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New comment by ardfard in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

ardfard — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:08:12 +0000

Does HN self-host too?

New comment by ardfard in "Sci-Hub has been blocked in India"

ardfard — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 11:51:01 +0000

Publishing it on GitHub is optional; you can publish it anywhere accessible. And unlike these journals, it doesn't cost you anything to access free software. In fact, paywalling it makes it unfree.

New comment by ardfard in "Trae: An AI-powered IDE by ByteDance"

ardfard — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 04:52:29 +0000

VIM and self-hosted ollama for free?

Nothing stopping you to build the world you want really.

New comment by ardfard in "Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon"

ardfard — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 04:52:03 +0000

All of Lebanon is not an active Warzone

New comment by ardfard in "Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon"

ardfard — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 03:59:59 +0000

You are mentioning a civil war that happened a decade ago that is by no means exclusive to Hezbollah. I couldn't care less what their founders wrote, but, strangely, they care about the rule of Islam in Israel when their president is a Maronite Christian and their party is one of the parliament members. I can agree that they are Iranian proxies for war against Israel, but it's far from installing Islamic rule. I mean they are also responsible for the secular movement that comprised many religious factions [1]

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

New comment by ardfard in "Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon"

ardfard — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 03:16:07 +0000

Yes, a flood of immigration combined with systematically displacing the local population. See the Nakba and Settler movement.

New comment by ardfard in "Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon"

ardfard — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 03:12:06 +0000

Nice, using Islam as a scapegoat. Lebanon is a democratic republic that has 43.4% Christian population. If that is their intention, why not focus on their country first rather than attacking Israel?

New comment by ardfard in "Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon"

ardfard — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 02:29:51 +0000

> While it is technically possible that such a pager would get into the wrong hands, that would be the fault of the person who left his pager on the table or let his family play with it.

What the hell? Why isn't it the fault of the one who detonates the bomb? This sets a dangerous precedent for attacking unsuspecting army personnel, even when they're off-duty. I don't think people's stance would be the same if this were done to off-duty IDF or US Army personnel and when they just doing ordinary things in public, for example. Moreover, Hezbollah is also a political party, and it's not just their military wing that's being targeted.

New comment by ardfard in "Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon"

ardfard — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 01:27:37 +0000

I think we can all agree that the ancient Roman and Byzantine empires were not exactly gold standards in protecting human rights. However, the fact that something was done to the Jews thousands of years ago does not make it acceptable to do the same to another population today.

New comment by ardfard in "Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon"

ardfard — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 01:18:13 +0000

> After all, people usually don't hand their phones to random strangers or leave them lying around - and those pagers aren't even mere personal devices used for private purposes. Why would any of those devices end up anywhere else but the pocket of the person using it?

I leave my phone all the time, my kids are actually playing games on it. Also, I can be on public transportation, I can be driving, near a flammable object, or boarding a plane. As demonstrated an 8-year-old girl died, it's enough proof that an innocent died.

New comment by ardfard in "Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon"

ardfard — Wed, 18 Sep 2024 00:46:07 +0000

You forgot to mention your neighbor razed the yard and killed some relatives too. Throwing some Molotovs, while it may not justified, is still an expected reaction.

New comment by ardfard in "Instead of YouTube, use Invidious; Instead of subscribing to channels, use RSS"

ardfard — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 04:46:44 +0000

> Does everything need to scale? I personally quite enjoyed the web back in the day where most communities were running on tiny boxes managed by a single hobbyist.

It's just not only matter of scale. I follow content creator that posted some of his content on his personal website. but man, the user experience is night and day compared to youtube. loading video is slow, cant fast-forward before hit buffering, also no content discovery either.

Paying for Youtube premium is no-brainer because i just get more value of it compared to even Netflix.

New comment by ardfard in "The State of Async Rust: Runtimes"

ardfard — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 15:21:07 +0000

Aren't the async situation in Rust is because the designer want Rust not to be opinionated and be flexible? i.e. you can choose not to have runtime in your app or using runtime that fit your particular needs.

New comment by ardfard in "Musk plans to eliminate half of Twitter jobs to cut costs"

ardfard — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 03:31:25 +0000

From the job posting, it seems Tesla is using some Scala too.

New comment by ardfard in "DevOps is broken"

ardfard — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 17:03:42 +0000

Just bash script isn't enough if there's no automated process that run it every time developers make changes to your main/release repository trunk. If you still run it manually to verify your build, then it's not a CI. If you're still doing manual release deployment, then it's not a CD.

New comment by ardfard in "Kiwi Farms has been removed from the Internet Archive"

ardfard — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 11:27:05 +0000

More apt comparison, should we erase Meinkampf or Das Kapital or any books that inspire violences (for example, the holy books) from existence?

New comment by ardfard in "Playstation Store removes Studiocanal movies, no refunds offered"

ardfard — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 13:01:09 +0000

Wrong mindset. You still need to support the developers somehow. I still bought games/movies but get the non-DRM version just for the convenience i.e. not having to start launcher for playing games.

New comment by ardfard in "SpaceX staff condemn Musk's behavior in open letter"

ardfard — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 03:38:40 +0000

Doing politicking on Twitter is fine as long as they don't bring it into work places. This is the reason why I don't follow my boss or any of my colleagues on Twitter beside that I don't do socmed much anyway.

New comment by ardfard in "Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private"

ardfard — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 16:24:01 +0000

It's not the tech that makes Twitter interesting, it's the already established networking power. You can clone the tech but you can't clone the social part.

New comment by ardfard in "Elon has decided not to join our board"

ardfard — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 04:49:20 +0000

That's the perks of having f.u. money.