Hacker News: BlackRing

New comment by BlackRing in "Google has acquired the data of failed US airline Spirit"

BlackRing — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:39:39 +0000

That's because they're seemingly perfunctory. What's worse than no law is a bad one that doesn't do anything but make you feel like something is actually being done.

New comment by BlackRing in "GIMP Development Update"

BlackRing — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:36:47 +0000

If it's no longer (commonly) used, then the project has outlasted the name's so-called derogatory status and should be free from concern.

New comment by BlackRing in "GIMP Development Update"

BlackRing — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:31:40 +0000

It's a clever name. What's your beef with it?

New comment by BlackRing in "Richard Stallman steps down as as head of the GNU Project, effective immediately"

BlackRing — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 02:52:21 +0000

That's quite the claim. Where's your evidence?

I'm only stating a name many of them have branded themselves as, and proudly at that. It's a point of discussion and quite frankly disturbing people make assumptions as to those who use it.

Everything is presented verifiable with the smallest of effort.

New comment by BlackRing in "Richard Stallman steps down as as head of the GNU Project, effective immediately"

BlackRing — Sun, 29 Sep 2019 00:25:30 +0000

Unfortunately that's their shortcoming and not mine as I can at least correct my mistakes. Other people aren't keen on correcting theirs nor can I force someone to recognize their own.

New comment by BlackRing in "[dead]"

BlackRing — Tue, 24 Sep 2019 11:26:02 +0000

Another child peddling wares. They should be ashamed for using her like this.

New comment by BlackRing in "Apple neutered ad blockers in Safari, and users didn't say a thing"

BlackRing — Sat, 21 Sep 2019 19:54:26 +0000

This is why I use it. I haven't upgraded to Safari 13 yet so if that's where the change is it hasn't hit me yet. Still using an old version of ublock origin that has updated lists and between that and pihole it's going strong.

Firefox is nice and chrome is ok but they're a distant second at the moment due to the ecosystem with iOS

New comment by BlackRing in "Jeff Bezos climate change plan unveiled – buy 100k electric vans."

BlackRing — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 16:48:32 +0000

Which is going to happen regardless.

What would you rather they consume, an internal combustion engine that spits out a deadly exhaust or an electric vehicle that uses power, presumably from a nuclear or less toxic fuel source?

New comment by BlackRing in "Stallman's final interview as FSF president"

BlackRing — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 08:43:55 +0000

The medium article that was parroted by other sites was a hit piece that lied. And of course the people reading it believed every word without a shred of doubt, and other outlets republishing it failed journalistic integrity spectacularly.

Congratulations, to all those who fell for it.

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/d5a4dz/_/f0l50w4/?co...

New comment by BlackRing in "Israel accused of planting mysterious spy devices near the White House"

BlackRing — Thu, 12 Sep 2019 13:56:08 +0000

He's not wrong. They don't provide anything we couldn't get elsewhere.

New comment by BlackRing in "DEA agents conduct surprise searches of Amtrak passengers"

BlackRing — Sat, 31 Aug 2019 15:19:13 +0000

You can't be serious to compare US infrastructure to Germany. In my experience living there, the Deutsche Bahn is not to be trusted to be on time, or run at all. And while Amtrak isn't the shining beacon I'd like it to be at least it gets me from point A to B reliably.

New comment by BlackRing in "A dream of an ultimate OS (1995)"

BlackRing — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 06:54:46 +0000

If the filesystem itself was modeled after a database (which it can be argued it is, somewhat), it's not much of a stretch for WinFS to have been a thing.

I was looking forward to seeing it in action based on reports of what it was.

New comment by BlackRing in "Subsurface – An open source scuba dive logging platform"

BlackRing — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 05:36:05 +0000

I've been using this for a few years now, didn't know Linus Torvalds was involved!

New comment by BlackRing in "Twelve LaTeX packages to get your paper accepted (2017)"

BlackRing — Fri, 16 Aug 2019 06:07:33 +0000

You'll also want this to give it a bit of that "used/read" feel: http://hanno-rein.de/archives/349

New comment by BlackRing in "Ask HN: Where do the real hackers hangout?"

BlackRing — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 00:58:05 +0000

znc >

New comment by BlackRing in "The Growing Risk of a 2020 Recession and Crisis"

BlackRing — Sun, 07 Jul 2019 17:24:41 +0000

It's disturbing that the first thing you admitted to thinking of when I said "downsizing" was letting people die. What the heck?
the basics of econ, growth isn't even mentioned when it comes to capitalism.
Here: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/economics/

New comment by BlackRing in "The Growing Risk of a 2020 Recession and Crisis"

BlackRing — Sun, 07 Jul 2019 05:01:01 +0000

if you don't understand what it means to downscale production I can't help you. Capitalism doesn't depend on infinite growth.

New comment by BlackRing in "How to Enable DNS-over-HTTPS in Firefox"

BlackRing — Sun, 07 Jul 2019 01:56:35 +0000

Who said he was using cloudflare as his upstream DNS? There are far more choices than cloudflare, google, or your ISP.

New comment by BlackRing in "The Growing Risk of a 2020 Recession and Crisis"

BlackRing — Sun, 07 Jul 2019 01:55:17 +0000

You obviously downscale the economy with a population that doesn't sustain or require growth.

New comment by BlackRing in "The Growing Risk of a 2020 Recession and Crisis"

BlackRing — Sat, 06 Jul 2019 23:46:50 +0000

No one needs mass immigration. Especially those with high living standards and "low" birth rates. The position you're taking is an outright lie and I can't fathom why it's constantly being perpetuated.