Hacker News: exploderate

New comment by exploderate in "Codeberg bans vibe coded projects"

exploderate — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:27:14 +0000

They are a non-profit with a mission to support free software:

https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/src/branch/main/en/bylaws....

However, they do this because of copyright status and harmful code:

"7. You must not share projects that mostly consist of code written by "generative AI"-tools (including services such as Claude, OpenAI Codex). Such projects having an unclear copyright status (see requirements § 2 (1) 1 and § 2 (1) 3) and furthermore have little safeguards to ensure that they do not include harmful code (c.f. § 2 (1) 5). "

New comment by exploderate in "Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything"

exploderate — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:50:36 +0000

You are probably talking about Kahn. The international Criminal Court is not part of the UN. It is distinct from the International Court of Justice.

As of October 2024, there are 125 states parties to the Rome Statute, which are represented in the court's governing body, the Assembly of States Parties. Countries that are not party to the Rome Statute and do not recognise the court's jurisdiction include China, India, Russia, and the United States.

Member states represent around a third of the world population.

New comment by exploderate in "Was my $48K GPU server worth it?"

exploderate — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:55:00 +0000

Especially since their costs might be multi-year investments. It's too early to judge the quality of those investments.

New comment by exploderate in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

exploderate — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:43:17 +0000

That data is not stolen. It's still there.

New comment by exploderate in "Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026"

exploderate — Wed, 20 May 2026 09:46:54 +0000

> Gemini CLI is an open-source AI agent

This is not good for open-source. Claude is not open-source, copilot-cli is not and antigravity-cli isn't either.

Apparently the major players decide to keep the secret agent source, well, secret.

New comment by exploderate in "Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era"

exploderate — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:55:57 +0000

Ah wow, that must be the most expensive mouse pointer ever. I wonder if it can also click links. I just tell AI to "click this" and it will figure out what is under the pointer, query a graph of UI widgets and trigger a "click" event for me. Maybe with a sub-agent that has application context, "this is a browser".

If we manage that, my plans for a pure XML based shell might not be too futuristic '' ...

New comment by exploderate in "Apt-bundle: brew bundle for apt"

exploderate — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:33:57 +0000

Or just homebrew on Linux?

New comment by exploderate in "Apt-bundle: brew bundle for apt"

exploderate — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:04:19 +0000

So, this is better than `dpkg --get-selections/--set-selections`? Oh, because it's partial?

New comment by exploderate in "I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla"

exploderate — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 15:57:24 +0000

What, of course we do?

Summarizing, explaining pages directly, without copying to another app. Reading pages out aloud. Maybe even orchestrating research sessions, by searching and organizing...

New comment by exploderate in "XSLT RIP"

exploderate — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 15:42:55 +0000

I wish there was a native XSLT library for Golang. Every model wants to shell out or requires CGO.

New comment by exploderate in "Bcachefs removed from the mainline kernel"

exploderate — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 14:33:33 +0000

The one line "article" on lwn.net has a link to this email:

  From: Kent Overstreet @ 2025-09-11 23:19 UTC
 
  As many of you are no doubt aware, bcachefs is switching to shipping as
  a DKMS module. Once the DKMS packages are in place very little should
  change for end users, but we've got some work to do on the distribution
  side of things to make sure things go smoothly.

  Good news: ...

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-bcachefs/yokpt2d2g2lluyomtqrdv...

New comment by exploderate in "Apple Notes Will Gain Markdown Export at WWDC, and, I Have Thoughts"

exploderate — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 15:52:52 +0000

This will make working with Google Docs easier, as they can copy&paste from Markdown.

New comment by exploderate in "Multiple security issues in GNU Screen"

exploderate — Tue, 13 May 2025 13:12:47 +0000

Yes, that's why all the cool kids switched to tmux 17 years ago. The only argument the screen camp had was "no serial port support in tmux". To which we answered something about a smaller more modern code base...

New comment by exploderate in "Tell Mozilla: it's time to ditch Google"

exploderate — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 10:24:55 +0000

Can you explain how? Or is your argument "One guy in a basement in Bulgaria could build Firefox for 50 Stotinki."?

New comment by exploderate in "2400 phone providers may be shut down by the FCC for failing to stop robocalls"

exploderate — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 14:15:15 +0000

> I don't think it's a generation thing, I think it's that what we generally consider normal has changed, but that some people got left behind in the old normal.

Isn't that the definition of a "generational thing"?

Now I have to think every time, is this someone I have to text first? Or do they consider texting then calling redundant? Anyhow, I think both are important communication techniques, adults should be able to do remote direct verbal and async written.

New comment by exploderate in "Garak, LLM Vulnerability Scanner"

exploderate — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 10:24:05 +0000

Sophos was the latest scandal. Though, it's unclear to me to which degree their antivirus tools helped to install the malware. Maybe it was just the target selection from telemetry data. Maybe they used it to deploy the "kernel implant"?

https://www.heise.de/en/opinion/Analysis-and-opinion-Sophos-...

New comment by exploderate in "Xorg being removed. What does this mean?"

exploderate — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 15:16:00 +0000

Wow, I need to get some of that "binary code". Sounds dangerous, probably has "pointers" and other sharp things?

I'm happy the gigantic ball of ill-maintained shell scripts from the last century is gone from my systems.

New comment by exploderate in "Severity HIGH security problem to be announced with curl 8.4.0 on Oct 11"

exploderate — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 12:42:30 +0000

1) SSL

2) HTTP/3

3) Other (DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET and TFTP)

New comment by exploderate in "That's a Lot of YAML"

exploderate — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 13:28:19 +0000

At least you can do " Have fun putting this in JSON :->" in XML.

New comment by exploderate in "That's a Lot of YAML"

exploderate — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 13:26:17 +0000

Indeed, back then it as "Yet another Markup Language" (https://yaml.org/spec/history/2001-12-10.html). I remember using it to write blog posts with static generators, like webgen around 2004.