Hacker News: pixxel

New comment by pixxel in "UK House of Lords attempting to ban use of VPNs by anyone under 16"

pixxel — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 08:22:46 +0000

The US was tested for tyranny during Covid, election interference, and BLM burning down cities. You sat at home, utterly impotent. You're gonna stop VPN bans? Please.

New comment by pixxel in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

pixxel — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 05:32:26 +0000

Can you take a day off. Just one.

New comment by pixxel in "Ring introducing new feature to allow police to live-stream access to cameras"

pixxel — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 05:25:54 +0000

Fuck people for installing this shit. Parasites need a host.

New comment by pixxel in "Bypassing Google's big anti-adblock update"

pixxel — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 15:18:51 +0000

Your favourite corporations commit all sorts of crimes (ethical and actual). But let’s remember that questionable thing Brave did for eternity.

New comment by pixxel in "Firefox is fine. The people running it are not"

pixxel — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 19:34:28 +0000

Brave is dragged at any available half-chance opportunity…

New comment by pixxel in "Tesla's Cybertruck flop is historic. The brand collapse is even worse"

pixxel — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 04:52:15 +0000

Easily walkable with 30 homes.

New comment by pixxel in "Figma files for proposed IPO"

pixxel — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 20:38:00 +0000

If you’re tired of it all, and the inevitable, and you have agency, try penpot.app

New comment by pixxel in "Matrix v1.15"

pixxel — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 05:21:02 +0000

> It baffles me

It baffles me that people use corporate surveillance software, and balk at the tiniest of privacy hurdles.

New comment by pixxel in "We're back: How tuberculosis is set to surge globally once again"

pixxel — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 06:50:00 +0000

The answer was, no.

New comment by pixxel in "A look at Firefox forks"

pixxel — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 14:35:48 +0000

> devs have a fetish with all or nothing privacy

It’s a position, not a fetish.

New comment by pixxel in "Spotify's Beta Used 'Pirate' MP3 Files, Some from Pirate Bay (2017)"

pixxel — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 15:24:47 +0000

> Blackrock does not have any political motives at all

Please paste this above all future comments you post to save HN readers’ time.

New comment by pixxel in "Osaka bans smoking on all of its streets, vaping included"

pixxel — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 16:16:34 +0000

I’ll take the whiff of locally grown weed over beans picked by poor people, processed and delivered by criminal oil companies.

New comment by pixxel in "LibreOffice 400M Downloads, and Counting"

pixxel — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 15:30:56 +0000

Ooo you got an unnecessary swipe at X in. Look at you!

New comment by pixxel in "POTUS Tracker – Executive Orders, Presidential Schedule, Signed Legislation"

pixxel — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 16:11:47 +0000

Your weak mindedness shouldn’t affect what others learn/read. Go for walk, get a hobby offline etc.

New comment by pixxel in "Apple and SpaceX link up to support Starlink satellite network on iPhones"

pixxel — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 07:54:40 +0000

Yes isn’t it wonderful. Coming to all ‘smart’ devices including dumb televisions. Bypassing networks has never been such wow.

New comment by pixxel in "Mark Zuckerberg: This Man Is a Coward"

pixxel — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 03:14:05 +0000

> just went with the flow

Be better. Go against the flow.

New comment by pixxel in "AI is creating a generation of illiterate programmers"

pixxel — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 16:04:59 +0000

Incorrect inputs and it will. Double-checking source numbers and correct key presses was commonplace.

New comment by pixxel in "Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon"

pixxel — Wed, 22 Jan 2025 07:51:44 +0000

> he enjoyed massive market benefit

Life imprisonment, no parole.

You have to be a complete and utter wanker to think his punishment was justified.

New comment by pixxel in "Why is homeschooling becoming fashionable?"

pixxel — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 08:23:19 +0000

/Captain Hypocrisy enters the chat

New comment by pixxel in "I deleted my social media accounts"

pixxel — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 08:43:46 +0000

> Zuckatrump

Did the Hive approve this, or are you breaking the rules of individualism?