Hacker News: exe34

New comment by exe34 in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""

exe34 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:28:22 +0000

> Again, I don't speak French so I cannot say for sure

This reminds me of the adage, that ChatGPT is really great at everything except my own work.

New comment by exe34 in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

exe34 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:35:32 +0000

If somebody throws a slop PR at me, I'd love to review it with them. I'd ask them to take me through it and explain everything until I understand exactly what they did and why. Either it will make them avoid me in the future, or it will open their eyes to how important it is to understand what you are submitting for review. I probably won't have to do it twice.

New comment by exe34 in "Claude Desktop spins up a VM without no way of stopping it"

exe34 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:13:37 +0000

Dogfood

New comment by exe34 in "Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation"

exe34 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:31:40 +0000

I paid £50 more for a washing machine without wifi/app.

New comment by exe34 in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

exe34 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:30:05 +0000

If I have to wield AI to fix your slop, and be held responsible for successfully making it work, then I'm going to be invested in how bad the slop is to begin with. I'm more than happy to be paid to generate slop if I don't have to ever read it and be held responsible for it.

New comment by exe34 in "Scientists ejected from diabetes conference for distributing journal reprints"

exe34 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:42:07 +0000

eh, it's a private blog isn't it, they can set whatever terms they want and change their minds.

New comment by exe34 in "GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS"

exe34 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 11:17:38 +0000

And which one are the courts enforcing at the moment in the US? Pretti? Good?

New comment by exe34 in "GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS"

exe34 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 11:17:01 +0000

Much less the UK.

New comment by exe34 in "GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS"

exe34 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 10:43:52 +0000

Geographically, that's quite the zinger. Legally, no. Different laws.

New comment by exe34 in "GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS"

exe34 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 10:43:23 +0000

What good is a piece of paper? I have nice toilet paper. It doesn't make me safer when visiting the US.

New comment by exe34 in "GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS"

exe34 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 10:41:56 +0000

> the US has some damn good rights for its citizens

Unless you turn up to a protest against the ICEtapo, with a holstered gun. Then you can be murdered and called a domestic terrorist.

As a brown visitor to the US.... Well I won't be one. They can ask for access to my entire digital life without the slightest suspicion of any crimes.

New comment by exe34 in "The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies"

exe34 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:47:35 +0000

Is that why digital piracy is illegal?

New comment by exe34 in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

exe34 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:58:45 +0000

> so obviously incorrect and misanthropic that it can be dismissed out of hand

To be fair, that's the best thought terminating cliché, which saves you having to explain what you mean by consciousness.

New comment by exe34 in "The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies"

exe34 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:14:09 +0000

Yeah that's more sensible.

New comment by exe34 in "The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies"

exe34 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:55:38 +0000

They seized all of humanity's intellectual output first.

New comment by exe34 in "The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies"

exe34 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:54:45 +0000

Wait, is the idea to buy that 50%?

New comment by exe34 in "Meta repeatedly snubs EU body over Facebook and Instagram user bans"

exe34 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:07:04 +0000

this is such a low iq take. my whole point was that there should be a law for X, and now we're at "oh but there's a law for Y".

New comment by exe34 in "Meta repeatedly snubs EU body over Facebook and Instagram user bans"

exe34 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:11:01 +0000

The whole rationale to giving companies a charter was to enable things that are good for the community. Just because it would be profitable to kill some people, for example, doesn't mean that companies can just do it (unless they are medical insurance companies in the US).

New comment by exe34 in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

exe34 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:26:47 +0000

I have jgmenu mapped to F4 but I never remember to use it. I usually just CMD+P and type what I need.

I can see the appeal of KDE - I just got fed up of things breaking when I did mandatory upgrades for security. I don't have to choose between stability and security. After 10+ years, I would find it harder to go pecking through menus for what I need when I can just type it.

New comment by exe34 in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

exe34 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 16:14:40 +0000

nmtui