Hacker News: Idesmi

New comment by Idesmi in "iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM"

Idesmi — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 08:40:54 +0000

If they really wanted to honour Kurt Vonnegut, Anthropic wouldn't exist.

New comment by Idesmi in "A simple web we own"

Idesmi — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 12:51:32 +0000

[yɡˌdrasilː]

New comment by Idesmi in "Keep Android Open"

Idesmi — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 07:45:13 +0000

You are feigning ignorance.

New comment by Idesmi in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

Idesmi — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 06:18:28 +0000

I used to care about copyright, before AI came and I realised that it somehow does not apply to big corporations mass stealing. If Meta, Alphabet, Microsoft do not care about copyright, why should I?

New comment by Idesmi in "I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers"

Idesmi — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 13:31:50 +0000

It's happening https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2026/01/15/wikipedia-ce... Although editors paid directly by the Foundation are not the majority of Wikipedia.

New comment by Idesmi in "Show HN: Books mentioned on Hacker News in 2025"

Idesmi — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 07:53:59 +0000

I loathe movie adaptations and never watch them, but the source material The Martian was a very good read in my 12th grade.

I like hard SciFi with no aliens and plausible rules.

New comment by Idesmi in "French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video]"

Idesmi — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 09:09:29 +0000

Stop reading into things what isn't there. The wolf is still eating fish, did you even watch it?

New comment by Idesmi in "French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video]"

Idesmi — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 09:07:38 +0000

It looks like shit.

New comment by Idesmi in "Migrating Dillo from GitHub"

Idesmi — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 16:07:21 +0000

Dillo is very cool and the blog post says more than «I moved away from Github.»

It's actually quite interesting, I recommend to read it!

New comment by Idesmi in "Arthur Conan Doyle explored men’s mental health through Sherlock Holmes"

Idesmi — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 09:27:35 +0000

We all are.

New comment by Idesmi in "Orion 1.0"

Idesmi — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 05:12:13 +0000

Check out Indie Wiki Buddy: https://getindie.wiki

It uses a Free frontend to display Fandom pages, and suggests an alternative non-Fandom wiki when available.

New comment by Idesmi in "F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree"

Idesmi — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 07:27:21 +0000

This website is amazing, thank you for sharing!

New comment by Idesmi in "Germany is not supporting ChatControl – blocking minority secured"

Idesmi — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 16:38:29 +0000

It is not democratic, as long as the President of the Commission is practically chosen by the European Council and the Parliament only can say yes or no.

And as shown in the last two terms of Von der Leyen, saying no doesn't actually do anything, because the same candidate can be proposed again.

New comment by Idesmi in "Tesla changes meaning of 'Full Self-Driving', gives up on promise of autonomy"

Idesmi — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 07:18:37 +0000

> you can send a skyscraper to mars and people on HN will still be calling you a fraud

To date, SpaceX has sent nothing to Mars. Not to understate the company's accomplishment, but "people on HN" are fed up exactly with statements like yours.

New comment by Idesmi in "European Commission fines Google €2.95B over abusive ad tech practices"

Idesmi — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 07:49:43 +0000

its

New comment by Idesmi in "Wikipedia survives while the rest of the internet breaks"

Idesmi — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 18:11:44 +0000

The first claim is correct, as the topic was direction, not correctness.

New comment by Idesmi in "Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team"

Idesmi — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 13:03:57 +0000

You have a SciFi bookshop? Where is it?

New comment by Idesmi in "EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google"

Idesmi — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 06:25:36 +0000

I applaud you for being someone who finally talks about European Union institutions with apt knowledge of them, unlike even most news providers.

The structure of the Union is grim. I wish it was different, but how to change it now? It would have to be the Commission itself that suddenly decides that most of its powers need to be delegated to the Parliament.

New comment by Idesmi in "EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google"

Idesmi — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 06:20:38 +0000

I sadly agree with what you wrote, but on this point

> The EU Parliament is like that: the death of ambition, full of apathetic losers who drift into politics without any real idea of why they're there

I have to disagree. There are many (or, "at least a few I know personally"? [1]) people who sit in the Parliament with a real intention of making good. Their power is simply null, though.

1. David Sassoli (deceased, ex president), Guy Verhofstadt (Renew), Patrick Breyer (Pirates), to name a few I follow.

New comment by Idesmi in "EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google"

Idesmi — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 06:15:03 +0000

> I cannot understand why the European Commission wants to reduce our reliance on FAANG services, and at the same time they make Google Play a de facto standard

You'll be surprised, most of the time it's simple ignorance: the people making decisions don't know everything about everything. Hence democracy comes to rescue.

But the way the European Commission takes decisions is anti-democratic (secret draft documents, undisclosed lobbying, overlooking the role of the Parliament…)