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hobblinon Spotify Founders Blast Sweden’s Business Environment in Open Letter

If Spotify maybe payed Swedish taxes they would have the moral right to complain... Now they do everything they can to avoid doing so so maybe they should sit the fuck back down until they do the right thing.

hobblinon The Future of Graphics Programming: The Vulkan API

Ok... "the industry" thinks that we need a new, completely incompatible, standard for graphics development that is locked down (no mention of open source or free software) and that lower level of abstraction will make it more reliable (that is some major PR-bullshit)...

This can, as I see it, only lead to giving more power to the big companies and shafting the indie developers and linux gamers... So in general, fuck those people!

hobblinon Revisiting How We Put Together Linux Systems

Isn't this basically nixos?

hobblinon Poetic.io – the simplest way to transfer files (for free)

Seems sketchy... how are they offering their services for free? What's the gotchas?

hobblinon Show HN: Beam – if texting app showed what your friend is typing (try with bot)

Didn't we already try this and realized that it's a horrible idea with ICQ?