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New comment by Borg3 in "The Miller Principle (2007)"

Borg3 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:09:10 +0000

We are reaching society shown in "Johny Mnemonic" movie.. So much (useless) information around that people gets overloaded. I barely read anything these days on NH, too much (crap) information. I skim and only read stuff that is very close to my interest.

I used to read a lot more in the past, not the case anymore..

New comment by Borg3 in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

Borg3 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:04:20 +0000

It works exacly as it was designed to work.. GIT as VCS.. Version Control System.. for text code sniplets. It can handle small binary blobs just fine.

If you need (D)VFS aka Distributed Versioned Filesystem, grab right tool. Or write one.

This is exacly way I wrote DOT (Distributed Object Tracker). Its pure DVFS repo manager, to handle binary blobs and that it.. Nothing more.

People complaining about GIT not working well w/ big data just handling GIT wrong. Linus said it from the begining, its NOT tool for such datasets. Just move along.

New comment by Borg3 in "IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember"

Borg3 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:41:13 +0000

http://borg.uu3.net/~borg/?ipv6

Now, if only those people who designed IPv6 were smarter.. Hex aint that bad, LONG hex addresses are pain to use.

Now, lets say you have LAN like this [::1:0:0/56]. So, ::1:0:24 is easy to remember right? Managable? right?.. Also, bonus for :: shortening is, you immediatly know what are you dealing with, ::1 is loopback, ::1:1 is LL, ::1:0:1 is LAN.. everything else is Internet.

The truth is, IPv6 is really 64bit, the other 64bit part is just randomish node address...

New comment by Borg3 in "Everyone Post Your Uptime"

Borg3 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 09:14:26 +0000

10:14:05 up 2336 days, 22:17, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00

New comment by Borg3 in "The “small web” is bigger than you might think"

Borg3 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:47:32 +0000

http://borg.uu3.net/~borg/?fun/wisdom_of_the_ancients

New comment by Borg3 in "Google closes deal to acquire Wiz"

Borg3 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:55:12 +0000

Connections... It was always like this..

New comment by Borg3 in "The shady world of IP leasing"

Borg3 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 09:50:24 +0000

Haha, nice, I run something similar.. But more manualy managed and I put those bans pernametly. Currneltly, there are 1360 blocks in drop list and growing. I never really remove them, because even those leased blocks move from one spam/abuse operator to another, so no big loss.

And indeed, if people would fight w/ spam/abuse better and more aggresivly, the problem would be much smaller. I dont care anymore, In my opinion Internet is done. Time to start building overlay networks with services for good guys...

New comment by Borg3 in "Windows NT/OS2 Design Workbook"

Borg3 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:22:57 +0000

This and great backward compatibility. I still can make app targeting Win2000 and it will run on Win2000 onwards (Win10 and Win11 included.) Unfortunately, its starts to fall apart...

New comment by Borg3 in "I fixed Windows native development"

Borg3 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:15:13 +0000

Exacly.. I avoid Visual Studio.. I try to build everthing using Mingw..

New comment by Borg3 in "Evolving Git for the Next Decade"

Borg3 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 09:54:38 +0000

Exacly. Git supposed to be DVCS not generic DVFS. Choose right tool for right task. I needed generic DVFS to store my docs, so I wrote one. Its easy and quick and does it job :)

New comment by Borg3 in "I'm not worried about AI job loss"

Borg3 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 21:24:50 +0000

Ugh.. sorry to hear :( I am myself unemployed right now. Its really hard to land a job in tech.. Luicky, I dont need to flip burgers for now...

New comment by Borg3 in "End of an era for me: no more self-hosted git"

Borg3 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 19:10:11 +0000

Oh poor soul :) I had the same problem. And I solved it easly. I pulled out stuff from Internet, keeping only VPN overlay network..

The future is dark I mean.. Darknets.. For people by people. Where you can deal with bad actors.. Wake up! and starting networking :)

New comment by Borg3 in "Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability"

Borg3 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 08:48:13 +0000

Haha, yeah.. Im using Notepad2 actually, because for LOOONG time, notepad.exe could not display LF files correctly... and Notepad2 has a bit more features, but still.. clean and lean.

New comment by Borg3 in "I paid $170 and all I got was this demo"

Borg3 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 13:17:37 +0000

Because ML and LLM (Not the fucking AI, it doesnt exist yet) should be used to deal with bulk boring stuff. Filter milions of images to leave interesting. Transform some data (but IM not sure why LLM is interesting here, I can write a script to do so) and so on... Not a creative stuff. This should be left for humans. Because if we take this away, whats left? Low skilled labour at best...

New comment by Borg3 in "Let's compile Quake like it's 1997"

Borg3 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 13:22:50 +0000

Whats the problem? 1997? They were probably using 10BaseTX network, its 10Mbit... Using Novel Netware would allow you to trasnfer data at 1MB/s.. quake.exe is < 0.5MB.. so trasnfer will take around 1 sec..

New comment by Borg3 in "Let's compile Quake like it's 1997"

Borg3 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 13:17:36 +0000

I think you were using some 3th party software for auto completion. There was project called Visual Assist with was pretty popular and powerfull tool.

New comment by Borg3 in "Show HN: Ruby-libgd – Native 2D graphics engine for Ruby (no CLI, no JavaScript)"

Borg3 — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 10:09:33 +0000

Yeah, its private stuff.. I added GRX Lib bindings to Ruby so I can use Ruby to do 2D graphics.. Ive been looking for somethink like this but couldnt find anything usefull for me, so I made one..

Here is example/demo: http://borg.uu3.net/~borg/?grx/test

gperf is not a demo, it my simple performance counters drawing app.

New comment by Borg3 in "C isn't a programming language anymore (2022)"

Borg3 — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:45:56 +0000

I dont know the indented use. If you need delay or difference, 16bit is more than enough. If you writting generic clock w/ ms accuracy, it will be not enough. You either split it or use larger storage. Its not rocket science...

New comment by Borg3 in "Show HN: Ruby-libgd – Native 2D graphics engine for Ruby (no CLI, no JavaScript)"

Borg3 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:38:09 +0000

Something like this? http://borg.uu3.net/~borg/?gperf

This stuff is written in Ruby :)

New comment by Borg3 in "C isn't a programming language anymore (2022)"

Borg3 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 18:25:42 +0000

Then use long.. Does Arduino CPU cannot do 16bit add/sub with carry? wtf?