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New comment by seb1204 in "Hospital at centre of child HIV outbreak caught reusing syringes in Pakistan"

seb1204 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:51:50 +0000

Your cost claims need to be considered with the perspective of the country or location of the clinic.

New comment by seb1204 in "Hospital at centre of child HIV outbreak caught reusing syringes in Pakistan"

seb1204 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:50:06 +0000

Sounds like the same risk as this situation of reusing them.

New comment by seb1204 in "Hospital at centre of child HIV outbreak caught reusing syringes in Pakistan"

seb1204 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:48:50 +0000

Cost, or availability due to cost. Still a driver in developing countries.

New comment by seb1204 in "Productive Procrastination"

seb1204 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:17:49 +0000

Well, sometimes a 15minute walk will do wonders and you are fresh and can achieve more in the following 15min.

New comment by seb1204 in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

seb1204 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:45:10 +0000

Europe does not. Summer is June, July and August with a bit of give here and there.

New comment by seb1204 in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

seb1204 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:56:10 +0000

Moving the goalposts so soon.

New comment by seb1204 in "FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages"

seb1204 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:38:14 +0000

Yes, mine (the history option) is turned off. Nice opt in implementation.

New comment by seb1204 in "Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?"

seb1204 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:40:22 +0000

France just did that and even made some gains. Was in HN today as well. Germany has lost it, no farsightedness or longer plan. So frustrating how the German gov is failing on these longer term issues and are ground up in day-to-day noise. Flood the zone with shit comes to mind.

New comment by seb1204 in "Age verification as mass surveillance infrastructure"

seb1204 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:36:40 +0000

Thanks for flagging this. I still think the headline is right, so where are the good sources and articles and outcries?

New comment by seb1204 in "Age verification as mass surveillance infrastructure"

seb1204 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:35:50 +0000

This is what I think a gov org should offer, not yet another corporate entity.

New comment by seb1204 in "Age verification as mass surveillance infrastructure"

seb1204 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:33:33 +0000

What a nice vanilla view of the world. It's way to simple as an answer and lacking links to reality.

If not before but with high school kids will need access to a computer and also the internet in many schools and countries.

I get that parents are responsible but parents have limited resources. Even the best parenthood will not keep kids from wanting to engage with peers. Even the best filter or block by parents will not cover the www and their millions of websites and services.

New comment by seb1204 in "Age verification as mass surveillance infrastructure"

seb1204 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:25:48 +0000

Hold on a minute. Australians are for kids and teens social media ban. They have not been asked if their minors are all face catalogued by pop up companies that these social media companies externalise the verification process to. Insta and others simply opened the need for such 3rd party verification services, it's a way to limit their liability and risk. For Insta and co it's not their problem if these new 3rd party services become the next identity database of minors. I hate it.

New comment by seb1204 in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

seb1204 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:10:40 +0000

Yes true, but these are all technologies required for humans in space. Toilets in space, as intriguing the topic and discussion are, are only needed because we decided to go there. I think the tech is interesting but the human unification vibe is tainted at the least.

New comment by seb1204 in "Gone (Almost) Phishin'"

seb1204 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:49:39 +0000

Wow, this is tricky. Even though you can look up the official number you will likely not get through to the same person.

New comment by seb1204 in "Gone (Almost) Phishin'"

seb1204 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:46:34 +0000

This, my pixel marks almost all calls not in my address book as suspected spam or phishing.

New comment by seb1204 in "South Korea Mandates Solar Panels for Public Parking Lots"

seb1204 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 02:44:11 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47559893

New comment by seb1204 in "Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies"

seb1204 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 23:08:21 +0000

I assume you have been signing legal waivers left right and centre to be able to go through these unique treatments.

New comment by seb1204 in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

seb1204 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 08:06:12 +0000

Great, I did the same some years ago with xubutu. Did you set up some remote control software to log in if needed? Which one?

New comment by seb1204 in "My first patch to the Linux kernel"

seb1204 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 08:39:57 +0000

Sand that after so many years these rules are still not written down.

New comment by seb1204 in "Western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance"

seb1204 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:39:23 +0000

Porsche... Eye roll