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johnoftheseaon US voters roundly reject data centers in ballot measures

https://ourworldindata.org/fossil-fuels

I wonder how adding gas generators helps this graph go down.

johnoftheseaon BYD doubles its Brazil market share to 9.7% a year after opening its local plant

Yeah we can see that with Anthropic and OpenAI.

johnoftheseaon Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant

> Weird response to a pretty benign question.

How was this question:

> I think basically every country exercises this power

johnoftheseaon A coffee shop owner used AI to make a menu poster. Then came the angry DMs

And your point is ...?

johnoftheseaon Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat

Can you be more specific?

johnoftheseaon Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union

First, Gatekeeper was introduced, but you could globally set in system preferences if unsigned software is enabled. Then this setting option was removed. What will come next? I do not know but I started to migrate off the ecosystem. Just in case.

(At least on macOS one can still disable routined. Unlnike on iOS.)

johnoftheseaon Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union

On the other hand homebrew maintainers a deprecating software that is not signed (like Allacritty and Librecad).

johnoftheseaon Kaiser nurses say AI, surveillance are making their jobs and patient care worse

Common sense would be not prioritising inefficient technology to automate few things and instead invest in people?

johnoftheseaon The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs

> vehicle sizes in all other countries have also been increasing

Yes SUVs are more common in Europe now but still size is much smaller than in US.

johnoftheseaon Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels

I just wish Homebrew was not planning to remove packages because of this.

> $ brew doctor

> Warning: Some installed casks are deprecated or disabled. You should find replacements for the following casks:

> alacritty

> librecad

Is there workaround? Probably. But macos lost benefit of OS X's "it just works". Time to move elsewhere I guess.

johnoftheseaon Are We Idiocracy Yet?

Or the Prince.

johnoftheseaon Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft

> AI is eroding copyright, so there may no longer be a need for the GPL. GNU should stop and rethink its stance, chuck away the GPL as the main tool to fight evil software corporations and embrace LLM as the main weapon.

Is this LLM thing freely available or is it owned and controlled by these companies? Are we going to rent the tools to fight "evil software corporations"?

johnoftheseaon Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift adoption

This comment needs another 'EDIT'.

johnoftheseaon Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities

> with lots of #hashtags

I missed this one. What was it about?

johnoftheseaon Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities

I tested it using a local keyword, as I normally do, and it took me to a Wikipedia page I didn’t know existed. So thanks for that.

johnoftheseaon Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities

Better late than never.

> The French index is at an advanced stage of completion, we have started creating the German language index, and the English one should start shortly. All progress is quickly integrated into the Qwant STAAN API.

https://noc.social/@327ppm/115934198650900394

johnoftheseaon Ask HN: Is RSS Still Alive?

> So, I looked for them as well but few websites have them.

This is a bit surprising for me. I've just randomly checked news: BBC, Guardian, Norwegian NRK - all had RSS. But I'm not checking news that much so not sure about others. Mastodon and BlueSky are also providing RSS. I guess walled garden ones like Instagram/Twitter don't?

My RSS reader is subscribed to:

- one Youtube channel

- several blogs (most blogs do have RSS, for example Wordpress provide it by default)

- Hacker News (few keyword-based feeds)

- Gitlab and Codeberg projects (Github provides RSS, but I'm not currently subscribed to any, because I need to be logged there anyway)

- podcasts (podcasts are basically just RSS)

- few Mobilizon sites for events

- OpenStreetMap QA tool that checks my edits

- two subreddits

Maybe in general, you are right. I know just my bubble and even there are few sites without RSS (like Bandcamp).

johnoftheseaon TikTok unlawfully tracks shopping habits and use of dating apps?

For those that are subscribed to Youtube channels: no need to have account. Youtube has RSS.

johnoftheseaon The Rust Performance Book (2020)

> > If an enum has an outsized variant, consider boxing one or more fields.

Clippy (at least pedantic one) will suggest this if needed.

johnoftheseaon Norway reviews cybersecurity after remote-access feature found in Chinese buses

Ruter operates in and around Oslo where temperatures higher than average. Anyway some of old (diesel?) buses had broken heating and were heating even if it was warm outside. These are still improvement.

johnoftheseaon Typst 0.14

> [1]

There is one example with Fletcher... I find these also nice: https://typst.app/universe/package/fletcher

johnoftheseaon CRDTs: Convergence without coordination

https://p2panda.org/2025/02/24/group-encryption.html

johnoftheseaon Show HN: I'm rewriting a web server written in Rust for speed and ease of use

Just for curiosity there is also: https://github.com/cablehead/http-nu

Which seems like interesting UX.

johnoftheseaon How I'm using Helix editor

I just use “d” for empty line.

johnoftheseaon Buy European: EU Commissions New Apply AI Strategy Launched

You don't have kodebrikke in Sweden? Just app?

johnoftheseaon Grapevine canes can be converted into plastic-like material that will decompose

It is also used as grafted rootstock for Vitis vinifera in majority of vineyards (at least in Europe). BEcause of Phylloxera [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylloxera#Fighting_the_%22phy...

johnoftheseaon Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company

It takes 5 years on average til you can harvest some grapes. 10 years for generating profit sounds about right.

johnoftheseaon GDPR meant nothing: chat control ends privacy for the EU [video]

What does that mean? I thought that commissioners were nominated by governments of member states. Similarly like they nominate ministers inside those states.

johnoftheseaon GDPR meant nothing: chat control ends privacy for the EU [video]

Are not governments of member states in control of Council?

johnoftheseaon Svalbard winter warming is reaching melting point

> but you miss trees

I saw birch forest at Svalbard. Was about 2cm tall.