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u10242··on Show HN: Colorfle – A daily color mixing game inspired by Wordle
I have to disagree with all the negative criticism here. While the instructions may not have been entirely clear up front, actually playing the game just once clears everything up.

And I absolutely love color blending or sorting games, like Blendoku or I Love Hue, so I'll definitely keep playing this game, unlike Wordle or its other clones.

Thanks for creating Colorfle! Please don't change too much.

u10242··on Is It Even Worth Working on FOSS Anymore?
The way is solve this is that I release everything under GPL. Companies usually won't touch that, but everybody else might.
u10242··on Ask HN: Has Google search become quantitatively worse?
Just a theory, but "dense" in English translates to "dicht" in German.
u10242··on The unbearable fussiness of the smart home
This setup really sounds great and very involved.

But how do you turn the lights off again? Timeout? Not detecting any motion? Also, do you have any pets?

As for dimming the lights, I'm sure it looks impressive and also dramatic. But I've been able to go to bed in time for more than 40 years just fine. Also, what if you do want to stay up later?

Which, I think, is the gist of the first comment: You can do all these things, but they don't improve the current status and thus mostly serve as recreational activity.

u10242··on Is it stealing to read by the light of your neighbour’s lamp?
The most common example I know of is that if in a garden grows an apple tree, where one branch reaches into the neighbor's garden, is the neighbor allowed to harvest the apples from that branch?

IANAL, but IIRC German law states that 1) the neighbor is allowed to harvest the apples and 2) the neighbor can demand from the tree owner to saw that branch off.

u10242··on It's been 42 years since 'The Hitchhiker's Guide' answered the ultimate question
Except that "pick a number, any number" is not a question.
u10242··on Ubuntu 21.10 (Impish Indri)
And Firefox is a snap package now; the .deb will go away next release.

Canonical finally managed to make me switch back to Debian.

u10242··on AI cannot be the inventor of a patent, appeals court rules
Bye bye free will!

From now on, nothing is my fault any more.

u10242··on Tesla is ordered to turn over Autopilot data to a federal safety agency
Well, I'm an attentive driver, so I wouldn't use anything that drives worse than me.

A lot of people probably feel the same.