<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: microcolonel</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=microcolonel</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 08:56:01 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=microcolonel" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by microcolonel in "PayPal terminates account of Epik, home to Proud Boys domain and Gab"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's enough of what, Dan? This comment was substantive, responsive to the parent comment, and cordial; it didn't provoke a flame war nor could it be expected to, it didn't include any quips or <i>sick burns</i>.<p>If you don't like moderating after all this time, and I wouldn't blame you, at least understand I can't help other people spamming the <i>flag</i> button because they disagree with people's good-faith interpretation of facts. If there's a technical solution to that I'd be glad to help.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2020 00:43:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24903329</link><dc:creator>microcolonel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24903329</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24903329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by microcolonel in "PayPal terminates account of Epik, home to Proud Boys domain and Gab"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you're referring to the sentence containing “several members have been affiliated with white supremacy”, it kinda doesn't jive with the fact that their highest leadership position is filled by an afro-cuban man, and the fact that there is no official or de-facto-official Proud Boys public communication of anything regarding white supremacy other than condemnation of it, nor any official or sanctioned actions taken against visibly non-white groups or people.<p>I mean, if there were white supremacists in the Proud Boys, something that isn't even alleged in that article, surely they would not continue once the group was being led by a man who is like 25-75% black.<p>The only reason they are being framed so aggressively as white supremacists now, is that Joe Biden mentioned them on the debate stage. Rather than accounting for Joe Biden's ignorance or malice, the media preferred to alter public perception to justify his comments; and it looks like it sorta worked!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2020 15:14:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24897026</link><dc:creator>microcolonel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24897026</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24897026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by microcolonel in "Thrust Vectoring at Model Scale"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The Trump Administration seems to have significantly loosened ITAR for almost everyone (IIRC primarily intended to make it less onerous for small arms researchers and manufacturers), including individuals, and specifically addresses removing some forms of software and designs from the USML.
If it's firmware or designs as far as I'm aware there may be no problem with that now, even if it's rocketry or guidance software.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2020 20:41:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24889715</link><dc:creator>microcolonel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24889715</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24889715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by microcolonel in "The X.Org Server Is Abandonware?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, I think there are a lot of distro bugs, and a lot of old or mismatched packages, outside of the Arch/Manjaro ecosystem. This hurts the impression of Mesa, the Kernel, and basically anything else like this where there's no good reason conventional distros shouldn't ship new feature releases at least a bit more frequently than they do.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2020 19:28:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24889149</link><dc:creator>microcolonel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24889149</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24889149</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by microcolonel in "MuditaOS: An open-source, e-ink mobile OS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> <i>One of the neat things about PalmOS is that it ran apps directly from where they were stored. No need to load them into "memory".</i><p>In practice this is not the way it worked on PalmOS on actual hardware past a certain point, and the way it actually worked is not that different from how code is loaded in a conventional desktop operating system.</p>
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<p>Or the fire will cause them to spread out.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2020 17:22:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24887961</link><dc:creator>microcolonel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24887961</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24887961</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by microcolonel in "Wheelmap.org - A map of wheelchair accessible places"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think you need a couple more things than that, like marking excessive cross-slopes, and having a better way to mark mid-way issues. The fields definitely exist, but there's not really a focused method of entering data like this, and it's not clear to me how to do this without messing up the presentation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2020 16:48:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24887645</link><dc:creator>microcolonel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24887645</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24887645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by microcolonel in "Wheelmap.org - A map of wheelchair accessible places"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is there any plan to integrate with or produce your own wheelchair routing, and help with accessibility information for <i>ways</i> as well as <i>points of interest</i> (what WheelMap does right now).<p>I've moved to a smaller city; and while things are clean and generally well maintained, there are many neglected sections of sidewalks here which would not be accessible to some forms of wheelchair. I do a lot of walking so I am in a good position to gather data like this, but it seems that the effort for this is not as organized.<p>There are also some non-wheelchair accessibility issues in mapping between new construction and old; for example, textured pavement placed according to new standards, further back from the roadway, but the zebra crossing marks and stop lines were painted according to older standards, closer to the roadway.<p>I think it would be nice not only to treat this as a repository of useful information for people looking to access these ways, but as a tool to identify, triage, and resolve accessibility issues.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2020 14:43:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24886646</link><dc:creator>microcolonel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24886646</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24886646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by microcolonel in "Gitlab Blocked Iranians’ Access"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is nothing racist about economic sanctions against a country which is in active conflict with our armed forces outside of their borders, which is actively engaged in psy-ops to destabilize American society.<p>Economic sanctions against America would not be racism against scots/germans/west africans or whatever.<p>You can argue against sanctions on all sorts of grounds, but the flimsiest is claiming that they're racist.</p>
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<p>Characterizing this as “discrimination against Persian people” is extremely dishonest. There are like half a million Persian people in America alone, as many as there are Wyomingites, who have the same access to GitLab as anyone else; this is a question of commerce between the U.S. and Iran, not a question of <i>discrimination against Persians</i>.</p>
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<p>We should be wary of it, but we should be more wary of the true alternatives to it.<p>Not having cheap electricity in America is an existential threat to humanity, not having clean energy is as well.</p>
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<p>Can we pool funds to turn this into a lawsuit?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2020 21:33:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24874458</link><dc:creator>microcolonel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24874458</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24874458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by microcolonel in "Russet, the color of peasants, fox fur, and penance"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm glad you have not seen the joys of the male experience with HR.</p>
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<p>...good credit, that's how lending works.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2020 00:51:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24853908</link><dc:creator>microcolonel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24853908</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24853908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by microcolonel in "The majority of Facebook's traffic now uses QUIC and HTTP/3"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thank you for the clarification. I'm sure you're looking forward to WebTransport+QUIC as well, I know I am. I'm already doing some little tweaks to our WebSocket RPC and bulk transfer layers to resemble WebTransport so it's an easy drop-in when the QUIC transport becomes available, or when there's a reasonable implementation of WebTransport+HTTP/3 (the other middle ground).<p>Maybe I can publish the virtual “WebSocketTransport” thing once I'm satisfied with it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2020 17:55:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24850335</link><dc:creator>microcolonel</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24850335</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24850335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by microcolonel in "The majority of Facebook's traffic now uses QUIC and HTTP/3"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think they're talking about Google QUIC, which formed the basis for both IETF QUIC and HTTP/3; Facebook has been deploying Google QUIC for a long while now maybe, AFAIK. The people at fault here are probably the IETF lol.</p>
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<p>It's Apple's problem to solve though, I mean, outside of developers writing code that's more efficient to begin with so it doesn't really matter when it's 10x slower, but they should probably be doing that anyway.</p>
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<p>I feel like this would be a dramatically better device if they worked with the Raspberry Pi Foundation instead of heaping it into a board with a <i>PowerVR</i> GPU, one of the few remaining major mobile/embedded GPU lineups with no meaningful upstream support, nor any acceleration through Mesa.</p>
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<p>Much as I think its loose interpretation has a lot to do with the success of major internet hubs, it has become clear that unlimited liability for selective publishers is not a sustainable model for American public life.<p>We can not sustain a system where a major paper and the U.S. Press Secretary is censored by corporations entrusted with a significant portion of the public square, but that corporation simultaneously has no liability for the things which they, by their non-interference, must be endorsing.</p>
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<p>Kana are (mostly) syllabaries, which should make them a lot easier for dyslexics.</p>
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