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thwg··on BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp
When a smaller network tries to be interoperable with a larger network, the larger network almost always eats up the smaller one. This is how XMPP was killed by Gtalk, if any of you are old enough to remember.
thwg··on Record Club: indie social network for music lovers
I just found out about this site. I'm loving it.
thwg··on Does the Bitter Lesson Have Limits?
interesting. i see underlines in firefox. but the width of the line is 2px in chrome, 1px in firefox.
thwg··on US will sell "gold card" giving foreigners right to live/work for $5M
Has always been like a mafia internationally tho.
thwg··on US will sell "gold card" giving foreigners right to live/work for $5M
Aha, you are right. This has always been the way he does business.
thwg··on Vietnamese Graphic Design
Rude.
thwg··on Reassessing Wayland
It is so bad that it is not worth assessing in the first place.
thwg··on I've acquired a new superpower
Please stop using that RSS icon on your "Subscribe" button if you don't intend to provide an RSS feed.
thwg··on Gosub – An open-source browser engine
Yes I have. But not this.
thwg··on Gosub – An open-source browser engine
Someone else should write a browser engine called “Godom”. Which honestly would be a great name. A good browser will handle sessions and DOM.
thwg··on Gosub – An open-source browser engine
Thanks for the pointer. And it makes it doubly confusing. Doesn't a reference to an obsolete, pre-modern language tarnish the reputation of Rust? Doesn't the creator of this project fear lawsuits from the legal team at The Basic Foundation?
thwg··on Gosub – An open-source browser engine
I'm confused. Why do you name it “go”-something when it is not implemented in Go... I have a more catchy name for you, Rub, which stands for route to unlimited browsing.
thwg··on Turkish language has a gossip tense
IMHO, it would be more correct-miş, in terms of linguistics at least, to call it an “aspect” than a “tense”.
thwg··on Turkish language has a gossip tense
It's not a tense. It's called evidentiality.
thwg··on Subway: A collection of color schemes based on subway maps from around the world
GitHub page: https://github.com/idleberg/vscode-subway
thwg··on They trained artificial neural networks using physics
Well, Geoff Hinton should get the prize for physiology instead. It's called “neural” networks after all.
thwg··on It's Time to Stop Taking Sam Altman at His Word
TSMC has stopped way earlier.
thwg··on Show HN: htmgo - build simple and scalable systems with golang + htmx
j makes me shudder. But thanks for sharing.
thwg··on Sweden will offer migrants $34k to go home
No you are not. The Swedes will love to have you there.
thwg··on Understanding the Y Combinator
I thought this post was about dissing Paul G, Garry Tan and the like. I was wrong.
thwg··on Delving into "Delve"
Thanks for delving into this!
thwg··on Elon: Code is brittle. Need a complete rewrite
Do that in Rust.
thwg··on Begin Japanology – Name Seals / Hanko (2006) [video]
A few years ago there was a case in China. Someone forged documents in the name of a mayor, using a seal with the mayor's name on it. The authorities later found it fake because the mayor used a different seal design. (Just a random detail in a complicated lawsuit.)

It would have been difficult if nobody else had seen his real seal though.

thwg··on They Were Promised Coding Jobs in Appalachia
Programming is not for everyone. Teaching programming is no easy task either. In the end, one of them, even if only one, got a real software job. This is enough to say this program is not a failure.
thwg··on China's secret internment camps
This is not new. Things have been like this (but less systemic and organized) for the Uighurs/Uyghurs for decades. The world collectively shrugs. Because, to be honest, the West is the only part of the world where politicians nominally cares about human rights. In other parts of the world, including China and Muslim-majority countries, politicians don't even pretend they care.

And when the concept of human rights is applied to real people, some seem to be more deserving than others. Muslims are certainly not the tribe Western politicians most identify with.

As Mona Eltahawy wrote back in 2009 -- 10 years ago: If Only the Uighurs Were Buddhist and China Was Israel.

link: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/if-only-the-uighurs-were_b_22...

thwg··on China Spying on Undersea Internet Cables
One solution, beside bashing China, is to vote for a liberal agenda that would give more funding to universities. Guggenheim and other art institutions took money from the Sacklers, who started the opioid crisis. Because they need money. And universities need money. They have to get money one way or another.
thwg··on China Spying on Undersea Internet Cables
No. I'm not here to argue with anybody. I don't intend to change anyone's standing point. I realized long ago that online argument is more about sending pheromones so that the like-minded will come to you.
thwg··on China Spying on Undersea Internet Cables
No worries. It's true being a US citizen carries certain guarantee of basic rights that a citizenship of any other country does not.

You wouldn't believe. Sweden is really a high-trust society. You can look up any person in the country online, etc, etc.

thwg··on China Spying on Undersea Internet Cables
I hate the Chinese regime more than you do. The problem here is by exaggerating Chinese power, right-wing rhetoric in the West is singing a war song against China, which usually carries a racist undertone. And the dictator in China would stupidly believe China is indeed powerful. That's how the trade war between Xi and Trump started.
thwg··on China Spying on Undersea Internet Cables
China has a limited overseas power projection. China does not have the power to get you. But the US can pretty much get anybody. Congrats on being a US citizen.