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I highly recommend regolith as well, even though the Sway session has never worked without issues for me yet. X11 is very stable.


Have been using proto mail for a few years now and highly recommend it. You will ever have a cute @pm.me address!


Many people I know are switching away from them because of their alleged support of fascism.


In what way do they support fascism? I am using Protonmail, does it mean I indirectly support fascism? I do not care about the CEOs political views, nor his views on polygamy, or his favorite sexual position. If you want to argue against the use of Protonmail, you will have to try harder.


I think they are mixing up who is supporting fascism…


Yeah fascists love to say everyone else is fascist so


Can you provide any additional context for this? I haven't heard it, and a cursory search doesn't turn up anything obvious regarding their ties to fascism.


Their CEO made some comments in support of Trump. https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-tru...


Ah yes. Everything I don't like is fascism.

Ironically, we told you all for years that if you abused terms like fascist, Nazi, racist, etc then they would lose their power and their impact and people would ignore them in future. You were warned what would happen if you cried wolf.


Sometimes there actually is a wolf, though.

MAGA is a right-wing political movement that:

-seeks to return the nation to a mythical superior past, by

-empowering an extraordinary leader who represents the will of the people, in order to

-expel inferior/unworthy ethnicities, and

-expunge left/“Marxist” influences from art and culture.

These are all characteristics of Fascism specifically, not the authoritarian actions that people casually call fascist.


> expel inferior/unworthy ethnicities

Is this happening? Or a stated goal?

I know they're deporting people who aren't here legally (that's a whole other debate), but I'm not aware of them actively targeting anyone based on race of ethnicity regardless of their legal status.


Yes, they are currently targeting Venezuelans and Haitians who have legal status


I know trump was already saying shitty things about Haitians before he was even sworn in. Have they had ICE rounding up and deporting people who are actually here legally?


They are working on cancelling their legal status. We have allowed Haitian migration because of the incompetence and corruption down there (and our role in a lot of that in the past)


If they go through the legal process and revoke or cancel status in a way that courts agree is within their legal authority, I'm not sure what they would have done wrong there. Morally I'd take huge issue with it, but we have allowed such a complex web of laws and authorities that we can't really complain when an elected official does what they want by the book.

Now if they go off script and act outside the law, that's a whole other story.


That already happened. The Biden/Harris admin quietly did not renew their TPS status while the "eating the pets" nonsense was in the news.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/05/politics/biden-administration...


https://www.reuters.com/world/us/native-americans-say-tribal...

There has also been posts from schools in Texas recommending kids on field trips keep legal documentation on them because ICE is stopping school buses for investigations.

https://www.newsweek.com/texas-school-district-bus-immigrati...

At what point do you pull your head out of the sand and stare into reality.


I don't know, is it? The US has had Trump as POTUS for four weeks and he's already doing a lot of what was "promised" in [Project 2025](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025)...


The boy who cried wolf is only a meaningful story because he is eventually eaten by a wolf.

However, your third point is a bit breathless. They aren't expelling anyone based on ethnicity. They want to deport illegal aliens. It isn't their fault so many of those aliens are from one country. The Nazis were expelling and killing Jews that had been in Europe for centuries lawfully. And, yknow, the whole killing them thing! The human experiments. The slave labour camps.

You are forgetting that fascist regimes go to war with their neighbours for territory, ignore the law, suspend democracy and have secret police to enforce political orthodoxy. Trump is an isolationist and he hasn't done any of the rest, yet at least.

Also don't forget that for all the stick Trump gets about immigration, all the Democratic presidents I can remember claim that they want to control the border too, and claim they can do so better. Hardly illustrative of fascism...


Yes, ask any Canadian how they feel about their sovereignty right now. Let me know how the Riviera in Gaza is going to work out and enjoy that vacation in the Gulf of America. Do you remember when Solemeni got assassinated. I also hope your not what he calls "vermin" and end up in Guantanamo Bay. Just because they're so dumb and incompetent and incapable of accomplishing their goals(at this moment) doesn't make a spade a spade. Honestly I am not even surprised by this anymore your post describes exactly why fascism takes root, just endless justification of authoritarianism.


There is no threat towards Canadian sovereignty obviously. The Riviera in Gaza would be a lot better than the current situation in which its biggest industry is exporting rockets into Israel. Also not territorial expansion as Gaza isn't a neighbour. Imperialism? Yes. But look at the world. It functioned much better in most places when imperial powers controlled more of it. That isn't an excuse for them to invade each other, which never ended well. Also he is just using it as a negotiating tactic with Jordan and Egypt obviously.

