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by judah 15d ago
The full thread[0] about how it runs on Wine is quite interesting: > Direct2D has always been the biggest hurdle for Paint.NET on WINE, and it's clear that it will never be completed enough for Paint.NET's use. And I can't
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Paint.net 5.2 alpha now runs on Linux(forums.paint.net)
206 points by judah 15d ago|179 comments
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by judah 28d ago
> "So why keep talking to claim the opposite again, trying to absolve Israel of responsibility again?" Because Israel winning a war they didn't start is a good thing, actually. Israel fighting until the hostages were relea
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by judah 1mo ago
> "you're behind on your propaganda" Genuine dialog requires a willingness to engage with others' arguments, assess evidence and offer counterpoints. That you dismiss the well-documented history and anthropology of th
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by judah 1mo ago
If continuous presence in a land doesn't define a people's right to exist as a nation, you know what does? The ability to create and defend borders. Israel has that. Israel was invaded on the day it declared independence on May 14
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by judah 1mo ago
History. Jews have lived in Israel for 3,500 years. They were forced out numerous times by numerous conquerors -- including the Islamic conquest of the 8th century -- but each time, Jews returned. And there is no genocide taking place, just
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by judah 1mo ago
It's incredibly cynical to demonize Jews for living in our historic homeland and turning desert sand into thriving cities[0]. It's what we prayed for daily for centuries after being thrown out of Europe. Now it's here, now we
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by judah 1mo ago
Do you hold the same standard for native Americans? And yes, people are responsible for their actions. Hamas, an Islamic fundamentalist group whose founding charter calls for the violent overthrow of the world's only Jewish state, star
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by judah 1mo ago
Jews have had a continuous presence in Israel for 3,500 years. Many more returned home after the Holocaust and rebuilt cities, created new ones like Tel Aviv, turned sand into productive land.
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by judah 1mo ago
> european zionist invaders I never thought I'd see this kind of blatant anti-semitism on HN. Jews in Europe were persecuted for hundreds of years as foreign invaders told to go back to their homeland. Immediately after the Holocaus
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by judah 1mo ago
Having just finished the book of Judges last week, this is fresh on my mind. Finishing the story of Samson, my first reaction, like the author of the post, is that Samson is just stupid. Delilah is likely a Philistine, the nemesis of Samson
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X changes revenue sharing to reward original content(twitter.com)
4 points by judah 1mo ago|1 comments
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by judah 1mo ago
In other words, a boil-the-ocean scheme. Solutions that require a great many humans to change an ingrained behavior are usually non-starters.
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by judah 1mo ago
> When Jeff Dean goes on vacation, production services across Google mysteriously stop working within a few days. This is actually true. (TRUE) Uh oh...
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by judah 2mo ago
The post author mentions in the comments he doesn't like the politics of the Mullvad and Brave creators. Brave creator Brendan Eich is also the creator of JavaScript, which powers most of the web today. Eich donated to Republicans and
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by judah 3mo ago
This was really encouraging to read. Appreciate the honesty and vulnerability. Keeo going, keep sober, and I hope your future stays bright.
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by judah 4mo ago
Same. I've been running a personal blog for over 20 years. Last year, I couldn't find any links to my blog on Google. Went to Google Search Console to find all my links are "Crawled by not indexed", with no reason given.
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by judah 5mo ago
The great Jewish philosopher Maimonides once said, "You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes." This runs counter to today's tribalism which says we must reject truth if it comes from someone who voted for our p
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by judah 6mo ago
Your post is touching on a key question: why write a Windows-specific app? I'm a developer who has built and published several apps. I want the biggest possible audience for those apps. Why would I limit those apps to Windows? (Or ev
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by judah 6mo ago
FYI, Microsoft Store doesn't need an account. You can install apps without being signed in to the Store. Source: I work on the Microsoft Store.
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by judah 6mo ago
Everyone thinks they're the good guys, even the bad guys.
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by judah 6mo ago
Increasingly, there just aren't enough incentives to write native apps. This isn't a criticism of the article, but rather a tangential observation about why so many people turn to the web instead of using native toolkits to build
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by judah 7mo ago
More than a small kerfuffle. A supply chain attack by a state actor, believed to be China, resulted in undetected malicious code executions from June 2025 to December 2025.
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by judah 7mo ago
I upvoted it after reading it. I thought there were a number of amusing, counter-intuitive studies in the post. Worth the read.
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The One Woman Anthropic Trusts to Teach AI Morals(wsj.com)
2 points by judah 7mo ago|0 comments
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by judah 8mo ago
Yes, I concede the US is partly responsible for Iran's economic collapse. What a wonderful outcome should it result in the Ayatollahs losing their grip on power.
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by judah 8mo ago
> "Random, anonymous sources" Time Magazine is reporting[0] that local Iranian health officials have given that number. [0]: https://time.com/7357635/more-than-30000-killed-in-iran-say-...
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by judah 8mo ago
Iran's government is an Islamic fundamentalist dictatorship. It has imprisoned and killed protestors[0], it hung over 700 political dissidents last year[1], it has imprisoned and executed people who have left Islam[2], it has beaten an
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by judah 8mo ago
Jake Archibald has an excellent post about progressive image rendering, including some metrics on JPEG XL compared to AVIF[0]. > "I was also surprised to see that, in Safari, JPEG XL takes 150% longer (as in 2.5x) to decode vs an eq
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by judah 9mo ago
Nifty, but I see they don't support Facebook or X? That's a showstopper for a lot of people, including me.

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