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zemnl··on Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation
Same for me.

My config is a couple lines longer, but other than font-family, font-size, color theme and a couple of other settings I didn't need to change anything else.

I definitely spent way less time configuring it to suit my needs that I did with any other terminal I used before.

zemnl··on Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust
I agree with you for the font size, but other than that I really like the minimal UI
zemnl··on Proton spam and the AI consent problem
I do think the same too, I have a Proton subscription (non-business), my "Lumo Product Updates" is toggled OFF and I've never received a single Lumo email so far.
zemnl··on Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’
In addition to the other comments pointing out how your "Americans invented microprocessors" is wrong,

> [Americans] landed on the moon without a federal Department of Education

maybe you should check what the budget for NASA was during the space race and what it is now, considering also the news from 3 days ago about further budget cuts to the Agency.

zemnl··on Just Use MSYS2 You Say?
I'm only addressing the Pacman complaints because I genuinely don't understand them

> It uses pacman from ArchLinux, which is easily the worst package manager ever invented. Quick, how do you search for a package that you've installed? Oh? What's that, did you just have to google for one of the weird single letter options? I rest my case.

Rest your case? Is that the only argument? The fact that if someone can't remember specific flags that they rarely use makes a cli program the "worst" is stupid. By the same logic since I don't know how to search for installed packages with apt (it's been years since I used a debian based distro), is it fair for me to say apt is the worst package manager ever invented?

> If you don't think these things happen, you haven't use pacman for long enough.

How long is long enough? I've been using Arch (btw) daily for more than 10 years, maybe close to 15, on my personal PC and I've been using MSYS2 on my work laptop for more than 1 year. Never encountered Pacman-related issues...

zemnl··on EU Council to Vote on Chat Scanning Proposal on Thursday
> The healthcare that forces people to pay money to non functioning system based on their income is socialist.

Non functioning? All EU countries with public healthcare score better than the US in the healthcare rankings (and life expectancy), by a good measure. And some of them are the best in the world. This [1] is just one source, you can find multiple ones with the same conclusion.

[1] https://www.internationalinsurance.com/health/systems/

zemnl··on EU Council to Vote on Chat Scanning Proposal on Thursday
Since we are on a technical/scientific site I'll put it in mathematical terms: implementing social policies is a Necessary But Not Sufficient condition for a Country to be socialist.

There are literally zero countries in the EU that are socialist, they only have ~some~ social policies.

zemnl··on EU Council to Vote on Chat Scanning Proposal on Thursday
I am perfectly aware of the existence of socialist parties in Europe... Let me get this straight: are you really saying that because there are socialist parties in Europe, the European states are socialists?

Most of the EU states are currently led by liberal/neo-liberal/right-wing parties dude...

zemnl··on EU Council to Vote on Chat Scanning Proposal on Thursday
Having implemented social policies doesn't make the EU States socialists... You should do some reading and learn the differences
zemnl··on T-Mobile users thought they had a lifetime price lock–guess what happened next
Yes, there are people I know who are still paying the same price Iliad offered at launch: 5.99€/month for unlimited calls and messages, and 30GB in 4G+. That price was basically half of what all other available providers offered at the time.
zemnl··on Ligra – an open source image projector based off of flea marked parts
I agree, and I don't see anti-european ideologies or hate speech anywhere in that repo, thank you for being on the lookout though.
zemnl··on Ligra – an open source image projector based off of flea marked parts
You still haven't explained me how that message is anti-european or solicit violence against the native population. That's like saying being pro freedom of religion is like being against Christianity.

Regarding the events in the article you linked: I haven't been following them, but from the look of it it seems the attacker could be very well an Islamic extremist. Being an advocate for immigrants rights doesn't mean someone cannot be also against religious extremists.

zemnl··on Ligra – an open source image projector based off of flea marked parts
How "no one is illegal" is an anti-european message or "hate speech against native populations" is beyond me.
zemnl··on Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites
They are propaganda, the CIA and Pentagon had/have their hands in many movies, Marvel's Captain Marvel is a prominent example [1]

[1] https://www.dailydot.com/parsec/is-captain-marvel-military-p...

zemnl··on Zshell
I used OhMyZsh! for a long time and really liked it, but now I moved to Starship [1]. However I noticed I still missed some of the "steroids" that OhMyZsh brought so I keep it installed in my system and I only source the plugins I need in the .zshrc:

  source /usr/share/oh-my-zsh/lib/completion.zsh
  source /usr/share/oh-my-zsh/lib/directories.zsh
  source /usr/share/oh-my-zsh/lib/history.zsh
  source /usr/share/oh-my-zsh/lib/spectrum.zsh
  source /usr/share/oh-my-zsh/lib/key-bindings.zsh
[1]: https://starship.rs/
zemnl··on Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI
I've recently found out about Floorp. I haven't tried it yet though so I can't give any feedback.

