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New comment by johnofthesea in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

johnofthesea — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:12:58 +0000

Or the Prince.

New comment by johnofthesea in "Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft"

johnofthesea — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:21:31 +0000

> AI is eroding copyright, so there may no longer be a need for the GPL. GNU should stop and rethink its stance, chuck away the GPL as the main tool to fight evil software corporations and embrace LLM as the main weapon.

Is this LLM thing freely available or is it owned and controlled by these companies? Are we going to rent the tools to fight "evil software corporations"?

New comment by johnofthesea in "Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift adoption"

johnofthesea — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 14:01:43 +0000

This comment needs another 'EDIT'.

New comment by johnofthesea in "Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities"

johnofthesea — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:18:37 +0000

> with lots of #hashtags

I missed this one. What was it about?

New comment by johnofthesea in "Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities"

johnofthesea — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 10:38:14 +0000

I tested it using a local keyword, as I normally do, and it took me to a Wikipedia page I didn’t know existed. So thanks for that.

New comment by johnofthesea in "Updates to our web search products and Programmable Search Engine capabilities"

johnofthesea — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 10:21:32 +0000

Better late than never.

> The French index is at an advanced stage of completion, we have started creating the German language index, and the English one should start shortly. All progress is quickly integrated into the Qwant STAAN API.

https://noc.social/@327ppm/115934198650900394

New comment by johnofthesea in "Ask HN: Is RSS Still Alive?"

johnofthesea — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 09:01:27 +0000

> So, I looked for them as well but few websites have them.

This is a bit surprising for me. I've just randomly checked news: BBC, Guardian, Norwegian NRK - all had RSS. But I'm not checking news that much so not sure about others. Mastodon and BlueSky are also providing RSS. I guess walled garden ones like Instagram/Twitter don't?

My RSS reader is subscribed to:

- one Youtube channel

- several blogs (most blogs do have RSS, for example Wordpress provide it by default)

- Hacker News (few keyword-based feeds)

- Gitlab and Codeberg projects (Github provides RSS, but I'm not currently subscribed to any, because I need to be logged there anyway)

- podcasts (podcasts are basically just RSS)

- few Mobilizon sites for events

- OpenStreetMap QA tool that checks my edits

- two subreddits

Maybe in general, you are right. I know just my bubble and even there are few sites without RSS (like Bandcamp).

New comment by johnofthesea in "TikTok unlawfully tracks shopping habits and use of dating apps?"

johnofthesea — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 08:30:37 +0000

For those that are subscribed to Youtube channels: no need to have account. Youtube has RSS.

New comment by johnofthesea in "The Rust Performance Book (2020)"

johnofthesea — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 18:52:26 +0000

> > If an enum has an outsized variant, consider boxing one or more fields.

Clippy (at least pedantic one) will suggest this if needed.

New comment by johnofthesea in "Norway reviews cybersecurity after remote-access feature found in Chinese buses"

johnofthesea — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 18:42:28 +0000

Ruter operates in and around Oslo where temperatures higher than average. Anyway some of old (diesel?) buses had broken heating and were heating even if it was warm outside. These are still improvement.

New comment by johnofthesea in "Typst 0.14"

johnofthesea — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 18:36:23 +0000

> [1]

There is one example with Fletcher... I find these also nice: https://typst.app/universe/package/fletcher

New comment by johnofthesea in "CRDTs: Convergence without coordination"

johnofthesea — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 22:40:03 +0000

https://p2panda.org/2025/02/24/group-encryption.html

New comment by johnofthesea in "Show HN: I'm rewriting a web server written in Rust for speed and ease of use"

johnofthesea — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 09:00:42 +0000

Just for curiosity there is also: https://github.com/cablehead/http-nu

Which seems like interesting UX.

New comment by johnofthesea in "How I'm using Helix editor"

johnofthesea — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 18:36:01 +0000

I just use “d” for empty line.

New comment by johnofthesea in "Buy European: EU Commissions New Apply AI Strategy Launched"

johnofthesea — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 11:20:04 +0000

You don't have kodebrikke in Sweden? Just app?

New comment by johnofthesea in "Grapevine canes can be converted into plastic-like material that will decompose"

johnofthesea — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 09:29:21 +0000

It is also used as grafted rootstock for Vitis vinifera in majority of vineyards (at least in Europe). BEcause of Phylloxera [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylloxera#Fighting_the_%22phy...

New comment by johnofthesea in "Atlassian is acquiring The Browser Company"

johnofthesea — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 18:55:33 +0000

It takes 5 years on average til you can harvest some grapes. 10 years for generating profit sounds about right.

New comment by johnofthesea in "GDPR meant nothing: chat control ends privacy for the EU [video]"

johnofthesea — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 06:48:58 +0000

What does that mean? I thought that commissioners were nominated by governments of member states. Similarly like they nominate ministers inside those states.

New comment by johnofthesea in "GDPR meant nothing: chat control ends privacy for the EU [video]"

johnofthesea — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 08:27:25 +0000

Are not governments of member states in control of Council?

New comment by johnofthesea in "Svalbard winter warming is reaching melting point"

johnofthesea — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 21:47:45 +0000

> but you miss trees

I saw birch forest at Svalbard. Was about 2cm tall.