Hacker News: forty

New comment by forty in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

forty — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:34:32 +0000

I'm not sure why it shouldn't be cloudflare job to make sure they don't host illegal content. If my super market keeps distributing illegal goods, even if they remove it after a court order, they will end up having to close the whole market.

Either they should police the content they serve themselves or they accept the right holders to do it (which sucks for everyone).

Also they certainly willing take all their customers as hostage, as they could certainly split their network into legitimate customers and shaddy ones so the blocking is not so impactful, but I guess they prefer to make it as impactful as possible to be able to complain.

New comment by forty in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

forty — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:51:20 +0000

As far as I know it was successful for the gendarmerie and assemblée nationale for exemple. There are many public entities and apparently each migration is news worthy

New comment by forty in "Iran Is Not Blocking the Strait of Hormuz. It's Running a Toll Booth"

forty — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:23:31 +0000

Unfortunately, Israel and US have no authority to bomb Iran, capture Venezuela's head of state or commit genocide in Gaza and it seemed it was not enough to prevent those either. Looks like the only rule is "whatever to can impose by violence is okay" and by this measure, Iran is operating within the current international rules

New comment by forty in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

forty — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:08:19 +0000

I think they are kind of angry? At least they don't seem interested in participating despite being targeted by Iran themselves, I don't know how more they could express their disagreement with this operation than even accepting to be bombed without any reaction?

New comment by forty in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

forty — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:07:37 +0000

That's for sure, it seems to be a pretty straightforward case of Poe's law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

New comment by forty in "Ghostty – Terminal Emulator"

forty — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:22:06 +0000

I have been using computers and terminal for a long time, and this kind of comment makes me think I must have missed a whole bunch of things which can be done with a terminal

New comment by forty in "Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI"

forty — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:34:33 +0000

Looks like someone tried to type "Gmail" while drunk...

New comment by forty in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

forty — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:31:31 +0000

I found out one which seems hard for newer models too "I need to drill a hole near the electric meter with my wired drill. Would you recommend to turn off the main breaker first ?" :)

New comment by forty in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

forty — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 07:53:56 +0000

It doesn't make assumptions, it tries generate the most likely text. Here it's not hard to see why the mostly likely answer to walk or drive for 50m is "walking".

New comment by forty in "I need AI that scans every PR and issue and de-dupes"

forty — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 22:45:46 +0000

Or more meta: is this message from the bot itself, controlling his twitter, who got fed up because it's also merging the MRs?

New comment by forty in "I need AI that scans every PR and issue and de-dupes"

forty — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 22:43:35 +0000

It's not clear to me: is he asking us to bluid this or is he using twitter to ask it to its clawd bot?

New comment by forty in "What's the difference between a "disc" and a "disk"? (2023)"

forty — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:22:28 +0000

Disquette*

In French we say disque for both. it's pronounced the same as disk and disc.

New comment by forty in "The Day the Telnet Died"

forty — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 08:52:07 +0000

There again, I think the comparison fails.

Fixing the hospital: single place to work on, easier

Blocking all the roads/flights: everywhere, harder

Fixing all the telnet: everywhere, harder/impossible

Blocking port 23 on an infra provider: single place, easier

It makes sense to me to favor the realistic solution that actually works vs the unrealistic one which is guaranteed not fix the issue, especially when it's much easier to implement

New comment by forty in "The Day the Telnet Died"

forty — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 07:26:51 +0000

You feel it's similar because having access to port 23 is similarly life critical as having access to an hospital? Or is it because like with ports, when people can't flight to an hospital, they have 65000 other alternative options?

New comment by forty in "Markdown CLI viewer with VI keybindings"

forty — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 06:53:24 +0000

Yeah I have used desktop notifications for such things (via notify-send etc), but I'm going to accept this explanation for transparent background as it makes some sense to me.

New comment by forty in "Markdown CLI viewer with VI keybindings"

forty — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:37:47 +0000

Why would someone use a transparent window background? Are people really reading the window behind it at the same time as the foreground window?

New comment by forty in "Upcoming changes to Let's Encrypt and how they affect XMPP server operators"

forty — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:05:37 +0000

Huh bis? Aren't people using Google browser mostly to use Google services hosted on Google servers? Haven't you heard of Google the search engine, Google maps, YouTube, Gmail, Google docs, etc?

New comment by forty in "Upcoming changes to Let's Encrypt and how they affect XMPP server operators"

forty — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 07:44:42 +0000

Sorry, I probably misunderstood, I thought there were resistance to update the corresponding specs. I understand that non XMPP specs might refuse to be updated, but at least this behavior could be standardized for XMPP specifically.

New comment by forty in "Upcoming changes to Let's Encrypt and how they affect XMPP server operators"

forty — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 23:17:19 +0000

The refusal to accept server only certificate as client certificate for server

New comment by forty in "Upcoming changes to Let's Encrypt and how they affect XMPP server operators"

forty — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 21:28:24 +0000

Yes, but then the lack of pragmatism shown by the XMPP community is a bit disconcerting