Changing the name of some water isn't territorial expansion or authoritarianism.

Solemeni was a terrorist. A dead terrorist is a good terrorist. If you attack a sovereign country then you should expect to be targeted. Fuck around? Find out.

Obama closed Gitmo. He promised to, remember, so he must have. And he withdrew from Afghanistan, remember? He said so in between claiming that marriage was only between a man and a woman. What a hero of the left.

Feel free to tell me I am wrong when I actually am instead of just when your imagination runs wild and you see "authoritarianism" in your cereal. Killing terrorists is authoritarianism lol. And drone striking children isn't?


Still want to claim there's no threat to Canadian sovereignty going on? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egGm4Od5rp0

One of the problems with this community is there are no mechanisms for intellectual accountability beyond the span of a news cycle.


> There is no threat towards Canadian sovereignty obviously. The Riviera in Gaza would be a lot better than the current situation in which its biggest industry is exporting rockets into Israel.

Like there is no threat to Medicaid? Here’s the authoritarianism: Trump is clearly setting us up for a major constitutional crisis by way of his lying bullshit. Go see the way he talked to the governor of maine and tell me you dont hear the threats? You might not be a Nazi, but you’re sure damn close.


What about threatening to annex Canada and Greenland, eliminating birthright citizenship or expanding the Guantanamo Bay concentration camp?


Actually I think the message that people should get is that folks LIKE fascism.

Germans loved Hitler until Stalingrad.


What I’ve heard is that hosting in Switzerland concerns right-leaning people.


Anna Karenina is a masterpiece of a novel. I highly recommend it as well.

I often jokingly mention that this is the first book that ever made me want to get married. While many now that the novel describes the tragic life and relationships of Anna, only those that read it will now that here is another, as important and positive story, about the love between Kitty and Levin.


That novel helped me understand love.


Not a Lisp, but also an interesting take on a functional programming language that transpiles to Python is Coconut (https://coconut-lang.org/).

I'd be seriously interested in hearing from people that have actually used any of these two and what their experience was.


I played around with Coconut many years ago and my impression was that the compiler was not smart enough to be useful. The generated code had a big pile of helper functions hardcoded at the top, and the program was much slower than the equivalent plain Python.

By contrast Hy generates Python code that is very close to what you might write by hand, apart from some indirection when it comes to scoping with `let` and some variations around returning values.

Maybe Coconut has improved though, it's been a long time.


Very cool! How does the optimized Pytoch code compare to the Jax implementation?


This lookes well made and based on the great beartype. I wonder if there are packages that use this and if one could imagine a similarity interfunctioning ecosystem for Python as Julia seems to have.


I highly recommend "mapy.cz", another free, ad free, offline map app. I used it for a longer hike in Slovenia this summer and was amazed that it included all of the hiking trails we encountered in the area.

We were hiking the Slovenian Mountain Trail. What a beauty!


I tried both this summer and Mapy.cz is definitely better for hiking. You don't have to zoom in as much to see the trails, hiking trails are marked more clearly with major trails marked in a nice thick red line and it has relief maps (though they can't be downloaded) and the peaks are more clearly labeled along with their height. Also when you zoom out you see a height map instead of just grey for land and blue for water.

Overall it has a nicer attention to detail, for example dashed lines stay in one place as you zoom in/out instead of swimming around and I like the selection of downloaded areas better on Mapy.cz (it has flags next to country names and downloading a new area takes one tap instead of two or three) though it still feels flimsy.


I wonder why this app isn't more popular. Basically, there's a map app which is much better than Google Maps for a lot of use cases and very few people outside of Czechia use it. Is this a matter of marketing or is the app actually not that good?


I've been using it for a while and love it but intend to give the open source Organic maps a try. In particular sharing a way point in Mapy.cz seem to require an account with a Czech web portal.

The reason Mapy.cz has all the trails is because they also use open street maps.


Tried to get it to summarize this comment page on hacker news, but the output seems to refer to another document.

https://labs.kagi.com/ai/sum?url=https://news.ycombinator.co...


Any chance that the TeXmacs format could be supported by Pandoc?


I recommend "Modern C" by Jens Gusted.

https://www.manning.com/books/modern-c

The C language can be quite tricky to navigate (at least to me) and this book helped me a lot to understand writing idiomatic code.


Agreed. The tool chain help in here is very useful for a beginner.


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