Hacker News: SSLy

New comment by SSLy in "Autistici/Inventati's main .org domain goes dark after US terrorism designation"

SSLy — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:09:20 +0000

whoo hooo, I've had an unused account there. guess I'm on yet another list, woe betide me.

New comment by SSLy in "Xcancel and Nitter have been taken down"

SSLy — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:52:44 +0000

https://hello.mu.social/

New comment by SSLy in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in performance and AI compute"

SSLy — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:18:42 +0000

Yeah, instead I have unsubbed from WoW this week. The atrocious state of the game's code and scripting is unbearable.

New comment by SSLy in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

SSLy — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:51:25 +0000

Looks like I'll be sporting my 5800X3D + DDR4 + 9070 XT gaming box for a little while. Too bad the CPU's ST is slower than my MB Air m4.

New comment by SSLy in "Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload"

SSLy — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:39:50 +0000

xmake, build2, whatever msvc and xcode insist upon…

New comment by SSLy in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

SSLy — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:42:40 +0000

My country's agency for weather and water mgmt has consistently the best 48h forecast. Try looking for an equivalent in yours.

New comment by SSLy in "Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history"

SSLy — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:16:52 +0000

Indeed Firefox

New comment by SSLy in "Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history"

SSLy — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:06:08 +0000

the favicon isn't removed

New comment by SSLy in "Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%"

SSLy — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 19:45:40 +0000

enjoy!

New comment by SSLy in "Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%"

SSLy — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:09:51 +0000

I am afraid MK World isn't even the best kart racer on NS2. It's Sonic Crossworlds

New comment by SSLy in "Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%"

SSLy — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:08:21 +0000

they indiscriminately shut down any sight of online smash tournaments

New comment by SSLy in "The curious case of the disappearing Polish S (2015)"

SSLy — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:19:26 +0000

of course the absolute idiots at MSFT don't know their own APIs https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040329-00/?p=40...

New comment by SSLy in "Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs"

SSLy — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 09:13:46 +0000

A portmanteau of anti, and fan. 'Hater' wouldn't be exactly the same.

New comment by SSLy in "Windows 11 New Media Player Uses 3.5x More RAM, Charges for Popular Video Codecs"

SSLy — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 19:59:20 +0000

As a certified MSFT's antifan, I’ve noticed Apple’s Music.app uses roughly 580 MiB of RAM for comparison.

New comment by SSLy in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"

SSLy — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:27:42 +0000

70k, which I believe is a fine result for a second language.

New comment by SSLy in "I hate compilers"

SSLy — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:26:55 +0000

bpf isn't a far stretch from that

New comment by SSLy in "Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter"

SSLy — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:30:08 +0000

Also for gaming too: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/

1920 x 1080 51.89%

2560 x 1440 21.20%

3840 x 2160 5.00%

New comment by SSLy in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

SSLy — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:11:48 +0000

> putting the currency symbol at the end. I wonder what places do that...

plenty of Europeans at least

New comment by SSLy in "Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items"

SSLy — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:13:43 +0000

For me Tahoe's performance was alright, but cmd-space spotlight search disappeared after second keystroke wayy too often. Reverted to Sequoia.

New comment by SSLy in "Rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt, an interactive introduction"

SSLy — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:13:04 +0000

Had to swap stanzas around to fit in the charlimit