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New comment by fdgjgbdfhgb in "How I block all online ads"

fdgjgbdfhgb — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 07:55:38 +0000

Works for me without an extension, you just need to click play again after leaving the YouTube tab/locking the phone

New comment by fdgjgbdfhgb in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

fdgjgbdfhgb — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 09:48:10 +0000

This truly sucks, since in this day and age we need unmodified phones for banking apps (and I think for oncall my company requires Android/iOS as well). I guess this will be the final push for me to change to iOS, since I already have a bunch of Apple stuff otherwise, and I was holding out on the phone side for this exact feature.

New comment by fdgjgbdfhgb in "I built something that changed my friend group's social fabric"

fdgjgbdfhgb — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 17:07:33 +0000

The only time I've seen this feature be used is when my grandma accidentally turns it on in the family groupchat - I just don't wanna hang out with my friends in WhatsApp

New comment by fdgjgbdfhgb in "Náhuatl and Mayan Language Renaissance Occurring in Mexico"

fdgjgbdfhgb — Fri, 16 May 2025 16:27:16 +0000

While Mexico is certainly very linguistically diverse, it doesn't even come close to Papua New Guinea's over 800 languages [1]

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Papua_New_Guine...

New comment by fdgjgbdfhgb in "Time saved by AI offset by new work created, study suggests"

fdgjgbdfhgb — Sun, 04 May 2025 08:51:03 +0000

There is a difference between business owners (who don't want to spend money unless they have to) ans managers (who want career growth and are not necessarily worried about the company 's bottom line wrt headcount)

New comment by fdgjgbdfhgb in "Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant"

fdgjgbdfhgb — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 12:26:17 +0000

You use your bank's phone app. You can scan a QR code or you can send money to someone if you know their "id string", like a phone number, an email or a random string of numbers - you choose the "id string" format you want, and you can have different "ids" linked to different bank accounts. There are no physical cards.

New comment by fdgjgbdfhgb in "Google to buy Wiz for $32B"

fdgjgbdfhgb — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 15:18:39 +0000

I've seen them at trade shows and heard good things. I had also heard that Google tried buying them last year but it didn't go through, I'm curious about how/why they did it now

New comment by fdgjgbdfhgb in "Schola Latina Europæa and Universalis"

fdgjgbdfhgb — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 16:03:02 +0000

Did you ever read Roma Aeterna? Or did you go straight into literature?

New comment by fdgjgbdfhgb in "Doctor Who theme: Ron Grainer (composer) Delia Derbyshire (musician, arranger)"

fdgjgbdfhgb — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 23:29:07 +0000

Oh, Radio Free Skaro uses this version on their podcasts!

New comment by fdgjgbdfhgb in "Assisted dying now accounts for one in 20 Canada deaths"

fdgjgbdfhgb — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 23:21:38 +0000

The "Mother Theresa withheld painkillers" thing is a myth [1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/badhistory/comments/gcxpr5/saint_mo...

New comment by fdgjgbdfhgb in "Brazil's X ban is sending lots of people to Bluesky"

fdgjgbdfhgb — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 07:07:38 +0000

The VPN part was almost immediately overturned, but it is concerning that it was included in the first place

New comment by fdgjgbdfhgb in "France high-speed rail traffic disrupted by 'malicious acts' on Olympic ceremony"

fdgjgbdfhgb — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 12:51:26 +0000

It really depends on where in the city you live - I live in the north of Paris and so far this has not affected me in any way. In fact, I already went to a couple of Olympic matches (a bunch of sports have started already), and I'm enjoying it immensely.

The city center had restricted access for about a week and is completely inaccessible for 2-3 days, which sucks for the people that live and work there, but it's a far cry from the `several weeks` you mentioned. I think folks are blowing the impact of the opening ceremony way out of proportion.

New comment by fdgjgbdfhgb in "Tesla's Sales in Europe Fall to a 15-Month Low"

fdgjgbdfhgb — Wed, 22 May 2024 18:36:14 +0000

Mercedes offers it in Germany

New comment by fdgjgbdfhgb in "I nearly died drowning"

fdgjgbdfhgb — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 11:57:26 +0000

Sorry, you think it's better to drown your own child than to google it? You can just search "how to spot a drowning person" and you'll find loads of articles and videos

New comment by fdgjgbdfhgb in "Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads"

fdgjgbdfhgb — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 14:29:43 +0000

It's one of those things - they are totally in their right to do it, but I still think it sucks.

At the end of the day, both parties benefit: Youtube won't have to serve me videos for free and I'll gain back a bunch of free time.

New comment by fdgjgbdfhgb in "Pi Day"

fdgjgbdfhgb — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 15:58:25 +0000

I was there too! It was such a nice vibe :^D

New comment by fdgjgbdfhgb in "Sports gambling was a gateway drug"

fdgjgbdfhgb — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 13:01:46 +0000

I didn't interpret the parent comment as saying that religion can be used to/is effective at combating excess, but that the only existing efforts to combat this kind of excess come from religious groups (i.e. there aren't any secular groups lobbying against gambling). I don't know if that is true and I don't necessarily agree with the comment btw.

New comment by fdgjgbdfhgb in "Ask HN: Did you encounter any leap year bugs today?"

fdgjgbdfhgb — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 21:14:59 +0000

All street lamps in Paris turned off at midnight :)

https://www.leparisien.fr/paris-75/paris-pourquoi-les-rues-d...

New comment by fdgjgbdfhgb in "Ubisoft Employees In France have gone on a Strike"

fdgjgbdfhgb — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 08:56:09 +0000

> however, a big part of the compensation is through labor protection - something that is not worth a lot to a software developer

Maybe that was true in previous years, but I have found it very comforting to know that I'm almost unfirable (specially compared to my US peers), and even if I do get laid off I still have a ~12 month runway provided by the government.

New comment by fdgjgbdfhgb in "Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling"

fdgjgbdfhgb — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 13:04:38 +0000

This is very cool, congrats OP!

I wish it would let me select some other cities the bus passes through, since as another commenter said it just uses the quickest way by car - though I guess that would not impact the seat selection too much, since the general direction of travel is still the same!