Hacker News: VertanaNinjai

New comment by VertanaNinjai in "UN to vote on adopting new world map that shows true size of all countries"

VertanaNinjai — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 22:29:53 +0000

I don’t know who “we” is, but seeing as this map was made in the 1500s by a European there is certainly an argument to be made that it is rooted in a Euro-centric view of the world.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/04/un-vote-world-...

New comment by VertanaNinjai in "Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread"

VertanaNinjai — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 07:12:40 +0000

Your counter points span decades. That is not the scale or rate at which we are seeing today.

New comment by VertanaNinjai in "UN to vote on adopting new world map that shows Africa's true scale"

VertanaNinjai — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 20:25:07 +0000

Then be extra real and recognize that some American schools cannot afford screens on razor-thin budgets.

New comment by VertanaNinjai in "UN to vote on adopting new world map that shows true size of all countries"

VertanaNinjai — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 20:19:31 +0000

Political mathematics like the Mercator projection which shrunk Africa to an unrealistic degree?

New comment by VertanaNinjai in "The Rust React Compiler is now native in Vite"

VertanaNinjai — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 19:49:56 +0000

As funny as this is I sometimes wonder about that crowd. Assuming the ecosystem at large flips and most software is now written in Rust what will the “rewrite it in Rust” crowd move to? Will they be satisfied for the most part or does it morph into “now rewrite in $latest_rust”?

New comment by VertanaNinjai in "2004 RuneScape fit a multiplayer RPG into 56k dial-up"

VertanaNinjai — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 02:53:25 +0000

It was free to play when that wasn’t a popular financial model for games at the time. The memberships were also much cheaper than WoW and accepted different payment methods that would be more available to minors at the time.

New comment by VertanaNinjai in "ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He's Approaching 300 Days"

VertanaNinjai — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 21:11:40 +0000

We must be watching different videos. There is no ramming or fishtailing of any vehicles in that body cam footage. Sounds like another case where ICE has released falsehoods as press releases and then went silent when it fell apart against evidence.

Law enforcement is always timely releasing bodycam footage when it shows them in a good light, but if it doesn’t? They wouldn’t even produce the video for this guy in court until after the deadline for discovery had passed.

New comment by VertanaNinjai in "Pixel Watch 5"

VertanaNinjai — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 01:23:20 +0000

OP specifically called out GPS in relation to a watch as a desired feature. You can’t just summarily dismiss that with a hand wave of “you have a phone don’t you?”

New comment by VertanaNinjai in "Schools are adding pepper-spraying drones to help combat active shooters"

VertanaNinjai — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 01:01:09 +0000

Why are you assuming active shooter threats need to exist to begin with? There’s only one country it regularly happens in.

New comment by VertanaNinjai in "Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain"

VertanaNinjai — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:26:39 +0000

Perhaps they should’ve said platforms. Because if you wanted to migrate those passkeys off your password manager and into a different platform like Apple Pass or Google how is that accomplished?

New comment by VertanaNinjai in "Show HN: Rowboat – Open-source, local-first alternative to Claude Desktop"

VertanaNinjai — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:14:46 +0000

Instead of having to define what “local-first” means to you personally you should emphasize that the data lives on your local machine. For some example messaging take a look at how Apple is marketing their new Siri AI.

New comment by VertanaNinjai in "Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see"

VertanaNinjai — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:39:13 +0000

Probably a ton since macOS apps are literally distributed as .app bundles.

New comment by VertanaNinjai in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

VertanaNinjai — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:45:06 +0000

Is anything that might be wrong or misinformation now a “hallucination”?

New comment by VertanaNinjai in "Tesla tells HW3 owner to 'be patient' after 7 years of waiting for FSD"

VertanaNinjai — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 18:41:42 +0000

You seem to be waging a war of words with someone who merely said “also these guys did it too”.

New comment by VertanaNinjai in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

VertanaNinjai — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:22:16 +0000

> In a gaming-only setup, Windows requires virtually no maintenance.

This is not remotely true anymore with Windows updates automatically restarting computers, windows updates pushing breaking changes especially in regards to GPU drivers, and more anticheats requiring secure boot.

New comment by VertanaNinjai in "WireGuard makes new Windows release following Microsoft signing resolution"

VertanaNinjai — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 22:43:12 +0000

Í think their point was that Wireguard has no physical hardware, so it’s strange as a software project they’d be forced to go through verification for a hardware program.

New comment by VertanaNinjai in "“Your frustration is the product”"

VertanaNinjai — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:56:55 +0000

Maybe there are some details missing here, but asking for more detailed or tailored feedback makes it seem like he cares and was willing to hear you out. Sometimes people are in their own industry for so long that they forget what their industry and tools look like to outside eyes. A simple menu to him could’ve been overwhelming for you as a quick example.

New comment by VertanaNinjai in "I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great"

VertanaNinjai — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 21:16:47 +0000

Well, huge shoutout to you for following up on your word!

https://gitlab.gnome.org/rickyb/network-manager-applet/-/com...

New comment by VertanaNinjai in "Calibre adds AI "discussion" feature"

VertanaNinjai — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 16:27:16 +0000

If you’re against anthropomorphism of LLMs then how can it “encourage” you if you’re not having a conversation? How could it “convince” you of anything or cast something in a bad light without conversing?

Your point about censorship, however, I fully agree with.

New comment by VertanaNinjai in "If you're going to vibe code, why not do it in C?"

VertanaNinjai — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:13:30 +0000

Do you have any good starting points? For example, if someone had an ollama or lm studio daemon running where would they go from that point?