<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: alt187</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=alt187</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:26:56 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=alt187" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alt187 in "Slop is not necessarily the future"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As opposed to me, who is perfectly rational.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:46:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593907</link><dc:creator>alt187</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593907</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alt187 in "LibreOffice and the art of overreacting"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm not sure people get desensitized. Personally, whenever I notice a really unintrusive donation banner, I have more chance to actually give money to this entity, because I've been shown so much crap all over, so I can respect someone who places a gentle nudge at the bottom of a screen I'll look at for a whole 5 seconds. I'm not sure how it degrades the experience, too.<p>Also, you might want to read the article. LibreOffice specifically points out the banner was moved, and not added or removed.</p>
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<p>describing the setting should (ideally) be done through a character's interaction with the setting.<p>if you're developing some sort of dystopia where everyone is heavily medicated, better to show a character casually take the medication rather than describe it.<p>of course, that's not a rule set in stone. you can do whatever the fuck you want.</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.scottsmitelli.com/articles/em-dash-tool/" rel="nofollow">https://www.scottsmitelli.com/articles/em-dash-tool/</a><p>Discerning readers do not stop at the em dash. At least, I don't.</p>
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<p>Yes, because everyone is a perfectly rational agent in the economy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:47:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47261010</link><dc:creator>alt187</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47261010</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47261010</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alt187 in "Zorin OS: The Alternative to Windows and macOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Nice. I really like ZorinOS. I converted my dad a few years ago, and he never looked back.</p>
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<p>There's no hardening against idiocy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:37:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47183908</link><dc:creator>alt187</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47183908</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47183908</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alt187 in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> It's one of the reasons why people get annoyed at jargon or are pissed off about pronouns, [...]<p>It's worth noting there's an overabundance of legitimate reasons people get annoyed at these two thing, making them bad examples.</p>
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<p>Whether this was a joke or a backtracking, or this dared waste your oh so precious time- You're missing the forest for the trees. There's extreme covert and even overt hostility between how people stand on AI's gluttonous usage of the commons.<p>We're about to waltz into a deep period of tension between developers, and people who, empowered by multimillion dollars corporations, bravely violate developers' copyrights in the hopes of replacing their jobs, while bullying these same developers who dare express their discontent.<p>This is not gonna end well.</p>
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<p>Entitled mentality.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 06:43:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47177335</link><dc:creator>alt187</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47177335</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47177335</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alt187 in "Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Less fortunate" is a generous wording and framing.</p>
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<p>As opposed to OP's extension, I would heartily recommend this one.</p>
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<p>Wow, it's been a while since I haven't read ICE and parsed it this way. Black ICE, even?</p>
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<p>> But I can think of one possible reason: SQLite has been known to have memory safety vulnerabilities, whereas this codebase is written in Rust with no unsafe code.<p>I've lost every single shred of confidence I had in the comment's more optimistic claims the moment I read this.<p>If you read through SQLite's CVE history, you'll notice most of those are <i>spurious</i> at best.<p>Some more context here: <a href="https://sqlite.org/cves.html" rel="nofollow">https://sqlite.org/cves.html</a></p>
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<p>It's only a conspiracy and paranoia if it's wrong. 11 years ago was 2015.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:54:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46968808</link><dc:creator>alt187</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46968808</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46968808</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by alt187 in "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>One has still yet to convince me of anything IRC has over XMPP.</p>
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<p>Because they have an huge PR campaign and a lot of money to invest in keeping their place.</p>
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<p>That's pretty close to the underlying concept behind Guix and Nix. Give them a glance, if you can!</p>
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<p>You should look up "doas". It might enlighten you.</p>
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<p>That's not post open-source. That's dual licensing, an use-case FOSS has enabled and supported forever.</p>
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