Hacker News: Xiol32

New comment by Xiol32 in "Gemini Protocol Deployment Statistics"

Xiol32 — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 16:22:33 +0000

I fail to see what the slopped site adds to the Wikipedia article for the protocol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)

New comment by Xiol32 in "Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted"

Xiol32 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 13:08:19 +0000

https://www.lg.com/uk/support/contact-us/share-your-voice-wi...

Assume there is similar for other countries, though I can't see this being of any use whatsoever.

New comment by Xiol32 in "Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted"

Xiol32 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 13:04:36 +0000

I just want a massive screen to watch my content on - everything else you mention is irrelevant.

New comment by Xiol32 in "DIY NAS: 2026 Edition"

Xiol32 — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 11:37:46 +0000

I had one of the DXP4800 Plus NASes for about a month before RMAing it.

The CPU would immediately hit 100C with even the slightest whiff of load.

The entire thing was also unstable and would regularly just lock up without any kernel panic or other error message available, could even get kdump to gather anything (I'd binned their dodgy NAS OS and installed Debian).

It also seemed to amplify the noise of the hard drives within. Every thunk of a drive head moving around would be audible from a different room. Not sure how they managed to do that, but it's an acoustic nightmare.

New comment by Xiol32 in "Blowing ChatGPT's mind. Is this just sycophancy? Or a realistic assessment?"

Xiol32 — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 13:09:48 +0000

Seems to be this: https://qbix.com/

New comment by Xiol32 in "Kagi News"

Xiol32 — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 16:31:06 +0000

The problem is the continual stream of bullshit emitted from Trump's mouth gets clicks, and as such even little things that don't have any bearing on an international audience are reported heavily.

When Biden was president I barely heard anything about US politics, but with Trump in power it's hard to avoid.

New comment by Xiol32 in "CIA Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room"

Xiol32 — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:46:16 +0000

I have been having this exact same issue across multiple websites recently, most of the time it's monospace fonts that have the issue - Github is a nightmare. It only started after I upgraded to Fedora 42.

Haven't got to the bottom of it yet. I set Victor Mono as my Monospace font in Chrome and that has fixed it for things like the HN comment box, for instance, but Github and such still all look weird.

New comment by Xiol32 in "Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me"

Xiol32 — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 08:50:52 +0000

Changing the SSH port also helps cut down the noise, as part of a layered strategy.

New comment by Xiol32 in "GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation"

Xiol32 — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 20:33:23 +0000

As the kids would say, Gitlab CI is the GOAT.

New comment by Xiol32 in "VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in"

Xiol32 — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 16:12:22 +0000

Can I ask - why not Mullvad?

New comment by Xiol32 in "Man wearing metallic necklace dies after being sucked into MRI machine"

Xiol32 — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 18:31:42 +0000

To add to the sibling comment, being stuck in a small, incredibly loud tube usually pinned under some receiver isn't great for claustrophobic patients either.

New comment by Xiol32 in "Helix Editor 25.07"

Xiol32 — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 22:49:53 +0000

I think I panicked at the amount it has undone and then in my attempt to redo, made a change and got myself into a mess with the history. It was quite early on in my time with it.

New comment by Xiol32 in "Helix Editor 25.07"

Xiol32 — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 20:05:17 +0000

I really wanted to like Helix, and for the most part did, but there is something about the way undo works that just feels incredibly wrong to me. What it wants to undo doesn't always seem logical and always undoes too much. I've lost work because of it in the past.

New comment by Xiol32 in "Bold Mission to Hunt for Aliens on Venus Is Happening"

Xiol32 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 14:06:51 +0000

Same: uBlock on Firefox.

New comment by Xiol32 in "Linda Yaccarino is leaving X"

Xiol32 — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 15:11:13 +0000

Arguably a competent person wouldn't have persisted in a role where it was obvious they were not able to make a meaningful difference.

New comment by Xiol32 in "Brave creates new TLD on the blockchain"

Xiol32 — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 07:48:41 +0000

Are we still messing about with the Blockchain?

Has no one told them it's all about AI now?

New comment by Xiol32 in "Windows 10 EOL"

Xiol32 — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 17:45:17 +0000

You don't need SteamOS.

Just install Steam on any distribution (I use Fedora) and it all just works like SteamOS - Proton use is transparent.

New comment by Xiol32 in "Covert web-to-app tracking via localhost on Android"

Xiol32 — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 12:50:20 +0000

Crap like this is why I haven't had the Facebook or Instagram apps installed for years. I still have accounts, but I only visit them via the browser.

New comment by Xiol32 in "Show HN: Kan.bn – An open-source alterative to Trello"

Xiol32 — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 20:18:40 +0000

Would be interested to know if this was vibe coded.

New comment by Xiol32 in "Show HN: acmsg (automated commit message generator)"

Xiol32 — Wed, 14 May 2025 20:11:42 +0000

Do you need an LLM to create those commit messages?