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New comment by AuthorizedCust in "LibreOffice: Request to the European Commission to adhere to its own guidances"

AuthorizedCust — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:42:29 +0000

That text reads like AI output, where I commonly see two short sentences that describe a dichotomy in the “This is not… This is…” pattern.

Therefore, that these sentences don’t describe the situation great could be due to poorly vetted copy-paste of AI text.

New comment by AuthorizedCust in "School cell phone bans and student achievement"

AuthorizedCust — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 05:07:25 +0000

I speak from experience. They aren’t on their phones when they are doing adventures.

New comment by AuthorizedCust in "School cell phone bans and student achievement"

AuthorizedCust — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 02:02:50 +0000

> As a scouter working with teenagers, I feel that most kids with a supportive backgrounds will tame this beast for themselves eventually…

Fellow Scouter here. Lots of Scout units in the USA have cell phone bans. That’s such an obsolete policy. We need to help the Scouts model good choices, and that doesn’t happen when decision opportunities are removed.

Also, if they are buried in their phones, take that as feedback on how much fun they are[n’t] having in your Scout unit.

New comment by AuthorizedCust in "Winamp clone in Swift for macOS"

AuthorizedCust — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:18:51 +0000

Does it whip the llama’s ass?

New comment by AuthorizedCust in "Apple has a private CSS property to add Liquid Glass effects to web content"

AuthorizedCust — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 20:28:27 +0000

Relative privation fallacy.

“Timmy got away with it. I should get away with it, too.” -Elementary school students

New comment by AuthorizedCust in "QGIS is a free, open-source, cross platform geographical information system"

AuthorizedCust — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 14:33:21 +0000

> ArcGIS Enterprise (Portal, hosting servers, datastore, geoevent) all also run on Linux

This isn’t about what platform an enterprise hosts its cloud offerings on. That barely affects the customer experience, outside of lock-in situations.

The concern was on OS support for customer-run software.

New comment by AuthorizedCust in "Google Pixel 10 series review"

AuthorizedCust — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 22:56:33 +0000

Semantic wars are unhelpful distractions. Focus on the issues.

New comment by AuthorizedCust in "Tesla said it didn't have key data in a fatal crash, then a hacker found it"

AuthorizedCust — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 12:55:28 +0000

I have a SAE level 2 car. Those features DO help!

New comment by AuthorizedCust in "Texas Instruments’ new plants where Apple will make iPhone chips"

AuthorizedCust — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 13:41:54 +0000

Texas is a big state. It’s lazy journalism to generalize the state as droughty, which is implied by that sentence.

Lake Texoma has been hovering by the “full” mark pretty consistently for over 55 years. Recently, its water level has significantly declined to—wait for it—100% full!

If you monitor water maps, the east half of Texas’s water supplies don’t often get far outside of “full”.

More data: https://www.waterdatafortexas.org/reservoirs/individual/texo...

uBlock Origin still works in Chrome 139

AuthorizedCust — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 21:26:14 +0000

In various places, it was alleged that uBlock Origin will no longer work in Chrome 139 as that is when Manifest v2 will be removed.

I just upgraded to 139.0.7258.67, and uBlock Origin 1.65.0 is working as always.

With 138, I reconfigured Chrome to force Manifest v2 to continue working. But even Google's guidance (https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate/mv2-deprecation-timeline) suggests that for 138, Manifest V2 is "disabled" and "Users can no longer turn them back on." For 139, for enterprise users, "the ExtensionManifestV2Availability policy will be removed", further clarified with "Manifest V2 extensions will cease to function for any user upgrading to Chrome 139".

Did something change?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44804553

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New comment by AuthorizedCust in "Dull Men’s Club"

AuthorizedCust — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 16:18:09 +0000

Would you believe both Dull Men's Club groups were created by Americans?

No kidding.

The one with the registered-trademark symbol--a Nebraskan who moved to the UK.

The other one--a Texan.

New comment by AuthorizedCust in "Dull Men’s Club"

AuthorizedCust — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 16:16:18 +0000

I cannot think of anything better than a 99% dull feed.

Part of the point of DMC content is a solace from everyday stressors. That's a factor in why divisive topics--politics, religion, etc.--are discouraged when "main points" of a post.

New comment by AuthorizedCust in "Dull Men’s Club"

AuthorizedCust — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 16:13:25 +0000

Some of these are _pages_ that post content stolen from "dull" groups or from other groups that are thematically not far off, like Aldi fan groups. As your view includes pages that are just mass-theft operations seeking Facebook payouts, you have selection bias.

New comment by AuthorizedCust in "Dull Men’s Club"

AuthorizedCust — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 16:11:05 +0000

> Personally I see the name as more a jokey play on the stereotype of boring middle aged men who find such things interesting.

#nailedit

New comment by AuthorizedCust in "Dull Men’s Club"

AuthorizedCust — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 14:13:32 +0000

There are two Dull Men's Clubs on Facebook. This article covers both.

Both have around 1.8M members. The smaller one features Andrew McKean, the main topic of that article. The other one--with the registered trademark symbol in the name on FB--appears to be more of a commercial enterprise, run by the Grover Click character.

I learned that the article is wrong on a point. All contemporary Dull Men's Clubs are copycats. The original is from 1980 and no longer exists.