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What does that mean for this deal?

The chilling effect is the police knocking on your door, taking all your devices and being under investigation for months on end before you are cleared. If you are lucky.

Sure, I quite enjoy it myself now. But I'd be lying if I said it wasn't borderline unusable for years.

> It almost smells like sabotage (at least self-sabotage).

See also: Ubuntu Unity, Gnome 3, KDE 4... all widely panned by their most loyal users. 2010s were the lost decade of Linux.

Are you implying that there is a country somewhere you don't have to "keep bookkeeping and prepare annual accounts"? Sounds like bog standard things.

Check India and Indonesia next, there's quite a lot of WA users for you.

It's funny because Hetzner was infamous for null routing on the slightest DoS back in the day. Have they improved?

It happens: https://www.is.fi/hs-vantaa/art-2000006387011.html

You have to read between the lines on why that is so.

It has nothing to do with the specifics of the technology. As a consumer of online content, I don't care one bit if it is styled with XSLT or CSS (though as a developer my condolences are with the author, if they worked with XSLT).

However, what I do care about is that it _remains viewable and usable_. Imagine if Microsoft Word one day decided you couldn't open .doc or .rtf files from the early 2000's? The browser vendors have decided that the web is now an application delivery platform where developers must polyfill backwards compatibility, past documents be damned.

And just as the article drives the point home, it doesn't have to be this way. They could just provide the polyfill within the browser, negating any purported security issues with ancient XML libraries.

Do yourself a favor and enable showdead in settings.

AuroraOS was very much a commercial errand by Jolla Oy, not some open source volunteers hacking on it in their free time.

https://www-sttinfo-fi.translate.goog/tiedote/54712711/sailf...

Look, I wouldn't want to be responsible for maintaining anything to do with XML or XSLT either. All the technical arguments outlined for removing support make sense. But can users really call it an "update" if you could view an XML/XSLT document in Internet Explorer 6 or Chrome 1 but not the newest version?

I think this sets a concerning precedent for future deprecations, where parts of the web platform are rugpulled from developers because it's convenient for the browser vendors.

Should we be giving Swedish people special treatment and privileges in 2025, or how long until bygones are bygones?

> Apple detected a targeted mercenary spyware attack against your iPhone

Not going to lie, this subject line would fit right in with the phishing messages and 419 scams in my Spam folder.

Lifestyle business, the antithesis of Y Combinator.

I've been doing some small scale basil growing at home using kratky hydroponics in glass jars. It's always interesting to check how the roots have grown and expanded overnight.

There are a lot of people happily browsing away on unsupported Apple devices that don't get any more Safari updates. Lot of strange webkit edge cases to be found that don't exist in any other browser.

As we all know, the bloody Russo-Ukrainian war remains ongoing, and Ukrainian civilians are targeted by hundreds of Russian drones on a weekly basis. Helsing is a defense contractor working for the Ukrainian and European defense sector. So let me flip this argument on its head:

Americans! Do you want to help defeat fascism in Europe? Are you tired of your tech companies capitulating to Trump? Do you really want your music to support the IDF in Gaza?

There is something very easy you can do: simply switch to Spotify. Cancel your Apple, Amazon and Google subscriptions. Pull your music from their platforms.

In the United States of America, the "draft" has historically applied to those categorized as "male". Today, the "Selective Service System" asserts that "Federal law requires nearly all male U.S. citizens and male immigrants to register at age 18". Likewise, many countries still enforce selective conscription by gender.

You may not like or approve of these things, but they are part of the "purpose" you seek.

It can happen to anyone and cause a reputational risk. Once upon a time $workplace had a Zoho Form that would be blacklisted by Google Safe Browsing or Microsoft Edge for arbitrary periods of time, presumably because someone used Zoho to make a phishing site, leading to some very confused calls.

Which ethical laptop would you recommend?

Do you believe board members Meta, Amazon or Microsoft and their CEO's are on the right side?

You can't fire people in Denmark for having the wrong opinions.

Nordic design has jumped the shark and the modern obsession with black and white is a tragedy. Homes look like mental asylums with their all white decor. For instance, I would love a nice dark brown walnut bookshelf like this one [1], but IKEA does not stock that color here at all.

[1] https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/billy-bookcase-combination-brow...

The signing key with the majority of installs "wins" the package name for use, meaning that only the developer or F-Droid's key can be used for one app.

It's weird for people to try and set the record straight when you mention them by name?

I wonder if you can count on some crappy enterprise firewall to make that distinction.

Remove flags 2025, all the best stuff is in https://news.ycombinator.com/active. I don't even use Ruby right now, have no dog in whatever drama is behind this, but I don't see what's so offensive about knowing Gem.coop is now a thing.

> Here's a thought experiment: imagine if Daniel Ek had launched Spotify in 2008 by scraping every song off the internet, hosting them on his servers, and telling record labels to pound sand. How long would Spotify have lasted? Instead, Spotify carefully negotiated each deal as it launched territory by territory.

Isn't that fairly close to what actually happened though? "Spotify's Beta Used 'Pirate' MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay (2017)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43169461