Hacker News: kspacewalk2

New comment by kspacewalk2 in "Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers"

kspacewalk2 — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:05:42 +0000

Worth noting that the base plane for one of the US-based contenders, the Aeris X by L3Harris, would also be the same Bombardier Global 6500 business jet.

Email – The Perfect Tech for the Jet Set? (1986) [video]

kspacewalk2 — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:42:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqJ159pngY8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279006

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by kspacewalk2 in "Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks"

kspacewalk2 — Mon, 25 May 2026 20:44:47 +0000

Now I'm confused whether my observing patterns of behaviour and recurring beliefs clustered among people from my own part of the world are in fact racism or bigotry. Am I being indecent? Am I self-hating? Are others tolerhating? I only wish some white night would unambiguously tut-tut me or else give me a pass.

New comment by kspacewalk2 in "Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks"

kspacewalk2 — Mon, 25 May 2026 20:41:50 +0000

Re-read my comment as it is written and note that my observation does not generalize.

New comment by kspacewalk2 in "Netherlands Seizes 800 Servers, Arrests 2 for Aiding Cyberattacks"

kspacewalk2 — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:42:12 +0000

>As far as I can make sense of it, he enjoyed the thrill of feeling superior to others: Evading the law, exploiting people who viewed as stupid, and enriching himself in the process.

I sadly see this pattern of thinking far more often than I want to in my fellow eastern Europeans.

New comment by kspacewalk2 in "Magnifica Humanitas"

kspacewalk2 — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:18:09 +0000

I'm all in favour of grassroots experimentation and a search for something to improve upon, and then replace capitalism. This is how capitalism itself came about and spread, though we can argue about how much it was imposed after it ceased being the underdog.

What I am weary of is that such experimentation, and the energy it generates, will eventually be overtaken by the next iteration of people who want to stop nibbling at the margins and break a few eggs already, some sort of anarchist revolutionary vanguard. Much like with communism, skilful opportunists with a thirst for power will be all too happy to take over this energy and direct it toward building the next totalitarian regime, one which will of course claim to be rendering the State obsolete, but will be about as anarchist as North Korea is a people's democratic republic.

New comment by kspacewalk2 in "Magnifica Humanitas"

kspacewalk2 — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:44:39 +0000

The truly interesting question, and the crux of the matter, also hasn't changed much since 1903:

How?

New comment by kspacewalk2 in "Rising seas will swallow New Orleans. People need to start relocating now"

kspacewalk2 — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:57:08 +0000

Claiming 9 year olds don't remember Katrina is quite an abuse of the word "roughly". The percentage of Louisiana's population under 25 is 33%, we can agree they don't "remember". Anything else requires considerable stretching with a hand-waving accompaniment. I can do that part just as well as any other internet person. Let's see, how about the fact that what followed Katrina was years of rebuilding? Someone from New Orleans probably saw its aftermath around them for 4-5 years.

New comment by kspacewalk2 in "Rising seas will swallow New Orleans. People need to start relocating now"

kspacewalk2 — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:04:38 +0000

The median age of Louisiana is 38. Hurricane Katrina occurred 21 years ago.

New comment by kspacewalk2 in "After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet, Phone Ban"

kspacewalk2 — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:41:51 +0000

Well, I'd say security cams and Flock affect the likelihood of apprehending a suspect, not so much the amount of prison time, so the argument still holds - you can't claim they won't have an effect.

New comment by kspacewalk2 in "After Town Bans Flock, Councilmember Crashes Out, Proposes Internet, Phone Ban"

kspacewalk2 — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:48:54 +0000

The argument about surveillance isn't whether it helps catch criminals (which obviously prevents some further crime), it obviously does. And yes, security cameras make places harder targets for thieves and robbers and criminals are intimidated by prison time. This seems almost axiomatically so to me, not sure what your argument against this could conceivably be.

The argument about surveillance is whether the negative trade-off (lack of privacy) is worth it.

New comment by kspacewalk2 in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

kspacewalk2 — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:18:51 +0000

Interac should join this scheme outright or at least become interoperable with it. I'd love to be able to pay for everything on my trips to Europe without using US credit card networks.

Details of the Daring Airdrop at Tristan Da Cunha

kspacewalk2 — Fri, 15 May 2026 03:56:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tristandc.com/government/news-2026-05-11-airdrop.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48144380

Points: 268

# Comments: 104

New comment by kspacewalk2 in "The conflation of money and things"

kspacewalk2 — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:59:02 +0000

I love reading articles in Firefox. uBlock Origin takes care of most annoyances, immediately using Reader View on load makes it them look the same.

New comment by kspacewalk2 in "Googlebook"

kspacewalk2 — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:51:31 +0000

I'm okay with capacity, and turning it on by default. I just want the ability to chuck it in the trash can if I want to, and use my device without unremovable apps and features.

Will Wildfires Spell This the End of the Campfire in Canada?

kspacewalk2 — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:20:29 +0000

Article URL: https://explore-mag.com/is-this-the-end-of-the-campfire-in-canada/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48135019

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by kspacewalk2 in "They Said It Would Cost $54M. We Said "No Thanks.""

kspacewalk2 — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:20:20 +0000

Deputy ministers are supposed to be the top non-political/bureaucrat position in a ministry, so theoretically it wouldn't matter if the government is conservative. The elected minister sets the goals and gives general directives, the professional deputy is in charge of execution. In reality this neat distinction is often broken, some governments politicize appointments even below the minister level, etc.

New comment by kspacewalk2 in "Googlebook"

kspacewalk2 — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:02:07 +0000

Can I somehow strip out the LLM-native part and just have a polished Linux-based mobile device, without someone trying to control what I run on it? Because that would be my personal dream.

New comment by kspacewalk2 in "Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics"

kspacewalk2 — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:01:09 +0000

I mean... Why not?

New comment by kspacewalk2 in "Poland is now among the 20 largest economies"

kspacewalk2 — Mon, 11 May 2026 02:57:18 +0000

I didn't bucket the haters, I bucketed the latent reason for their hatred.