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New comment by foofoo12 in "EU Council approves Chat Control mandate for negotiation with Parliament"

foofoo12 — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 22:35:47 +0000

"voluntary" can also be pretty meaningless depending on the context. In the UK, if the police suspects you of shenanigans, they'll politely invite you for an "voluntary interview".

Of course you can decide to not go, it's voluntary, right? Yes, you can. Your choice. And when you reject their kind offer they'll come and arrest you so you can attend the interview.

New comment by foofoo12 in "Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world"

foofoo12 — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 10:16:30 +0000

> Some animals are ready to go as soon as they are born

That trade has an extreme genetic advantage when other animals see you as their succulent mains on the a la carte exotic wildlife menu.

New comment by foofoo12 in "Court filings allege Meta downplayed risks to children and misled the public"

foofoo12 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 22:55:45 +0000

I can see from voting that this comment is highly controversial. It's actively being downvoted. Make of that what you like.

New comment by foofoo12 in "Ubuntu LTS releases to 15 years with Legacy add-on"

foofoo12 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 18:45:03 +0000

Yep, let alone life critical systems. You don't fuck with them just because.

New comment by foofoo12 in "Court filings allege Meta downplayed risks to children and misled the public"

foofoo12 — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 18:35:06 +0000

> 17x strike policy for accounts that reportedly engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.”

Yep. You can engage in sexually trafficking people 16 times with a warning. 17th is just too much dude.

What sort of a deranged psychopath comes up with these rules?

New comment by foofoo12 in "Show HN: Awesome J2ME"

foofoo12 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 12:24:13 +0000

Brings back memories but I can't say they are good. It was so limited that it was mostly frustration.

New comment by foofoo12 in "Interactive World History Atlas Since 3000 BC"

foofoo12 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 12:02:08 +0000

It's the reverse of the Cloaca Maxima, the Roman empire sewage system. Facebook is where unprocessed sewage is fed back to the people, straight into their hands.

New comment by foofoo12 in "What Killed Perl?"

foofoo12 — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 22:37:53 +0000

Before JS had promises, JS code was plagued with the callback pyramid of doom. You needed an advanced masters degree in masochism to endure that. I don't think Python devs would have liked that.

New comment by foofoo12 in "Cognitive and mental health correlates of short-form video use"

foofoo12 — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 22:30:47 +0000

Yep. It's ironic that reddit itself cured my reddit addiction.

New comment by foofoo12 in "Cognitive and mental health correlates of short-form video use"

foofoo12 — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 22:26:24 +0000

No, he's referring to politics.

Far-right politics[a] encompasses a range of ideologies that are marked by ultraconservatism, authoritarianism, ultranationalism, radical anti-communism, ethnonationalism, and nativism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-right_politics

New comment by foofoo12 in "Cognitive and mental health correlates of short-form video use"

foofoo12 — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 20:41:33 +0000

Totally my feeling too.

The formula seems to be: dopamine, dopamine, dopamine, infuriating country dividing content, dopamine, dopamine, dopamine, infuriating country dividing content, dopamine, dopamine, dopamine ...

New comment by foofoo12 in "What Killed Perl?"

foofoo12 — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 19:16:21 +0000

> I really don't think Python was close to dying

It absolutely was. What saved it was:

1. The data science / AI crowd that was gathering momentum any many only used Python 3.

2. No popular alternative. Perl got python as an alternative.

Python was also a good, simple language and had a good healthy culture. But it's nothing sort of a miracle that it survived that biblical software calamity.

New comment by foofoo12 in "What Killed Perl?"

foofoo12 — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 19:11:25 +0000

I learned Perl back in the day. It was fun and powerful.

But I think the package management and culture killed it for me. People took pride is writing obnoxiously messy code. Package dependency hell. Gung ho borderline toxic RTFM culture.

New comment by foofoo12 in "Blender 5.0"

foofoo12 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 23:35:25 +0000

I use FreeCAD and it's pretty good. But I think it's impossible to learn by trial and error.

MangoJelly has done an amazing job in churning out high quality tutorials for FreeCAD: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_yh_S31R9g&list=PLWuyJLVUNt...

(this is just one playlist, there's a lot more on his channel).

New comment by foofoo12 in "Google Antigravity"

foofoo12 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:27:48 +0000

I worked in a factory one summer when I was a teenager. It was a totally brain dead work, but the morale was good. The workers weren't unhappy.

I'm concerned that the new role of "manager of agents" (as google puts it) will be a soul destroying brain dead work and the morale won't be good.

New comment by foofoo12 in "OOP: The worst thing that happened to programming"

foofoo12 — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 23:17:52 +0000

Worst thing that happened to programming, eh? Have you tried running a 2 year old javascript/node project that transpiles and gulps it's three billion dependencies into something alien - if it works. Which it won't because it hasn't been updated for 2 years.

New comment by foofoo12 in "Celtic Code: Drawing knots with Python"

foofoo12 — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 18:56:11 +0000

Webapp doesn't work for me (current version Firefox):

  Uncaught TypeError: loading.showModal is not a function
     https://2earth.pyscriptapps.com/celtic-knot/  latest/:20
  latest:20:17
     https://2earth.pyscriptapps.com/celtic-knot/    latest/:20

and

  Uncaught (in promise) DOMException: IDBFactory.open: The operation is insecure
     index.js:65
    Xe index.js:63
    Ye sync.js:8
    engine pyodide.js:95
    get interpreters.js:36
    promise callback*get/< interpreters.js:34
    xn loader.js:66
    promise callback*xn loader.js:66
    Kn script-handler.js:91
    or custom.js:99
    define custom.js:266
     core.js:307
    promise callback\* core.js:182

core-Dwn9Kajy.js:1

New comment by foofoo12 in "Craft Chrome Devtools Protocol (CDP) commands with new command editor"

foofoo12 — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 13:29:02 +0000

Very useful. Does anything similar exists for Firefox?

New comment by foofoo12 in "Hyundai Paywalls Brake Pads replacement on Ioniq 5 N"

foofoo12 — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 13:33:13 +0000

Not to mention the cool handbrake turn when you're a teenager.

New comment by foofoo12 in "Can text be made to sound more than just its words? (2022)"

foofoo12 — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 00:10:38 +0000

> when our main or only way of detecting whether communication succeeded is through understanding or lack thereof

That's not even a good test, due to miscommunication. Both parties might think it succeeded, but then much later on you find out the truth (maybe).