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New comment by petre in "Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack"

petre — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:50:41 +0000

They took 'er jobs?

New comment by petre in "Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack"

petre — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 05:39:57 +0000

Cartier owner was right to be afraid.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36497537

New comment by petre in "France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk"

petre — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 04:49:18 +0000

He's probably an instrument of those interests as well.

'We'll prop up this crazy narcissistic bully and the suckers are gonna vote for him, mainly because Biden has been a disaster. Then he'll put other idiots in charge, go after the EU and Iran just because and make us piles of cash in the process.'.

New comment by petre in "France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk"

petre — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 04:40:25 +0000

Well, does it matter? It worked for China.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylin_(operating_system)

New comment by petre in "France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk"

petre — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 04:27:44 +0000

I wonder what are we going to sell to Mercosur. German cars? They'll buy from China. French wine? They already have their own and it's quite good. Spsnish and Greek olive oil? That could work.

New comment by petre in "France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk"

petre — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 04:12:35 +0000

Everything went South after the US listened to Merkel's phone. That happened during the Obama administration.

If the EU or France are not capable of adopting Linux instead of M$ on the desktop, how are they going to switch phones over to something else that is not US based? By something else I don't mean Huawei.

New comment by petre in "South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access"

petre — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:22:36 +0000

> other things Czech gov banned during COVID-19 was singing in public places, no kidding!

So, wait, no Christmas carolling? Was this the doing of Babis? Then only the drunk shall sing in public places, mainly because they're too drunk to care.

New comment by petre in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

petre — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:33:54 +0000

Robots can take away healthcare also by algorithm (or AI) denying healthcare benefits, while still being employed. It doesn't need to be a robot in cogs and hydraulics, but rather just a computer program. Probably already happening.

New comment by petre in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

petre — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:27:20 +0000

Didn't that already happen with Pelosi?

New comment by petre in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

petre — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:28:00 +0000

> Git butler can do so much better

Not be tied to Microslop and migrated to Azure?

New comment by petre in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

petre — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:24:05 +0000

The robot vacuum is already there. The Chinese buit a better, cheaper one and the original company went bankrupt.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1lr75lp239o

New comment by petre in "Apple's New iPhone Update Is Restricting Internet Freedom in the UK"

petre — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:24:16 +0000

It competes with China. But it's not like we can easily switch countries because of stupid laws, so what remains is to challrnge them. It only gives the wrong ideas to other wannabe autocrats.

New comment by petre in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

petre — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:49:57 +0000

Your examples are both unconstitutional (see Lawrence v. Texas for the second), so no, there are limits. Also the majority of sane individuals would not bother to vote on that kind of stuff to meet a qualified majority, not in a democracy and not without a massive brainwashing campaign (which should be banned btw). Also, as others have pointed out, this is not a ban but a moratorium. AI bros just have to wait until the hype cools down to build data centers in Maine, or build them elsewhere.

New comment by petre in "Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers"

petre — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:54:05 +0000

It's a free state. Like the Swiss banned minarets in Geneva the Mainers should be allowed to vote to ban datacenters. AI bros can always opt to build their stuff elsewhere, like Texas or Abu Dhabi.

New comment by petre in "Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation"

petre — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:55:48 +0000

Bierhalle, the social media of the 20s, to only without the personal data hoarding.

New comment by petre in "I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue"

petre — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:39:20 +0000

AI customer support is basically this: waste customer time by burning tokens instead of outsourcing to India.

New comment by petre in "I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue"

petre — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:57:12 +0000

Just enough time to have your chargeback denied by the bank.

New comment by petre in "Japanese, French and Omani vessels cross Strait of Hormuz"

petre — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:43:57 +0000

> India was the 2nd largest MiG-21 operator in it's heyday and the only one that also operated NATO compatible munitions.

Elbit also did retrofitting for Romania, although they operated a relatively small MiG-21 fleet (25..36) which are now decomissioned and replaced by F-16s. The MiG 31 LanceR could use use both NATO and Russian/Soviet armament such as the R-60M, R-73, Magic 2, or Python III missiles.

New comment by petre in "Japanese, French and Omani vessels cross Strait of Hormuz"

petre — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:37:19 +0000

If Xi put a break on China's growth, Trump surely did throw US influence and soft power straight into the bin. The only winner is China.

New comment by petre in "Japanese, French and Omani vessels cross Strait of Hormuz"

petre — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:23:23 +0000

> Most countries that historically had a Soviet/Russian kit are now mandating French+Israeli interoperability becuase of India's success at using it to replace older Soviet or Russian systems where possible.

Elbit also has previous experience retrofitting Soviet MiG-21s to operate with NATO munitions.