Hacker News: zemnl

New comment by zemnl in "Pledging Another $400k to the Zig Software Foundation"

zemnl — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:16:28 +0000

Same for me.

My config is a couple lines longer, but other than font-family, font-size, color theme and a couple of other settings I didn't need to change anything else.

I definitely spent way less time configuring it to suit my needs that I did with any other terminal I used before.

New comment by zemnl in "Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust"

zemnl — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:53:35 +0000

I agree with you for the font size, but other than that I really like the minimal UI

New comment by zemnl in "Proton spam and the AI consent problem"

zemnl — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 09:04:24 +0000

I do think the same too, I have a Proton subscription (non-business), my "Lumo Product Updates" is toggled OFF and I've never received a single Lumo email so far.

New comment by zemnl in "Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’"

zemnl — Mon, 05 May 2025 11:32:04 +0000

In addition to the other comments pointing out how your "Americans invented microprocessors" is wrong,

> [Americans] landed on the moon without a federal Department of Education

maybe you should check what the budget for NASA was during the space race and what it is now, considering also the news from 3 days ago about further budget cuts to the Agency.

New comment by zemnl in "Just Use MSYS2 You Say?"

zemnl — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 12:12:36 +0000

I'm only addressing the Pacman complaints because I genuinely don't understand them

> It uses pacman from ArchLinux, which is easily the worst package manager ever invented. Quick, how do you search for a package that you've installed? Oh? What's that, did you just have to google for one of the weird single letter options? I rest my case.

Rest your case? Is that the only argument? The fact that if someone can't remember specific flags that they rarely use makes a cli program the "worst" is stupid. By the same logic since I don't know how to search for installed packages with apt (it's been years since I used a debian based distro), is it fair for me to say apt is the worst package manager ever invented?

> If you don't think these things happen, you haven't use pacman for long enough.

How long is long enough? I've been using Arch (btw) daily for more than 10 years, maybe close to 15, on my personal PC and I've been using MSYS2 on my work laptop for more than 1 year. Never encountered Pacman-related issues...

New comment by zemnl in "EU Council to Vote on Chat Scanning Proposal on Thursday"

zemnl — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 12:06:58 +0000

> The healthcare that forces people to pay money to non functioning system based on their income is socialist.

Non functioning? All EU countries with public healthcare score better than the US in the healthcare rankings (and life expectancy), by a good measure. And some of them are the best in the world. This [1] is just one source, you can find multiple ones with the same conclusion.

[1] https://www.internationalinsurance.com/health/systems/

New comment by zemnl in "EU Council to Vote on Chat Scanning Proposal on Thursday"

zemnl — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 12:01:08 +0000

Since we are on a technical/scientific site I'll put it in mathematical terms: implementing social policies is a Necessary But Not Sufficient condition for a Country to be socialist.

There are literally zero countries in the EU that are socialist, they only have ~some~ social policies.

New comment by zemnl in "EU Council to Vote on Chat Scanning Proposal on Thursday"

zemnl — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 09:11:26 +0000

I am perfectly aware of the existence of socialist parties in Europe... Let me get this straight: are you really saying that because there are socialist parties in Europe, the European states are socialists?

Most of the EU states are currently led by liberal/neo-liberal/right-wing parties dude...

New comment by zemnl in "EU Council to Vote on Chat Scanning Proposal on Thursday"

zemnl — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 08:59:30 +0000

Having implemented social policies doesn't make the EU States socialists... You should do some reading and learn the differences

New comment by zemnl in "T-Mobile users thought they had a lifetime price lock–guess what happened next"

zemnl — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 14:33:05 +0000

Yes, there are people I know who are still paying the same price Iliad offered at launch: 5.99€/month for unlimited calls and messages, and 30GB in 4G+. That price was basically half of what all other available providers offered at the time.

New comment by zemnl in "Ligra – an open source image projector based off of flea marked parts"

zemnl — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 13:49:06 +0000

I agree, and I don't see anti-european ideologies or hate speech anywhere in that repo, thank you for being on the lookout though.

New comment by zemnl in "Ligra – an open source image projector based off of flea marked parts"

zemnl — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 12:54:25 +0000

You still haven't explained me how that message is anti-european or solicit violence against the native population. That's like saying being pro freedom of religion is like being against Christianity.

Regarding the events in the article you linked: I haven't been following them, but from the look of it it seems the attacker could be very well an Islamic extremist. Being an advocate for immigrants rights doesn't mean someone cannot be also against religious extremists.

New comment by zemnl in "Ligra – an open source image projector based off of flea marked parts"

zemnl — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 12:02:57 +0000

How "no one is illegal" is an anti-european message or "hate speech against native populations" is beyond me.

New comment by zemnl in "Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites"

zemnl — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 09:35:19 +0000

They are propaganda, the CIA and Pentagon had/have their hands in many movies, Marvel's Captain Marvel is a prominent example [1]

[1] https://www.dailydot.com/parsec/is-captain-marvel-military-p...

New comment by zemnl in "Zshell"

zemnl — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 16:19:39 +0000

I used OhMyZsh! for a long time and really liked it, but now I moved to Starship [1]. However I noticed I still missed some of the "steroids" that OhMyZsh brought so I keep it installed in my system and I only source the plugins I need in the .zshrc:

  source /usr/share/oh-my-zsh/lib/completion.zsh
  source /usr/share/oh-my-zsh/lib/directories.zsh
  source /usr/share/oh-my-zsh/lib/history.zsh
  source /usr/share/oh-my-zsh/lib/spectrum.zsh
  source /usr/share/oh-my-zsh/lib/key-bindings.zsh

[1]: https://starship.rs/

New comment by zemnl in "Mozilla downsizes as it refocuses on Firefox and AI"

zemnl — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 13:48:16 +0000

I've recently found out about Floorp. I haven't tried it yet though so I can't give any feedback.

https://floorp.app/en/

New comment by zemnl in "Turkmenistan on the brink of collapse?"

zemnl — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 07:34:00 +0000

Correct. And even his ex-girlfriend (the singer) turned out to be alive: there were rumors about her execution but they were fake.

New comment by zemnl in "Google Warning: Millions of Android Phones Come Preloaded with Malware"

zemnl — Mon, 12 Aug 2019 09:06:20 +0000

There are phones that come with Facebook preinstalled, so add that to the list.

New comment by zemnl in "Ask HN: What's Your Default Browser?"

zemnl — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 13:29:07 +0000

Firefox on desktop; same on on mobile along with Firefox Focus (although recently I started using Firefox Preview a bit more instead of regular FF)

New comment by zemnl in "“Hacker News” does not appear on Google"

zemnl — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 08:25:31 +0000

it's the first result for me on DDG https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hacker+news&t=h_&ia=web