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I've spent some time thinking about this before, and it provides a clue about the writers accent. For example:

"An 'H'", and "a 'H'" are both equally valid following this rule (by my interpretation), depending on how you pronounce the letter 'H'.

kichimion Doomscrolling ourselves to death

I agree with you and could say the same thing about 90s/00s TV as he does with YouTube.

"Celeb takes a bath in baked beans for charity"

kichimion Dutch central bank moves share of gold from U.S., Canada to London

To add to this, because I think it is important context for Americans who may not be aware, football is seen very officially by many European nations and national governments as a cultural counterpart to many international treaties within Europe that were born out of the desire to bring our respective cultures closer together after the second world war.

It is so important, that many countries make it illegal to hide international football matches behind paywalls, specifically.

It is so important, that there are articles written about its importance on EU institutes websites. For example, this one reflects on Footballs importance in relation to the First, Second and Cold wars. https://www.iss.europa.eu/publications/alerts/european-footb...

To see Trump so flagrantly manipulate it sends a cultural signal that is hard for those outside of Europe to see, and that by some can be seen as the cultural equivalent of the political threats Trump has made against NATO.

At this point, your average European Trump supporter/right wing populist needs only reminding of Trumps interference to get a complete positional change - that's how bad it is.

kichimion “Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

kichimion But how to get to that European cloud?

This is not true, the problem is greed and imo a lack of ROI.

kichimion But how to get to that European cloud?

This is not their last, there is another one with funding thats building off the learned lessons of Gaia-X.

kichimion NCSC, GCHQ, UK Gov't expunge advice to "use Apple encryption"

You know this is just making fun of the poor working class? It's offensive.

kichimion It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds

They can do even better. I don't know how much I can say but there is an EU funded alternative in the works.

kichimion Ask HN: Am I the only one here who can't stand HN's AI obsession?

Don't forget another stuck in the past minimal semantic css based web framework that's almost unusable on anything more complex than its own demo. Complaints about react too, because its new (its 13 years old).

kichimion 'I grew up with it': readers on the enduring appeal of Microsoft Excel

I feel like this is a pretty important thing for the technically minded to get their heads around.

Doesn't the fact that you can't imagine a single reason why youd want multiple fonts on a spreadsheet alarm you?

kichimion Alan Turing’s 1950 manual for the Mark I electronic computer [pdf]

>Men in black always want popcount (it's been added to various architectures over the years at their request)

I've heard this a few times, do you have anything that explains this?

kichimion CrowdStrike fixes start at "reboot up to 15 times", gets more complex from there

No it really is not. If you have a service contract, you do not touch it.

kichimion Ask HN: What is the best code base you ever worked on?

I think skill is also an issue here, in both directions. I have worked with a company that followed the opposite of move fast and it just turned into a 'who is the most correct' and 'what is the most elegant code' competition. We didn't push out a single new feature in the three years i'd worked there at that point. There was so much focus on code that we gave almost no time to business requirements.

The wider implication of this was that the number of tickets we got dropped dramatically, because users knew they'd never be resolved anyway.

Balance is key.

kichimion I've compared nearly all Rust crates.io crates to contents of their Git repos

Isn't this gentoo?

kichimion The Downfall of DeviantArt

I don't think you understand where he's coming from, DA literally became filled with My Little Pony porn. I'm as open minded as can be but, that's too much, I also left for the same reasons.

kichimion Deutsche Bahn introduces "MetaWindow"

Defacing is your opinion, I think a city without graffiti is a dead city, it's an improvement.

kichimion I don't want to spend my one precious life dealing with Google's AI search

Perhaps not a popular opinion - and slightly besides your point, but english that is too formal and too correct can sound unnatural.

kichimion Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager

Sadly by the looks of some of the replies here, never will recover from, since people seem unaware that it never used to do that, and would delightfully size itself to the content. This is the #1 feature that I really loved about Mac OS window management.

kichimion Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager

Mac OS itself confuses things by forcing apps to be full screen, rather than sizing to the content

kichimion PeOS – Windows-like OS mockup in web browser

Projects like these will always have a special place in my heart, and I've always wished I could have a use case for professional applications developed inside environments like this, to serve as a bridge between the desktop and web world of user interface design.

kichimion 'We had to educate Oracle about our contract,' CIO says after Big Red audit

01974?

kichimion Berlin, the European city where selfies are 'awkward'

Berlin is not the largest city in europe, not even in the top three, not even the biggest in the EU.

kichimion D-Bus overview

But why?

kichimion Could EU force hardware manufacturers to make working drivers for Linux?

Do you have any point of substance to make here? What do you mean by it sucked, and how does that relate to publishing driver specs?

kichimion Everyone Has JavaScript, Right?

I find this point of view somewhat tiring and kinda showing a certain amount of detatchment from the general population of internet users.

Avoiding JavaScript in all but the most simplest of use cases is going to leave you with a lackluster user experience.

kichimion Learner drivers forced to buy tests on black market as companies blockbook slots

The problem is there simply arn't enough tests, companies are booking new tests as soon as they're released because they have no choice.

kichimion Infrequently Asked Questions in Comp.lang.c (1999)

Why is it toxic?

kichimion Running DOS Software from the Command-Line

So... a less capable dosemu?

kichimion They lost their kids to Fortnite

Not the original commenter, but I'd do the same thing I'd do if I had a child addicted to alcohol.

kichimion Tell HN: Archive.today doesn't resolve when using Cloudflare/Mozilla DNS

Do you have a source for this or are you speculating?