Hacker News: Ferret7446

New comment by Ferret7446 in "Yserver: A modern X11 server written in Rust"

Ferret7446 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 02:15:35 +0000

I think it was only recently that Xorg started dying and Wayland became mostly usable for most people. That was when I switched over, and I assume a lot of others as well.

New comment by Ferret7446 in "The rich aren't your role models"

Ferret7446 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 01:37:24 +0000

That premise is kind of false though. Food stamps are very generous, much to the chagrin of the borderline tax contributors.

I think we'll just see benefits slowly ramp up until most people are on benefits, with lots of consternation around government waste along the way.

New comment by Ferret7446 in "Lisp's Influence on Ruby"

Ferret7446 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 21:03:42 +0000

Not really? A linter/formatter takes care of it.

New comment by Ferret7446 in "AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit"

Ferret7446 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:01:25 +0000

SLSA adoption

New comment by Ferret7446 in "AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit"

Ferret7446 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:57:03 +0000

Why are you still misunderstanding when other replies already explained?

AUR has always been AT YOUR OWN RISK.

To use your analogy, the house is an underwater cave with a big scary sign warning you that you will die, you go in without training, and blame the cave for not being safe.

New comment by Ferret7446 in "AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit"

Ferret7446 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:50:32 +0000

> If I need something, I'll just build it myself

That's basically what the AUR is.

New comment by Ferret7446 in "AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit"

Ferret7446 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:45:45 +0000

I'm not sure if you're trying to strawman or are inexperienced.

No, this in no way or shape looks like installing a legitimate dependency to the target audience (expert users). This is a package manager, you don't install dependencies via post_install.

New comment by Ferret7446 in "Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass"

Ferret7446 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:22:25 +0000

No it didn't, it's still in the employee handbook. As the saying goes, a lie will go around the world before the truth can put its pants on.

What changed was Google's motto, and it changed from "don't be evil" to "do the right thing". The given reason is that the prior motto also included inaction.

New comment by Ferret7446 in "Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass"

Ferret7446 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:19:40 +0000

What if avoiding causing a death instead results in thousands of deaths? Do you give yourself a moral high five and stick your head in the sand?

New comment by Ferret7446 in "Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post"

Ferret7446 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:34:07 +0000

That's clearly wrong, because capital doesn't just appear out of thin air. You are ignoring that there's clearly rare skills involved that enable a few to become very successful. Your strawman only applies to the second generation that inherits wealth, and case in point inherited wealth tends to disappear in a couple of generations further proving that skill is required to build and maintain wealth.

New comment by Ferret7446 in "Where is the AI jobs crisis?"

Ferret7446 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:18:41 +0000

I think this is a cope. It is not only the tech sectors facing poor labor market, it's everything. People can't find jobs

New comment by Ferret7446 in "Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with agents"

Ferret7446 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:11:00 +0000

It's not for performance, it's for Rust.

If the first stereotype of Rust programmers is announcing that a project is in Rust before any other desirable software property (e.g. stable, performant, etc), the second stereotype is that Rust programmers love rewriting stuff in Rust, just for the sake of Rust.

(The 2.a. corollary is that they love rewriting GPL projects specifically and downgrading them to MIT/Apache)

New comment by Ferret7446 in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"

Ferret7446 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:05:05 +0000

The moat is not the model, it's the harness. I wager that's one of the main reasons why Google made Antigravity closed source.

New comment by Ferret7446 in "What it feels like to work with Mythos"

Ferret7446 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:56:42 +0000

By the point where we have work hours regulation for AI, all of our current debate about AI will be long irrelevant because we've clearly achieved AGI

New comment by Ferret7446 in "What it feels like to work with Mythos"

Ferret7446 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:19:49 +0000

Humans are very expensive, so the equation almost always falls against them.

It's not just salary, but also safety/labor regulation, legal risk, vacations, sick time, personal conflicts, HR, benefits.

Even when automation is more expensive on paper, it's generally still cheaper

New comment by Ferret7446 in "Config Files That Run Code: Supply Chain Security Blindspot"

Ferret7446 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:14:24 +0000

That's why cloning a git repo doesn't copy any hooks.

There are software/devs that make sane security choices, and then there's the ones that don't (usually the younger/more modern ones)

New comment by Ferret7446 in "sqlite: A CGo-free port of SQLite/SQLite3"

Ferret7446 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:44:46 +0000

Depends on what you mean by "most". The cross compile story for Go is far superior to C for the platforms it supports.

New comment by Ferret7446 in "No Babies? Blame Capitalism"

Ferret7446 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:42:07 +0000

That's because the premise is wrong

> an economic system predicated on individual autonomy and naked self-interest whose incentives run counter to child-rearing

A free market is just the natural state of things which reflects what people want vs the reality of resource constraints. For example, even in communist societies there will always be a (underground) free market.

New comment by Ferret7446 in "Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things"

Ferret7446 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:44:00 +0000

This, along with the "successful git branching model", are symptoms of the fact that devs overwhelmed with the flexibility of git and look to other people to define standards for them because they that lack the experience to do so for their own requirements.

Actually, this is also similar to classic OOP, where people use a contrived method of structuring their code.

New comment by Ferret7446 in "How Fear and Social Pressure Are 'Overarming' the U.S."

Ferret7446 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:26:02 +0000

Well obviously arming babies would not increase safety.

I suspect the optimal proportion would be similar to the optimal proportion of the vaccinated to stop disease spread.