<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: hagbard_c</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hagbard_c</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 22:09:55 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=hagbard_c" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hagbard_c in "PostmarketOS is rebranding as Nura"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Pfah, Poob. Zombo.com is the place to be. Welcome to Zombo.com. This is Zombo.com. Welcome. This is Zombo.com. Welcome to Zombo.com. You can do anything at Zombo.com. Anything at all. The only limit is yourself.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Xxy0tU65Y" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3Xxy0tU65Y</a></p>
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<p>Sometimes these "security" solutions make you wonder whether someone took the joke about a machine without a network connection being the most secure seriously. First visit ever to this domain and:<p><pre><code>   Sorry, you have been blocked
   You are unable to access jazzwise.com

   Why have I been blocked?

   This website is using a security service to protect itself from online 
   attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There 
   are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a
   certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data.</code></pre></p>
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<p>Yes sure, it is all racism, as usual when there are no other arguments.<p>Now think a bit. I assume you support equal voting rights for women, yes? How then can you support the practice of men telling their wives what to vote for <i>and making sure they do so by following them into the voting booths</i>? The comparison with <i>church voting</i> is valid, the thing is that <i>we got away from that a long time ago</i>. We... progressed, as a society, to individual rights, equal rights for everyone no matter their sex or race.<p>You're defending voting coercion and oppression of women and others all in the name of tolerance. Karl Popper had something to say about that which I'm fairly sure you've come across. If not, look up the paradox of tolerance.</p>
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<p>If you can read Swedish the following article in <i>Svenska Dagbladet</i> (a major Swedish newspaper) gives an overview of what happened in voting locations in Järva (a city district of Stockholm):<p><a href="https://archive.ph/zYXOA" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/zYXOA</a><p>If you can't read Swedish and don't feel like pulling the article through a translator I can provide some examples, taken from this article:<p><i>1. More than a hundred Eritrean women come in groups to vote early at the civic office in Husby. They are joined by two priests from their congregation. Everyone votes for the same party, and ticks the same candidate. The priests instruct the women how to do it.<p>2. A man is repeatedly driven out of the polling station in Tensta Library for giving instructions to others how to vote. On several occasions, he is caught handing out pre-filled ballots just outside the entrance.<p>3. At the end of August there's a constant stream of early voters in Rinkeby. Many do not know Swedish at all and have no idea how to act in a polling station or what they should vote for. But one thing they know, a task they have been given, and a phrase they can say, “Number eight”. Ilyas Hassan, from Husby. Member of the board of the communist party. Their countryman.<p>4. An elderly woman with a perambulator comes in for early voting in the company of an employee of the municipal civic office next door. When the old lady walks up to the election official, the 'assistant' leaves the venue. Just when the official is about to put the ballot envelopes in the voting box the woman suddenly exclaims “stop”. And then she tells her that she really wants to vote for another party. But that she had needed help at the office to copy some documents, and that the person who worked there only wanted to assist her if she first went and voted for the Communist Party.<p>5. A [man] in Tensta appears to habitually accompany voters into the early voting room. He even tries to get behind the screen to 'help' them put voting forms he provided into the envelopes. He is repeatedly driven out. When one of the election officials goes to Tensta square he sees the man. He sits in the Communist Party's election cabin and wears a yellow vest with the party's sigil.<p>6. In all early voting rooms in Järva voting officials need to check voting form stands several times an hour. More often than not things have happened. Voting forms have been moved or hidden. And constantly pre-filled voting forms are found between the others or are left on the table, mostly for the Communist Party, usually marked for candidate number eight.<p>7. Staff in the voting locations - one of the sources says that it happened to him three times - are discreetly summoned to the voting booths by voters. They nervously whisper that they want help with the disposal of pre-filled voting envelopes without anyone seeing this because they want to personally choose what to vote for.<p>8. Remote control via mobile phones. Many of the early voters in Järva stand with their phone behind the voting screen. They have photos or written instructions sent to them to make sure they choose the right party and candidate. Others make video calls for help to do the right thing. Not sure to whom.<p>...<p>[election officials] also agree on what terms should be used to describe what they have seen. “Clan voting, election influence and voter fraud at a level I have never seen before,” one of the officials said. Another argues that it was obvious that clans and mosques ruled much of the vote, and that ignorant voters – mostly women – were systematically misled and exploited.<p>...<p>“Should police and prosecutors investigate what happened, and how?” [the writer] asks
