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New comment by ashikns in "Proton meet isn't what they told you it was"

ashikns — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:12:00 +0000

People complain because Proton specifically advertises privacy, mainstream providers don't. Which is pretty reasonable as far as complaining goes.

Good job on mocking others though :*

New comment by ashikns in "Vatican Rebukes Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures in Rome"

ashikns — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 14:44:48 +0000

Well it is their reality. It's more like most people live in a different, crueller reality than them.

New comment by ashikns in "Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use"

ashikns — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 03:28:33 +0000

> OAuth authentication (used with Free, Pro, and Max plans) is intended exclusively for Claude Code and Claude.ai.

I think this is pretty clear - No.

New comment by ashikns in "I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers"

ashikns — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 08:07:08 +0000

Arch wiki is something special. It is astounding how diverse and detailed (and yet concise) it is.

New comment by ashikns in "HTTP Cats"

ashikns — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 09:27:53 +0000

I discovered it today and I'm in love! Thank you for maintaining a piece of simple joy for more than a decade <3

New comment by ashikns in "After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand"

ashikns — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:53:50 +0000

Because a novel is about creative output, and engineering is about understanding a lot of rules and requirements and then writing logic to satisfy that. The latter has a much more explicitly defined output.

New comment by ashikns in "Android developer verification: Early access starts"

ashikns — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 02:24:01 +0000

Yeah then you have the choice to not buy the locked down hardware, you don't have a right to get open hardware FROM Google.

Of course there are no good options for open hardware, but that is a related but separate problem.

New comment by ashikns in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

ashikns — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 02:11:05 +0000

I worked in a similar system. The raw data from the field first goes to a cloud hosted event queue of some sort, then a database, then back to whatever app/screen on field. The data doesn't just power on-field displays. There's a lot of online websites, etc that needs to pull data from an api.

New comment by ashikns in "Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without MS account"

ashikns — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 18:07:36 +0000

This is the exact attitude that keeps people away from Linux. The moment someone points out practical problems with Linux, it's users get all defensive and elitist about it. Sigh, if at least this changed more people would use Linux.

New comment by ashikns in "Helium Browser"

ashikns — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 04:15:43 +0000

I feel the same. For now, I've made peace with having to switch to "whatever is the latest maintained fork with privacy defaults" every 6 months. Hopefully Ladybird becomes a usable browser sometime soon.

New comment by ashikns in "Show HN: Zedis – A Redis clone I'm writing in Zig"

ashikns — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 02:41:22 +0000

This is what I have struggled to understand about Zig. It seems pretty much like C in a mental model aspect - you are responsible for everything. It's slightly better than C, but C already runs on everything on the planet and can be made secure even if painfully so. So what niche is Zig aiming to fill?

New comment by ashikns in "KDE launches its own distribution"

ashikns — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 02:56:03 +0000

I've been wanting to do this! The plan was to modify the Bazzite DX version build script, but ultimately Fedora being base was a deal breaker for me. With KDE Linux this might finally be a dream come true.

New comment by ashikns in "Hermes 4"

ashikns — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 05:26:37 +0000

I'm on a 3080 and it uses 1 gb vram and 22% util. Sure it's still not lightweight, but certainly not as bad as you seem to be experiencing.

New comment by ashikns in "Games run faster on SteamOS than Windows 11, Ars testing finds"

ashikns — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 01:59:26 +0000

Yeah and in real world people from different countries with vastly different economic backgrounds compete on the same stage, I think video games are fine.

New comment by ashikns in "Kotlin-Lsp: Kotlin Language Server and Plugin for Visual Studio Code"

ashikns — Thu, 22 May 2025 04:57:56 +0000

On a different perspective, I love that VS Code supports so many things. As full stack dev I have to work with Python/TypeScript/C# interchangeably, often in the same project. I can easily switch between projects with the same editor window, and I get to use the same keybinds.

New comment by ashikns in "The behavior of LLMs in hiring decisions: Systemic biases in candidate selection"

ashikns — Tue, 20 May 2025 12:48:26 +0000

I don't think that LLMs at present are anything resembling human intelligence.

That said, to a human also, the order in which candidates are presented to them will psychologically influence their final decision.

New comment by ashikns in "Show HN: Mermaid Chart VS Code Plugin: Mermaid.js Diagrams in Visual Studio Code"

ashikns — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 17:56:18 +0000

I have been using it lightly. But the biggest problem (for me) is that I cannot use custom icons. I have to use Azure specific icons in a lot of diagrams. Mermaid's support for custom icons is only via iconify packs as far as I can tell. Is it possible to refer to icons in a local directory, such as "./images/storage.png"?

New comment by ashikns in "Bolt3D: Generating 3D Scenes in Seconds"

ashikns — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 00:55:51 +0000

Isn't it generating in the browser using webgpu?

New comment by ashikns in "uv downloads overtake Poetry for Wagtail users"

ashikns — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:56:51 +0000

I'm in the same boat. Sure it's nice and better, but I haven't felt so much annoyance with the python ecosystem that I desperately need something better. I use VS Code and it takes care of venv automatically, so I am biased by that.