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Original title (149 characters in length): "Wikimedia Foundation Secured Government’s Commitment to User Safety, Privacy, and Content Integrity Ahead of Administrative Registration in Indonesia"

explorazon Under Blackout Threat, Wikimedia Reaches Compromise with Indonesia

Post by WMF Policy: https://x.com/wikimediapolicy/status/2047952531557343440 (https://xcancel.com/wikimediapolicy/status/20479525315573434...)

explorazon Indonesia Threatens to Block Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons Access

> and a from a quick google, not really invasive

EFF article about this (2021): https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/02/indonesias-proposed-on...

> this site has a ridiculous amount of ads. Literally

Other sources:

- Indonesia Threatens to Block Wikipedia Over PSE Registration Deadline: https://rri.co.id/en/national/2336218/about.html

- Under blackout threat, Wikimedia to hold talks with Indonesia: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260417-under-blackou...

- https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/04/15/indonesia-blocks-edito... (talks about the auth domain blockage only)

explorazon Indonesia Threatens to Block Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons Access

They blocked Reddit (since a long time)[0] and DuckDuckGo as well (up until now),[1][2] and formerly, the Internet Archive[2]

[0]: https://explorer.ooni.org/chart/mat?probe_cc=ID&since=2015-0...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41157550

[2]: https://explorer.ooni.org/country/ID?since=2026-03-18&until=...

explorazon M 7.4 – 126 km WNW of Ternate, Indonesia

Earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47607661

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47608745

explorazon Firefox ESR 115 support extended until the end of August 2026

From <https://whattrainisitnow.com/release/?version=esr>:

  > We have decided to extend support to ESR 115 only on Windows 7-8.1 and macOS 10.12-10.14 up to August 2026.
  > We will re-evaluate this decision in July 2026 and announce any updates on ESR 115's end-of-life then.

explorazon A Day in the Life of an Enshittificator [video]

Earlier submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47184294

Related: Breaking Free (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47178678)

explorazon The Internet Was Weeks Away from Disaster and No One Knew [video]

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47157516 (14 points)

explorazon How to Review an AUR Package

HN meta question: I noticed that the submission time of this submission recently got reset. Did this post get into some second chance thing?

explorazon Amazon service was taken down by AI coding bot

https://archive.ph/wKj0m

explorazon Minecraft Java Edition Is Transitioning from OpenGL to Vulkan

Recent Discussion (Different external source): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47068948

explorazon Minecraft Switching from OpenGL to Vulkan

Earlier submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47061529

explorazon Convert to it – universal online file converter

Video by the author: I Made the Ultimate File Converter (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btUbcsTbVA8)

explorazon GitHub - New repository settings for configuring pull request access

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47006419

explorazon I put a real-time 3D shader on the Game Boy Color

Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46913127

explorazon Putting a real-time 3D shader on the Game Boy Color

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46935791

explorazon Lawsuit Claims Meta Can See WhatsApp Chats in Breach of Privacy

Earlier submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46751132

explorazon Microsoft suspects some PCs might not boot after Windows 11 January 2026 Update

Windows 11 update KB5074109 is breaking systems – Microsoft says uninstall it (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46725053)

explorazon I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

Alternatively one could spin up a local Java Edition server and install GeyserMC translation layer plugin[0] into it. That way, both iOS and Linux PC could cross-play to each other without the need of another new device.

[0]: https://geysermc.org/

explorazon I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great

> The biggest issue I’ve had so far is Minecraft: Bedrock Edition. For some reason, Microsoft hasn’t prioritized making a Linux version of Bedrock. Java Edition works fine in Linux, but I play Minecraft with my kids, and they’re on Bedrock Edition on their iPads. There’s supposed to be a way to run the Android app with MCPE Launcher, but I couldn’t get it to work.

The launcher was somewhat pretty stable all along, until Microsoft enabled Google's Integrity Protection "DRM" into it. [0]

Fortunately, they have found a way to run it even with that added in after a couple of weeks later since they added that at Q3/4 last year.

> but I couldn’t get it to work.

From what I've seen, the game will crash when vibrant visuals (a built-in alternative rendering option with shaders-like experience in Minecraft Bedrock) volumetric fog is enabled. [1]

[0]: https://github.com/minecraft-linux/mcpelauncher-manifest/iss... [1]: https://github.com/minecraft-linux/mcpelauncher-manifest/iss...

explorazon Nvidia 590 driver drops Pascal/lower support; main pkgs switch to Open Kern Mods

Original title: NVIDIA 590 driver drops Pascal and lower support; main packages switch to Open Kernel Modules (93 characters long, beyond the 80-character limit)

explorazon Ask HN: Was Google Search and Services down for anyone else?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46325517

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46325535

explorazon How to bypass YouTube ad-blocking restrictions?

Try getting some inspiration from uBlock Origin's "Quick Fixes" filterlist[0] (GPL-3.0 licensed)

[0]: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/blob/master/filters/...

explorazon Waycraft: A Wayland Compositor with a Minecraft-like environment

Video by the original author: Minecraft, but it's a Wayland compositor (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsBxWYDspV8)

explorazon Show HN: Network Monitor – a GUI to spot anomalous connections on your Linux

Update: It turns out that in GTK4, half of the memory usage were dedicated to OpenGL hardware rendering alone.

Using GSK_RENDERER=cairo almost halved the memory usage of most GTK4 apps, but it doesn't fix the startup time.

explorazon Show HN: Network Monitor – a GUI to spot anomalous connections on your Linux

> Though I was let down last week when I ported a TUI to GTK4 and found out that even a hello world gtk4.h C app uses 200mb RAM.

Bit of a rant I wanted to share here:

I've seen the same happened on zenity (a GUI dialog utility for shell scripts) since they migrated from GTK3 into GTK4.

Now zenity took almost 2 seconds to launch instead of .5 to a second when they still used GTK3.

This might be an issue on both libadwaita and GTK4 itself.

Both pavucontrol (which uses GTK4 but not libadwaita, at least for now) and even a simple dialog in zenity (GTK4+libadwaita) consumed over 100 MiB of memory according to btop measurement, while both thunar and engrampa, which is both GTK3 apps, only consumed half the amount of memory usage (about 50 MiB according to btop).

However, I've noticed that zenity, GNOME apps, and other apps that uses libadwaita took longer to launch compared to apps that only used GTK4 (pavucontrol), which launched as fast as other GTK3 apps does.

explorazon Letter from Codeberg: Onwards and Upwards

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46010960

explorazon OOP is shifting between domains, not disappearing

Unrelated, but your comment is the 46 millionth item by the way.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46000000

explorazon Copy button added to Stack Overflow

> This feels hopelessly dated and given the reception it doesn't seem like it works that well

For some reason, the copy button won't even include a valid attribution source URL at all:

  // Source - https://stackoverflow.com/a
  // Posted by ...