Hacker News: Josh5

New comment by Josh5 in "Show HN: ContextVault – Shared memory layer for your AI and your team"

Josh5 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:09:36 +0000

this seems sketchy as. how are you securely storing all that sensitive data? how do I delete data? How do I know you are not viewing my data?

New comment by Josh5 in "Sora 2"

Josh5 — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 21:48:27 +0000

Everyone has the widest eyes in these Sora videos.

New comment by Josh5 in "Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers"

Josh5 — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 01:01:10 +0000

are they even sure that the AI even accessed the content that second time? LLMs are really good and making up shit. I have tested this by asking various LLMs to scrape data from my websites while watching access logs. Many times, they don't and just rely on some sort of existing data or spout a bunch of BS. Gemini is especially bad like this. I have not used copilot myself, but my experience with other AI makes me curious about this.

New comment by Josh5 in "Show HN: IssuePay – Get paid for open-source contributions"

Josh5 — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 21:20:00 +0000

This is not something I could consider touching until I see it in action. The site leaves me feeling very apprehensive.

i also don't understand "Limited visibility to hiring companies" - is this saying that my OSS code contribution is not going to have my name on it?

I'll watch this space, but I personally dont think this product is something I want.

New comment by Josh5 in "Control Linux based distros using hand gestures using OpenCV, GTK, Mediapipe"

Josh5 — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 20:15:40 +0000

Some people want to live life on the edge. Expert mode would be a gesture that nukes your installation

New comment by Josh5 in "Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share"

Josh5 — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 11:42:10 +0000

Just want to say that all of these replies missed the mark so much by debating desktops and desktop modes and BSD on a game console... While this graph says that 3% of desktop users are running Linux, what it means is GNU/Linux and not just the Linux kernel. The steam deck runs GNU/Linux as the OS regardless of it being in desktop mode or console mode. a Chromebook runs Linux, but that is still ChromeOS. Any android device runs Linux, but that is Android. we are not talking about the kernel. We are talking about GNU on top of Linux as an OS that people use in some way as a desktop.

New comment by Josh5 in "Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices from 20 seconds of audio"

Josh5 — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 18:49:06 +0000

Way to make sound like an American!

New comment by Josh5 in "Investigating why Steam started picking a random font"

Josh5 — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 23:16:26 +0000

If you run Steam in a container, you wont need to worry about it touching and messing up your system files.

New comment by Josh5 in "The Match Girls"

Josh5 — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 20:12:27 +0000

...based on this true story.

New comment by Josh5 in "Ask HN: Why don't web browsers render Markdown yet?"

Josh5 — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 18:34:38 +0000

What? How could rendered markdown get used for XSS?

New comment by Josh5 in "Jesus Nut"

Josh5 — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 09:14:34 +0000

https://youtube.com/shorts/EGJvzN-nVuM?feature=share

New comment by Josh5 in "Waterfox Browser"

Josh5 — Sun, 10 Oct 2021 06:47:09 +0000

What's wrong with 2020? Generally the year displayed with a copyright is the year the work was first published. For a website, 2020 is a pretty recent initial publish. People don't just fully rewrite their website every year.

New comment by Josh5 in "Cleaning Up Git History"

Josh5 — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 18:34:37 +0000

"Every commit should be runnable, that is we should be able to git checkout any commit and get a functional code base. This means no “WIP” commits..." I strongly disagree with this.

New comment by Josh5 in "Remove some offensive/archaic terminology from OpenSSL"

Josh5 — Sun, 21 Jun 2020 05:06:20 +0000

The problem isn't the words that seem to offend some people, it's that people associate themselves with words that they should not. I would love to live in a world where people stop saying "I'm black" or "I'm white". Your skin has a colour, but I bet it's not one of those. Perhaps a light brown? The point is, no one alive can say they don't share some heratage with one side or another. If you are so offended by some historical act of slavery in your ancestry, then perhaps you should also carry out some due diligence and check if there is any enslavement by the part of your ancestors also? If things like this is a big deal, why are we ok with dressing up as pirates or murderers? I personally feel like the problem lies in our inability to accept some historical events as unchangeable as crap as they are, and focus instead at how wonderful our differences as a species is in the 21st century. We should be accepting humanity as the collidescope that it is rather than just "black" and "white". FFS!