<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: scooke</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=scooke</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 11:38:10 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=scooke" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scooke in "The Cathedral, the Megachurch, and the Bazaar"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In 2003 I was somewhere south of Fort Worth, TX, having visited Dinosaur World, and shortly after leaving we stopped at a cafe that had three computers out which you could use. I looked at them while waiting for the coffee and they just seemed off, strange. It wasn't OS 9 nor X, it wasn't Windows... What was it? As I went over to look it hit me - holy cow, those are running that linux thing I've heard about! Their desktops were beautiful, totally different than the others. I knew then I wanted that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:58:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46673850</link><dc:creator>scooke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46673850</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46673850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scooke in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://toutdo.com/" rel="nofollow">https://toutdo.com/</a><p>Though it's for my "business", I don't get any customers. But it does lay out my personal vision of people being online.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:38:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46626257</link><dc:creator>scooke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46626257</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46626257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scooke in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's been almost 2 years, time to get another post ready!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:25:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46626105</link><dc:creator>scooke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46626105</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46626105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scooke in "Standard Ebooks: Public Domain Day 2026 in Literature"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The formatting they are referring to is not that of the original text but that of the Standard Ebooks project.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2026 13:39:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46464615</link><dc:creator>scooke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46464615</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46464615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scooke in "The architecture of “not bad”: Decoding the Chinese source code of the void"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The author wrote,"Because there is a vast interval between “good” and “bad,” it accommodates complex relationships." which, to me, shows they don't truly grasp the cultural context of his Chinese environment. There is the same interval between good and bad in both Chinese and Western values and thinking and terminology. What makes it seem there is a difference is the hesitancy to be affirmative in Chinese culture. To affirm some thing is to claim knowledge and expertise, and in doing _that_ comes an expectation that those around the Affirmer acquiesce to their expertise. This is another facet of Face. Very few people will claim such a level of knowledge and expertise and experience, so the words used are purposely "vague". It's not a issue with the terms.<p>I was once asked if I speak Chinese and I answered affirmatively, "Shi da" (very bad pinyin btw). Everyone thought that was hilarious! They were able to think it hilarious because, at the time, I was just a young single man, and my answer made it sound like I was affirming that I speak Chinese, _all of it_! But in my mind the conversation was in Chinese, I understood the question and gave an answer in Chinese, so of course I can speak it...just not fluently. I learned from that experience that a better answer is, "keyi", which is essentially "enough" but in a more humble mode and the breadth of that word itself is adapted to the context. If asked in a market about my Chinese, "keyi" means "enough to do shopping" with no claim to more than that. If in the context of a class at university, it meant "enough to do the work" but not claiming to be super smart, NOR, dumb (since it's at university). It isn't the words, it's the interpersonal culture, face, and both communicating and showing you know where you fit in.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 04:36:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46240911</link><dc:creator>scooke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46240911</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46240911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scooke in "PRC elites voice AI-skepticism"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That is such an unnecessary turn of phrase to use, "off the reservation", and it's time to stop using it. This society doesnt (generally) use rape terminology, or other terms associated with crime, deviancy, or other unpleasantness to talk about technology, so why do phrases stemming from Indigenous situations still persist?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2025 05:59:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46066172</link><dc:creator>scooke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46066172</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46066172</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scooke in "Uchū – Color palette for internet lovers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Color Scheme is indeed more appropriate as they area specific set of colours this guy has used throughout his career. I can tell you one more specific reason for 47x points -- he actually includes the hex numbers for the colours!!! No more copying and pasting into a third app that can guestimate. It's a real time saver.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2025 13:31:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43078813</link><dc:creator>scooke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43078813</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43078813</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scooke in "Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and other non-mainstream browsers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I avoid and refuse to use Cloud flare for these sorts of reasons. Join me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2025 12:57:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42961886</link><dc:creator>scooke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42961886</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42961886</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scooke in "IAC confirms existence of a Super-earth in the habitable zone of a Sun-like Star"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well, let's go!