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Content that is curated by interested humans, without commercial interests, is so good.

Yes!! And with today's translation programs, the user does not even need to understand the local language. Better — for me — would even be a mix of languages. Give me the most and longest articles of all languages for the places around.

This headline is alarmist ('far-left' sounds dangerous for some people). And 'nationalise housing' is just wrong.

This party is not far-left, it is just left. But that is not the point. My point is that a headline about anti-left alarmism hit the HN front page. This is unusual; the HN crowd keep their discussions out of daily politics most of the time. So, this has the smell of importance. Alarm! Far-left!

And this is weird because Germany is in real danger of electing a fascist government at the moment. There is not the tiniest chance of socialist projects coming to power, but the far-right is winning—except for Berlin.

And then an OMG-far-left headline pops up here. This headline was made to push anti-left fear, not to inform the readers.

Is this a walkthrough or a game design document?

As a walkthrough, it is nice. But as the foundation for the game designers, it would be a fun because it is so lighthearted.

No, this is American style (long dash without spaces—like this) vs. European style (middle dash with spaces – like this).

I don't think it is useful to detect AI writing. I told my AI not to use em dashes.

A huge usabilitiy step would be the operating systems (and apps) just supporting geo links.

Geo links are from a RFC and are plain simple: geo:52.512974,13.420131

Clicking this link should open your chosen local map app at this position.

But it does not, actively sabotaged by big map app players who want only links to their app.

Oh, the classic Tuttle <-> Buttle name confusion!

I always remember the movie Brazil when I have to interact with a stupid cybernetic apparatus like every big company, where simple programs are the brain and low-paid humans are the actuators.

Ads are an attack, aimed at your brain. They try to inject malware into your thinking, manipulating your worldview and your actions.

That's horrible, worse than attacking a machine with malware, damaging persons and societies.

Decades of ad propaganda have tricked people into seeing them as something 'normal'. But we shouldn't accept being under constant attack of brain worms.

I propose a sane rule for all humans: if you see an ad somewhere, or if you suspect a hidden ad ('influencers' trying to promote something), close the tab immediately and never return to that site.

No, that's not hell yet. The boss in this case knows their own limitations and asks the technical person to help. True hell is when the boss thinks AI most be more knowing than the human. 'But Claude said it, do it!'

Fable has a 'security system' that just stops it when it tries to use the tool 'kill' to end a process. Which is nonsense and funny because in that situation it immediately invents a creative workaround to kill the process without 'kill'.

The Internet was originally designed to survive a nuclear war. Now we downgraded it deliberately to not survive a football game.

Decentralised infrastructure: good

Centralised infrastructure: bad

Good and bad for you, of course. For the big companies selling and controlling this stuff, it's vice versa.

Just stay alert and don't chain yourself with big tech dependencies. The reason Git is great is its decentralised nature. If you got so far, why cripple yourself by running your traffic through a single American company like Cloudflare?

Stay away fron Lasius! Lasius cinedus