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pixxel

929 karma · joined January 15, 2013

I don’t see replies. I comment whilst taking a shit, and then continue to enjoy life. Try it.
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pixxel··on UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16
The US was tested for tyranny during Covid, election interference, and BLM burning down cities. You sat at home, utterly impotent. You're gonna stop VPN bans? Please.
pixxel··on Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah
Can you take a day off. Just one.
pixxel··on Ring introducing new feature to allow police to live-stream access to cameras
Fuck people for installing this shit. Parasites need a host.
pixxel··on Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update
Your favourite corporations commit all sorts of crimes (ethical and actual). But let’s remember that questionable thing Brave did for eternity.
pixxel··on Firefox is fine. The people running it are not
Brave is dragged at any available half-chance opportunity…
pixxel··on Tesla's Cybertruck flop is historic. The brand collapse is even worse
Easily walkable with 30 homes.
pixxel··on Figma files for proposed IPO
If you’re tired of it all, and the inevitable, and you have agency, try penpot.app
pixxel··on Matrix v1.15
> It baffles me

It baffles me that people use corporate surveillance software, and balk at the tiniest of privacy hurdles.

pixxel··on We're back: How tuberculosis is set to surge globally once again
The answer was, no.
pixxel··on A look at Firefox forks
> devs have a fetish with all or nothing privacy

It’s a position, not a fetish.

pixxel··on Spotify's Beta Used 'Pirate' MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay (2017)
> Blackrock does not have any political motives at all

Please paste this above all future comments you post to save HN readers’ time.

pixxel··on Osaka bans smoking on all of its streets, vaping included
I’ll take the whiff of locally grown weed over beans picked by poor people, processed and delivered by criminal oil companies.
pixxel··on LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting
Ooo you got an unnecessary swipe at X in. Look at you!
pixxel··on POTUS Tracker – Executive Orders, Presidential Schedule, Signed Legislation
Your weak mindedness shouldn’t affect what others learn/read. Go for walk, get a hobby offline etc.
pixxel··on Apple and SpaceX link up to support Starlink satellite network on iPhones
Yes isn’t it wonderful. Coming to all ‘smart’ devices including dumb televisions. Bypassing networks has never been such wow.
pixxel··on Mark Zuckerberg: This Man Is a Coward
> just went with the flow

Be better. Go against the flow.

pixxel··on AI is creating a generation of illiterate programmers
Incorrect inputs and it will. Double-checking source numbers and correct key presses was commonplace.
pixxel··on Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon
> he enjoyed massive market benefit

Life imprisonment, no parole.

You have to be a complete and utter wanker to think his punishment was justified.

pixxel··on Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable?
/Captain Hypocrisy enters the chat
pixxel··on I deleted my social media accounts
> Zuckatrump

Did the Hive approve this, or are you breaking the rules of individualism?

pixxel··on Epic CEO Tim Sweeney says tech leaders are 'pretending to be Republicans'
Zuck is innocent PR piece.
pixxel··on Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs
Did the software suffer? Did you suffer?
pixxel··on Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs
Are you presenting this as a positive?
pixxel··on Bird-inspired drone uses legs to walk and jump into the air
Spy drones than mimic birds.
pixxel··on Atari ST 40th Anniversary
Whilst games were loading we used to go outside and play football or whatever. Taking turns to run indoors to check loading hadn’t crashed. I got to enjoy the rugged real world, and offline technology; for that I’m very grateful.
pixxel··on My Amazon TV Now Unmutes Itself During Prime Video Commercial Breaks
Nice for sure. Until then: pay for sub, never use it, grab content from ‘other sources’.

Apps like https://overseerr.dev make it incredibly simple for household members to request content.

pixxel··on Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow
Don’t encourage it.
pixxel··on Bitwarden Was Down
Unless you use BW every minute of every day, including when you sleep, then you’re in no position to counter self-hosting with your anecdote.
pixxel··on Covid 5 years later: Learning from a pandemic many are forgetting
I won’t forget.
pixxel··on FBI: Largest homemade explosives cache in agency history found in Virginia
Look up ‘Susan Rosenberg’.
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