Hacker News: baka367

New comment by baka367 in "Identity verification on Claude"

baka367 — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 23:42:28 +0000

This decision has, effectively, turned LMMs into a supply chain risk.

Before this incident I’d gladly use any anthropic LLM in production features. Right now, this has become a risky decision that can tank my business overnight.

New comment by baka367 in "The European Social Stack"

baka367 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 15:20:14 +0000

As long as E2E encryption is not guaranteed and we rely on id verification, the only thing this can do is to limit the 3rd parties that can easily access your data. Everything else is in the air

New comment by baka367 in "EU to soon classify AWS and Azure as gatekeepers under DSA"

baka367 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 11:03:34 +0000

In the age of staple shenanigans from the US with tariffs and AI prohibition, I find this to be an adequate response.

New comment by baka367 in "Western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance"

baka367 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:07:16 +0000

Oh please, it hit two euros a liter thanks to the orange turd

New comment by baka367 in "Drug trio found to block tumour resistance in pancreatic cancer in mouse models"

baka367 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 18:30:44 +0000

As someone whose mother died to pancan, I could really care less on any of the brainwashed old farts in their churches or parliaments. None of that matters to me or the people suffering from cancers, it’s al Knut a selfish obstruction attaching religion to the research material

New comment by baka367 in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

baka367 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:54:36 +0000

Win partition will make you want to cry.

Win insists on bootlocker/secure boot, meanwhile most of the Linux doesn’t boot with it or you have to go though hell and back to install unsigned drivers (nvidia, gentle-yall).

I’d all say that Linux is like living in a car with 0 euros and saving up for a house. Simple user can scrape by, but mowing dev work life to Linux is much harder than to Mac. VPNs, inconsistent distro support for weird work stuff and such will make you spend days to weeks of unpaid overtime to get comfortable

New comment by baka367 in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

baka367 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:48:57 +0000

I find this mostly applies to the competitive games due to most standard anti cheat apps not working outside win32.

New comment by baka367 in "Windows 11's Patch Tuesday nightmare gets worse"

baka367 — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:32:39 +0000

Oh it did help.

Microsoft went all in on do more with less and fired/reorged significant part of the company.

Wouldn’t be surprised if the outage is caused by new team taking something over with near zero documentation while all the tribal knowledge was torched away

New comment by baka367 in "Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops"

baka367 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 03:06:49 +0000

I’ve tried multiple versions when trying to move away from windows, but was always stuck with random inconsistencies everywhere. Eventually I had to choose a larger evil and choose Mac after paying for a week of lost productivity installing, setting up, fucking up, wiping l, installing random Linux distros.

New comment by baka367 in "Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops"

baka367 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 03:02:35 +0000

Out of curiosity, why are the shortcuts different?

I get the notion of shortcut conflicts, but, at a glance, this should be a trivial one click setup to set the desired shortcut config, wouldn’t it?

New comment by baka367 in "Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills"

baka367 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:10:21 +0000

Every PR has to match their way exactly.

The logic, the method names, the test names, code in the log messages.

Does not matter what the output or complexity is, does not matter how the previous state of the code in the area looks like, it. Must. Look. And. Read. Their. Way.

A 3 file PR review can take weeks. There was once a PR for a new feature that took 1.5 years and 2 developers (the og op left the company 3 months into having opened this PR) to eventually merge.

New comment by baka367 in "Canada's deal with China signals it is serious about shift from US"

baka367 — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 04:54:36 +0000

total trade right now.

This move is obviously an attempt to decouple themselves from the States

New comment by baka367 in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

baka367 — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 15:50:25 +0000

There is none to be found. The people need to play the zombie apocalypse - arm and survive.

The main players: - current government - local army - invading army - chinese and Russian proxies - multiple smaller groups - opposition

And probably more will play the power struggle in the foreseeable future. Unaffiliated people will somehow need to find a way to navigate this mess

New comment by baka367 in "Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet"

baka367 — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 05:05:48 +0000

20 year old software is probably also going to have a hard time running on windows 11, even with all their compatibility layers packed up

New comment by baka367 in "Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices"

baka367 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 07:39:25 +0000

Europe is doing a pretty good job on slowly veering off this addiction. Might be worth reaching out to them for knowledge sharing or two

New comment by baka367 in "Windows president addresses current state of Windows 11 after AI backlash"

baka367 — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 16:06:11 +0000

The very point that Microsoft devs need two machines in their work, one to do dew stuff, another - with its own special flavor of locked down windows - to touch anything that is even remotely similar to prod (including staging with no real data) says a lot about Microsoft stance on developers and power users ..

New comment by baka367 in "M5 MacBook Pro"

baka367 — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 04:48:52 +0000

It was different for me. I tried to move from Windows to Linux multiple times, but my Dell just refused to run it reliably no matter what. After fidling with multiple distros I finally bit the bullet and went for a mac. I cant be more happier to have a Linux experience without the Linux pains.

Note that there certainly are quirks around arm64, however, coming from windows, i am no stranger to have to deal with such issues so they bother me less.

The best thing is, that i can confidently put mac into my backpack without worries of it performing a suicide due to not-fully-sleeping (common windowns issue)

New comment by baka367 in "Apple M5 chip"

baka367 — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 04:34:20 +0000

Meanwhile I finally bought into apple after my nth unsuccessful attempt to break into linux.

I just want a linux-like system that is not mainful to use and apple's is the closest thing that worked for me without resorting to last ditch efforts like sacrificing virgin maidens or newborn kittens on top of my Dell machine... and Apple provides one that just works ... reliably

New comment by baka367 in "Why are interviews harder than the job?"

baka367 — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 13:45:10 +0000

Yet I have met very few truly bad engineers in my life. Most of the "bad" ones were not bad in skills, but a bad match due to their willingness to die on one hill or another and complete refusal to work with others.

Yet, most of the interviews put way too little focus on the soft skills and way too much focus on the hard skills.

New comment by baka367 in "I'm spoiled by Apple Silicon but still love Framework"

baka367 — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 13:30:10 +0000

I need high ram laptop for work. It it way too expensive and slow to hibernate 128gigs laptop every few hours