Hacker News: FeistySkink

New comment by FeistySkink in "Aphantasia Beginner's Guide"

FeistySkink — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:09:20 +0000

Yeah, I never got the "don't think about the red hammer/apple" joke. Ok, done. Now what? For me thinking/imagining is an active process.

New comment by FeistySkink in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

FeistySkink — Sun, 03 May 2026 14:03:56 +0000

IDK, I heard way stupider and less ethical ideas at work.

New comment by FeistySkink in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

FeistySkink — Sun, 03 May 2026 13:12:55 +0000

I appreciate your willingness to come and try and salvage this situation. What I don't understand is why are you the one doing this here and on GH, during the weekend, and not the PM who created the original PR? Surely they have some input.

And another thing is, why was there absolutely no pushback from your part on any of the issues with the original PR, and why it was merged within hours in that state?

New comment by FeistySkink in "Ask HN: Is GitHub Down?"

FeistySkink — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:09:53 +0000

I feel like every day something is broken with GH, at this point.

Ask HN: Is GitHub Down?

FeistySkink — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:45:43 +0000

I haven't been able to access anything in the last hour. I'm in EU. Anybody else?

Status says only Codespaces are degraded:

https://www.githubstatus.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47795038

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by FeistySkink in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

FeistySkink — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:40:27 +0000

As far as I remember, WinForms is just a thin wrapper around Win32 with a message loop, i.e. not all that different.

OpenWrt 25.12.0 – Stable Release

FeistySkink — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:44:50 +0000

Article URL: https://openwrt.org/releases/25.12/notes-25.12.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47269295

Points: 11

# Comments: 1

New comment by FeistySkink in "15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram"

FeistySkink — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 06:51:44 +0000

Part of the VC/CM pipeline.

New comment by FeistySkink in "Building SQLite with a small swarm"

FeistySkink — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:40:59 +0000

What is that service used for besides SQLite?

New comment by FeistySkink in "Building SQLite with a small swarm"

FeistySkink — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:09:28 +0000

Out of curiosity, why aren't all tests open source?

New comment by FeistySkink in "Spotlighting the World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell"

FeistySkink — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:23:38 +0000

Huh. I had a native Android app way back when on the Play Store, that presented the Factbook in the mobile-friendly manner. Was quite popular in Africa of all places. But ultimately had to first delist it and then close the account altogether, once Google started requiring more and more unnecessary SDK updates, and ultimately identity verification. What a trip down the memory lane.

New comment by FeistySkink in "GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs"

FeistySkink — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 05:46:11 +0000

> This is a user-hostile behavior fueled solely by laziness and pettiness.

Damn, that last quip is really poisoning the well here. As a maintainer, not being paid for my projects or contributions, I have every right to decide how and if I want to accept contributions.

New comment by FeistySkink in "GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs"

FeistySkink — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 05:32:40 +0000

So you don't want to maintain a fork, but want a maintainer to do it for free for you and wondering why that PR is not accepted? If you feel so strongly about the project popular in your 'industry', consider providing some incentive for the maintainer to care. And no, a coffee is not an incentive.

Edit: this probably came off quite abrasive, but I'm getting entitled comments from users with no contributions, demanding fixes for their most ridiculously niche issues almost weekly. Like stuff doesn't build with their toolchain from 2014. Seriously? Yet, they can't be arsed to even check the fixes or follow up with basic details.

New comment by FeistySkink in "GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs"

FeistySkink — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 05:28:19 +0000

An another thing I hope is added is some kind of internal karma system. E.g. if a user is spamming multiple PR to multiple repos, or is otherwise being disruptive and reported, their contributions should be flagged for review, or optionally not accepted at all.

New comment by FeistySkink in "GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs"

FeistySkink — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 04:39:52 +0000

I like the idea. Right now it's only possible to require approval for actions for new contributors. But once they get a PR in, they're free to spam new PRs that can clog resource-expensive pipelines. Would be nice to have something like 5+ PRs merged and be a contributor for 1 month before a PR is auto created and actions are allowed to run.

New comment by FeistySkink in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

FeistySkink — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:52:47 +0000

How so? Bluetooth has been working out of the box (no tinkering) for me under Linux for the past ten years now across multiple devices. Including stuff like APT-X and LDAC. All with proper OS integration (I use Gnome). What's the story on Windows?

New comment by FeistySkink in "We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports"

FeistySkink — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:31:07 +0000

It would help if PRs from newly-created or private accounts could stand out. And perhaps PRs from accounts that spam multiple PRs with dozes or hundreds of commits, would have some kind of a warning that only people with write access to repos can see. In fact perhaps GitHub could throttle those accounts from creating that many PRs in the first place.

Another suggestion would be trying to figure out if a PR was vibe-coded and marking them as such. Same as image-based social media tries to do.

New comment by FeistySkink in "Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections"

FeistySkink — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 01:30:20 +0000

Yeah, we have certificates on our ID cards, but they need to be manually renewed every 3 years which necessitates a trip to the designated authority. And then the underlying system gets changed every so often invalidating the card types altogether, so they can be used as dummy IDs only.

New comment by FeistySkink in "Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections"

FeistySkink — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 01:27:35 +0000

Is this just an abstract and is there more to this post? I found it quite shallow.

New comment by FeistySkink in "Testing the Mono Gateway: custom-built 10 Gbps Router"

FeistySkink — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 18:16:38 +0000

I don't think this should be promoted as coming with OpenWrt preconfigured. This device has no vanilla OpenWrt support, and is unlikely if it will ever have it, considering they seem to be using a proprietary SDK with hardware offload that requires binary blobs with a separate license. Which means you're only getting support as long as they are willing to maintain their fork. So selling this as if it has an OpenWrt support out of the box is deceptive, especially considering the price tag. This is akin to all those SBC advertising Linux support, but then coming with an outdated kernel with no source.