<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: deanishe</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=deanishe</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:05:04 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=deanishe" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by deanishe in "Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It probably will be once all the appeals have finished.<p>You can't just bypass national courts and go straight to the EU.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 23:02:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330475</link><dc:creator>deanishe</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330475</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by deanishe in "Do_not_track"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I get the distrust of large corporations and other obvious bad actors […]<p>> the blanket cynicism for all telemetry here is kinda surprising<p>Who's providing the telemetry/analytics if not one of same large corporations?<p>Many devs <i>say</i> they care about user privacy, but very few seem to care enough not to farm surveillance out to a 3rd-party they have no control over.</p>
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<p>On official occasions.<p>British aristos tend to be outdoor sorts. Range Rover and a Barbour jacket.<p>QEII was always in wellies whenever she was off the clock.</p>
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<p>But Kerouac didn't just crap his thoughts onto the page.<p>He edited his work heavily to achieve just the stream of consciousness feel he wanted.</p>
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<p>I'm not a native-speaker either, but becoming so assimilated that jokes are no longer a laughing matter …</p>
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<p>A large part of the problem, imo, is that people haven't used the ability to talk to the entire planet as an opportunity to broaden their horizons, but to build themselves a transnational bubble of like-minded individuals.<p>Once upon a time, shouting "WTF are they thinking?" into the void was kinda understandable, but these days you can literally just ask them by changing a URL. Don't even have to go to a dodgy pub in an iffy part of town.<p>That said, assuming bad faith is so common these days, many people assume you're lying if your stated motives don't match their preconceptions.</p>
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<p>Ne, kannst du eigentlich nicht.</p>
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<p>Sending someone something that'll take them longer to read than it took you to write is taking the piss.<p>I think that's a good rule of thumb for AI-generated output.</p>
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<p>What if?<p>That's exactly what they do. It's 80c/month in Argentina.</p>
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<p>> it could substantially discourage non-citizen immigrants (legal or not)<p>Make an exception for owner-occupiers?</p>
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<p>Surely it depends what you're compromising.<p>Your demands are one thing, your integrity is another.</p>
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<p>> You kind of always have to go on a quest for a library on the internet<p>Plenty of languages come with standard libraries that are more than sufficient for handling plenty of tasks.</p>
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<p>> Why does every discussion have to wind up with a digression thread about how "real" or, even worse, "basic" journalism<p>Hardly surprising given the contrast to the level of journalistic integrity on display at the Beeb recently.</p>
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<p>> We only permit pesticides for which there is undisputed evidence that the chemicals do not cause problems for humans/animals/other plants etc.<p>This is broadly how the EU operates. If companies want to start putting new stuff in/on our food, they first have to demonstrate it's no dangerous.<p>Not the best approach to everything perhaps, but I'd rather not have capitalists freely innovating on my food.</p>
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<p>At least 2.<p>Being able to put language-specific shortcuts on keys that change with the keyboard layout is damn useful.<p>Why does software have such powerful modes for Python and JavaScript, but never for French or English?</p>
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<p>> just to reach pihole at home, that sounds like overkill.<p>Host AdGuard on a VPS (same  one as the VPN?). Then you can use it from everywhere.</p>
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<p>> Even if the university is free you must pay for food and housing.<p>A one-person apartment in the local halls of residence costs under €500/month here in DE. A room in a shared flat costs a lot less.</p>
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<p>Someone asked Rohloff how long their bicycle hub gears last, and the answer was, "We don't know. We've only been making them for 25 years."<p>A lot of German SMEs still work that way, even if their big engineering companies have rather lost their way.</p>
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<p>On a German PC keyboard, @ is ALT+Q.<p>That was a big problem when I switched to macOS. I kept hitting CMD+Q every time I tried to type an email address.</p>
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<p>> I don't think the amount of breakage per se was the problem with Python 3.<p>The lack of u"" is just another manifestation of the complete breakage they wrought upon Python's string handling, isn't it?<p>It was closer to a decade (3.7) till they'd put enough of the bits they'd ripped out back in for Py3 to be suitable for the things I used Py2 for.</p>
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