Hacker News: chris_wot

New comment by chris_wot in "Foucault's Order of Things Explained with Trading Cards [video]"

chris_wot — Sun, 17 May 2026 06:26:03 +0000

The Panopticon was taken from prison design and he used to it expand the idea that it was coopted by government over the rest of society.

New comment by chris_wot in "C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For"

chris_wot — Sun, 17 May 2026 06:19:48 +0000

... because it makes some decent points?

New comment by chris_wot in "Foucault's Order of Things Explained with Trading Cards [video]"

chris_wot — Wed, 13 May 2026 01:13:28 +0000

I can not understand why Foucault is taken seriously. In fact, I cannot understand how Sociology is taken seriously. In my uni course, the textbook tried to claim that childhood development is a myth. When I pointed out the decades of child development psychological studies and research, I was told "we aren't studying psychology, we are studying sociology."

Great! And yet there is an entire field that claims the direct opposite of what is being espoused and this is the best argument they could give me.

New comment by chris_wot in "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"

chris_wot — Sun, 03 May 2026 14:48:57 +0000

Windows Explorer always freezes for me. Teams is constantly interrupting me with popovers to tell me about features I’ll never use. on startup, it takes some time for panels to load.

The file system still uses drive letters. Can’t they scrap the old file system folder layout to something… organized?

New comment by chris_wot in "Ask.com has closed"

chris_wot — Sat, 02 May 2026 05:47:52 +0000

No more ask.com toolbars being installed without asking.

New comment by chris_wot in "Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight"

chris_wot — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:59:40 +0000

I'll be honest - I've never heard of this! Thanks for the info.

New comment by chris_wot in "Anna's Archive loses $322M Spotify piracy case without a fight"

chris_wot — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:11:33 +0000

I keep saying this (and I keep getting voted to oblivion) but we really need an alternative to DNS.

New comment by chris_wot in "Stop Flock"

chris_wot — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:46:31 +0000

Michel Foucault's Panopticon is alive and well I see.

New comment by chris_wot in "YouTube locked my accounts and I can't cancel my subscription"

chris_wot — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:37:02 +0000

I contacted TM Bank and they would't let me do this.

New comment by chris_wot in "Afrika Bambaataa has died"

chris_wot — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:28:45 +0000

The same thing you did. What sort of question is that?

New comment by chris_wot in "Show HN: I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++"

chris_wot — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:54:07 +0000

Can it handle modules?

New comment by chris_wot in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

chris_wot — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 03:44:37 +0000

Can someone elaborate on the limitations bit?

"Little Snitch for Linux is built for privacy, not security, and that distinction matters. The macOS version can make stronger guarantees because it can have more complexity. On Linux, the foundation is eBPF, which is powerful but bounded: it has strict limits on storage size and program complexity. Under heavy traffic, cache tables can overflow, which makes it impossible to reliably tie every network packet to a process or a DNS name. And reconstructing which hostname was originally looked up for a given IP address requires heuristics rather than certainty. The macOS version uses deep packet inspection to do this more reliably. That's not an option here."

Is this a limitation of the eBPF implementation? Pardon my ignorance, I'm genuinely curious about this.

New comment by chris_wot in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

chris_wot — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:31:39 +0000

I’m knee deep in refactoring LibreOffice code around text rendering. I can assure you, it’s complex but it doesn’t require a GPU!

New comment by chris_wot in "The Document Foundation ejects its core developers"

chris_wot — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 11:38:27 +0000

What lawsuit?!?

New comment by chris_wot in "The Document Foundation ejects its core developers"

chris_wot — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 10:58:19 +0000

Not just this, it the way the vote was announced seems very, very bad. Italo may have found legal issues, but one of the things he said was that legal action was being taken by Collabora. That… doesn’t seem to be the case.

Italo and co removed some very dedicated contributors from the TDF. What an absolute disaster.

New comment by chris_wot in "The Document Foundation ejects its core developers"

chris_wot — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:39:12 +0000

This is so sad Michael. You gave me an opportunity at Collabora many years ago (I was definitely too inexperienced!) and I’ll never forget this. Collabora is a force for good, and it is sad things have cone to this.

New comment by chris_wot in "The Document Foundation ejects its core developers"

chris_wot — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:30:52 +0000

Oh shit, I’m so sorry Noel. That’s awful!

New comment by chris_wot in "Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed"

chris_wot — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:54:11 +0000

That didn't prove anything. Modules get rewritten, but does that make it a full rewrite? That's Ship of Theseus material there...

New comment by chris_wot in "Full network of clitoral nerves mapped out for first time"

chris_wot — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:22:14 +0000

It does occur to me that you can be both malicious and stupid at the same time.

New comment by chris_wot in "Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed"

chris_wot — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:58:29 +0000

None of those were full rewrites. Not sure what point you are trying to make.