Hacker News: heavensteeth

Really Simple Licensing: Open content lice㎱㏌g standard for the AI-ﬁrst Internet

heavensteeth — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 06:30:07 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50239865

Points: 1

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New comment by heavensteeth in "Why Gopher in 2026?"

heavensteeth — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 11:08:25 +0000

> most of the ADHD generation with depressions, self-identification problems that we see today is exactly because tech made them this way..

Are you suggesting ADHD is something you can "get"?

New comment by heavensteeth in "OpenBSD 8.0 release will have inteldrm/radeondrm/amdgpu drivers from Linux 6.18"

heavensteeth — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 02:51:13 +0000

nta but yes your spirit reading is correct. They're saying OpenBSD treats the version number as an integer, and every update adds .1. So 7.8 -> 7.9 -> 8.0, regardless of how significant or breaking the changes are.

Now with Encryption! (or, Pointless Crypto)

heavensteeth — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 11:51:37 +0000

Article URL: https://wiki.cateat.fish/art:pointless_crypto

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50102357

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Computers Cannot Make Decisions

heavensteeth — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 05:47:46 +0000

Article URL: https://wiki.cateat.fish/art:computers_cannot_make_decisions

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50029982

Points: 213

# Comments: 189

New comment by heavensteeth in "A statement on the Tor Project's relationship with Mullvad"

heavensteeth — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 01:16:21 +0000

They value freedom of speech as much as freedom of association. Nothing wrong with that.

New comment by heavensteeth in "AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)"

heavensteeth — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 01:12:27 +0000

Right on. I'll check it out, thank you!

New comment by heavensteeth in "AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)"

heavensteeth — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 05:11:56 +0000

So it's not feasible to fiddle with incoming firmware updates, even with the level of access Relapse gives? I couldn't imagine how such a thing would be implemented. A hypervisor?

New comment by heavensteeth in "AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)"

heavensteeth — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 03:40:36 +0000

This was my initial thought and a sentiment I've seen expressed elsewhere, but I think I'm missing something about how they'd implement this.

Sure, Rockstar can enforce a minimum software revision to launch the game, but couldn't some homebrew software just (a) lie about the software revision to any running game, or (b) apply any relevant software updates minus patching the kernel vuln?

It seems to me that the cat's out the bag now.

New comment by heavensteeth in "Pi 1.0"

heavensteeth — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 12:42:04 +0000

I'm not sure I understand the "minimal"/"small core" branding Pi is using. It's 450,000 SLOC and has at least a dozen direct dependencies, which I'm sure explodes into hundreds of indirect ones. It also depends on NodeJS/NPM.

Russia Lights Rockets with an Oversized Wooden Match (2016)

heavensteeth — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:40:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a19966/russia-actually-lights-it-rockets-with-a-giant-match/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49892209

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by heavensteeth in "Anthropic to Pay Akamai Technologies $11.6B over Seven Years for Cloud Services"

heavensteeth — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 01:20:59 +0000

During a gold rush, sell servers.

New comment by heavensteeth in "Apple M6 Pro Achieves the Highest Single-Core CPU Score in Geekbench 7"

heavensteeth — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 11:48:21 +0000

that doesn't mean it's unimpressive. it's purely a software problem, really.

New comment by heavensteeth in "Rate limits on GitLab.com are changing"

heavensteeth — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:12:25 +0000

That's this internet. Nothing precludes you from dropping big tech and solely engaging with the "indie web"[0][1] if you so choose. You're free to build your own website with its own RSS feed, join webrings[2] of like-minded people, and engage organically.

[0] One of many similar initiatives, I'm sure. Not an endorsement.

[1] https://indieweb.org/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring

New comment by heavensteeth in "I Don't Like LLMs"

heavensteeth — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:23:52 +0000

who's to say OP hasn't suffered or otherwise disadvantaged himself in upholding that moral?

New comment by heavensteeth in "I Don't Like LLMs"

heavensteeth — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:15:16 +0000

hugged. https://archive.is/LahHs

New comment by heavensteeth in "German Rheinmetall open-sources its Battlesuite connected weapon system protcol"

heavensteeth — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 06:35:20 +0000

That feels a little cynical. I think partly up to perception: "Target" would be a badass name for a weapons company, but we all know they actually sell clothes, so it's not particularly interesting.

In tandem, we're less familiar with them, which gives them that alure. Think of Rheinmetall and you think vaguely of a hulking corporate giant encompassing metalworkers manging molten metal to men in suits pitching fully automatic anti-aircraft turrets to entire nations; think of Missouri Metalworks and you just imagine a dingy suburban factory your mate reckons he worked at once. And no doubt that's how Germans would think of Rheinmetall too.

I think companies like Tesla, IBM, Lockheed, GE, etc. have the potential to sound "cool" like Rheinmetall were they not so ingrained in Anglophone culture. We just know them all too well, so they've become boring.

At least thats how I see it :-}

New comment by heavensteeth in "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"

heavensteeth — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 17:48:05 +0000

Last time I tried creating a Twitter account, I couldn't even complete the sign-up flow before getting automatically banned pending giving them my phone number. After that, I went to like and follow things. My account was then banned again for suspicious activity.

New comment by heavensteeth in "Git hosting that never leaves Europe"

heavensteeth — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 07:27:56 +0000

- "a platform built for humans, not AI."

- "Bots are welcome. Slop gets blocked."

- "No AI buttons bolted onto every surface."

yet the entire website appears to be itself AI slop. is the codebase vibecoded too? I seem to get a "connection lost" toast notification every time the page loads despite it being a wholly static page.

your service is founding itself on a promise (forges in general are of course not a novel concept) that i feel you're failing to uphold.

New comment by heavensteeth in "Australia is the safest place during a global catastrophe, study suggests"

heavensteeth — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 02:45:09 +0000

While it doesn't represent modern war at all, of course, I've always enjoyed the knowledge that Australia was bombed very little during WW2 despite "neighboring" the Axis Japan simply because it was too far away and planes of the era could not reach it. The only capital city that saw aerial warfare was Darwin because it's the only one on the north coast.