Hacker News: gaius_baltar

Apparently chardet got Claude to rewrite the codebase from LGPL to MIT

gaius_baltar — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 23:49:37 +0000

Article URL: https://chaos.social/@Foxboron/116170859737134271

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47255645

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

A [Firefox, Chromium] extension that converts Microsoft to Microslop

gaius_baltar — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:42:25 +0000

Article URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/microslop/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47234056

Points: 29

# Comments: 13

Pwn2Roll: Who Needs a 595€ Remote When You Have Wheelchair.py? [video]

gaius_baltar — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 16:02:15 +0000

Article URL: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-pwn2roll-who-needs-a-599-remote-when-you-have-wheelchair-py

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46434643

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by gaius_baltar in "History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts"

gaius_baltar — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 00:39:21 +0000

> "...what do you mean, 'World War One?'"

Oh sorry, spoilers.

(Hell, I miss Capaldi)

New comment by gaius_baltar in "Investors expect AI use to soar. That's not happening"

gaius_baltar — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 18:15:03 +0000

Thanks, I didn't know this trick! Perhaps soon we'll need to keep lists of per-site white-listed user agents...

Investors expect AI use to soar. That's not happening

gaius_baltar — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 17:57:13 +0000

https://archive.is/lHoGG

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46060357

Points: 52

# Comments: 66

New comment by gaius_baltar in "Trip to moon required Apollo 11 crew to sign US Customs declaration to enter US"

gaius_baltar — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 17:09:04 +0000

Would CBP pay the travel costs? :)

Ubuntu Stainless Steel Edition: A Corrosion-Resistant Alternative [April First]

gaius_baltar — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 14:24:01 +0000

Article URL: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/announcing-ubuntu-stainless-steel-edition-a-corrosion-resistant-alternative/58314

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43547138

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by gaius_baltar in "Archival Storage"

gaius_baltar — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 22:25:05 +0000

> What is your process for automating this checksum twice a year?

Backup programs usually do that as a standard feature. Borg, for example, can do a simple checksum verification (for protection against bitrot) or a full repository verification (for protection against malicious modification).

New comment by gaius_baltar in "Hachyderm.io bans post on Swedish TV as disinformation for not being in news"

gaius_baltar — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 20:20:55 +0000

Did my best to try to summarize the issue within the length limit but, hell, that's hard to explain with so little words. At least the actual post does a good summary of it.

Hachyderm.io bans post on Swedish TV as disinformation for not being in news

gaius_baltar — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 20:19:10 +0000

Article URL: https://hachyderm.io/@anderseknert/114166048146183746

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43374904

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by gaius_baltar in "Amazon now discloses you're buying a license to view Kindle eBooks"

gaius_baltar — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 00:53:46 +0000

> Are there any examples where legitimately purchased licenses were made unavailable?

From customers point of view, these purchases were legitimate.

But the important point is that they did it in the past and only the right balance between bad PR and expected profits will prevent them from doing again.

New comment by gaius_baltar in "Meta's Threads to Show Ads in US, Japan"

gaius_baltar — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 21:03:44 +0000

I'm surprised that it had not started before. The cycle o bait → switch → enshittify is faster and faster after all.

The Freedom Covenant

gaius_baltar — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 14:03:12 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/c3d/freedom-covenant

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42051516

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by gaius_baltar in "Court orders Google to uninstall pirate IPTV app sideloaded on Android devices"

gaius_baltar — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 13:36:26 +0000

Brazil had a similar thing a few weeks ago, but it got drowned in the news because if was related to the Twitter/X block.

While the block itself may be legitimate, as the motivation was the refusal from X from deleting a few tweets doxxing a police investigator and his family members, the whole process was done in a few little short of a full blown dictatorship: one of the points of the court order demanded Google and Apple to remove all VPN apps from their stores, and some legal experts interpreted that as also ordering removal from the phones themselves. The justice that sent the order backtracked it later, but it was possible and the order was standing during that time.

The VPN issue got relatively little discussion on the press and too many people were too quick to equate criticism of the overly broad court order with defense of Twitter and Musk, so the well was poisoned from the start.

New comment by gaius_baltar in "Boeing workers vote to strike"

gaius_baltar — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 17:34:56 +0000

Jokes on Boeing are ok, they are just people with some loose screws.

New comment by gaius_baltar in "Unity is cancelling the runtime fee for games customers"

gaius_baltar — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 16:49:14 +0000

> I don't understand the hate. They did a very bad decision and had major backlash. Fast-forward one year: they rectified it completely, they greatly improved the free terms compared to what was before, they replaced the CEO and other involved executives.

But nothing prevent them from doing the same again if their indicators say it would be profitable. Developers just don't want to take the risk anymore.

New comment by gaius_baltar in "UK rail minister got engineer sacked for raising safety concerns"

gaius_baltar — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 15:36:06 +0000

A more fitting quote would be "They gave them the propaganda number".

Brazilian Supreme Court serves a court order to Twitter through Twitter itself

gaius_baltar — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:37:36 +0000

Article URL: https://xcancel.com/STF_oficial/status/1828932387117392265#m

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41390169

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by gaius_baltar in "ArchiveTeam Warrior"

gaius_baltar — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 04:04:04 +0000

That's lemmy.ml . See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41143632

edit: they already did.