Hacker News: cuu508

New comment by cuu508 in "RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better"

cuu508 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 05:41:28 +0000

Isn't there a setting to turn auto-correct off?

New comment by cuu508 in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

cuu508 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 04:25:52 +0000

In one of the monthly update videos Andreas mentioned that although they are working on a basic built-in adblocker for Ladybird, long-term they want extension support and the adblocking functionality to be in an extension.

New comment by cuu508 in "RIP Claude – Aggressively writer-hostile"

cuu508 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 06:26:53 +0000

> My writing is my work, and Anthropic’s current strategy is aggressively writer-hostile.

If your writing is indeed your work then watermarking should not affect you.

New comment by cuu508 in "Company Offering '100% Human-Written, Never AI' Medical Research Is 100% AI"

cuu508 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 05:58:16 +0000

There's plenty of negativity of the technology itself as well. See for example how often the term "slop" is being used.

New comment by cuu508 in "Thundermail Email Hosting"

cuu508 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:03:02 +0000

> Where will my data be hosted Thundermail data is hosted on infrastructure located in Germany, supporting reliable delivery worldwide and prioritizing privacy.

> Governing Law. Except to the extent applicable law provides otherwise, this Agreement between you and MZLA and any access to or use of the Website or the Services are governed by the federal laws of the United States of America and the laws of the State of California, [...]

New comment by cuu508 in "France to ban unsolicited telemarketing calls"

cuu508 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:07:35 +0000

Delivery companies would adapt and drivers would have work-only dumb phones with correct country SIMs. Problem is, spam & scam callers would adapt as well.

New comment by cuu508 in "Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change"

cuu508 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:22:40 +0000

If you are not buying Apple products, you are saving yourself their suckiness. Win! And other people can make their own choices.

New comment by cuu508 in "A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website"

cuu508 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:33:01 +0000

The Anubis challenge took ~5 seconds.

What do you propose instead?

New comment by cuu508 in "Nearly Half of the Company Websites We Checked Had No Security Headers"

cuu508 — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:30:03 +0000

slop

New comment by cuu508 in "EU rules on AI models become enforceable. What's going to change?"

cuu508 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 21:38:37 +0000

So... Is your suggestion to ban tracking, marketing, analytics etc. non-essential cookies altogether?

New comment by cuu508 in "BMW Spider-Man in-car advertising"

cuu508 — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 06:14:44 +0000

Texting and driving is a real problem.

New comment by cuu508 in "Toot.community is shutting down"

cuu508 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:57:53 +0000

When mastodon.technology shut down, the operator commented on this, see "Why Not Transfer to a New Admin?" here -- https://ashfurrow.com/blog/mastodon-technology-shutdown/

New comment by cuu508 in "AI in Linux"

cuu508 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 17:27:20 +0000

Incredibly useful for some definition of incredibly useful. What I see:

- I now regularly receive AI-written spam emails (marketing pitches, "vulnerability reports").

- I was receiving AI-written garbage quality pull requests. It got so annoying I closed pull requests on my project's repo.

- When I try to contact some company's customer support these days there's a good chance I will be fed slop by an agent posing as a customer support person, this is absolutely infuriating.

- When I search for information on the internet, for certain queries, 90% of the results is slop.

- AI crawlers are DDoSing websites.

- The already mentioned things – hardware getting more expensive, climate impact, unethically sourced training data.

New comment by cuu508 in "Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly"

cuu508 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:30:58 +0000

Specs don't make it clear if it supports BLE sensors (HR strap, power meter,... ).

New comment by cuu508 in "Kill The Cookie Banner"

cuu508 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:25:20 +0000

uBlock Origin's "annoyances" filter lists also do the job.

New comment by cuu508 in "LLM Usage in Debian: Three Proposals"

cuu508 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 06:43:25 +0000

I think the viability of the fork primarily depends on whether it has enough people motivated to maintain it long term. A turtle can win a distracted hare.

New comment by cuu508 in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

cuu508 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:46:45 +0000

Please reconsider Kagi's partnership with Yandex.

New comment by cuu508 in "High-Bandwidth Flash offers efficient storage for model weights"

cuu508 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 04:38:21 +0000

I have fond memories of Flash 5 in early 2000s. At the time I knew BASIC and Pascal. I could figure out how to draw things, how to animate them using keyframes and motion tweening, and how to make things interactive with ActionScript, all by poking around and reading the help manual (F1) on our underpowered offline PC.

New comment by cuu508 in "A graph that should be front-page news"

cuu508 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:46:37 +0000

What analogy might work better, i.e., be less charged but as precise?

New comment by cuu508 in "Why are US consumers so angry? It's not just high prices"

cuu508 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 05:21:24 +0000

I've realized this as well, the bigger the company the worse the experience.

The more customers they have the less they care about any individual customer.

The more products they have the less they care about any single product.

The more employees they have the less they care about each individual employee doing a good job. And there's no they any more, there's a big, soul-less profit glutton.