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johanyc··on Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland
On a more fundamental level, I think something is wrong with the American education system and results in so many low information voters who believe any words from their "hero". And fixing education takes decades to even see the result.

They definitely can vote for another Trump-like guy and they have proven it by voting Trump back the second time. Honestly this is crazy to me this can even happen after Jan 6. The Brazilian Trump-like President went to jail, yet Trump returns to the White House. My take is this trust issue takes at least 10 years to recover, most likely more.

johanyc··on Open Camera is a FOSS camera app for Android
Turn off open web pages in the app
johanyc··on Meta acquires Moltbook
It seems Meta is making bad purchases one after another
johanyc··on The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025)
ReadYou on Android and NetNewsWire on iOS are pretty good. Both native and open source
johanyc··on LibreOffice: Request to the European Commission to adhere to its own guidances
"Nope. It isn’t like em-dashes. It is generated by LLMs, and a few people got influenced by it now."

Your comment can be rearranged in that it's not X it's Y format too.

johanyc··on 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips
Can you explain
johanyc··on Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester
You always put trust in the vendor even if they use e2ee because the end clients are made by them.

They can just send things without e2ee from any of their clients (not just web).

> This type of attack could be targeted at the behest of authorities.

No? How can authorities tell them how to do their business?

johanyc··on Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester
> Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester

This is a highly deceptive title. As if Proton proactively helped FBI, which is not even close to truth. Proton is not even in direct contact with FBI. It's Swiss government that forwarded the info to FBI.

A much better title would be:

Proton Mail Payment Info Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester

Or

FBI Unmasked Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester via Proton Mail Payment Info

The point is informing the normies that your payment info is linked to your identity and a potential risk to your anonymity.

That clickbaity title makes me want to unsubscribe from their RSS feed.

> then it turns out they may be sharing data with the swiss government who then gives it to the us government.

Literally every legal business complies to law enforcement. They have to.

johanyc··on Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs
I like this idea. It's a good pr move for the business too
johanyc··on iPhone 17e
4gb ram vs 8gb ram A15 vs A19

Of course it's a considerable upgrade

johanyc··on iPhone 17e
Both se 2 and 3 support iOS 26

https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/iphone-models-compati...

johanyc··on Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules
Honestly we should just always call them public and secret key to avoid confusion
johanyc··on Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules
I like their title better than yours which is a bit long and confusing. I personally would like to see more direct wording stating this is s security incident using words like vulnerability or leak etc but the title really is not that bad just that it does not make me want to click. I only clicked because simonw blogged about it.
johanyc··on Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness
I've been using codex for about 2 months now and am pretty happy with it. What does pi do better than codex?
johanyc··on What is a database transaction?
I second it. At the very least a pause button is needed.
johanyc··on Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links
What are they for then
johanyc··on Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD
Prone to earthquake yes. Tsunami no
johanyc··on US businesses and consumers pay 90% of tariff costs, New York Fed says
Yeah it should just be called import tax.
johanyc··on Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun
For consumers, the risk of fraud is bear by the bank, not you, because you're spending the bank's money instead of yours. For banks, they make money through interests from the customers that don't pay off the bill each month.
johanyc··on TSMC to make advanced AI semiconductors in Japan
I believe you mis remembered it. He didn't rule out military intervention.

In an interview reported by Reuters, he said he’d impose 150%–200% tariffs if China “went into Taiwan,” and when asked about using military force against a blockade he said it “would not come to that” because Xi “respects me” and knows he’s “crazy.”

https://www.reuters.com/world/trump-says-he-would-impose-tar...

johanyc··on TSMC to make advanced AI semiconductors in Japan
This isnt about soft power. Taiwan's location is too important for the US to not intervene in some way.
johanyc··on France dumps Zoom and Teams as Europe seeks digital autonomy from the US
Not direct numbers. But you can see r/BuyFromEU has 795K Weekly visitors. That is A LOT. In comparison, r/OpenAI has 676K Weekly visitors and r/webdev has 691K Weekly visitors.
johanyc··on YouTube blocks background video playback on Brave and other browsers
The thing is none of the alternatives provides as smooth playback as youtube.
johanyc··on Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica
I would like to see dashcam video
johanyc··on Prism
I did not make the association at all
johanyc··on U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took office
> brain drain

Where are they draining to?

johanyc··on Over 36,500 killed in Iran's deadliest massacre, documents reveal
It's pretty common practice if naming them will get the people who shared the info in trouble. Depends on whether you think Time is a trustworthy source I guess
johanyc··on eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update
Stop the ai witch hunt madness
johanyc··on 'The old order is not coming back,' Carney says in speech at Davos
Why is he losing support in Canada
johanyc··on jQuery 4
is there any reason to use jquery if you've never used it before
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