Hacker News: niels8472

New comment by niels8472 in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

niels8472 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:39:02 +0000

Looks like it's still owned by Mozilla/MZLA and thus subject to US jurisdiction.

New comment by niels8472 in "Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland"

niels8472 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:29:51 +0000

Sadly, these are all fairly "safe" things for a US president to do. Either because there's no law against it and if there is he can just pardon himself and his partners in crime. I know a presidential self-pardon is controversial but realistically Trump will be dead before that legal question is settled.

New comment by niels8472 in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

niels8472 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:37:30 +0000

You should consider it's much easier rich people to deal with the fallout from climate change (or living in a failed/failing state for that matter) than for poor people. Plus they often have interests in the things that are causing the issue(s) in the first place. Additionally, the children argument is probably the most powerful, but they would probably expect their children to be rich too. All in all I'm doubtful the arguments you are providing have any effect.

New comment by niels8472 in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

niels8472 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:58:05 +0000

Ill doers are illdeemers.

New comment by niels8472 in "Tell HN: MitID, Denmark's digital ID, was down"

niels8472 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:53:37 +0000

Considering the actual physical id cards have an nfc chip which is used as the second factor for the digital id, this seems unlikely.

New comment by niels8472 in "Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database"

niels8472 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:42:42 +0000

Not according to the wpfi world press freedom index where it is ranked 20th.

New comment by niels8472 in "Ministry of Justice orders deletion of the UK's largest court reporting database"

niels8472 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:12:48 +0000

Where the accused have rights too?

New comment by niels8472 in "EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear"

niels8472 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 21:49:07 +0000

They would destroy clothing because it is not sold. This already happens to second hand clothing that is shipped to Africa. Part of it is sold, part of it is dumped. This is well documented.

New comment by niels8472 in "LLMs as the new high level language"

niels8472 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 12:28:00 +0000

Plus Python and Perl predate Java.

New comment by niels8472 in "Android introduces $2-4 install fee and 10–20% cut for US external content links"

niels8472 — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 10:01:48 +0000

If you assume the primary goal is self enrichment and the rest is just side effects and distractions, things immediately start making more sense.

New comment by niels8472 in "Yt-dlp: External JavaScript runtime now required for full YouTube support"

niels8472 — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:19:30 +0000

That may also just be Firefox's way of telling you it has updated and needs to be restarted.

New comment by niels8472 in "Dutch government takes control of Chinese-owned chipmaker Nexperia"

niels8472 — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 21:10:22 +0000

From what I've read it was the company's own board that asked for the ceo (Wing) to be removed.

New comment by niels8472 in "ChatControl: EU wants to scan all private messages, even in encrypted apps"

niels8472 — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 19:54:43 +0000

Ah, so we will fight child porn by detecting family pics of children in the shower (or w/e) and sending them off to a "trusted" 3rd party who will no doubt leak them at some point. Also, if I were a pedophile I know where I'd send my resume...

New comment by niels8472 in "Poorest US workers hit hardest by slowing wage growth"

niels8472 — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 05:38:12 +0000

Tfa mentions immigrant deportation as a reason exactly zero times.

New comment by niels8472 in "Someone at YouTube needs glasses"

niels8472 — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 16:20:31 +0000

I used ublock origin remove it from the page.

New comment by niels8472 in "Fastmail Employees Form a Union"

niels8472 — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 19:20:42 +0000

The least corrupt countries per the corruption perceptions index also (mostly) have strong unions.

Danmark and Finland topping the list have 70% membership.

New comment by niels8472 in "Dutch employee fired by U.S. firm for shutting off webcam awarded €75K in court"

niels8472 — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 17:07:44 +0000

Considering having children is beneficial to society and the economy (e.g. it's advantageous for employers since they still want to be able to hire people in n years and surely they'd like there to still be customers) one could argue that the programmer with five kids should get some "compensation" for this service, and as we know some countries do either directly or via employers.

New comment by niels8472 in "Due to failure in the IT system, it is not possible to run any trains today"

niels8472 — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 08:42:35 +0000

The Dutch debit cards are Maestro (Mastercard) or V Pay (Visa) cards which are a pretty standard systems. There is no point in embossing because transactions need to be authorized immediately by the issuing bank for obvious reasons.

New comment by niels8472 in "Technical Time Travel: On Vintage Programming Books"

niels8472 — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 19:42:12 +0000

I recall vesa was only used for graphics cards. There was ISA and extended ISA for the rest (like modems and sound cards).

New comment by niels8472 in "Doctors warn of alarming C-section 'epidemic'"

niels8472 — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 18:23:52 +0000

Even if that were true, which I don't think it is, it still seems very much preferable to not getting necessary treatment because it's too expensive.