Hacker News: Fervicus

New comment by Fervicus in "Israel escalates attacks on medics in Lebanon with deadly 'quadruple tap'"

Fervicus — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:22:04 +0000

What politicians run on and what they do after getting elected does not often match sadly.

New comment by Fervicus in "Ask HN: How are you actively keeping your thinking sharp while using LLMs daily?"

Fervicus — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:30:52 +0000

By not using LLMs daily.

New comment by Fervicus in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

Fervicus — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:12:08 +0000

If you have worked at Mozilla then clearly you are going to have a better understanding of the company than I do. But my perspective, and I believe of many others from the outside looking in, is that the company is mismanaged, focusing on the wrong things, and paying their execs way too much.

New comment by Fervicus in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

Fervicus — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:54:24 +0000

How did you come to the conclusion that it's not? Google being bloated is not a good justification for why Mozilla should be bloated too. Someone in the comment below suggested that Ladybird was built by about 10 people. Call me naive, but I don't think you'd need 75x number of people to work on a browser that's already established for over 2 decades.

New comment by Fervicus in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

Fervicus — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:56:10 +0000

What do they do with all that money? According to wikipedia, they had about 750 employees. That's a lot of employees for the amount of useful products they have.

New comment by Fervicus in "Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app"

Fervicus — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:46:45 +0000

I am not a bot and I am not associated with this company in any way. But I am a happy user of Ente Auth as well. This AI thing they made however just gives off "we have to do something with AI or we'll be left behind" vibes.

New comment by Fervicus in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

Fervicus — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:58:32 +0000

> it just feels like betrayal

It was a VC backed tool. What did you expect?

New comment by Fervicus in "Tons of new LLM bot accounts here"

Fervicus — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:54:21 +0000

I agree. But I am also sick and tired of humans prompting some LLM about the points that they want to say and having the LLM generate the response. Online communities will never be the same again.

New comment by Fervicus in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

Fervicus — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:31:21 +0000

I (along with many others) always thought that Astral being VC backed is going to lead to a future disappointment for the community.

New comment by Fervicus in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

Fervicus — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:25:31 +0000

Taxpayers bail them out.

New comment by Fervicus in "Tons of new LLM bot accounts here"

Fervicus — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:00:47 +0000

Humans can still use LLM for posting.

New comment by Fervicus in "Ageless Linux – Software for humans of indeterminate age"

Fervicus — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:44:04 +0000

Also Australia and NZ.

.NET 11 Preview 2 is now available

Fervicus — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:19:24 +0000

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-11-preview-2/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47335209

Points: 2

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New comment by Fervicus in "Glaze by Raycast"

Fervicus — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:05:59 +0000

"Insecure apps, reimagined by you"

New comment by Fervicus in "I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services"

Fervicus — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:54:44 +0000

People around me (including engineers) all casually use things like Alexa, Google Home, Ring, Nest, Chrome, are always signed into Google, have all sorts of apps installed on their phones, and have no problems giving up their phone numbers to services for verification. It's crazy.

New comment by Fervicus in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

Fervicus — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 11:16:39 +0000

They are busy pushing Chat Control.

New comment by Fervicus in "Layoffs at Block"

Fervicus — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:42:03 +0000

Just wait till they start vibe coding more features!

New comment by Fervicus in "You Want to Visit the UK? You Better Have a Google Play or App Store Account"

Fervicus — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:31:09 +0000

Did you even read the article and tried going through the process? Suggesting the user to download the app is front and center and the link to apply online is tucked away in a link at the bottom. Not great, but fine, I'll live with that. But that's not the end is it? The user clicks continue online application, then why does it still give you another screen nudging you towards using the app? Making users feel like they are doing something wrong by not using the app.

New comment by Fervicus in "Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown"

Fervicus — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:28:51 +0000

Stopped using notepad when they added co-pilot. Stop shoving AI down our throats.

New comment by Fervicus in "Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge"

Fervicus — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 12:44:00 +0000

To me this feels like a marketing gimmick. "It was the RSP that was constraining our tech. Just see the progress we can make without it now". And the hype and funding continues.