MetroWind's comments

On: Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs

[MetroWind]

Oh cool. US people paid for the tariffs. Now they are going to pay for the refund

[kakacik → MetroWind]

Well US population voted, hence the results. Maybe there are some subtle lessons to be learned?

On: Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance

[MetroWind]

OR... maybe they want to do it.

On: Following 35% growth, solar has passed hydro on US grid

[MetroWind]

Lmao because hydro in the US is so weak

[timbit42 → MetroWind]

Lakes feeding them are drying up.

On: U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took office

[MetroWind]

I love how Americans still dip their heads in the sand and pat themselves on the back by saying China produces low quality stuff.

* It's low quality stuff that you buy everyday * It's not merely low quality stuff, but low quality stuff in astonishing quantity... * ... and among them, occasionally there are some high quality stuff. It might be a small ratio, but the base number is there.

On: Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered

[MetroWind]

Obviously...?

On: XSLT RIP

[MetroWind]

RSS, MusicXML, SVG, Docbook, Epub, JATS, XMP, ...

Sorry, web frontend is not the "whole XML tech stack", despite popular belief.

And yes all of the above are mainstream in their respective industry.

On: Poison, Poison Everywhere

[MetroWind]

This is probably the most 1st world thing I've read this year.

On: Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws

[MetroWind]

It's SharePoint. shrug~

On: Nvidia might do for desktop AI what it did for desktop gaming

[MetroWind]

They did stuff to desktop AI?

On: Nobody cares

[MetroWind]

Well, I don't know about the other things, but I absolutely hate the orange street lights. Bad color reproduction, and make me sleepy.

> They spend all their free time doing activist stuff

Having free time is a privilege. The author is privileged and they don't know it.