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New comment by qwerty456127 in "QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop"

qwerty456127 — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 16:55:41 +0000

Indeed. QNX is the coolest OS I ever seen and Photon felt the coolest desktop environment. Although I like XFCE in the Linux context (more than e.g. GNOME), I am sad to see it replaced Photon on QNX. Photon just looked and felt so lovely and came with a visual C++ builder making GUI apps development so nice.

New comment by qwerty456127 in "Fighting the age-gated internet"

qwerty456127 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 14:48:25 +0000

I don't believe children need to be guarded from porn and can be seriously harmed by it but if we assume they do - why not just disallow children to use devices and apps made for adults? Why not just give kids locked-down phones with special pre-installed apps and leave the normal devices and normal web the way they are?

New comment by qwerty456127 in "No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive"

qwerty456127 — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 21:17:33 +0000

> especially with how My Documents is handled

I stopped using these long ago because every other app you install puts something there so it becomes a landfill automatically.

Just create an additional partition and put all your non-OS files there. This is a classic idea people have been using since the DOS days, still working great.

New comment by qwerty456127 in "Windows 3.1 in a Windows 95 Virtual Machine (2022)"

qwerty456127 — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:01:43 +0000

> You had os/2 not doing that well, Amiga not doing great, NeXT hurting

What was ever wrong with these? I never actually used them but everything I know about them sounds fantastic.

New comment by qwerty456127 in "EU age verification app not planning desktop support"

qwerty456127 — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 20:19:46 +0000

EU is just rushing into bullshit dystopia scifi with its useless and harmful anonymization and chat control ideas. These just ought to fail and be rolled back. Imagining these succeed seems nearly as wild as waking up in the world where people do yakuza-style thumb cut to every naughty kid who fails to do his homework.

New comment by qwerty456127 in "Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others"

qwerty456127 — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 14:35:51 +0000

This is a duplicate comment.

New comment by qwerty456127 in "Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others"

qwerty456127 — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 21:33:11 +0000

Sure - the reason is the want more control over their people, they want to surveil them (hence blocking Signal), they want them to only read or express "correct" texts and prevent them from participating in open loosely-moderated discussions (hence blocking Reddit).

New comment by qwerty456127 in "Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others"

qwerty456127 — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 21:29:21 +0000

The grammar is our enemy here. Blocking a website may be Okay. Blocking a person willing to access it is not.

New comment by qwerty456127 in "Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others"

qwerty456127 — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 20:22:16 +0000

I consider banning it uncharacteristic to such. I can hardly consider a state where people are not allowed to access Reddit (as well as HN, Wikipedia or StackExchange) freely and anonymously a healthy civilized democracy. It can still be a very civilized society in general but tightening control on the people like this indicates the government is going slippery slope.

New comment by qwerty456127 in "Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others"

qwerty456127 — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 20:19:07 +0000

> "Services" here can be replaced with "control". I'm not super conservative, but social media sometimes do take control over our kids, and ourselves.

Perhaps we can think about YouTube or Facebook this way (Instagram - obviously). But I don't think Signal controls anybody yet they block it as well.

New comment by qwerty456127 in "Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others"

qwerty456127 — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 19:49:52 +0000

> It is not wrong to regulate social media

Yet it is wrong for a government to deny the people to access foreign services over the Internet when they want. That is wrong in the same sense as disallowing them to travel overseas, read untranslated books and consume services of vendors right there is.

It can be sorta okay to require local ISPs stop providing necessary connectivity readily but if the users find a way, punishing them for this or actively attacking the ways they do it is wrong.

Hopefully Nepal is not going this far.

New comment by qwerty456127 in "Nepal moves to block Facebook, X, YouTube and others"

qwerty456127 — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 19:48:40 +0000

Blocking Signal or Reddit sounds bizarre for a civilized democratic country. What sense can that make other than denying people the right for privacy of personal communications or uncensored information access? I am very surprised Nepal goes this way.

New comment by qwerty456127 in "The web does not need gatekeepers: Cloudflare’s new “signed agents” pitch"

qwerty456127 — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 18:28:28 +0000

What we need is stop fighting robots and start welcoming and helping them. I se zero reasons to oppose robots visiting any website I would build. The only purpose I ever tried disallowed robots for was preventing search engines from indexing incomplete versions or going the paths which really make no sense for them to go. Now I think we should write separate instructions for different kinds of robots: a search engine indexer shouldn't open pages which have serious side-effects (e.g. place an order) or display semi-realtime technical details but an LLM agent may be on a legitimate mission involving this.

New comment by qwerty456127 in "My Dream Productivity Device Is Done – and It's Becoming a Kit [video]"

qwerty456127 — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 21:12:08 +0000

This looks amazing except the number of keys seems too small.

New comment by qwerty456127 in "Perplexity is using stealth, undeclared crawlers to evade no-crawl directives"

qwerty456127 — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 22:55:06 +0000

It's time to stop blocking crawlers and using captchas and start building web sites that are intentionally AI-friendly by design. Even before the modern LLMs, anti-scraper measures apparently were primarily befitting Google whose scrapers were the most common exception.

New comment by qwerty456127 in "A Union Pacific-Norfolk Southern combination would redraw the railroad map"

qwerty456127 — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 21:09:58 +0000

Let them run the railroad, let others run the trains.

New comment by qwerty456127 in "AI note takers are flooding Zoom calls as workers opt to skip meetings"

qwerty456127 — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 13:47:18 +0000

> I’m convinced most meetings are to make up for poor writing skills.

I thought most meetings take place because people are to report how many meetings they organized/attended as this is considered a productivity metric.

New comment by qwerty456127 in "If AI Lets Us Do More in Less Time–Why Not Shorten the Workweek?"

qwerty456127 — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 12:11:46 +0000

By the way, I meant "foUr six-hour workdays would", sorry for a typo.

New comment by qwerty456127 in "If AI Lets Us Do More in Less Time–Why Not Shorten the Workweek?"

qwerty456127 — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 12:09:01 +0000

> seeking jobs, they tend to want fewer barriers to getting hired, not more

Like it or not, this is worth highlighting indeed. As I heard unions are an extra barrier for job seekers: in some occupations a union also has to approve an employee, not just the employer and this can make getting in the occupation prohibitively hard. Whoever knows better pleas comment, especially if and why this is not a problem.

New comment by qwerty456127 in "If AI Lets Us Do More in Less Time–Why Not Shorten the Workweek?"

qwerty456127 — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 11:54:28 +0000

In the EU I've never heard of a single union other than itself. Every time I see the word "union" it's about the US. This doesn't mean they don't exists in the EU, in fact it some googling uncovers they pretty much do, yet somehow they appear invisible unless you look for them actively. Meanwhile it seems they are always hot in the USA as they get mentioned so often.