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New comment by diath in "South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access"

diath — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:42:53 +0000

Maybe not general data cap exemption but for as long as I remember a lot of carriers in Europe whitelist certain apps that people think of as "essential" that work even when you've reached your data limit - such as WhatsApp and Messenger. Perhaps there are certain applications specific to South Korea that people think as essential/universal and expect them to work without a data plan (even maybe related to the digital ID thing they have there).

New comment by diath in "Veracrypt project update"

diath — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:22:20 +0000

Makes you wonder what kind of leverage/information you have to have to only get 25 years for admitting to being involved in 7 murders.

New comment by diath in "IPv6 is the only way forward"

diath — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:56:15 +0000

You're putting words in my mouth, genocide implies murdering existing people to reduce the population, not developing policies that would slow down the population growth and/or fix the issues with the country.

New comment by diath in "IPv6 is the only way forward"

diath — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:52:08 +0000

ISPs providing IPv6 connectivity out of the box does not equal software and internal devices doing the same.

New comment by diath in "Peptides: where to begin?"

diath — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:35:41 +0000

But I'm not saying everyone should be taking these peptides, I'm not coercing anyone, my original point was that people like the author of the article should mind their own business what other people choose to do with their own bodies.

New comment by diath in "Peptides: where to begin?"

diath — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:35:57 +0000

Have you ever looked at leaflets attached to any medicine prescribed by doctors?

New comment by diath in "Peptides: where to begin?"

diath — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:20:59 +0000

These peptides are already relatively cheap, here's one US domestic source: https://imgur.com/a/OXOkSdR

New comment by diath in "Peptides: where to begin?"

diath — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:15:41 +0000

Yes? These types of injuries are common among bodybuilders and powerlifters.

New comment by diath in "Peptides: where to begin?"

diath — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:14:22 +0000

I go to a gym that has IFBB pros and people competing on elite powerlifting level, steroid and peptide use is an every day chit chat topic.

New comment by diath in "Peptides: where to begin?"

diath — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:08:47 +0000

> My patient is refusing a drug studied in 170,000 people because of side effects that a 124,000-person analysis just confirmed do not exist — while injecting a compound studied in 14 humans, from unregulated sources, based on the recommendation of someone who profits from selling it. She’s probably not the only one. And those using it believe they are “doing their own research.”

Ok, and? At worst you waste a couple hundred dollars and deem the alternative therapy not worth it and go back to your doctor but I know dozens of people at my gym that used BPC 157 and TB 500 that fixed their chronic tendon/joint issues within weeks of starting the therapy that physios couldn't fix for years.

New comment by diath in "German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups"

diath — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:45:43 +0000

That's not specific to Russia, almost every country in the world requires you to report illegal income for tax purposes, including the US.

New comment by diath in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

diath — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:42:28 +0000

Easier to repopulate... at the expense of men being considered essentially disposable by the society. I should have as much right to not being forcefully sent to my death to wage billionaires' wars as the other half of population.

New comment by diath in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

diath — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:31:48 +0000

Why does it exclude women? War is not just physical strength, but also logistics, operating vehicles, operating drones, nursing, and so on. All tasks that women are well capable of.

New comment by diath in "What IAEA docs say about Iran's nuclear program, before the bombs fell"

diath — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:36:52 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_and_nuclear_weapons#Sto...

> 2008 – 80 intact warheads, of which 50 are re-entry vehicles for delivery by ballistic missiles, and the rest bombs for delivery by aircraft. Total military plutonium stockpile 340–560 kg.[186]

They probably have way more now 18 years later though.

New comment by diath in "Improved Git Diffs with Delta, Fzf and a Little Shell Scripting"

diath — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:38:15 +0000

I had to give up on diff-so-fancy because it would break a lot when used with `git diff --patch` but this post just reminded me of the issue and it turns out that it has recently been fixed, so I may give it another go.

https://github.com/so-fancy/diff-so-fancy/issues/498

New comment by diath in "Go Naming Conventions: A Practical Guide"

diath — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:33:53 +0000

Something like "AnIteratorObjectWithPersonPointer" would be a long word, "person" is absolutely not. If a 6 letter identifier causes you that much trouble with code being too verbose, then it's likely a screen resolution/density/font issue, not a naming issue.

> That would make “ProductIndex” superior to “i”, which doesn't add any clarity.

And then you introduce extra two levels of nested loops and suddenly "i", "j", and "k" don't make any sense on their own, but "ProductIndex", "BatchIndex" and "SeriesIndex" do.

New comment by diath in "Updates to GitHub Copilot interaction data usage policy"

diath — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:44:29 +0000

> This approach aligns with established industry practices

"others are doing it too so it's ok"

New comment by diath in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

diath — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:58:31 +0000

Read the last sentence in that paragraph, those numbers are a bit disingenuous:

> Those benchmarks compare Wine NTSYNC against upstream vanilla Wine, which means there's no fsync or esync either. Gamers who use fsync are not going to see such a leap in performance in most games.

New comment by diath in "I hate: Programming Wayland applications"

diath — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:40:11 +0000

And that's a problem, now instead of knowing that something just works in the WM you're using, you have to cross-reference a matrix of features for basic tasks across different WMs because the bare minimum features are not found in the core protocols. Nothing is standardized, it's just a pile of different WMs developing their own sets of custom protocols.

New comment by diath in "I hate: Programming Wayland applications"

diath — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:06:08 +0000

Wayland was designed from the point of view of theoretical purists. It's basically "how would a display server work in an ideal world", unfortunately, that design turns out to also be impractical and straight up developer/user hostile.