Hacker News: foxrider

New comment by foxrider in "Khamenei Dead"

foxrider — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:17:42 +0000

Going to pour one out for all the Iranian refugees celebrating

New comment by foxrider in "WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives sold out for 2026"

foxrider — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:26:33 +0000

They need it hoard datasets.

New comment by foxrider in "I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers"

foxrider — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 07:11:06 +0000

I also use ArchWiki as my personal software configuration journal. I know I'll be back to it when I'm going to have to re-install or re-configure something, so I make sure to record any new info I discover, worked out super well for me so far.

New comment by foxrider in "Oh, good: Discord's age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder"

foxrider — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 07:42:21 +0000

For mobile, you can use FluffyChat, it's another Matrix app

New comment by foxrider in "Discord Voluntarily Pushes Mandatory Age Verification Despite Recent Data Breach"

foxrider — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:46:55 +0000

I haven't touched XMPP for over 10 years, how's screen sharing and file sharing over XMPP doing?

New comment by foxrider in "How did TVs get so cheap?"

foxrider — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 14:09:37 +0000

Please just make SmartTVs unattractive and force companies to make dumb TVs again Please just make SmartTVs unattractive and force companies to make dumb TVs again Please just make SmartTVs unattractive and force companies to make dumb TVs again

New comment by foxrider in "Stardew Valley developer made a $125k donation to the FOSS C# framework MonoGame"

foxrider — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 16:12:25 +0000

Steam takes 30%, other stores take 10-20%

New comment by foxrider in "Loss32: Let's Build a Win32/Linux"

foxrider — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 14:14:14 +0000

I mean... isn't that just X11 light compositor (like IceWM) with binfmt enabled?

New comment by foxrider in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

foxrider — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 12:54:17 +0000

After living in Italy for a few years - if you're doing worse than Italy with your train schedule it's time to reflect hard.

New comment by foxrider in "USD share as global reserve currency drops to lowest since 1994"

foxrider — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 21:13:07 +0000

Ok, let's see - yuan isn't a freely traded currency, it's heavily regulated by China. From that alone it can not be used a reserve currency by anyone - unless they want to hand over all control over their assets to CCP.

The rupee is better, but there's not a lot of trust in Indian institutions globally, so black swan events are more likely. I can see it becoming a better proposition as India further matures and taps into its population more.

No, euro - that's a solid contender. Not only it's already used in a lot of countries, and therefore backed by more than one economy, the EU institutions are legit to a fault - they continuously refuse to seize Russian assets, because there's no solid legal grounds for it, despite all political will towards doing so.

That alone makes it far removed from being politically suspect in my book, unless there's some blatant case against the euro that I'm missing.

New comment by foxrider in "VSCode rebrands as "The open source AI code editor""

foxrider — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 18:04:37 +0000

Probably not, that would significantly lower the training data quality for any future models

New comment by foxrider in "Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig"

foxrider — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 20:42:54 +0000

Happened a lot in browsers.

New comment by foxrider in "Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig"

foxrider — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 20:41:37 +0000

The xdg-desktop-portal stuff is still too immature. For example, my friend wanted my help after upgrading his Pop_OS to 24.04, and 24.04 replaced GNOME with COSMIC. COSMI had no RemoteDesktop portal (and still doesn't have it), so we couldn't use RustDesk like we always did without him installing a GNOME session just for that.

I've been an i3 user for almost two decades, but eventually switched to Sway - to this day there's no InputCapture portal, so I can't use Synergy with Sway, forcing me to switch to i3 while I'm working.

It's been over 10 years of things like that. There's always SOMETHING missing.

New comment by foxrider in "Samsung may end SATA SSD production soon"

foxrider — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 17:23:50 +0000

SATA SSDs have one advantage though - their size. You don't see m.2 form factor SSDs going well over 8TBs, but for a larger SATA drive you can find >8TBs easily. Samsung had the best offering for this recently - Samsung SSD 870 QVO The enterprise world has U2, but us plebs don't really have a comparable alternative.

New comment by foxrider in "GNU Unifont"

foxrider — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 21:26:24 +0000

Yeah, I can't really speak well about other languages, but these Armenian letters look really rough.

New comment by foxrider in "Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux"

foxrider — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:19:20 +0000

No, for the resulting open drivers to not be legally dubious the spec can only be obtained by doing a clean-room reverse engineering.

New comment by foxrider in "Size of Life"

foxrider — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 19:16:50 +0000

Missing a mushroom from Oregon [1]

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-...

Jay – An i3 look and feel inspired Wayland WM written in Rust

foxrider — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:15:53 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/mahkoh/jay/blob/master/docs/features.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46206679

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by foxrider in "Richard Stallman on ChatGPT"

foxrider — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 12:20:39 +0000

I'm going to get pedantic. That's why I've been using this exact term "LLM" instead of "AI" for the last few years. The "artificial" implies that it has man-made origins, yet serves the *same* purpose. Richard here argues that it doesn't fit because it does not, in fact, serve the same purpose. You can argue that for certain people it can serve the same purpose, like if you're a CEO who replaces low-level support staff with chatbots - but then it's an artificial support staff, not artificial intelligence.

New comment by foxrider in "Modern Walkmans"

foxrider — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 12:13:51 +0000

I largely share your sentiment, I had a tape player as a kid, and the second I could get a CD player and burn my own CDs I never looked back. One thing that I don't see mentioned often is how battery-hungry these players were as well.