Hacker News: Jubijub

New comment by Jubijub in "In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780K Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux"

Jubijub — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 21:49:53 +0000

+1, I wonder how many will stick to it. The decision tree is pretty simple : - are all the devices / soft they use compatible with Linux ? - do they know enough about Linux to solve their problems ?

If no to either, they will pay for Win11

New comment by Jubijub in ""Remove mentions of XSLT from the html spec""

Jubijub — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 21:53:10 +0000

+1. I worked on an internal corporate eCommerce in 2005 built entirely on DOM + XSLT to create the final HTML. It was an atrocious pain in the neck to maintain (despite being server side so the browser never had to deal with the XSLT). Unless you still manipulate XML and need to transform it in various other formats through XSLT/XSL-FO, I don’t see why anyone would bother with it. It always cracks me up when people « demand » support for features hardly ever used for which they won’t spend a dime or a minute to help

New comment by Jubijub in "Unemployment rising in remote-friendly occupations (2024)"

Jubijub — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 09:47:10 +0000

This. I am a manager, and frankly, getting a bit tired of people who just cast some degree of in person presence as “pure desire for control”. People require coordination (that’s partly why manager / project manager / product manager roles exist), and that coordination is orders of magnitude easier and faster in person. Sometimes just in the course of going from meeting A to meeting B, I will solve <=3 minutes stuff that would take me 2-3x the amount of time via chat or quick ad hoc meetings.

I am against full RTO 5 days a week, because for focused tasks, WFH is way more productive. But hybrid is not entirely stupid. Sure, if 100% of your work is focused work (say SWE work for instance), anything other than full WFH is a loss to you. But unless you work 100% alone with nobody else, 100% optimal for you may not be 100% optimal for the project / product / organisation. And I’ve seen first hand how conflicts brew when people can’t just go in front of a white board and hash out differences in person

Tl;dr : it’s wayyyyyyyy more nuanced than “RTO is stupid you control freak”

New comment by Jubijub in "Speeding up my ZSH shell"

Jubijub — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 20:01:26 +0000

Fish is awesome, but there are times you need POSIX/ bash-like shell syntax

New comment by Jubijub in "OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome"

Jubijub — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 22:11:45 +0000

It’s a certainty at this point, they will need the revenue stream

New comment by Jubijub in "Systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success"

Jubijub — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 22:06:58 +0000

+1, systemd is very usable, and works. I would really not go back to what was before

New comment by Jubijub in "TSA to end shoes-off policy for airport security screening"

Jubijub — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 20:10:04 +0000

Case in point : fly from EU to US, no shoes off. Same planes, flying over the same cities.

New comment by Jubijub in "What Does a Post-Google Internet Look Like?"

Jubijub — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 20:35:46 +0000

It’s a dark take, but I mostly agree with it. The ad model, with all its flaws, is a flexible model, and it has funded the web for a while.

The part that will break is that a lot of sites will have 0 incentives to continue to publish, in the face of 0 revenue and 0 credit. That will degrade the quality/ relevance of LLMs. I also think that “guaranteed produced by humans “ will have value.

New comment by Jubijub in "Waymo rides cost more than Uber or Lyft and people are paying anyway"

Jubijub — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 21:44:57 +0000

+1 So you may get say a 7 seater where the seats are folded in the trunk, so you can carry 7 people XOR 5 people + light suitcases

There is no option to say “send me a mini van”

New comment by Jubijub in "The ‘white-collar bloodbath’ is all part of the AI hype machine"

Jubijub — Fri, 30 May 2025 20:58:42 +0000

That is a hugely simplistic take that tells me you never managed people out coordinated work across many people. I mean I a more productive individually at home too, so are probably all my folks in the team. But we don’t always work independently from each others, by which point having some days in common is a massive booster

New comment by Jubijub in "CivitAI Policy Update: Removal of Real-Person Likeness Content"

Jubijub — Fri, 23 May 2025 05:57:35 +0000

I have no beef against porn, but what makes you think the other two use cases at acceptable ???

New comment by Jubijub in "Gorgeous-GRUB: collection of decent community-made GRUB themes"

Jubijub — Mon, 05 May 2025 21:13:47 +0000

I respect the craft, and I have riced my distro, but theming my boot loader is the last thing I would waste time on.

I use my motherboard F8 menu to switch between Win11 and Arch boot loaders (so they can ignore each other, much simpler to maintain), so systems-boot appears only exactly 3 seconds to give me an opportunity to boot Linux-LTS instead of the last kernel version. And if I need to do anything fancy at boot time (eg: repair a borked boot config), I use a USB key with arch iso, and chroot into my install and then I have the full power of the command line.

I really really fail to see the point of spending hours to theme that.

New comment by Jubijub in "Cursor hits $9B valuation"

Jubijub — Mon, 05 May 2025 21:01:23 +0000

+1, they have no most, and we clearly see that big actors are willing to run at loss to get market shares. At this point I guess people are looking for an exit, and the last investors will own an empty shell

New comment by Jubijub in "Design for 3D-Printing"

Jubijub — Mon, 05 May 2025 16:44:23 +0000

This article is incredible, in the age of AI slip it’s refreshing to read content of this quality.

I’m very new to 3D printing (designed my first part this weekend), and so I learned a lot

New comment by Jubijub in "Curl-impersonate: Special build of curl that can impersonate the major browsers"

Jubijub — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 21:14:17 +0000

I’m sorry but you comment shows you never had to fight this problem a scale. The challenge is not small time crawlers, the challenge is blocking large / dedicated actors. The problem is simple : if there is more than X volume of traffic per , block it. Problem : most aggregation criteria are trivially spoofable, or very cheap to change : - IP : with IPv6 this is not an issue to rotate your IP often - UA : changing this is scraping 101 - SSL fingerprint : easy to use the same as everyone - IP stack fingerprint : also easy to use a common one - request / session tokens : it’s cheap to create a new session You can force login, but then you have a spam account creation challenge, with the same issues as above, and depending on your infra this can become heavy

Add to this that the minute you use a signal for detection, you “burn” it as adversaries will avoid using it, and you lose measurement thus the ability to know if you are fixing the problem at all.

I worked on this kind of problem for a FAANG service, whoever claims it’s easy clearly never had to deal with motivated adversaries