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New comment by mixmastamyk in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

mixmastamyk — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:10:11 +0000

Not a thing any longer, for the most part. People know how to open a browser on any operating system these days. Go to the menu, run it. Get bored and click the X on the top bar. Source: nearby kids. A few times I've said... "this is Cinnamon, or KDE, or... Windows."

"Ok, whatever," (old man) is the response I get.

And, you don't have to move 100% of their workflow in a single day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47730137

New comment by mixmastamyk in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

mixmastamyk — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:00:55 +0000

The difference is that because of open-source there would be competition in those services. And they could take any of it in house at a discount with reasonably priced govt workers. IOW, they'd have choices instead of handcuffs.

They'd be in better situation on all counts. It pays to think ahead to the future and remove dependencies. Where do you want to be in five years? Still in an abusive relationship?

New comment by mixmastamyk in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

mixmastamyk — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:55:07 +0000

Hetzner exists.

The claim above of 30 is not particularly important, the point is to lean on the community. Millions a year would get you incredibly far. Many are already helping for free.

24/7 linux webservers existed already by the late nineties.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

mixmastamyk — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:43:33 +0000

It's really cheap to run FOSS on commodity PCs in the twenty first century. Hetzner is very reasonable in the cloud more recently.

It's not a binary switch either, you build the platform bit by bit every year and roll it out to more and more workers. Four dimensional thinking, that could have succeeded already, a decade plus ago.

Sure a few components would have to be written in the meantime. Just a few million a year would be a huge boost to gaps in FOSS.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "Tech job relocation market is recovering. The competition is growing faster"

mixmastamyk — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:32:44 +0000

Hundreds of thousands of tech workers have been laid off since 2023—have you skipped the news for three years? As a wakeup call, I recommend trying to get a job outside your network, just for kicks.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings"

mixmastamyk — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:50:55 +0000

Screen time is swiss cheese as well, not surprised.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "Show HN: I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++"

mixmastamyk — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:44:16 +0000

Would be great if there were a standard for these toml/ini project files across languages and tools.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "Tech job relocation market is recovering. The competition is growing faster"

mixmastamyk — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:36:21 +0000

The pie is open during times of plenty, not during the down times.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "Tech job relocation market is recovering. The competition is growing faster"

mixmastamyk — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:29:05 +0000

Privileged take. I’ve been unemployed for years now and am “brilliant” (hah) compared to most people in tech. You might feel differently if you experienced that and have also have seen entire floors of foreign nationals working at a tech company twenty years ago. Not all of them can be geniuses.

I don’t begrudge individuals but the system is broken. Refusal to train (times explosion of stacks) is another facet.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

mixmastamyk — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:13:13 +0000

All of that came about without them spending anything. So the extra is just to fix bugs and do integration work. StarOffice (LibreOffice ancestor) existed in the 90s—I used it and it was fine for government work.

File storage? Cheap by Y2K as well.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "Tech job relocation market is recovering. The competition is growing faster"

mixmastamyk — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:01:15 +0000

IOW, tax more must be combined with spend less. And spend more efficiently, yes.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

mixmastamyk — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:59:45 +0000

If they only diverted 10% of the budget from MS to solving issues they’d have had a solution a decade or two ago.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "Tech job relocation market is recovering. The competition is growing faster"

mixmastamyk — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:55:46 +0000

War: 200B now, 1.5T later.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "Tech job relocation market is recovering. The competition is growing faster"

mixmastamyk — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:48:41 +0000

Why only the youth? After the economy recovers we have ageism to look forward to.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "Ask HN: What are you building that's not AI related?"

mixmastamyk — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:48:56 +0000

A few of us are working on trustworthy tech: https://trustworthy.technology/ and looking for folks to join up at zulip.

Ultimately, we’d like to get the main FOSS hardware, software, and services into a single store. Maybe we should put AI in the name. ;-)

New comment by mixmastamyk in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

mixmastamyk — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:08:07 +0000

I’ve used it since it was called Netscape Mail. ;-)

Trustworthy Technology

mixmastamyk — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:54:38 +0000

Article URL: https://trustworthy.technology/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47703818

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by mixmastamyk in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

mixmastamyk — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:57:58 +0000

Some telemetry uses hardcoded addresses when DNS doesn't work.

Some telemetry might not be recognized by pi-hole as it is new or has nothing to do with ads.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

mixmastamyk — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:52:00 +0000

The UI is a separate package. Though you might just configure the firewall yourself at that point.

New comment by mixmastamyk in "US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology"

mixmastamyk — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:04:24 +0000

ALPR does help with some things but stationary burglaries are largely not among them.