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New comment by parrellel in "Why modern parents feel more sleep deprived than our ancestors did"

parrellel — Mon, 11 May 2026 00:34:09 +0000

My second screamed every night for two years. It was fun.

New comment by parrellel in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

parrellel — Mon, 04 May 2026 12:47:59 +0000

No, its going to give the CEO and some shareholders a few billion and destroy eBay. Because we can't have nice things.

I am so painfully sick of this.

New comment by parrellel in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

parrellel — Mon, 04 May 2026 12:28:28 +0000

I was just thinking how nice it was to still get used stuff on eBay and now Mr. McMemeStock is going to kill it to extract a few billion for himself.

Yay.

New comment by parrellel in "European civil servants are being forced off WhatsApp"

parrellel — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:09:11 +0000

"We shall trust 27 different sets of 3 to 10 guys in garages and ensure they never become large enough to blackmail a large percentage of the world's governments safe in the knowledge we can in fact arrest them for illegal bs" does have an appeal however.

New comment by parrellel in "AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing"

parrellel — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:45:56 +0000

I mean when I needed to look up something I used to just google it.

Now, with the advent of LLMs I've had to pull out my old textbooks from storage.

New comment by parrellel in "Android Developer Verification"

parrellel — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:49:16 +0000

Yeah, no. No one needs your spyware.

New comment by parrellel in "Chuck Norris has died"

parrellel — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:18:23 +0000

"Good People" suddenly going all in on racist rants and hard-core misogyny is never going to stop being disturbing.

Some of them taught me how to behave!? Did they just not believe any of those things?

MAGA is a horrifying movement.

New comment by parrellel in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

parrellel — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:10:17 +0000

Alex Jones is a bit much, yathink?

They're an amoral monopolistic megacorp that should have been broken up a year ago.

They are performing the ritual of maximalist offensive position -> half-hearted walk back to a worse status quo.

Is the problem they claim to want to solve real? Maybe. I haven't seen a convincing breakdown that doesn't lump a lot of unrelated fraud in the unvetted APK bucket.

That's beside the point though. No one should applaud this utterly predictable and disgusting behavior.

I don't accept it when Unity does it. I don't accept it when Hasbro does it. I won't accept it here either.

New comment by parrellel in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

parrellel — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:15:04 +0000

I suppose the question is, who is actually willing to believe Google is going to deal in Good Faith. Why would anyone ever even begin to think that?

New comment by parrellel in "Stop Sloppypasta"

parrellel — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 00:35:52 +0000

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New comment by parrellel in "Re: Is Lutris Slop Now"

parrellel — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:50:49 +0000

Welp, that's another project down the drain.

I'm actively going to lie about things to make a point is certainly one way to ensure I'm never trusting you.

New comment by parrellel in "You don't have to"

parrellel — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:10:17 +0000

That was an excellent article.

"I’m not arguing that this technology should be unilaterally destroyed; I am arguing that we are collectively using it in the dumbest possible way, causing the most self-inflicted injury, and maximizing the amount of angst and suffering we’ll all have to contend with. I am angry at generative AI because it seems to be making us think and act like complete idiots."

Made me smile.

New comment by parrellel in "Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona"

parrellel — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:09:26 +0000

Interesting, I've mostly heard it referring to individuals like Navalny or the mayor of Istanbul. I suppose it makes sense for it to refer to any random political critter.

New comment by parrellel in "Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona"

parrellel — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:59:39 +0000

Translate: People who are likely to be attacked by (Putin|Orban|Erdogan|Trump) or similar.

New comment by parrellel in "Android will become a locked-down platform in 195d"

parrellel — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:07:05 +0000

The F-Droid website has a new banner on top to remind visitors that Google did not change course and Android will be locked-down in under 200 days.

Android will become a locked-down platform in 195d

parrellel — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:07:05 +0000

Article URL: https://f-droid.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47047603

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by parrellel in "US repeals EPA endangerment finding for greenhouse gases"

parrellel — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 13:17:46 +0000

He means it's not in his feed. "Random old woman gets kidnapped" is represented 100 times more strongly in the datastream then "1000 protestors organize immigrant protection system" or "US Citizen Mung families defend elderly Vietnam vets".

... at least "Random Old Woman" has got people looking askance at the internet connected security camera ecosystem, I guess.

New comment by parrellel in "Lennart Poettering, Christian Brauner founded a new company"

parrellel — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:31:06 +0000

Well, I can see what heinous thing is going to be ruining my day in 5 years.

Attestation, the thing we're going to be spending the next forever trying to get out of phones, now in your kernel.

New comment by parrellel in "Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor"

parrellel — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:18:47 +0000

So long as I can windowshade things and it doesn't end up making things a blurry mess, cool.

Now the last 3 times I tried Wayland everything ended up a blurry mess and some windows just ended up the wrong size, so.

I suppose I'll just keep holding out hope.

New comment by parrellel in "National Guard activated in Minneapolis after Border Patrol agent kills man"

parrellel — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 02:42:52 +0000

Well, the whole execution was recorded from at least 3 available angles. You could just check.