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New comment by gilrain in "Openrsync: An implementation of rsync, by the OpenBSD team"

gilrain — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:36:31 +0000

> more open choice because it forces the project

A true morality must be based on consent, not coercion. Humanity may not be there yet, and therein lies the argument for force (and thus copyleft); but the ultimate goal should always be to reduce its necessity.

New comment by gilrain in "[dead]"

gilrain — Fri, 29 May 2026 11:53:42 +0000

I just wanted to let you know my career ended in 2008, directly due to the global recession, and it never restarted despite intense effort.

Your feeling that “everything will return to normal” is not actually rational.

New comment by gilrain in "A few interesting modern pixel fonts"

gilrain — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:17:40 +0000

> the whole point of sub pixels was to look sharp without looking colorful

That was the point, but it never worked: in practice, at least for me, text was smeary and colorful in that era. I wouldn’t want to use Coral Pixel, but I can imagine someone else being nostalgic for it.

New comment by gilrain in "GitHub Actions down again today"

gilrain — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:48:40 +0000

Your speculation is that their competitors would naturally not see a commensurate increase in instability while “only” handling 20% of the same crisis?

I don’t buy the excuse. I want to hitch my wagon to those “mysteriously lucky” competitors. (And have. And haven’t had similar issues to Github, since.)

New comment by gilrain in "Incident with Actions and Pages"

gilrain — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:20:12 +0000

No, it doesn’t. Their competition is not similarly unstable, despite existing in the same world of LLMs. Think critically.

New comment by gilrain in "Incident with Actions and Pages"

gilrain — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:18:22 +0000

Do you really believe their competition hasn’t seen the same increase? Because their competition certainly hasn’t seen the same instability issues.

New comment by gilrain in "Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?"

gilrain — Sun, 24 May 2026 12:16:10 +0000

> It wouldn't surprise me if AMD is scaling back their free offerings due to the impact on support.

They’re welcome to hamstring themselves in the market; it’s just not a smart move.

New comment by gilrain in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

gilrain — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:40:14 +0000

News to me… share a link?

New comment by gilrain in "The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics"

gilrain — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:28:28 +0000

And also the sky is red rather than blue.

New comment by gilrain in "Vivaldi 8.0"

gilrain — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:47:27 +0000

> in case of Vivaldi you are in fact not the product

I’m really curious what gave you this impression. Vivaldi doesn’t hide its business model, yet you were so confident!

New comment by gilrain in "Vivaldi 8.0"

gilrain — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:39:57 +0000

> Unlike Firefox, the Linux versions of Vivaldi/Chromium/Chrome do not appear to have any deficiencies

New comment by gilrain in "Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia kernel vulnerabilities"

gilrain — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:48:51 +0000

SELinux is a bear when you’re reacting to it, but ever since I took a day to proactively read about it, it’s become much easier to reason about. It’s not actually all that complex.

I still need to troubleshoot from time to time, but I never reach for permanent setenforce 0 anymore.

New comment by gilrain in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"

gilrain — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:32:25 +0000

But earlier:

> The question is why are you so eager to give critique on unrelated work, appearing in a demo screencap, to someone who didn't produce it?

I guess the question was actually, why were you so eager to critique a critique based on a false assumption?

I wish people would be careful what they support with their rhetoric.

New comment by gilrain in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"

gilrain — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:29:26 +0000

And as we know, GitHub Stars are the same as truth. Very persuasive.

New comment by gilrain in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"

gilrain — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:27:21 +0000

> But I still stand by the quality of my code, including here. You and I don't need to agree.

You aren’t having a disagreement with a person. You’re having a disagreement with reality.

New comment by gilrain in "Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI"

gilrain — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:33:28 +0000

It isn’t fun when billionaires fight — an asshole always ends up winning.

New comment by gilrain in "Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches"

gilrain — Mon, 18 May 2026 11:38:25 +0000

Actually, it’s possible other countries don’t have our counterproductively-murderous instincts. You’re looking in a mirror and you fear yourself.

New comment by gilrain in "Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches"

gilrain — Mon, 18 May 2026 11:36:32 +0000

> cheer for this liberation from toil and find ways to equitably distribute its benefits

Why would you think that will happen? You seem aware of, for instance, the Industrial Revolution and what it has ultimately resulted in.

New comment by gilrain in "Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches"

gilrain — Mon, 18 May 2026 11:26:09 +0000

Until convictions of rape are justly meted out, you’ll have to stomach accusations taking justice’s place. Justice won’t just sleep.

Blame wealth for making the corruption of the courts too damn obvious. Now they’re not taken seriously.

New comment by gilrain in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

gilrain — Sat, 16 May 2026 13:58:02 +0000

If they’re not a value add over the base AI, they aren’t worth hiring over just using the base AI.