Hacker News: Fizz43

New comment by Fizz43 in "The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war"

Fizz43 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:47:25 +0000

Just to be clear what your position is. You believe that US is getting involved in wars particularly the middle east because US government wants to give money directly to military contractors or it wants to boost the value of these weapons companies to benefit the people who invested.

New comment by Fizz43 in "The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war"

Fizz43 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 04:00:41 +0000

You cannot mass troops easily in the days of satellite and targeted long ranged missiles. They mass 20 million troops but they have to transport them down supply lines and house them all to get them close to the front. They'd be picked apart.

New comment by Fizz43 in "The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war"

Fizz43 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 03:58:27 +0000

The public loves that narrative but it collapses under scrutiny.

New comment by Fizz43 in "EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0"

Fizz43 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 02:42:41 +0000

Do you think people should have privacy from the government? That exists in a completely different realm than privacy against a private company.

New comment by Fizz43 in "Why Linux is not ready for the desktop (2024)"

Fizz43 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 07:29:43 +0000

"What's worse, you can just as easily run them under Windows' WSL. So what's the point of having Linux installed on your computer in the first place?". To me it doesn't matter if I am running an application in a slightly less efficient manner. The reason I run the app on linux is because i want control over my computer. You will never get that with Microsoft and Apple.

The fact that everything I want works well and the UI/UX is decades ahead is just a bonus.

New comment by Fizz43 in "Study suggests most Americans would be healthier without daylight saving time"

Fizz43 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:10:24 +0000

This is so much effort for next to no gains.

New comment by Fizz43 in "We all depend on open source. We will defend it together"

Fizz43 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:20:07 +0000

I fully understand that I may be completely wrong but I just dont see that a lot of effort comes from outside a projects core maintainers. Its always a core maintainer group usually paid by some company doing 95% of the work and the patches contributed are localizations, small bug fixes and weird edge cases.

I'm not an open source maintainer so I could be completely off base here.

New comment by Fizz43 in "We all depend on open source. We will defend it together"

Fizz43 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:43:08 +0000

It seems to me as someone who wasn't paying attention to open source 10 or 20 years ago that its no longer a real community effort. Projects are maintained by their maintainers and get very little from the community. Commercial open source gets even less from the community. The only real value generated is corporate supported projects sharing with corporate supported projects. The average person is happy because they can also use these projects but ultimately they do nothing with it. The only people benefiting is the corporations that use this to build their products.

I dont know if this is a good thing or not. On paper it seems fine but there is something that feels wrong about it and I dont know exactly what.

New comment by Fizz43 in "My Steam Machine Is a 50ft HDMI Cable"

Fizz43 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:29:15 +0000

I'll give it another go maybe there is some routing issue thats messing things up

New comment by Fizz43 in "My Steam Machine is a 50ft HDMI cable"

Fizz43 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 11:38:33 +0000

what settings are you using? Game streaming from my PC to my steamdeck over ethernet for me feels like absolute shit. The quality gets destroyed every time i rotate the camera even on 1080p

New comment by Fizz43 in "Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand"

Fizz43 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 09:37:52 +0000

Not really, there are people on the left and the right fighting against the 1% and for the 1%. The left right divid is a simplification yes but it is a very real divide in values and society structure.

New comment by Fizz43 in "Israel targeted Gaza children resulting in genocide, UN inquiry says"

Fizz43 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:18:19 +0000

Its a good strategy for anti western powers to fracture the left and drive up extremism and destabilization.

New comment by Fizz43 in "Steam Machine launches today"

Fizz43 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:03:10 +0000

so only 99.9% of their output is accurate? I guess that to inaccurate for a video game review to be trustworthy.

New comment by Fizz43 in "Steam Machine launches today"

Fizz43 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:17:22 +0000

You mean when they just opened their new lab and a massive controversy happened?

New comment by Fizz43 in "Steam Machine launches today"

Fizz43 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:53:03 +0000

Even taking into account all their fuckups majority of their content is accurate and well sourced. I dont know why people do this thing where they point to a few instances and then extrapolate that out.

New comment by Fizz43 in "GLM-5.2 – How to Run Locally"

Fizz43 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:42:26 +0000

which mac is smoking the spark?

New comment by Fizz43 in "Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion"

Fizz43 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 06:08:51 +0000

You can see the same outcomes in cities that are walkable and interconnected. Its to complicated of a problem to point to cars as a major factor.

New comment by Fizz43 in "Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes"

Fizz43 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:06:04 +0000

Plenty of people recognize that as a nazi symbol. Its why he covers it up in photos but leaves other tats uncovered. We only found out because of a leaked video from a personal event and someone inside his life confirming.

New comment by Fizz43 in "Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism"

Fizz43 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:14:03 +0000

MAGA people are easy to ragebait and sell to

New comment by Fizz43 in "Facebook is paying people overseas promoting Alberta separatism"

Fizz43 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:45:36 +0000

Same for Datacenters, MAGA and a ton of other things. Algorithms are being abused to manipulate reality for people and people know it. But they still get swept up because it feels so real when you're reading hundreds of comments, seeing countless articles and posts and videos.