charts, 20 countries (1940–2025)
I tried to look at the charts for Canada. The result may be representative for English Canada but Canada is really two markets. There is English Canada and French Canada, and both listen to very different music, with different charts. Belgium and Switzerland are probably the same.
ghssds··on “This is not the computer for you”
Most child of every generation don't care about those things. Most of the few that cared about the C64 just used it to play game. You are in the minority who got interested in the C64 and the minority within that minority who also was interested with BASIC. It's good you tried with your kids but the odds were against you.

Meanwhile, some other kid in your area probably got scolded for installing F-Droid. Oh well...

ghssds··on First Website (1992)
I really like how different and the same the html tags are.
ghssds··on Dictionary Compression is finally here, and it's ridiculously good
Only on Chrome-based browsers: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Guides/Com...
ghssds··on The Tears of Donald Knuth (2015)
> not a single novelist has realized that such a singularity would almost surely be preceded by a world in which machines are 0.01% intelligent (say), and in which millions of real people would be able to interact with them freely at essentially no cost.

Aren't Asimov's Multivac stories basicaly this? Humans build a powerful computer with a conversational interface helping them doing all kind of science and stuff, then before they know they become Multivac's pets.

ghssds··on California's new bill requires DOJ-approved 3D printers that report themselves
> 1st Amendment + 2nd Amendment == The Right to 3D Print and Bear Arms

I'm surprised this is not a 4th Amendment issue.

ghssds··on The only moat left is money?
What's wrong with screenshots? Those X widgets are cancer.
ghssds··on LT6502: A 6502-based homebrew laptop
That's really cool you visited in 1990, three years before the first graphical web browser, a website with image about a game released in 1994.
ghssds··on Every country should set 16 as the minimum age for social media accounts
According to who?
ghssds··on Every country should set 16 as the minimum age for social media accounts
I think fighting authoritarianism with authoritarian measures is counter-productive.
ghssds··on Google automatically emails 13 year olds to allow them to opt out of parental s
Teens may actually learn something, discover they can afford their own vps with their pocket money. What a nightmare. Better keep them in the gardens big corps made for them.
ghssds··on Ask HN: Is it time for HN to implement a form of captcha?
Try Glider on F-Droid.
ghssds··on A website to destroy all websites
Don't get me started on how delicious Subway was 30 years ago compared to the pale version we have now.
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