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New comment by V__ in "Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013)"

V__ — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 16:42:17 +0000

"protect your freedom" does a lot of work here..

New comment by V__ in "Babies born under sugar rationing grew into adults with lower cancer risk"

V__ — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:52:16 +0000

> They also ate less overall,

I can't look it up right now, but calorie restriction also shows this correlation, so maybe it is not sugar at all.

New comment by V__ in "How Bluesky draws its logo on screenshots"

V__ — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 08:28:24 +0000

I understand the sentiment, but think about the non-technical user. Every time I use my mothers or any elderlies phone there are a lot of screenshots in the gallery, because they accidentally click the combo. How many people get scammed using screen sharing? It isn't that unreasonable to prevent this vector just to be more safe, especially if the bank might be partially at fault if a scam happens.

New comment by V__ in "Phones should have a 'guest lock' feature"

V__ — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:35:11 +0000

Samsung has had this for about ten years now. Switch to the app switch view, hold the icon at the top and pin the app. If I remember correctly, on some versions this had to be enabled once in settings.

New comment by V__ in "Fastmail offers EU data region"

V__ — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:43:30 +0000

For anyone curious, it's the CLOUD act:

> The CLOUD Act primarily amends the Stored Communications Act (SCA) of 1986 to allow federal law enforcement to compel U.S.-based technology companies via warrant or subpoena to provide requested data stored on servers regardless of whether the data are stored in the U.S. or on foreign soil.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLOUD_Act

New comment by V__ in "Show HN: Bor – Open-source policy management for Linux desktops"

V__ — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 11:12:57 +0000

This looks really close to what I need. I manage a few laptops for a non-profit. For now, it is all done by hand, since I haven't found a good solution for Linux and I will kill myself before using Windows and Intune again.

I would love to see configurations for Linux Mint's Cinnamon. Is there a way to execute custom scripts? How does the user mapping work exactly? Could I create a user in Authentik with a laptop-permission and this would map to a Linux user account?

Nonetheless, this is really great work so far, and if you keep it as nice and tidy as it currently looks, then you might make a nice niche for yourself. I can't wait to try it out.

New comment by V__ in "Atomarine: Nuclear Data Centers at Sea"

V__ — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:30:13 +0000

The question now becomes: Will the AI bubble pop before we get sea datacenters?

New comment by V__ in "Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website"

V__ — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:23:12 +0000

To be fair, how is Google blocking you from downloading an app, a Wero problem though?

New comment by V__ in "Decathlon Germany adds Wero payment option to decathlon.de website"

V__ — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:29:44 +0000

I actually like Wero a lot as a name, sound like virtual euro to me.

New comment by V__ in "Airport Simulator"

V__ — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:40:08 +0000

When playing for the first time, a simple pop up tutorial would be nice, explaining what to do. Figuring out how to land and how to drag the planes takes a second, but it is fine. However, I still haven't figured out what to do with starting planes? I can't change their route, so how do I prevent two starting planes from crashing?

Edit: I would also add some “crash margin” around the border of the screen. A plane coming from the top right corner and crashing into a plane leaving just to the right of the top right corner is frustrating.

New comment by V__ in "Show HN: 18 Words"

V__ — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:50:17 +0000

I don't mind the timer as much, but I also like some of the suggested improvements here.

The only thing I really don't like, is that each puzzle can only be played once. I would like to figure out all words of a day even if it doesn't count.

This could even be an interesting statistic, how many people finished all words ignoring the time component.

New comment by V__ in "International chess federation sanctions Kramnik"

V__ — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:12:09 +0000

Any normal human should have stopped and thought about their actions after Daniels passing.. Daniel will be missed and Kramnik hopefully forgotten.

New comment by V__ in "Immich 3.0"

V__ — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 09:17:22 +0000

There is a project, which proxies album requests to a private immich instance, if one doesn't want to expose it: https://github.com/alangrainger/immich-public-proxy

New comment by V__ in "We Don't Have to Be This Bad at Improving Society"

V__ — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:56:01 +0000

Because 15min cities are Soros funded projects to imprison us and the sheeple don't understandit. Renewable energy is a "gina" scam to destroy our economy. Healthcare is communism, socialism, fascism. Everything sucks but I don't want anything to change... /s

If a society makes every problem a culture war, there can't be any progress until it gets so bad it can't be ignored anymore. But I feel even that is bit too optimistic.

New comment by V__ in "Slate EV truck starts at $24,950"

V__ — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:14:02 +0000

That was my first thought as well. I can't articulate why, but if the company and product survive a few years, it feels to me like it might become a modern "cult" car.

New comment by V__ in "If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good (2010)"

V__ — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 21:41:52 +0000

Rory Sutherland used the Walkman story in his book, and some YouTube Shorts.

New comment by V__ in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

V__ — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:55:19 +0000

Even if one assumes this is true, it still wouldn't justify the valuation.

New comment by V__ in "I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID"

V__ — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:01:50 +0000

I am curious, what exactly triggers your AI senses in this post?

New comment by V__ in "SpaceX's president is floating a Tesla merger as the company begins trading"

V__ — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:04:16 +0000

> There's no question that there are synergies between Tesla and SpaceX in our futures," she said. "There's a convergence of what we're all trying to accomplish in the future."

Accomplish a ludicrous valuation above all else?

New comment by V__ in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

V__ — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:44:59 +0000

I knew that in Germany contracts with minors are voidable. After some checking they apparently are voidable in the U.S. as well:

> Contracts with minors are voidable at the minor's discretion but exceptions exist, such as contracts for necessities (e.g., food, health, and transportation).

[1] https://www.upcounsel.com/minors-and-contracts