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New comment by Anarch157a in "Clair Obscur having its Indie Game Game Of The Year award stripped due to AI use"

Anarch157a — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 11:17:58 +0000

Countries with sane laws include a tolerance limit to take into account flaws in speedometers and radars. Here in Brazil, the tolerance is 10%, so tickets clearly state "driving at speed 10% above limit".

New comment by Anarch157a in "It’s time to free JavaScript (2024)"

Anarch157a — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 17:38:19 +0000

My personal favourite is "JayScript".

New comment by Anarch157a in "Why xor eax, eax?"

Anarch157a — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 14:39:14 +0000

I don't know enough of the 8086 so I don't know if this works the same, but on the Z80 (which means it was probably true for the 8080 too), XOR A would also clear pretty much all bits on the flag register, meaning the flags would be in a known state before doing something that could affect them.

New comment by Anarch157a in "A day at Hetzner Online in the Falkenstein data center"

Anarch157a — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 19:31:04 +0000

The last thing we need is more enshitification on this space.

I just migrated my selfhosted email server to Hetzner and I don't want them turning into monstrosity like AWS or Azure, with theit miriad of ways to nickel and dime the customers.

New comment by Anarch157a in "AOL to be sold to Bending Spoons for $1.5B"

Anarch157a — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 20:07:41 +0000

dirt cheap Nvidia GPUs, perhaps ?

New comment by Anarch157a in "Leaf miners identified as oldest insect plague in the history of Earth"

Anarch157a — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 14:20:29 +0000

That's the catch phrase of zoology youtuber Lindsay Nikole. https://youtube.com/@LindsayNikole

New comment by Anarch157a in "iFixit iPhone Air teardown"

Anarch157a — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 11:48:06 +0000

Having both screens on the outside doesn't let you use the main cameras when folded, Apple would never do that.

New comment by Anarch157a in "When Knowing Someone at Meta Is the Only Way to Break Out of "Content Jail""

Anarch157a — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 00:04:57 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pussy,_Savoie

New comment by Anarch157a in "U.S. already has the critical minerals it needs, according to new analysis"

Anarch157a — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 21:37:48 +0000

It's much easier to smuggle a USB drive with Windows updates than it is a few tonnes of metal.

Then China will switch a billion desktops to Linux and the US will still need rare earths.

New comment by Anarch157a in "The Universe Within 12.5 Light Years"

Anarch157a — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 17:00:54 +0000

That is assuming the objects will be at the same place relative to us, which is not true. Like reaching Andromeda. Voyager I will reach oyr neighbouring galaxy in roughly 4.5 billion years, not 45, that's because Androneda is moving in our direction. Reaching Proxima Centaury would take longer than your estimation because of it's orbit around Alpha Centauri A/B.

Estimating time-to-arrival when your destination is also moving at ludicrous speeds is incredibly difficult.

New comment by Anarch157a in "Six months into tariffs, businesses have no idea how to price anything"

Anarch157a — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 12:35:06 +0000

If China has a monopsony on soy beans, then they nogociate from a position if power, because the US either sells on their terms or see the beans rot.

New comment by Anarch157a in "Visa and Mastercard: The global payment duopoly (2024)"

Anarch157a — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 10:36:53 +0000

Many banks and Fintechs here offer this, the trick is that you need to open a local office, so you have a Brazilian subsidiary with a CNPJ number in order to open a bank account and receive the money.

New comment by Anarch157a in "Visa and Mastercard: The global payment duopoly (2024)"

Anarch157a — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 02:01:58 +0000

There are plenty of companies in Brazil that offer PIX payments to foreign e-shops. Valve has been accepting PIX for some time now, for example.

New comment by Anarch157a in "Visa and Mastercard: The global payment duopoly (2024)"

Anarch157a — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 01:59:48 +0000

Pix is free for natural persons and individual entrepreneurs. For businesses, receiving is free, but they pay a fee to send money[0], this can vary from one institution to another.

[0] https://www.contabilizei.com.br/contabilizei-responde/taxa-p...

New comment by Anarch157a in "Visual History of the Latin Alphabet"

Anarch157a — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 21:12:12 +0000

Some languages do it way more frequently. Take my native Portuguese. Brazil had 3 ortographic reforms in the 20th century, while Portugal had 5 in the same period, all before the "Ortographic Accord" of 1990, that unified ortography in both countries.

New comment by Anarch157a in "How the BIC Cristal ballpoint pen became ubiquitous"

Anarch157a — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 23:10:57 +0000

That's good for small rewinds, but with a Bic pen, you can rewind the whole tape as fast (maybe even faster than some) ad a tape deck. Just slide the pen in the spool and start spinning the cassete.

Like this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yk8v9Ijp1So

New comment by Anarch157a in "How the BIC Cristal ballpoint pen became ubiquitous"

Anarch157a — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 11:08:23 +0000

It's such a versatile product. I bet everyone here who's older than 45/50 have at least once used a Bic pen to rewind a cassete tape.

I also used the plastic clip as a stapler remover.

There were many other uses for it, for sure.

New comment by Anarch157a in "KDE is finally getting a native virtual machine manager called “Karton”"

Anarch157a — Mon, 19 May 2025 12:21:07 +0000

That's because WSL2 implements an X11 client and sets the DISPLAY variable. X11 network transparency does the rest. You can do the same on Linux, as long as you're to learn how X11 arcane permission system works.

New comment by Anarch157a in "Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop"

Anarch157a — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 15:24:56 +0000

For corpos, I attribute it to BOTH. They're malicious AND stupid.

New comment by Anarch157a in "TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users"

Anarch157a — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 11:05:31 +0000

More like a documentary of the last eight.