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New comment by happymellon in "A Survey of the Ticket (Re)Selling Landscape"

happymellon — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:17:51 +0000

If you can't make it, then Ticketmaster/whoever should be compelled to refund you, and then they can sell it again.

The fact that they are all selling out displays demand for these gigs so it won't hurt TM/LN. They want to be a monopoly, then they have to live with the consequences.

New comment by happymellon in "Solar panels are creating an unexpected effect by forming rainfall clouds"

happymellon — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:56:52 +0000

The Science article they reference that has far more information than this blog piece.

https://www.science.org/content/article/massive-solar-farms-...

New comment by happymellon in "Strait of Hormuz appears to remain closed amid conflicting US and Iran briefings"

happymellon — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:24:31 +0000

Hence why I've asked for a citation.

> quite often.

Citation on it being "quite often". There was one on a Panorama documentry.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c874nw4g2zzo

But to go back to the original point that Pakistan claims it was part of the deal. If you don't like BBC then how about

CNN

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/08/world/video/pakistan-leba...

CNBC

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/08/lebanon-seeks-clarity-on-cea...

Times of India

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/middle-east/was-le...

New comment by happymellon in "Strait of Hormuz appears to remain closed amid conflicting US and Iran briefings"

happymellon — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:01:30 +0000

> Pakistan (the mediator) doesn't think it included a ceasefire in Lebanon against Hezbollah.

Citation.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/clyeg3224d9t

> The US and Israel have indicated Lebanon does not form part of the agreement, while Pakistan - a key mediator in the talks - has said it does.

Pakistan disagrees with you.

New comment by happymellon in "Microsoft suspends dev accounts for high-profile open source projects"

happymellon — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:18:52 +0000

> Wednesday, Microsoft Vice President Scott Hanselman said the developer accounts were automatically suspended because they failed the "mandatory account verification for all partners in the Windows Hardware Program who have not completed account verification since April 2024" that the company had been emailing "everyone" about since October 2025.

It doesn't sound like suspention, because they would be able to fill out the form and get unsuspended. This is closer to account termination.

New comment by happymellon in "What does ⍋⍋ even mean? (2023)"

happymellon — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:30:49 +0000

They say the same about RegEx too.

New comment by happymellon in "Strait of Hormuz appears to remain closed amid conflicting US and Iran briefings"

happymellon — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:28:19 +0000

The biggest problem here is that I can totally see Iran being consistant and including Lebanon in the ceasefire.

And I can also see the US administration agreeing to something and then claiming they didn't.

Trust in these administrations negotiations must be at an all time low. At least in times past they pretended to follow along, and used black ops to hide violations, Israel is dragging the US into something it really shouldn't be getting involved in and it's going to end really badly.

New comment by happymellon in "IPv6 is the only way forward"

happymellon — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:06:11 +0000

> As a concrete counter-example, IPv6 routinely broke for me when I was using pfSense as a router. Why? Because pfSense, does really bad things.

I mean, I have a router that is trash with IP4. Therefore IP4 is trash!

New comment by happymellon in "Global Fuel Shortage Pushes Governments Toward Demand Controls"

happymellon — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:13:00 +0000

And then read the second sentence...

I agreed that voting Dem at this point is the only sensible option, but that doesn't mean you can't be disappointed.

New comment by happymellon in "Has electricity decoupled from natural gas prices in Germany?"

happymellon — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:08:23 +0000

> nor is "football" actually a sport where the ball is mostly for the foot

This is untrue.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football

There are lots of countries where Association isn't the "football" for the region.

New comment by happymellon in "Global Fuel Shortage Pushes Governments Toward Demand Controls"

happymellon — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:19:32 +0000

> Secondly, just know that your "centrist" position mask no longer works to hide your right wing views.

Not the person you are replying to, but as someone who is most definetly not right, or centre, I find the democrats very half hearted.

I don't think that you voting for the better of the two makes you right wing (you are limited by the options you have, and by the reality of the impact of your vote), but I do hope the next Democrat administration has the courage to just dictate through executive orders to give Medicade for all, etc, since they have the cover of the current adminstrations trying to create rules to make it all legal.

New comment by happymellon in "NHS staff refusing to use FDP over Palantir ethical concerns"

happymellon — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:17:04 +0000

111 do a lot more than that, they will get you a GP visit even if the GP claims to not have slots, and they will get medical professionals to come to you.

If it was in hours, I'm surprised they didn't get a nurse appointment for the cut.

New comment by happymellon in "NHS staff refusing to use FDP over Palantir ethical concerns"

happymellon — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 07:13:19 +0000

And 111 was unable to help, even the GP they assigned to you turned you away?

New comment by happymellon in "Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai"

happymellon — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:40:59 +0000

> places like Dubai exploiting migrant workers like slaves

Heck you can even compare like with like, and point to H1b visas.

The entire point of that program is to bring in people who you can pay below standard wages, and who will work those 12 hour days for you.

New comment by happymellon in "Jami – free/libre, end-to-end encrypted, and private communication software"

happymellon — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:44:44 +0000

Awesome, thanks!

New comment by happymellon in "The Subprime AI Crisis Is Here"

happymellon — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:02:01 +0000

> I wouldn’t put it past Trump and the GOP to absolutely loot the place on their way out pre-November and leave their tech bros out to dry.

I wouldn't be surprised if this happened instead.

New comment by happymellon in "Jami – free/libre, end-to-end encrypted, and private communication software"

happymellon — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:23:39 +0000

So is this a client?

Can you self host the server portion?

Is it XMPP?

So many questions, and absolutely no idea what they are selling.

New comment by happymellon in "Android’s new sideload settings will carry over to new devices"

happymellon — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:13:00 +0000

Ah, sorry there seem to be a lot of people that seem to think that side loading is an issue to anything other than Apple and Googles profit margins.

They let so much malware in their stores already.

New comment by happymellon in "Is Systemd Bloat Real? Dinit vs. Systemd: Which Session Uses Less Memory?"

happymellon — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 07:55:58 +0000

Small request, can you move the explanation text out of the box with the results?

On mobile it just means that all the text has to be scolled sideways rather than fitting the width of the screen.

New comment by happymellon in "Android’s new sideload settings will carry over to new devices"

happymellon — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 05:33:33 +0000

All the scams are for apps that are already in the Play and App store.