Hacker News: crazybonkersai

New comment by crazybonkersai in "Jellyfin 12.0"

crazybonkersai — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 10:12:57 +0000

Coming from Plex, I gave Jellyfin a try, but returned back to Plex after several months. My biggest gripes were poor subtitle support and inability to differintiate TV shows from movies stored in the same folder. Does this version improve these issues?

New comment by crazybonkersai in "Why some US restaurants are banning tips"

crazybonkersai — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:32:40 +0000

Of course you can tip and nobody would refuse one. The difference is tipping is not expected by default and you get same service regardless of your tip. In contrast many years ago a waiter in a NYC restaurant made my then girlfriend crying when the waiter decided that the tip was not big enough. Is this great American service people here keep raving about?

New comment by crazybonkersai in "Why some US restaurants are banning tips"

crazybonkersai — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:53:38 +0000

Ah much generalisation. Europe is over 40 countries with vast differences in quality of service and restaurant culture. I have been to restaurants in many European countries and the only generalisation I can make is that tip culture does not exist in Europe.

Ask HN: How do you access archive.today?

crazybonkersai — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 11:18:09 +0000

I get either a dns error if accessed as is (I am based in EU) or an infinite captcha loop if accessed via a vpn. Any pointers how to make it work?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49359979

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New comment by crazybonkersai in "DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813"

crazybonkersai — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:24:14 +0000

Looks like a belt driven bicycle to me. :D

New comment by crazybonkersai in "Saying 'Google It' Makes You Sound Old"

crazybonkersai — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 05:43:47 +0000

In Finnish there is an acronym KVG (katso vittu Googlesta) which stands roughly for Look up on the fucking Google. I wonder what will replace it in the age of LLMs

New comment by crazybonkersai in "Kimi Work"

crazybonkersai — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:53:45 +0000

Do you really care about events 30 years ago that were blown out of proportions? Right now US is waging an unprovoked war of aggression against Iran, killing civillians every single day and deliberately destroying civilian infrastructure (like bombing universities). Yet there is zero condemnation or any real action from any Western states. All the major media outlets downplay war crimes committed by the US forces and American llms just copy the narrative of the western media.

And yet you treat a 30 years old event like it would be the most pressing problem at the moment.

New comment by crazybonkersai in "Mysteries of Telegram Data Centers (2022)"

crazybonkersai — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:05:55 +0000

Good ux, pleasant to use. A large community and lots of channels with all kind of content. Api is also great for spinning a bot for whatever purpose. I have for example a critical error bot for a production server running. If a critical error occurs, I get an immediate telegram message.

New comment by crazybonkersai in "Vint Cerf, “father of the Internet”, is retiring"

crazybonkersai — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:44:00 +0000

I have always thought that The architect from The Matrix series looks like Vint Cerf. I wonder if Wachowskis had Vint in mind when casting

New comment by crazybonkersai in "PySimpleGUI 6"

crazybonkersai — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:22:50 +0000

First they made it commercial. Then they realised there were not enough people prepared to pay for the project and shut down the project. But now it is back in free form?

New comment by crazybonkersai in "Tell HN: VS Code v1.117.0 automatically adds GitHub Copilot as your co author"

crazybonkersai — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:48:59 +0000

PSA: You can disable it in the settings with the Git: add ai to Co author option

New comment by crazybonkersai in "SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned"

crazybonkersai — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:50:36 +0000

You get a point there, but export is mostly about metadata, eg images and description.

Data loss happens too. Soundcloud may be your only source of your own tracks.

New comment by crazybonkersai in "SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned"

crazybonkersai — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 18:03:51 +0000

You can export your entire profile using yt-dlp. Of course you have to do it, when you are still a paying customer.

New comment by crazybonkersai in "Floppy disks turn out to be the greatest TV remote for kids"

crazybonkersai — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 21:23:54 +0000

You can use third party cards which are sold for a fraction of a price too. There are a bit of hassle to setup (you need to link an original card and then clone it to a cheap card), but when done they work flawlessly

New comment by crazybonkersai in "Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged"

crazybonkersai — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 14:17:45 +0000

> No such explicit assurances have ever existed and if someone claims russian politicians have believed some spoken sentences as ratified pacts, they are either dumb or lying. Anyway, Russia also promised in writing to guarantee the territorial integrity and safety of Ukraine (1994), so there is no reason to believe anything they say or write for the foreseeable future.

