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New comment by 47282847 in "Keep Our Servers Running"

47282847 — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 09:08:27 +0000

No it can’t. Even across Europe it is not a given that the local tax authorities will easily accept the receipt. Charity law is national.

New comment by 47282847 in "A 12TB Steam “teraleak” spills more than a decade of lost PC gaming history"

47282847 — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 09:55:44 +0000

Likely bought with anonymous or stolen payment info.

New comment by 47282847 in "Manifesto – who we are and what do we want (2002)"

47282847 — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 06:19:51 +0000

I’m trying to follow your position, but I need more context to understand which elements of the text made you form that opinion. All I read is a list of personal judgments; nothing that helps me or anyone to argue over them.

New comment by 47282847 in "Manifesto – who we are and what do we want (2002)"

47282847 — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 08:41:33 +0000

Classic ad hominem and straw man with no substance. Congratulations for the straightforward self-defeat.

New comment by 47282847 in "US Government designates host of noblogs.org a "global terrorist""

47282847 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:43:22 +0000

“Antifa has…” is like saying “Nerds have” or “Hackers have”. It is really only a broad label, either assigned by one self or by others. I know people who are strictly against any violence and still proud to use Antifa “branding”. Others wouldn’t want to be called Antifa but are called that by others.

You are a HN user. Saying “HN users have enacted physical violence” and implying it is all of them is just utter bs.

New comment by 47282847 in "Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms"

47282847 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:15:18 +0000

What’s keeping you from trying modern Linux distributions, eg. Cinnamon?

If some Windows-only applications are holding you back, most run well under Wine nowadays, and the rest you can run conveniently in a VM.

New comment by 47282847 in "Early-life stress leaves a 'scar' inside brain cells in mice"

47282847 — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 16:24:11 +0000

For research in human spheres: https://birthpsychology.com/ - really interesting material!

New comment by 47282847 in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"

47282847 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:08:23 +0000

I am not a Bluesky user, but it looks like it actually serves a privacy-preserving purpose here - whether the person is following the account or not. Were it not for the name of the module, I wouldn’t see any nefarious action here.

That said, operating systems should turn this into a user choice, and present a dialog to select the “protected” version or not.

New comment by 47282847 in "Show HN: A public AI whose memory is shared across all users"

47282847 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:56:19 +0000

As usual, two camps of psychoses: the strong father God versus the nurturing family God, and Holy conflict between the two. The rest are the abandoned child/broken family type. The other side is obviously wrong, and somewhere in between are the lost children.

New comment by 47282847 in "How do I permanently disable random Google Photos popup to backup photos? (2024)"

47282847 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 06:34:56 +0000

You can put the card in the phone case and use it almost as if it’s Wallet.

New comment by 47282847 in "Why Buy It When You Can Print It? A DIY Nation Has a Fix for Broken Doodads"

47282847 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:12:43 +0000

s/own/have access to/

New comment by 47282847 in "What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?"

47282847 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:59:21 +0000

I’ve found that it’s the opposite. Most people above a certain financial wealth will learn the lesson that there are limits, and that “if only I had the money to…” is an illusion. They realize that there are other forms of wealth that may even be more important than money. What you are talking about is the very few who seem too far gone to be able to get that.

New comment by 47282847 in "What is a product?"

47282847 — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:03:54 +0000

> There is no other way. The website was never the product

I find that quite often teams responsible for part of the infrastructure speak of their part as the “product”, with the consumer of that product possibly being a different team in the same company, not necessarily outside of it. I can totally see how for the website team, the website is “the” product under most circumstances.

New comment by 47282847 in "Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18"

47282847 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:58:14 +0000

“Always free ice cream” doesn’t guarantee the same flavors and amount per serving.

New comment by 47282847 in "More German than many Germans"

47282847 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:13:56 +0000

lol yeah maybe if Germany threw people out for an opinion like that I would consider leaving (native German). I neither view it as extreme nor as racist.

New comment by 47282847 in "TinyNES Review – A Super Niche NES Console"

47282847 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 05:41:23 +0000

The blog text talks about the review, but most of the review itself is only in the video. In case you were wondering.

New comment by 47282847 in "Drug reverses autism-like brain changes in adult mice within hours"

47282847 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 05:25:17 +0000

Yeah. It’s an unfortunate trauma response.

New comment by 47282847 in "Drug reverses autism-like brain changes in adult mice within hours"

47282847 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 12:06:09 +0000

> How is this different from other disorders, disabilities, illnesses?

Not diagnosed autistic myself, but I buy into the argument that a lot of “(mental) disorders” make one allergic to the amount of subtle and less subtle daily dose of interrelational violence. Plenty of drugs exist to numb organisms.

I don’t know if you’ve ever been on antidepressants or antipsychotics, but one who has might relate that that kind of “cure” means to turn you into a “functioning zombie”. One may prefer the suffering and ability to fight and point out violent behavior rather than a medically-induced zoning out.

Our societies are far from “healthy”. What is “disordered” is how we treat ourselves and others. It’s up to each one individually to decide how much they want to be part of this “normal” or whether they prefer to be “disordered” even if it comes with certain limitations.

”It Is No Measure of Health To Be Well-Adjusted to a Profoundly Sick Society” (Krishnamurti)

See e.g. Hughes, K., Bellis, M. A., Hardcastle, K. A., Sethi, D., Butchart, A., Mikton, C., Jones, L., & Dunne, M. P. (2017). The effect of multiple adverse childhood experiences on health: A systematic review and meta-analysis. The Lancet Public Health, 2(8), e356–e366. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(17)30118-4

New comment by 47282847 in "How to Exist"

47282847 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 18:28:40 +0000

One way to look at it is that the act of meditation is just the exercise part; it helps you practice to “be with what is” in the rest of your life’s experience, which translates into “whatever happens within or around me, I always have choices of action and can decide on my actions from a place of silence, the eye of the hurricane, with sufficient space between where I am and my own emotions and feelings, body sensations, and other sensory input”.

A side note: the experience of meditation alone and in groups is very different. There’s a reason why people who are “serious about it” (or seriously interested) do it in community.

New comment by 47282847 in "Hamburg's Stadtpark: A Park Built to Be Used"

47282847 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:55:25 +0000

In terms of cemeteries, I recommend the Waldfriedhof in Munich. One of the largest in Germany (170 Hektar/420 acres). The wilder forest parts of it have snakes and other less common wildlife.