Live data from Hacker News

Viewing profile — waon

waon

HN member
Joined
Mon, May 25, 2020, 4:09 AM UTC
HN karma
254
Public activity
93 items

About waon

No profile information was provided.

Recent public activity

  1. comment
    Comment #47450988

    European integration did not happen before WW2, because you know, Europe was at war. Moreover, criticizing FDR's response to the great depression while solely condemning Europe for…

  2. comment
    Comment #47450835

    How telling that in your version of events, "massive democratic backsliding" happened right after the conclusion of WW2. Yikes.

  3. comment
    Comment #46834368

    The person you're replying to doesn't abide by their own stated principles. It's a mistake to think that they're merely reminding you of the rules. No, it's an order. Just look at …

  4. comment
    Comment #46168240

    Periodic reminder that there are people seeking to derail discussions critical of AI and divert attention away from the actual substance of these issues.

  5. comment
    Comment #45934747

    This is just like how Windows is turning into an "agentic OS." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45920239 I wonder how many people installed VS Code wanting a text editor, only …

  6. story
  7. comment
    Comment #45071385

    This is what Republicans do. It is their job.

  8. comment
    Comment #44925465

    Defense in depth only works if you put up meaningful security measures. As numerous people including GP has pointed out, you still retain the means to log user traffic. That's not …

  9. comment
    Comment #44924868

    The whole community fled from Freenode as a direct consequence of your actions. You aren't convincing anyone with your "debunkings," dear masterdebater.

  10. comment
    Comment #42326128

    I find websites punishing users over their choice of browsers to be questionable. But if they're going down that route, why on earth allow Chrome, a mass surveillance product made …

  11. story
  12. comment
    Comment #34158843

    I wish the authors won't be demotivated by this if they ever see this top comment. Borg is such an invaluable project done by volunteers. They don't deserve the blatant abuse demon…

  13. comment
    Comment #30682134

    I believe some of the Chromium folks are partly responsible for this. Though it's probably not a planned "campaign" of any sort, I've seen some prominent figures constantly direct …

  14. story
  15. comment
    Comment #27494505

    According to one of the new ops for the now unofficial Freenode #fsf channel, #reactos may have stayed. If true, the count would be four. > @freenode_CrystalMath:matrix.org > and i…

  16. comment
    Comment #27300447

    > Worth noting that it's quite common for people to not be publicly listed as part of Github organizations. My bad, I didn't know that was a thing.

  17. comment
    Comment #27300240

    It's quite concerning that ailin-nemui, who made the prior commit migrating to Libera currently isn't listed as part of the irssi organization[1]. According to GitHub stats, this i…

  18. comment
    Comment #27299801

    I wonder if this is the official stance of the project itself, since this commit was authored by a person who hadn't made a single commit for more than 5 years. https://github.com/…

  19. story
  20. comment
    Comment #27071315

    It's subtle misinformation that's designed to change how people unconsciously perceive PWAs. When people bring up PWAs, they commonly refer to a particular set of APIs which has a …

  21. comment
    Comment #27061729

    > HTML5 (which is now called Progressive Web Apps / PWA) This is clear gaslighting and is verifiably false. Progressive Web Apps is a Google thing, coined by a Google engineer[1] a…

  22. story
  23. story
  24. comment
    Comment #24888409

    > The fact that the read me provided examples specifically downloading RIAA relevant content is pretty damning. That's not a fact, that's baseless rumor. Here's the actual README: …

  25. comment
    Comment #24888250

    The test cases only downloads the first 10KB for automated testing, as was mentioned beyond the first sentence of my original comment.