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New comment by NekkoDroid in "Lemoncode, Free Coding Agent"

NekkoDroid — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 13:01:46 +0000

Is this in any way affiliated with https://lemonade-server.ai? From a glance it doesn't look like it.

New comment by NekkoDroid in "The Future of CSS"

NekkoDroid — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 08:34:26 +0000

Better analogy would be "Microwave ovens were never for injecting electromagnetic waves into food. The electromagnetic waves were just a means to heat the food".

New comment by NekkoDroid in "8 in 10 Americans oppose live-streaming execution"

NekkoDroid — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 13:23:55 +0000

Well, the sanest option is to not have the death penalty at all. Anything else is trying to make the problem work.

New comment by NekkoDroid in "DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017"

NekkoDroid — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 18:50:05 +0000

Changing TREE(2) to TREE(3) is a small change on the input, but a... lets just call it big... change in the output.

New comment by NekkoDroid in "US Rep Announces Congressional Legislation to Protect Video Game Ownership"

NekkoDroid — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 10:35:09 +0000

:) You can argue almost all software is a video game in some way, just gotta argue yourself a way that the definition of "video game" would include your software in some way: https://excel-esports.com/

New comment by NekkoDroid in "Gnome OS Preview"

NekkoDroid — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 21:39:41 +0000

Its been a while since I looked further into it, but the individual components were being built with buildstream and I think they were looking to switching the image building to mkosi with buildstream integration (from a quick look at the gnome-build-meta repo it looks like it still didn't happen).

Also a minor nitpick: I wouldn't call Flatpak a/their "dependency manager". It is more like an application manager, closer to winget than a traditional package manager.

New comment by NekkoDroid in "Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio"

NekkoDroid — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:38:58 +0000

Do note that those are en-dashes and not em-dashes.

New comment by NekkoDroid in "Flock CEO: If you want a crime-free society, be ready to give up your privacy"

NekkoDroid — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:08:02 +0000

London according to Google has 9 mil people. So "dozens per person", 9 mil people and 1 mil cameras does not add (or rather multiply) up.

New comment by NekkoDroid in "Gaming on Linux without cheating"

NekkoDroid — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:24:18 +0000

eBPF programs do run at kernel level, but don't have the same full access that a kernel driver would have, they are limited to the APIs that are available for the subsystem they are loaded for. And they can (usually) be unloaded.

The "Does EAC Linux v2 use a kernel driver?" does feel slightly misleading, especially considering the API stability guarantees are also the same as regular kernel drivers, but the "Does EAC Linux v2 run in the background all the time?" doesn't necessarily feel misleading to my understanding.

New comment by NekkoDroid in "The state of systemd: 2026 edition"

NekkoDroid — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 07:22:34 +0000

No, for a system and service management layer.

New comment by NekkoDroid in "The new (and vibe coded) Epic Games Launcher"

NekkoDroid — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:27:47 +0000

> - They give out free games every week. Sometimes they are AAA games like Hogwarts Legacy

That a sizeable chunk of people still buy on Steam because the experience of using the Epic Games Launcher is so abysmal[0]. And I mean the experience that isn't just fixed by a fresh coat of paint, you actually need features added to fix all the interesting missing stuff from Steam.

Also, I don't think I trust anything vibecoded with my credit card/paypal/.

[0]: https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/turns-out-having-you...

New comment by NekkoDroid in "US Says Chinese Hackers Attacked DOJ, NASA, Federal Reserve, Senate"

NekkoDroid — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:18:18 +0000

More like going under a police department post barging about how many criminals they apprehended and reminding everyone the police department killed 5 innocent people in the last week.

New comment by NekkoDroid in "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"

NekkoDroid — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:11:48 +0000

On a lot of Android devices you can't install ANY other custom OS because of locked down bootloaders. If you want GrapheneOS specifically that list is even narrower due to 1. official support 2. hardware security features just missing from the devices.

New comment by NekkoDroid in "The state of systemd: 2026 edition"

NekkoDroid — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 08:43:59 +0000

3000 really isn't that much if you think about how much it is used and how relatively extensive it is. Though the 3000 is also not just bugs but also feature requests (only ~800 are marked as bugs and 1.5k are marked as feature requests).

As comparison libarchive is sitting at ~300 open issues and LLVM is sitting at ~30k. Both also being really important in their own ways.

New comment by NekkoDroid in "The tilde in your PATH may not be your HOME"

NekkoDroid — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:47:22 +0000

> Powershell is, as I understand it, not available on Linux but is omnipresent on Windows

Do note that Windows Powershell and Powershell are NOT the same. The following does work in Powershell, but not Windows Powershell.

    echo hello && echo hello

Specifically Windows Powershell does not support `&&` or `||` (the main difference I immediately notice) and probably a lot of other things are different.

New comment by NekkoDroid in "Mistral Large 4"

NekkoDroid — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:52:06 +0000

> Le Chaton Fat

I've read it a few times and I always processed it as "Le Chateau Fat" ("The fat castle"), which I guess also kinda works. I guess it is mostly because my french is so rusty I forgot (or maybe never learned?) what chaton meant.

New comment by NekkoDroid in "Kolibri: A Sovereign Open-Weight Model"

NekkoDroid — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 18:23:53 +0000

You forgot to that it needs to create a DIN norm for any new technical creations.

New comment by NekkoDroid in "Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux"

NekkoDroid — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:39:33 +0000

> WSL and NSL do not, and that's my preference.

To be fair, WSL mounts all your drives under /mnt/ by default, which I would argue isn't any better, arguably even worse.

New comment by NekkoDroid in "EV Sales Are Booming in Europe with Gasoline at $10 a Gallon"

NekkoDroid — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 08:36:05 +0000

> not really, Germans do hate electric cars as they don't go vroom vroom, there are no emotions transported while driving them

I genuinely don't know a single German that thinks like that. But that might be because I live in BW.

New comment by NekkoDroid in "Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 series"

NekkoDroid — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 06:28:58 +0000

> in official Arch supported hardware list:

ALARM isn't official Arch, so this also isn't an "official Arch supported hardware list". Arch is currently still only x86_64 and everything else is at best unofficial if not just straight up unaffiliated.

(do note that this might change soon-ish™ considering [0], but I think they want to first get their automated build infrastructure ready)

[0]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/rfcs/-/merge_requests...