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The answer comes after a while.<p>“Yes,” he replies, “and I don’t want to be involved any more if it’s going to be this way.”</i><p>This does not sound like 'the 2026 election was not particularly remarkable'. The small margins in the Swedish elections mean it only takes a few thousand of these coerced votes to significantly change the outcome. It is time to <i>defend our democracy</i>. Clan and mosque voting is not part of <i>our democracy</i> and should not become so either, agree?</p>
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<p>SD was never called 'neonazi'? The Swedish communist party has changed its name several times, from 'Sveriges Kommunistiska Partiet' via 'Vänsterpartiet Kommunisterna' to the current 'Vänsterpartiet' but the program remains the same as is shown by the following citation taken from page 32 of the latest party program of 'Ung Vänster' (the communist party's youth wing, the future of the party) from their 51st congress in 2025:<p><i>Vårt idealsamhälle definieras utifrån marxistiska och feministiska teorier. Feminismens mål är ett samhälle fritt från könsförtryck och socialismens mål är kommunismen, det klass- och statslösa samhälle</i><p>This translates to:<p><i>Our ideal society is defined by Marxist and feminist theories. The goal of feminism is a society free from gender oppression and the goal of socialism is Communism, the class- and stateless society</i><p><a href="https://ungvanster.se/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Ung-Vansters-principprogram-antaget-pa-kognressen-2025.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://ungvanster.se/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/Ung-Vanster...</a><p>Aside: do you really think that the ~20% of the Swedish electorate vote for 'neonazis' knowing that those same voters mostly used to vote for the social democrats and 'moderates'? What do you even mean when you say 'neonazi'? I showed some clear signs - as clear as can be - that the Communist party which these days calls itself the 'Left Party' [1] still has the same ideological roots. Can you give some indication of what it is that makes SD 'neonazi'?<p>[1] just like the former Eastern German Communist party changed its name from 'SED' (socialist unity party) through 'PDS' (party for democratic socialism) to 'Die Linke' (The Left)</p>
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<p>The entire post is evidence for foreign - Here Somalian - influence in the Swedish voting process with sources provided. Opposing identity politics is not 'identity politics'.</p>
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<p>If that is your 'read' then I see only three possibilities:<p>1: you did not actually read the articles - there are many, now also including one on the fact that international observers are looking into voting fraud in Sweden [1]<p>2: you tried to read the articles but did not understand what was written because you don't speak Swedish and could not be bothered to pull them through a translator<p>3: you read the articles, understood what was written but decided it did not fit some desired narrative and as such it was best to deny, generalise and attempt to shift blame to those who noticed what is going on<p>That there has been election fraud is more than clear. Nearly ever day reports come out about more fraud by candidates for the same (communist) party in different districts. Thus far all those candidates have been of foreign extraction which gives this an extra dimension in the already messy political landscape in Sweden. Denying fraud while blathering about <i>MAGA</i> (which has nothing to do with Sweden whatsoever and seems to be a failed attempt at a "progressive Chewbacca defence* [2]) does not help anyone.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.tv4.se/artikel/37VDHaUBmbgXCIRAP1bR8f/internationell-valobservatoer-ska-foelja-upp-misstaenkta-valfusken" rel="nofollow">https://www.tv4.se/artikel/37VDHaUBmbgXCIRAP1bR8f/internatio...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chewbacca+defense" rel="nofollow">https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=chewbacca+de...</a></p>
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<p>Yes, well, good I say. Here's an article - in Swedish - which gives some insight in what happened:<p><a href="https://ledarsidorna.se/klanerna-valjer-partier/" rel="nofollow">https://ledarsidorna.se/klanerna-valjer-partier/</a><p>The title is "Clans choose parties":<p><i>When the Somali form of parliamentarism meets the Swedish electoral system, both friction and synergies arise. It was not the communist party's election committees or voters who elected their candidates or members. It was the Somali clan logic, parliamentary tradition and electoral college which decided which Swedish parties would become platforms to channel their representatives.</i><p>The article is written by Johan Westerholm, he used to work for the Swedish state foreign aid organisation SIDA and as such has a lot of experience in these matters.<p>[ also posted in the other thread, here for completeness' sake ]</p>
