Hacker News: sparqlittlestar

New comment by sparqlittlestar in "Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired"

sparqlittlestar — Thu, 14 May 2026 04:46:08 +0000

"That password's already been taken by user 'mekdoonggi'"

New comment by sparqlittlestar in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

sparqlittlestar — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:26:51 +0000

Press Option to immediately show the close button

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

sparqlittlestar — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 07:19:00 +0000

In the Netherlands, its over €2,50

New comment by sparqlittlestar in "United States Completes WHO Withdrawal"

sparqlittlestar — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:39:59 +0000

Honestly, ceteris paribus for the US

New comment by sparqlittlestar in "The lost art of XML"

sparqlittlestar — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:08:23 +0000

XSLT 3.0 does JSON

https://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-30/#json

New comment by sparqlittlestar in "If you put Apple icons in reverse it looks like someone getting good at design"

sparqlittlestar — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 08:27:16 +0000

I dislike MS as much as the next guy, but it's the Office mobile app that was renamed to Copilot 365. They haven't yet thrown away the entire Office brand

New comment by sparqlittlestar in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

sparqlittlestar — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:46:02 +0000

Metros may have electrified third rail, but the ones next to DB train tracks are all with a top covered third rail. Usualy power deliviery is via catenaries.

New comment by sparqlittlestar in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

sparqlittlestar — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 21:51:27 +0000

I require the VNet integration, but my region (Europe West) isn't supported (yet, over a year since I requested it)

https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/admin/con...

New comment by sparqlittlestar in "Japanese game devs face font dilemma as license increases from $380 to $20k"

sparqlittlestar — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 06:22:10 +0000

1. Because fonts are works of art and any artist deserves to be paid. 2. Because there may not be a freely licensed font with the right aesthetics 3. Especially because Japanese fonts require much more work than Latn fonts, with not some hundred glyphs (a-zA-Z0-9 and punctuation), but with thousands upon thousands of glyphs

New comment by sparqlittlestar in "What happened to Apple's legendary attention to detail?"

sparqlittlestar — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 20:17:07 +0000

Because Omarchy is a Linux distro by DHH and therefore you can also call it a "fascist and openly racist" Linux distro.

DHH was someone I kinda read him online, but he's been going full-in on these racist talking points, e.g., https://paulbjensen.co.uk/2025/09/17/on-dhhs-as-i-remember-l... :(

New comment by sparqlittlestar in "Open source sustainment and the future of Gitea"

sparqlittlestar — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 07:24:02 +0000

tbf, SEPA direct debit is across the Eurozone a both common as well as easy way of transfering funds.

New comment by sparqlittlestar in "Wikipedia globally blocks Apple Private Relay IP ranges from editing"

sparqlittlestar — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 20:26:28 +0000

Thanks, related to Safari and privacy: on my iPhone I couldn’t load HN comment pages, unless I turned off”hide ip from trackers and webistes”.

New comment by sparqlittlestar in "We lost 54k GitHub stars"

sparqlittlestar — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 06:13:35 +0000

I recall that GitHub used to be localised in several languages, but no more. And I can’t seem to find any references to it anymore, either. “GitHub interface translation” gives search results about code, not about GitHub’s interface