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New comment by boomboomsubban in "Quebec town recognizes trees as living beings with rights"

boomboomsubban — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:32:49 +0000

Cynically, to make a documentary and get articles written. None of the rules they mention seem that extreme, they're just wording it in an unusual way.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "How to earn a billion dollars"

boomboomsubban — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:25:34 +0000

Aren't shoe companies notoriously scummy in regards to human rights? Nike has quite a lengthy controversies section on Wikipedia, and they're where a lot of his money came from.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "OpenBSD 7.9"

boomboomsubban — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:04:45 +0000

>We can't really export anything to those "rogue states" anyway

Sure, but there are additional laws regarding cryptography, even in publicly available software.

"Rogue states" is a legal designation, we can both dislike it as much as we want but I doubt the US will change it's view

New comment by boomboomsubban in "OpenBSD 7.9"

boomboomsubban — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:53:32 +0000

If I remember, it's still illegal to export to "rogue states," Iran and North Korea being the major two, and terrorist organizations. But I don't think anybody has been charged for it and there's reason to suspect it wouldn't hold up given the pgp ruling.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "Swift bricks to be installed on all new buildings in Scotland"

boomboomsubban — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:03:45 +0000

That was not clear to me. Dunno why people are making such a big deal out of "if you want more info, go here."

New comment by boomboomsubban in "Swift bricks to be installed on all new buildings in Scotland"

boomboomsubban — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:45:28 +0000

There's a picture of a box with a bunch of playing cards on top of it, then a picture of a building that has one. I found it insufficient and thought others might too.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "Swift bricks to be installed on all new buildings in Scotland"

boomboomsubban — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:17:22 +0000

As I found the article did a poor job of demonstrating what a swift brick is, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift_brick

New comment by boomboomsubban in "Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine"

boomboomsubban — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:29:12 +0000

Huh? IA not doing what they claim seems fairly important to their point.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine"

boomboomsubban — Wed, 13 May 2026 03:31:09 +0000

>about the paywall workarounds that are frequent on HN—I was genuinely shocked to learn they hadn’t heard about it.

Is the Internet Archive regularly used as a paywall workaround? Generally it's archive.is, which has no connection to the IA.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "I accidentally made law enforcement shut down their fake honeypot"

boomboomsubban — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:11:42 +0000

HN search is fantastic, it doesn't look like it. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

New comment by boomboomsubban in "The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew"

boomboomsubban — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:12:23 +0000

It also makes them appear larger, there's so much in there the bun can't contain it all.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious reason"

boomboomsubban — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:44:14 +0000

The router ban affects routers made in foreign countries, Netgear's headquarters should be irrelevant. The author's previous article spells this out better https://www.theverge.com/tech/899906/fcc-router-ban-march-20...

New comment by boomboomsubban in "Rare concert recordings are landing on the Internet Archive"

boomboomsubban — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:32:34 +0000

IA makes torrents for basically everything on it's site.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "We have a 99% email reputation, but Gmail disagrees"

boomboomsubban — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:39:50 +0000

Does "report not spam" do anything? A local business will send me a receipt from a gmail address, and every time it's marked as spam despite it telling me future mail from this address will not be tagged as spam.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "Woman who never stopped updating her lost dog's chip reunites with him after 11y"

boomboomsubban — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:34:25 +0000

If you found a dog on the street then you probably don't have any actual dog food. A hot dog seems like one of the best options in an average fridge.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records'"

boomboomsubban — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 08:39:29 +0000

So something like getting Phil Spector to produce their record?

New comment by boomboomsubban in "Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years?"

boomboomsubban — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 03:39:16 +0000

>What am I supposed to do? Spend a few hours to try each one and find the best for my 13 years old i5 with a Nvidia gt440 that's used 3 hours per month?

The performance difference will be minimal. It's an aesthetic choice, pick the one you like the look of or give a few of them a try.

It's like cars. Some people have extreme opinions on matters, some would be fine picking almost any car, and most test drive a few before picking their favorite.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "Yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan"

boomboomsubban — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 01:40:42 +0000

Minnesota did have home ice cream and other frozen food delivery until Schwan's finally shut down a few years ago. Usually men, but they did tend to be chatty from my experience.

So there is a US equivalent, but it would have been interesting to read about them too.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "Tove Jansson's criticized illustrations of The Hobbit (2023)"

boomboomsubban — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:32:38 +0000

We're these only used in Sweden? I know I've seen some of them before, but I'm not sure if it's from decades on the internet or my school having a specific thirty year old edition of The Hobbit.

I seem to recall thinking Gollum was big, but honestly could be remembering the Shelov scene. It was long time ago.

New comment by boomboomsubban in "Does running wear out the bodies of professionals and amateurs alike?"

boomboomsubban — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 14:39:37 +0000

Most racers didn't finish, so the water idea was just dumb. I'm not sure how serious anyone that actually trained ever took it.

The strychnine taker did feel like crap. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athletics_at_the_1904_Summer_O...

>Hicks led the race by 1.5 miles (2.4 km), but he had to be restrained from stopping and lying down by his trainers....He continued to battle onwards, hallucinating, and was barely able to walk for most of the course. When he reached the stadium, his support team carried him over the line, holding him in the air while he shuffled his feet as if still running.