Hacker News: alyandon

New comment by alyandon in "Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk"

alyandon — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:22:35 +0000

I strongly suspect that it has had an impact on my insulin sensitivity as well.

New comment by alyandon in "Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk"

alyandon — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:19:26 +0000

My diet consisted mostly of lean meats like chicken and vegetables.

New comment by alyandon in "Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk"

alyandon — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:07:01 +0000

Similar experience here on minimal dose of GLP-1. There is definitely something going on here other than "you are just losing weight and that's really why you are healthier".

With my labs at my current weight you can not tell that I am a type 2 diabetic. Previously, when I was at this very same weight in the past - all my labs indicated I was prediabetic.

New comment by alyandon in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

alyandon — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 14:27:02 +0000

Replying since I can't edit - he tested it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EzVVj7DFPc

New comment by alyandon in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

alyandon — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 19:01:46 +0000

I noticed he does pay attention to feedback on his videos and I think some people have pointed that out.

New comment by alyandon in "Qwen3.8-27B"

alyandon — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:20:37 +0000

It's a relatively new channel - but yeah - I feel the guy puts a lot of effort into what he does and deserves more subs.

New comment by alyandon in "Qwen 3.8 27B"

alyandon — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:39:12 +0000

There is a down to earth guy on YT that performs a series of tests against LLMs running on non-god-tier commodity hardware. He will likely be testing this soon enough.

https://www.youtube.com/@lukesdevlab

I don't know if that is what you are looking for or not and as always your experiences may be different.

New comment by alyandon in "Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected"

alyandon — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:36:22 +0000

I really worry about what happens to Valve as a company after he steps down.

New comment by alyandon in "Google is finally killing uBlock Origin in Chrome for good"

alyandon — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:39:37 +0000

Unless enterprise customers are screaming for MV2 compatibility I would expect Microsoft to make no effort at all to maintain a working MV2 implementation in Edge.

New comment by alyandon in "Google is finally killing uBlock Origin in Chrome for good"

alyandon — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:38:21 +0000

Yeah, once Google has ripped all the MV2 code out of chromium it'll be very interesting to see how long the chromium reskins are able to maintain their private forks.

I also expect Google to be a bad actor and do everything in its power to pointlessly refactor the chromium codebase specifically to make keeping MV2 alive as painful as possible.

New comment by alyandon in "WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access"

alyandon — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 05:06:53 +0000

I turned sample submission off permanently via group policy after catching defender uploading places.sqlite out of my Firefox profile.

New comment by alyandon in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

alyandon — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:30:01 +0000

I'm not denying that X11 has known security issues. However, I don't tend to run untrusted random gui applications on my system so that factors into the risks I'm willing to accept.

New comment by alyandon in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

alyandon — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:28:09 +0000

I stick with LTS releases so last honest attempt would have been on a Kubuntu 24.04 LTS system.

What is a compositor - thing that actually draws window content on the screen? Whatever KDE provides?

Edit: To be fair to KDE/Wayland, the Wayland Kubuntu 24.04 experience was vastly improved over Kubuntu 22.04.

New comment by alyandon in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

alyandon — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:53:05 +0000

I empathize but every time I try a Wayland based desktop I always end up encountering weird bugs and corner cases with basic usability that drive me back to X11.

I'll be sad if that is still the case when 6.8 rolls around as then I'll be hunting for another DE.

New comment by alyandon in "Love systemd timers"

alyandon — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:35:38 +0000

That and systemd having actually useful man pages.

New comment by alyandon in "Flathub disallows AI-assisted code and documentation"

alyandon — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:54:55 +0000

I'm pretty much neutral on the whole LLM thing as it has positives and negatives just like most other technologies. If their declaration had been scoped to "don't use LLMs and automated tooling to submit PRs for our packaging workflows and processes" that would have been fine.

Instead they go well beyond that and include this:

  * Applications containing AI-generated or AI-assisted code, documentation, or other content are not allowed.

So yeah, that's pretty much hysteria at this point. It's their project and their infrastructure though so they get to set the rules - I'm just going to shrug my shoulders and continue to not use flatpaks.

New comment by alyandon in "YouTube, your RSS feeds are broken"

alyandon — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:55:41 +0000

Same here but I'm using a ssh based proxy to avoid having my local ISP data mine my web traffic. Definitely not going to turn it off either to read a blog.

I really wish admins banned based on actual behavior instead of IP address != residential/mobile.

New comment by alyandon in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

alyandon — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:59:32 +0000

Old versions of Netscape Navigator had settings where you could tweak that kind of stuff - I don't recall if IE3/4 did or not.

Given the web of the 90s didn't include tons of overly complex javascript most of the settings were targeted at how much ram/disk was used for caching website assets IIRC.

It's the principle of the thing though - we should have the ability to set resource allocation limits instead of potentially handing our entire computer's resources to a random website just because we clicked on a URL.

New comment by alyandon in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

alyandon — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:21:36 +0000

Back in the ancient days of the web, browsers allowed you to set resource limits (ram, cache, etc) to prevent websites from hogging the limited resources of your desktop system.

It's really a shame that all major browsers have since decided that you as a user should have almost no control over how much ram and storage any arbitrary website can consume now.

New comment by alyandon in "Blocking Internet Archive Won't Stop AI, but Will Erase Web's Historical Record"

alyandon — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:36:45 +0000

It seems that AI-scraping hysteria/paranoia has reached a point that more and more resource sites completely block me without any recourse (e.g. having an account) if my traffic is coming from a datacenter IP. I really wish sites blocked agents/IPs based on actual bad behavior instead of reflexively blocking by IP != residential/mobile.

I do understand the frustration though. I've had to deal with bad bots scraping every crevice of a few web based services I host and while most went away after I tweaked robots.txt there were a few I've had to blanket ban IPs assigned to entire ASNs because the bots on their networks refused to play nice.