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stop50··on Dinit a systemd alternative without age-verification requirements
Because they started an discussion how to store the birthdate and give applications the information about the age since one of the optional components handles additional metadata about users.
stop50··on Ask HN: What's your strategy for inconsistent date formats?
Localization for ui only. Im- and exported data only in standard formats
stop50··on NYC Once Banned Free Legal Advice over Radio
I wouldn't compare an public counsel of an lawyer with ai pretending doing the same.

If the lawyer gave bad advice, they would have been responsible. if "AI" says there was an precent in case xyz, OpenAI, Perplexity, xai, ... will say: it was the responsiblity of the person using the tool.

stop50··on Cuneicode – a language where 0.1 and 0.2 == 0.3
Neither domain nor the repo exists. Probably slop post
stop50··on Ask HN: What newsletters do you read every day or week?
Only one: Cryptography & Security from feistyduck
stop50··on Ask HN: Developing .NET on Windows but deploying to Linux – common issues?
Why not run the build in WSL?
stop50··on Stop rebuilding Word documents with PDF libraries

  No proprietary formats
When did Word produce an Document in valid OOXML?
stop50··on Ask HN: Wish Linux tmpfs support compression option
I would guess its because it is an vital system. Initrd depends on it, a lot of paths are backed by tmpfs, ... An error in that subsystem could make it unbootable
stop50··on Ask HN: Is claw-generated code copyright-able?
i have the same view on this.
stop50··on Climbing Mechanics in Games [video]
(spanish)
stop50··on Show HN: Docker pulls more than it needs to
At an previous employer i was able to cut down on the needed space by standartising the layers and adding a timelimit in which the tags were available. The base images were build after we rolled out updates of packages and "encouraged" everyone to use those for their containers. These containers were also minified as much as needed(deduplicated files, removing useless stuff, ...), without sacrificing usability. I also used buildah to combine everything into an single layer to prevent removed files from wasting space. Sadly DNF blows up the images so it was hard to minify it much.
stop50··on Show HN: ConfigClarity – Visualize cron overlaps before they crash your server
That is why i moved to systemd timers. I can manage relationships and prevent duplicate runs.
stop50··on Blind refugee found dead in NY after being released by immigration authorities
And nothing will happen. Thanks to Qualified Immunity™
stop50··on RFC 9925: Unsigned X.509 Certificates
Why nobody thought of this earlier?
stop50··on Rust Doesn't Have Named Arguments. So What?
Years ago i read about an rust library that allowed an developer to define an builder where the final buikd method was only accessible when all required methods where called.
stop50··on What podcasts are you listening to?
The Urbanists Agenda
stop50··on LibreOffice blasts OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in
Openoffice had afaik not an big change in years and Libreoffice had quite a lot of changes that improved Msoffice support.
stop50··on Stephen Colbert going down swinging
It increases. In Germany an ministry wanted to hide an document about glyphosat, this caused many people to request access to it that an judge ordered to make it public.
stop50··on [dead]
What a suprise.
stop50··on Ask HN: Is OpenClaw a groundbreaking feat, a highly useful product or both?
Its an software that connects an chat with an chatbot with an terminal on your computer: An huge risk of loosing data and/or loosing money
stop50··on deleteme
https://www.youtube.com/undefined - must be an error
stop50··on President Trump Delivers "Most-Favored-Nation" Pricing for Prescription Drugs
Even the "Most-Favoured-Pricing" is still 8 times more expensive than what an similar priduct costs here: Airsupra: 201 USD Albuterol injector(noname): 23,99 EUR
stop50··on America isn't exceptional – it's the exception
additional to some things of other posters i would like to add these things:

- 3 Strikes policy: once you commit 3 Crimes, the third trial gets you a lifesentence

- police has effective immunity: the police can do everything, from getting 3 people incarcarated for the crime that only one person commited to shooting anything that shooting anything that frightens them(backfiring of an car has caused an shooting that turned an person into sieve)

- in many states lying by the police is allowed.

- the widespread availability of Weapons of War: i mean weapons that have no usage apart from killing people

- the prisoners are used as cheap labour.

stop50··on Ask HN: Rust Crates Safety
I don't use too new crates and i try to avoid those with huge dependency trees, since it can cause problems with duplicated dependencies. My biggest itch is that many crates define their deps too fine, Up to the minor version. its partially a fault of cargo. its an problem since it duplicates dependencies.
stop50··on Tell HN: Desktop apps - like the old Microsoft Office - preserve sovereignty
Even if they offer non-cloud things, The gouvernment makes it much less desirable.
stop50··on Professors Are Being Watched: 'We've Never Seen This Much Surveillance'
I personally favor the features of "Ur-Fascism" by Umberto Eco:

1. cult of tradition

2. rejection of modernism

3. action for action’s sake

4. disagreement is treason

5. fear of difference

6. appeal to a frustrated middle class

7. obsession with a plot

8. the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.

9. pacifism is trafficking with the enemy.

10. contempt for the weak

11. everybody is educated to become a hero

12. machismo - both disdain for women and intolerance and condemnation of nonstandard sexual habits, from chastity to homosexuality,[...] Since even sex is a difficult game to play, the Ur-Fascist hero tends to play with weapons

13. selective populism

14. Newspeak

These are only his major points of his speach in 1995. The speach is at the moment available here: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/

stop50··on [dead]
Ice became trumps GeStaPo - Geheime Staats Polizei(Secret Federal Police)
stop50··on The Longest-Running Lab Experiment Is Almost 100 Years Old
Wikipedia: to demonstrate to students that some substances which appear solid are highly viscous fluids.
stop50··on [dead]
If we take gas town into the calculation, it is possible.
stop50··on Ask HN: What's your preferred digital payment method?
Both
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