Hacker News: McDyver

New comment by McDyver in "AI Is Throwing a Roadside Picnic"

McDyver — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 18:30:54 +0000

You're right.

Hopefully, this genie will grant us a few wishes

New comment by McDyver in "AI Is Throwing a Roadside Picnic"

McDyver — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:28:26 +0000

I don't think that's the argument. In my opinion this is like paying to unlock characters, à la EA. Who's going to feel a sense of accomplishment by just trying to interpret what an LLM spat out? Sure,maybe the results will be used by someone in some field, the same way a product manager uses what the development team developed. Is the PM going to give talks about it? Are they going to expand on those developments and come up with something new?

New comment by McDyver in "Digital Audio on the ZX Spectrum's 1-Bit Beeper"

McDyver — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:47:01 +0000

I remember the "Codemasters Jet Bike Simulator". I always found it impressive

(And there was a "Get ready!" which I didn't remember)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRW9vW3_M3o&t=8

New comment by McDyver in "Real-time feedback: My closing move in every interview"

McDyver — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 07:44:09 +0000

> You explained the concepts of what makes a good team, but no matter how much I probed, I couldn’t get anything concrete from you about how to actually build a team.

Did YOU ever get feedback? This is not a good interview. Why didn't you just ask the question? Can it be that you don't know how to interview, or was is just so you could get on your high horse and say "you didn't read my mind, so you're a bad fit"? And it seems a pattern in your feedback: you seem to wait for YOUR time to shine as a "benevolent feedback giver" instead of asking the questions when it makes sense, and you can get an immediate answer.

New comment by McDyver in "F-Droid 2.0"

McDyver — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:19:46 +0000

> sideloading

That newspeak term should just disappeared. It only contributes to the image that downloading and installing an app is something that is outside the "happy path". Installing software of your choice on a device you own shouldn't be demonised

New comment by McDyver in "google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update"

McDyver — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 07:16:23 +0000

It's not exactly the same: when in hover over a link, I want to know where it's taking me. I want to know if the URL is pointing to a safe domain.

Google being the cesspool it is, can serve whichever (ad laden) domain that fits their own interests the best.

This is yet another move to remove power from the users.

New comment by McDyver in "“It works better in the app”"

McDyver — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 05:06:06 +0000

Pi-hole let's you define different groups with different ad blocking policies. Then you can define which dhcp ips go in each group. Works very well. The "normies" won't even notice

New comment by McDyver in "CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO"

McDyver — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 08:50:48 +0000

Here's a wild idea: about the CEO and shareholders being properly taxed, instead? Every job being replaced by AI is with the purpose of making more money for the CEO and shareholders, right? So, tax them more. It would solve SO MANY issues

New comment by McDyver in "EU now one step away from reviving private message scanning rules"

McDyver — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 20:56:21 +0000

It's all coming together: Even if an open protocol was developed and published, and everyone would just use AI to create their own app in order to be private, Google is shutting down that path by preventing "unsanctioned" apps from being installed (not to mention Apple, which already does it).

People wouldn't be arrested for writing code, but as it happened in Spain, people with Pixels and GrapheneOS are already treated as drug dealers

New comment by McDyver in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

McDyver — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:53:06 +0000

> As I said in another comment, speaking for myself, I don’t like that he made this donation and I know this view is shared by many of my colleagues.

Maybe there's a case to distance Mullvad from him, then. Not taking a stand is also a political choice.

New comment by McDyver in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

McDyver — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:21:51 +0000

Maybe not in absolute terms. But if there is no access to the actual SOTA models, it's as if they don't exist.

New comment by McDyver in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

McDyver — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:38:56 +0000

It goes to show that privacy is not a priority. And it should be.

New comment by McDyver in "For the first time in history, more Americans are moving to EU than vice versa"

McDyver — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:42:32 +0000

> it saves me 2k a month in taxes. There are also workarounds in avoiding paying the higher EU taxes.

Interesting how in a different comment you say

> I want the same for all Spaniards and will gladly pay high taxes if my family, friends, and my neighbors can also have that same opportunity.

New comment by McDyver in "Palantir and Anthropic AI helped the US hit 1k Iran targets in 24 hours"

McDyver — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 15:16:44 +0000

They literally bombed a school full of girls.

It's irrelevant whether AI "makes any mistakes" or not, there are no morals either way, and people just seem to be desensitised to all of this

New comment by McDyver in "Devuan – Debian Without Systemd"

McDyver — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:05:42 +0000

That's good for you!

Isn't that a selfish view, though? "Works for me,so I don't care that systemd is creating dependencies everywhere for everyone else".

I appreciate that it simplifies some things, but I can't understand that you can't choose which parts of it to install, or even replace parts of it with alternatives.

Isn't linux about choice? It feels we're going on a downwards spiral where choice is being taken away from us in every domain

New comment by McDyver in "France Aiming to Replace Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc."

McDyver — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:56:27 +0000

I see a "top-down" approach, actually.

Government and public services change to (ideally) open source, and "impose"/"require" downstream compatibility.

This would create the incentive and make change easier

New comment by McDyver in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"

McDyver — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 08:33:23 +0000

I'm using Pipepipe. I believe it's a fork from NewPipe, and has more features, namely skipping sponsor block, and intros

New comment by McDyver in "Ads Are Coming to ChatGPT. Here’s How They’ll Work"

McDyver — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 21:47:38 +0000

So now you are still the product, even if you're paying.

New comment by McDyver in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

McDyver — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 18:01:40 +0000

Again, that's an internal affair. It would be up to the Native Americans to decide. It's their country after all

New comment by McDyver in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

McDyver — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 14:32:24 +0000

It's very black and white. It's an internal affair, and no one elected the USA to be the police of the world.

We could also argue that even internally in the US, the current president was not democratically elected. Maybe you agree that another state should go there and remove him, just because.

I for one would support a Native American take over of the White House, and giving them back their country. You seem to support this logic