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New comment by bji9jhff in "The Mushroom That Makes People Have the Exact Same Hallucination"

bji9jhff — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 21:14:50 +0000

You can also sign a contract with them so you are able to see them. It's all explained in the Hilda documentary series.

New comment by bji9jhff in "Roger Ebert Reviews "The Shawshank Redemption" (1999)"

bji9jhff — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 08:58:56 +0000

Who is the new Stephen King? I suppose answering my question will automatically also give an answer to yours.

New comment by bji9jhff in "Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project"

bji9jhff — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 23:44:56 +0000

Is it a kind of computer-assisted Nomic [0]?

0: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomic

New comment by bji9jhff in "The true story of the Windows 3.1 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme"

bji9jhff — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 22:13:53 +0000

In practice lot of applications hard-coded some elements' color while following the theme for other elements, making dark theme unusable because you end up with black text imposed by the developers over the black background you choose for your theme, and other similar issues.

New comment by bji9jhff in "Cut off by their banks and from Alexa, sanctioned ICC staffers remain resolute"

bji9jhff — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:12:12 +0000

An arrestation is a violent activity. Something doesn't stop being violent because it's justified.

New comment by bji9jhff in "Ask HN: Which web browser are you using and why?"

bji9jhff — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 23:04:45 +0000

I use Firefox since it started. At first because I liked it's license. Later because I was in love with the way I'd did things and the add-ons ecosystem it spawned. The first major disagreement came when the search bar merged with the location bar. Then FTP support was disabled. Then RSS bookmarks thingy was removed. Then that stupid hamburger menu appeared. Then features I don't even understand like Pocket appeare. But I continued to use Firefox because the alternatives were worse. Now I keep using Firefox because of apathy and I'm basically the boiled frog of lore.

New comment by bji9jhff in "10 years of writing a blog nobody reads"

bji9jhff — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:50:31 +0000

I've tried a few time to read le Journal du Hacker, the french-speaking clone of Hacker News and each time I've found that the writing level is so low it's basically unreadable.

New comment by bji9jhff in "Don't Download Apps"

bji9jhff — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 22:14:53 +0000

Then the VPN provider does geolocation instead and get the list of hosts you accessed

New comment by bji9jhff in "What you can get for the price of a Netflix subscription"

bji9jhff — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 09:18:49 +0000

Being put in contact with foreign contents? Disgusting! /s

More seriously, before Netflix I never knew how high-quality and fun was stuffs from all around the world. I watched great series from South Korea, Turkey, Jordan, Spain,France, Luxembourg, Germany, Scandinavian countries and South America. I also watched quite enjoyable movies from Nigeria. I probably forgot a few places too. Do Netflix has issues? Plenty. Their originals are often blands and cancelled. They taught me to seek mini-series and completed series instead of ongoing series. The wrestling they air is shit. But the availability of foreign contents is the coolest feature they have.

New comment by bji9jhff in "Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?"

bji9jhff — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:59:45 +0000

Haha thanks ;)

New comment by bji9jhff in "Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?"

bji9jhff — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:52:51 +0000

Knowing mega corps will suck my blood thanklessly is of no solace.

New comment by bji9jhff in "Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?"

bji9jhff — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 00:43:44 +0000

That grandma is dead. The online grandma is her daughter.

*You changed your post and now mine doesn't make sense anymore. I forgive you but don't do it again.

New comment by bji9jhff in "Let's Unify Linux Desktops"

bji9jhff — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 14:30:49 +0000

I read it as "why don't people doing their own things do mines instead?"

New comment by bji9jhff in "Is Vibe Coding Dying?"

bji9jhff — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 01:36:57 +0000

Yeah, well... I'm gonna go vibe code my own Substack, with zoomable webpages and zoomable pictures. In fact, forget Substack!

New comment by bji9jhff in "RF Shielding History: When the FCC Cracked Down on Computers"

bji9jhff — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 22:11:17 +0000

I like how you described how I imagine OSA will be used.

New comment by bji9jhff in "Why I chose Lua for this blog"

bji9jhff — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 22:09:27 +0000

Ok. I'll bite. What are the risks? As I see it, if you screw up and someone get root access on your server, it's the worse that may happens and then shut down the whole thing is a click away.

New comment by bji9jhff in "When the sun will literally set on what's left of the British Empire"

bji9jhff — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 21:18:11 +0000

I like to read HN because the conversation here is higher quality than elsewhere, when the subject is tech. But when the conversation deviate to politic, I'm reminded that outside their limited expertise, people here are no better than elsewhere as I read the same ignorant drivel I can find everywhere.

New comment by bji9jhff in "What could have been"

bji9jhff — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 23:36:19 +0000

> instead of building the Great Pyramids, those thousands of workers (likely slaves) could have all individually spent that time building homes for their families. But, those homes wouldn't still be around and remembered millenia later.

They would have been better off. Those pyramids are epitomes of white elephants.

New comment by bji9jhff in "The Rise of Ritual Features: Why Platforms Are Adding Daily Puzzle Games"

bji9jhff — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 14:45:23 +0000

How is this different than daily crossword in newspaper?

New comment by bji9jhff in "States and cities decimated SROs, Americans' lowest-cost housing option"

bji9jhff — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 20:42:27 +0000

Why are you making this a us vs them situation? They are citizens as much as you are and they inhabit their city like you are.