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New comment by everybodyknows in "New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices"

everybodyknows — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 05:55:29 +0000

> seller is using AI to that extent

Useful info for any later negotiation. They've revealed they are:

A: Dishonest

B: Not too bright

New comment by everybodyknows in "New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices"

everybodyknows — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 05:48:07 +0000

Does buying through the Apple store also get you access to the web site (in case you're disloyal enough to also use non-Apple hardware)?

New comment by everybodyknows in "New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices"

everybodyknows — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 05:43:38 +0000

Recall that they're tax-deductible now -- so tips are the most efficient way to compensate employees. You're feeling the second-order effects of the inevitable business model change.

New comment by everybodyknows in "What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public"

everybodyknows — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 17:14:51 +0000

> building a live portfolio

The portfolio grows -- "live", and faster than each of the businesses within it shrink. As they all do, by Bending Spoons' strategic design.

Ask HN: Ubuntu 24.04 now force-automounts any plugged-in MMC card or USB key

everybodyknows — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:03:03 +0000

Started with recent update: Auto-mount to /media/$USER/LABEL, and startup of the GNOME Files tray-widget.

The old recipe for disabling no longer works:

  gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.media-handling automount false

  gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.media-handling automount-open false

Anyone know the workaround? Searching the GNOME menus turned up nothing. ChatGPT suggests debugging step -- very long.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48851667

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by everybodyknows in "Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives"

everybodyknows — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:46:57 +0000

How is Codeberg connectivity from outside Europe, nowadays?

New comment by everybodyknows in "'There Is No Going Back': The Inside Story of Europe's Rupture with America"

everybodyknows — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:19:03 +0000

For any Europeans who've been tracking the issue: How much take-up have Mario Draghi's ideas for business reform gotten?

From 2024: https://commission.europa.eu/topics/competitiveness/draghi-r...

How Kalshi Infects the News

everybodyknows — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 13:12:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.publicnotice.co/p/kalshi-cnn-cnbc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48804123

Points: 198

# Comments: 195

New comment by everybodyknows in "Organic Maps"

everybodyknows — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 03:23:29 +0000

For business operators this can be done with a low-friction web page: https://www.onosm.org/

New comment by everybodyknows in "Medieval-style fortifications are back in the Sahel"

everybodyknows — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:32:17 +0000

> shrivelling state authority

Sure, but state authority alone is no substitute for cultural norms.

New comment by everybodyknows in "Medieval-style fortifications are back in the Sahel"

everybodyknows — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:27:10 +0000

The great revelation of Google Street View for me has been that such is more or less the world norm. Neighborhoods of entirely unbarred windows and unfenced lots are scarce on any continent.

The tragedy is that so few, at least here in the US, see the liberating value in them.

New comment by everybodyknows in "Organic Maps"

everybodyknows — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 16:51:55 +0000

Another CoMaps Search issue:

https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/issues/4449

New comment by everybodyknows in "As downtown Seattle offices empty, city facing years of 'zombie' towers"

everybodyknows — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 21:43:33 +0000

That's the monumental social question going unconsidered -- why has governmental regulation not somehow adapted to the new economic reality, so that all that real physical capital is put to at least some productive use?

The competing federal efforts behind America's 250th anniversary plans

everybodyknows — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:04:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.govexec.com/management/2026/07/inside-competing-federal-efforts-behind-americas-250th-anniversary-plans/414449/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48762755

Points: 2

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New comment by everybodyknows in "The operating cost starts after the demo"

everybodyknows — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 12:59:43 +0000

> slop sniff test

An unexpected challenge being that our sense of smell requires continual readjustment: Heavy use of em-dashes was formerly a "tell", but the AI-masters retrained them, and now they do the opposite. Indeed, there's a general scarcity of any punctuation other than the period.

Book of American Types – ATF Standard Faces, 1934

everybodyknows — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 02:51:50 +0000

Article URL: https://archive.org/details/ATFBookOfAmericanTypes1934

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48714226

Points: 3

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Ships keep moving through Hormuz despite strike

everybodyknows — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 19:06:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lloydslist.com/LL1157680/Ships-keep-moving-through-Hormuz-despite-strike-and-suspension-of-IMO-exit-strategy

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48700805

Points: 59

# Comments: 179

New comment by everybodyknows in "Dostoyevsky isn't difficult"

everybodyknows — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:27:20 +0000

Her coming-of-age short story or perhaps memoir of a few years ago in The New Yorker has stayed with me. Only after finishing and contemplating it does the tragedy of the young woman's experience really make itself felt.

New comment by everybodyknows in "Job application asked for my SAT scores"

everybodyknows — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 03:32:19 +0000

Regents are selected by Sacramento. At bottom, it's a political failure.

New comment by everybodyknows in "The founder of Craigslist has given away half a billion dollars"

everybodyknows — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:51:01 +0000

> Going to a separate website and (gasp!) sending an actual email or calling someone, those are strong filters for intent that FB Marketplace lacks.

Thanks -- that explains why anonymized email as an ad reply option has (silently) disappeared.