Hacker News: Foomf

New comment by Foomf in "Gemini Omni"

Foomf — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:21:30 +0000

It keeps crashing my browser as well. I'm on Microsoft Edge.

New comment by Foomf in "Java 25 officially released"

Foomf — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 20:01:58 +0000

Licensing for OpenJDK is non trivial. Look at the large table and various bullet points Oracle had to make to tell you the license. https://www.oracle.com/java/technologies/javase/jdk-faqs.htm... (open the first dropdown on their FAQ page to open up their "licensing matrix")

This is a mess, and is the license going to change again while I'm locked in the java ecosystem?

Edit: It looks like the openjdk is consistently under the gplv2, I don't know why it has so many different entries in their table. I think I probably got opendjk and oracle jdk mixed up. I think the person I was replying to who said openjdk needs to be updated every half year got confused as well. It's so hard to even talk about all the different jdks without getting them mixed up or confused. Again, no other java competitors have this problem.

New comment by Foomf in "Java 25 officially released"

Foomf — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 19:58:25 +0000

I was under the impression that openjdk changes licenses once a new version comes out. That's why the parent comment said "the only downside to openjdk is you have to upgrade every half year", right?

New comment by Foomf in "Java 25 officially released"

Foomf — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 19:30:39 +0000

"Am I using the correct language runtime distribution (or version thereof) so I don't get into legal trouble?" Is a question none of Java's competitors have to ask.

Even using OpenJDK is a sword of damocles waiting to fall. If I forget to update OpenJDK, Oracle could come after me. It's just risk that I don't have to worry about by choosing not to go with Java. It's probably not a lot of risk, but it's risk nonetheless that doesn't exist with Java's competitors.

Competition is so fierce in the language space and there are so many good options that java can't afford to have any friction points like this.

EDIT: I got oracle openjdk and oracle jdk mixed up. They're different things. It looks like the oracle openjdk does not have its license change, the oracle jdk does. This is a problem/risk I don't have to worry about with any other language, but getting the two mixed up is on me.

New comment by Foomf in "Java 25 officially released"

Foomf — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:54:04 +0000

Oracle makes me too uneasy. Can I use Java without the worry of incurring Oracle's wrath? Maybe, if I make sure I use openjdk/jump through some hoops I'll be fine. Or, I could just use any other language and not have that worry looming over me. C# is right there if I want a java-like experience without the anxiety of Oracle breaking my kneecaps.

I don't know how to use java and not violate one of Oracle's EULAs. I could read about it and figure out how to do it safely, or I could just not use java. Java isn't essential (for greenfield projects). There's lots of good alternatives, so I'd rather do that.

New comment by Foomf in "I Switched to Firefox and Never Looked Back"

Foomf — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 18:54:51 +0000

Not everything. There's also webkit.

New comment by Foomf in "Nintendo Files Suit for Infringement of Patent Rights Against Pocketpair, Inc"

Foomf — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 05:51:55 +0000

Sonic Frontiers lets you control Sonic and do practice "minigames" while the game loads.

New comment by Foomf in "Installing Arch Linux on a Laptop"

Foomf — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 23:07:56 +0000

I'm getting some mixed messages in this thread alone. Who do I believe?

https://imgur.com/a/ylkWLfQ

New comment by Foomf in "Go east from Seattle"

Foomf — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 19:32:34 +0000

Over half of Canada's population lives farther south than Seattle, which is also crazy to think about.

New comment by Foomf in "Lithium-free sodium batteries exit the lab and enter US production"

Foomf — Fri, 03 May 2024 19:12:54 +0000

I think the article was saying that these batteries are buildable with easy-to-find materials for anyone, USA included. I don't think there's anything in them that can only be found in the United States.

New comment by Foomf in "How Ultrasound Became Ultra Small"

Foomf — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 22:23:55 +0000

Me too! That's the only reason I know laptop-sized portable ultrasound machines exist. I had an internship there one summer where I wrote automation software for the M-Turbo.

New comment by Foomf in "How Ultrasound Became Ultra Small"

Foomf — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 06:15:50 +0000

Laptop-sized ultrasound machines have been a thing for at least a decade at this point. It feels insincere to frame ultrasound machines as these big things lugged around on carts still. Hospitals still like those, but there's plenty of pre-hospital ultrasound machines that are compact. Not smartphone compact, but it feels weird for the article to completely omit them.

New comment by Foomf in "Why does the moon change size when you snipe it in GTA?"

Foomf — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 00:15:58 +0000

I heard that some games added cheat codes so that they could sell those guide books with all sorts of cheat codes in them. I remember seeing them at my scholastic book fair in elementary school.

New comment by Foomf in "What is wrong with TOML? (2019)"

Foomf — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 20:08:27 +0000

Lua was originally designed as a config language.

New comment by Foomf in "Reddit permanently bans account of user advocating Lemmy migration"

Foomf — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 17:56:21 +0000

Seems to be working too. I hadn't even heard of lemmy until I saw this post on HN.

New comment by Foomf in "Krita: A professional free and open source painting program"

Foomf — Mon, 01 May 2023 16:43:07 +0000

I know Paint.NET, WinSCP and HexChat does this (Microsoft Store).

New comment by Foomf in "Microsoft Edge is leaking the sites you visit to Bing"

Foomf — Tue, 25 Apr 2023 19:52:30 +0000

I recently started using vivalid, which also has vertical tabs baked in. I tried some firefox browser extensions but I find them to be really sluggish and feel tacked-on.

New comment by Foomf in "Google workers in London stage walkout over job cuts"

Foomf — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 12:59:17 +0000

What is "TC"?

New comment by Foomf in "Framework announces AMD, new Intel gen, 16“ laptop and more"

Foomf — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 18:37:33 +0000

I'm still waiting for a touchscreen version. Once that is ready I can't wait to get one!

New comment by Foomf in "Launch HN: Blyss (YC W23) – Homomorphic encryption as a service"

Foomf — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 17:19:46 +0000

You stole my name!

I'm kidding... for a while I wanted to make a game named "blyss". I own the blyss.io domain name. I'll sell it to you if you want!