Hacker News: apopapo

New comment by apopapo in "U.S. sanctions against the A/I Collective"

apopapo — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:08:36 +0000

They will become pariahs financially speaking. Nobody will be authorized to wire money to/from them. It's brutal.

New comment by apopapo in "Screen viewing time from age 1 to 8 years and subsequent academic performance"

apopapo — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:53:28 +0000

You're right, my original question was poorly worded.

My point is to distinguish what young children do with their screens: they could be learning things through educational games or videos for example.

New comment by apopapo in "Screen viewing time from age 1 to 8 years and subsequent academic performance"

apopapo — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:19:06 +0000

"Screen viewing" seems very vague. What did they do with their screens? Did they read an encyclopedia, or did they watch entertainment content videos? It's an important distinction.

New comment by apopapo in "One Oakland police officer made $490k in overtime"

apopapo — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:30:35 +0000

A computer is paid for and/or run by at least one human being.

New comment by apopapo in "France's tax authority had data stolen on 680k taxpayers"

apopapo — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:15:29 +0000

These are the same people who want to identify you whenever you interact with a "social media" website.

I will never comply.

New comment by apopapo in "California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash"

apopapo — Tue, 26 May 2026 01:24:30 +0000

What about the BSD kernels? Other libre/open source operating systems? These laws should be canceled altogether. They make no sense at all.

New comment by apopapo in "Actually, democracy dies in H.R."

apopapo — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:41:58 +0000

"Human Resources" department.

New comment by apopapo in "E2E encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after 8 May"

apopapo — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:13:04 +0000

It's not only the united states of America. These tyrannical views have been brewing everywhere for years, and there was not enough public counter-narrative to these ideologies.

New comment by apopapo in "UK MPs give ministers powers to restrict Internet for under 18s"

apopapo — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:40:02 +0000

If "dis-information" is the core of the issue, then perhaps we ought to start banning religions? Despite doing that, China is a champion of spreading "dis-information" within their own walls. Hostile actors are not foreign, most often they are domestic. The biggest offenders are governments. Only freedom opposes their power, which is why they want to restrict it.

New comment by apopapo in "UK MPs give ministers powers to restrict Internet for under 18s"

apopapo — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:37:36 +0000

Sadly it's not only the UK. There is a global push to restrict communication world-wide. The future is very bleak for fundamental freedoms.

New comment by apopapo in "CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ movements"

apopapo — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:20:32 +0000

Taxpayers' money used to track taxpayers and finance the advertising industry.

New comment by apopapo in "Rising carbon dioxide levels now detected in human blood"

apopapo — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:44:56 +0000

It makes us dumber and dumber.

New comment by apopapo in "Ask HN: Share your productive usage of OpenClaw"

apopapo — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:36:56 +0000

Thanks for sharing. Can you share an estimate of how many tokens it uses over time? Would love to know how much it costs in terms of money.

New comment by apopapo in "Discord just killed anonymity"

apopapo — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 09:51:33 +0000

That does not mean everybody systematically is "hurt" like you were. That is a very dangerous extrapolation.

New comment by apopapo in "Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification"

apopapo — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:28:26 +0000

Has anyone managed to run Matrix over I2P or other similar overlay network technologies?

New comment by apopapo in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

apopapo — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:54:42 +0000

Why would Slack not be affected by the same stupid laws?

New comment by apopapo in "The state of Linux music players in 2026"

apopapo — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 09:25:31 +0000

All these players will never dethrone DeadBeeF's interface. Foobar2000 simply has the perfect layout - and it's customizable.

New comment by apopapo in "psc: The ps utility, with an eBPF twist and container context"

apopapo — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 14:33:40 +0000

> psc uses eBPF iterators to read process and file descriptor information directly from kernel data structures. This bypasses the /proc filesystem entirely, providing visibility that cannot be subverted by userland rootkits or LD_PRELOAD tricks.

Is there a trade off here?

New comment by apopapo in "EU Council Approves New "Chat Control" Mandate Pushing Mass Surveillance"

apopapo — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 12:43:52 +0000

Overlay networks + libre and open-source software only (preferrably with reproducible builds).

New comment by apopapo in "Pirate library operator arrested, study canceled for 330k members"

apopapo — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 20:33:01 +0000

It's not even about "piracy". It's about "unauthorized copying".