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New comment by gloosx in "Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls"

gloosx — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 11:02:23 +0000

I don't fully understand the "soft-body physics" part. What's that supposed to mean? Looks like a generic UI library, not a really good one.

opacity: 0.5 for disabled elements is a crime.

pointer-events: none on disabled elements and claiming WCAG AA compliance? Ew.

New comment by gloosx in "Why write code in 2026"

gloosx — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:15:34 +0000

The OpenGraph preview image for this article is a total ragebait

New comment by gloosx in "PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform"

gloosx — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:02:33 +0000

>You cannot do that in the hopes of viewers donating $5 here and there.

But you can do that in hopes of youtube sharing a percentage of fluctuating ad revenue? Certain things can get you de-monetized, you can get strike-bombed, falsely accused of copyright infringement via automated systems, etc, and unless you are a very big channel owner, you will receive a minimal droplet of support likely involving no humans in the loop.

There are sustainable creators getting much more revenue by collecting direct subscription money from their patrons while providing exclusive or first-hand content to them which is then re-uploaded to youtube for reaching a wider audience. They can run their own integrated ad-campaings without google deciding what they are advertising or which content they can or cannot produce.

New comment by gloosx in "Have you restarted your computer this week?"

gloosx — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 07:25:32 +0000

The quality of the macos for sure degraded over time. My first MacOS was OSX Lion and after Windows 7 it was feeling like a sport car. Now I'm even scared of attempting this Tahoe upgrade, and I have to use some beta-toggle hacks to evade their intrusive notification pop-up begging me to update.

New comment by gloosx in "Have you restarted your computer this week?"

gloosx — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 06:54:45 +0000

My Macbook needs a restart periodically. Somehow my quite limited disk space (500GB) is getting lower and lower and lower to the point where spotlight will stop working. After restart, I magically get 50GB of disk space back, I'm not sure what is wrong with it and I never took the time to investigate, but I guess it's caches and temp files of all kinds. I also HATE the invention of "open all apps and windows back so everything is the same as before restart", no matter if I choose no in the special dialog, it freaking opens the apps and windows which were open prior to restart, which is FRUSTRATING, I have to kill them all as soon as they pop up, pressing CMD+Q repeatedly for a solid minute after EVERY restart – I like my system clean and pristine after I shut it down and up again, but somehow they made it problematic.

New comment by gloosx in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

gloosx — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:01:13 +0000

So why don't they proceed with a lawsuit instead of public accusations? Let the court decide if these "distillation attacks" are actually illicit.

New comment by gloosx in "Jobs and Software Is Fucked"

gloosx — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:07:27 +0000

Business is pretty simple actually: you begin by finding the market, then you proceed with getting a thing to sell on the market, then you sell you thing at the market. Think about it in simple terms: to start a business of selling vegetables – acquire vegetables, find a marketplace nearby, sit there and sell your vegetables. All businesses really are just increasingly sophisticated versions of this; source something of value, reach the customer, make money.

New comment by gloosx in "Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS)"

gloosx — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:11:57 +0000

It's great to hear, yeah I researched this topic a bit further and there are clearly some very determined people who want to bring BAR to more platforms, excited about the progress! Floats will be a big pain in the ass for sure and will cause countless desyncs, same story prevented playing supreme commander FAF on ARM processors, though a lot of attempts have been made

New comment by gloosx in "Beyond All Reason (Free Total Annihilation Inspired RTS)"

gloosx — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 15:19:19 +0000

Yeah it's very sad for me as well, I was a big fan of supreme commander and I really wanted to play BAR. They have a special Notice for Mac users, which explain that they don't support Mac because:

1. No support for OpenGL 4.3 by Apple.

2. Dependency on a library not supporting ARM architectures.

The first point is not a big deal, you can emit Vulkan commands from OpenGL via Zink, and then use MoltenVK to translate it all to Metal automatically at runtime. Surely performance will suffer a bit, but it should be playable.

