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New comment by waon in "Democratic Backsliding Reaches Western Democracies, U.S. Decline "Unprecedented""

waon — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 05:55:27 +0000

European integration did not happen before WW2, because you know, Europe was at war.

Moreover, criticizing FDR's response to the great depression while solely condemning Europe for its post-war policies isn't a great counterargument.

New comment by waon in "Democratic Backsliding Reaches Western Democracies, U.S. Decline "Unprecedented""

waon — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 05:26:52 +0000

How telling that in your version of events, "massive democratic backsliding" happened right after the conclusion of WW2. Yikes.

New comment by waon in "Former CNN journalist Don Lemon arrested after church protest in Minnesota"

waon — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 07:42:33 +0000

The person you're replying to doesn't abide by their own stated principles. It's a mistake to think that they're merely reminding you of the rules. No, it's an order.

Just look at how many political comments they made. Especially the downvoted and/or flagged ones. They are horrendous. So many words spent justifying ICE murders and lying about how the victims were violent terrorists. They spend all day thinking about how best to downplay the egregious actions of the current regime, at one point writing how ICE agent's masks are just merely "face/neck warmers."

This isn't a person who should be taken seriously.

New comment by waon in "The AI Backlash Is Here: Why Public Patience with Tech Giants Is Running Out"

waon — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 22:31:01 +0000

Periodic reminder that there are people seeking to derail discussions critical of AI and divert attention away from the actual substance of these issues.

New comment by waon in "Visual Studio Code – The open source AI code editor"

waon — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 03:14:53 +0000

This is just like how Windows is turning into an "agentic OS."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45920239

I wonder how many people installed VS Code wanting a text editor, only for it to become something else.

The same page from last year:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240814025843/https://code.visu...

Visual Studio Code – The open source AI code editor

waon — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 03:01:20 +0000

Article URL: https://code.visualstudio.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45934695

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by waon in "House Republicans want to dox Wikipedia editors over 'bias' complaints"

waon — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 02:20:03 +0000

This is what Republicans do. It is their job.

New comment by waon in "A privacy VPN you can verify"

waon — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 17:44:53 +0000

Defense in depth only works if you put up meaningful security measures. As numerous people including GP has pointed out, you still retain the means to log user traffic. That's not meaningfully secure than the alternatives.

More importantly, trusting random strangers is much better than trusting a known hostile actor. During the Freenode fiasco, you have repeatedly demonstrated yourself to be untrustworthy and vengeful. Everyone saw your petty revenges against people who dared voice the slightest of criticisms. Why on earth should anyone trust that you'll uphold your customer's privacy no matter what?

New comment by waon in "A privacy VPN you can verify"

waon — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 16:32:10 +0000

The whole community fled from Freenode as a direct consequence of your actions. You aren't convincing anyone with your "debunkings," dear masterdebater.

New comment by waon in "What's up with Lobste.rs blocking the Brave browser?"

waon — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 08:24:57 +0000

I find websites punishing users over their choice of browsers to be questionable. But if they're going down that route, why on earth allow Chrome, a mass surveillance product made by the richest ad company in the world? The level of harm being done is so much bigger with Chrome, both in terms of scale and the effect it has on society. It's not even comparable.

What's up with Lobste.rs blocking the Brave browser?

waon — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 08:02:39 +0000

Article URL: https://lobste.rs/s/iopw1d/what_s_up_with_lobste_rs_blocking_brave

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42326007

Points: 8

# Comments: 3

New comment by waon in "BorgBackup: Deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption"

waon — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 08:28:33 +0000

I wish the authors won't be demotivated by this if they ever see this top comment. Borg is such an invaluable project done by volunteers. They don't deserve the blatant abuse demonstrated by the OP. Even more so when the reasons are either the OP ignoring a well written documentation or some unreasonable demand to degrade the security of the software by prominently showing how to disable encryption for a remote backup system. The notion that having the setup command generate encryption keys is so "elitist" that it warrants abusive insults is ... beyond me.

New comment by waon in "Firefox removed Yandex search option"

waon — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 06:10:56 +0000

I believe some of the Chromium folks are partly responsible for this. Though it's probably not a planned "campaign" of any sort, I've seen some prominent figures constantly direct hatred toward other browser vendors online, and countless webdevs piling on. I'm not posting links because many of them are highly toxic, but browser developers on the receiving end has expressed their frustrations more than once.

“Please don't add any of my stuff to this project”

waon — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 17:18:58 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/126326

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27505277

Points: 280

# Comments: 348

New comment by waon in "Goodbye Freenode"

waon — Sun, 13 Jun 2021 17:40:00 +0000

According to one of the new ops for the now unofficial Freenode #fsf channel, #reactos may have stayed. If true, the count would be four.

> @freenode_CrystalMath:matrix.org

> and i'm a reactos developer, though we're not on libera at all

> @freenode_CrystalMath:matrix.org

> we're only on freenode and mattermost

New comment by waon in ""Irssi does not take a political stance""

waon — Thu, 27 May 2021 07:52:55 +0000

> Worth noting that it's quite common for people to not be publicly listed as part of Github organizations.

My bad, I didn't know that was a thing.

New comment by waon in ""Irssi does not take a political stance""

waon — Thu, 27 May 2021 07:07:21 +0000

It's quite concerning that ailin-nemui, who made the prior commit migrating to Libera currently isn't listed as part of the irssi organization[1]. According to GitHub stats, this is the person behind most of the code in irssi[2].

[1]: https://github.com/orgs/irssi/people

[2]: https://github.com/irssi/irssi/graphs/contributors

New comment by waon in ""Irssi does not take a political stance""

waon — Thu, 27 May 2021 05:48:44 +0000

I wonder if this is the official stance of the project itself, since this commit was authored by a person who hadn't made a single commit for more than 5 years.

https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commits?author=GeertHauwaerts

"Irssi does not take a political stance"

waon — Thu, 27 May 2021 04:50:24 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/irssi/irssi/commit/a4486c236a3bf15192d0500b3a1892f7465826c7

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27299538

Points: 49

# Comments: 28

New comment by waon in "Apple deletes Steve Jobs's “Thoughts on Flash”"

waon — Fri, 07 May 2021 02:28:49 +0000

It's subtle misinformation that's designed to change how people unconsciously perceive PWAs. When people bring up PWAs, they commonly refer to a particular set of APIs which has a tendency of mainly being a Google-driven effort. GP is muddying the waters by instead framing it as the HTML spec itself and implying it's official.

If this isn't a clear case of gaslighting, I don't know what is.