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apopapo··on U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective
They will become pariahs financially speaking. Nobody will be authorized to wire money to/from them. It's brutal.
apopapo··on Screen viewing time from age 1 to 8 years and subsequent academic performance
You're right, my original question was poorly worded.

My point is to distinguish what young children do with their screens: they could be learning things through educational games or videos for example.

apopapo··on Screen viewing time from age 1 to 8 years and subsequent academic performance
"Screen viewing" seems very vague. What did they do with their screens? Did they read an encyclopedia, or did they watch entertainment content videos? It's an important distinction.
apopapo··on One Oakland police officer made $490k in overtime
A computer is paid for and/or run by at least one human being.
apopapo··on France's tax authority had data stolen on 680k taxpayers
These are the same people who want to identify you whenever you interact with a "social media" website.

I will never comply.

apopapo··on California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash
What about the BSD kernels? Other libre/open source operating systems? These laws should be canceled altogether. They make no sense at all.
apopapo··on Actually, democracy dies in H.R.
"Human Resources" department.
apopapo··on E2E encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after 8 May
It's not only the united states of America. These tyrannical views have been brewing everywhere for years, and there was not enough public counter-narrative to these ideologies.
apopapo··on UK MPs give ministers powers to restrict Internet for under 18s
If "dis-information" is the core of the issue, then perhaps we ought to start banning religions? Despite doing that, China is a champion of spreading "dis-information" within their own walls. Hostile actors are not foreign, most often they are domestic. The biggest offenders are governments. Only freedom opposes their power, which is why they want to restrict it.
apopapo··on UK MPs give ministers powers to restrict Internet for under 18s
Sadly it's not only the UK. There is a global push to restrict communication world-wide. The future is very bleak for fundamental freedoms.
apopapo··on CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements
Taxpayers' money used to track taxpayers and finance the advertising industry.
apopapo··on Rising carbon dioxide levels now detected in human blood
It makes us dumber and dumber.
apopapo··on Ask HN: Share your productive usage of OpenClaw
Thanks for sharing. Can you share an estimate of how many tokens it uses over time? Would love to know how much it costs in terms of money.
apopapo··on Discord just killed anonymity
That does not mean everybody systematically is "hurt" like you were. That is a very dangerous extrapolation.
apopapo··on Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification
Has anyone managed to run Matrix over I2P or other similar overlay network technologies?
apopapo··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Why would Slack not be affected by the same stupid laws?
apopapo··on The state of Linux music players in 2026
All these players will never dethrone DeadBeeF's interface. Foobar2000 simply has the perfect layout - and it's customizable.
apopapo··on psc: The ps utility, with an eBPF twist and container context
> psc uses eBPF iterators to read process and file descriptor information directly from kernel data structures. This bypasses the /proc filesystem entirely, providing visibility that cannot be subverted by userland rootkits or LD_PRELOAD tricks.

Is there a trade off here?

apopapo··on EU Council Approves New "Chat Control" Mandate Pushing Mass Surveillance
Overlay networks + libre and open-source software only (preferrably with reproducible builds).
apopapo··on Pirate library operator arrested, study canceled for 330k members
It's not even about "piracy". It's about "unauthorized copying".
apopapo··on Tor: How a military project became a lifeline for privacy
Tor is nice, but I still prefer i2p.
apopapo··on SecretSpec: Declarative Secrets Management
What's wrong with committing encrypted secrets? That's how I use `sops`.
apopapo··on Show HN: Linux CLI tool to provide mutex locks for long running bash ops
A for loop in a shell script may sometimes look like this:

`for ((i = 0 ; i < max ; i++ )); do echo "$i"; done`

Here this is essentially a "while" loop, meaning it will keep executing the commands as long as we don't reach `exit 1`.

(; flock -n 9 || exit 1; # ... commands executed under lock ...; )

apopapo··on Show HN: Linux CLI tool to provide mutex locks for long running bash ops
It's a "for" loop.
apopapo··on Zorin OS
Strongly disagree on the "unethical" part. Maintaining a distribution is a lot of work, and the infrastructure also costs money. Paying for the distribution of software is totally fine. You are not even forced to pay anyway.
apopapo··on Ask HN: Why are dating apps so bad? Why hasn't anyone made a good one?
If we managed to have decentralized social networks based on ActivityPub (Mastodon, Pleroma, etc.) why can't we have a dating app based on the same protocols?
apopapo··on From Hosts.txt to Modern Internet Infrastructure
Pointing out precisely what you think could be mistakes would be useful.
apopapo··on Scoping a Local-First Image Archive
This reminded me of a static site generator called thumbsup: https://github.com/thumbsup/thumbsup

It does require nodejs, but there is no database other than the native file system.

apopapo··on What Will the Betelgeuse Supernova Be Like – and Will It Hurt Us?
> When Beetlejuice goes off, it's going to be the show of a lifetime. But it’s not going to hurt us.

This got me confused for a second. I thought they were referring to some movie.

apopapo··on Statement on planned protests during the upcoming FOSDEM 2025
Protesting should be about raising awareness of disagreement on a topic. It does not have to be disruptive to reach that objective.
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