Hacker News: flawi

New comment by flawi in "Microsoft: Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"

flawi — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 20:09:37 +0000

When I'm paying for said software? No, I don't think I have.

New comment by flawi in "Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming"

flawi — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 08:14:45 +0000

If you have an NVIDIA GPU CachyOS performs significantly better at the moment, so I would go with that. For AMD GPUs it's more of a preference question.

Personally for dev work I tend to use things like Nix to keep the development packages out of the host, that sort of approach works regardless of distro.

New comment by flawi in "Bazzite: Operating System for Linux gaming"

flawi — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 07:50:43 +0000

> Do note that they make it very, very, very clear that their results are preliminary,

Yeah, I'm not entirely convinced some of the results they're seeing aren't caused by their methodology. I don't think they are either.

I moved a gaming pc with a 4070Ti from Win10 to Cachy 3 weeks ago and have been purposefully testing out various games to see if it's workable; I'm about 50 hours and 15 games deep now and the only thing that doesn't work reliably is HDR. Outside of that I haven't run into any issues I haven't seen on Windows as well.

New comment by flawi in "AirPods succeed by not selling you a new pair"

flawi — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 16:47:07 +0000

I use mine every time I take the dog out for a walk so around 2 hours a day most days since I've had them which is over 2 years now, and I've yet to notice any battery degradation. There probably is some, but not enough to notice outside of actual measurements.

New comment by flawi in "Study shows N95 masks near-perfect at blocking escape of airborne Covid-19"

flawi — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 13:01:36 +0000

How is ensuring the well-being of the people "not any of the governments business"? What other end goal could a government possibly serve?

New comment by flawi in "Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork"

flawi — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 19:40:07 +0000

I think the mercurial log is not doing us any favors here, most of the first few pages is the history of the `quic` http/3 support branch which indeed Maxim is not working on. Scroll past it and he'll be much more prevalent. See for example the log of stable-1.24: https://freenginx.org/hg/nginx/shortlog/420f96a6f7ac

New comment by flawi in "Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser"

flawi — Fri, 03 Feb 2023 14:47:19 +0000

Don't think Source ever won out, Global Offensive was the game to dethrone 1.6. At least in our "semi-professional" neck of the woods CS:S adoption was 30% at best. A clear majority were still playing 1.6 even when Global Offensive came out, and even then it took a year or two of updates to make that game good enough to start convincing significant portions of people to switch over. For example in 2011 Electronic Sports World Cup just before Global Offensive came out 1.6 still had a significantly larger price pool than CS:S. Funnily it was also the first and last ESWC to even have a CS:S tournament, even though the game had been out for 7 years at that point.

New comment by flawi in "AI is in danger of being swallowed up by copyright law"

flawi — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 10:55:26 +0000

This is literally what the AI does as well. It didn't walk into a bookstore and steal all the books off the shelf, it read through material made available to it entirely legally.

The thing that authors are trying to argue here is that they should get to control what type of entity should be allowed to view the work they purchased. It's the same as going "you bought my book, but now that I know you're a communist, I think the courts should ban you from reading it".

New comment by flawi in "ReVanced DMCA Takedown on GitHub"

flawi — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 12:13:40 +0000

My understanding was that `revanced-patches` contained just that: patches. The patches themselves are applied to the target apps on the end user device, so revanced doesn't need to host prepatched binaries that they don't own the copyright to.

Other moral or legal issues aside, this is a pretty clear abuse of the DMCA as far as I understand it.

New comment by flawi in "The History of ‘Ampersand’ (2020)"

flawi — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 14:16:20 +0000

In the 90s/00s it was often referred to as 'miukumauku' in Finnish, roughly translates as 'meowmeow', as in the sound a cat makes, since it somewhat looks like a sleeping cat.

New comment by flawi in "Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?"

flawi — Mon, 25 Apr 2022 09:36:52 +0000

To clarify, no one is picking a Macbook because it integrates with the existing IT infra, we are simply not allowed to use anything that doesn't integrate with the various corporate malware. And since they couldn't get Linux to play nice with those requirements, it's not even offered as an option.

Our devs are picking Macbooks because it's the lesser pain in the butt, many would go with Linux if allowed.

New comment by flawi in "Ask HN: What’s a good laptop for software development at around $2k?"

flawi — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 17:13:57 +0000

Working for a pretty big corporation (20000ish employees), the reason for this I hear from our IT/Workplace Services team is that Apple laptops actually integrate with the existing Windows-centric IT infra reasonably well with regards to account management, hdd encryption, endpoint protection, etc. This is not true for really any flavor of Linux, or so I'm told. So it's either a HP ZBook or a Macbook, and a big chunk of our devs go with the Macbook when those are the choices.

New comment by flawi in "Show HN: Curl modified to impersonate Firefox and mimic its TLS handshake"

flawi — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 07:54:26 +0000

Counter argument is service providers just choosing to block anything that looks like Firefox since the market share is so small and it's being used to circumvent their precious protections.

New comment by flawi in "Europe Is Losing Nuclear Power Just When It Needs Energy"

flawi — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 14:52:13 +0000

Except you can't just invest it all into renewables and expect to have a stable power grid, the equation isn't quite as simple as "avg_power / $ capex". Last analysis I saw of this argued that the amount of "over-provisioning" needed to cover baseline demand with renewables made them prohibitively expensive as the sole solution. Peaker and storage solutions aim to solve that, but you need to build that capacity in addition to renewables.

New comment by flawi in "'Dutch reach' rule change to Highway Code welcomed"

flawi — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 10:19:52 +0000

> The practice is used widely across Europe and encourages people to open vehicle doors with their opposite hand to avoid injuries to passing cyclists.

Literally first paragraph.

New comment by flawi in "Bitwarden: Free, open-source password manager"

flawi — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 11:27:13 +0000

Wait, you mean password history? As in being able to see the old password once you generate a new one or otherwise update it? Because Bitwarden definitely has that.

New comment by flawi in "FLoC Away from Chrome"

flawi — Fri, 16 Apr 2021 08:38:46 +0000

1% of downloads in Germany specifically*. Not that it excuses the practice, but 1% of downloads in Germany is pretty different in scope than 1% of downloads globally.

New comment by flawi in "Venus could have been habitable for billions of years (2019)"

flawi — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 06:50:18 +0000

The joke they're making is that since we are in the process of turning the Earth into a second Mars, we should be calling what we are doing now marsforming.

New comment by flawi in "GameStop Opened at $300+ Today"

flawi — Wed, 27 Jan 2021 15:57:27 +0000

While true that the current situation is pretty far detached from the fundamentals, it's not 100% speculative. GameStop just named Ryan Cohen and 2 other execs from Chewy on the board after Ryan pitched an e-commerce based strategy similar to what they did with Chewy. People have some faith in that, certainly enough to believe that the shorts are misplaced.