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ykonstant··on The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records'
I really enjoy their songs, and I first listened to them in my late 20s, long after the age where bands imprint on you like a baby chick.
ykonstant··on Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?
whatabout iran
ykonstant··on [dead]
A recent study from Stanford
ykonstant··on A flawed paper in management science has been cited more than 6k times
Join me in my new business endeavor where we found the Journal for Journal Science.
ykonstant··on Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet
Ooh remmina looks really cool.

>ms-malware11

lol

ykonstant··on Why users cannot create Issues directly
>2. The psychological impact of the "open issue count" has real consequences despite being meaningless on its own. People will see a project with 1K+ issues and think "oh this is a buggy hell hole" when 950 of those issues are untriaged, unaccepted, 3rd party issues, etc.

Fully agree with this; as a beginner in the space I get nervous when I see a project having a thousand open issues since 2018.

ykonstant··on Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet
And based on historical trends, they are doing the clever thing. If there are enterprises today still running IBM mainframes, MS is probably right to expect that today's enterprise contracts will be paying off at least 40 years down the line -- especially when you factor in the motte of regulatory traps and labyrinthine compliance checks.
ykonstant··on Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet
Is there a way to chain launch a "qemu VM --> windows 10 client --> autodesk product" in a transparent way? If we could do that reliably and with a stripped down win10 image, I think the serious office users could just pretend they are running autodesk or whatever software in linux. The big downside I presume is this will not work with software that need tight interaction with custom hardware (mocap suits etc).
ykonstant··on Linux kernel security work
> "security"

Security is not a dirty word, Blackadder.

ykonstant··on 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop
Not for the user, unless I forgot that today is opposite day.
ykonstant··on How GNU Guile is 10x better (2021)
What are the pros and cons of Guile wrt Lua?
ykonstant··on Former EU commissioner and activists barred from US
>Successful nations like Switzerland and Norway

I absolutely love the absence of the UK in your list.

ykonstant··on NIST was 5 μs off UTC after last week's power cut
I laughed audibly at that!
ykonstant··on You’re not burnt out, you’re existentially starving
The 90s WERE fantastic, with the usual caveats (location etc). I think we should take a closer look at that decade for future reference.
ykonstant··on Independent review of UK national security law warns of overreach
Young poops?
ykonstant··on If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?
This is fascinating.
ykonstant··on Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental
No, they are not saying that at all??
ykonstant··on Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental
I prefer a billion dallars tax free, but here we are:(
ykonstant··on Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental
I need to check the rust parts of the kernel, I presume there is significant amounts of unsafe. Is unsafe Rust a bit better nowadays? I remember a couple of years ago people complained that unsafe is really hard to write and very "un-ergonomic".
ykonstant··on Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?
Lucky you.
ykonstant··on Ghostty is now non-profit
The CLIpocalypse is coming!
ykonstant··on Paged Out
The "I do NOT hold the legal rights to share or distribute this content" checkbox made me laugh out loud!
ykonstant··on Moving from OpenBSD to FreeBSD for firewalls
Interesting, can you share specifics?
ykonstant··on The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting
Best I can do is tree fiddy. Perhaps a little ragebait could give it that extra oomph it needs.
ykonstant··on The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting
Unfortunately, recently more and more sites fail to work with Tor Browser. Notably, I am informed by people who are not me, Anna's archive and libgen.
ykonstant··on Arduino Terms of Service and Privacy Policy update: setting the record straight
It does?!
ykonstant··on One Handed Keyboard
The wholesomeness and ingenuity made my day!
ykonstant··on Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: the story of learned avoidance
Better translation of epi- : on top of.
ykonstant··on Ask HN: How to learn concurrency?
But what is a good hobby project with a strong focus on concurrency that will not swamp a beginner to this topic?
ykonstant··on End of Japanese community
>I read it as a person trying to understand the situation.

I have been on the receiving end of such comments enough times to read it as a person trying to appear as if they are trying to understand the situation.

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