Hacker News: AdmiralAsshat

New comment by AdmiralAsshat in "Usborne 1980s Computer Books"

AdmiralAsshat — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:47:34 +0000

There used to be more on this page, if memory serves. Like I remember grabbing one of these books on Programming Assembly for the 6502 chip maybe 5 or 10 years ago, but I'm not seeing it now.

New comment by AdmiralAsshat in "BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork"

AdmiralAsshat — Sat, 23 May 2026 15:14:28 +0000

I'm surprised xcancel even works. I thought all the nitter servers had shut down.

New comment by AdmiralAsshat in "Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can"

AdmiralAsshat — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:39:14 +0000

There would be nothing preventing him in the source license, but I'm saying he may be prevented as part of the contract he signed when he sold the company.

New comment by AdmiralAsshat in "Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can"

AdmiralAsshat — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:57:11 +0000

The original creator of Bitwarden still works there as a CTO. I am curious whether he has any failsafes/poison pills in his contract when he took VC money that allows him to fork the product and start over in the event that they decide they want to lock everything down.

Or did he sign all of those rights away when he took the $100M "fuck you" VC funding in 2022.

New comment by AdmiralAsshat in "Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can"

AdmiralAsshat — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:34:52 +0000

I mean, LastPass was a train wreck after their breach, but they didn't go as far as trying to stop me from exporting my vault when I switched to BW.

The idea of BW doing a rug pull and suddenly removing the ability to export your vault I think would trigger a class-action lawsuit.

Fedora Retiring Its Deepin Desktop Packages

AdmiralAsshat — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:00:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Removing-Deepin

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48222708

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

New comment by AdmiralAsshat in "Building a UMatrix Replacement"

AdmiralAsshat — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:27:23 +0000

I'm still using uMatrix in Firefox. I just find the UI at once both more granular and easier to grok than uB0's Advanced mode. Despite being deprecated, it still works.

Unfortunately, I'll probably have to drop it soon, because there are too many pages going behind Cloudflare's damn "Verify you are human" Challenge page, which seems irrecoverably broken by uMatrix. No amount of whitelisting or logger analysis seems to make it happy, short of full-blown add-on disablement. I've had to keep Falkon handy as a backup for a few mission-critical websites that just absolutely refuse to work under uMatrix.

New comment by AdmiralAsshat in "U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app"

AdmiralAsshat — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:44:19 +0000

It will start with subpoenaing this information against people who modified their car to do "bad" things. But once they have the precedent, I would predict that it will very quickly be used at the behest of car manufacturers to go after people who modify their cars to, say, disable GPS tracking.

New comment by AdmiralAsshat in "Bitwarden scrubs 'Always free' and 'Inclusion' values from its site"

AdmiralAsshat — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:42:09 +0000

sigh

The writing on the wall seems to have been when they suddenly doubled the price of a yearly subscription without notifying anyone. That struck me as skeezy as **...looks like it may just be the beginning.

I hope people are actively mirroring their GH repos, because I expect at some point they might suddenly decide to change the license to Proprietary and move to scrub the repos from the web. At which point, the community will then fork the last-free version and start to maintain a fork.

Which I really don't want to see happen, because having to move all my shit for myself and my family again after the LastPass debacle is going to be an extraordinary headache.

Ryan Cohen hits back at eBay, says his takeover proposal should not be dismissed

AdmiralAsshat — Thu, 14 May 2026 11:26:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/ryan-cohen-says-ebay-directors-should-not-dismiss-his-proposal-without-engaging-2026-05-13/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48133917

Points: 9

# Comments: 11

New comment by AdmiralAsshat in "The Real Story of Troy"

AdmiralAsshat — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:44:57 +0000

Virgil's version with Laocoön correctly guessing the plot and then being slain by Poseidon always felt to me like a later addition explicitly designed to explain "The Trojans weren't really that stupid, were they?" There's a similar undercurrent if you read Hesiod's Theogony, where Prometheus' famous "Trick at Mecone" is written as though Zeus knew it was a trick but chose the pile of bones anyway. It's as though the original story had Zeus being tricked in earnest, but later writers grew uncomfortable with the idea that their high god was so easily fooled.

With that said, it always in turn felt like the serpents' presence undermined Odysseus' claim of being clever, since from that perspective the Trojans didn't have much choice but to bring it in, or risk the ire of the gods. It's hardly a ruse if the enemy knows it's a trap but is compelled by supernatural forces to take it anyway.

New comment by AdmiralAsshat in "They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker"

AdmiralAsshat — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:41:01 +0000

I guess JWZ has some sort of referral check that instantly black-holes any traffic coming from HN?

And interestingly, the WayBackMachine snapshots are similarly boobytrapped: https://web.archive.org/web/20260115112314/https://www.jwz.o...

So I guess google "They Live Mozilla Logo" if you want to see the article. Sorry about that!

New comment by AdmiralAsshat in "They Live (1988) inspired Adblocker"

AdmiralAsshat — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:30:28 +0000

Misread the title to mean that They Live inspired the concept of adblocking in general. Which would have been an interesting coincidence, since it did inspire one of the early Mozilla logos. [0]

[0] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/10/they-live-and-the-secret-hi...

New comment by AdmiralAsshat in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

AdmiralAsshat — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:52:33 +0000

> A letter to our customers and our investors.

You can always tell when the title is incredibly vague or bereft of details (e.g. "An update about our product") that it's going to be some flavor of either lay-offs, shutting down, or other enshittification.

New comment by AdmiralAsshat in "Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics"

AdmiralAsshat — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:46:26 +0000

> Sometimes I wonder what he would have done if he had not gone crazy.

At what point do you consider he had "gone crazy" relative to the development of TempleOS? Only when he committed suicide? Shortly before then? Last ____ years of his life?

Without trying to sound insensitive, I'd personally argue the entire OS was the byproduct of a "crazy" individual.

New comment by AdmiralAsshat in "Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2"

AdmiralAsshat — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:46:48 +0000

Yeah, okay, "market conditions", RAM more expensive, hardware more expensive, fine...

But then why are they also increasing the price of their online services? The games run locally!

Fuck you, Nintendo.

Trump SEC lets Musk settle $150M Twitter lawsuit for $1.5M

AdmiralAsshat — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:11:36 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/05/trump-sec-lets-musk-settle-150-million-twitter-lawsuit-for-1-5-million/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48025424

Points: 12

# Comments: 0

New comment by AdmiralAsshat in "Why Reddit blocked my daily visit to its mobile website"

AdmiralAsshat — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:28:21 +0000

This behavior did encourage me to switch to an app! Just not their app. I installed RedReader from F-Droid instead.

New comment by AdmiralAsshat in "Rumor: Disney to Remove Star Wars Sequel Trilogy from Timeline"

AdmiralAsshat — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:24:38 +0000

That was certainly among the most vocal complaints I remember hearing about the movie at the time (other than the moronic "Too woke!" complaints), and Wikipedia supports my memory:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Last_Jedi#Audie...

> Particularly divisive was the reveal that Rey's parents are insignificant; many fans had expected her to be Luke's daughter or to share a lineage with another character from the original trilogy.

New comment by AdmiralAsshat in "Rumor: Disney to Remove Star Wars Sequel Trilogy from Timeline"

AdmiralAsshat — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:03:38 +0000

The only one of the sequels that had any balls was The Last Jedi, and Disney was so frightened by the backlash to some of its elements (like the idea that our hero could be--gasp--a person of NON-royal lineage!) that it then spent the entire last movie trying to retcon everything that made TLJ potentially interesting.