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philipallstar··on GitHub Down Again?
I don't know what this means. Is close source software open because you're free to use other software?
philipallstar··on GitHub Down Again?
Machines are tools used by humans. Codeberg has banned a certain class of tool used by humans.
philipallstar··on Uranium cubes reveal why the German nuclear project failed
> the side that eagerly deployed nuclear weapons on civilian targets

No one was eager. This sort of lie destroys discussion. This site is only about discussion, so please don't keep trying to destroy the only thing the site is about.

philipallstar··on Apple’s grey list: Words and phrases your iPhone won’t help you spell
That is the joy of migration, but it still has cultural sources.
philipallstar··on Apple’s grey list: Words and phrases your iPhone won’t help you spell
It's hilarious that they blame localisation and not Turkish insanity for these deaths.
philipallstar··on Ubuntu still has not released patch for Linux 0day RCE in almost 3 weeks
The governance types maybe don't inhabit HN in high numbers.
philipallstar··on Cloudflare Turnstile solver library (no headless browser required)
You've just defined punishment with your definition of it.
philipallstar··on OpenIDEA: The IDE you know, rebuilt in Rust
The low-effort metacommentary on what all of HN is supposedly doing or saying is what 2026 HN is really about.
philipallstar··on Electrification Could Cut Global Energy Use in Half
Or no more hot drinks. Ban kettles.
philipallstar··on Memdoor: A team of 5 Qwen3.8-27B models beats Fable 5 on LiveCodeBench Hard
> I won't want to be beholden to them and their whims forever.

Who's keeping you beholden to them now?

philipallstar··on Through Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart taught us the measure of a man
I always thought Sisko and his son were both very wooden. I'm probably mostly meaning them. Kira and Dax also, although not so much.
philipallstar··on Cloudflare Turnstile solver library (no headless browser required)
Indeed.
philipallstar··on Cloudflare Turnstile solver library (no headless browser required)
Punishment is something done on purpose.
philipallstar··on Cloudflare Turnstile solver library (no headless browser required)
Perhaps, but not as a punishment for using a free browser.
philipallstar··on Cloudflare Turnstile solver library (no headless browser required)
Well, no, there are multiple. Thinking it's punishment for using a free browser is unsupported by your description.

I only use Firefox with tracking protection on and the DDG extension on, and it always works for me.

philipallstar··on Cloudflare Turnstile solver library (no headless browser required)
How does that relate to "Cloudflare will next decide to lock me out of half of the web for my crimes of using a free browser", though? Seems to be unrelated?
philipallstar··on Cloudflare Turnstile solver library (no headless browser required)
When did Cloudflare ever do this?
philipallstar··on Cloudflare Turnstile solver library (no headless browser required)
You must have some conception of why these measures exist, and else this sort of tool will be helping. Surely.
philipallstar··on Through Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart taught us the measure of a man
I also like picking cherries.
philipallstar··on Through Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Patrick Stewart taught us the measure of a man
The only problem is the acting in DS9.
philipallstar··on Bunny CDN Security Incident
> Prompt and competent response, as expected from bunny.

Call me pathologically unbiased, but I doubt this same article written by Cloudflare would get this response.

philipallstar··on Police are using AI to pull over drivers for 'suspicious' behavior
> Somewhere along the way, tech stopped asking questions like that, and now, people are hostile to the suggestion that the question should be asked.

People never stopped asking this sort of thing, and you can find some people who are hostile to anything. 'Twas ever thus. Constructing a cherry-picked, wistful narrative is not very helpful.

philipallstar··on Danish Government silently drops plan to dump MS Office
That seems a pretty weak signal. Individuals like presenting stuff and going on jollies.
philipallstar··on Swedish government offices to ban ChatGPT and Claude
It's also because they were addicted to Russian gas, and had to spend a fortune to wean themselves off it once the war was raging - though not before giving Russia a lot of gas money for the war - and converting its power plants to use LNG, which it ships in from the USA. That is a mad situation even before Iran.
philipallstar··on Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case
Was that it? Or did I allow access to the vault for people to copy the secrets from?
philipallstar··on Danish Government silently drops plan to dump MS Office
> American big tech companies pay very few taxes, compared to European standards.

Can you evidence this?

philipallstar··on Swedish government offices to ban ChatGPT and Claude
It's not democracy. People don't want high energy prices. It's just their only voting options are all politicians who will give them high energy prices.

Big corporations are only big because they provide what customers want. They don't get to extract money from people's work, the way politicians can.

philipallstar··on Ofcom concedes defeat in 4chan case
I'm not fighting any of them. If someone has a defamation case against Fox News then I bet everyone here doesn't go and defend Fox News, because they're not principled and are just emotionally activated by Donald Trump and the BBC being involved in this one.
philipallstar··on Investor-owned utilities charge 23% more for electricity than public providers
There are definitely price downsides to having to pay corporation tax.
philipallstar··on Meta ordered to pay $25B penalty in New Mexico Cambridge Analytica case
I've never understood why Meta is being pursued over this and not Cambridge Analytica. I thought CA were the ones misusing the app system.
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