Hacker News: PalmPilotProMax

New comment by PalmPilotProMax in "'Jonathan' is the oldest land animal on Earth"

PalmPilotProMax — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 03:51:20 +0000

Yeah, but is he more charismatic than Bryan Johnson?

Wait till he gets his hands on turtle semen and peptides

New comment by PalmPilotProMax in "The new Firefox design is here"

PalmPilotProMax — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:01:31 +0000

I still have hilarious memories of "aerodynamic tabs" in that era of Firefox design docs.

New comment by PalmPilotProMax in "Linguistic humor, Foreign hotel signs"

PalmPilotProMax — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 05:12:02 +0000

On the language proficiency tangent: I wonder if there are collections of unintentionally funny $LINGUA_FRANCA back in the days of French, Classical Latin, Ancient Chinese, and Ancient Arabic.

New comment by PalmPilotProMax in "People who can't picture anything are rewriting the science of imagination"

PalmPilotProMax — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 05:26:48 +0000

>black dot

One of the most horrifying recurring dreams when young was "geometric nightmares". This black circle would expand in size while a deafening silence grows. The volume is a void, and it's deafening.

An impending sense of doom as the expanding black void circle approaches. There's a real fear of oblivion, of ceasing to exist. Then you wake up.

Anyone else had similar dreams?

New comment by PalmPilotProMax in "Google copied our open-source code, removed engineers' names without credit"

PalmPilotProMax — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 05:20:14 +0000

The "opens source" rebranding exercise and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

New comment by PalmPilotProMax in "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"

PalmPilotProMax — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:18:45 +0000

I bet it's some obscure MIT/BSD-licensed fuzzy matching library that both macOS and Windows uses.

New comment by PalmPilotProMax in "What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?"

PalmPilotProMax — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:25:38 +0000

I don't see how that's relevant? Article is about the RNG implementation, it doesn't matter what the profile pictures are.

New comment by PalmPilotProMax in "One corner of China’s internet is insisting that the Tang Dynasty never existed"

PalmPilotProMax — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 05:15:25 +0000

I have a theory that "narrative warfare" doesn't exist, and it's all just faulty emanations of the single truth from the primordial creation blasting into our craniums in haphazard and mutually contradictory ways.

I'll write a book about it. See you in your local bookstore!

New comment by PalmPilotProMax in "Why your local LLM feels dumber than it is"

PalmPilotProMax — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 12:12:15 +0000

Imagine spending all that money on Apple hardware only to throttle it to a fraction of its performance lol

Steve Jobs would be proud. People really are holding their Apple hardware wrong.

New comment by PalmPilotProMax in "GCC steering committee announces AI policy"

PalmPilotProMax — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 03:47:57 +0000

In a sense, Clankers are a clanger.

New comment by PalmPilotProMax in "GCC steering committee announces AI policy"

PalmPilotProMax — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 02:28:40 +0000

Turns out the "propaganda" folder of 9front's source code is actually a really prescient precaution against LLMs.

New comment by PalmPilotProMax in "GCC steering committee announces AI policy"

PalmPilotProMax — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 02:25:48 +0000

Nominative determinism and cosmic irony in action.

Who'd thought the Fall of Clang would be caused by Clangers Slop.

New comment by PalmPilotProMax in "Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight"

PalmPilotProMax — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 02:27:16 +0000

That's exactly what Game on Whales offers

It's multi seat.

New comment by PalmPilotProMax in "Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight"

PalmPilotProMax — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:33:42 +0000

The selling point of Moonshine (and some of the Sunshine forks/descendants) is that it's headless without the need of a physical dummy plug.

New comment by PalmPilotProMax in "Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight"

PalmPilotProMax — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:26:48 +0000

So, to sum up:

First there was Nvidia Gamestream, which was proprietary and later deprecated by Nvidia themselves.

Then came Sunshine and Moonlight, open source server and client implementations of the protocol to allow low latency streaming for all platforms.

Along the way the Game on Whales project started, to allow multi seat streaming plus virtual displays so currently logged in user sessions aren't impacted. Basically this is a whole "host your own Stadia/Geforce Now" solution. But instead of running already setup applications as an existing user, you run these curated containers of Steam, Firefox, etc.

Then someone forked Sunshine and Moonlight into Apollo and Artemis, to make streaming from a virtual display turnkey and OOTB easy. Sadly the virtual display feature of Apollo is in practice Windows only.

And then there's this, Moonshine, in a way doing what Apollo brings to the table but for Linux servers.

Oh, and along the way someone forked Apollo into Vibepollo, an almost fully vibecoded "enhancement". Personally not touching that.

Did I miss anything?

New comment by PalmPilotProMax in "Transcribe.cpp"

PalmPilotProMax — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:58:27 +0000

Any plans of including the VAD step into this? When whisper.cpp added Silero it really smoothed out the UX.

New comment by PalmPilotProMax in "A native graphical shell for SSH"

PalmPilotProMax — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 03:04:16 +0000

>character-only trash from 1960s

You take that back!

>Why a TUI is the best thing we pipe through ssh? Why I cannot watch a 4k movie in the terminal or browse the web using pinch to zoom?

The old magick speak of X forwarding. The newer wizards now use waypipe.

New comment by PalmPilotProMax in "GloriousEggroll's Proton has been rebased on Proton 11"

PalmPilotProMax — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:01:35 +0000

The allure of being just good enough where the bling and hype of features outshine hidden bugs may win out socially.

New comment by PalmPilotProMax in "AURpocalypse now: a look at the recent AUR attacks"

PalmPilotProMax — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 01:48:42 +0000

Isn't Arch's AUR flat namespace quite unique? Ubuntu's PPAs are also not flat.

New comment by PalmPilotProMax in "Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]"

PalmPilotProMax — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 04:18:05 +0000

It is in the nature of nation states to assert control over national borders. That the Internet and the globalised flow of information it enables circumvents this is a historical anomaly.