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larholm··on Haiku OS runs on M1 Macs now
You can also try out a demo in your browser at https://distrosea.com/select/haiku/
larholm··on US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere
Freedom of speech is not absolute anywhere, not even under the 1st amendment in the USA.

Death threats are illegal whether they happen offline or online.

Yelling "I HAVE A BOMB!" in an airport comes with consequences.

I believe we can agree on these two examples.

larholm··on US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere
"What is illegal offline should be illegal online: Council agrees position on the Digital Services Act"

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2021...

I believe you are referring to UK examples, which are not representative for Europe or covered under the DSA.

The overall message still applies; harassment and death threats are no less legal and no more legal because they happen online.

larholm··on The Day the Telnet Died
Or Notepad, for a change!
larholm··on 183M Gmail Passwords Leaked
The title of the article makes it clear that these are not 183M Gmail passwords, but that Gmail passwords are a part of the leak.

"Gmail Passwords Confirmed As Part Of 183 Million Account Data Leak"

larholm··on Translating a Fortran F-16 Simulator to Unity3D
Airplanes need air to fly [citation needed].
larholm··on macOS Tahoe
Major throwback to icon rendering on the Amiga Workbench.
larholm··on macOS Tahoe
Apple changed this in Tahoe Beta 2

https://512pixels.net/2025/06/finder-icon-fixed/

larholm··on Danish supermarket chain is setting up "Emergency Stores"
These stores are not supposed to prepare you for three days of resilience in advance.

They are meant to be available as reliable and functioning stores throughout a crisis period. Your go-to destination for purchasing vital goods during the crisis.

larholm··on Universe expected to decay in 10⁷⁸ years, much sooner than previously thought
There is also no reason to believe that the fertility rates would go to zero. To an outside observer, we might simply be reaching a new equilibrium.

The idealized Star Trek society of production automation and exploratory self fulfillment might only be possible, and sustainable, if we are a billion people.

That is still plenty enough people to continue our ever accelerating and vast exploration of culture, science and space.

larholm··on Show HN: TCP/UDP over sound
War Games used a Dataphon s21d, iirc.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akustikkoppler#/media/File:Acu...

I had one for my C-64.

larholm··on Today Rails turns 10 years old
17 and counting, it's come a long way.
larholm··on Why I am excited about Clojure
Just like in Javascript.
larholm··on Microsoft launches Office for iPad
Just as you can do with Office Online, mentioned in this thread?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7482708

larholm··on Density.io
How about an app for rooted Android phones?

'Click here to transmit 802.11* broadcasts with randomized MAC'

larholm··on How Silicon Valley CEOs conspired to drive down tech engineer wages
I should have clarified then. I turned down 80k EUR offers, so 70k EUR is definitely not the final stop in Berlin.
larholm··on How Silicon Valley CEOs conspired to drive down tech engineer wages
90k USD ist just shy of 66k Euro, which is by no means unheard of for an experienced developer.

I know personal anecdotes doesn't count for much, but I turned down several 80k offers in Berlin. I would expect salaries in Munich to be 10-15% higher due to cost of living.

larholm··on Network Solutions Auto-Enroll: $1,850
It is also most definitely illegal here in Denmark, and probably a whole host of other countries.
larholm··on Douglas Adams' 61st birthday doodle by Google
I really liked this, except the fact that - for me - it was translated into Danish.

I have only read Douglas' works in English, and the phrase is "Don't Panic" - it's not "Undgå Panik", which is a lousy translation that literally means Avoid Panic.

Sometimes this geolocalization goes too far.

larholm··on How Lisp is Going to Save the World
And robustness is often the static plastic bubble that hides in itself, never accomplishing much in the real world.

State is too often the real world.

Mind you, I like robustness. It's like the cinder blocks I use to build my house, each robust and contained in itself. I just can't disregard state when stacking my cinder blocks on top of each other; the flexing and distribution of load is an emergent state that I have to consider when building each cinder block.

larholm··on $21,243 in 8 Days: Why AppSumo is Going to Keep Crushing It
I feel the same.

I got more information about AppSumo from their Google search excerpt than from their website.

larholm··on Single Element MacBook Pro with CSS
Browser crash?

Better fire up IDA!

larholm··on Show HN: movies.io — torrent search like it should be
Magnet links are just a shortcut for getting the .torrent file, everything else still applies.
larholm··on Javascript Screens
It sounds decent, but how about some examples?
larholm··on Ruby 1.9 lands NaCl support, can run in Chrome
I have written a lot of JS since my humble beginnings in 1997 where I wrote an "ajax" chat system running down to Netscape 2 and IE3.

There's no point in dismissing JS due to simple lexical issues; those have in no way prevented us from maturing the language use through idioms, patterns, tools and collective knowledge.

JS is more than good enough as a basis for CoffeeScript and Emscripten - so why should we care whether scope context or a lack of block scope can be initially confusing?

larholm··on WP Engine: How A Startup Reached $1M In Sales In Less Than A Year
25,000 might sound like a lot of visits, but I have been beyond that in mere hours with a single slashdotting.

Well, that was in 2004 when /. was big. Today, I would fear the Reddit frontpage.

The next step up? Going from $29/mo. to $99/mo.

I might just not be their target customer.

larholm··on Bypassing the Password: Seeking Ways to Make the Computer Password Obsolete
We definitely agree there.

Uncommon phrases are not that difficult to think of though; my own example is the only hit on google for that phrase.

larholm··on Bypassing the Password: Seeking Ways to Make the Computer Password Obsolete
That specific example might be flawed, but the principle is sound; a keyphrase is easy to remember and has plenty of entropy.

"I used to smoke Kings cigarettes under the bridge" suits me a lot better than "3D5g!§x&".

larholm··on Show HN: Color.io == an intuitive social marketing / barter platform
This sounds extremely annoying.
larholm··on In 1951 there was a children's U-238 Atomic Energy Lab playset for $50
Oh please, here in Denmark we blew glass on a school trip in 6th grade after a 5 minute introduction.
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