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<p>Do you normally get told by your family elder, union boss or pastor in church whom to vote for, handed a pre-filled vote form and 'helped' to make sure you 'vote right'? Do they pay you to 'vote right' in this way?<p>Well, yes, in some cases that seems to have happened, e.g. in the Los Angeles mayoral elections where the 'democratic' party made sure to get a third-party candidate - Spencer Pratt - out of the way by paying homeless people to vote for the 'democratic' candidates Bass and Rahman [1,2,3] but this is also seen as <i>election fraud</i>, not 'just voting'.<p>Clan voting - or Mosque voting - is against Swedish law. It would be against American law as well, and against Dutch and German law and most likely against any 'Western' country's laws related to voting. The vote is supposed to be personal, secret, without coercion, without remuneration or punishment for 'voting wrong'. That is not what happened here so it is not 'just voting'. Claiming it is implies democracy is a lost cause and not something which should be done lightly. The process is far from perfect - as can be seen by the now daily reports of new voting fraud related to the Swedish communist party - but it is still better than the alternatives.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/skid-row-homeless-claim-ve-003826434.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/skid-row-homele...</a><p>[2] <a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/skid-row-homeless-claim-they-ve-been-paid-to-vote-for-karen-bass-and-nithya-raman/ar-AA25exX2" rel="nofollow">https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/skid-row-homeless-claim...</a><p>[3] <a href="https://nypost.com/2026/06/09/us-news/la-skid-row-homeless-claim-theyve-been-paid-to-vote-for-karen-bass-and-nithya-raman/" rel="nofollow">https://nypost.com/2026/06/09/us-news/la-skid-row-homeless-c...</a></p>
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<p>Here's an article - in Swedish - which gives some insight in what happened:<p><a href="https://ledarsidorna.se/klanerna-valjer-partier/" rel="nofollow">https://ledarsidorna.se/klanerna-valjer-partier/</a><p>The title is "Clans choose parties":<p><i>When the Somali form of parliamentarism meets the Swedish electoral system, both friction and synergies arise. It was not the communist party's election committees or voters who elected their candidates or members. It was the Somali clan logic, parliamentary tradition and electoral college which decided which Swedish parties would become platforms to channel their representatives.</i><p>The article is written by Johan Westerholm, he used to work for the Swedish state foreign aid organisation SIDA and as such has a lot of experience in these matters.</p>
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<p>They already do in their own dimension, all that dying and running down the wrong track in those mazes is just to befuddle us silly hominids.<p>Source: <a href="https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Mice" rel="nofollow">https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Mice</a></p>
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<p>Well, if vegetarians and those of the Vegan religion don't get enough creatine it is most likely related to them not partaking of an important source of the substance: meat.</p>
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<p>Yes, silly title both because it isn't in the article and <i>because it is not true</i>. Of course you can write without "AI", al it takes is a person and a writing implement of choice ranging from a clay tablet through a slate, papyrus, paper, typewriter or a free software document processor like LibreOffice which does not contain "AI" tools. Once so equipped all the person has to do is to start writing, write whatever is on his mind and finish the job. Voila, "AI"-free writing, started "today".</p>
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<p>Seals rarely fail, this is not a realistic problem. The water level during wash is mostly lower than the seal, only during rinse cycles does it reach above the seal. If the machine fails for some reason during a cycle it can be drained through a drain hose which uses nothing more than gravity.<p>Front loaders use less water and with that less energy (which mostly goes into heating water), are less likely to tear clothes, have higher spin cycle speeds (1400 to 1600 rpm vs. 600-800 for top loaders) and can be (and often are) stacked.<p>Why would anyone want a top loader? What is the advantage other than the supposedly greater ease of loading which is negated by putting the front loader on a pedestal? I see no advantages, only disadvantages. It is not as if we never had the choice between these types as I remember them from the laundromat some 55 years ago. They were phased out, most likely for the reasons stated above.</p>
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<p>So, knee-jerk-down-voter, what is it about what I said here which irked you so much that you just <i>had</i> to press that irksome button again? Or is it just because I happen to have said something else sometime earlier which makes you obligated by doctrine to down-vote whatever else I write? Let us know. Do you work in ad-tech? Don't you like the (ab)use of the Churchill quote? 
