<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: brnt</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=brnt</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 19:04:52 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=brnt" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brnt in "Nobody cracks open a programming book anymore"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Compare that to looking inside a C++ standard library: It's not impossible, but it's of a completely different nature of normal C++ we might write for a business.<p>C++ isn't a language, it's a script. Like Latin, it can be used to express English, Polish and Indonesian.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 06:59:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48276085</link><dc:creator>brnt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48276085</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48276085</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brnt in "Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You are in luck: LineageOS supports many Motorola devices, including the Edge 30.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 06:12:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48275672</link><dc:creator>brnt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48275672</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48275672</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brnt in "Vivaldi 8.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> interests that reconcile with the user interests<p>How are you paying them? And have you done any network analysis on it recently (I really would like to know!)?</p>
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<p>Because they are open about including closed parts. Its not a FLOSS browser.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2026 11:16:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220758</link><dc:creator>brnt</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220758</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48220758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by brnt in "Reviving old scanners with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've plugged in many a scanner (or printer) into my Linux machines, and they always just werk. Which this project probably makes use of: SANE. I think there's even a project porting SANE to Windows (because that's I guess what this is aimed at: scanners that never got a WHQL driver).</p>
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<p>Tarballs every 2 months, and we know these don't give you the Vivaldi browser as they supply it.<p>I don't trust them one bit. There was that telemetry analysis that showed Vivaldi as a very noisy browser.</p>
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<p>Point is: traded companies function like a democracy in which money is a vote, which is the opposite of democracy.</p>
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<p>American consumers have no democratic control of that duopoly either.</p>
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<p>They didn't need troops till Maidan. They had the government already.</p>
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<p>Actually... My 2016 Skoda Rapid let's me update the map for free through a user removable SD card. Pretty great UX compared to every other car I've ever had the displeasure of having to navigate with. Software is nothing special otherwise, but gets the job done. Car is 95% physical buttons through.<p>Also, my 2020 Mii Electric is 100% physical buttons. Pretty great.<p>Frankly, I am wary of anything but VWAG at this point.</p>
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<p>I don't think Gitlab have ever moved functionality from Community to any paid version, but you should understand carefully if the functions in the paid (and not open) versions of Gitlab would ever come on your radar. It's not unlikely as user numbers and user organisations increase. It'll be exactly at the point switching to eg Forgejo will be painful enough to pay. Switching when still small is easier.</p>
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<p>> partijgedrag<p>So happy to see they're ingesting voting data again! They stopped a few years ago (which is also a few elections), which I thought was such a shame. Knowing what representatives actually do, and not just promise, is really the only thing that matters.</p>
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<p>With which Id agree.</p>
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<p>Agreed, but that's outside my direct sphere of influence. If anyone passes my text through a spell checker, I would use it to adjust my process too.</p>
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<p>> I think knowing your audience is key.<p>> You rarely have no idea who your audience is likely to be.<p>Let's agree that it's a sliding scale, especially in corporate settings. Who's your audience when you write documentation?</p>
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<p>> think carefully about my audience<p>Consider that you may not be doing this very well. Or that it is even possible to even know what your audience is (going to be). I have found the less I assume about my audience, and thus the more verbose and elaborate I am, the better the reception of my communication tends to be, on the whole. I'll save the terse and meticulous for people who I know and level with in terms of that preference.<p>Communication is all about adaptation. It is a dance, in that what you think is precise and clear is never going to be shared among every person you are trying to communicate with. Clearly if your manager passes your doc through an LLM, you made an error in judgement. If this upsets you (and I don't have unlimited energy for this either), you should find more likeminded, or at least sufficient numbers of likeminded people so that it doesn't take all of your time and energy away. There is after all a reason why you get along better with some than others, and communicative preference is one reasons why I think.<p>Sometimes I thoroughly enjoy having to stretch my mind though. I'd hate to work with only people like me (I have!).</p>
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<p>They do: <a href="https://github.com/suitenumerique" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/suitenumerique</a>
It's used by, among others, the Dutch government: <a href="https://github.com/MinBZK/mijn-bureau" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/MinBZK/mijn-bureau</a></p>
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<p>Those scam apps largely are installed from the Play store. Let them fix that first.</p>
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<p>Transgaming! It worked for ons or two games for me, bit it was glorious.</p>
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<p>Low-end criminals fish based on data leaks all the time. More data, especially cross-referencable data, will make this ever easier.</p>
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