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New comment by socceroos in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

socceroos — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 05:18:24 +0000

I hope they go with Taler, personally. Privacy of cash but the required traceability for merchants.

New comment by socceroos in "Markdown CLI viewer with VI keybindings"

socceroos — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 04:57:57 +0000

I personally would have liked colours support like Glow has. At least the ability to theme it so we can add colours if we want. Nice tool, though.

New comment by socceroos in "What caused the 'baby boom'? What would it take to have another?"

socceroos — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 06:29:39 +0000

I'm certainly not denying them their right to express their thoughts; I'm not sure where you've got that notion from.

Are you suggesting I should not have the right to express my thoughts about their thoughts?

New comment by socceroos in "What caused the 'baby boom'? What would it take to have another?"

socceroos — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 23:39:00 +0000

I find the repeated comments of how much parenting 'sucks' and how much childbearing 'sucks' to be distasteful.

It has been the single most incredible experience I've had (5 times over).

I feel like, primarily, the reason why our society isn't having children is because of a growing selfishness and entitlement; which happens to be the very thing that Rome was suffering from when their society was collapsing too.

No, I'm not rich and I'm not old. But I was brought up in a family that cherished loved ones and family. Love was agape, not eros.

New comment by socceroos in "What happens when clergy take psilocybin"

socceroos — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 07:07:44 +0000

The article opening sounds like a bar joke.

Also, I think this point is salient:

> He pointed to the risk of selection bias: those who volunteer are likely to be “spiritually hungering for a mystical experience,”...

I would go further and suppose that any Christian elder or leader who volunteered to do this had already demonstrated their unsuitability to speak on the matter of psychedelics and God.

New comment by socceroos in "After 20 Years, Math Couple Solves Major Group Theory Problem"

socceroos — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 13:41:22 +0000

What a mathive achievement!

New comment by socceroos in "How did Christianity change the Roman Empire?"

socceroos — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 03:43:44 +0000

This conception unduly desecrates the dignity of any leaders who genuinely converted and falls into the category of a "hot take" by my estimation.

New comment by socceroos in "YouTube is now blocking ad blockers so I make ads run faster"

socceroos — Thu, 23 Nov 2023 22:30:52 +0000

A classic. It was such a joke back in the SA/Slashdot days. I feel like we've come a long way...into the pit...since then.

New comment by socceroos in "Conduit: Simple, fast and reliable chat server powered by Matrix"

socceroos — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 05:22:12 +0000

I've been using Conduit for quite a while now and have found it to be very good. For ages though it has been missing support for spaces, but support has just landed in the development builds and it is great. I've already updated my service and it has worked as expected.

New comment by socceroos in "Telling the Bees"

socceroos — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 04:05:50 +0000

I love that this is a discussion here. How profitable! There are very few questions that are of greater importance than the one you have alluded to.

I'm a Christian and, oddly, don't suffer from the same existential dread as most admit any more, but I used to be consumed by it.

The simplest way I could say it is this: once you are shown what is behind the curtain and you place your trust in the one who's running the show then dread gives way to overwhelming peace. That's what happened for me and I guarantee that anyone who seeks the same true God will find the same peace.

Easy to dismiss, I know, but I guarantee it's true. Odd, eh?

Part of dealing with your existential dread is accepting the fact that you're right to be afraid, but not for the reasons you first think. This will be a bridge too far for some, but a discerning reading of this could be the catalyst some need: https://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/edwards_jonathan/Sermon...

New comment by socceroos in "The Neon God"

socceroos — Tue, 09 May 2023 11:00:40 +0000

What's wrong with slavery? We're no further away from outright slavery than we were in the 1800's.

The idea of mechanical equality, where all are masters, is absurdism.

New comment by socceroos in "Minetest: An open source voxel game engine"

socceroos — Mon, 01 May 2023 05:30:18 +0000

I've got Minetest on my machines. Another good one along these lines is Veloren. It's a Rust voxel game along the lines of minecraft and Dwarf Fortress.

https://veloren.net/

New comment by socceroos in "Why are lithium prices collapsing?"

socceroos — Mon, 01 May 2023 01:41:37 +0000

This sounds like a principled take. Can you explain the under-girding principles that drive you to hold this view?

New comment by socceroos in "AMD Ryzen 7000 Burning Out: Impacts all 7000 processors"

socceroos — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 01:13:53 +0000

Why did AMDGPU drop support for Hawaii (eg 390) in newer kernel releases?

New comment by socceroos in "Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation"

socceroos — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 21:22:07 +0000

The guy is literally describing how to shut down discussion on topics by escalating behaviours around it.

The great problem with this approach is that there are very many groups happy to see discussion of divers topics quashed and they're already familiar with how to get it done on platforms like Twitter.

New comment by socceroos in "Native messaging, Gnome Shell/Extension integration landed in the Firefox snap"

socceroos — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 04:22:57 +0000

I don't think Canonical have taken a ux-first approach to their development since the early days of their distro accelerating the evolution of the Linux desktop experience.

They're much more business-goal minded now. In this instance, making their users dog food their new shiny enterprise play.

New comment by socceroos in "Six Ground-Breaking New Linux Laptops Released in the Last Two Weeks"

socceroos — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 07:59:12 +0000

It managed to avoid the same fate as Digg.

New comment by socceroos in "Wayland is not ready as a 1:1 compatible Xorg replacement just yet"

socceroos — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 01:40:29 +0000

In my ~6 years of using Wayland I've never experienced anything like this. In fact, my experience has been that the entire desktop experience was smoother and less buggy.

Admittedly, I've steered clear of NVIDIA products which may have helped.

New comment by socceroos in "Ask HN: Favourite open source game?"

socceroos — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 13:40:10 +0000

I played HEAPS of Konquest back in the day.

New comment by socceroos in "Ask HN: Favourite open source game?"

socceroos — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 03:47:03 +0000

Back in the day: Vegastrike.