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blell··on Show HN: We Built the 1. EU-Sovereignty Audit for Websites
You can also tell the guy is German because of the strange hyphen between EU and Sovereignty. :P
blell··on Celebrities say they are being censored by TikTok after speaking out against ICE
Wait until you try to criticise Israel.
blell··on ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data
Because once they come in sufficient numbers they will turn your country into the country they fled from - and then you are in trouble.
blell··on Nvidia-smi hangs indefinitely after ~66 days
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28340101
blell··on BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp
Yes, through MMS or RCS.
blell··on BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp
Why would you spend a lot of money to make a better app for whatsapp and let them keep all the revenue?

You won't get enough people to pay you money to use your app to make it profitable. If you think you will, then you have a business already; go build it!

blell··on BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp
Any company can ask for interoperatibility with whatsapp. None of them are, because it's obviously against their interests.

The DMA will change nothing in this regard because the "many apps" approach is the most beneficial to users.

blell··on Ask HN: Gmail spam filtering suddenly marking everything as spam?
We get it, you hate AI. Here, your gold star.
blell··on TikTok is now collecting more data about its users
Depends if you see more of a threat coming from China or Israel.
blell··on Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities
Click the link.
blell··on Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities
They can build whatever they want with lots of #hashtags and public money, but that doesn't mean they'll get 30% of French people to use it.

But of course they managed to cut themselves a nice salary with EU funds, paid in part by me and you, so that's all that matters.

blell··on You can now download Windows 7 and Vista ISO images with all the updates
But are pinned by mods.
blell··on In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels
OTOH, oil and gas prices in Europe are criminal, so there's that.
blell··on You can now download Windows 7 and Vista ISO images with all the updates
Yes? All news articles contain a link to archive.is as a pinned comment.
blell··on JPEG XL Test Page
Alright, that image made be really miss Lenna as an example image.
blell··on When "likers'' go private: Engagement with reputationally risky content on X
IIRC Reddit used to have an option that only admins could see that would allow them to write comments under other accounts without going through the trouble of registering them/logging into them/etc.
blell··on De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? (2025)
Spanish here: I wouldn't go to war even for my own country, imagine for the likes of France or Germany.
blell··on Project Cybersyn
Much more effort and much more blood would have been spilled if socialism ever "succeeded".
blell··on Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EU's roll-back of digital rights
Yes. But if you look into the policies they push, they are all progressive for some reason.
blell··on Article by article, how Big Tech shaped the EU's roll-back of digital rights
There must be thousands of soda manufacturers in Europe. I can buy dozens of sodas where I live. But they are not Coca Cola.
blell··on Iran's state broadcaster IRIB was hacked to air a message from Reza Pahlavi
Uh? Who do you think is behind this?
blell··on US electricity demand surged in 2025 – solar handled 61% of it
It’s a political imperative to get rid of everybody who thinks increasing energy consumption is a bad thing.
blell··on The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime
No, it’s just that it’s crazy to hold the CEO liable for absolutely everything that can go wrong.
blell··on How have prices changed in a year? NPR checked 114 items at Walmart
>I can't think of a good explanation for this.

Supply and demand.

blell··on 4k tons of potatoes to be given away for free in Berlin
>How many trees have to be saved to make it worthwhile for more people breaking their bones?

The **** is a death cult. They are very very happy to see you become an invalid if it avoids the death of a sapling. I know that this sounds hyperbolic to the point of being derisive, but it's the observable truth.

blell··on Epic fined €1.1M over manipulating children through in app purchases
Children do not have money of their own and can’t spend their parents’ money.
blell··on We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers
In these discussions no one will admit this, but the answer is generally yes. Websites written in python and stuff like that.
blell··on We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers
Seems a mistake to disable the (I assume) faster-to-generate api. Bots will go back to scraping the website itself, increasing load.
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This doesn’t explain anything.
blell··on U.S. Emissions Jumped in 2025 as Coal Power Rebounded
The US understands that cheap, dependable energy is vital for the economy.
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