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Speak for yourself.

I like it and I don't use it at all for politics.


Selecting your own mute words for your timeline is the best part about Twitter. The algorithm changes have been pretty bad in the last few weeks though.

FYI the “mute by keyword” feature exists both on Bluesky and Mastodon and I use it extensively. I don’t use Threads but a quick search tells me it’s available there too.

Now you know, and you don’t need to use twitter anymore!


I didn’t say you don’t like it, I said we’d all be better off, and I stand by that.

Also, a piece of advice, it’s not a good look to hang out at the Nazi bar if you aren’t a Nazi.


Right in the feels.

I wish I could go back in time to watch the movie for the first time.


Not the first time I can't access a link posted here due being blocked in Spain.


Are you using your ISP DNS? I’m in Spain as well and I can access the link just fine.


I'm using Cloudflare's.

I don't know how this blocking works. A couple minutes ago I could access this link but now I can't. It's happening with another website too. It's like an intermittent blocking today.


Real Madrid's on today, so it must be LaLiga's bullshit once again.

If it helps, 8.8.8.8 is not giving me issues, not sure if it's something other than DNS breaking on your side though.


Reading this from Tenerife airport and worked fine.


Are you asking why is it bad that MS disables a plugin you're using to shove down your throat a paying alternative?


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> It's a plugin that I'm not using, don't care about using, and cannot see any conceivable use for.

> No-one wants this.

So, fun fact about earth: there are lots of people on it, and some of those people aren't you, and some of those people who aren't you actually have desires that are different from yours.

I think it makes the planet a pretty fun and interesting place, but it also does mean generalizing from "I don't want this" (totally fine! Awesome! Makes sense!) to "no one wants this" is usually not very productive.


> No-one wants this

IntelliCode has 60M downloads and is the 11th most downloaded extension for all of VS Code. Also consider that there's 6 official Python-related extensions above it that could all be rolled into one, and Copilot just above it which (to my knowledge) is installed by default in newer versions of VS Code.

Just because it doesn't affect you personally doesn't mean it affects no one. You aren't in fact the centre of the universe.


Okay then, so if it's so popular, what does it do that I would want? Why is it supposed to be worth having?


Just because you don't feel the effect of something, doesn't mean it doesn't have an effect at all.


> No-one wants this. If they make it a paid-for version, it affects no-one.

You didn't read the article, did you?

"... deactivated the popular IntelliCode extension, which had over 60 million downloads..."

I'm a Microsoft hater, but let's stick to facts here, over 60 million downloads is not "no-one".


I'm guessing that's 60 million people that don't have a small child that can just type stuff that looks kind of like code but doesn't actually work like code.

No real need for a plugin, there.


I can't argue with that!


Valve is gonna save the day once again.


I was about to comment to say that unless Valve is prepared to invest significant effort into an x86 -> ARM translation layer that's not going to happen but a quick search for "linux x86 to arm translation" led me to an XDA article[1] proving me wrong. The recently announced Steam Frame runs on ARM and can run x86 games directly using using something called FEX.

Now we just need to be as good as (or better than) Apple's Rosetta.

[1] https://www.xda-developers.com/arm-translation-layer-steam-f...



Apple Silicon actually has microarchitectural quirks implementing certain x86-isms in hardware for Rosetta 2 to use. I doubt any other ARM SoC would do such a thing, so I doubt third-party translation will ever get quite as efficient.


Running Windows stuff.....


I don't use Windows but I do run a lot of software made only for Windows. I don't see any problem with that.


Until the fountain runs dry, because the kingdom lords diverted the river from Valve's well castle.


I'm sorry but that doesn't make any sense.

Valve is pushing mostly open source to expand to other platforms which is a win win for everybody.


That would be true if they were actually making devs embrace SteamOS.


They are. You're mad that Valve isn't militantly enforcing Linux-native games, which is nonsense. The OG Steam Machine did that and was DOA.

Thousands of game studios are gone now, and supporting their software is important legacy work. You don't have to appreciate that, but I do. I do not give the faintest fuck about the opportunity cost you bemoan towards native UNIX games when I do this. That's your problem, not mine.


Yeah, and Windows running WSL 2 is the Year of Linux Desktop, it is your problem to accept it, not mine.

If Proton is "Linux" games, so is running GNU/Linux under a VM a proper distro.


I quite prefer that to the alternative of not running Windows stuff.


Thing is, that strengths Windows market relevance, as IBM learnt with OS/2 and its Windows compatibility.


Good. I love exploiting Windows' market relevance, it's rather fun and engaging.


Until like IBM found out, devalues the underlying offer enough that it becomes irrelevant.


Isn't Valve's new VR headset running ARM?

I have faith!


I have seen VR headsets trying to break any significant market share since 1994, they have never been anything other than a niche, with customers having too much money to throw around.


Linux at home, MacOS at work.


Yes, because MS is known for respecting the user preferences and not forcing anything even if you disable it explicitly.


Maybe that's the problem "old product that inherit from Owncloud".


Many shorts are just AI cuts from bigger videos made to draw attention.

And what's worse is the infinite scroll.


Many shorts are just many different moments from a regular video indeed.


This uptime monitor must be streaming illegal football (soccer) because it's blocked in Spain.

    IP              Provider                       Status
    188.114.97.5 AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET, US)     Blocked
    188.114.96.5 AS13335 (CLOUDFLARENET, US)     Blocked
And the funny thing is free football is working as always. I know because a friend is watching a game right now while he comments on HN.


cloudflare. Most of the internet behind cloudflare is blocked whenever there are football being played in La Liga (the Spanish League).


This is outrageous. Does Spain have a "Great Firewall" like China?


No, they just make all ISP operating in the country mass block IPs.


And one of the biggest ISPs, Telefonica, holds the rights to the soccer matches so they happily comply!


Every EU country has one, on nation- and on EU-level.


> and on EU-level

Are you claiming there is a EU-wide firewall that EU could use (not the countries themselves) to block arbitrary websites? The EU hate on HN is reaching conspiracy-type levels now it seems.


RT.com, Sputnik News, etc. are blocked by the EU and the EU countries have to obey it, they have no say in this. This was done by Von der Leyen without any parliamentary oversight. It doesn't matter what your view on these sites is, it was a dangerous precedent. It also affects the TV stations.


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