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Most interesting part of this for me is the lukewarm response it gets from the initial replies. The sense of humor here was ahead of its time.

Their front page is literally covered with anti fascist stuff so I think this criticism is probably misplaced

I just skip the middle men at this point and tell people “open up your third eye”

Recommended: https://doodad.dev/dither-me-this/

Still waiting desperately on a KDE theme for the win32 aesthetic

Rest in peace. Like many here, his performances were hugely influential on my childhood (and adulthood). One I haven’t seen mentioned here yet is Merlin.

I’ve never used 9front but I love the whole culture around it in posts like these.

They’re almost always wrong too, so they just beep at you for going over 50 when you’re in a 90 zone

I’m going to get this post as a tattoo. Somewhere really visible to maximize its reach- maybe the face.

Best possible ad for Weird Al. How did we get here? Why am I, a lifelong tech enthusiast, on a tech enthusiast board championing someone for resisting technology? I’ve been on HN f…

I feel like a toxic part of this cycle is that a successful fan project has the potential to actually inspire Nintendo to attempt to do the same thing, leading to #2 as a punishmen…

Sorry but you’re smoking crack if you don’t think quality of life is deteriorating in the US. The anxiety and misery is literally palpable.

The naïveté in posts like this is actually astonishing (assuming it's not satire).

Imposing AI on the young when you no longer stand to experience the negative consequences because of your age is its own form of ageism.

I think the author would have had a better reception without the triumphant “canceled French tutor” framing. The juxtaposition of “learning a language” with “cutting out the human …

If there's one thing I've learned, it's that computer technology is morally evil

Just leave Spotify behind and buy music again if you care about music in more than a casual way. It feels great. Bandcamp rules.

Em dashes are really good actually and a standard stylistic choice for non-technical writing, particularly outside the US.

I'm looking to learn a language interactively with an app/program/website, but a lot of the "household names" I know from the past seem to use AI now, which isn't what I want. Curi…

No horse in this race because I don’t want a Claude app, but the median Linux user is increasingly just a normal person who doesn’t want spying telemetry or ads or whatever

Sure sign that we are not dealing with a coercive situation! :)

I've noticed a tendency among people who have built careers known for visionary, forward-thinking work that they hesitate to make the natural move into more "conservative" position…