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New comment by acqq in "Yes, It's Fascism"

acqq — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 22:18:00 +0000

Only somebody who isn't aware of whose "Congress speech received multiple standing ovations, touted 'most by any world leader'" would be surprised by that bipartisan support you mention. That happened in 2024, before Trump began his second term, but shows how the system works.

New comment by acqq in "Yes, It's Fascism"

acqq — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 22:03:34 +0000

European, not accidentally, also mostly deliver the same, misleading, narrative.

New comment by acqq in "Windows 11 adds AI agent that runs in background with access to personal folders"

acqq — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 13:20:34 +0000

Can you write or point to some more insights about the problems / critique of these most recent approaches?

New comment by acqq in "Pasta/80 is a simple Pascal cross compiler targeting the Z80 microprocessor"

acqq — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 14:58:51 +0000

Another advantage of Pascal is that the programs written in it crashed much less, which also allowed for a much safe development on the machines of that time which didn't have any "memory write" protections. And safety in development actually translated in less crashy product too.

Winre Freezes After KB5066835

acqq — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 14:24:07 +0000

Article URL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/answers/questions/5586986/win11-24h2-winre-freezes-after-kb5066835-does-not

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45627631

Points: 1

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New comment by acqq in "What actual purpose do accent characters in ISO-8859-1 and Windows 1252 serve?"

acqq — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 20:42:17 +0000

> the C example ... by definition strings cannot contain that character

They can, only some functions stop at the first zero:

    char s[] = "gogo\x00gogo";
    printf( "%d\n", (int)sizeof( s ) );

New comment by acqq in "Stallman Was Right"

acqq — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 22:17:10 +0000

That's what Doctorow calls "a cartoonish vision of markets in which “the customer is king” and successful businesses are those who cater to their customers." In reality, the capitalists also don't care, _when they can get away with it._

"To understand whom a platform treats well and whom it abuses, look not to who pays it and who doesn’t. Instead, ask yourself: who has the platform managed to lock in? "

etc:

https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-04-22...

New comment by acqq in "Rethinking Text Resizing on Web"

acqq — Tue, 21 May 2024 12:15:38 +0000

And then imagine how it all appears on my 4inch-screen iPhone, if 5.8 inch is already too small.

New comment by acqq in "UTC, Tai, and Unix Time (2001)"

acqq — Thu, 09 May 2024 10:29:06 +0000

"Smearing" is much more sensible approach for the use cases where it is implemented. There is simply no solution that is optimal for every use case, and insisting on using just one approach everywhere is unreasonable.

New comment by acqq in "Xz: Can you spot the single character that disabled Linux landlock?"

acqq — Sun, 31 Mar 2024 08:43:27 +0000

Now I'd like to have a link to that patch in code used by Apple that also appeared as a typo. Anybody remembers?

New comment by acqq in "Ask HN: Minimal CSS for text pages readable on all current devices"

acqq — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 13:36:35 +0000

Pity that the post from understandwp is marked dead, it was helpful to me:

"The "100 Bytes of CSS to look great everywhere" - https://gist.github.com/JoeyBurzynski/617fb6201335779f8424ad... should help with achieving that.

There is also a lively discussion and more examples on the Gist."

Ask HN: Minimal CSS for text pages readable on all current devices

acqq — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 11:10:33 +0000

Once upon the time the pages with no CSS were possible and were readable. Example: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/ Today, this page has too small font on my iPhone to be readable. So how to keep the CSS minimal and allow pages made like that to be readable on all current devices? Sounds simple, still I don't know the answer. But somebody on HN surely knows?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39536476

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by acqq in "Salt and salary: Were Roman soldiers paid in salt? (2017)"

acqq — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 05:18:19 +0000

Still:

- the church officially wrote that the Earth is the center

- that the Holy Scripture says so and

- whoever says differently is heretic

and the Earth was never the center.

New comment by acqq in "Salt and salary: Were Roman soldiers paid in salt? (2017)"

acqq — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 05:01:11 +0000

You still can't deny: the church was wrong, directly referring to the effing "Holy Scripture" to support its claim.

The Earth was never the center around which the Sun rotated. Not in 1AD, not in 1600AD, not now.

