Hacker News: ValleZ

New comment by ValleZ in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"

ValleZ — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 14:14:20 +0000

It’s hard to justify the UI rant when there is annoying snowflakes animation on top of it.

New comment by ValleZ in "The Theatre of Pull Requests and Code Review"

ValleZ — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 11:19:06 +0000

If you split all the changes for a feature this way not only you hide the way all changes interact with each other but also make the development at least 10x longer because an average approval time is often more than a day.

New comment by ValleZ in "Frequent reauth doesn't make you more secure"

ValleZ — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 01:47:54 +0000

It's because an average Apple engineer has to enter his password at least 10 times a day and it's kind of no big deal for them. Source: I was an Apple eng.

New comment by ValleZ in "Moscow-based global news network has infected Western AI tools"

ValleZ — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 20:51:45 +0000

Observe it

New comment by ValleZ in "GLP-1 drugs: An economic disruptor? (2024)"

ValleZ — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 03:39:06 +0000

Then wait another 50 years, easy.

New comment by ValleZ in "Reasons to Not Parse Localized Strings"

ValleZ — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:23:30 +0000

The same way as people who use periods. 1,004.004

New comment by ValleZ in "Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System"

ValleZ — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 02:47:34 +0000

Actually after reading it more carefully I probably see why it didn't work for me, but the notes in the page are bizarre:

* Avoid special characters such as * in M*A*S*H, use MASH instead.

Since when a common ASCII character is a special one? What about more common unicode characters I use?

* Do not abbreviate the Season folder with S01 or SE01 or alike.

I.e. if I put anything not in the folder named "Season XX" it won't work? Ugh... really?

* Season folders shouldn't contain the series name, otherwise Jellyfin can in certain cases (Stargate SG-1 due to the dash and one, for instance) misdetect your episodes and put them all under the same season.

Well, how about to fix it?

* Episode numbering for specials may vary from metadata provider to metadata provider.

Very helpful, so the "Series XX" required above won't always work.

And even if everything above fails why not to sort by name? It should not be hard for any engineer, right?

New comment by ValleZ in "Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System"

ValleZ — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 02:35:41 +0000

I have the series in their own folders. I tried to do a more nested structure to no avail. After a day of attempts to fix it I switched to Plex and it despite having its own quirks just worked fine.

New comment by ValleZ in "Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System"

ValleZ — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 02:34:01 +0000

Thanks, I can google. For some reason Jellyfin totally ignores folder structures for me.

New comment by ValleZ in "Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System"

ValleZ — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:20:22 +0000

I have one folder with movies and series. It shows as a randomized mix, maybe it uses something like modification time by default? It's definitely not by name.

New comment by ValleZ in "Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System"

ValleZ — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:18:45 +0000

Then I could not figure how to make it work. Plex did that without any effort from my side though

New comment by ValleZ in "Jellyfin: The Free Software Media System"

ValleZ — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:52:15 +0000

Jellyfin is not able to group series together and on top of that shows everything in random order, why bother with it when there are alternatives that can do that?

New comment by ValleZ in "XMPP: The Gem of Instant Messaging"

ValleZ — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 18:34:46 +0000

Awhile ago. XEP-0286 (mobile connection improvements) dated 2018-01-25. File sharing has many different XEPs and I have no idea which works, but I know that early XEPs usually didn't work because of NAT. XEP-0384 (encryption) dated 2022-01-18.

New comment by ValleZ in "XMPP: The Gem of Instant Messaging"

ValleZ — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 16:48:51 +0000

XMPP was not a mobile friendly protocol for a while, had efficiently no security out of the box and lacked simplest things like image or other file transfers.

New comment by ValleZ in "Phrase matching in Marginalia Search"

ValleZ — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 16:04:58 +0000

Removing stop words is usually a bad advice which is beneficial only in a limited set of circumstances. Google keeps all the “the”: https://www.google.com/search?q=the

New comment by ValleZ in "Google Pixel 9 Pro"

ValleZ — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 00:47:30 +0000

It will probably run 2B models, there are many more options for iOS, try it out.

New comment by ValleZ in "Google Pixel 9 Pro"

ValleZ — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 17:46:36 +0000

Private AI app in play store wraps llama.cpp

New comment by ValleZ in "Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game"

ValleZ — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 17:21:07 +0000

Oh, there is a readable JavaScript inside!

New comment by ValleZ in "Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game"

ValleZ — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 17:19:32 +0000

Yep, likely my iPhone to blame

New comment by ValleZ in "Show HN: My 70 year old grandma is learning to code and made a word game"

ValleZ — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 16:47:23 +0000

It doesn’t work on phone, sigh