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New comment by wickedsickeune in "DeepSeek banned from U.S. federal civilian agencies under new DHS order"

wickedsickeune — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 07:29:37 +0000

As it has been proven multiple times with the current US administration, no, US companies do not have the agency to refuse government overreach, they can just purchase favours (which I highly doubt is different from PRC and its government).

New comment by wickedsickeune in "US Forces Exit Iraq"

wickedsickeune — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:28:54 +0000

Do you mean The Hurt Locker? They didn't even wait 10 years!

New comment by wickedsickeune in "Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look [video]"

wickedsickeune — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:16:54 +0000

GeForce Now allows you to play any game you own on steam, am I mistaken that you can play GTA V and IV and San Andreas (the horrible remake) this way?

New comment by wickedsickeune in "London Underground begins scanning passengers' faces"

wickedsickeune — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:03:11 +0000

In Greece and Italy they drive at least as bad as in Portugal, if not much worse, and dashcams are perfectly legal.

New comment by wickedsickeune in "Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police"

wickedsickeune — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 07:17:57 +0000

You are correct that two wrongs don't make a right, but I think that it is obvious that the threat was not real, only symbolic. Therefore it wasn't "wrong". Meanwhile the original, not prosecuted threat message, was real. It's clear that it shows both vindictiveness and unwillingness to protect certain people.

New comment by wickedsickeune in "Mythical Man Month"

wickedsickeune — Sun, 10 May 2026 07:49:02 +0000

Are you confusing him with Robert C Martin?

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

wickedsickeune — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:04:53 +0000

JD Vance is 41 years old. Certainly not a boomer, and has aligning views with Trump

New comment by wickedsickeune in "One-man campaign ravages EU 'Chat Control' bill"

wickedsickeune — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 15:19:19 +0000

Yes you are correct, but technically the parliament passes the laws, so they have the final say. It should be the commission that gets slapped in the face (or even better dissolved as it's quite undemocratic), but what can you do...

New comment by wickedsickeune in "Digital ID – The New Chains of Capitalist Surveillance"

wickedsickeune — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 09:28:57 +0000

In Denmark a similar system (NemID) gave you a piece of paper with long alphanumeric codes to be used instead of the app. Now it's replaced by another system (MitID) which I haven't verified that supports those, but it's highly unlikely that it stopped supporting physical codes.

It's actually quite a good idea to have this, even if you have a smartphone, in case that you lose access to it temporarily.

New comment by wickedsickeune in "ChatControl update: blocking minority held but Denmark is moving forward anyway"

wickedsickeune — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 08:17:31 +0000

Refers to the minister of justice in Denmark, Peter Hummelgaard. I don't know his childhood though.

New comment by wickedsickeune in "Ireland will not participate in Eurovision if Israel takes part"

wickedsickeune — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 19:21:34 +0000

The parent poster is implying that Qatar is funding / helping Hamas, and by proxy kidnaps / rocket bombs civilians etc.

New comment by wickedsickeune in "Japan city drafts ordinance to cap smartphone use at 2 hours per day"

wickedsickeune — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 11:35:02 +0000

There are neurodivergent people who have a low threshold for how long "normal" eye contact lasts. Using smartphones is also an excellent excuse to avoid eye contact.

New comment by wickedsickeune in "Video game workers in North America now have an industry-wide union"

wickedsickeune — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 19:03:28 +0000

Yes. But it can more reasonably force the company to retain the employees of said project, and move them to other projects instead of firing them.

New comment by wickedsickeune in "Microsoft is killing Skype"

wickedsickeune — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 22:36:00 +0000

You can't hole punch on mobile. Most mobile networks use symmetric NATs unfortunately.

New comment by wickedsickeune in "Chat Control Must Be Stopped – Now"

wickedsickeune — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 09:51:40 +0000

In Greece, we recently elected as representatives for the EU Parliament:

* a 71 year old lady, with no social media and no public speeches ever.

* a guy who used a nickname for his last name, that matched with a military general (who is well known), and many people thought he was the general

* a "journalist" that was caught twice talking on live TV, conversing with a pre-recorded video

* a convicted criminal

It's impressive to manage to fail as a politician.

New comment by wickedsickeune in "U.S. Rules Apple Illegally Interrogated Staff and Confiscated Union Flyers"

wickedsickeune — Wed, 08 May 2024 07:18:15 +0000

> The fact that corporations and billionaires are so anti-union and engage in regular conduct like this demonstrates that unions are pro-worker and ideal for the balance needed in the US and across the globe.

No, that's incorrect. The corporations could also be anti-nuclear war, this would not make it good for workers.

A better example is to look at countries with functional unions and functional capitalism, like the Netherlands, Denmark and others.

The quality of life won by union conflicts with capital owners is a measurable fact.

Unions can be implemented and be useless for the workers (an example for the most part is Greece), or maybe too demanding like France. It's up to the participants of the union to shape it as a net contributor to society. The point is that each individual member has a significant say in how a union operates, meanwhile in corporations, even middle management can be completely powerless.

New comment by wickedsickeune in "Show HN: I built a website to share files and messages without any server"

wickedsickeune — Sun, 05 May 2024 16:59:06 +0000

I hoped that it would relive with IPv6 but apparently this will not happen while I'm alive.

New comment by wickedsickeune in "Show HN: I built a website to share files and messages without any server"

wickedsickeune — Sun, 05 May 2024 16:58:10 +0000

In order to do hole punching you need a centralised STUN server.

New comment by wickedsickeune in "Wayfair fired a bunch of people again today, after using them to train AI"

wickedsickeune — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 10:25:42 +0000

"These kind of people" are being taken advantage of, it doesn't benefit anyone to blame them. You don't know under what kind of pressure they made these choices, so don't rush to judge.

New comment by wickedsickeune in "Hackers found a way to open any of 3M hotel keycard locks"

wickedsickeune — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 20:18:02 +0000

Any chance you could share these e-mails? I also live in such an apartment complex and I was aware that the locks are jokes, but I didn't think it was possible to convince the building's managing company.