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New comment by subsistence234 in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

subsistence234 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:00:28 +0000

The regime spent the past 50 years teaching everyone that their nation is just a source of shame and at best just a meaningless social construct, and that their culture and people's history is trash, that really nothing about it is worth saving.

And now the regime wants them to voluntarily sacrifice their lives for it.

New comment by subsistence234 in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

subsistence234 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:54:58 +0000

Really exposes the current state of journalism in Germany and more broadly Europe: just propaganda and gossip.

A functioning "fourth estate" would have reported on this *before* the law was passed.

New comment by subsistence234 in "And then? And then Mullvad was censored in the UK"

subsistence234 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 06:32:33 +0000

> This isn't X \emdash it's Y!

On top of analyzing vast amounts of surveillance data, AI also has to write HN comments defending the mass surveillance! Busy life.

New comment by subsistence234 in "EFF to Close Friday in Solidarity with National Shutdown"

subsistence234 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:20:10 +0000

it's crypto-fascist misogynoir!

New comment by subsistence234 in "EFF to Close Friday in Solidarity with National Shutdown"

subsistence234 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:19:31 +0000

yeah it may not be helpful, but at least it's starting a conversation. most people aren't even aware yet, and there's no way to raise awareness without a vacation. for example none of our web designers knows how to put a message on the website without shutting it down. and none of our managers knows how to shut down a website without taking a vacation.

New comment by subsistence234 in "EFF to Close Friday in Solidarity with National Shutdown"

subsistence234 — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:13:45 +0000

sounds like it's a religious ceremony to you. the purpose of the strike is to increase pressure on the government, you're demanding actions that decrease that pressure, apparently for piety reasons.

New comment by subsistence234 in "200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop"

subsistence234 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:35:55 +0000

you're at least 10 years too late with that idea

New comment by subsistence234 in "200 MB RAM FreeBSD desktop"

subsistence234 — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 15:33:40 +0000

what do you think changed culturally around 2014 (I'd say it started a little earlier, maybe 2011)?

New comment by subsistence234 in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

subsistence234 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:57:39 +0000

Because the German law only harms Germans, whereas the Italian law in question demands global bans.

New comment by subsistence234 in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

subsistence234 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:51:49 +0000

what in the marvel slop redditor fantasy is this?

New comment by subsistence234 in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

subsistence234 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:28:28 +0000

There's no accountability or due process. According to this brilliant law, if some crony with write-privilege adds your website to a list, the whole world has to ban your website within 30 minutes no questions asked.

New comment by subsistence234 in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

subsistence234 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:20:26 +0000

Really?

A group of people who were elected by nobody, should, without any accountability or due process, be able to ban any website they don't like from the internet? And not just for Italians but globally?

Even if you think this is a great thing for Italians (I have no idea why anyone would think that), you expect the whole world to surrender to this absurd demand? Categorical imperative???

New comment by subsistence234 in "Eat Real Food"

subsistence234 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 10:22:15 +0000

where is the mythical land of people that prefer gamey metallic beef?

New comment by subsistence234 in "User ban controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality"

subsistence234 — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 21:51:16 +0000

> he is accused of targeted harassment

yeah but that's an accusation without basis in reality.

New comment by subsistence234 in "Ubuntu 25.10's Rust Coreutils Is Causing Major Breakage for Some Executables"

subsistence234 — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 11:59:31 +0000

Is there really a dearth of maintainers for the originals? They already work fine, no? To me it sounds a bit like: "Addition has become stagnant, so we need to re-implement it in higher category theory. Sure, 99% of even research mathematicians don't benefit from that re-implementation. But no risk no reward! If vocal traditionalists refuse to contribute to reinventing the wheel, maybe they're working on something that hasn't been refined/stagnated decades ago, but I won't take their perspective (that addition already works fine) seriously, unless they start re-implementing addition as well."

New comment by subsistence234 in "Ubuntu 25.10's Rust Coreutils Is Causing Major Breakage for Some Executables"

subsistence234 — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 11:22:50 +0000

non-LTS release means beta now?

New comment by subsistence234 in "Ubuntu 25.10's Rust Coreutils Is Causing Major Breakage for Some Executables"

subsistence234 — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 11:22:02 +0000

the result of this licensing: in the future there's gonna be a shitty free linux variant, and a SaaS premium variant. of course for complete distros this has always been the case, but now we'll get it for the core components.

New comment by subsistence234 in "Simulator of the life of a 30-year-old in the UK"

subsistence234 — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 14:56:13 +0000

With only 5% down there is no safety buffer. Lenders and insurers will take advantage of your precarious situation.

New comment by subsistence234 in "Simulator of the life of a 30-year-old in the UK"

subsistence234 — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 14:40:05 +0000

nobody is falling for this nonsense anymore.

New comment by subsistence234 in "Simulator of the life of a 30-year-old in the UK"

subsistence234 — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 21:35:12 +0000

Ethnic Brits are the people whose majority of ancestors two centuries ago were living on the British Isles.

But I was talking about Brits in a wider sense -- the people with British passports and voting rights at the time when those mass migration laws were passed. Which happened against their consent.