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New comment by RupertSalt in "Blue light filters don't work – controlling total luminance is a better bet"

RupertSalt — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:56:15 +0000

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New comment by RupertSalt in "Blue light filters don't work – controlling total luminance is a better bet"

RupertSalt — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:47:15 +0000

Let me explain how many times I went back-and-forth with the opticians about "is this coating/feature optional?"

New comment by RupertSalt in "FCC asks stations for "pro-America" programming, like daily Pledge of Allegiance"

RupertSalt — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 23:58:06 +0000

By the time I started staying up late, it seemed that most United States-based stations didn't "sign off" much at all.

However, the "border blaster" stations in Mexico would sign off precisely on schedule, playing the Mexican National Anthem [audio] with men's chorus and brass band.

The radio stations were required to broadcast "The Mexican National Hour" in the Spanish language, which turned Sunday evenings into a series of special-programming blocks.

New comment by RupertSalt in "Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links"

RupertSalt — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 23:04:18 +0000

> the archive targets

Isn't there a substantial overlap with the copyright holders?

New comment by RupertSalt in "Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links"

RupertSalt — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 22:24:46 +0000

[citation needed]

New comment by RupertSalt in "Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links"

RupertSalt — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:56:57 +0000

If the WMF had a dollar for every proposal to spend Endowment-derived funds, their Endowment would double and they could hire one additional grant-writer

New comment by RupertSalt in "Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links"

RupertSalt — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:11:42 +0000

Spammers and pirates just got super excited at that plan!

New comment by RupertSalt in "Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links"

RupertSalt — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:42:46 +0000

"Non-paywalled" ad-free link to archive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment...

New comment by RupertSalt in "Making frontier cybersecurity capabilities available to defenders"

RupertSalt — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:38:40 +0000

It's an Internet trope — we could link to knowyourmeme, or link to the HN Guidelines

New comment by RupertSalt in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

RupertSalt — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:40:01 +0000

A sola scriptura republic

New comment by RupertSalt in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

RupertSalt — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 19:32:12 +0000

I recommend that commenters shell out and pony up for a thesaurus before its import duty is magnified sixfold.

New comment by RupertSalt in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

RupertSalt — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:32:39 +0000

US Consumers pay in fungible dollars, and so if your company paid for three pizzas eaten by an AWS team, and I paid for 1 ounce of Maersk fuel oil, and our Starbucks venti latte purchases paid to rethatch Juan Valdez's hut, who can even trace the serial numbers on our $1 bills?

New comment by RupertSalt in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

RupertSalt — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:57:47 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tariff

  A tariff or import tax is a duty imposed by a national government, customs territory, or supranational union on imports of goods and is paid by the importer. Exceptionally, an export tax may be levied on exports of goods or raw materials and is paid by the exporter.

If an analysis says that "domestic consumers are paying 90%" of a tariff then they are simplifying the process that others are describing here as "baked into the cost" and I would say, more accurately, "the cost of tariffs are recouped from consumers/businesses by those who paid them (the importer)"

  The economic burden of tariffs falls on the importer, the exporter, and the consumer. [Wikipedia]

If economists are saying "consumers pay tariffs" then I would expect to see a notation on the price tags and a line-item on my receipts, but the cost of the tariff must be paid by the importer, or there won't be a consumer who can purchase the goods, let alone bear the costs of their tariffs.

New comment by RupertSalt in "Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking"

RupertSalt — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:27:54 +0000

Who can forget the billboards that launched a "career"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelyne

New comment by RupertSalt in "I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure"

RupertSalt — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:58:11 +0000

Ah, now you’ve captured the F/OSS zeitgeist!

New comment by RupertSalt in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

RupertSalt — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:47:19 +0000

The point was how they gained absolute power, and I would also say that there were multiple factors at work, and I doubt that the GP meant that “abusing free speech” was the only method or reason, but was it not a factor at all? There is often so much “not this but that”, folks should consider “both-and”.

New comment by RupertSalt in "That irritating feeling France was right – US makes Gaullism respectable again"

RupertSalt — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:00:34 +0000

It is okay, because most American voters cannot identify the capital of Africa on a map.

New comment by RupertSalt in "IPv6 Adoption in 2026"

RupertSalt — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:02:24 +0000

Perhaps you mean “prefixes” such as they are assigned by registrars, and announced by routing protocols.

The instructor of my Cisco classes said that the only module that caused students to break down in tears was VLSM.

New comment by RupertSalt in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

RupertSalt — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:39:09 +0000

Joseph Goebbels would have been disappointed to learn that his office was superfluous and irrelevant!

New comment by RupertSalt in "[dead]"

RupertSalt — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:27:47 +0000

Saul Alisnky’s Rules for Radicals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rules_for_Radicals#The_Rules