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New comment by Longhanks in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

Longhanks — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:39:44 +0000

I mean, really not trying to frame this in any way, but asylum seekers do it all the time.

New comment by Longhanks in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

Longhanks — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:25:43 +0000

Whilst I agree, to be fair, a passport is usually only needed when entering a country, not leaving one, right? Under the cited rule, the US needs to allow you to leave, not help you in entering some other country.

New comment by Longhanks in "Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown"

Longhanks — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:27:04 +0000

They’re turning Notepad into what Wordpad was (or was supposed to be). Now everyone looking for the light weightiest *.txt editor must find a new tool...

New comment by Longhanks in "Apple XNU: Clutch Scheduler"

Longhanks — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 12:11:32 +0000

Any sources or more information on that?

New comment by Longhanks in "iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan"

Longhanks — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 18:07:47 +0000

Could’ve happened some time ago already in the EU, so there must be reasons for Firefox an Google not to ship their own engines (yet?).

New comment by Longhanks in "Is Proton leaving Switzerland?"

Longhanks — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 20:01:55 +0000

E.g. https://taz.de/Hausdurchsuchung-wegen-eines-Tweets/!5799732/

New comment by Longhanks in "Google unkills JPEG XL?"

Longhanks — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 12:46:39 +0000

> is enshrined as an Apple image default

What? iPhones and other Apple devices take HEIF photos, where does Apple claim AVIF as its image default?

New comment by Longhanks in "The EU made Apple adopt new Wi-Fi standards, and now Android can support AirDrop"

Longhanks — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 09:23:59 +0000

> "essential public infrastructure"

If people wanted these devices and services to be public infrastructure, they should be developed and maintained using public funds.

New comment by Longhanks in "You can't cURL a Border"

Longhanks — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 16:32:47 +0000

Schengen is NOT a EU achievement.

Nations can sign Schengen, but are never forced to join the EU, nations can be EU members but are allowed to refuse the Schengen treaties.

New comment by Longhanks in "The reason GCC is not a library (2000)"

Longhanks — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 09:21:01 +0000

What? GCC is absolutely no way whatsoever heading towards irrelevance. In embedded, deskop Linux, and server Linux, almost everything is built with GCC.

New comment by Longhanks in "EU Chat Control: Germany's position has been reverted to undecided"

Longhanks — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 11:05:51 +0000

This chat control topic is undemocratic, allegedly illegal in many jurisdictions (such as Germany), yet, keeps coming up ever and ever again, and the politicians face no consequences whatsoever.

Endeavour like these make people vote for extremists, distrust the EU and democracies, or just give up on politics for good. These EU politicians endangering freedom, justice and democracy must be held accountable, with the most powerful punishments available.

New comment by Longhanks in "Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed"

Longhanks — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 16:11:27 +0000

Wait what? Isn't a super fast UI one of their main selling points, what led them to write their own rendering in Rust?

...and now they lose to a web app?

New comment by Longhanks in "Europol said ChatControl doesn't go far enough; they want to retain data forever"

Longhanks — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 12:47:27 +0000

Happens all the time, otherwise, there wouldn't be such a thing as "unconstitutional".

New comment by Longhanks in "Sütterlin"

Longhanks — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 12:50:57 +0000

I grew up in Germany and was taught handwriting there, and I get the same feeling as in seeing the relationship, but being entirely unable to read it.

This is what is taught in german schools: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schreibschrift#/media/Datei:De...

New comment by Longhanks in "Steam, Itch.io are pulling ‘porn’ games. Critics say it's a slippery slope"

Longhanks — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 10:27:32 +0000

> When should others "save" you? When it is absolutely obvious some people need saving.

Who gave anyone the right to judge who needs or needs not to be saved? What if people don’t want to be saved?

New comment by Longhanks in "Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share in USA"

Longhanks — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:06:25 +0000

"macOS" not "mac OS", to align with "iOS", "iPadOS", "watchOS" and "tvOS".

New comment by Longhanks in "Next month, saved passwords will no longer be in Microsoft’s Authenticator app"

Longhanks — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 11:45:00 +0000

Apple also announced passkey import and export is coming this fall with iOS 26 (and their other OSes): https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/279/

New comment by Longhanks in "EU Commission refuses to disclose authors behind its mass surveillance proposal"

Longhanks — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 11:48:04 +0000

> This is certain to be illegal though.

Then any and all of the supporters of the protocol should as soon as possible be stripped from all political powers and monetary compensation, now and future, and be forbidden from ever getting into politics again; fines should be applied, raised, and if not sufficient, prison time should be considered.

It is simply not acceptible that this matter comes up again and again despite a) being illegal and b) the people voting against this. Politicians need to face serious consequences for their ignorace of the law and the people's will.

New comment by Longhanks in "Dropbox will require App Indicator support on Linux"

Longhanks — Thu, 01 May 2025 09:50:57 +0000

This is because Ubuntu ships with extensions to restore AppIndicator (systray) functionality on Gnome.

New comment by Longhanks in "Dropbox will require App Indicator support on Linux"

Longhanks — Thu, 01 May 2025 08:11:48 +0000

In what way is Gnome meant to be accessible to a broader audience? They clearly do not give that impression; a broader audience would be interested in tray icons, desktop icons, theming support — ideas they clearly reject.