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2025 07:09:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42862385</link><dc:creator>scooke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42862385</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42862385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scooke in "Ask HN: Organize local communities without Facebook?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Check out options on <a href="https://softaculous.com/apps/socialnetworking" rel="nofollow">https://softaculous.com/apps/socialnetworking</a>. I have used Elgg, and HumHub seems popular.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jan 2025 05:47:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42810811</link><dc:creator>scooke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42810811</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42810811</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scooke in "Kowloon Walled City: Heterotopia in a Space of Disappearance (2013)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A slightly more sanitized variety is two buildings away - Mirador Mansion. I still expect to see a fleeing android to come running down the halls when I stay there, a la Zhora chase scene in Blade Runner (less glass though).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2024 00:10:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42467097</link><dc:creator>scooke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42467097</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42467097</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scooke in "The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The perspective of the entire article is confused. Abandonment doesn't overcome and infuse something. It's not an action; it is a state. And what happens TO nature? No, what does nature DO when humanity stops what it does to nature. Réclamation, from the proper perspective; abandonment is from the human perspective.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Nov 2024 12:56:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42264899</link><dc:creator>scooke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42264899</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42264899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scooke in "Scratching the Surface: How geology shaped American culture"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are you American, in America?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Nov 2024 00:01:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42241357</link><dc:creator>scooke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42241357</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42241357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scooke in "Lonely individuals tend to think and talk in an unusual way, study finds"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I lived overseas for a time in an area that didn't use English. I loved it, enjoyed being there, but one day I noticed that I was talking to myself! At first, it was just exclamations out loud (quietly) when something happened around me. It progressed to me describing or evaluating my meal, a book, a scene I was looking at. I realized it when I noticed ppl looking at me strangely (they normally did anyway), and as I looked back wondering why they were looking at me, it hit! I had been talking out loud to myself, normal volume! Why? I figure it was loneliness; but loneliness for hearing English. I was the only one who could speak it! And then it hit me again, a new found epiphany about all those "crazy homeless" ppl who I'd seen back home, muttering to themselves as they wander around. What if, instead of (or in addition to) being mentally unwell, they were just lonely, and having no one to talk to led to them talking to themselves? Whoa.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2024 23:59:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42241342</link><dc:creator>scooke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42241342</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42241342</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scooke in "Our First Generalist Policy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The movie, "The Matrix", actually is a clue. In it humanity is reduced to mere batteries. But in fact it IS the energy we bring which is crucial. No AI, made by no machine, would ever exist without our energy - focused thought, industry to make machines, ideas to put them to use, insight to see problems. The future is still humanity.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2024 12:15:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42016178</link><dc:creator>scooke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42016178</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42016178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scooke in "Making the Tibetan language a first-class citizen in the digital world"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can you give an example or two of the type of terminology you have in mind? Something like first tier, or high level, or primary, or what? Almost any term that I could think of still carries with it a sense of politics. Perhaps someone from the first class citizen language, like English or French doesn’t really notice this dynamic, but someone who uses these other languages sure notice the lack of importance, or urgency, when they can’t live digitally with their own language. Whether or not they use the term,” political”, it’s still there. But I’m curious to see what your suggestions might include.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Oct 2024 04:48:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41834291</link><dc:creator>scooke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41834291</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41834291</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scooke in "One pioneering grizzly and her two cubs appear on Vancouver Island"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No need for the word "tribe" here. They are the Dene. They are the Slave. They are the Cree. we don't say "the German tribe" (of Europe), or the Swiss tribe. This term typically is used to describe a smaller group belonging to a larger group. In this case, the larger group is subconsciously thought of Indians, or even First Nations, or Aboriginals. But the Cree, Slave Dene and any other number of nations are not tribes . They are nations. So, the Cree... The Slave.... The Dene....</p>
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<p>Very nice. Please add an AP option like a Mastodon account, Pixelfed, etc. No way am I using x anymore.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 14:52:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41556708</link><dc:creator>scooke</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41556708</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41556708</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by scooke in "Show HN: Meet.hn – Meet the Hacker News community in your city"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I made the mistake once of "flying to Frankfurt!" on some low-cost airline out of the UK and landed in Frankfurt-Hahn. Yikes.</p>
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<p>Curated referring to content.</p>
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