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New comment by brnt in "Eating Fruit Skins"

brnt — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:49:59 +0000

Unfortunately a lot leaks in. Grapeskins are particularly porous for instance. So are most of the dirty dozen iirc.

Skins are healthy, but only if organic and/or clean fifteen.

New comment by brnt in "Growing proof that autonomous cars save lives"

brnt — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:12:30 +0000

> Much more the opposite. European settlements were largely established before the train existed,

The vast majority of housing has been built since laying most railtrack and in many places around (new) train stations.

New comment by brnt in "What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks"

brnt — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 06:36:01 +0000

I had a car rental in Oslo that only allowed debit cards if you took out their full insurance. I was already insured, we rented though some sort of front, but they only allowed that on a credit credit card.

New comment by brnt in "Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one"

brnt — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 06:02:54 +0000

Then why did Apple keep the hierarchical file system when moving away from HFS? Could've gone with a kv-store kind of system.

New comment by brnt in "Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one"

brnt — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 06:01:36 +0000

I can't thank KDE devs enough, so thanks :)

Not just Dolphin is among the best in class.

New comment by brnt in "Statichost.eu – European static site hosting"

brnt — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 22:51:16 +0000

My cups of coffee are free (at work), so...

New comment by brnt in "Shutting down our public encrypted DNS"

brnt — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 01:34:33 +0000

So this is something to use instead of pihole?

New comment by brnt in "Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive"

brnt — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 20:24:05 +0000

Checkout r/DataHoarder for what kind of person does this.

It's about having the library, not about reading the books.

New comment by brnt in "US diesel prices hit a record high of $5.85 on average"

brnt — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:52:47 +0000

I guess you don't want us to complain we are also feeling the effects?

We couldn't and didn't vote the primary cause for this in office, thank you very much.

New comment by brnt in "US diesel prices hit a record high of $5.85 on average"

brnt — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:48:00 +0000

There is plenty of car traffic in NL [1]. Most runs on benzine/gasoline though, not diesel.

[1] https://www.cbs.nl/nl-nl/longread/rapportages/2026/onderweg-...

New comment by brnt in "The largest electric aircraft just flew [video]"

brnt — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 10:01:05 +0000

I don't think 30 pax airplanes are competing with 500 pax high speed trains.

125 mile range is also far from being suitable for all <2 hr flights. I don't think there are many sub 125 mile connections either.

Love to see this work out. 100 pax and 500 mile (electricity) range minimum is where I see it having a (good!) chance for mainstream.

New comment by brnt in "uv: Deduplicate all files in the wheel cache"

brnt — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 14:57:12 +0000

Maybe you left the L out on purpose, maybe you didn't. In any case: the L is about who is (or is able to) doing the automating. Users, not programmers, should be in charge.

New comment by brnt in "Anti-AI fonts are useless and harmful"

brnt — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 06:30:08 +0000

Opera Unite. The idea was that hosting HTML should be as simple as browsing it.

New comment by brnt in "India has paved the way for charging merchants a fee on UPI transactions"

brnt — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:31:09 +0000

Your government already controls your currency and thereby your assets, why would you die on the this particular hill of how you can transact this government-created currency? For free as opposed to for a fee no less? You don't believe transaction data isn't shared (sold) by commercial parties do you?

New comment by brnt in "Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18"

brnt — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:00:11 +0000

No CC required? I _have_ to enter one?

New comment by brnt in "SwiftUI After 7 Years"

brnt — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 07:32:45 +0000

Apple did not use to be in the business of producing version 17 of something.

New comment by brnt in "SwiftUI After 7 Years"

brnt — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 20:07:43 +0000

I only have to look at the iPhone fucking 17 to know Apple is long gone.

New comment by brnt in "GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search"

brnt — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 05:01:56 +0000

> Anybody standing on a narrow view of "but this is just the law"

It's a pity Americans must learn empirically rather than from history books how fascism operates.

Mondragon Corporation – a federation of co-operatives

brnt — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:19:07 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49082695

Points: 174

# Comments: 40

New comment by brnt in "Should you wash your solar panels?"

brnt — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 21:26:16 +0000

> A real estate agent told me

Whatever you wanted to hear to make them the most amount of money in the(ir) least amount of time.

They are the sellers agent.

You should not trust them a millimetre further than that.

(I bought my current house based on a spreadsheet analysis. Doorknobs are easy to replace, foundations, walls, electric, a lot harder.)