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“how long it takes to open the browser and load a web page”. a 2011 laptop will likely perform the same on this metric with a contemporary website. (a 2011 website with a 2011 lapt…

to be fair with you, I have a huge intolerance to that bureaucracy, likely in part due to my passion. I think it would genuinely be the same for me.

I’m aware of this (consciously) but I would really do my job if it was unpaid, in fact: many do (and did) in the form of side projects and volunteering and FOSS. I was always weird…

but there are many people who passionately believe gay rights is bad. Or, abortion is bad. Or, apostasy is bad. Or, drawing a depiction of Muhammed is bad. They don't consider them…

I'm impressed that you know everything that's good and bad to be so resolute that you are the person who knows it all, it must be pretty incredible to be the one person on earth wh…

you mean the things you think are good, are good. And things that you think are bad, are bad. Everyone feels this way about their things.

Literally opinions.

idk what kind of fascist you are, but a free society doesn’t stop talking about something because certain leaders don’t like it. In order to get legislation you want (say: gay righ…

I think rejecting proposals from MEPs on the grounds that "it's against EU interests" would be very undemocratic and fuel the very anti-EU sentiment that it would supposedly combat…

No head of government is going to come out against what the government itself is doing, they have to defend every initiative, which is why they seem pretty ungenuine all the goddam…

It's very commonly the anti-EU politicians who inevitably get into EU parliament (due to representative voting, ironically more democratic than the FPTP system we use in the UK, de…

Realistically, maintainers are strangers on the internet to me, and crucially, it is common to add unofficial repos, as well as use non-platform package managers like npm, cargo an…

Cool theory, but the same reason I pull my shoes off by standing on my heel and pulling, despite it saving me no time (I will have to untie them anyway when I put them on again). H…

> No, I'm sorry but who on earth installs random software from random strangers, without a single step of validating before giving it access to (presumably) the same computer you d…

"40 hours" in his context here is actually a work day, so 7-8hrs. He says "40 hours" because he feels like he's managed to do 40 hours worth of work in this time, but then has to s…

> did you not even review the PKGBUILD or anything else before installing stuff from the AUR? I'd venture most people actually don't review pkgbuild; especially on upgrades . The o…

Yes, its really similar and unsurprisingly its still inflammatory. My girlfriend mentioned that this year is an election year in sweden, which made me realise how bad the propagand…

I'm conflating multiple things over 5 years, my memory seems imperfect. Apologies. What I've mixed together: 1) The "Alex" bot, which was opt-in and seemed to be everywhere. [0] 2)…

I’m still mad that Mozillas persona got no adoption. I’m sure it was imperfect, but in theory it was easy to host and easy to implement. :(

this is the first emoji I see on HN at all, they’re filtered out in comments.

Github is opinionated. I recall some time in 2016 when they were regex replacing variable names in peoples repositories and pestering them if they didn’t accept the request. They a…

> I’ve never stumbled upon a project by browsing GitHub casually. Same. The “discoverability” of github is two things: 1) Recognition of the name; so if I cannot find the source co…

storage has also increased (thus, its management overheads). And, to be honest with you, I’d prefer phones that are battery powered get the 3nm process node and these kind of devic…

Sure, but then shouldn’t they have a lower power CPU? I’d be worried about starving my storage need for CPU (ZFS can use a good amount of CPU power) inadvertently. Running some sma…

I'm british. The way that gambling companies target the poorest of society feels disgustingly predatory. You can often tell the average income of an area based on how many betfreds…