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tallanvor··on All I wanted was a custom domain email
You can only RECEIVE 500 emails per month on either your free or $4/month plan?!? That's completely and utterly insane.
tallanvor··on All I wanted was a custom domain email
Fastmail is expensive. The author mentions Purelymail at around $10/year compared to $60/year for Fastmail.
tallanvor··on Scientists stunned by children's lung recovery in ultra low emission zone
If the purifier can filter the air more quickly than air leaves the room it'll still reduce the amount of pollutants in the air. Most people aren't going to create a "clean side" and "dirty side" setup for filtering the air in a room.
tallanvor··on New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study
At least 2 hours before, not 1, and preferably closer to 24 hours before.
tallanvor··on New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study
Unfortunately HIV is not a solved problem.

Condoms? They break. More frequently than you might think.

Truvada and Descovy are great and make a big difference, but they require either high adherence to taking pills daily or being able to plan ahead for 2-1-1 (for same-sex relations - it's effectiveness for heterosexual intercourse hasn't been determined).

Apretude and Lenacapavir obviously require getting to a doctor or someone who can give you the injection either every other month or twice a year, is expensive, and can be very painful for some days afterward. And, of course, they're expensive.

A vaccine is the only real option for dealing with HIV for good.

tallanvor··on New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study
That's absolutely not correct. Truvada has had the same formulation since it was introduced in 2012. Descovy hasn't changed since it was approved in 2019.

You may be thinking of STD tests and bloodwork that is done every 3-6 months depending on your risk level to ensure that you're still HIV negative and that your kidneys are functioning normally, as kidney issues is a rare but serious side effect, especially for Truvada.

Now, what I believe is correct is that most people on PrEP would love to have a vaccine instead of needing a daily pill or even 2-6 injections per year as long as they remain sexually active.

tallanvor··on The Hitler Salute Was Never German
Your very first sentence is "It began in ancient Rome." That's more than 'unfortunate wording'.
tallanvor··on Show HN: Bribes.fyi – Know before you go. New feature added
Rules generally come around due to bad behavior, which I would suggest submitting the same thing every other day for a week constitutes. It's also a very niche topic, even for this site, and not particularly useful or interesting.
tallanvor··on Show HN: Bribes.fyi – Know before you go. New feature added
Why do you feel the need to submit this 4 times over 1 week?
tallanvor··on Airport Simulator
Just a green background and some text on Firefox.
tallanvor··on Notepad++ Zero-Click RCE via Path Traversal (CVE-2026-52884)
Or it's more that people recognize that this isn't a "Zero-Click RCE" and we're tired of people trying to claim that every damn bug is a huge security risk.

If an attacker can already either modify the existing shortcuts.xml file or convince me to download and run a .lnk file that links to a different one they managed to get onto my computer then they don't need to use Notepad++ to do their dirty work.

tallanvor··on Norway's 2 petabytes of Huawei flash storage and LLM training
I have the opposite problem. I often have to ask ChatGPT about things related to Norway and I have to constantly correct it when it keeps switching to responding in Norwegian no matter how many times I tell it to only answer in Norwegian when I request it.
tallanvor··on LinkedIn locks your GDPR rights behind a paywall
A good lawyer can probably make the case that the profiles you view if tracked is your data that you are allowed to see under GDPR. But claiming that knowing who views you is part of GDPR seems like a big stretch.

Better for them to focus on the companies that don't allow you to opt out of what should be considered optional tracking without paying them.

tallanvor··on The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy
Yeah, no, that's an insane claim to make. Obviously American education covers some information about religion in history classes, but that level of detail about catholic history is not normal curriculum for elementary, middle, or high school.
tallanvor··on Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)
No. Trump represented what seemed like a solution to just enough people who were willing to change their votes from one party to another, and didn't represent enough of a threat to most of the people who might have been swayed to switch their vote away from the Republican party.

