Hacker News: ajrouvoethttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ajrouvoetHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 06 May 2026 08:22:07 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by ajrouvoet in "Kotlin's rich errors: Native, typed errors without exceptions"]]>This last point is the key observation.

]]>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 21:16:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46738045ajrouvoethttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46738045https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46738045<![CDATA[New comment by ajrouvoet in "Microsoft only lets you opt out of AI photo scanning 3x a year"]]>Meta just lost a court case against bits of freedom in the Netherlands, because their instagram setting to turn off the attention grabbing feed would reset every month or so. The court ruled that this infringed on the user’s freedom.

Source: https://www.dutchnews.nl/2025/10/court-tells-meta-to-give-du...

]]>Sun, 12 Oct 2025 08:45:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45556529ajrouvoethttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45556529https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45556529<![CDATA[New comment by ajrouvoet in "Google, Meta and Microsoft to stop showing political ads in the EU"]]>Dutch newspaper Trouw also reported that their ad was rejected multiple times by Meta. After inquiry into this they found it was because it was about sustainability and hence considered “a political ad”.

(Paywalled) Source: https://www.trouw.nl/cultuur-media/advertenties-over-armoede...

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