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Fidelix··on The Shroud of Turin: History and Legends
Not true at all. No red paint in it.

This has been conclusively, scientifically debunked multiple times.

Fidelix··on The Internet Archive is back online
UPnP is useless with CGNAT (Carrier Grade NAT), which is what the op is talking about.

There are other ways to get seeding working, though, including IPV6, which is gaining adoption, so I don't agree with the OP.

Fidelix··on Do not use secrets in environment variables
what a nonsense notion... are you living in 1997?
Fidelix··on Tesla Transport Protocol over Ethernet (TTPoE)
Because Tesla and Musk bad... or something of the sort.

This is the way it goes here in HN for anything related to Musk.

Fidelix··on Brazil Court votes unanimously to uphold X ban. Users switch to Threads, Bluesky
These are the only ones that voted:

Flávio Dino (Appointed by Lula) Cármen Lúcia (Appointed by Lula) Cristiano Zanin (Appointed by Lula) Luiz Fux (Appointed by Lula)

Fidelix··on Starlink U-turns, will block X in Brazil after all
Why do you have to intentionally misrepresent things (lie)?

Flávio Dino (Appointed by Lula) Cármen Lúcia (Appointed by Lula) Cristiano Zanin (Appointed by Lula) Luiz Fux (Appointed by Lula)

These are the only ones that voted.

Fidelix··on Starlink U-turns, will block X in Brazil after all
Yes, I am a Brazilian. That has no bearing on truth claims, though.

Why do you have to intentionally misrepresent things (lie)?

Flávio Dino (Appointed by Lula) Cármen Lúcia (Appointed by Lula) Cristiano Zanin (Appointed by Lula) Luiz Fux (Appointed by Lula)

These are the only ones that voted.

Fidelix··on Starlink U-turns, will block X in Brazil after all
They're doing the opposite. They are refusing the break the law and comply with illegal orders.
Fidelix··on Starlink U-turns, will block X in Brazil after all
They had a legal representative. They were about to be arrested by the tyrant judge, so they fled to Argentina IIRC.

Also, the orders are all illegal. God, how HN can be disappointing sometimes when it comes to politics...

Fidelix··on Starlink U-turns, will block X in Brazil after all
It's pretty simple.

Twitter is following the law in all cases.

In Brazil's case, the orders are illegal and in some cases contradict the law of other countries. This was all explained pretty well by X Global Affairs: https://x.com/GlobalAffairs

Fidelix··on Maestro: Netflix's Workflow Orchestrator
It has the Apache license, definitely Open Source. https://github.com/Netflix/maestro/blob/main/LICENSE
Fidelix··on Sora: Creating video from text
Should electricity?
Fidelix··on Sora: Creating video from text
Do you feel the same way about electricity?
Fidelix··on A Canadian payroll dependency chart
Not even remotely correct.

Each country in the EU has different income tax systems and other types of tax. VAT is just one aspect that generally doesn't cover even half of the tax burden.

OP is talking about the overall tax system.

Fidelix··on Show HN: Formbricks – Open-source alternative to Typeform and Sprig
This is a very nice project/product. Congrats.

May I suggest having some premium themes in the paid plan as an incentive to upgrade?

Please do keep the option to build a customised theme in the self-hosted version, though. Some people might even want to contribute back to the project because of that.

Fidelix··on No morphological differences between living and non-living systems are yet known
That would be better described as agnosticism.

In practice, people who identify as atheists - such as Dawkins - affirm that there is no god. That's a belief.

Fidelix··on Most demographers now predict that human population will plateau
This is not true. The medicine was for miscarriages (it was referred as “spontaneous abortion”).

It's explained in the article that you linked. Some women did take the medicine to induce an abortion, but they did not do that with Hildegard's aid or assent.

There is a helpful discussion around this here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Catholicism/comments/q88veb/is_this...

Fidelix··on Rust fact vs. fiction: 5 Insights from Google's Rust journey in 2022
"Anecdotally, these ramp-up numbers are in line with the time we’ve seen for developers to adopt other languages, both inside and outside of Google."

"Overall, we’ve seen no data to indicate that there is any productivity penalty for Rust relative to any other language these developers previously used at Google."

Fidelix··on NYC Bailing Out Hotels Paying Premium Rates for Budget Rooms to House Migrants
Kidnapping:

"the unlawful act of capturing and carrying away a person against their will and holding them in false imprisonment"

Nobody is being carried against their will. Nobody is being held under false imprisonment.

Fidelix··on Update to Kagi Search Pricing
Simple math. It's worth it for me. I realise it's possible not many others feel the same, but even if Kagi quintupled their current prices I would still pay for it without batting an eye.

Why? Because of the time and effort it saves me.

I make around 1500 searches per month. If it saves me 3s per search (I'm 100% convinced it's actually way more), that's saving me 75min in a month. I'm paid more than the unlimited plan per hour.