The issue with voters choosing more right-wing populist parties is not unique to the US.

tallanvor··on Facebook is cooked
I don't. Instead Facebook tries to shove right-wing crap down my throat. I'd rather see the thirst trap posts, to be honest.

Snapchat, on the other hand, I had to uninstall because the stuff they tried to make me view was completely and utterly disgusting (think pimple-popping vids and worse). There was only one person left that I communicated with through their app, so it wasn't a real loss for me.

tallanvor··on DNS Explained – How Domain Names Get Resolved
Honestly, I guess it's a fine article for someone who isn't very technical, but it provides very little real detail, and this wasn't an example of DNS breaking anything - it worked as designed.

The biggest pain of DNS for most people is if someone has set the TTL to an absurdly large number, or if a resolver isn't respecting TTL. And once you get into advanced configurations, SOAs and delegation certainly create their own headaches!

tallanvor··on The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal
No, why would it? When I take the bus, subway, or train, nobody is checking IDs - at most they check if I have a valid ticket, which can be bought with cash.

I've flown many times within the EU/EEA without showing an ID, so I fail to see why traveling within the US should be any different. I've spent most of my life in the US, but the only times I've been in close proximity of terrorist events have been in Norway (Breivik's bomb went off two blocks away from where I worked at the time, and more recently the shooting outside London Pub that killed two and injured multiple others).

I wish I understood why the US feels the need to overreact to everything.

tallanvor··on The TSA's New $45 Fee to Fly Without ID Is Illegal
Plenty of people have an ID in the US, the issue is whether or not those IDs are considered valid to get past security in the airport.

Did you know that Norway only introduced a national ID card in 2020? Until then if you didn't have a driver's license the only other state-issued ID option was a passport, and 10% of Norwegians don't have one. Until around 2015 or so banks would issue your bank card with a photo and your birthdate on it, and that was used as a de facto ID.

I've flown between plenty of EEA countries without ever having to show an ID. The requirement to have one in the US is incredibly stupid and only serves to make it harder for decent people to travel. It provides no actual value to safety.

tallanvor··on Amazon is ending all inventory commingling as of March 31, 2026
Thank you! I can't understand posting Twitter links when there's an actual source of information!
tallanvor··on Postal Arbitrage
I'm guessing you quit after the small value toll exemption was removed?
tallanvor··on My Snapdragon Dev Kit was healthy and working fine until a Windows update failed
That's plausible, but I'd expect the UEFI patches to come from a vendor, not Microsoft. So if one came from Qualcomm, and they didn't properly specify the devices it should be installed on, that wouldn't make it Microsoft's fault.
tallanvor··on Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%
Sure you do.
tallanvor··on Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content
So, as an example, then, you would be ok with someone putting up billboards with your picture calling for you to be executed? I mean, you have to be accepting of an opinion you disagree with, right? Otherwise you're arguing in bad faith and showing that there is a line you feel can't or shouldn't be crossed.
tallanvor··on Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content
You are entitled to your own opinion, not your own facts. And there's no reputable research to back up your claims. Your religious beliefs are not enough to make something true.
tallanvor··on Meta shuts down global accounts linked to abortion advice and queer content
I can say that the data you're sharing suggests it's just as likely that the drop in numbers that your site claims started sometime between 2023 and 2024 are due to people becoming more afraid to identify as such due to Republican attempts to restrict LGBT rights and make life miserable for anyone who doesn't identify as straight
tallanvor··on Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices
Which is perfectly fine for China, but no western government or company who hopes to do business with them will consider this, and for good reason.
tallanvor··on Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices
It's not going to be a valid alternative in the west - certainly not something any government would even consider.
tallanvor··on Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices
How much inflation has there been since the last price increase? From 2022 to 2025 it look likes like about 11%, so not all that different if you're trying to keep a round number.
tallanvor··on Bring bathroom doors back to hotels
That's an overly broad generalization. Shower curtains are pretty common in Norway, and I've found them in hotels all over Europe and even one in Japan.
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