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kkkqkqkqkqlqlqlon How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA

> Nothing of this is military in nature.

Sure... Until Trump says it is.

kkkqkqkqkqlqlqlon A new documentary about the history of forced psychiatric treatment in Spain

Ah, yes, the Trump approach to ages.

kkkqkqkqkqlqlqlon Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues

> If I were Cloudflare it would mean an immediate job offer well above market.

And not a lawsuit? Cause I've read more about that kind of reaction than of job offers. Though I guess lawsuits are more likely to be controversial and talked about.

kkkqkqkqkqlqlqlon James Watson has died

And an actual test for intelligence. Easy, right?

kkkqkqkqkqlqlqlon French ex-president Sarkozy begins jail sentence

British food.

I mean, jail should be a punishment, right?

kkkqkqkqkqlqlqlon Credential Stuffing

As a person with two useless undergraduate and one equally useless graduate degrees I was scared to click the article.

kkkqkqkqkqlqlqlon President Trump Signs Technology Prosperity Deal with United Kingdom

Thought the exact same. Not even knowing the history of Japan, just from like one frame in the Bill Wurtz video where that name shows up.

kkkqkqkqkqlqlqlon The HackberryPi CM5 handheld computer

Isn't a phone more powerful these days?

kkkqkqkqkqlqlqlon Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG

I'm on mobile and your site works much better than the WebGL one.

kkkqkqkqkqlqlqlon Show HN: Bicyclopedia

This is nice. I remember as a kid having a "How Stuff Works" (I guess that's the original name, I had it in Spanish) CD-ROM with a similar vibe.

kkkqkqkqkqlqlqlon Ask HN: C++ code protection in desktop apps. How do you keep your boss happy?

No, it's propietary. We just want to sell the app.

kkkqkqkqkqlqlqlon Recto – A Truly 2D Language

Everything is just braces/parens with extra steps.

kkkqkqkqkqlqlqlon A Carnival Attraction That Saved Premature Babies (2016)

> Stuff like that just can't happen anymore.

Ya sure about that? You can be a fraudster in the UK, have your medical degree revoked, and go to the US as a fraudster without a medical degree... And be a leader!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wakefield

kkkqkqkqkqlqlqlon The magic of through running

Maybe the OP is taking about some other Musk's ideas brought to reality, like fascism in the US.

kkkqkqkqkqlqlqlon Uber to introduce fixed-route shuttles in major US cities

I guess that it works in very low-density places that are close to the city or something like that. But the problem is that the parking takes up space, so, instead of having some kind of transport hub, where economic activity happens (as is usual next to train stations or bus terminals), you end up with a bus terminal/train station in the middle of nowhere, where the only thing you can do is take your car back to suburbia, and furthering its car dependency. And I'm not sure the regular driver is as city-minded as people here to think of the congestion and all that stuff when they decide between taking the car to the city or to the parking lot and then having to deal with the bus and its schedules.

Also, we're talking about buses, not trains. Unlike a train, you can take a (small) bus into a lower-density area, as it is the case in some cities.

kkkqkqkqkqlqlqlon Uber to introduce fixed-route shuttles in major US cities

> There’s rarely parking near stops so you can't drive to it

Sorry, but, what the actual fuck? If your bus stop requires parking so you can drive an hour in your car to be driven another hour in a bus, then why bother building a bus stop?

kkkqkqkqkqlqlqlon Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic

Didn't Trump killed it?

https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/19/business/trump-kills-congesti...

kkkqkqkqkqlqlqlon Cities can cost effectively start their own utilities

> City municipalities aren’t exactly staffed with the sharpest knives in the drawer

And private utility companies are?

kkkqkqkqkqlqlqlon Discord client that works on Win95*, Win98 and above

Somewhat unrelated, but it's crazy to see how durable Windows APIs are. I, for unrelated reasons, last month, opened Guitar Pro 4, which had been laying around in my warez folder (copied many tines accross hard drives) since I pirated it circa 2004 as a teenager, and it worked perfectly in my machine running windows 11. Even though I love Linux, that doesn't happen over there, right?

kkkqkqkqkqlqlqlon "A computer can never be held accountable"

But what would be the deterrent there? You should program the AI with some sort of "fear of death" or "fear of consequences", and if that's the case, wouldn't it be straight up slavery?

kkkqkqkqkqlqlqlon NYC Congestion Pricing Tracker

https://youtu.be/xloWKKVxZqI?si=IHNFOcGhiQHX3opN

Dangerous to who? Cause you seem to forget about the people outside of the car.

kkkqkqkqkqlqlqlon NYC Congestion Pricing Tracker

Regarding the tradies, could the cost of congestion pricing be tax-deductible or something like that?

kkkqkqkqkqlqlqlon Reciprocal Approximation with 1 Subtraction

Where is the obligatory "WHAT THE FUCK" comment?

kkkqkqkqkqlqlqlon Is Iceland getting ready to join the EU?

Dumb question: If Iceland had been part of the EU in 2008, would they have been able not to bail out their bankers and send them to jail? Could the banking industry have been able to go to a supranational court or something?

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-35485876