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New comment by dnlzro in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

dnlzro — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:13:39 +0000

Your point is relevant, but it’s not the whole story.

A rational actor will act on available information. It’s entirely possible that someone unhappy with Mullvad switches to an alternative that is even worse (on whatever dimensions they care about), and they just don’t know it. The question is whether they could’ve expected that outcome on a balance of probabilities.

I feel like the default assumption for a company in the privacy space is that they are close to politically neutral (0). Certainly skewing libertarian, but probably not more right (+1) than left (-1). So, if you see that your money is explicitly being siphoned to right-wing political parties (>0), and you don’t like that, it’s rational to switch to an alternative (expected value = 0).

Also, “very likely” to be better isn’t necessary, because switching costs are minimal.

Also also, saying that Proton’s founder is “outwardly MAGA” is really oversimplifying things. I’m not sure what your viewpoint actually is — maybe you’re just expressing someone else’s — but I’d encourage you to read: https://medium.com/@ovenplayer/does-proton-really-support-tr...

New comment by dnlzro in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

dnlzro — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:58:34 +0000

It's possible to support all of the same policies without referring to human beings as "parasites," and I don't think we should be flippant about what language is used. It's relevant. It reflects a state of mind.

I personally do not ever see myself voting for (or otherwise indirectly supporting) a politician that speaks like that, regardless of whether you can steelman it with more neutral language.

New comment by dnlzro in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

dnlzro — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:50:26 +0000

I think most liberals have the intuition that laws should apply equally to citizens and non-citizens, and I think that's where a lot of the discomfort comes from when we talk about immigration. A citizen who doesn't meet those demands imposed on non-citizens (e.g., language, cultural assimilation, etc.) will never be at risk of deportation, simply because they were lucky enough to be born in the country.

However, it does seem that this Swedish party is willing to "repatriate" even Swedish-born citizens, so at least they're consistent.

New comment by dnlzro in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

dnlzro — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:38:30 +0000

> Yes, where it's feasible

I think that's what a lot of people in this thread are missing. There are alternatives to Mullvad, so it's pretty easy to take your money elsewhere if you're unhappy with where it's being spent right now.

The counter-reaction to the reaction is so dumb. If you think it's silly to boycott a company because of a co-founders political donations, fine. But it's just as silly to try to argue people into not boycotting. Live and let live.

New comment by dnlzro in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

dnlzro — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:32:08 +0000

You're just playing with language. I can say:

"I'm surprised the co-founder of a freedom of speech company is contributing to a political party that wants to force religious charter schools to close."

New comment by dnlzro in "The Xteink X4 E-Ink Reader"

dnlzro — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:12:00 +0000

Liberate your e-books, my friend: https://github.com/Satsuoni/DeDRM_tools/discussions

New comment by dnlzro in "Show HN: Criterion Closet as a website – pull any of 1,247 films off the shelf"

dnlzro — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:52:53 +0000

I’m going to use the heck out of this!

Just one suggestion: Could you add another sort order for the list view based on the number of “closet picks”? It would be cool to see which films are most popular among Criterion Closet guests.

New comment by dnlzro in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

dnlzro — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:01:25 +0000

Me too, but it definitely doesn't qualify as "zero glue code."

New comment by dnlzro in "CSS: Unavoidable Bad Parts"

dnlzro — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:50:50 +0000

I wouldn’t accept the premise that wrappers (i.e.,

s) are to be avoided in the first place.

Perhaps less nesting is better in that it is more readable. But if you compensate by writing more complex CSS, then I don’t see how that’s an improvement.

New comment by dnlzro in "Chuwi Minibook X"

dnlzro — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:38:28 +0000

When you look at each dimension in isolation, the difference is fairly small. But the 12” is 60% of the volume and 75% of the weight of the Neo. It’s significantly more portable by these metrics.

New comment by dnlzro in "Chuwi Minibook X"

dnlzro — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:09:33 +0000

Why are you assuming there's something wrong with it? I'm not pointing to outliers that are only cheap because they're broken. The average market price for an M1 MacBook in my area is around $350.

New comment by dnlzro in "Chuwi Minibook X"

dnlzro — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 01:54:27 +0000

I wish there were more laptops with a similar form factor. I was looking forward to the MacBook Neo before it was officially announced; I thought it was going to be more like an upgraded MacBook 12", but it ended up being more like a downgraded MacBook Air 13". Nobody likes small things anymore :(

New comment by dnlzro in "Chuwi Minibook X"

dnlzro — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 01:50:09 +0000

It looks like the current iteration of the MiniBook will be discontinued soon; their official stores (on chuwi.com and AliExpress) are not selling them anymore. I've had my eye on this laptop for a while and still haven't bit the bullet, so I really hope it's not going away.

New comment by dnlzro in "Chuwi Minibook X"

dnlzro — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 01:44:59 +0000

I'm starting to see 2020 M1 MacBooks CA$350 on Facebook Marketplace. That's the device I'm using to type this out. It still lasts all day, and it's still the only computer I use.

New comment by dnlzro in "Show HN: Helios – what plug-in solar could generate for any address in Britain"

dnlzro — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:18:52 +0000

This is a great use of open data!

Please consider making the source code available. I’d love to make something similar for your friends across the pond (in Canada).

New comment by dnlzro in "I built a Git-tracked book production pipeline"

dnlzro — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:34:33 +0000

> It should obviously be the orphan.

But it isn’t obvious that a line cut off from its descendants should be a widow, so that mapping isn’t ideal either.

I propose “bereaved” — a parent cut off from its children.

New comment by dnlzro in "Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers"

dnlzro — Sun, 24 May 2026 02:08:30 +0000

Considering how difficult it is now to buy a TV without ad-infested “smart” software, I think we should all be grateful for the opportunity to pay to remove ads.

But what a sad world we live in…

New comment by dnlzro in "Greptile's New Pricing Is Predatory"

dnlzro — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:35:04 +0000

This article is talking about Greptile’s competition as if they aren’t destined to make the exact same changes to their pricing schemes. That strikes me as very naive. The writing is on the wall for all of them.

Was unfortunate to read about the instances of OSS contributors being billed for their usage though. Reptile was earning a lot of good will for that, so it’d be a shame if they weren’t actually following through.

New comment by dnlzro in "Quarkdown – Markdown with Superpowers"

dnlzro — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:26:12 +0000

Or even Typst (not an extension of Markdown, but it has very similar goals and use cases).

New comment by dnlzro in "Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS"

dnlzro — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:00:18 +0000

Another one to add (1.5k stars on GitHub): https://github.com/kitlangton/Hex