Hacker News: RobotToaster

New comment by RobotToaster in "Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'"

RobotToaster — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:58:02 +0000

You mean when the industrial revolution put a lot of people out of work, and lowered living standards for most workers?

Gee, I wonder what could be happening that's similar to that.

New comment by RobotToaster in "GentleOS – Classic operating system with a lovely retro GUI"

RobotToaster — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:27:19 +0000

Itanium was released 25 years ago now...

New comment by RobotToaster in "Show HN: GentleOS – A pair of hobby OSes for vintage 32-bit and 16-bit PCs"

RobotToaster — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:20:04 +0000

Including the mandatory corruption on the last one.

New comment by RobotToaster in "Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee"

RobotToaster — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:11:56 +0000

Does Amazon not deliver to Alaska?

New comment by RobotToaster in "The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games"

RobotToaster — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:46:02 +0000

Counterpoint: UK law gives you six years to sue if goods are faulty or otherwise not as advertised, why should software be any different?

New comment by RobotToaster in "Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot"

RobotToaster — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:36:41 +0000

Very rigorous software engineering standards.

New comment by RobotToaster in "Biohub releases a world model of protein biology"

RobotToaster — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:17:02 +0000

> This model is released under the MIT License.

Huh, appears to be actually open source, that's a pleasant surprise. Usually these academic models have some weird license attached to them.

New comment by RobotToaster in "Major P2P issues in Israel and possibly other Middle East countries"

RobotToaster — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 10:47:51 +0000

Hell, I remember feature begging on developer mailing lists myself 20+ years ago. (To be fair I was 13 at the time)

New comment by RobotToaster in "Public Domain Image Archive"

RobotToaster — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 10:28:47 +0000

>There is a possible problem with countries where a photographer can have copyright over their photograph of an earlier work.

To be specific, Germany is one of the few countries where this applies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality

It's an absolutely stupid idea IMO.

New comment by RobotToaster in "GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS"

RobotToaster — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:51:22 +0000

> as opposed to a news site where a journalist would have to stake their reputation on the story being true.

Have you seen the reputations of most "journalists" these days? Several UK newspapers frequently repost stories from forums like reddit and mumsnet.

New comment by RobotToaster in "Social Cache Busting"

RobotToaster — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 10:38:37 +0000

Often they will just talk around a question too. They will be asked if they will give everyone free ice cream if elected, and they will just talk about how great ice cream is, how important ice cream is, etc, but never actually answer the question.

I'm surprised there isn't a term for doing that.

New comment by RobotToaster in "Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part I: Why They Fight"

RobotToaster — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 06:57:18 +0000

Sparta, their entire civilization basically atrophied because of it.

New comment by RobotToaster in "Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part I: Why They Fight"

RobotToaster — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 06:53:55 +0000

It's also stated in enterprise that Klingons do have other castes, the warrior caste is just the most dominant. (Although the caste system doesn't seem strictly hereditary)

New comment by RobotToaster in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

RobotToaster — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 06:33:11 +0000

It's a risky investment, yes there's a chance it could go to the moon, but it could also plummet to earth.

New comment by RobotToaster in "New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste"

RobotToaster — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:08:23 +0000

> Solid crystalline salt, on the other hand, is a hassle.

Just put it on your fries.

New comment by RobotToaster in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

RobotToaster — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 07:09:55 +0000

How is filming someone causing physical contact or harm, or putting someone in apprehension of physical harm?

New comment by RobotToaster in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

RobotToaster — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:34:23 +0000

That's still common assault.

New comment by RobotToaster in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

RobotToaster — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:32:32 +0000

I wish something like this existed that was completely offline. I'm face blind (prosopagnosia) so being able to feed an offline database photos of friends so it can recognise them would be great.

Accessibility shouldn't require giving up privacy.

New comment by RobotToaster in "UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases"

RobotToaster — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:41:33 +0000

There's lots of indirect ways to promote "defence" spending, such as promoting more involvement in a conflict.

New comment by RobotToaster in "DaVinci Resolve 21"

RobotToaster — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:47:15 +0000

At least some of the motion graphics stuff (Krokodove) was part of reactor, an open source community plugin that BMD added a paywall to use. https://www.reddit.com/r/davinciresolve/comments/1hf5lk6/rea...