https://floorp.app/en/

zemnl··on Turkmenistan on the brink of collapse?
Correct. And even his ex-girlfriend (the singer) turned out to be alive: there were rumors about her execution but they were fake.
zemnl··on Google Warning: Millions of Android Phones Come Preloaded with Malware
There are phones that come with Facebook preinstalled, so add that to the list.
zemnl··on Ask HN: What's Your Default Browser?
Firefox on desktop; same on on mobile along with Firefox Focus (although recently I started using Firefox Preview a bit more instead of regular FF)
zemnl··on “Hacker News” does not appear on Google
it's the first result for me on DDG https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hacker+news&t=h_&ia=web
zemnl··on Ask HN: How do you slow down time?
> The perception of time depends highly of what you are doing.

I totally agree.

Maybe changing job every semester is a bit overkill, but just trying different things and doing new experiences could help. Traveling, visiting new places could be useful, or trying new hobbies/courses. Really anything worth remembering that goes out of your routine is what you need, I think.

zemnl··on Ask HN: IRC channels you frequent?
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1782/
zemnl··on A cheaper, smaller Raspberry Pi 3 is now available
Where I work we have many PI 1 and PI 3 in our facility. They have been running for almost 3 years, 24/7, 365 days a year. We got a few instances of corrupted cards so, about 6 months ago, in order to reduce writes on the cards, we decided to reduce logging done by our software running on them, and they have been working perfectly since then.
zemnl··on Confessions of US Postal Worker: “We deliver Amazon packages until we drop dead”
"regulating immigration and encouraging eMigration". Really? So let's the brilliant people go to other countries bringing their knowledge somewhere else? Brilliant.

> "I'd quite like to see daily labor auctions. Where the employer "bids" for how much they're willing to pay today, and employees select where they'll go to work (or stay home) based on today's bids. Christmas day would suddenly get very expensive."

Sure, just wait until all employers bid the same for the same level jobs, at that point emploees don't have other choice than to accept anything.

what does surpless mean? At first I though it was a mispelling of "surplus" but you wrote it twice...

zemnl··on Kowloon Walled City
For those fascinated with Kowloon there is an arcade, the Kawasaky Warehouse in Japan [1], whose interiors are inspired to the Walled City. It's on my personal list of places to visit for a future travel to Japan. From the pictures/videos it looks quite cool and it seems to give a rough idea of what Kowloon looked like.

[1] https://en.japantravel.com/kanagawa/kawasaki-warehouse/6714

zemnl··on Net Neutrality already attacked in Portugal
You love them because you are not a startup that plans to compete with other services or a customer who wants to use apps outside of the selected ones for which you can use dedicated data. What if one day you'd like to use a new emerging service that is better than WhatsApp|Viber|Any-other-app-that-you-currently-use but that is not in a bundle for which your provider has plans that give extra dedicated data? Will you make the switch and consume your regular data or will you stick with your current one that makes you use dedicated data for which you paid those extra €5?
zemnl··on Decentralized Social Networks Won't Work
I bet that few of them will reply that it is an extinct animal, some others that it is a cool band, and most of them that they have never heard of such a thing.
zemnl··on Switching Your Site to HTTPS on a Shoestring Budget
FYI there is an alternative to Github Pages + Cloudflare if you want to use Let's Encrypt using the same features of Github Pages: Gitlab Pages. It allows you to add your own certificates with the only downside that there is no good option to enforce HTTPS (only workarounds, at least for now; there is a discussion on the matter [1]), if this is a problem for you the solution is (Github|Gitlab|Bitbucket)+Netlify, which, personally, I find to be perfect.

[1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/28857

zemnl··on Juicero Is Shutting Down
> Who wouldn't want fresh olive oil?

Good idea but I don't think it's that easy: the extraction of olive oil is not a simple matter of pressing olives until the oil comes out, but a long process with multiple steps [1] that I doubt they could been done by a press that is relatively simple as/as big as Juicero (as it can be seen by the cons in the two methods for the extraction that are listed on wiki).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_oil_extraction

zemnl··on Ask HN: How do you find reliable info about a virus or malware?
I suggest VirusTotal[1]. It is a tool used also by malware analysts: it scans the suspect file/website analyzing it with multiple (60+) antivirus engines. It also shows various information about the uploaded file: signatures, sections, imported dll, metadata, etc...

Accordingly to VirusTotal FAQs some of these engines are ad-hoc tuned for VirusTotal with stronger heuristics and additional options, so an engine on VT may detect a malware while the same commercial engine installed on your PC doesn't.

[1]. https://www.virustotal.com

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