> They have shareholders, who wouldn't allow them to provide value for free, its just not obvious to you how they are extracting that value. Maybe its by capturing a huge % of unencrypted https traffic because if you…
> When the US position gets hit with layoffs, do you still have comprehensive healthcare and unemployment coverage? What does this have to do if the advertised base salary? You would pay for your healthcare and social…
> Underwriting gigawatt data centers and frontier models demands a fully realized European Capital Markets Union, a single energy regulator with cross-border grid integration, and shared fiscal borrowing power. Care to…
> We're not in a good position on the supply chain needed. Right now it really means pouring billions on American corps, either by renting the compute or by building it. You are saying "right now" as if EU is seriously…
I agree with your message overall, but this kind of, I dunno, martyrdom posturing ("But we're in a social climate where I don't even dare write down examples of what those more effective methods would be, because if…
> Imagine 8 years of Bernie As a person who was born in the Soviet Union I can easily imagine that...
For oldschool shooter experience you can just install Quake Live from Steam. You won't have trouble finding active servers in it.
Are you referring to [0] as a "rational take"? Oh, sorry, it is 2026 already and that one was quickly swept under the rug already so I guess you were referring to [1]? Not sure those would appear very rational to anyone…
> Is Gemini really that bad? It still produce full-blown hallucinations for me sometimes, even in 2026. The kinds ChatGPT stopped generating by 2025. It is cheap and fast though.
> Highlights on my smartphone are Fennec (Firefox), Termux, Cromite, Element, Syncthing, various videogames and other utilities. What is even their motivation to not be backed up?
Yes, they may just be laying the groundwork for introducing compliance requirements for VPN providers while the concept of VPN itself as a tool will always remain lawful by itself. Same as a messaging apps - they are…
I would assume that the problem with California aquifer is (mostly) a consequence of its Democratic state government decisions and it is highly unlikely that electing Hilary or Kamala would have prevented it.
I would assume because water-wasting concerns are just another tool for the left to use against their political opponents, not an actual concern most of their constituents deeply care about. Same, for example, as…
> Google acting like a normal but competent company that's just chugging away People are too quick to forget racially-diverse Nazi soldiers and other hilariously incompetent stuff that has been going around their…
That is okay. The optimal amount of "issues" is greater than zero.
Not necessary. People who still transfer their life savings to some "I'm with MicroSoft tech support" guy shouldn't be allowed to vote either TBH.
Besides paying or accepting being tracked you also have the option of not using web services that require that. Some things you can self-host (email, Mastodon instance, etc), others are sponsored (HN). I still don't get…
> Because advertising does not require invasive and pervasive tracking. Okay, so just ignore tracking-advertisement supported option and sign up for payed account. What is your issue with this again? > What you're…
This looks like a very narrow ruling regarding copyright. It doesn't guarantee that EU bureaucrats won't try to ban VPNs that don't verify user age (for starters to make NPCs support the bans, then they will inevitably…
> Advertising does not require invasive and pervasive tracking. Why are you so opposed to pay for a tier without tracking? I'm still not following. > Why the hell are people defending 24/7 monitoring at scale that would…
How is "Payed subscriptions tier without tracking" not a product? Isn't it exactly what Instagram offers in Europe?
This is actually a step in the right direction. I don't want to share my id and selfie with every stupid social media app/site. I would much rather allow parents to configure their children's devices to share their age.
> making payments for non-tracking illegal This keeps surfacing in discussions about tracking. I'm wondering how do you propose for b2c software companies to make money if they can't either properly advertise or require…
Not sure I would consider public schools a fun experience though. At least not for the majority of pupils.
Yeah, my favorite one is how Chrome users are not smart enough to handle case-aware web-page search toggle. Although to be fair their Chrome team is very arrogant even by Google standards.
> They have shareholders, who wouldn't allow them to provide value for free, its just not obvious to you how they are extracting that value. Maybe its by capturing a huge % of unencrypted https traffic because if you…
> When the US position gets hit with layoffs, do you still have comprehensive healthcare and unemployment coverage? What does this have to do if the advertised base salary? You would pay for your healthcare and social…
> Underwriting gigawatt data centers and frontier models demands a fully realized European Capital Markets Union, a single energy regulator with cross-border grid integration, and shared fiscal borrowing power. Care to…
> We're not in a good position on the supply chain needed. Right now it really means pouring billions on American corps, either by renting the compute or by building it. You are saying "right now" as if EU is seriously…
I agree with your message overall, but this kind of, I dunno, martyrdom posturing ("But we're in a social climate where I don't even dare write down examples of what those more effective methods would be, because if…
> Imagine 8 years of Bernie As a person who was born in the Soviet Union I can easily imagine that...
For oldschool shooter experience you can just install Quake Live from Steam. You won't have trouble finding active servers in it.
Are you referring to [0] as a "rational take"? Oh, sorry, it is 2026 already and that one was quickly swept under the rug already so I guess you were referring to [1]? Not sure those would appear very rational to anyone…
> Is Gemini really that bad? It still produce full-blown hallucinations for me sometimes, even in 2026. The kinds ChatGPT stopped generating by 2025. It is cheap and fast though.
> Highlights on my smartphone are Fennec (Firefox), Termux, Cromite, Element, Syncthing, various videogames and other utilities. What is even their motivation to not be backed up?
Yes, they may just be laying the groundwork for introducing compliance requirements for VPN providers while the concept of VPN itself as a tool will always remain lawful by itself. Same as a messaging apps - they are…
I would assume that the problem with California aquifer is (mostly) a consequence of its Democratic state government decisions and it is highly unlikely that electing Hilary or Kamala would have prevented it.
I would assume because water-wasting concerns are just another tool for the left to use against their political opponents, not an actual concern most of their constituents deeply care about. Same, for example, as…
> Google acting like a normal but competent company that's just chugging away People are too quick to forget racially-diverse Nazi soldiers and other hilariously incompetent stuff that has been going around their…
That is okay. The optimal amount of "issues" is greater than zero.
Not necessary. People who still transfer their life savings to some "I'm with MicroSoft tech support" guy shouldn't be allowed to vote either TBH.
Besides paying or accepting being tracked you also have the option of not using web services that require that. Some things you can self-host (email, Mastodon instance, etc), others are sponsored (HN). I still don't get…
> Because advertising does not require invasive and pervasive tracking. Okay, so just ignore tracking-advertisement supported option and sign up for payed account. What is your issue with this again? > What you're…
This looks like a very narrow ruling regarding copyright. It doesn't guarantee that EU bureaucrats won't try to ban VPNs that don't verify user age (for starters to make NPCs support the bans, then they will inevitably…
> Advertising does not require invasive and pervasive tracking. Why are you so opposed to pay for a tier without tracking? I'm still not following. > Why the hell are people defending 24/7 monitoring at scale that would…
How is "Payed subscriptions tier without tracking" not a product? Isn't it exactly what Instagram offers in Europe?
This is actually a step in the right direction. I don't want to share my id and selfie with every stupid social media app/site. I would much rather allow parents to configure their children's devices to share their age.
> making payments for non-tracking illegal This keeps surfacing in discussions about tracking. I'm wondering how do you propose for b2c software companies to make money if they can't either properly advertise or require…
Not sure I would consider public schools a fun experience though. At least not for the majority of pupils.
Yeah, my favorite one is how Chrome users are not smart enough to handle case-aware web-page search toggle. Although to be fair their Chrome team is very arrogant even by Google standards.