You can look at this issue from both sides. The Budapest Memorandum was exactly that—a memorandum—and it was never ratified by Russia. As such, it carries no more legal weight than the security assurances provided by NATO. Moreover, it was largely the Clinton administration, together with the EU, that pressured Ukraine to give up its nuclear weapons, since no one wanted the emergence of a new nuclear state in Europe.

> For which they never apologised.

You are also incorrect on the historical point. Russia officially apologised for the Winter War during Yeltsin’s presidency, along with issuing several other apologies for Soviet-era crimes. Finland, by contrast, has never apologised for its own actions, nor does it adequately teach about its own atrocities. Ask the average Finn how Finland acquired Petsamo or about Finland’s role in the siege of Leningrad, and you are unlikely to encounter much regret or acknowledgment of responsibility.

> And this is exactly why many people say the only good Russian is a dead one. If the country and nation wants to be universally hated, it should proceed exactly like that.

And that is just sheer racism and speech hate.

New comment by crazybonkersai in "Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged"

crazybonkersai — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 18:36:51 +0000

If you look at Yeltsin’s presidency and Putin’s first term, both pursued the goal of integrating Russia into the Western world, and to some extent they succeeded. At the same time, both leaders strongly opposed NATO’s expansion eastward. This opposition was rooted in explicit assurances given by Western governments that NATO would not expand, assurances made in exchange for the withdrawal of Soviet troops from East Germany. Putin’s stance hardened once it became clear that Russia would never be accepted into either the EU or NATO, unlike many other former Soviet states. You speak of Russia’s aggression toward its neighbors, but overlook Western aggression toward Russia. Russia—and earlier the USSR—was invaded twice in the last century by coalitions of Western powers. Two of the most devastating wars of the twentieth century were fought largely on Russian territory, resulting in the loss of tens of millions of lives. These experiences are often downplayed or ignored in Western historiography, but they remain central to Russian historical memory. Take Finland as an example. The USSR attacked Finland once, but Finland invaded Soviet territory twice: first by annexing land, and later by participating in mass violence alongside Nazi Germany. Yet popular memory outside Russia tends to focus almost exclusively on the Soviet attack. Given this historical context, it is hardly surprising that Russia remains deeply suspicious of NATO and Western countries—especially considering that, over the past 30 years, NATO members have been involved in numerous wars of aggression.

New comment by crazybonkersai in "Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged"

crazybonkersai — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 09:36:51 +0000

Citation needed. Stalin did at one point signal interest in joining NATO, fully aware that the proposal would be rejected; the gesture was largely ironic and intended to expose the alliance’s anti-Soviet character rather than to pursue genuine integration. Post-Soviet Russia likewise raised the possibility of NATO membership on two occasions—first under Yeltsin and again early in Putin’s presidency. In both cases, the idea was dismissed, even as NATO proceeded to incorporate nearly all former Warsaw Pact members. This asymmetry contributed to the deterioration of Russia–NATO relations. Declassified materials from the U.S. National Archives documenting NATO–Russia talks over the years shed light on the alliance’s consistent reluctance to treat Russia as a potential partner rather than an object of containment. That said, NATO and Russia were structurally ill-suited for integration from the outset. Russia’s geographic scale, strategic culture, and legacy military doctrine and equipment posed serious obstacles to meaningful interoperability within a U.S.-led alliance. A more stable European security order might have emerged from the creation of a new, inclusive framework after the dissolution of the USSR. Instead, Western states chose to expand and entrench NATO, a decision that effectively marginalized Russia and helped lay the groundwork for today’s confrontation.

New comment by crazybonkersai in "Ask HN: How do I help a colleague who introduces a lot of typos?"

crazybonkersai — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 09:04:04 +0000

Install a spellcheck precommit and call it a day.

New comment by crazybonkersai in "Nicolas Guillou, French ICC judge sanctioned by the US and “debanked”"

crazybonkersai — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 12:51:29 +0000

Correction: it was created to advance own geopolitical goals and harrass unfriendly regimes using human rights abuse as an excuse. So in that sense nothing has fundamentally changed.

New comment by crazybonkersai in "Deliberate Internet Shutdowns"

crazybonkersai — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 12:53:58 +0000

Yes, this is really my opinion. And unlike yourself, I am well familiar with Russian media first hand and not the distilled version presented by Western propaganda.