Hacker News: fredski42

New comment by fredski42 in "The Strongest El Niño Ever"

fredski42 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:05:08 +0000

Does anyone knows how much more the oceans can absorb heat?

Remembering Robert A.F. Thurman (1941-2026)

fredski42 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 03:49:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.lionsroar.com/robert-thurman-and-the-karmic-kingdom-of-buddhology/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48580581

Points: 2

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New comment by fredski42 in "Ask HN: What has been bothering you lately?"

fredski42 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:15:07 +0000

(A)Social Media and the destructive power it has on society.

IBM and Red Hat Commit $5B to Redefine the Future of Open Source in the AI Era

fredski42 — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:00:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/project-lightwell-secure-open-source

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48309927

Points: 5

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Ten Signs of Fascism. America has all of them

fredski42 — Sun, 17 May 2026 07:50:57 +0000

Article URL: https://rutgerbregman.substack.com/p/10-signs-of-fascism-america-has-all

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48166877

Points: 232

# Comments: 110

New comment by fredski42 in "Apple pushes EU to repeal tech rules over feature delays, app vulnerabilities"

fredski42 — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 13:25:04 +0000

Having privacy should be a user choice. I am firmly in the Apple ecosystem and in the EU. Apple could engineer it such that interoperability means giving up privacy. User can choose. Apple could show in the App Store/settings exactly which data is leaked. Apple is using privacy as a tactic.

New comment by fredski42 in "I researched every attempt to stop fascism in history. The success rate is 0%"

fredski42 — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 01:20:43 +0000

You think Trump is in power? I do not think he really is. He is a puppet. Others are the Puppet Masters.

New comment by fredski42 in "Nuclear Explosion for Carbon Sequestration"

fredski42 — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 06:40:08 +0000

Very much this! This is about removing (if it at wall will do that) without fixing the root cause. How deep can you put your head in the ground? It reminds of the Matrix where they scorched the skies to remove solar power capabilities as a way to block the enemy.

New comment by fredski42 in "Silicon Valley aghast at the Musk-Trump divorce"

fredski42 — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 17:19:36 +0000

This is what happens when you build a capitalist system based on quarterly results

New comment by fredski42 in "What are people doing? Live-ish estimates based on global population dynamics"

fredski42 — Tue, 20 May 2025 03:40:22 +0000

Seeing the population still increase, this must be completely attributed to Africa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate

New comment by fredski42 in "One mother's win over Meta will change social media for everyone"

fredski42 — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:31:11 +0000

over 942,562 CCTV cameras are in operation across London alone..

https://www.tnssolutions.co.uk/post/how-much-of-london-is-co...

New comment by fredski42 in "Ask HN: With trust in Firefox gone, is Chrome-ish the only option?"

fredski42 — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 09:36:25 +0000

Although Firefox is still the best to choose from a privacy standpunt currently, I am convinced the time will come where the sponsorship from Google will stop. Then Mozilla will likely not survive and the development of Firefox is left to the community. A browser is a pretty complex piece of software so I doubt the community will be able to maintain that.

New comment by fredski42 in "Bitwarden Was Down"

fredski42 — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 05:48:32 +0000

Just use vaultwarden

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

New comment by fredski42 in "Amidst the noise and haste, Google has successfully pulled a SpaceX"

fredski42 — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 06:51:52 +0000

Very much this. I think the reason Google products are more and more infested with ads is to keep up revenue against people moving to better alternatives.

New comment by fredski42 in "The Untold History of the United States (2012)"

fredski42 — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 11:36:43 +0000

While waiting for the Billionares to take government.

New comment by fredski42 in "SQLite3: No Room for Drama"

fredski42 — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:16:14 +0000

What the article forgot to mention is that is not suitable for scale out workloads. No concurrent network access.

New comment by fredski42 in "EU law mandating universal chargers for devices comes into force"

fredski42 — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 06:58:24 +0000

Nobody seems to be talking about the port in the charger itself. Does the regulation also specify USB-C for the other side?

New comment by fredski42 in "EU law mandating universal chargers for devices comes into force"

fredski42 — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 06:55:40 +0000

I am curious about this supposed superiority. Can you explain?

New comment by fredski42 in "The paper passport's days are numbered"

fredski42 — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 15:33:59 +0000

I remember a sci-fi short story from a long time ago where everything that defined you as a person was digitized and available in your smartphone. The story was about a person loosing his smartphone and coming into all kinds of admin horror to regain his identity but eventually ended up broke sleeping under the bridge..

New comment by fredski42 in "A subtle change to the iPhone’s contact-sharing permissions"

fredski42 — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 04:56:29 +0000

This is what the Solid protocol tries to fix. https://solidproject.org/