Hacker News: Lariscus

New comment by Lariscus in "Ed Zitron loses his mind annotating an AI doomer macro memo"

Lariscus — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 09:52:43 +0000

Its word against word in this situation. The logs prove nothing as they are easily modifiable and the devs had a good reason to do so.

New comment by Lariscus in "Ed Zitron loses his mind annotating an AI doomer macro memo"

Lariscus — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 08:49:21 +0000

I do enjoy a good Ed Zitron sneer. The fact that the original article moved markets says a lot about the critical thinking skills of stock market traders.

New comment by Lariscus in "Ed Zitron loses his mind annotating an AI doomer macro memo"

Lariscus — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 08:45:51 +0000

Which success? I still see those things churning out laughably wrong code at every turn.

New comment by Lariscus in "Edinburgh councillors pull the plug on 'green' AI datacenter"

Lariscus — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:54:46 +0000

Good riddance. 213 MW of peak power draw is insane, that's equivalent to all homes of Glasgow and Edinburgh combined.

New comment by Lariscus in "Minor says ICE took his iPhone, later found in used-electronics vending machine"

Lariscus — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 09:53:09 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_dental_gold

New comment by Lariscus in "Rust in the kernel is no longer experimental"

Lariscus — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 13:49:36 +0000

Its strange to me that Linux dropped Itanium two years ago but they decided to keep supporting Alpha and PA-RISC.

New comment by Lariscus in "Copy-Item is slower than File Explorer"

Lariscus — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 23:06:31 +0000

It also buffers the downloaded data completely into memory last time I checked. So downloading a file bigger than the available RAM just doesn't work and you have to use WebClient instead.

Another fun one is Extract-Archive which is painfully slow while using the System.IO.Compression.ZipFile CLR type directly is reasonably fast. Powershell is really a head scratcher sometimes.

New comment by Lariscus in "GrapheneOS migrates server infrastructure from France"

Lariscus — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 20:54:38 +0000

I don't disagree about leaving France over their position on chat control or legislation.

I disagree about them essentially spreading misinformation about what actually happened. One prosecutor, that probably doesn't even know what GrapheneOS is, making boisterous claims to the press, is not the same as being contacted by the state about adding a backdoors.

New comment by Lariscus in "GrapheneOS migrates server infrastructure from France"

Lariscus — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 20:01:25 +0000

This looks hugely blown out of proportion. The project founder has a well documented history of what I would consider a persecution complex. Once again he has provided no substantial evidence. The only thing they provided are some, admittedly borderline libelous, news articles. Unless they provide some more concrete information about these supposed attempts of getting a backdoor installed into the system, I will consider this as just another day of GrapheneOS drama.

New comment by Lariscus in "Disney Lost Roger Rabbit"

Lariscus — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 14:11:53 +0000

This is handled in the employment contract. The "Urheberrecht" is not transferable only inheritable, but you can grant "Nutzungsrechte" which means "rights of use". So in your contract you just grant your employer unrestricted and exclusive rights of use.

New comment by Lariscus in "About KeePassXC's Code Quality Control"

Lariscus — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 20:12:58 +0000

That's all nice but I still don't want slop code in an application as security critical as a password manager. The correct percentage of slop code for a password manager is 0% and it’s pants on head crazy to claim otherwise.

I have dug around a bit and found a thread mastodon thread that doesn't inspire confidence[1]. KeePassXC seems completely untrustworthy at this point not only have they jumped on the AI bandwagon, they also seemingly don't know what a zero-day is. I genuinely liked KeePassXC and used it for years now I am spending my Sunday evening researching alternatives.

[1] https://fosstodon.org/@2something@transfem.social/1148367097...

New comment by Lariscus in "About KeePassXC's Code Quality Control"

Lariscus — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 18:08:47 +0000

I didn't know about that and this is really concerning to me. AI has no place in security critical software like KeePassXC, and I remain unconvinced that they will only use it for simple tasks. I don't feel like I can trust this software any longer this is a password manager not just some random website where bugs basically don't matter. I hate that I have to replace yet another piece of software that I liked.

New comment by Lariscus in "Why Everybody Is Losing Money On AI"

Lariscus — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 22:18:55 +0000

The price of a token doesn't necessarily reflect the true cost of running a model. After Claude Opus 4 released the price of OpenAIs o3 tokens where slashed practically over night.[0] If you think this happened because inference cost went down, I have a bridge to sell to you.

[0] https://venturebeat.com/ai/openai-announces-80-price-drop-fo...

New comment by Lariscus in "I ditched Docker for Podman"

Lariscus — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 17:11:06 +0000

Rootless podman in combination with systemd quadlet works great for me. I host all my personal services like that. Having containers integrated directly into systemd makes mapping out dependencies between mounts and other non containerized services much more reliable and easier.

New comment by Lariscus in "I want to be left alone (2024)"

Lariscus — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 14:32:20 +0000

Windows does this nonsense all the time. Recently I used my mothers windows notebook to show her some photos. Five Minutes in with Firefox in full-screen it pops up a Teams window for no reason. She didn't install Teams nor does she need it, but Microsoft in their infinite wisdom decided not only to install it but also that taking focus while another application is in full-screen mode is the perfect moment to prompt the user to login into an application they never used.

New comment by Lariscus in "Ask HN: Why do AIs include obvious, easily removed tells that can get you fired?"

Lariscus — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 21:26:01 +0000

How about not using a LLM if you could get fired for doing so...

New comment by Lariscus in "Cloudflare Starts Blocking Pirate Sites for UK Users"

Lariscus — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 16:59:20 +0000

Stop disseminating misinformation by a YouTuber who has no business making judgement calls on a topic they obviously don't understand.

New comment by Lariscus in "Fundamentals of garbage collection (2023)"

Lariscus — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 11:46:32 +0000

Server GC is the default garbage collector for Asp.net Core.

> https://github.com/dotnet/AspNetCore.Docs/blob/main/aspnetco...

New comment by Lariscus in "EU rules ask tech giants to publicly track how, when AI models go off the rails"

Lariscus — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 21:04:20 +0000

Of course they can. Lets assume you are using such a model in your product, this now makes tracking its output your responsibility. It is really no different from the way you would use an open source library.

New comment by Lariscus in "EU rules ask tech giants to publicly track how, when AI models go off the rails"

Lariscus — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 20:36:12 +0000

Just the same? If you publish a model that doesn't follow these rules nobody in the EU could use that model in their business. You could publish unlicensed source code as well and nobody could really use it for anything business related either.