If the church claimed that the "Holy Scripture" says that the Earth is in the center, the church was still wrong, and moreover, the "Holy Scripture" was wrong.

The church can't be right to claim "heresy" to somebody who was right then and is still right now.

New comment by acqq in "Salt and salary: Were Roman soldiers paid in salt? (2017)"

acqq — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 02:40:12 +0000

So yes, that's exactly an example of the "guilty Galileo and the good church" false narrative.

Many useless claims which don't disprove that his sentence was literally because of:

"heresy" ... "that the earth does move, and is not the center of the world" ... "contrary to Holy Scripture"

And the church forbade his book as "heresy" for 200 years.

He was right. The church was wrong, directly referring to the effing "Holy Scripture" to support its claim and played fighting "heresy", keeping being wrong for 200 years afterwards. It's so clear.

New comment by acqq in "Salt and salary: Were Roman soldiers paid in salt? (2017)"

acqq — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 00:39:21 +0000

You probably don't want to know:

https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/how-us-secret-war-laos-st...

"From 1964 to 1973, the United States bombed Laos more heavily than any country on earth. The reason most Americans do not know this is because it was a secret war orchestrated by the CIA; it stands as the largest covert CIA operation to date."

"One team can find anywhere from three to 16 bombs in a day. The UXO Lao’s 2015 annual report states that since 1996, 1.4 million UXO have been cleared in Laos by a combined effort of UXO Lao and other UXO-clearing organizations, like MAG International. At this rate, it will take thousands of years before Laos is free of UXO."

"Forty percent of UXO victims are children who pick up the bombs, usually thinking they are toys."

The US cluster bombs. Now also in Ukraine:

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/20/politics/ukraine-cluster-...

New comment by acqq in "Salt and salary: Were Roman soldiers paid in salt? (2017)"

acqq — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 00:31:34 +0000

Oh, there's now a bunch of accounts claiming that Galileo was "just" mean to pope and therefore "guilty", but this is an actual pro-religion propaganda. The real sentence is preserved up to this day and is completely clear:

https://hti.osu.edu/sites/default/files/documents_in_the_cas...

"heresy" ... "that the earth does move, and is not the center of the world" ... "contrary to Holy Scripture"

More detailed:

"We pronounce, judge, and declare, that you, the said Galileo . . . have rendered yourself vehemently suspected by this Holy Office of heresy, that is, of having believed and held the doctrine (which is false and contrary to the Holy and Divine Scriptures) that the sun is the center of the world, and that it does not move from east to west, and that the earth does move, and is not the center of the world; also, that an opinion can be held and supported as probable, after it has been declared and finally decreed contrary to the Holy Scripture".

Additionally, Galileo's and Copernicus' books were finally removed from the index of the banned books only in 1835, they were on the banned list for more than 200 years, since the 1616 Inquisition's judgment.

Context: Galileo was the first person to see with his own eyes with his first of the kind self-made telescope the moons that are today known as Galilean moons and recognized them as the satellites of Jupiter in March 1610. Which convinced him that the understanding of the church was wrong. The church sentenced him in 1633 to house arrest where he remained until his death in 1642.

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

New comment by acqq in "You've just been fucked by psyops [video]"

acqq — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 14:29:15 +0000

The author of this one is an artist. Whoever consumes this work without considering this is also demonstrating how often the information is processed under already fixed expectations, also affecting the results.

Adam Curtis also stated that his own work is intentionally "different", so I believe the similarities aren't accidental.

New comment by acqq in "You've just been fucked by psyops [video]"

acqq — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 13:13:06 +0000

Afghanistan opium cultivation in 2023 declined to one in 20 compared to earlier (95% less), following drug ban by those who are now in power (official United Nations statistics):

https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/press/releases/2023/November/...

You know when the opium production numbers started to rise, in earlier times (according to the same statistics)? 2004. Correlates with:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80...

New comment by acqq in "You've just been fucked by psyops [video]"

acqq — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 11:08:17 +0000

If you really think the fake narratives originate only from the countries which aren't "behaving" as the politicians of your preferred countries would like, I have a huge stock of bridges to sell to you.

Edit: If you'd like a very recent example, research who's telling he saw the "pictures of beheaded babies", and why.