Hacker News: easterncalculus

New comment by easterncalculus in "FreeInk: Open ecosystem for e-readers"

easterncalculus — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 23:58:54 +0000

Wasn't the efficacy of the focus/bionic reading stuff disproven awhile back? Are people still using it?

New comment by easterncalculus in "Steam Machine launches today"

easterncalculus — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 03:15:48 +0000

> But there is also the fun side of it becoming a status symbol I guess. Drive up future demand.

For the Steam Controller that's very clearly at least partly what's going on. Valve's "we didn't expect the demand!" schtick is getting pretty hard to buy when they clearly expected around the same expectations for V2 as for V1. PC gaming usage has grown massively since the first controller came out.

New comment by easterncalculus in "Hacker News but for independent blogs"

easterncalculus — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:07:42 +0000

Exactly what I thought.

The beginning of the end of the free and open internet was the rise of the walled garden. The final nail in the coffin is that every search result for "independent blogs" and "free and open internet" these days goes to politically challenged morons like this.

Simply put, the people running their own websites and blogs aren't "normal" anymore. The "normal" people are on the big platforms, unfortunately.

New comment by easterncalculus in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

easterncalculus — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:03:49 +0000

In addition to the wonders of the physical world, national parks, lakefront properties, skiing locations becoming owned by and run for the rich, advertising is moving further from the consumer to investors, their true market. They don't need the poors anymore.

New comment by easterncalculus in "Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer"

easterncalculus — Fri, 15 May 2026 04:17:50 +0000

You need better proof than tiktok buzzwords. This isn't reddit.

New comment by easterncalculus in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

easterncalculus — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:51:33 +0000

Bun is now almost twice the size of JavaScriptCore, too, by linecount after this.

This is the 'world class' engineering that Jarred claims he can't hire Americans to do, by the way https://x.com/jarredsumner/status/1969751721737077247. This company is parasitic to its literal (javascript) core.

New comment by easterncalculus in "New Nginx Exploit"

easterncalculus — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:41:25 +0000

> It is straight up wrong to say "if you have ASLR enabled, you're not at any risk from this" and saying this is extremely harmful for anyone that trusts claims like that.

You can safely assume a 1:1 overlap between the people that claim "AI will solve cyber" (and they always say 'cyber') and the people saying this.

New comment by easterncalculus in "Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer"

easterncalculus — Sun, 10 May 2026 22:44:28 +0000

> Does nobody remember his old videos rambling about women and gender topics, for example?

No one remembers these because they don't exist.

New comment by easterncalculus in "Louis Rossmann offers to pay legal fees for a threatened OrcaSlicer developer"

easterncalculus — Sun, 10 May 2026 22:30:04 +0000

The difference is that the Not Just Bikes guy is actually doing what the parent commenter is claiming Louis (only) does and Louis in reality does a lot more than that like what's in TFA.

Not Just Bikes makes reddit posts for redditors in YouTube form, basically. Louis actually supports people and projects. There's no 'schtick', consumer repair is core to his business and his channel.

New comment by easterncalculus in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

easterncalculus — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:52:39 +0000

Sure, but what's the point of obfuscating that?

This article is activism. The re-framing of software that you install intentionally being about breaking your 'consent' is ideological and incendiary. It implies that this is evil. It isn't.

New comment by easterncalculus in "AI uses less water than the public thinks"

easterncalculus — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:03:32 +0000

The Empire of AI book seriously did permanent damage on this talking point.

New comment by easterncalculus in "AI uses less water than the public thinks"

easterncalculus — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:01:11 +0000

When the new jobs number increases to four (or even three) digits people will take that more seriously.

New comment by easterncalculus in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

easterncalculus — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 22:06:40 +0000

If there's one thing I've learned about the custom Android community (and to a lesser extent, the Android community) it's that "it actually works" isn't really important or convincing to them.

New comment by easterncalculus in "Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war"

easterncalculus — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 01:46:14 +0000

> That's not healthy on an individual level or cumulatively at a societal level.

This is a product of a secular neoliberal culture (certainly including this website) that there is no 'society', really, or at least nothing that's BAD for society - effectively the same thing. If profit is king above all else, there's nothing wrong with vice, with scams, anything to chase the bag. It used to be that neoliberals understood community, but even suggesting that the health of society exists is considered reactionary now.

New comment by easterncalculus in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

easterncalculus — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:31:08 +0000

World IPv6 Day was in 2011, so 15 years since then. This is also requiring a consumer hardware and software upgrade on both the client and server (resource they're accessing). GitHub doesn't have to implement 4G support.

New comment by easterncalculus in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

easterncalculus — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:28:38 +0000

Right, but in most situations clients will prefer IPv6 if its available, so if they have access, they almost always are using it, at the very least from their local network.

New comment by easterncalculus in "State of Homelab 2026"

easterncalculus — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:11:39 +0000

Got a lot of downvotes here but this is just good advice. One of the good things about the split between the "homelab" and "selfhosted" communities - they are solving fundamentally different things.

At the very least, it should be a separate network segment between 'things that have to run all the time, especially for other people' and the network you set up weird storage arrays or BGP or whatever you're having fun with.

New comment by easterncalculus in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

easterncalculus — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:37:19 +0000

It's basically the entire context of this website.

New comment by easterncalculus in "New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK"

easterncalculus — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 22:24:20 +0000

  spyware

Why is Palantir a spyware company, but Snowflake or Databricks are not? "Spyware" has an actual definition, and there are real companies that sell it, like Pegasus. It's not some catch-all term for what people call "evil".

New comment by easterncalculus in "New York City hospitals drop Palantir as controversial AI firm expands in UK"

easterncalculus — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 22:17:16 +0000

They literally did. XLS was proprietary until Microsoft completely cornered the spreadsheet software market.