Hacker News: Sebguer

New comment by Sebguer in "Where .env Went Wrong"

Sebguer — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:52:21 +0000

the blog post is absolute slop though

New comment by Sebguer in "LAPD lets contract with surveillance giant Flock expire"

Sebguer — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:42:49 +0000

Nothing about OP's story sounds plausible or reasonable. The criminal gangs are magically afraid of flock cameras but not any other kind of surveillance? They had footage of the crooks but it took too long to evaluate it, and yet the cops knew exactly which gang was doing it?

New comment by Sebguer in "Resetting Xbox"

Sebguer — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 01:09:33 +0000

yeah good post, it does nothing to support your point or answer my question, thanks for sharing.

New comment by Sebguer in "Resetting Xbox"

Sebguer — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:08:47 +0000

you think you have some amazing analogy but it's utterly nonsensical. where is microsoft putting this money that is going to earn it more? are they low on cash on hand? why are they not investing every dollar they have on these magical free returns that just need more cash?

New comment by Sebguer in "Are readers generating fiction with AI models?"

Sebguer — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 19:00:13 +0000

SillyTavern and the size of like Character.ai at its peak shows pretty obviously that people are doing exactly this!

New comment by Sebguer in "FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model"

Sebguer — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 05:15:34 +0000

Hahaha, yes. Though now I'm imagining an incredible alternative world where I only install the most enshittified pieces of software.

New comment by Sebguer in "FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model"

Sebguer — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 20:19:16 +0000

Great timing given I just installed SwiftKey since Microsoft has started embedding ads and dark pattern redirects to Bing!

New comment by Sebguer in "Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground"

Sebguer — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:41:53 +0000

This is quite a way to admit that you don't have any writers or artists in your social group. It has absolutely gutted jobs in these industries, and will continue to do so.

If you think 'most people are completely put off by AI slop', you're living in a blessed bubble because: most people cannot even tell that the slop is slop, and are happy to engorge themselves on it.

New comment by Sebguer in "Amazon Has Axed Its New Stargate Series"

Sebguer — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:13:58 +0000

you're living in a fantasy world besieged by an ideology that doesn't actually exist

New comment by Sebguer in "Amazon Has Axed Its New Stargate Series"

Sebguer — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:48:14 +0000

"modern wokeness", ah, yes. Because the show about religion as a means of control, that featured strong women throughout, was broadly about how colonialism is bad and the importance of respecting different cultures, that brute force was almost never the 'right answer' is anti-woke.

New comment by Sebguer in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

Sebguer — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 20:11:06 +0000

I often think about leaving gmail, but it's not clear what the better option out there is, that doesn't create a bunch of pain in terms of not having good replacements for the rest of the ecosystem.

New comment by Sebguer in "Private equity bought America's essential services"

Sebguer — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:13:35 +0000

this article is literally just an LLM regurgitation of Stoller / Musharbash's reporting and research on the topic.

New comment by Sebguer in "Private equity bought America's essential services"

Sebguer — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:11:02 +0000

this is a peak HN comment in terms of cluelessness about the realities of how the world works if you're an ordinary person.

New comment by Sebguer in "Nearly half (44%) of every T-shirt goes to waste before you even buy it"

Sebguer — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:57:00 +0000

i think they would probably shill for something more achievable than a shirt you can sometimes get once a year at costco, haha

New comment by Sebguer in "Linux security mailing list 'almost unmanageable'"

Sebguer — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:22:35 +0000

The Register has always been a... weird 'news' source, but they've gotten significantly worse over the last year or two.

New comment by Sebguer in "Hindenburg’s Smoking Room"

Sebguer — Sun, 17 May 2026 18:45:52 +0000

It's actually mandated by the FAA that an ashtray be present in the restrooms:

> (g) Regardless of whether smoking is allowed in any other part of the airplane, lavatories must have self-contained, removable ashtrays located conspicuously on or near the entry side of each lavatory door, except that one ashtray may serve more than one lavatory door if the ashtray can be seen readily from the cabin side of each lavatory served.

And the plane literally cannot fly with an inoperable or missing ashtray.

New comment by Sebguer in "Can someone please explain whether Cloudflare blackmailed Canonical?"

Sebguer — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:15:12 +0000

Will they? Have you gone through that process with them? In my experience (admittedly somewhat stale) it was fairly hard to get through to them, much less to get the information required to actually report bad actors to their real hosting provider that Cloudflare is fronting.

New comment by Sebguer in "Can someone please explain whether Cloudflare blackmailed Canonical?"

Sebguer — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:13:34 +0000

Yes, Cloudflare has always been really shitty and automated at responding to abuse reports, and because they are the front-end connection, it is impossible to pursue the report against the 'real' host unless Cloudflare is willing to provide you with information about where that host is: which they won't typically do, even if you are a fellow infrastructure provider. It's been several years, so maybe they have gotten better, but I would be surprised.

New comment by Sebguer in "Life During Class Wartime"

Sebguer — Wed, 06 May 2026 21:24:44 +0000

This is a great soundbite, but it's also completely vacuous. Wanting the government to take action against a clear societal issue is not wanting the government to be God.

New comment by Sebguer in "How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer"

Sebguer — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 02:36:10 +0000

will nobody think of the megacorps!!!