Is it the suggestion that it might be needed in relation to ChatGPT et. al. sometime in the future? Enlighten us, don't just attempt to get a dissenting opinion greyed out. That is for cowards, don't hide behind that button, don't be a craving coward, don't be a sheep. This is, after all, a discussion board, not some online likes competition where you get brownie points for getting rid of dissenters.<p>...or maybe it is the latter for some, maybe it is a way for some to raise their status among their co-religionists?<p><i>Comrade Knee-Jerk, what did you do for the cause today? Answer me!</i><p>Somewhere among the crowd a figure emerges, clearly nervous. He tries to speak but starts stammering, stops and tries again. What is he afraid of?<p>- Oh Great Leader, today I did the work to banish one of the hated dissenters from the internets by voting down his malign words so that no others may be subjected to anything but the Desired Narrative.<p><i>Is that all you did, Comrade Knee-Jerk? Is that how you claim your worth for the Great Cause? I am dissapointed, Comrade Knee-Jerk.</i><p>- Oh Great Leader, I will do better, I will educate myself, I will do my part to eradicate dissent from the internets for the Great Cause, I p...p....promise!<p><i>I do not like to be disappointed again, Comrade Knee-Jerk! I will have to think over your position, whether you are truly committed to the Great Cause. Now hide yourself. Comrade Zlither, what did you do for the cause today? Answer me!</i></p>
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<p>...only if and when you allow:<p><pre><code>  - 3d party cookies
  - ads and other 'malcontent'
</code></pre>
...which you should never do. As to the 3d party cookies there might be some rare exception where those can be useful but ads? Never, ever allow those on any device you use. Block them as if they're the radioactive plague because they are. Fight them on the beaches, fight them on the landing grounds, fight them in the fields and in the streets, fight them in the hills, <i>never surrender</i>.<p>That's ads we're fighting. Maybe the same oration will be relevant in the context of ChatGPT and its brethern, we'll see. For now, ads be gone and keep those chatbots at a leash.</p>
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<p>Here's a Bible verse this Microsoft individual should acquaint himself with:<p><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Matthew%207%3A5" rel="nofollow">https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Matthew%207%3A5</a><p>Whether religious or not, the verse applies to anyone and everyone making such statements from the position of companies like Microsoft. I'll quite the KJV version 'cause that one lends itself well to situations like these. Read it with a booming thunder-loaded voice:<p><i>And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?<p>Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?<p>Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.</i></p>
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<p>They exist but they need more polish and support from device vendors to be a viable alternative to the duopoly. It should be just as easy for the average phone buyer to get <i>and use</i> a 'Linux phone' as it is to get an Android or fruit phone. This is more or less true now for Linux distributions no matter what the naysayers keep on repeating, the next step is to make it true for mobile devices. There will still be naysayers but... who cares? Let them listen to themselves in their echo chambers like they've been doing w.r.t. 'Linux on the desktop'.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 20:21:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49759722</link><dc:creator>hagbard_c</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49759722</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49759722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hagbard_c in "Android 17 is the first since 3.x to add new APIs without releasing to the AOSP"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fine, whatever but no Android 17-derived Google-free AOSP distribution for me if these APIs are in any way essential to the functioning of the device or required by one or more of the government/bank-mandated applications which are sometimes needed. If they are in any way related to some Google service I don't care since I don't use those anyway.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2026 20:15:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49759659</link><dc:creator>hagbard_c</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49759659</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49759659</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hagbard_c in "Show HN: Microsoft Office running with Wine on Linux with no virtualization"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well, you want to be using what your clients can read, it doesn't have to the the same software. This is true for most file formats - audio, video, image/graphics (the latter more restricted due to other entrenched proprietary formats) - but the 'office' space (no pun intended) is still suffering from decades of abuse of its position os operating system vendor by Microsoft. Windows is only getting worse with every release so it is just smart business sense to steer away from it and things depending on it. Microsoft Office is one of the few remaining reasons often quoted for staying with this deteriorating platform so there are other incentives to move away from it. The best moment for moving away from Windows was years - or decades - ago. The second best moment is now.</p>
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