The second one is quite absurd though, ARM processors is not something exclusive to Mac, Windows-on-ARM laptops are becoming increasingly common, ARM market share in the broader PC space is forecast to approach 20-30% in the coming years as Windows-on-ARM software compatibility matures. This prevents a huge number of people from playing the game due to the ancient streflop library, and really this notice should be "Notice for ARM users" not "Notice from Mac users"

UPD:

Actually there is a guy who is trying to invent a direct OpenGL-to-Metal translation layer just to play B.A.R. it seems, and the progress is pretty huge at the moment:

https://appgl.pages.dev/

New comment by gloosx in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"

gloosx — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:06:04 +0000

This is such a delusional take it's borderline trolling. Code is an expression tool to precisely describe a process that does useful thing. Typing prompts is not too different from writing some very vague code, which is arguably a waste of time by itself.

New comment by gloosx in "Claude Fable 5"

gloosx — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:42:14 +0000

Because Cognition is a major customer of Anthropic?

New comment by gloosx in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

gloosx — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 08:11:07 +0000

I'm so sick of this anthropics marketing stuff... claude is an ultra-success (according to claude judge), “good code”, bragging about creating 8x more bugs and tech-debt. claude writes code that works, yeah, sure anthropic, we saw that claude code leaks, some amazingly "good" code in there

New comment by gloosx in "Please don't spam people looking for employment. It's just cruel"

gloosx — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:50:16 +0000

By the way it's also the same way around with "Who is hiring" threads, tried posting a job there and my email just instantly filled with all sorts of letter-slop, hundreds of emails which are infeasible for a single human looking for a job candidate to sort out, some of them are just generated to match the job description, but it's completely unrelated experience listed in the CV, some of them are just straight spam promoting some yet another AI shit. They still keep coming to this day, few months after posting in that thread. It's very hard to look for a job, or look for a candidate nowadays by using the public channels where you just leave your email in the open thanks to the wicked automations some highly disrespected individuals are eager to keep setting up. I maybe received one or two letters written by the real people. Who is hiring and Who wants to be hired seems to be perpetually doomed by AI, good luck to you Ilia.

New comment by gloosx in "Show HN: Hallucinate – Massively Multiplayer Online Rave"

gloosx — Thu, 28 May 2026 07:59:27 +0000

Making movement on IJKL instead of WASD is kind of evil

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

gloosx — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:58:14 +0000

If you take a bit of a closer look, github.com has a "pricing" page

https://github.com/pricing

New comment by gloosx in "We're testing new ad formats in Search and expanding our Direct Offers pilot"

gloosx — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:41:25 +0000

Well, they are definitely helpful for Google incomes

New comment by gloosx in "Google's AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back"

gloosx — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:59:28 +0000

Aren't you afraid Google will send you a threat for an attempt to manipulate AI responses?

New comment by gloosx in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

gloosx — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:46:27 +0000

on the West of what? Culturally and historically it's a Western country, yes, but politically and economically it's an Eastern country – founding member of BRICS and a developing economy. I think the author of the parent comment used "Western" term referring to ideological and economic grouping

New comment by gloosx in "Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels"

gloosx — Mon, 18 May 2026 06:09:40 +0000

How it's going with humans to Mars by 2024? Coast-to-Coast Full-Self Driving? 1 Million Robotaxis? 25000$ Model 2? Hyperloop? 2 trillion $ DOGE Cost Cuts?

Elon Musk is like that developer you hired which always promises "this feature will be ready tommorow" and it end's up in the backlog for 6 years. The richest person in the world who understood that the world is not built on trust anymore and all you need is hype.

New comment by gloosx in "Bun Rust rewrite: "codebase fails basic miri checks, allows for UB in safe rust""

gloosx — Fri, 15 May 2026 20:08:52 +0000

Things get pretty hilarious when you super safe language conrains the keyword "unsafe" :D

I wonder what are the real legitimate use-cases for "unsafe" in the first place, it is there for a reason?