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New comment by XYen0n in "I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them"

XYen0n — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 04:26:20 +0000

USB-C is just a connector. A cable can be a USB-C connector USB 3.0, power delivery 3.1 cable, or it can be a USB-C connector Thunderbolt 4 cable, or it can be a USB-C connector DisplayPort 1.4 cable.

New comment by XYen0n in "Bad Apple but It's Traceroute"

XYen0n — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 03:06:15 +0000

We should eliminate prejudice and discrimination, rather than comply with them.

New comment by XYen0n in "Command Line Interface Guidelines"

XYen0n — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 04:39:02 +0000

Although not a standard protocol, `OSC 9;4` can be used to display a progress bar in the terminal emulator.

New comment by XYen0n in "A glitch in February of the year 0"

XYen0n — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 06:14:53 +0000

> The first century starts at 0001-01-01 00:00:00 AD, although they did not know it at the time. This definition applies to all Gregorian calendar countries. There is no century number 0, you go from -1 century to 1 century. If you disagree with this, please write your complaint to: Pope, Cathedral Saint-Peter of Roma, Vatican.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/functions-datetime.html#...

New comment by XYen0n in "POSIX Is Not a Shell"

XYen0n — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 02:56:44 +0000

Usually I prefer to use `#!/usr/bin/env bash`.

New comment by XYen0n in "British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres"

XYen0n — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 03:23:20 +0000

How does your system know when it is 2pm in British Columbia?

New comment by XYen0n in "RFC 10008: The new HTTP Query Method"

XYen0n — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 05:52:54 +0000

If new method support is added, PUT should be used in this scenario.

New comment by XYen0n in "What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes"

XYen0n — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 03:21:25 +0000

NixOS has no "runtime" or controlplane to maintain.

New comment by XYen0n in "FCC wants to kill burner phones by forcing telecoms to get all customers' IDs"

XYen0n — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:11:25 +0000

After the implementation of SIM card real-name registration in China, scam calls can accurately state your personal information.

New comment by XYen0n in "DNS is for people, not for IT infrastructure"

XYen0n — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:03:24 +0000

I think the essential difference between these two approaches lies in whether the complexity is placed at update time or query time. When updates are infrequent, or when the number of machines that need to apply the update is small, this is certainly reasonable.

New comment by XYen0n in "DNS is for people, not for IT infrastructure"

XYen0n — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:48:31 +0000

DNS is merely one implementation of service discovery; even without DNS, some other form of service discovery would still be needed.

Let's Encrypt: Gen Y Cross-Certified Subordinate CAs Missing ServerAuth EKU

XYen0n — Wed, 13 May 2026 02:42:22 +0000

Article URL: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2038351

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48117202

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

New comment by XYen0n in "Docker 29 has changed its default image store for new installs"

XYen0n — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:56:33 +0000

You are correct; I confused archiving with compression. However, even considering only the compression process, same compression parameters cannot be guaranteed, as it is unknown which compression parameters the image publisher used.

New comment by XYen0n in "Clarification on the Notepad++ Trademark Issue"

XYen0n — Tue, 05 May 2026 19:10:12 +0000

> Linux is GPL'ed and the name Linux is also trademarked. But if I decided to port it to run on a lava lamp, what would be wrong with my calling the project "Linux for Lava Lamp"?

You can do this not because Linux is GPL, but because Linus Torvalds has authorized certain uses of this trademark in some form; I could not find specific information for Linux, but the Linux Foundation provides reference: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/brand-guidelines

New comment by XYen0n in "Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters"

XYen0n — Tue, 05 May 2026 18:51:20 +0000

The only thing a model can output is tokens; to achieve this, a tool of converting tokens into operational transformations is required. For example, I have an ast-grep skill, it will instruct the model to generate ast-grep rules and run ast-grep to perform file modifications.

New comment by XYen0n in "GLM-5V-Turbo: Toward a Native Foundation Model for Multimodal Agents"

XYen0n — Tue, 05 May 2026 18:31:10 +0000

GLM-5.1 does not support image input.

New comment by XYen0n in "Docker 29 has changed its default image store for new installs"

XYen0n — Tue, 05 May 2026 18:25:22 +0000

The OCI manifest references the hashes of these compressed layers, and re-compressing them does not guarantee obtaining the same hash

New comment by XYen0n in "FastCGI: 30 years old and still the better protocol for reverse proxies"

XYen0n — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 04:39:11 +0000

Unfortunately, it appeared too late, and the relevant support is now far less complete than that for `X-Forwarded-*`.

New comment by XYen0n in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

XYen0n — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 03:17:36 +0000

Amp Free provides $10 free credits every day. Unfortunately, new applications have now been closed.

New comment by XYen0n in "AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel"

XYen0n — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 08:35:31 +0000

Even human developers are unlikely to have only ever seen GPL-2.0-only code.