elros · HackerTrans

I moved to Bulgaria last year, and while I love the country and its... rugged and quaint people, let me assure you, tarnishing their driver's reputation is impossible.

On an unrelated note, studying Bulgarian brought me a lot of joy.

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> Ive learned leaving soup out and reboiling is fairly common in some cultures which is unfortunate.

I know next to nothing about chemistry or biology but I do cook a lot of food, and quite often have leftovers.

After many years in Germany, I got into the habit of leaving food out, and that would mostly be fine. Very rarely would food spoil, at least from a culinary perspective (I'm not disputing the presence of bacteria or harm of its waste).

However after even a few months in Taiwan I learned that this strategy is basically impossible: food left outside spoils within hours.

Given I originally come from a country that is warmer, but much dryer than Taiwan, where food doesn't spoil if left out nearly as fast, I do believe it has to do more with humidity than with temperature.

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2개월 전discuss

On a stressful day full of short deadlines and somewhat overwhelming work, thank you for the chuckle :-)

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3개월 전discuss

I stopped paying attention when the major browsers started to act somewhat against the interests of ad-blocking add-ons, some years ago.

Would anyone who has kept up let me know what would be the 2026 "industry standard" in terms of an ad-blocking and privacy stack?

I primarily use Chrome on Mac and Safari on iPhone but I'm willing to change browsers for better ad-blocking and privacy.

I would also be interested in solutions that scale beyond a single machine, for when I'm at home (e.g. should I get a little box and use it as an ad blocker between my internet my router and my network or something?)

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3개월 전discuss

> The Internet-circulating quote comes to mind: Planet Earth is pretty much a vacation resort for around 500 rich people, and the remaining 8 billion of us are just their staff. The Relative Few have got the system set up perfectly so that whatever we do, we're probably serving/enriching them. AI doesn't really change this, but it does further it.

I don't necessarily disagree with the analysis on how Planet Earth is currently setup to be, but something that I've been thinking about lately, is that to the extent we can consume the public image of some of the Relative Few, they seem oddly unhappy.

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5개월 전discuss

> Even javascript would have been better for me than Lua.

Why?

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6개월 전discuss

On a certain level, it’s also a question of different parenting philosophy.

> Stuff like online communications will come at a later age. Absolutely no reason to start explaining that to a 5 year old.

I agree, but I also see absolutely no reason why 5 years old children would have access to a gaming device. Pretty much any other activity I can imagine is better for them.

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10개월 전discuss

In my experience, if you get a dog you go to the government and pay the dog tax. The dog needs to have id, be chipped, and comes with a token you put on the leash. Part of the process is enforcing vaccination. If a dog has no such token, it’s considered a stray dog.

To so many issues, watching as a bystander from the outside, solutions exist, but the US seems to have a penchant for ignoring them and then claiming their problem is somehow not comparable to everyone else’s.

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11개월 전discuss

> I’ve made my decisions, leave me alone!

Perhaps you and GP aren't really the target market for their products. Part of why, after many years of Slackware and Arch Linux on desktops I assembled myself, compiling kernel modules, etc etc, I decided to pay Apple for the past decade is exactly because I don't want to make these decisions.

Frankly I pay Apple for the following things, in order or descending importance to me:

1) Decisions / sensible defaults / ecosystem / walled garden;

2) MagSafe cable so I don't trip on cords and/or damage my machines;

3) The subjective feeling that their corporate interests are more aligned with mine than other players in the market, viz. privacy etc.;

4) Pixel density;

5) Well-built aluminum bodies;

6) Large trackpads;

To be fair, I'm not saying the prompting for things I don't want (e.g. I don't consume any media services or exercise stuff) isn't annoying, but it seems to only happen once I switch devices every few years. It's been useful for me to discover services I wouldn't know about otherwise, which I now am a customer of, such as iCloud.

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