Hacker News: MarsIronPI

New comment by MarsIronPI in "I built a GPU back end for Emacs"

MarsIronPI — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 12:00:58 +0000

The problem is that some GNU packages, Emacs among them, have a policy that copyright of the code must be assigned to the FSF. This policy exists because the FSF and GNU have gotten legal advice to the effect that all owners of a project must sue together to sue against copyright violators. So I don't forsee this policy changing while LLM output is not copyrightable.

New comment by MarsIronPI in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

MarsIronPI — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:29:24 +0000

Usury (i.e. taking interest) sounds like free market to me. If you don't like my interest rates, borrow somewhere else.

New comment by MarsIronPI in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

MarsIronPI — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:27:08 +0000

Maybe the making of the thing should be paid for before it's made, rather than hoping that selling copies will recoup the investment. I.e., go back to patronage while abolishing copyright.

New comment by MarsIronPI in "Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS)"

MarsIronPI — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:48:26 +0000

At least bridge to something the freedom-loving folks will use, e.g. Matrix, or (better IMO) Jabber.

New comment by MarsIronPI in "When I reject AI code even if it works"

MarsIronPI — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 11:53:51 +0000

By generating plausible-sounding corrections.

New comment by MarsIronPI in "When I reject AI code even if it works"

MarsIronPI — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 11:53:29 +0000

Looking on the bright side, where there's AI-generated muck, there will be brass for humans willing to clean it up.

New comment by MarsIronPI in "Migrating from GNU Stow to Chezmoi"

MarsIronPI — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:32:48 +0000

For me it's useful to have a separate directory with my dotfiles repo, since my dotfiles repo's top level directory doesn't correspond to my home directory. I have one subdirectory for each machine.

New comment by MarsIronPI in "Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux"

MarsIronPI — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 09:33:31 +0000

I still don't see what was so broken about X's security model that it warranted a whole new protocol (with its own problems that it's still solving 15 years later) instead of an extension to X11.

New comment by MarsIronPI in "You Can Run"

MarsIronPI — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 01:49:21 +0000

Meh, I felt that the article was over-dramatic and verbose at times.

New comment by MarsIronPI in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

MarsIronPI — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 08:15:00 +0000

It seems to me that the issues on that page are Wayland-specific; anectotally, on my random X window manager works fine with Fcitx (except for Emacs, but that's probably Emacs' fault, not the IME protocol's).

New comment by MarsIronPI in "Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows"

MarsIronPI — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:00:48 +0000

VimFX + LegacyFox is still the best; it even works on about: pages.

New comment by MarsIronPI in "Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows"

MarsIronPI — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:59:02 +0000

GTK (and QT I do believe) also support this on GNU/Linux.

New comment by MarsIronPI in "Changing How We Develop Ladybird"

MarsIronPI — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:13:44 +0000

I suspect that rather than some kind of digital proof-of-competence, communities will shift to in-person meetups at conferences and such. Which is unfortunate for people who can't attend for whatever reason, but I think some solution to that can be worked out.

New comment by MarsIronPI in "Changing How We Develop Ladybird"

MarsIronPI — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:09:27 +0000

Maybe it is, if they can somehow vet potential new contributors in-person at e.g. conferences.

New comment by MarsIronPI in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

MarsIronPI — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 10:07:01 +0000

It's not source available, source available implies some restrictions on what you can do with the source, or with any resulting binaries. This isn't a rugpull; all they're doing is closing off contributions, which has nothing to do with the license of the code.

New comment by MarsIronPI in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

MarsIronPI — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:50:04 +0000

IMO Phoenix[0] is what Wayland should have been: a reimplementation of X11. We didn't need a new protocol.

https://git.dec05eba.com/phoenix

New comment by MarsIronPI in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

MarsIronPI — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:48:12 +0000

I think Phoenix[0] is a promising project: it's an X11 server written from the ground up, with security and legacy feature removal in mind. It's basically what Wayland should have been IMO. We didn't need a new protocol, at most we needed a new implementation of X11.

https://git.dec05eba.com/phoenix

New comment by MarsIronPI in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

MarsIronPI — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:46:32 +0000

Huh? Fcitx and IBus both worked on GNOME and KDE as far as I'm aware. Now, Fcitx using QT and IBus using GTK helps them feel more native on KDE and GNOME respectively, but they would both work.

New comment by MarsIronPI in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

MarsIronPI — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:22:23 +0000

I do the same, but with mu/mu4e in Emacs. Not having to open a browser to read email also helps with staying focused for me.

New comment by MarsIronPI in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

MarsIronPI — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:17:27 +0000

Name one feature (i.e. thing that requires client support, not UI) that's new in email since 2005 and that's also worth having.