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hiprobon UK House of Lords Votes to Extend Age Verification to VPNs

Does the house of lords really do anything, though? At best, they can delay decisions, but what power do they really have? Aren't they just a bunch of rich people funded with taxes doing basically nothing?

hiprobon KAOS – The Kubernetes Agent Orchestration System

Not to be confused with KaOS, an Arch-based distro that focuses on a KDE Plasma-only desktop.

hiprobon Meet the Alaska Student Arrested for Eating an AI Art Exhibit

at least they actually get to do something

hiprobon Meet the Alaska Student Arrested for Eating an AI Art Exhibit

"No officers, I don't know where the AI art exhibit went" Suspiciously AI art exhibit shaped belly:

hiprobon You can now download Windows 7 and Vista ISO images with all the updates

Windows Vista technically got to live to see Frutiger Aero come back

hiprobon Ireland wants to give its cops spyware, ability to crack encrypted messages

Oh look, it's the copy of the UK acting up again!

hiprobon Ireland fast tracks Bill to criminalise harmful voice or image misuse

Ireland is just a copy of the UK, except it's a tax haven and a trojan horse of the EU. They have the same age requirement regulation online as the UK.

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Sorry, this is my first time posting here, and I don't know how to provide both the link and the content in the post itself.

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For context: This site keeps getting prioritized by DuckDuckGo over the actual website (It's FOSS), and it got to a point I saw someone link it here on HN. The content is entirely AI written and I sincerely don't get what's the point of this website and why it has such a strong SEO.

hiprobon Tell HN: Merry Christmas

Ukrainian, will be celebrating it in January, but Merry Christmas to those who celebrate it today!

hiprobon I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for YC and startups. AMA

Anything notable about Ukrainians? Especially since Trump's inauguration?

hiprobon How Brussels writes so many laws

with their hands?

hiprobon Discord hack shows risks of online age checks

Like this would actually stop any politician from pushing actively malicious legislation just because their kid doesn't love them and it's all the damn phone's fault.

hiprobon Brave browser passes 100M monthly active users

You mean 1.25% of the entire world's population uses Brave every day?

hiprobon Google was down in eastern EU and Turkey

Ukraine can into Western Europe??

hiprobon Debian 13 “Trixie”

I can't believe we've come to such a high number, and a particularly lucky one at that

Alas it's still not suitable as a daily driver for the average home user and probably never will be. It is unfortunate that Ubuntu has to reign supreme in that regard.

hiprobon I dumped Google for Kagi

The CEO has expressed his stance in a forum post: https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integratio...

"Kagi has been using yandex search api since 2019, long before current geopolitical tensions"

The war in Ukraine has been ongoing since 2014.

"We understand these are deeply personal issues for many. As someone who was a refugee of two wars, I'm not indifferent to human suffering."

He is Serbian.

Regardless, the option to exclude Yandex (and other search engines) results has been suggested here: https://kagifeedback.org/d/4727-option-to-choose-or-exclude-...