Hacker News: alrlroipsp

New comment by alrlroipsp in "Mozilla VPN: CVE-2023-4104: vpndaemon wrongly implements Polkit authentication"

alrlroipsp — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 12:16:13 +0000

The summary seems to ignore upstream.

They did infact

removed polkit : https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/mozilla-vpn-client/pull/70...

refactor auth using D-Bus: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/mozilla-vpn-client/pull/71...

These are why author's PR was dropped.

New comment by alrlroipsp in "Ask HN: Who is using small OS LLMs in production?"

alrlroipsp — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 13:40:29 +0000

Free vs monthly cost. What is there to elaborate on?

New comment by alrlroipsp in "Linux Lite: Easy to Use Free Linux Operating System"

alrlroipsp — Sun, 09 Jul 2023 10:23:14 +0000

> they seem to highlight some text in a sentence by making it blue, but it's not a link. Quite annoying.

This is a blast from the past, indeed!

Blue links is the ancient default when you don't use css.

It was news for me that any websites still would not override the default css, though.

New comment by alrlroipsp in "Nintendo Is Taking Down My Videos [video]"

alrlroipsp — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 09:44:50 +0000

> the freedom you have by right

That's not how law works.

New comment by alrlroipsp in "Is it time to open source SublimeText?"

alrlroipsp — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 16:02:57 +0000

Just uninstall and get old versions at https://www.sublimetext.com/2 or https://www.sublimetext.com/3

Since you are licensed you can just disable update check.

I used my licensed old ST for years like this, but recently purchased the new version to get wayland support.

New comment by alrlroipsp in "Is it time to open source SublimeText?"

alrlroipsp — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 16:00:37 +0000

Come on, just pay for good software.

New comment by alrlroipsp in "Finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in H.264 decoders [pdf]"

alrlroipsp — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 15:13:03 +0000

The claim is in the quote itself, in their use of the expression "as if" ...

You could also call it a baseless rant.

New comment by alrlroipsp in "Is Elon Right?"

alrlroipsp — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 18:28:32 +0000

Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

New comment by alrlroipsp in "VMware Fusion 13 – native support for Apple Silicon Macs"

alrlroipsp — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 00:24:39 +0000

> I want it to appear at some_ip:443 on my Mac, not on something like localhost:8443

You can add hostnames to /etc/hosts if "localhost" bothers you.

Then you map ports to host ports using the -p docker argument.

Solving this with wireguard sounds like super overkill.

New comment by alrlroipsp in "'I took magic mushrooms at 64 and the fog I've lived under my whole life lifted'"

alrlroipsp — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 22:34:11 +0000

Nature without mushrooms would be sick. They are essential for breaking down organic matter.

New comment by alrlroipsp in "The Wa Programming Language"

alrlroipsp — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 16:15:08 +0000

~7B of those would not pick up a new fringe language either way.

New comment by alrlroipsp in "The Wa Programming Language"

alrlroipsp — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 16:06:03 +0000

> At first glance it looks a lot like Go

But, this is not at all how go looks:

    fn add(a: i32, b: i32) => i32 {
        return a+b
    }

It looks heavily inspired from the syntax used in rust or zig tho. (fn keyword, variable type syntax, return value)

> what are the differences or use case vs just using Go?

- go has a different syntax, different keywords, different ecosystem and so on.

- go is a general purpose programming language, while wa is explicit in targeting wasm.

I don't see any special similarities more than they are c-style family languages.

New comment by alrlroipsp in "NSA urges orgs to use memory-safe programming languages"

alrlroipsp — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 15:47:04 +0000

Thanks for sharing that video.

New comment by alrlroipsp in "Ask HN: Open-Source GitHub Copilot?"

alrlroipsp — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 12:55:54 +0000

> So the only reason for providing attribution will be as a product feature that some developers might want to use.

Not at all.

The reason for providing attribution is to create a incitement for anyone to even publish their work as FOSS in the first place.

We even put it explicit in our LICENSE files.

MIT license:

> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

BSD 4-clause:

> Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

New comment by alrlroipsp in "Ask HN: Open-Source GitHub Copilot?"

alrlroipsp — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 12:53:32 +0000

I don't think most open source dev:s want CoPilot or a FOSS alternative for this very reason:

Code assist AI does no attribution.

This removes engagement between the dev and library authors. this ruins chances of engaging new contributors over time, eroding and killing the FOSS communities.

Code assist AI also does not care about licenses. See [1]

1: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-sue...

New comment by alrlroipsp in "Does anyone else finds AWS and other Amazon services overly complicated?"

alrlroipsp — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 11:55:17 +0000

Just use aws sdk.

New comment by alrlroipsp in "At Xamarin I left every day at 5pm"

alrlroipsp — Sun, 06 Nov 2022 09:55:25 +0000

Insisting on highly skilled developers burning out just to reach some quarterly goal.

I don't know if you can make a more obvious example as to why the elite needs to hang.

New comment by alrlroipsp in "Rise of generative AI will be comparable to the rise of CGI in the early 90s"

alrlroipsp — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 07:26:31 +0000

I'm glad that you have no idea about the future.

New comment by alrlroipsp in "I’m taking some time away from Comma"

alrlroipsp — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 16:46:29 +0000

We are "engineers who spent their teens and twenties coding like that was the meaning to life, all suffer from deep regret, burnout, resentment, depression".

Who is you? Not a comedian?

New comment by alrlroipsp in "A 23-byte “hello, world” program assembled with DEBUG.EXE in MS-DOS"

alrlroipsp — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 10:22:35 +0000

Most if not all ANCIENT assembers did a 1-pass translation of input source and thus would not recognize tokens that was referenced but not yet declared.

Hence you declare your variables at the start of the program and jump past them.