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bfkwlfkjf commented on Schizophrenia sufferer mistakes smart fridge ad for psychotic episode   old.reddit.com/r/LegalAdv... · Posted by u/hliyan
YurgenJurgensen · 9 days ago
Stallman didn’t even conceive of this threat. Would it be any better if it was an open source dystopian mind-control machine?
bfkwlfkjf · 7 days ago
Stallman conceived of the threat that if you let companies control your computer, they'll use it to their benefit and your detriment.
bfkwlfkjf commented on Google Starts Sharing All Your Text Messages with Your Employer   forbes.com/sites/zakdoffm... · Posted by u/toomanyrichies
bfkwlfkjf · 13 days ago
It's like Google and Microsoft are converging, no?
bfkwlfkjf commented on Microsoft Teams will tell your boss when you're out of the office   mashable.com/article/micr... · Posted by u/robtherobber
bfkwlfkjf · 13 days ago
Will it also tell your subordinates when you're out of the office? Because I suspect my boss is running errands a lot and it would be funny to see.
bfkwlfkjf commented on WhatsApp will become interoperable with other messaging apps in Europe   tuta.com/blog/whatsapp-in... · Posted by u/marvinborner
input_sh · 14 days ago
> BirdyChat and Haiket are the first two messaging apps that will initially be interoperable with WhatsApp.

What the heck are BirdyChat and Haiket? Both of those don't seem to actually exist, they just have a waitlist on their homepage.

Literally the only post on BirdyChat's blog is how they're now WhatsApp-compatible, but their initial Google Play release happened 45 days ago (Oct 16th).

Haiket's website similarly contains only one press release, which is to say that they're accepting waitlists since Nov 11th, but they're somehow funded by the "former CEO of AT&T Communications and board member of Palo Alto Networks and Lockheed Martin".

bfkwlfkjf · 13 days ago
Facebook will attempt malicious compliance. They will try every trick so that they follow the letter of the law, but still undermine the regulators goals. I think this is round 1: Facebook figured out a way that only two irrelevant apps are initially interoperable.
bfkwlfkjf commented on WhatsApp will become interoperable with other messaging apps in Europe   tuta.com/blog/whatsapp-in... · Posted by u/marvinborner
hmokiguess · 14 days ago
If I stopped and looked at how many redundant apps I have right now that’d be wild. For messaging alone, I’m on iMessage, Messenger, Telegram, Signal, WhatsApp, Slack, Discord, IRC, many in-app DM secondary tier feature chats, and perhaps a few other esoteric ones. Can we go back to just IRC please, those were the days for me.
bfkwlfkjf · 13 days ago
It's called XMPP now. Think IRC plus E2E encryption for private chats, audio, and video calls.
bfkwlfkjf commented on Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg   ziglang.org/news/migratin... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
dpatterbee · 18 days ago
I'm confused, the incident is that he wrote a document detailing repeated bad behaviour from a well known community figure? And this is a bad thing?

And that second link is really grasping at straws lol

bfkwlfkjf · 18 days ago
> the incident is that he wrote a document detailing repeated bad behaviour from a well known community figure? And this is a bad thing?

He collected all Stallman statements about Epstein and related subjects (this is perfectly ok) and then wrote his own summaries which completely misrepresent the things which were actually said. So what happened was that a lot of people just skimmed the summaries and concluded that Stallman molests children, or says that it's ok to do so etc etc.

If fact I have taken to link the Stallman report and add "don't read the summaries, read only the things that Stallman actually said". This only works if I believe the person is in good faith, of course. I would suggest the same to you.

bfkwlfkjf commented on Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg   ziglang.org/news/migratin... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
the__alchemist · 18 days ago
I am getting fatigued by all of these. I am learning about a new one each time. We have

  - GitHub
  - BinCode
  - GitLab
  - SourceHut
  - CodeBerg
They all seem to do roughly the same things, but with a different web UI. Competition is great! Especially in response to a big corp that has market share. But... there was value in the centralization of GH.

bfkwlfkjf · 18 days ago
> They all seem to do roughly the same things

Codeberg (Forgejo) is Free software, GitHub isn't. Not everything is about the software features.

bfkwlfkjf commented on Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg   ziglang.org/news/migratin... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
skylurk · 18 days ago
> Thank you to the Forgejo contributors who helped us with our issues switching to the platform, as well as the Codeberg folks who worked with us on the migration - in particular Earl Warren, Otto, Gusted, and Mathieu Fenniak.

To me this said more than anything else in the post. The fact that there are genuine people at forgejo/codeburg that give a thought about what they are working on is pure gold.

bfkwlfkjf · 18 days ago
In my experience a lot of Free software communities are like this.
bfkwlfkjf commented on Green card interviews end in handcuffs for spouses of U.S. citizens   nytimes.com/2025/11/26/us... · Posted by u/nxobject
aaronbrethorst · 18 days ago
Friendly reminder that it's often not possible to differentiate snark or sarcasm from cruel indifference towards fellow human beings on Hacker News.
bfkwlfkjf · 18 days ago
Obviously sarcasm

u/bfkwlfkjf

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