Hacker News: episode404

New comment by episode404 in "EFF is leaving X"

episode404 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:55:27 +0000

I'm sure we humans can do better than "everyone who disagrees with me politically is evil"

New comment by episode404 in "EFF is leaving X"

episode404 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:48:33 +0000

if you think that blusky and mastodon is less censored than X, then I'd say that we do not live in the same world indeed

New comment by episode404 in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened"

episode404 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 12:08:58 +0000

> they used to write fantastical and very informative articles

> Still a very good website

These are indeed quite controversial opinions on ars.

New comment by episode404 in ""Yes, It's Happening. Yes, it's real." March For Billionaires, SF, 02/07/2026"

episode404 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 08:45:54 +0000

What kind of logic is this? Apply this to any other march for something and you’ll see that this makes no sense at all.

New comment by episode404 in ""Yes, It's Happening. Yes, it's real." March For Billionaires, SF, 02/07/2026"

episode404 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 08:41:19 +0000

Because ever having met Epstein invalidates all your success and everything you have built?

New comment by episode404 in "The Chrysalis Backdoor: A Deep Dive into Lotus Blossom's Toolkit"

episode404 — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 01:26:44 +0000

Dang, even rapid7 is using AI to write articles now.

New comment by episode404 in "U.S. Court Order Against Anna's Archive Spells More Trouble for the Site"

episode404 — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 19:45:35 +0000

I don't think your snarky comment is productive. Reddit seems like a more appropriate platform for it.

New comment by episode404 in "2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop"

episode404 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:14:07 +0000

cool story bro

New comment by episode404 in "2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop"

episode404 — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 23:49:15 +0000

Agreed. I’m not at all surprised that they are the main contributor to anubis, which is also very obnoxious.

New comment by episode404 in "Linux is good now"

episode404 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:33:06 +0000

Please re-read the comment by mixxit. He mentioned systemd as just one example of why Linux isn’t there yet and no amount of gaslighting and pretending it ain’t so is going to change that.

New comment by episode404 in "Linux is good now"

episode404 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 16:09:57 +0000

It seems HN has decided to bury their heads in the sand and pretend it’s already great.

New comment by episode404 in "Linux is good now"

episode404 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 16:04:23 +0000

Absolutely don’t use Ubuntu LTS when you’re new (or old) to Linux.

New comment by episode404 in "Linux is good now"

episode404 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 15:50:37 +0000

Thank you for being honest. This is exactly my experience as well.

New comment by episode404 in "Linux is good now"

episode404 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 15:38:06 +0000

>a 10-30% perf drop is good and is a reasonable tradeoff to consider

You are either trolling or completely out of your mind. You simply cannot be serious when saying stuff like this.

New comment by episode404 in "Linux is good now"

episode404 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 15:35:56 +0000

The start menu bug is one of the few problems that windows has, compare that to Linux.

New comment by episode404 in "Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings"

episode404 — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 23:36:04 +0000

Completely insane.

New comment by episode404 in "Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings"

episode404 — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 23:34:46 +0000

Thank you. I didn't go to film school but I still can easily tell if a TV has those "enhancements" turned on. It's horrible and quite weird to me that most people don't seem to realize that something is off when watching movies.

New comment by episode404 in "Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings"

episode404 — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 23:32:10 +0000

That's a weird thing to be so insistent on defending.

New comment by episode404 in "Wikipedia says traffic is falling due to AI search summaries and social video"

episode404 — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 09:36:30 +0000

This is by far the worst defense I have ever read for why wikipedia needs a $200m budget.

New comment by episode404 in "Anna's Archive: An Update from the Team"

episode404 — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 20:51:02 +0000

They won’t do that. How else are they supposed to sell these premium subscriptions?