Linux users are still behind on this innovation. Big corporations with money can move much faster. The closest I got on Fedora was a "donate to the author" button in a game launcher I installed last week. I saw it once. That pretty much exhausts my "modern platform" experience for the past few months.

Still waiting for the copilot button in cat | grep.

I bought my PC like 2 weeks ago and ran my ram at 5800 to test its limits and forgot to lower it. After few strange crashes of my fedora desktop - super strange behavior, apps refuse start/stop, can't even escape to the console... I ran memtest today and it lit all red in the first 2 minutes! Then I log in to my stable desktop at 5200 MT and I see this in the front HN page! What are the chances?!!

I am 100 percent certain that one of my domains i registered before and now I am still looking for lawyer to help me sue my government for blocking my domain for something I never commit and refusing to remove the block - just be cause they can. short .com domain! I even paid it for 2 years because I was willing to commit.

Now it is easy to blame AI for any mistakes, I remember back in the days we had to convince our PM that notepad++ was at fault for the bad code and the whole team should keep their jobs.

In Bulgaria we have a similar speed reduction strategy but we are a bit ahead of Sweden: We use medium-radius but very deep potholes. If you lose attention for even a split second, you are forced to a full stop to change a tire. Near schools it gets more "advanced": they put parked cars on both sides of the road, and the holes positioned so you can't bypass them. For example, two tire-sized holes on both sides of the road right next to the parked cars. You have to come to a complete stop, then slowly descend into the hole with the front wheels, climb back out, and repeat the process for the rear wheels. Occasionally, even though we (technically) have sidewalks, they are covered in mud or grass or bushes, so pedestrians are forced to walk in the middle of the road. This further reduces driving speed to walking pace and increases safety in our cities. Road markings are missing almost everywhere and they put contradicting road signs so drivers are not only forced to cooperate but also to read each other minds.

Same in India! We go one better, we let people drive in the opposite lane as well!

That’s genius but one has to ask: how much does it cost to maintain these speed restricting features?

In the UK, the cost of owning a car is high yet our potholes, while frequent, are small enough to survive. Thus being more of an annoyance rather than a speed restriction.

That's the best part, the holes maintain themselves. Heck, they even appear without a site survey or paperwork.

I came here to ask exactly the same question - i use temp addresses for lots of scammy-looking services. I don't even care to read what the email or domain is. I guess there is no way to enter the US?

you could put down the email address they end up in or you could learn to lie plausibly

And get arrested for lying to an officer and spend a long time in jail or be deported without the chance of ever coming back. Great advice this.

Does that mean that finally some Ubisoft executive can have jail time when they shut down the servers and I no longer have access to my fancy hat I bought few years ago? The case would be even more clean because there would be real world money involved. - Just thinking...

If they enter the UK, then theoretically, maybe? But realistically: Good luck convincing a prosecutor to charge them.

According to the court opinion[0]:

  It is for all these reasons that anything in the contractual documents between Jagex
  and the players, or in the civil law more generally, which would preclude the player
  having any enforceable private law personal property rights in the gold pieces, is not
  determinative as to whether they are property for the purposes of the definitions in the
  Theft Act.

The court draws a comparison to precedent where drug dealers stole illegal drugs from other drug dealers, which were also found to be "property" as defined by the Theft Act[1]:

  It was confirmed in R v Smith (Michaael Andrew) [2011] EWCA Crim 66 that illegally held
  Class A drugs are property within the meaning of the Theft Act and are capable of being
  stolen. A theft or robbery amongst rival drug gangs can be indicted as such, because the
  criminal law is concerned with the public order consequences of preventing such behaviour,
  notwithstanding that it would be contrary to public policy to recognise any property
  rights for the purposes of civil enforcement between drug dealers.

The court then approvingly quotes another judge, who in turn quotes Smith's Law of Theft, 9th ed.:

  "[...] The criminal law is concerned with keeping the Queen’s peace, not vindicating
  individual property rights." That observation articulates the principle to be applied in
  the present appeal.

So, by that logic, if gamers start doling out murderous retribution against Ubisoft execs for "stealing" their in-game hats, the fact that the gamers have no enforceable property rights in those hats is irrelevant, and the responsible executive(s) could be found criminally liable under the Theft Act because "stealing" gamers' in-game hats threatens the King's peace.

[0]: https://caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewca/crim/2026/4/dat..., p. 14

[1]: Ibid., p. 13

I use the Monday personality. Last time I tried to imply that I am start, it roasted me that I once asked it how to center a div and to not lose hope because I am probably 3x smarter than an ape.

Completely different experience.

And also it would be good to limit the ban duration with a law. For example manslaughter can be 5 years in prison. So if google decide to ban your account because you send your doctor a photo of your son for medical purposes, they are not allowed to ban you for more than 5 years and then they must restore full access to your account.

I think for these big companies as well, they should have to have a more targeted punishment. Since having access to an Apple or Google device is increasingly mandatory in many countries (often as a result of government legislation!), getting that cut off is more impactful than other services.

So like, if you get caught, red handed, absolutely 100% you, performing gift card fraud, the maximum punishment from Apple should still be getting banned from the gift card system (buying or redeeming). And if they want more consequences for you because they think you’re running a fraud ring, they should have to sue you like a physical store would. But not lock you out of the rest of the ecosystem. Otherwise you get the false positives getting the digital death sentence Apple tried to hand out here

I fear that this would lead to everyone being allowed exactly one account -- why would you need more than one if the one you have can never be fully deactivated? -- and that account would be tied to your human identity forever. Which would go about as well as any other attempt to solve Sybil problems.

How about, if they ban someone, they must give their evidence to the government to prosecute the alleged crime, and if the government refuses (within X time) or loses, then the account is restored.

Otherwise if Google really thinks a child is being abused in that case, why aren't they reporting it to the police instead of turning a blind eye? Does Google want child abuse?