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New comment by ffaccount2 in "Love systemd timers"

ffaccount2 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 12:38:55 +0000

To be honest it looks rather easy to digest? I can sort of guess the meaning without documentation.

For cron, despite years of looking at it, I can never remember what those numbers mean and I need to Google almost every time.

New comment by ffaccount2 in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

ffaccount2 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 05:00:11 +0000

Well we're talking about this now, so this was actually effective. The point of talking about something is to make people aware of the issue.

For example I don't leave my house often, so a walking protest in the middle of a city has zero chance to reach me. HN post does.

New comment by ffaccount2 in "Deflock hits 100k ALPRs Mapped in USA"

ffaccount2 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:36:53 +0000

>If they had any spine they'd kill themselves

Please never type something like this again.

>Same should apply to any ex-Russian military, any foreign ex-intelligence too. This isn't a harsh take.

This is a harsh take. And why foreign? Should NSA employees kill themselves too? American soldiers? What a wild take.

New comment by ffaccount2 in "The dead economy theory"

ffaccount2 — Sat, 30 May 2026 00:11:29 +0000

I am shocked you think letting people starve is OK. The word you are looking for is "revolution" or "uprising" - people will fight for the right to live if you deny them food.

New comment by ffaccount2 in "Omarchy Is Not A Distro"

ffaccount2 — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:12:46 +0000

It's a way to distribute Linux (the kernel) and userland packages in a way you can install. Therefore it's a Linux distribution.

New comment by ffaccount2 in "Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs"

ffaccount2 — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:48:49 +0000

My several years old laptop has 128GB of RAM, is that not enough? I admit that it's a pretty heavy one.

New comment by ffaccount2 in "US tech firms share Dutch regulator officials' names with Senate"

ffaccount2 — Sat, 23 May 2026 12:52:24 +0000

Americans (and not just the US) think they still have the influence on the world they had in the 1980s when their economies were a much larger proportion of the global economy. Americans have no idea what the world looks like from Asia which contains most of the world's population and generates a third of global GDP.

New comment by ffaccount2 in "Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans"

ffaccount2 — Fri, 22 May 2026 08:43:33 +0000

How is this different from, let's say, plane tickets?

And nobody says that tickets must not be cancelable. Just no reselling on your own.

New comment by ffaccount2 in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

ffaccount2 — Thu, 21 May 2026 08:51:01 +0000

>ve AI narratives, but in reality all of that WILL wither down to...

Looks like you're pretty sure of that. Every time I see argument like this delivered with confidence I wonder how is it different from, say, digital calculators. Or better yet, books - Greek philosophers moaned that young people will stop understanding anything and just check books when they want to know anything.

New comment by ffaccount2 in "A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10"

ffaccount2 — Sat, 16 May 2026 15:17:05 +0000

It's worse, often the saying goes "don't click on suspicious links"/"don't open suspicious attachments". If I (target of such hint) knew the link was "suspicious" I wouldn't click it! Users are not opening suspicious attachments, they open (what they think is) important invoice or message from their boss.