But it's hard to put a number on how much it's worth having a search tool that is algorithmically unbiased (except against ads), that actually works, and that denies big tech my data.

It is true, though, that they went back on their promise to grandfather current customers. That will stay in my memory.

Fidelix··on Kagi search and Orion browser enter public beta
I'm not that interested in paying to protect my data (I think that battle is forever lost).

But the results are simply way better than anything else I've tried. It was probably one of the easiest purchasing decisions I ever made. I really don't understand the comments about this being expensive from HackerNews folks, who I assume use search quite a bit.

Just do some math, check how long you spend looking for stuff with google, dealing with SEO spam, unable to blacklist domains (and even if you do it client-side, you need to constantly keep updating your list), lost time due to not being easy to perform language-specific searches (with kagi, my other languages are a dropwdown away).

Then factor in the amount you spend frustrated with other more subjective things. One thing that bothers me is the political bias of the results (among other things), piracy censorship, etc, but for you it might be something else.

If I had to ask something from Kagi, though, is to be careful about this part from their FAQ:

> Some results from traditional sources will reflect biases

This concept of favouring "traditional sources" (authoritative sources in google language) is a major red flag for me. But I'm not sure this is what your FAQ means. If I noticed anything too overt like I do with google, I would drop kagi the second another alternative with the same search quality shows up.

Overall, thank you for building a great product and service. I am recommending kagi to everyone I know.

Fidelix··on Teach your kids poker, not chess
That's not how parenting works.

As a parent, you are supposed to make the choices that increase the chances of better outcomes for the children, whatever the parent considers those better outcomes to be.

Fidelix··on Ashton Kutcher’s non-profit, Thorn, supports EU plans for CSAM scanning
> You should be very concerned about our House of Lords...

I think that's ridiculous, though they don't affect much. Waste of money. Not really with the Monarchy, as they aren't affecting anything at all.

> but I feel confident making such a statement as anybody who has spent more than 20 minutes researching how the EU works would know that it's folly to say that they're "unelected authoritarians".

Why would you assume that? Because I am an immigrant? How progressive. FYI you're wrong. What a shock.

> the very idea of a united EU is the opposite of fascism

One fundamental characteristic of Fascism is the centralisation of power in the state, and control/partnership with the private sector (which acts both for itself and for the benefit of the state). This is core to the EU. The logical conclusion of the EU project is a larger, more powerful government. It can't move into a different direction.

Are you aware of the thread that you're into? You can't possibly be missing the irony, but it seems you are.

> The distance between Luxembourg and London is less than the distance between London and Glasgow..

"far away" can also mean culturally, and BTW I'm not in favour of London governing anything in Glasgow either.

But that wouldn't fit into your preconceptions, would it?

> but you're certainly misinformed.

Why would you assume I don't already know everything that you said? I know: because you might be a bit arrogant. That is very apparent.

Just so you know, you contradicted yourself: The EU commission is made of UNELECTED people. They are the ones who draft the laws. Being appointed by someone does not mean elected, it means precisely being unelected.

How silly does one have to be to try to twist the basic meaning of accountability in government?

Now, even if they had been elected directly, the people making laws, or voting on said laws, or influencing policy that affects my country were elected somewhere else.

Nobody outside a given sovereign body should have a say in anything policy-wise within it.

Fidelix··on Ashton Kutcher’s non-profit, Thorn, supports EU plans for CSAM scanning
I'm not a nationalist, I'm an immigrant in the UK.

I'm simply not fond of unelected authoritarians, neither am I fond of fascists governing my community from far away.

Which are you?

Fidelix··on Central African Republic Adopts Bitcoin as Legal Tender
Not true. I read the report and it is going well - extremely well for a period this short.

Unless your definition of "well" is that everyone would just up and stop using fiat overnight.

Fidelix··on The Superhero Industry Hates Children (2019)
You angered the neckbeards, look at the other comments...

Look, I consume all of this cultural junk food you mentioned. But at least I recognise it as such.

The fact that others are in a so vehement denial about it just shows EXACTLY how right you are. Minds of childs.

Fidelix··on Ontario government staffer fired after $100 donation to Ottawa convoy
It is absurdly biased, you're not alone in that experience, it is patently obvious that wikipedia is extremely left-biased
Fidelix··on Portugal bans bosses texting staff after-hours
Europe? Upward mobility?

Please do post your source. In my own experience and research, that is very limited in Europe.

I would argue that there are actually more disincentives than incentives for class mobility in Europe (which is where I live).

Fidelix··on Scientists: Don’t Feed the Doubt Machine
"Second, scientists should consider what kinds of argument the data and conclusions serve. How might these shape public opinion? What policy decisions might they affect?"

Peachy.

Fidelix··on Goggles: Democracy dies in darkness, and so does the Web [pdf]
That's a good thing in my book.
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