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New comment by ghssds in "California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law"

ghssds — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 06:37:07 +0000

And now a bunch of OSI-Approved licenses get to have special rules applied to them, entrenching them and killing further innovation.

New comment by ghssds in "Manifesto – who we are and what do we want (2002)"

ghssds — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 18:45:21 +0000

What stance are you disagreeing with?

Check Out the Bubbles

ghssds — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 03:05:46 +0000

Article URL: https://shojiwax.com/2026/07/24/check-out-the-bubbles/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49044123

Points: 3

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New comment by ghssds in "It's a shame what's happened to radio"

ghssds — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 04:57:49 +0000

IMHO, FM radio stations, broadcasting on government-attributed radio frequencies, are very different - both in nature and in how they feel - from the user of a big corporation's service streaming from someone else's computers.

New comment by ghssds in "Spider venom kills varroa mites without harming honeybees"

ghssds — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:36:46 +0000

I saw that Black Mirror episode.

New comment by ghssds in "Lossless GIF recompression via exhaustive search"

ghssds — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 19:00:20 +0000

> We need to be careful here, because finding the actual best compression for an arbitrary format can be equivalent to solving the halting problem.

That sentence was pasted unmodified from the LLM output.

New comment by ghssds in "JSON-LD explained for personal websites"

ghssds — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 03:36:28 +0000

For rich link previews, OpenGraph[0] is much more often supported than JSON-LD.

For seo purpose, the kind of JSON-LD a search engine will support is very specific and limited. You are far better consulting the targetted search engine's documentation (Google[1], Bing[2]) and following that. Anything else is a waste of time.

Outside of search engines, again, without a specific purpose, JSON-LD is mostly useless. If you have a specific need that requires JSON-LD, go ahead and include the data you know will be useful. Including anything else is like shouting into the void.

IndieWeb[3] does use structured data but considers JSON-LD a DRY violation and uses Microformats[4] instead.

0: https://ogp.me

1: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/structu...

2: https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/marking-up-your-site-wi...

3: https://indieweb.org/

4: https://microformats.org/

New comment by ghssds in "'We had to get out of the way': The backlash over delivery robots"

ghssds — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 03:18:29 +0000

What happens if you refuse to yield?

New comment by ghssds in "I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M"

ghssds — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 03:39:29 +0000

> They're not going build a document sharing platform to get their job done just so they can meet the regs.

What is so hard in respecting the spirit of the law?

New comment by ghssds in "We accidentally recreated old Facebook"

ghssds — Wed, 13 May 2026 02:13:14 +0000

Old Slashdot had the right ideas. You could mark anyone as friend or foe. If somone marked you as friend, it was your fan. If someone marked you as foe, it was your freak. Then you could make your friends', foes', fans' and freaks' posts more or less visible, as you wished.

There was no "like" for posts but a much more evolved system: you could brand posts as interresting, informative, insightful, funny, underrated, overrated, flamebait or troll.

Slashdot was never a social media, but it sure had a few features that could have been used to turn it into an interresting one.

New comment by ghssds in "Child marriages plunged when girls stayed in school in Nigeria"

ghssds — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:37:48 +0000

Why does low birth rates need solution? Low birth rates are already the solution to countless issue like ressources depletion, climate changes and real estate high cost.

New comment by ghssds in "Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?"

ghssds — Fri, 01 May 2026 03:18:22 +0000

alternatively, how old should the car be so i know there is no data being collected?

New comment by ghssds in "5x5 Pixel font for tiny screens"

ghssds — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:13:48 +0000

You could do a bit better with a 4x5 font for every characters except M, W, m, and w which would be 5x5 but use the pixels normaly used to separate them from the next character, so every caracters still use the same width.

New comment by ghssds in "Isaac Asimov: The Last Question (1956)"

ghssds — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:28:33 +0000

> (No real spoilers in my comment):

> Proceed to spoil the whole game

New comment by ghssds in "SolveSpace (open source 2D/3D CAD) working on Windows 2000 (2025)"

ghssds — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 04:24:52 +0000

The first OS supporting Win32 API isn't Windows 95.

Win32s for Windows 3.1x: 1993

Windows NT 3.1: 1993

Windows NT 3.5: 1994

Windows NT 3.51: 1995 (may)

Windows 95: 1995 (july)

New comment by ghssds in "What came after the 486?"

ghssds — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 02:37:47 +0000

"poor"

New comment by ghssds in "Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act: Dangerous backdoor surveillance risks remain"

ghssds — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 03:48:30 +0000

On paper, there is no Canadian PM. The Constitution reads: "The Executive Government and Authority of and over Canada is hereby declared to continue and be vested in the Queen." The existence of a Prime Minister and the fact executive powers are delegated to them are customary.

A Trump-like actor in Canada would do far less damage than in USA. There is no position they could held that would give them the power to do lot of damage. The Queen (nowaday King) has no power. If they tried to use it's constitutional powers as written they would be laughed out. The Governor General, who may act on behalf of the Queen would be laughed out too if they tried to take any decision. The Prime Minister seems all powerful but they are one motion from the House of Common from being overthrown. When one's become POTUS, they are basically POTUS until the end of their term. The exception is impeachment which is a very complicated process that never worked. In Canada, the House of Common can simply vote the Prime Minister out. The Prime Minister is very powerful, I agree, but only as long as they behave.

New comment by ghssds in "Show HN: What was the world listening to? Music charts, 20 countries (1940–2025)"

ghssds — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:56:22 +0000

I tried to look at the charts for Canada. The result may be representative for English Canada but Canada is really two markets. There is English Canada and French Canada, and both listen to very different music, with different charts. Belgium and Switzerland are probably the same.

New comment by ghssds in "“This is not the computer for you”"

ghssds — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 04:58:50 +0000

Most child of every generation don't care about those things. Most of the few that cared about the C64 just used it to play game. You are in the minority who got interested in the C64 and the minority within that minority who also was interested with BASIC. It's good you tried with your kids but the odds were against you.

Meanwhile, some other kid in your area probably got scolded for installing F-Droid. Oh well...

New comment by ghssds in "First Website (1992)"

ghssds — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:04:44 +0000

I really like how different and the same the html tags are.