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kome··on Fastmail desktop app
ahaha please...
kome··on Nobel Prize in Literature 2025: László Krasznahorkai
ok, it was an hyperbole,

perhaps the same kind of hyperbole krasznahorkai likes to use when talking about the "arabs": "I'm sure the Arabs would accept me now that they're gonna cut off my nose, then my eyes, and then they'll poke my eyes out, my tongue rip it out, everything that sticks out of me, cut it off, tortured me, and then shoot me. So that is the Jewish past is enough for me. That’s all the family history" (https://www.szombat.org/kultura-muveszetek/krasznahorkai-las...) (...that's an example among many)

kome··on California passes law to ban ultra-processed foods from school lunches
Isn't the overwhelmingly obese American population scientific evidence enough?
kome··on California passes law to ban ultra-processed foods from school lunches
sure, it's all nature. and then wonder why you get 50% of the population morbidly obese...

you are being skeptical in a very silly way, sorry to say. if you don't see the industry incentives to use trash in your food instead of normal ingredients, you are missing the point in a very unproductive way.

kome··on California passes law to ban ultra-processed foods from school lunches
That's an annoying question. When you add industrial chemicals, yes, it's ultra processed.

If you buy a fresh hamburger at the butcher, made by him with salt and pepper, it's processed food.

But if you add sodium nitrite/nitrate, monosodium glutamate, phosphates, high-fructose corn syrup, artificial flavors, sodium erythorbate, carrageenan, bha/bht, propyl gallate, tbhq, soy protein isolate, modified food starch, dextrose, caramel color, red 40, yellow 5, etc... it's ultra-processed food.

kome··on California passes law to ban ultra-processed foods from school lunches
Americans need to get their act together, about food, but not only. 40.3% of American adults are obese (not overweight), against the 17% in the EU.

Sport won't fix that, food will.

kome··on EU age verification app not planning desktop support
so a smartphone is required by law? that's fucked up
kome··on You Had No Taste Before AI
this discussion about taste and ai is annoying. the world was conformist even before ai. most web design before 2023 was conformist, most pop music was boring, most writing was cliché, corporate speak was already retarded. ai didn't invent banality: we had plenty of it before.

why everybody is just repeating safe things, instead of expressing themselves... ai is not en explanation. we should have interrogated ourselves about the whys this happens. complaining about AI is, again, missing the point.

kome··on Burner Phone 101
Your reasoning is so biased that it is hard for me to wrap my head around it, but at the same time it's very common because it confuses the tool with the crime. Criminals use cars and phones, too, but we don't ban them for everyone.

The argument ignores the catastrophic cost of the solution: destroying privacy for all of us. Creating a backdoor for police doesn't just hinder criminals; it makes everyone's data, from journalists to your medical records, vulnerable to hackers and abuse.

I believe we stop crime with good policing, not by building a system of total surveillance that sacrifices the very freedom we're trying to protect.

kome··on Show HN: JavaScript-free (X)HTML Includes
so it's time to use XSLT more
kome··on I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me
you're right about MIT vs GPL confusion. people brainwashed themselves into thinking MIT is "more open", because it's more permissive, but it lets others profit off your code without contributing back.

GPL makes them share or pay to relicense, since you own the copyright. with MIT, they don’t need to ask. MIT just benefits big corps. GPL better protects the open-source spirit, and paradoxically, the ownership of your work.

kome··on This Month in Ladybird
they’re downvoting you, but the developer actually uses copilot a lot in his development videos. why are people so up in arms?

of course, he’s a very, very proficient developer and a browser specialist. he’s not just vibecoding, like you might be implying. but he also uses llms for development.

kome··on Can a Country Be Too Rich? Norway Is Finding Out
it's absolutely ridiculous! they're angry that people enjoy their life too much. wow...

and btw, i get the impression norway is spending their money pretty wisely, thinking long-term. and thinking with their own brain. not like the UAE, where they started thinking about the future too late, and mostly with brains hired from the west like McKinsey (who are just siphoning the wealth away into their pocket: see neom, etc).

kome··on How to Make Websites That Will Require Lots of Your Time and Energy
> but there's solutions that are hard to ignore such as the need for reusable fragments/components on different pages which already make a cry for dependencies.

honestly ctrl+c, ctrl+v of hand written html. and i'm cool as a cucumber.

kome··on Windsurf employee #2: I was given a payout of only 1% what my shares where worth
this is something that my feeble European brain will never understand: why people in American start-up keeps getting scammed with pseudo "private" equities, stock options, that are not on a market, and therefore cannot be priced? equities surrounded by very obscure (or no) legislation, that if you get fired or decided to leave you cannot keep. it just make no sense but americans loves them.
kome··on AI overviews cause massive drop in search clicks
js cult will never ever understand this. designers need the courage to work with html+css only.
kome··on XML Summer School, Oxford. 14th to 19th Sept 2025
xml is awesome, but misunderstood
kome··on The North Korean fake IT worker problem is ubiquitous
perhaps a better solution would be to ask an opinion about KJU... not to "criticize" him this feels pretty dystopic indeed, like 15m of hate...
kome··on Frame of preference A history of Mac settings, 1984–2004
I have a fast internet connection and a modern browser, but this website is simply a tragedy. nothing loads on time...
kome··on LLMs should not replace therapists
LLM just reproduce obama era toxic positivity and therapy talk, that indeed contained a lot of delusional thinking. :)

but to be totally honest, most of therapist are the same. they are expensive "validation machines".

kome··on Why English doesn't use accents
you clearly haven't read the article... they are talking about diacritics (accents) and not inflection of the spoken language.

i find absolutely worrisome that nobody is reading the articles anymore, and they just read the title.

it makes the quality of the discussion very very low.

kome··on A CarFax for Used PCs; Hewlett Packard wants to give old laptops new life
they sure know how to complicate simple stuff
kome··on IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites
The news from Palestine are atrocious; a genocide is unfolding before our eyes, and world leaders are doing nothing to stop it.
kome··on XSLT – Native, zero-config build system for the Web
chasing convenience, not simplicity
kome··on XSLT – Native, zero-config build system for the Web
beautiful, well done! i hope people will copy that for their own websites. and use it creatively.
kome··on XSLT – Native, zero-config build system for the Web
clutter? i find it MUCH more elegant and simple, but conceptually and practically, than the absolute clown-car of modern js driven web, css frameworks hacks, etc etc
kome··on Where is Iran's uranium? Questions remain over stash of enriched material
seems relevant: US spies said Iran wasn't building a nuclear weapon. Trump dismisses that assessment https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/17/gabbard-t... (https://archive.ph/99cGG)
kome··on Where is Iran's uranium? Questions remain over stash of enriched material
in the same place with iraq's weapons of mass destruction
kome··on People instantly decide whether to trust a product based on design
if beauty is objective, why his website looks so bad?
kome··on Signal – An Ethical Replacement for WhatsApp
we have already an ethical replacement for WhatsApp, and it's called Telegram. Unlike WhatsApp the clients are opensource (you can download it from F-Droid) and it's secure enough: https://x.com/Pinboard/status/1474096410383421452
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