Hacker News: catach

New comment by catach in "PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform"

catach — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 21:27:25 +0000

> This website will die off in a couple years

While that might be true, it's worth noting that the project has been running for seven years already.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerTube

New comment by catach in "WriterdeckOS"

catach — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 20:32:00 +0000

> Battery state is probably the only thing that I really think it must show you.

The screenshot provided does show a battery indicator in the top right of the UI (Usage section).

New comment by catach in "Firefox Forcing LLM Features"

catach — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 19:49:36 +0000

I've found the "Copy text from image" menu command to be useful from time to time, and the features I'm not interested in seemed easy to turn off/dismiss/ignore?

New comment by catach in "iPhone Air"

catach — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 22:11:41 +0000

> It’s not a big enough slice for them to want to chase.

Typical strat for them is not to be first with an innovation, but to wait and work out the kinks enough that they can convince people that the tradeoffs are well worth making. Apple wouldn't be chasing that existing slice, they'd be trying to entice a larger share of their customers to upgrade faster.

New comment by catach in "Gaslight-driven development"

catach — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 04:42:16 +0000

It's really difficult because many of the task types we use AI for are those that are linguistically tied to concepts of human actions and cognition. Most of our convenient language use implies that AI are thinking people.

New comment by catach in "I used to prefer permissive licenses and now favor copyleft"

catach — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 09:15:42 +0000

It would indeed be naive to make that claim, so it's a good thing that's not what I did.

New comment by catach in "I used to prefer permissive licenses and now favor copyleft"

catach — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 08:19:21 +0000

If the closed fork functionality is superior enough to make the original de facto obsolete then the users have already collectively decided that the tradeoff is worth it.

And if the original can't compete it means the additional functionality was only going to exist because the financial model of the closed fork could pay for it.

New comment by catach in "Everything is Ghibli"

catach — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 00:08:07 +0000

Speed of replication isn't a part of copyright law, is it?

New comment by catach in "A look at Firefox forks"

catach — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 06:55:06 +0000

I have TST set up thus: closing a tab will close all its child tabs, if that branch is collapsed. Pretty sure Sidebery can be configured the same way.

New comment by catach in "The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome"

catach — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 20:15:32 +0000

I recall it being claimed that Mozilla has the warchest to survive at typical spending levels for quite some time, without Google.

New comment by catach in "Microsoft Discontinues iMac Rival Surface Studio 2"

catach — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 05:23:16 +0000

Indicating that they could make it amazing if they wanted to, they just don't want to. Likely due to cost.

New comment by catach in "Why monotonous repetition is unsatisfying"

catach — Sun, 30 Jun 2024 20:43:48 +0000

Incrementals tend to rely on a drip-feed of new mechanics and capabilities at the introductory phase, extensive automation in the middle phase, and marathon-like competition against other high-ranked players in the elite phase.

I don't think it's a particularly good counter-example.

New comment by catach in "My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore"

catach — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 07:37:34 +0000

I suspect that the x86-64 to ARM transition had more to do with it.

New comment by catach in "We gotta stop ignoring AI's hallucination problem"

catach — Wed, 15 May 2024 13:49:44 +0000

Possibly, possibly. But those extremes are not what you get from an effective bias appeal.

New comment by catach in "We gotta stop ignoring AI's hallucination problem"

catach — Wed, 15 May 2024 13:02:16 +0000

We won't, because the machines are trained on data created by humans.

We won't, because the machine results people want will be those that appeal to their biases.

New comment by catach in "The Subversive Hyperlink"

catach — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 08:16:59 +0000

I'd say rather that linking is the standard, the established social order, and that companies restricting linking in their platforms are the ones subverting.

New comment by catach in "Bypassing the WiFi Hardware Switch on the Lenovo X201 (2023)"

catach — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 13:35:52 +0000

The article's talk page already has a request for an impartial editor to weigh in, though several months old.

New comment by catach in "X Is Elon Musk's Lonely Party Now"

catach — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 01:55:25 +0000

Took me another read, but I think the assertion is that a strong characteristic of twitter alternatives is that they talk about twitter a great deal. And so that's a common thread between twitter alternatives and HN.

New comment by catach in "Japan to crack down on Apple and Google app store monopolies"

catach — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 01:40:05 +0000

Maybe, but that's not US law.

New comment by catach in "WebP is so great except it's not (2021)"

catach — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 22:08:55 +0000

Interesting question! The st and ct ligatures used in the article don't seem to be part of the precomposed Latin ligature set, and what is there strikes me as far less obnoxious [1,2]. I expect it's possible to hack something together with combining characters, but also that the visual result would be far too ugly for the tastes of anyone who was desiring ligatures in the first place.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligature_(writing)#Ligatures_i...

[2] https://superuser.com/questions/669130/double-latin-letters-...