Hacker News: KZerda

New comment by KZerda in "I hired an illustrator to draw my house. Now it's my Home Assistant dashboard"

KZerda — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 22:06:29 +0000

Commissioning art like this is at most a few hundred dollars. As was posted elsewhere, there are lots of young artists that need to pad out their portfolios, as well as artists in places where the cost of living is significantly cheaper. This isn't a multi-thousand-dollar thing that only the 1% could afford.

New comment by KZerda in "Ubuntu Currently Suffering from Sustained DDoS Attack"

KZerda — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:26:16 +0000

A DDoS like this, probably ransom. A group asking for x thousand or million dollars or they take you offline for a while. Another possibility is someone upset over Ubuntu's direction and is trying to "convince" them to do certain actions. Sadly, people are petty and greedy.

New comment by KZerda in "Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study"

KZerda — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:32:13 +0000

The US, we ration too. We just do it in the most cruel way possible where the working poor doesn't get access to health care, because they can't afford it, and just lives with preventable and easily treated conditions until they die sooner and more miserably.

New comment by KZerda in "ESP32-S31"

KZerda — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:40:32 +0000

About the only one I can think of is connectivity in electronically noisy situations. It's a lot easier to find gigabit sfp modules for linking with fiber than it is to find 100 mbit modules.

New comment by KZerda in "ESP32-S31"

KZerda — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:25:54 +0000

Better connectivity. The Nucleo 144 only has 100mbit ethernet, as far as I can tell, but the new ESP chip has gigabit, along with wireless.

New comment by KZerda in "ESP32-S31"

KZerda — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:21:45 +0000

Theoretically, yeah. Though at 320Mhz, with only 2.4ghz wireless, even with two cores, I doubt it's going to get anywhere near the throughput to fill the gigabit connection.

New comment by KZerda in "Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team"

KZerda — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:37:00 +0000

Redis started off as Free Software, but was switched to a source available license in version 7.4. The community promptly forked to Valkey, which is still under the BSD license. Since then, Redis shifted to AGPL 3, with contributor agreements, to try to ensure that they're the only ones who can attempt to commercialize Redis.

New comment by KZerda in "Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team"

KZerda — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:24:55 +0000

The BSD license made forking Valkey easier because it ensures that everyone has equal footing. The GPL, especially with contributor license agreements and the like, makes it much more easy for a single party to control the direction of the product. For another example of this happening, look at MongoDB. It started out under the AGPL, but was rugpulled to a non-free license.

New comment by KZerda in "Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team"

KZerda — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:55:18 +0000

The BSD license is why we have Valkey and not a purely closed-source Redis. It would have been much easier to perform the rugpull if Redis had initially been GPLed.

New comment by KZerda in "Toxic chemical leak at a manufacturing facility in Orange County"

KZerda — Sun, 24 May 2026 00:55:39 +0000

The valve's jammed, so they can't really pump things in or out.

New comment by KZerda in "Startup founder behind San Francisco pro-billionaire rally"

KZerda — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 23:40:35 +0000

I was one of the dozen or so who photographed this event. The breakdown was about a third there for the march, a third there for counterprotesting, and a third there documenting the event.

New comment by KZerda in "Crime rates of undocumented-, legal immigrants, & native-born citizens in Texas"

KZerda — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 11:07:55 +0000

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2014704117#fig01 there are multiple charts and graphs

New comment by KZerda in "Singularity Rootkit: SELinux bypass and netlink filter (ss/conntrack hidden)"

KZerda — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 19:32:22 +0000

Yes. Offline is how a lot of rootkits are analyzed after the admin notices peculiar behavior. There are a lot of other tells that could be run online to find this rootkit though, most notably, its behavior with ftrace. Disabling ftrace, and then running a program that uses ftrace would tell right away that something's wrong.

New comment by KZerda in "Laptops with Stickers"

KZerda — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:43:09 +0000

Do you say the same about someone who has a picture of their spouse next to their computer?

New comment by KZerda in "iOS 26.2 to allow third-party app stores in Japan ahead of regulatory deadline"

KZerda — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 17:52:57 +0000

It also helps the developers of apps that Apple can't or won't approve. Apps like ICEBlock could still work just fine using alternative app stores that have backbone.

450 Blizzard Diablo developers vote to unionize under CWA

KZerda — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 18:11:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/450-diablo-developers-vote-to-unionize-under-cwa

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45055190

Points: 5

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New comment by KZerda in "The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source"

KZerda — Mon, 19 May 2025 20:08:38 +0000

I used Linux as my daily driver for years, before finally switching back to Windows, and then to the Mac. I got tired of things like wine breaking on apps, I got tired of the half-assed replacements for software available on Windows, like GIMP compared to Photoshop. I got tired of the ugly desktop that inevitably occurs once you start needing to mix QT and GTK based apps. Linux is not a panacea.

New comment by KZerda in "Redis is open source again"

KZerda — Thu, 01 May 2025 18:46:31 +0000

A copyleft license like the AGPL didn't stop MongoDB from rugpulling. I'd argue that the AGPL, and the copyright assignment that tends to go with it, makes it easier to rugpull because forking entities would be at an extreme disadvantage in keeping the lights on compared to the closed-sourcing company. A non-copyleft license, on the other hand, makes it much easier for a forking company to cover all the same niches as the original company, making a rugpull that much more difficult.

New comment by KZerda in "Pompeii experts back Pliny's account of Mount Vesuvius eruption date"

KZerda — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 01:09:44 +0000

The bread was found in the oven of one of the bakeries[1]. It wouldn't be in the oven if the bread was from the day before.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230406-arculata-the-bre...

Artists score major win in copyright case against AI art generators

KZerda — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 18:43:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/artists-score-major-win-copyright-case-against-ai-art-generators-1235973601/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41259131

Points: 123

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