Hacker News: ersii

New comment by ersii in "Gang crisis shaking Sweden"

ersii — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 00:00:53 +0000

> Ask the Scottish how they feel about Sweden exporting its culture a while ago.

What's this referring to?

New comment by ersii in "Gang crisis shaking Sweden"

ersii — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 23:26:43 +0000

> these days I'm more afraid of cops than criminals to be honest.

Could you expand on your thoughts regarding why you're more afraid of cops in Sweden?

New comment by ersii in "‘I will show you how safe Telegram is’"

ersii — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 13:27:38 +0000

Signal provides a Registration Lock that is available in the settings for preventing this from happening to some degree, it's however opt-in and you need to set and remember a PIN.

New comment by ersii in "Gas Leak in the Baltic Sea"

ersii — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 22:35:59 +0000

That's a rather big claim and I would disagree.

That said, looking forward to paying 20 SEK per kWh, that'll be fun. Also, there's no wooden pellets or firewood for purchase no more - as it's all going to the continent.

New comment by ersii in "Blade Runner RPG"

ersii — Fri, 08 Apr 2022 21:35:41 +0000

Neat that the music in the trailer is done by the swede Simon Stålenhag who's also doing great retro art, which got turned into the quirky Tales From The Loop TV-series

New comment by ersii in "Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020)"

ersii — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 14:21:08 +0000

Don't forget force-installing addons like Pocket as a service.. and.. Disney.

New comment by ersii in "Trudeau Invokes Emergencies Act"

ersii — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 00:16:01 +0000

What does being accosted entail?

If it's a matter of being heckled or laughed at, surely one has to be able to deal with that and not scream bloody murder.

(We haven't had mask mandates here in Sweden, so your situation with masks seems peculiar and a bit weird from here)

New comment by ersii in "Vice Media organised $20M Saudi government festival"

ersii — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 22:49:33 +0000

I didn't say that either. According to Wikipedia, he does not have any shares.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_Media

  Owner Vice Media

  Shane Smith (20%)
  The Walt Disney Company (16%)
  A&E Networks (20%)
  TPG Capital (44%)
  Soros Fund Management (10%)
  James Murdoch (minority stake)

New comment by ersii in "Vice Media organised $20M Saudi government festival"

ersii — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 19:21:56 +0000

Gavin McInnes has no shares in Vice Media and he's been out of Vice for a long time, at least since 2008.

New comment by ersii in "Multi-Account Containers Add-on on Mozilla VPN"

ersii — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 22:37:19 +0000

It's not mentioned in their post, but Mozilla VPN is a brand/browser integration of Mullvad, which is excellent, so that's what they're using underneath the branding.

New comment by ersii in "Forty percent of the world’s shipping consists of fossil fuels to be burned"

ersii — Sat, 08 Jan 2022 17:22:26 +0000

You make it sound like all of it is from North America. There's import from the european continent and scandinavia as well.

Sweden exports a lot of wood pellets. Plenty of woodlands there. Plenty more to grow, if the Union will let them.

Wood pellets are "green" because the source material is replantable, albeit not that much locally for you. Seems like nothing is ever "green enough" though, besides a complete stop in consumption..

The distance from Sweden/Scandinavia/Continental europe is a lot less than from North America.

New comment by ersii in "The booming business of knitting together the world’s electricity grids"

ersii — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 01:23:00 +0000

How's that increased democracy? Muzzle is also an interesting choice of words. It reminds me more of totalitarian utilitarianism, fascism or communism when you suddenly don't care about objections or "the little/common man".

New comment by ersii in "The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated"

ersii — Tue, 07 Sep 2021 13:49:56 +0000

Which usually, at least in Sweden means you'll get your data dump in a PDF. Not a joke, unfortunally.

New comment by ersii in "San Francisco’s Shoplifting Surge"

ersii — Sat, 22 May 2021 22:31:05 +0000

I wouldn't leave an expensive laptop or camera in my car in Stockholm, Sweden. I certainly wouldn't in Paris, which is way worse.

New comment by ersii in "Why has no one made a better Goodreads"

ersii — Sat, 17 Apr 2021 21:08:48 +0000

> Will reply here when resolved.

Seems other things came your way, but it seems like it's resolved now. There's plenty of stats on https://openlibrary.org/stats now and none are zero.

New comment by ersii in "I Miss My Bar"

ersii — Fri, 19 Feb 2021 09:42:51 +0000

Come over to Sweden, things are quite dandy here.

Never thought I'd say that in a positive manner though.

Wish you the better and best.

New comment by ersii in "Pirate Bay founder thinks Parler’s inability to stay online is 'embarrassing'"

ersii — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 23:51:48 +0000

donk_enby wants to be called she/her according to Twitter, unless you're speaking of someone else

New comment by ersii in "If you want peace, study war"

ersii — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 09:21:55 +0000

In what way do nationalistic drive have everything in common with how wars start?

New comment by ersii in "Facebook sues EU antitrust regulator for excessive data requests"

ersii — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 07:36:22 +0000

> Don't forget, Facebook is the bane for privacy, not the EU.

To be fair, you can (and are probably) both right.

New comment by ersii in "'Doomscrolling' breeds anxiety – how to stop the cycle"

ersii — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 09:24:19 +0000

As of a hundred comments, none seem to have mentioned that this is not inherent in social media but in media in general.

Remember to take breaks from the news cycles (whatever flavor of news and outlet you prefer) and try to not get emotionally engaged in what is really quite distant from your actual life.

The news, wherever they come from and regardless of what they are about are mostly just a distraction from what actually matters, your own life, family and mission.