Hacker News: devwastaken

New comment by devwastaken in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

devwastaken — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:23:08 +0000

Wine removed 32-bit support, breaking 90% of programs people used it for.

New comment by devwastaken in "Sodium-ion EV battery breakthrough delivers 11-min charging and 450 km range"

devwastaken — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:05:31 +0000

hydrogen sulfide is not anywhere in the same category. When you consider failure you have to consider what is the most catastrophic possibility and if that is “this battery silently kills people” then you dont make it.

New comment by devwastaken in "Parallels confirms MacBook Neo can run Windows in a virtual machine"

devwastaken — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:59:39 +0000

Mac doesnt run their spyware, they wont use it.

New comment by devwastaken in "X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok"

devwastaken — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 14:35:20 +0000

E.U is replacing their citizens with unvetted violent criminals. They have to vote for whoever gives them free stuff. The powers doing this are upset a company in the U.S allows their citizens to protest it.

New comment by devwastaken in "EPA Advances Farmers' Right to Repair"

devwastaken — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:19:33 +0000

Repeal intellectual property law. No more patents. No more owning concepts inherent to physics.

New comment by devwastaken in "RT Superconductivity at 298K in Ternary LaScH System at High-Pressure Conditions"

devwastaken — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 15:06:48 +0000

2.4 million times the pressure of earths atmosphere but impressive if true.

New comment by devwastaken in "The new owner of GOG discusses taking on Steam, the devil of DRM, and Nightdive"

devwastaken — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 22:26:10 +0000

Steam DRM is not optional. Thats why launchers dont support it.

New comment by devwastaken in "The new owner of GOG discusses taking on Steam, the devil of DRM, and Nightdive"

devwastaken — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 22:25:38 +0000

Steam, like Origin, is one of the few that refuses to support 3rd party launchers due to DRM. epic and gog both work in heroic launcher. Steam games are no longer usable in systems less than 4GB memory.

Steam has removed all its 32-bit wine compatibility, minimal launcher, and is now no different than any other chromium bloatware. they chose the easiest path and are still struggling to make it work.

New comment by devwastaken in "ICE agent fatally shoots woman in Minneapolis"

devwastaken — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 16:43:37 +0000

The woman is one of the worst examples of people you could have chosen. her kid (singular) was taken away because their lesbian partner physically abuses the kid. She was left out of her ex husbands funeral because she was crazy and a danger.

She was there to intentionally instigate ice. it was planned, she planned to try to run them over with her car and would have been successfull if it went her way.

New comment by devwastaken in "ICE agent fatally shoots woman in Minneapolis"

devwastaken — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 16:40:43 +0000

The blue propaganda machine told you what to think, and now that the officers POV was released its clear the woman intended to kill the officer.

New comment by devwastaken in "ICE agent fatally shoots woman in Minneapolis"

devwastaken — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 16:37:37 +0000

The woman was there intentionally to instigate conflict with ICE. She pulled out infront of them, stopping on the road to get them to try to detain her. you should at least look into the issue before commenting about it.

New comment by devwastaken in "ICE agent fatally shoots woman in Minneapolis"

devwastaken — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 16:35:54 +0000

As shown by the officers POV, it wasnt evaded. Lies spread faster than the truth.

New comment by devwastaken in "Polymarket refuses to pay bets that US would 'invade' Venezuela"

devwastaken — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 21:27:46 +0000

Venezuala government calls it an invasion. U.S left with the evidence, do we trust the fascist regime of venezuala or the elected president of the U.S?

New comment by devwastaken in "Brave overhauled its Rust adblock engine with FlatBuffers, cutting memory 75%"

devwastaken — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 22:19:53 +0000

4GB of that taken by the system. more memory use with runtimes also means more cpu to track and free memory.

New comment by devwastaken in "Steam Store is offline"

devwastaken — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 18:50:15 +0000

valve has continually had problems with their services. this is because theyre both reliant on other services they dont control, and low quality engineering management. the second leads to the first.

New comment by devwastaken in "Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves"

devwastaken — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:52:36 +0000

The CCP can hijack your accounts and absolutely do all of those things, using your own government.

New comment by devwastaken in "Nvidia plans heavy cuts to GPU supply in early 2026"

devwastaken — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 14:47:53 +0000

AMD will eat their lunch, and are. If AMD can properly replace CUDA, rtx hdr, they could win the market.

New comment by devwastaken in "Mozilla's new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox"

devwastaken — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:10:47 +0000

Ladybird is playing catch-up with features already done years ago. They can either break compatability, or follow. Theyre following, which makes them yet another dead end.

and, again, riddled with vulnerabilities.

New comment by devwastaken in "AI is wiping out entry-level tech jobs, leaving graduates stranded"

devwastaken — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:07:45 +0000

Big tech are doing it on purpose with h1b’s and exportation of labor to capture the market in India and non-china asia. they are desperate and afraid.

The U.S has a national security interest in completely stopping all of it. They dont, because every administration is paid not to.

Regulate tech, ban labor export, ban labor import, protect your countries from the sellout.

New comment by devwastaken in "Mozilla's new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox"

devwastaken — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:20:39 +0000

Ladybird is a pet project of no relevance to the web. there is no tech advantage, its just as riddled with vulnerabilities. chromium and webkit are the winners. you need a whole new ecosystem to get something different.