Hacker News: Kuraj

New comment by Kuraj in "I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to"

Kuraj — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 18:00:51 +0000

How many of these pictures did y'all download while trying to close them?

New comment by Kuraj in "LinkedIn is illegally searching your computer"

Kuraj — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:11:06 +0000

> I think most people would interpret “scanning your computer” as breaking out of the confines the browser and gathering information from the computer itself. If this was happening, the magnitude of the scandal would be hard to overstate.

But at the end of the day, the browser is likely where your most sensitive data is.

New comment by Kuraj in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

Kuraj — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:48:12 +0000

I guess the silver lining is that the Windows ABI is extremely stable

New comment by Kuraj in "Office.eu launches as Europe's sovereign office platform"

Kuraj — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:43:41 +0000

I agree. We don't need to reinvent the wheel.

New comment by Kuraj in "Interview with Øyvind Kolås, GIMP developer (2017)"

Kuraj — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 04:56:13 +0000

Don't sleep on the command palette (`/`). It's a really useful tool when even if you don't know _where_ things are, you still know what they are called.

New comment by Kuraj in "Don't create .gitkeep files, use .gitignore instead (2023)"

Kuraj — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 03:18:30 +0000

If you need to do this, I think .gitkeep communicates intent better. You don't need to document it or risk it being removed as thought to be a left over.

New comment by Kuraj in "Photopea-Online Photo Editor"

Kuraj — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:31:27 +0000

I had no idea, that's amazing.

New comment by Kuraj in "Oregon gave homeless youth $1k/month with no strings"

Kuraj — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:07:19 +0000

Queer people are at a greater risk of being estranged from their families, if nothing else.

New comment by Kuraj in "GOG: Linux "the next major frontier" for gaming as it works on a native client"

Kuraj — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:06:16 +0000

It wouldn't make sense not to.

New comment by Kuraj in "Playing Arcade Mahjong at Home? Or is it just a Mirage?"

Kuraj — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 15:13:27 +0000

The hardest part of IRL play for me has been actually getting 4 people who know how to play the game in a single room lol

New comment by Kuraj in "Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022)"

Kuraj — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 20:00:26 +0000

It wasn't exactly disappointing. I loved to read The Old New Thing back in the day, Raymond's blog was full of stuff like this.

New comment by Kuraj in "Making Google Sans Flex"

Kuraj — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 11:58:57 +0000

I've come to realize that barely anyone I know uses swipe typing anymore, and that this is why using it laying flat is viable in the first place

New comment by Kuraj in "Windows 11 will ask consent before sharing personal files with AI after outrage"

Kuraj — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 02:30:03 +0000

KDE is SO GOOD.

I've distro hopped and DE hopped a lot before settling, but it's been amazing for me as somoeone who has switched over from Windows. It just doesn't get in the way, is super familiar for me, AND lets me do a lot of things I wish I had in Windows.

I was worried about the "choice fatigue" due to it being super configurable and all, but honestly the defaults are so sensible I haven't really had a reason to tinker with it much if at all.

New comment by Kuraj in "Programmers and software developers lost the plot on naming their tools"

Kuraj — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:33:37 +0000

At least you weren't the guy hitting a wall when trying to get a testing library integrated because it was named Testacular

New comment by Kuraj in "GrapheneOS is the only Android OS providing full security patches"

Kuraj — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 18:40:20 +0000

You might also be interested in Jolla Phone https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46162368

New comment by Kuraj in "Microsoft won't let me pay a $24 bill, blocking thousands in Azure spending"

Kuraj — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:46:23 +0000

I locked myself out of Azure after losing 2FA which turned out to be different 2FA than the one tied to my Microsoft Account.

All support channels are now AI and refuse to help and redirect me to self service. There is _no_ self service path for Azure account recovery if you lose your 2FA token.

It's infuriating. I lost access to a bunch of hobby projects I had hosted on DevOps. Microsoft will never see a dime from me.

New comment by Kuraj in "28M Hacker News comments as vector embedding search dataset"

Kuraj — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 18:09:19 +0000

> I and many others posted it for reading by other people, many of us for a long time before this AI boom. Even with scrapers at least the eventual target was a human, all good.

This captures perfectly what I was trying to say. Thanks

New comment by Kuraj in "KDE going all-in on a Wayland future"

Kuraj — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 18:02:58 +0000

> All your monitors are combined into a large canvas where every pixel can be written and read by any X11 client.

Heh. I learned this hard way when trying to set up multiple monitors with different refresh rates

New comment by Kuraj in "28M Hacker News comments as vector embedding search dataset"

Kuraj — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 23:51:24 +0000

I don't know how to get my point across, I guess I'm just thinking emotionally more than logically right now lol. Either way it's not my comments being visible verbatim that irks me but rather the processing part. But I get your point and the "damage" is already done, so /shrug

New comment by Kuraj in "28M Hacker News comments as vector embedding search dataset"

Kuraj — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 23:15:33 +0000

I dunno man. When I first joined it was unconcieveable that someone could just take everything and build a trivially queryable _conversational_ (that's a big part of it) model around everything I've posted _just like that_. Call me naiive but I would consider it some sort of a social contract that you would not do that. I feel the same way about LLMs being trained on Reddit. I suspect with a large enough dataset these models can infer things about you that you wouldn't know about yourself.

To make another example, even though my reddit history is public (or was until recently because I didn't have a choice) I would still feel uneasy if I realized someone deliberately snooped through all of it. And I would be SUUUUPER uncomfortable if someone did that with my Discord history.

It's not against the rules or anything, I just think it's rude.