<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: gausswho</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gausswho</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 12:04:52 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=gausswho" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gausswho in "Show HN: machine0 – Persistent NixOS VMs You Control from the CLI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Seems application deadline ended a month ago?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:23:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48547833</link><dc:creator>gausswho</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48547833</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48547833</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gausswho in "A Call to Action: Stop the FCC's KYC Regime"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It does make me wonder if we're just racing to the day we've got our kyc-blessed phone in a drawer at home at the official address that's already known to carrier. And strap on it the software needed to either forward messages and calls via voip to our real phone, or open a server on it to let us access it from wherever we are to poll for our messages.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:13:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48509484</link><dc:creator>gausswho</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48509484</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48509484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gausswho in "Show HN: Courtside – TUI for NBA Games"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks for making this and the others too!<p>Have you considered building a feature where game data is recorded so that we could then replay them later?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:07:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48462947</link><dc:creator>gausswho</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48462947</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48462947</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gausswho in "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>After I discovered my Mac Mini was downloading animated wallpapers until filling up 80Gb of space, then doing it all over again every time I reboot, I decided I'd had enough and installed LuLu firewall and blocked every outbound to apple.com. I don't use any of their services anyway, and some of them approach malware suspicion (keyboard input analytics daemon??)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:39:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48450594</link><dc:creator>gausswho</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48450594</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48450594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gausswho in "OpenAI plots biggest ChatGPT overhaul since launch"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Syndicated without paywall here: <a href="https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/chat-is-dead-openai-preps-overhaul-of-chatgpt/" rel="nofollow">https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/06/chat-is-dead-openai-preps...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:06:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48445573</link><dc:creator>gausswho</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48445573</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48445573</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gausswho in "Motorola effectively bricked its entire line of WiFi routers without explanation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've put OpenWRT on the Flint 2, and I've had issues with connectivity that I don't have with OpenWRT on a Linksys router. I need to disconnect and reconnect every so often. I'd read that this is due to the Mediatek modem not being as well supported, but I'm not sure how to diagnose.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2026 11:35:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48433873</link><dc:creator>gausswho</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48433873</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48433873</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gausswho in "New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It kinda depends where it's deposited, right? The expected AMOC collapse is fundamentally about salt imbalance.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:26:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48416326</link><dc:creator>gausswho</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48416326</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48416326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gausswho in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fair. I am curious how many folks are able to get root access on their work machines across the software workforce. If you do, what sort of surveillance tech does your IT expect for you to have on there? Are you given special exemption compared to Mac or Windows company machines?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 21:45:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48390566</link><dc:creator>gausswho</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48390566</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48390566</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gausswho in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I did find this odd at first too, but then I realized something: it's a pain to maintain a device. Customizing it to the way you like it is not only a waste of time, it's tedious and never ends in an age where defaults are often adversarial to your interests. It's enough work taking care of one pet/kid, you might not want another.<p>Now I'm a nerd and I went through a realization that I should treat my devices as 'livestock not pets' and went to the trouble of building a NixOS config so that I can have two or three machines that all behave the same. But that's its own labor and still doesn't solve the phone problem. Or the fact your employer won't provision you a Linux with root.<p>Living by this personal/business separation is probably something most folks would aspire to, but technology as we practice it conspires against them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:54:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48385742</link><dc:creator>gausswho</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48385742</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48385742</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gausswho in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>By having it in a small window that's always on the screen.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:47:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48385658</link><dc:creator>gausswho</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48385658</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48385658</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gausswho in "A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think this is only true for mobile devices? I'm curious how one would configure Linux to randomize MAC addresses by default.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:35:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48371632</link><dc:creator>gausswho</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48371632</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48371632</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gausswho in "I made my phone slow on purpose"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>While a popular refrain, this is not the only reason one might engage in avoidance. Furthermore, even if it is rooted in a pain, not everyone will be motivated optimally by thinking of it as something that must be analyzed and extracted. One can simply be bored without it being a pathology.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:48:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48359329</link><dc:creator>gausswho</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48359329</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48359329</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gausswho in "Decades of Effort Restore Steelhead and Salmon Passage on Alameda Creek"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'll contrast with sibling comments. You're correct to raise caution towards fishing Pacific salmon, even in catch and release. Release mortality from one study I've found is about 25-40% <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165783625002176" rel="nofollow">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016578362...</a> It's worse during high water temperatures. They're likely quite fatigued by the time they arrive.<p>That said, this caution is not always warranted generally. Location, species, and season significantly matter. In healthy ecosystems, there's no harm to the group even if the individual fish might not agree.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:41:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357475</link><dc:creator>gausswho</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357475</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gausswho in "Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Brazenly requiring the abuse of a browser feature's intended use against the user. What an age.<p>I'd like to hear from someone who worked on WebGL and how they feel about their ambitions being utterly subverted. Remember when the dream was playing games i. the browser?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 21:49:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350092</link><dc:creator>gausswho</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350092</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gausswho in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The pains I was thinking of largely occupy the transitionary period of a school closing before alternatives are open.<p>When does the deficient school close? After this new school is opened? If not, what happens to students and families that depend on an education in the interim?<p>Who pays for this new school? Must they immediately show improvement or do they get some years to show that their approach is working better?<p>Will the metrics even be accurate in the new school? Will there be a self-selecting bias in the newly formed student body?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 15:54:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48310770</link><dc:creator>gausswho</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48310770</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48310770</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gausswho in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>With sympathy to your appeal that 100% closures will force us to reckon with the problem, I suspect it'd only lead to missing the forest for the trees. This would come with substantial pains to the community. Potentially ones that knock-on to other pains.<p>You're at the root of why this is a tricky problem to solve. In fact there is no solution, just a wide basket of expensive things we should aspire to do to improve affairs.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2026 15:33:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48310461</link><dc:creator>gausswho</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48310461</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48310461</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gausswho in "Leave Me Behind"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The second sentence of TFA: "I learned to build Android applications in 2014. I was in college taking a Java programming class".<p>So this person's twelve years out of college. You may want to train your fire elsewhere.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 15:30:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48268017</link><dc:creator>gausswho</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48268017</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48268017</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gausswho in "I keep bouncing off the Scheme language"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I explored migrating from NixOS to Guix, and I also hit the wall with the quirks of Guile Scheme. Architecturally, I find a Guix much clearer API than NixOS and aspire to the peace of mind that would come with a compiled system configuration. When I leaned into LLM's for support and they were substantially less effective at getting me over the line, not just conceptually but being able to close their parens properly. I ultimately decided to bail on the experiment, but it left me sad because my hunch was that if Guix were in nearly any other non-lispy language I'd have stuck through it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 16:01:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258355</link><dc:creator>gausswho</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258355</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gausswho in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That sawdust analogy is fantastic!<p>We may be on the cusp of the AI age's new era of 'measure twice, cut once'.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2026 15:43:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48248621</link><dc:creator>gausswho</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48248621</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48248621</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gausswho in "The spread of Christianity, from antiquity until today, on an animated map"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I agree Manichaeism was persecuted, and not only for reasons I purport to be it hewing closer to reason. Fair play.<p>Also a valid argument about the Reformation. Although, by that point Christianity (via the Catholic variant) was so dominant in Europe that I daresay that it was suffering from centuries of too-big-to-fail and was ripe for disruption. Almost an IBM meeting its PC-clone moment. Which is not to dismiss that it was a profound effect upon world history. Rather that the Reformation was the backswing against a great degree of intellectual intolerance from Rome. That the Reformation succeeded doesn't negate the fundamental anti-reasoning bend of the Church at that time.</p>
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