Hacker News: CYR1X

New comment by CYR1X in "GOG is getting acquired by its original co-founder"

CYR1X — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 16:43:02 +0000

GN very much loves to fuel the fire lol. He usually does it by being More Correct Than You.

New comment by CYR1X in "Using a laptop as an HDMI monitor for an SBC"

CYR1X — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 15:30:37 +0000

Yes, $5 USB HDMI capture cards exist?

New comment by CYR1X in "Internet Archive's big battle with music publishers ends in settlement"

CYR1X — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 00:14:31 +0000

That's what I said? The pandemic excuse was IA's reason for doing it at first.

New comment by CYR1X in "Internet Archive's big battle with music publishers ends in settlement"

CYR1X — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 21:07:25 +0000

Link to the tech debt aspect? I knew that was the case but want to know specifics.

Also the book lawsuit wasn't over old or new titles, it was loaning them 1:N instead of 1:1 because "pandemic". I didn't think it was a great idea at the time and everything in that lawsuit has pointed towards it just being an outright foolhardy effort. There were on a great path towards expanding digital lending boundaries (by letting any library add their books to the IA's lending circulation) and screwed it all up.

New comment by CYR1X in "VHS, VCDs, and Laserdiscs in Southeast Asia"

CYR1X — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 15:42:56 +0000

Copy protection for physical media was so rudimentary back then. VHS tapes literally just have a piece of plastic you could break off that acted as copy protection. Everyone had CRT's so no one was a quality freak either, really.

New comment by CYR1X in "What's stopping America from going all-in on heat pumps?"

CYR1X — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 15:19:37 +0000

The people who install them.

New comment by CYR1X in "Finland Bans Smartphones in Schools"

CYR1X — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 16:31:26 +0000

Phone bans in schools have been going on for 20 years. Yeah we didn't have smart phones back then, but with tactile buttons kids would text each other without even looking at their phone and keeping it in their pocket. Before phones kids were playing snake on their TI-83 when they weren't in math class. At it's core these devices are just a distraction when they're supposed to be paying attention.

New comment by CYR1X in "We Found Insurance Fraud in Our Crash Data"

CYR1X — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 15:30:33 +0000

Totally agree.

New comment by CYR1X in "US appeals court rules AI generated art cannot be copyrighted"

CYR1X — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 15:31:05 +0000

The other aspect here is you can't copyright an observable truth. For instance, sports companies tried to sue other sports companies for scraping their scores feeds but courts ruled you can't copyright the fact Patriots beat the Falcons 35-30, because that's simply what happened. There isn't any proprietary scoring keeping mechanism. Anyone who observed the game also can determine those numbers. It is an observable truth. So maybe that applies to the raw photo. You are simply capturing what happened from that POV at that moment in time. Sure if you do something with that photo, then it may become more than an observable truth.

New comment by CYR1X in "US appeals court rules AI generated art cannot be copyrighted"

CYR1X — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 15:27:28 +0000

Oh shit. Who owns your photo if your phone does any amount of software-based manipulation to it? Like making faces look better?? Is this how google claims it can use all of your pixel photos in its AI training?

New comment by CYR1X in "The weird afterlife of Xbox Kinect"

CYR1X — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:18:52 +0000

Source on that tracking 6 skeletons? That's cool.

New comment by CYR1X in "The weird afterlife of Xbox Kinect"

CYR1X — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:18:15 +0000

Xbox 360's were The Original Netflix Machine of that 2008-2012 range. Sure maybe Wii's sold more but they only effectively played Wii Sports and didn't support Full HD. Sure PS3's had blu-ray drives in them but people were beginning to stop caring about physical media. The most popular "game" in terms of hours played on the 360 was the Netflix App.

So because of that, I'm not surprised that casual audience also got a Kinect at some point too. Because of the Netflix app, you always had your 360 plugged into your TV.

New comment by CYR1X in "AI killed the tech interview. Now what?"

CYR1X — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:36:04 +0000

Oh man I needed that in the clip for like a dozen interviews a decade ago.

New comment by CYR1X in "America desperately needs more air traffic controllers"

CYR1X — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 21:48:22 +0000

Part all of this BS is sure at twitter if you pull this you might get a decent attrition rate but isn't the federal government known for people never quitting? If they quit, it's quiet quitting coming in every day and doing nothing. Isn't that generally the purpose behind this too? Like...good luck get a real amount of people to quit they are going to hold on for dear life

New comment by CYR1X in "America desperately needs more air traffic controllers"

CYR1X — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 21:44:27 +0000

Welcome to aviation. Where we last innovated 50 years ago.

New comment by CYR1X in "Show HN: I made an open-source laptop from scratch"

CYR1X — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 16:55:32 +0000

Obviously super cool and kudos like everyone else in here.

Feel like you could make a pared down version of this with commodity parts outside of the chassis if you aren't going for a flagship competitor. I guess you could also just buy a $20 chromebook, too. Maybe...you could fit a nice rockchip SOM inside a chromebook??

New comment by CYR1X in "In the belly of the MrBeast"

CYR1X — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:19:09 +0000

> I've never, ever clicked on short videos with girls in skimpy clothing doing something "based" and yet it keeps trying to hook me up on those. Even after clicking around very different videos (infosec, low level code, workshop). It's like it refuses to learn what I want to watch.

This has made me realize that YouTube is like the leading platform for piracy and porn. If you have any interest in sports the frontpage will be littered with pirated livestreams from channels like ESPN, and while they may not be explicitly pornography, the skimpy girl content is basically that.

New comment by CYR1X in "The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette vs. Internet Archive"

CYR1X — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 16:00:46 +0000

My hope is that doesn't mean you can still digitize media that's on a dying format and that can still be used in CDL. Like if you owned a legitimate copy of a movie on betamax that format has been dead for years you can't buy a new betamax player you can digitize that before the tape becomes unreadable. That's been explicitly in copyright law last I looked and it's just a matter of defining what media is "dying" enough to count under this.

New comment by CYR1X in "Open Source Twitch for Developers"

CYR1X — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 15:45:13 +0000

What makes it specifically for developers? Why couldn't gamers use this?

New comment by CYR1X in "Bypassing airport security via SQL injection"

CYR1X — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 15:31:29 +0000

Yes you could sit in the third seat, the jumper seat, with this. I feel like one could already sneak something malicious through TSA (this already happens and if you attempt it enough times eventually you'll get through), but being able to sit in the freaking cockpit behind the pilots who assume you're another pilot is CRAZY.