Hacker News: flomo

New comment by flomo in "AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit"

flomo — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:35:02 +0000

Hey, your response improves my opinion of 'car guys'. Because the analogy is thin and they are looking directly at what is coming out of the 'sausage machine'. And if the result is good, they could sell the machine for profits! (Unlike computer nerds.)

I'm sticking with "hobbyists/dabblers" here, because almost nobody runs Arch in real production scenarios. Its just a fun high-touch thing people can enjoy fucking around with. Nothing wrong with that.

(That is why someone could trivially trojan hundreds of packages and it's NBD. Because "Nobody Cares." Wipe it and start over, funguy.)

New comment by flomo in "AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit"

flomo — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:09:01 +0000

To be honest, it took me way too long to figure the Arch etc crowd are hobbyists who enjoy having something which always 'needs maintenance' over the weekend. (And maybe they don't want to admit they are hobbyists because what they are doing seems Very Important.)

Sorta like 'car guys' who recommend some old thing you can wrench on.

New comment by flomo in "We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued"

flomo — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:32:29 +0000

Certainly not a Musk fan, but IMO the real point of hyperloop was more that it's on a route that could be constructed within our lifetimes. (Unlike CAHSR, check their website.) Of course, California knows this because that's where they built Interstate 5.

New comment by flomo in "CVE-2026-28952: Apple macOS 26.5 Kernel Vuln found by Claude"

flomo — Tue, 26 May 2026 05:29:22 +0000

It's just another tool in the belt. Someone will say that's cheaper than rewriting in safe rust or whatever. (Apple must have a bunch of 1980s code written to 1980s standards. But that is their moneymaker.)

New comment by flomo in "Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI"

flomo — Sat, 23 May 2026 05:27:51 +0000

Ok, lets start planning its 10th birthday party.

New comment by flomo in "Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI"

flomo — Sat, 23 May 2026 05:25:17 +0000

Cool, a super technical dude like you can just spin a secure Win11 VM to run TurboTax then. You probably have a bash script or something. What are you complaining about.

New comment by flomo in "Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI"

flomo — Sat, 23 May 2026 05:20:56 +0000

Easy question because you need to evaluate every dependency for Win10 compatibility, Win10 bugs that MS fixed in Win11, running unsupported Win10 CI somehow, QA testing team for Windows 10 (programmers won't do this)... and on and on.

All for an dead operating system. I guess this works in your basement mind where people work for free or something.

New comment by flomo in "Comparing an LZ4 Decompressor on Four Legacy CPUs"

flomo — Sat, 23 May 2026 05:06:19 +0000

Bumbershoot is a great blog if you are a 1980s home computer/console enjoyer, but were never quite sure how it all worked. He is trying to figure this out himself, so he goes step-by-step through getting his games working on a particular system.

So there are a lot of ASM 'deep dives' like this entry (which probably won't get too much traction.) My one complaint is he has a lot of content, but the blog is hard to navigate.

New comment by flomo in "Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI"

flomo — Thu, 21 May 2026 08:05:15 +0000

You know it as well as I, no gotcha here buddy.

It's getting tough for shitters with some old ass legacy PC who depend on online services. Hopefully they were smart enough to understand they were living on borrowed time.

edit, also there are government subsided smartphones if you need one.

New comment by flomo in "Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI"

flomo — Thu, 21 May 2026 07:50:12 +0000

TT was/is old-style "slick", like at the time it put my bank to shame in terms of UI. It probably wasn't using a 'popular framework' and if it was, it wasn't a naive implementation. It also was/is optimized for desktop, while many financial corps now only care about mobile. So as of last April, it was still good enough for me.

Was it fast? No. Just fast enough. That's why I doubt the desktop app is really any different. They must have a bunch of API endpoints, and the 'slowness' is all on the backend.

New comment by flomo in "Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI"

flomo — Thu, 21 May 2026 07:35:06 +0000

Calls to tech support are by accounting defintion. So that makes it easy to draw the line somewhere, and cut off groups of negative-value customers. Its 2026 and times are tough baby.

New comment by flomo in "Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI"

flomo — Thu, 21 May 2026 06:34:00 +0000

A big feature for Microsoft is you have to pay them lots of money to still run supported Windows 10. Are you paying Intuit too? Probably not.

I say again this is really a filter against "high support" customers because most of them are not technical and running derelict setups.

New comment by flomo in "Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI"

flomo — Thu, 21 May 2026 06:09:59 +0000

Some of those layoffs were certainly people supporting dead versions of Windows, and high-touch low-sophistication users with old broken-down computers. At some point, they/you were getting dropped as a customer and, checking the news, now is the time to do that.

(But most of these people were probably working on some Intuit Whatsit that you and I have never heard of. Every profitable software company has a bunch of products which failed to launch.)

New comment by flomo in "Intuit to lay off over 3k employees to refocus on AI"

flomo — Thu, 21 May 2026 05:45:46 +0000

Disclaimer that years ago, I was impressed at how slick the TurboTax website was.

So I'm surprised they even still have a desktop version (...presumably not just some electron wrapper). And given how it works, I'd guess most of your data isn't staying local for much of this.

New comment by flomo in "Two EA-18 fighter jets collide at Mountain Home airshow, pilots ejected safely"

flomo — Mon, 18 May 2026 05:50:08 +0000

Sure, but the Air Force bills all this kinda stuff to Recruiting (having worked in an adjacent area. I support a voluntary military.)

New comment by flomo in "Steve Jobs in Exile – New book on his years at NeXT Computer"

flomo — Sun, 17 May 2026 09:09:18 +0000

I concede you like to talk to yourself.

New comment by flomo in "Steve Jobs in Exile – New book on his years at NeXT Computer"

flomo — Sun, 17 May 2026 08:50:22 +0000

Three decades ago, they would relentlessly snailmail spam us with these weekly industry tabloids like 'ComputerWorld' and 'PCWeek'. These were always fun to read at lunch, even if they were all obvious advertisements, but certainly better info than vaguely remembering something from your stoner phase and then sticking your junk out.

New comment by flomo in "Steve Jobs in Exile – New book on his years at NeXT Computer"

flomo — Sun, 17 May 2026 08:08:41 +0000

Yeah, I chose Rails just an example, could be PHP, could be Elixir, could be this dumbass bun shit, whatever is cool man and get you that VC.

I cannot recall any 'Show HNs' based on J2EE, not that it doesn't work.

New comment by flomo in "Steve Jobs in Exile – New book on his years at NeXT Computer"

flomo — Sun, 17 May 2026 08:02:19 +0000

I think everyone knew the Macintosh was a technical success and "the future". But it was a commercial flop, and Steve Jobs got fired. So obviously he wan't happy about that.

(The Mac press back then loved to portray Jobs as some insane cocaine addict, and local gossip backed that up. Probably not in his biographies, but that would get you fired.)

New comment by flomo in "Steve Jobs in Exile – New book on his years at NeXT Computer"

flomo — Sat, 16 May 2026 08:28:39 +0000

Yup.