Hacker News: Pay08

New comment by Pay08 in "France Launches Government Linux Desktop Plan as Windows Exit Begins"

Pay08 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:55:02 +0000

Ok? You could make the same argument about Chinese tech, German tech, or American tech.

New comment by Pay08 in "John Coltrane illustrates the mathematics of jazz"

Pay08 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:54:39 +0000

I have heard both used before.

New comment by Pay08 in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

Pay08 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:32:47 +0000

Those people are all criminals, though.

New comment by Pay08 in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

Pay08 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:45:55 +0000

Do you have a link to that investigation?

New comment by Pay08 in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

Pay08 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:32:47 +0000

So what? We should give him eternal carte blanche because he did good reporting one time?

New comment by Pay08 in "They're made out of meat (1991)"

Pay08 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:07:58 +0000

That's the same feeling I had about the first half of Children of Time.

New comment by Pay08 in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

Pay08 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:28:48 +0000

Fair call on CNN and DW, but the NYT has always been at least somewhat aligned with Al Jazeera, and the BBC switches around with whatever the current government is.

New comment by Pay08 in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

Pay08 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:26:31 +0000

It's the same company, English operations can't be separate.

https://factually.co/fact-checks/media/should-i-trust-al-jaz...

https://apnews.com/article/b39b94d6847f4ee6acafd6ad2da7e963

New comment by Pay08 in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

Pay08 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:22:17 +0000

Perhaps informative as a study of institutional bias and government interference.

New comment by Pay08 in "John Coltrane illustrates the mathematics of jazz"

Pay08 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:20:14 +0000

It's just a shortening of "mathematics". You don't call it "mathematic" do you?

New comment by Pay08 in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

Pay08 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:16:37 +0000

They're risking another January-like protest if they don't stabilise their economy.

New comment by Pay08 in "Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework"

Pay08 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:56:03 +0000

I didn't take your message to mean you need Plasma specifically, I interpreted it as you needing some library from KDE.

New comment by Pay08 in "Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework"

Pay08 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:54:02 +0000

To be extremely pedantic, I never said it was a Qt theme :P

I said that Qt has a GTK theme. It doesn't, but KDE does have a GTK theme.

New comment by Pay08 in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

Pay08 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:50:37 +0000

No air war has ever tried to change a regime. The fact of the matter is, we don't know what will happen next. There could very well be a civil war.

New comment by Pay08 in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

Pay08 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:49:11 +0000

For all intents and purposes, they have been a nuclear state for 30 years.

New comment by Pay08 in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

Pay08 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:48:28 +0000

That's far too hyperbolic. Abject failures don't lead to state or power collapse. Look at how many wars the Romans lost, and far more catastrophically too.

New comment by Pay08 in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

Pay08 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:46:12 +0000

With Iran's hyperinflation, why wouldn't USD make sense?

New comment by Pay08 in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

Pay08 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:45:30 +0000

Lebanon has also said that the ceasefire doesn't apply to Hezbollah, since they insist that both them and Israel are at war with Hezbollah, not with each other. The only parties that say it does are Hezbollah and Pakistan.

Also, I really wouldn't suggest using aljazeera.

New comment by Pay08 in "Veracrypt project update"

Pay08 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:58:26 +0000

No, it means that people have requirements that Linux does not fulfill. I need the Office suite, and would rather not gamble with the various compatibility promises made by alternatives.

New comment by Pay08 in "Xilem – An experimental Rust native UI framework"

Pay08 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:45:11 +0000

I was thinking of breeze-gtk[0] but that's KDE-specific.

[0]: https://github.com/KDE/breeze-gtk