Hacker News: braiamp

New comment by braiamp in "CERT is releasing six CVEs for serious security vulnerabilities in dnsmasq"

braiamp — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:52:08 +0000

Yeah was about to comment, parent says "if it is ancient", it is not. So the root comment is nothing burger. Stable has 1 release cycle old, and depending on how things play out, testing may have 2.93 or later anyways.

New comment by braiamp in "Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?"

braiamp — Fri, 01 May 2026 09:59:57 +0000

I am on desktop and saw no such warning, but I'm also using adblockers and noscript.

New comment by braiamp in "Pgrx: Build Postgres Extensions with Rust"

braiamp — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:14:41 +0000

The domain for the org has expired and now it's a parking hosts. I don't know how maintained it is.

New comment by braiamp in "Open source memory layer so any AI agent can do what Claude.ai and ChatGPT do"

braiamp — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 11:39:56 +0000

What the heck is happening on this site with the pointer disappearing? For some reason the body tag has "cursor: none" which is never good.

New comment by braiamp in "Norway set to become latest country to ban social media for under 16s"

braiamp — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:26:53 +0000

> If you're upset at collecting personal individual data, you're really going to love what these social media bans require in practice

Which is why is also not a solution. Both are bad solutions because we drag our feet into creating safe products for everyone.

New comment by braiamp in "Norway set to become latest country to ban social media for under 16s"

braiamp — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:41:36 +0000

No, educating customers doesn't work. What works is creating safe products. Remove algorithm recommendations as the default option, make collecting personal individual data for any purpose other than what the customer explicitly wants, and you will see that suddenly "social networks" and every other product becomes safe to use for everyone.

New comment by braiamp in "How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences"

braiamp — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:50:00 +0000

Yeah, but many of those self-identify as anti-social rather than biased.

New comment by braiamp in "Incident with multple GitHub services"

braiamp — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 23:01:28 +0000

They are entrenched enough that it's wrote off as cost of doing business. Big business have their internal instances so they are "insulated", everyone else isn't as critical and have the resources to do an internal solution or move.

New comment by braiamp in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

braiamp — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:48:22 +0000

How many milliseconds do you think this page took to render? I usually click and it's already done.

New comment by braiamp in "Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years"

braiamp — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:35:14 +0000

Lets all get together and self-reflect on the bozos way.

New comment by braiamp in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

braiamp — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:24:00 +0000

> don't use debian for gaming, as it is too far behind

I use Debian stable on my laptop and testing on desktop. It is fine. Only the newest games that need a specific 0 day patch may suffer a bit but that's only for 1-2 weeks even on testing. You want a stable system first, then to unlock the full performance out of everything, and most bleeding edge fail in the former and are a coin toss on the later.

New comment by braiamp in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

braiamp — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:14:20 +0000

It's about oversampling. Due how the survey is sent, a massive influx of machines coming online all at once will be more likely to trigger the survey. They know the general composition of their users, so they need the survey to be around the ballpark of that.

New comment by braiamp in "GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability"

braiamp — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:12:59 +0000

Gitlab service may be unreliable, but Gitlab the product to deploy is extremely fine. Many third party instances of Gitlab that don't have problems that only happens at scale.

New comment by braiamp in "The truth that haunts the Ramones: 'They sold more T-shirts than records'"

braiamp — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:31:20 +0000

Friend probably still sleeping

New comment by braiamp in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

braiamp — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:25:22 +0000

The only problem with Nvidia in the last... 5 years was their wayland support and their worse than expected performance for DX12 games. Both of which were being actively worked on, where wayland support has been improving since 2 years ago and DX12 performance needs patches on all the stack, the driver is there, mesa and vkd3d patch are pending.

New comment by braiamp in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

braiamp — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:10:43 +0000

Linux native semaphores are enough. Linux has been able to be very performant without it. That feature seems like way too over engineered for little gains.

New comment by braiamp in "GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability"

braiamp — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:56:18 +0000

> I wish we could get back to platforms (or OSes for that matter) focusing in reliability and stability

That's only a valid sentiment if you only use the big players. Both of those have medium/smaller competitors that have shown (for decades) that they are extremely boring, therefore stable.

New comment by braiamp in "I hate: Programming Wayland applications"

braiamp — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:02:00 +0000

Why should a display manager concern itself with routing keystrokes to every application.

New comment by braiamp in "Do Not Turn Child Protection into Internet Access Control"

braiamp — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:32:31 +0000

I fail to see why the "protections" that child data deserves, isn't also the same kind of protection that everyone deserve. In what way are children special, in a digital world, that adults shouldn't be protected the same way?

New comment by braiamp in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

braiamp — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 01:29:55 +0000

It's funny as a economist people thinking that the free market is some kind of god, that the invisible hand is infallible. He never argued markets work without institutions. He believed governments must enforce justice, prevent monopolies, and provide public goods for markets to function properly.