peter-m80

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peter-m80··on In Africa, U.S.-Trained Militaries Are Ousting Civilian Governments in Coups

The source for this claim is called history

peter-m80··on Ask HN: Why is there no Linux distro that “just works” like macOS?

Linux mint just works for me

peter-m80··on People who press on cookie banners anything except “agree” – why do you do that?

well said

peter-m80··on People who press on cookie banners anything except “agree” – why do you do that?

I choose to accept the required cookies to use the site, not the tracking ones

peter-m80··on One App – Two Worlds: This Is TikTok in Russia and Ukraine

I hate this UX

peter-m80··on Netflix Should Sell Ads

If netflix puts ads on my subscription, I would shut it down and go back to bittorrent

peter-m80··on I hate what video games have become

I play a lot of videogames and never opened loot boxes or bought skins.

peter-m80··on The Inca Used Knots to Tell Stories

Tl;dr?

peter-m80··on Ask HN: What concepts have you never truly understood?

Covariance and contravariance

peter-m80··on Why We Banned Legos (2006)

As an european, this is bullshit.

peter-m80··on Meta threatens to shut down Facebook and Instagram in Europe

I wish meta dissapears from EU

peter-m80··on More than 1k Dutch residents plan to throw rotten eggs at Jeff Bezos' superyacht

https://www.businessinsider.es/amazon-ingresos-record-europa...

Use google translate if you don't speak spanish

peter-m80··on More than 1k Dutch residents plan to throw rotten eggs at Jeff Bezos' superyacht

While destroying all the local economy and not paying taxes. Good jobs are for just a few... Warehouse and shipping jobs are shitty jobs

peter-m80··on Spanish Wordle

This is the good one

peter-m80··on Ask HN: How do you have fun without alcohol?

With ecstasy

peter-m80··on Eon: Extensible Object Notation

That date formatting is horrible

peter-m80··on NCSA creates Sony PlayStation2 cluster (2003)

US Air Force connects 1,760 PlayStation 3's to build supercomputer https://phys.org/news/2010-12-air-playstation-3s-supercomput...

peter-m80··on What is a Bitcoin worth?

Scarcity? I can go and buy Bitcoin right now but I cannot buy a PS5.

21 Million btc? Bitcoins are divisible so if the unit is considered the smallest division, there are 2.100.000.000.000.000 units.

What happens when the last btc is mined? Well, storing and shipping gold bars is also expensive and that doesn't make gold worthless

peter-m80··on Bitcoin could become ‘worthless’, Bank of England warns

I'm tired of hearing this same statements... since bitcoin value was less than $100.

peter-m80··on Show HN: 10-40% faster LZMA decoder using x86 CMOVcc

cloudflare uses brotli (not sure if optional or by default)

peter-m80··on Ask HN: What's the quickest way to get something online?

Use vercel

peter-m80··on [dead]

This is ridiculous

peter-m80··on Which type of plant-based milk is best?

Doesn't soy milk affect hormone levels?

peter-m80··on Oculus Quest is removing the Facebook account requirement

It now requires a Meta account

(jk)

peter-m80··on They're putting guns on robot dogs now

0 surprise

peter-m80··on Ask HN: How should I back up data on devices if I'm not smart?

In that case I'd recommend to use a paid service like Dropbox (or Google Drive, or any alternative).

Store your files in the dropbox folder and they will be safe (plus sync across devices and file history).

peter-m80··on Ask HN: Do you donate money to open source?

I donate via patreon to some devs making opensource (very niche projects)

peter-m80··on TheseToonsDoNotExist: StyleGAN2-ADA trained on CG cartoon faces

Is Pixar 3D crap?

peter-m80··on Reactive Clojure: A web language

Thanks. I hate it.

peter-m80··on AMule 2.3.3

Overnet

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