Hacker News: chokolad

New comment by chokolad in "Dostoyevsky isn't difficult"

chokolad — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:07:32 +0000

> Interesting, never heard 'Nikolasha' once

It's archaic, used in Peter I times. Modern one is Kolya

New comment by chokolad in "There are no instances in ATProto"

chokolad — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 14:48:01 +0000

> It’s not more painful because there’s plenty of alternatives for activitypub instances, but only one bluesky.

No, there is not. There is blacksky, northsky, eurosky. They all display the data from your PDS.

New comment by chokolad in "There are no instances in ATProto"

chokolad — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:57:58 +0000

You can scale down as much as you want. You don't need to run full relay if you want to follow only a dozen of accounts. I bet you can run something like that on a raspberry pi or something similar. You will not get the search over all of the network, but that's something you don't get with your personal mastodon instances either.

New comment by chokolad in "There Are No Instances in ATProto"

chokolad — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:43:17 +0000

> So all the censor needs to do is cut off one host? And then you upload everything to different host and connect that?

Which host?

New comment by chokolad in "There are no instances in ATProto"

chokolad — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:41:00 +0000

If that becomes a massive problem - host a relay with different moderation policy.

New comment by chokolad in "There are no instances in ATProto"

chokolad — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:40:14 +0000

Why is that a problem if you can host relay for $50 per month as TFA mentions?

New comment by chokolad in "There are no instances in ATProto"

chokolad — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:39:27 +0000

> Maybe because doing that would show that there are in fact "instances" in atproto, but who knows?

I wonder why you are vagueposting here instead of stating your position firmly. Maybe because you are afraid to be shown wrong, but who knows ?

New comment by chokolad in "Hermes Agent – Open-source AI agent with persistent memory"

chokolad — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:20:13 +0000

you can add netclaw to your list

New comment by chokolad in "MAI-Code-1-Flash"

chokolad — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:28:47 +0000

To understand microsoft IA problems right now observer the parent comment. It is literally false [1] but somehow creates a whole story of Microsoft inaptitude.

[1] https://github.blog/changelog/2026-06-02-mai-code-1-flash-is...

New comment by chokolad in "Intelligent Terminal 0.1"

chokolad — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:16:53 +0000

> The windows bloat continues unabated

This is an application that needs to be installed separately. What are you even talking about?

New comment by chokolad in "Shantell Sans (2023)"

chokolad — Sun, 31 May 2026 14:43:00 +0000

Somewhere in the middle of the article, I stumbled upon a multilanguage sample and noticed that this font has wonderful Cyrillic glyphs. In my previous experience with new fonts Cyrillic usually is not as great as the latin part of the font. The exception being fonts done by foundries based in cyrillic speaking countries, like ParaType fonts [1]. Well, the last third of the article goes into the details on how they achieved it.

[1] https://www.paratype.com/fonts/pt/yefimov-sans?tab=gallery

New comment by chokolad in "1966 Ford Mustang Converted into a Tesla with Working 'Full Self-Driving'"

chokolad — Tue, 05 May 2026 12:28:14 +0000

Can you provide some links that show this clear inferiority ?

New comment by chokolad in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

chokolad — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:55:22 +0000

> I don’t use windows, so most of this doesn’t affect me, but I do use GitHub and VSCode. Can anyone clarify, once and for all, whether “GitHub Copilot” and “VSCode Copilot” (sic?) are the same product? The documentation isn’t even clear, and it’s important because it affects billing. How do these two products interact and where do they NOT overlap?

There is no VSCode Copilot. There is Github Copilot integration inside VS Code.

New comment by chokolad in "Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds"

chokolad — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:48:49 +0000

> And despite all the marketing to differentiate from say Meta, Bluesky has no problem scraping and feeding everyone’s posts to AI.

All BlueSky data is public. Literally anyone can scrape it and feed everyone's posts to AI.

New comment by chokolad in "I'm betting on ATProto"

chokolad — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 23:44:21 +0000

> This year, I'm betting less social media as being better and in the long-run a new protocol that learns from the mistakes.

Can you list protocol level mistakes made by ATProto?

New comment by chokolad in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

chokolad — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:24:40 +0000

> There's everything wrong when "agentic" means that the regular bread-and-butter functionality of the OS becomes unusable

Can you provide an example of agentic functionality in Windows making regular bread-and-butter functionality become unusable?

New comment by chokolad in "Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service"

chokolad — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 01:19:06 +0000

Have you worked in those areas with high saturation ?

New comment by chokolad in "Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service"

chokolad — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 23:53:11 +0000

> I’ve seen Microsoft employees run public presentations from MacBooks on multiple occasions.

This is specifically done to show that Microsoft tech eg .net is not tied to Windows.

New comment by chokolad in "Despite Doubts, Federal Cyber Experts Approved Microsoft Cloud Service"

chokolad — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 23:51:22 +0000

> while iOS, Android, and macOS account for the rest. Of these devices, approximately 45 percent are

Pretty much everyone has an android or iOS device in their pocket. A lot of those devices are enrolled into Microsoft MDM in order to access email/teams/etc. These phones are part of the stats. Dev work in general is done on Windows boxes, unless you are in specific teams that have other requirements. Default is Windows, specifically Windows laptop.

New comment by chokolad in "Despite doubts, federal cyber experts approved Microsoft cloud service"

chokolad — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:57:12 +0000

It's not true. Source - me, MSFT for 25 years.