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New comment by bsnnkv in "My I3-Emacs Integration"

bsnnkv — Thu, 28 May 2026 04:27:37 +0000

komorebi mentioned!

New comment by bsnnkv in "The Waymo World Model"

bsnnkv — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 18:35:14 +0000

Pretty much this. Wild that you can traverse most of China in affordable high speed trains, yet the Amtrak from Seattle to Portland barely crawls along and has to regularly stop for long periods of time because the tracks get too hot in the Summer.

New comment by bsnnkv in "Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years"

bsnnkv — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:31:50 +0000

Yep, this kind of attitude is even more reason to reject the broken status quo.

New comment by bsnnkv in "Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years"

bsnnkv — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:14:55 +0000

And this is why all new projects by independent developers should seriously consider using a post-open source license before defaulting to corporate-friendly/corporate-first OSI licenses

New comment by bsnnkv in "Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years"

bsnnkv — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 02:36:58 +0000

> any time someone says something is post-$thing it means what they are doing is in dialogue with and in response to $thing. “we were doing that before $thing” no, you can’t be in dialogue with something that hasn’t happened yet.

> this is like saying “what do you mean post-modernist architecture, architecture predates modernism”.

https://lobste.rs/s/kaftkn/i_started_identifying_corporate_d...

New comment by bsnnkv in "Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years"

bsnnkv — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:39:36 +0000

Relevant articles are here

- https://lgug2z.com/articles/normalize-identifying-corporate-...

- https://lgug2z.com/articles/i-started-identifying-corporate-...

The post-open source space is indeed a very exciting space in 2026

User Guide for Elite, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE

bsnnkv — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 18:10:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.404media.co/here-is-the-user-guide-for-elite-the-tool-palantir-made-for-ice/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46827770

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by bsnnkv in "GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source"

bsnnkv — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 03:38:52 +0000

> created: 46 days ago

Checks out

New comment by bsnnkv in "GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source"

bsnnkv — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 22:10:47 +0000

> Giving something away for free and then whining that people use it for free confuses me. I mean, what did you think would happen?

Such a weird thing to reply to someone who very publicly disavows the use of open source licensing for individuals

New comment by bsnnkv in "GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source"

bsnnkv — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:39:18 +0000

> If you don't want to give your software away for free, don't give your software away for free.

I don't, and I spend a lot of my time and efforts encouraging others not to, and doing the work to prove out alternative models :)

https://lgug2z.com/articles/normalize-identifying-corporate-...

https://lgug2z.com/articles/komorebi-financial-breakdown-for...

New comment by bsnnkv in "GitHub should charge everyone $1 more per month to fund open source"

bsnnkv — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 19:30:41 +0000

Not a great take.

Corporations who use and benefit from software should be made to pay for their use of that software, but they don't want to, which is why they'll happily spend money promoting the use of corporate-friendly and maximally exploitable open source licensing among the passionate individuals who maintain the lions share of their dependency tree.

https://lgug2z.com/articles/on-evils-in-software-licensing/

Komorebi Financial Breakdown for 2025

bsnnkv — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:25:46 +0000

Article URL: https://lgug2z.com/articles/komorebi-financial-breakdown-for-2025/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46499865

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by bsnnkv in "Why users cannot create Issues directly"

bsnnkv — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 06:06:01 +0000

I'm a fan of this. My own projects on GitHub have an action[1] which autocloses and autolocks any opened issues until they have been reviewed and accepted by me, and I only consider feature requests from sponsors.

The real miss here is that there isn't a way on GitHub to only allow maintainers to create issues, instead we are left with these subpar workarounds.

[1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi/blob/master/.github/workf...

New comment by bsnnkv in "Apple releases open-source model that instantly turns 2D photos into 3D views"

bsnnkv — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 17:27:12 +0000

Nice to see some more interesting use of this kind of educational source licensing

New comment by bsnnkv in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell"

bsnnkv — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 05:37:08 +0000

The experiment is end-user mediated wealth redistribution from large corporations by leveraging reimbursement mechanisms, and so far I'm content with the results

New comment by bsnnkv in "Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell"

bsnnkv — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 05:19:27 +0000

Not consistently, but there have been a few months this year where I have hit $500 selling individual commercial use licenses for my tiling window manager[1]

https://lgug2z.com/software/komorebi

New comment by bsnnkv in "$50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres"

bsnnkv — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:43:39 +0000

I also think this naming is misleading - there is a very clear association with "bare metal", which is not what is being offered here

New comment by bsnnkv in "Alan.app – Add a Border to macOS Active Window"

bsnnkv — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 23:22:01 +0000

Fwiw I think this is the right approach. The trade-off between stability across OS updates vs tracking performance is a no-brainer for me - the absolute last thing that I would want is a deluge of bug reports with no other information than "it stopped working" when Apple pushes out an update

New comment by bsnnkv in "Alan.app – Add a Border to macOS Active Window"

bsnnkv — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 23:10:50 +0000

Took a look at this and it feels like it is implemented using public macOS frameworks so it shouldn't break between macOS updates

My guess is that kAXWindowMovedNotification, kAXWindowResizedNotification, kAXMainWindowChangedNotification etc. are being listened to on the currently focused window using the Accessibility framework, and there is a callback which gets the latest position of the tracked window whenever it is fired, and uses that position as a reference to update the border position

The border window itself is most likely an NSWindow, which is why the tracking of the border with the target window feels quite sluggish

New comment by bsnnkv in "Gnome is better macOS than macOS"

bsnnkv — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 17:49:52 +0000

It's very sad that none of these Linux DEs expose APIs for customization in anything other than JavaScript - I would love to be able to build on Gnome or KDE with something equivalent to windows-rs or objc2