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New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

TRiG_Ireland — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:10:35 +0000

The GPL doesn't actually prohibit selling software. It's just hard to do because anyone you sell it to can redistribute it.

New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

TRiG_Ireland — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:48:05 +0000

And switching to Google achieves the aim of getting away from American tech giants?

New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "Wikipedia's AI agent row likely just the beginning of the bot-ocalypse"

TRiG_Ireland — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:36:19 +0000

You clearly have no understanding of the principle of consent.

If you don't want to destroy Wikipedia, why are you acting like this?

New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "A brief history of instant coffee"

TRiG_Ireland — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:03:36 +0000

The UK is not an outlier here. Much of the world has the same voltage.

New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "Why are we still using Markdown?"

TRiG_Ireland — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:34:21 +0000

I have historically used asterisks for emphasis and slashes for the use/mention distinction.

New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "Show HN: Passport Globe (See where your passport takes you)"

TRiG_Ireland — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 11:33:51 +0000

Very fun to play with. As a small issue, the European microstates don't appear on the map.

New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car"

TRiG_Ireland — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:50:23 +0000

The War on Drugs is more relevant to your day-to-day life, perhaps, but people in the Middle-east are also people, in case you forget that.

New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "Put the zip code first"

TRiG_Ireland — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 03:31:58 +0000

You have to be careful with this. Building sites (translate that into American as "houses under construction") may want to order stuff, but won't yet have eircodes. Indeed, I believe that they're issued only twice a year, so new-built houses may not have them either. So you cannot make it a required field.

New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "Put the zip code first"

TRiG_Ireland — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 03:25:44 +0000

I'm trying to work out what SA means.

New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "We might all be AI engineers now"

TRiG_Ireland — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:29:41 +0000

Currently computer networking or perhaps security. Or something else. In an ideal world, I go back to college and retrain as a sign language interpreter. But I can't afford that.

New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "We might all be AI engineers now"

TRiG_Ireland — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:13:58 +0000

I'm a developer who was made redundant, and I'm now casting around for an entirely new job because, likewise, I have no interest in working with AI. It sounds boring, and the concept squicks me out, to be honest.

New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "Cash issuing terminals"

TRiG_Ireland — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 22:43:51 +0000

Ah, I've seen that, but there was no ATM. You could just drop the envelope into a box in the bank (to skip the queue at the counters). No way to deposit out of hours, though. The ATM system would have been better.

New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "Cash issuing terminals"

TRiG_Ireland — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:29:24 +0000

I've never seen an ATM which took money in envelopes. Does it just take on trust the amount until it's verified by an employee counting it later?

New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "The Science of Detecting LLM-Generated Text (2024)"

TRiG_Ireland — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 11:09:21 +0000

I have heard that the human trainers for early LLM models were overwhelmingly from West Africa, so some of the word choices reflect that, including a preference for the word delve. This now means that humans from that part of the world are now frequently unfairly suspected of being AI.

New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "[dead]"

TRiG_Ireland — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 00:16:29 +0000

I was made redundant (from a web dev job) a couple of years ago, and have been looking for a new job. But the thought of coding with an LLM gives me the heebie jeebies. The very idea makes my skin crawl. I think I need to find a new industry. I don't yet know what.

New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "OpenAI should build Slack"

TRiG_Ireland — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 19:36:35 +0000

Slack as an independent app is easy to find, and the icon shows when I have unread messages. Slack in a browser tab is one tab among the hundred or so open in one of my three browser windows. And there's no icon to show unread messages.

New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "Rich, bored and isolated: Why Texas oil country loves OnlyFans"

TRiG_Ireland — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 03:42:43 +0000

The vast majority of performers on OnlyFans don't have an agency, do they?

New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "Rich, bored and isolated: Why Texas oil country loves OnlyFans"

TRiG_Ireland — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:53:14 +0000

OnlyFans isn't just about erotic content. Porn is available elsewhere, cheaper. The platform really is designed to push parasocial relationships. I think it's probably less healthy (for the consumer) than normal porn.

(Possibly less healthy for the performer, too, but it's hard to balance that against the problems performers often have in exploitative studios.)

New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "Ruby Newbie is joining the Ruby Users forum"

TRiG_Ireland — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 13:57:24 +0000

What a weird idea. I've found the Typst forum very helpful a number of times. I've never yet engaged willingly with an LLM, and do not intend to.

New comment by TRiG_Ireland in "UK Officials could face US entry ban over Twitter policy"

TRiG_Ireland — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 23:31:39 +0000

I must admit that it was not.