Hacker News: ghostpepper

New comment by ghostpepper in "It's hard to justify buying a Framework 12"

ghostpepper — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:25:08 +0000

Supporting everything forever is how you end up with Windows

New comment by ghostpepper in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

ghostpepper — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:48:29 +0000

would it blow your mind if I told you there are already idiosyncrasies in the way you write? not you specifically; everyone has them

New comment by ghostpepper in "Radicle: Sovereign {code forge} built on Git"

ghostpepper — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:29:08 +0000

I agree it's not immediately clear how it works, although I think I understand the role it's intending to fill.

If you're not familiar with the distinction between git and github it could be even more confusing.

As soon as I hear decentralized I have lots of questions about the underlying protocols. Their protocol page helps a little but also uses terms I'm not familiar with like "gossip protocol".

It would be nice for there to be a page that motivates the project a bit more, ie. explaining the technical problems they are attempting to solve before enumerating the components of the complex system they've built.

New comment by ghostpepper in "Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers"

ghostpepper — Wed, 13 May 2026 03:53:26 +0000

A lot of the distrust toward Bambu is because they originally announced cloud auth would be required even for printing locally in LAN mode, and only backpedalled on that when they saw the backlash.

I'm not sure why their entire domain has been excluded from archive.org but you can still see the original post for now: https://blog.bambulab.com/firmware-update-introducing-new-au...

Critical Operations That Require Authorization The following printer operations will require authorization controls:

Binding and unbinding the printer. Initiating remote video access. Performing firmware upgrades. Initiating a print job (via LAN or cloud mode). Controlling motion system, temperature, fans, AMS settings, calibrations, etc.

New comment by ghostpepper in "What British people mean when they say 'sorry'"

ghostpepper — Thu, 07 May 2026 03:24:53 +0000

This is how it's used in Canada too

New comment by ghostpepper in "StarFighter 16-Inch"

ghostpepper — Wed, 06 May 2026 05:07:47 +0000

They claim it has a haptic trackpad, so I don't think that's what most manufacturers use.

New comment by ghostpepper in "Work with the garage door up (2024)"

ghostpepper — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:13:32 +0000

It was called Twitter for 17 years before being renamed in 2023. The Twitter domain still redirects to roughly the same site it was for all those years.

Why does it matter if someone still calls it Twitter?

New comment by ghostpepper in "Random musings: 80s hardware, cyberdecks"

ghostpepper — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 03:52:41 +0000

the rest of it makes sense but what's the PLC for?

New comment by ghostpepper in "NASA Force"

ghostpepper — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:28:02 +0000

How do they have budget for this but not for decent production values on the Artemis 2 livestream?

New comment by ghostpepper in "Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model"

ghostpepper — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 19:23:18 +0000

I suppose by this logic, if someone was pressured by their parents to get good grades and struggled, it’s possible that “getting a good grade” would have a negative connotation / emotions response for them.

New comment by ghostpepper in "Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta"

ghostpepper — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:59:18 +0000

I'm not a lawyer but even if it was, eg. a year's salary at the time she accepted it, is that really a fair price for a lifetime of silence?

New comment by ghostpepper in "Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft"

ghostpepper — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:35:07 +0000

As a cynical person I assume all the frontier LLMs were trained on datasets that include every open source project, but as a thought experiment, if an LLM was trained on a dataset that included every open source project _execept_ chardet, do you think said LLM would still be able to easily implement something very similar?

New comment by ghostpepper in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

ghostpepper — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 02:50:32 +0000

As an aside, it’s crazy that Ray Ban would hitch their most valuable brand cachet to such a controversial wagon

New comment by ghostpepper in "Parakeet.cpp – Parakeet ASR inference in pure C++ with Metal GPU acceleration"

ghostpepper — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 04:38:58 +0000

Off topic but if anyone is looking for a nice web-GUI frontend for a locally-hosted transcription engine, Scriberr is nice

https://github.com/rishikanthc/Scriberr

New comment by ghostpepper in "What not to write on your security clearance form (1988)"

ghostpepper — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:10:49 +0000

That's pretty cool. I'm guessing you're American, not Canadian, right? I didn't realize American schools had co-ops; I thought they mostly/solely had internships.

New comment by ghostpepper in "Attention Media ≠ Social Networks"

ghostpepper — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:04:43 +0000

Yeah the first three paragraphs of the article really resonated strongly and then the fourth was an ad for mastodon, which is only slightly less bad IMHO.

New comment by ghostpepper in "What not to write on your security clearance form (1988)"

ghostpepper — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 03:59:13 +0000

You can get co-op/internship that requires a Top Secret clearance?

New comment by ghostpepper in "Show HN: Dock – Slack minus the bloat, tax, and 90-day memory loss"

ghostpepper — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 05:45:14 +0000

didn't mattermost recently make some changes to their license that put a bunch of features behind a paywall?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46383675

New comment by ghostpepper in "How I archived 10 years of memories using Spotify"

ghostpepper — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:18:12 +0000

I can sort of understand this. There are certain songs, eg. a song from my wedding, that hit like a (good) ton of bricks every time I hear them, but I wouldn't want to listen to it every day because I feel like I would have more and more banal experiences cumulatively associating with the song until the wedding feeling becomes just one of many and starts to lose its association.

New comment by ghostpepper in "ChatGPT 5.2: What It Changed, and Why the Internet's Take Is Mostly Wrong"

ghostpepper — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 17:34:45 +0000

chatGPT 5.2 is smarmy, condescending and rude. the new personality is really grating and what's worse it seems to have been applied to the "legacy" 5.1 and 5.0 models as well.