Hacker News: heavyset_go

New comment by heavyset_go in "WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii"

heavyset_go — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:29:34 +0000

Yes, TLS should be considered a given. Set things up right and you can use TLS locally, too, with Let's Encrypt, which is a prereq to stream some things to streaming sticks using Jellyfin's raw HTTP streaming without a Jellyfin client.

New comment by heavyset_go in "WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii"

heavyset_go — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:27:24 +0000

You can also use HTTP auth with your reverse proxy and it works with all Jellyfin clients

New comment by heavyset_go in "Hacker compromises A16Z-backed phone farm, calling them the 'antichrist'"

heavyset_go — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 05:11:00 +0000

If that surprises you, imagine the shady shit people with too much money invest in when the thought of "what if I hired some hackers" crosses their minds.

New comment by heavyset_go in "WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii"

heavyset_go — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 03:34:16 +0000

Yes, it was annoying, SQLite sucks as single source of truth for clusters, and it cost less than $100 to just buy hardware that can handle multiple high res transcoding sessions at once, but not 20 households' worth.

New comment by heavyset_go in "WiiFin – Jellyfin Client for Nintendo Wii"

heavyset_go — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 03:22:18 +0000

Don't expose it to the internet unless you know what you're doing, or put it on a VPS you don't care about.

Ideally keep it behind a VPN and give your family members access to it that way, and let local devices on your LAN connect to it without a VPN.

New comment by heavyset_go in "Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)"

heavyset_go — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:47:18 +0000

Just use byobu, zellij does weird things, byobu just uses tmux (or screen) and has a sane mouse TUI

New comment by heavyset_go in "Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it"

heavyset_go — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:43:13 +0000

These fuckers put a Copilot key on my laptop and didn't even both to make it emit a unique mappable event when pressed, it's a key combo in one key when you hit it.

New comment by heavyset_go in "US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional"

heavyset_go — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:24:32 +0000

Voting to put people in prison because of smells is certainly a take.

New comment by heavyset_go in "Vegetative Patients May Be More Aware Than We Knew"

heavyset_go — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:27:26 +0000

The right to privacy that Quinlan's parents' case was decided on was derived from the conception of privacy from Roe v. Wade that was reversed in Dobbs, as in the judge explicitly used Roe as framework.

New comment by heavyset_go in "AI assistance when contributing to the Linux kernel"

heavyset_go — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 07:25:29 +0000

Copyright Office's interpretation of US copyright laws says that AI is not human, thus not an attributable author for copyright registration, and output based on mere prompting is no one's IP, it can't be copyrighted[1].

When AI output can be copyrighted is when copyrighted elements are expressed in it, like if you put copyrighted content in a prompt and it is expressed in the output, or the output is transformed substantially with human creativity in arrangement, form, composition, etc.

[1] https://newsroom.loc.gov/news/copyright-office-releases-part...

New comment by heavyset_go in "OpenClaw’s memory is unreliable, and you don’t know when it will break"

heavyset_go — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:53:49 +0000

Why write script when more tokens does job

New comment by heavyset_go in "Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers"

heavyset_go — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:45:11 +0000

Earlier than that, this brand of social/economic/racial/sexual/etc aggrievement and reactionary politics was bred via 80s-90s AM talk radio.

The talking points that were ascendent in the Tea Party era to 2016, and are still ascendent today, were honed at that time in that sphere. Limbaugh said words 30-40 years ago that breathed life into a reactionary movement 20 years later and shaped its theory.

You can keep following the thread back, but I think this form of weaponized aggrievement took its shape at that time, its literal memes were potent and virulent back then, they just needed the right environment to really spread.

New comment by heavyset_go in "Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers"

heavyset_go — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:00:34 +0000

> Murder = Bad. No disagreement across cultures.

That's not a given. Look at the Old Testament, it professes that you shall not kill, but is also full of laws that are upheld by death, stories of just killings, etc and the whole thing is written via dictation from a war god.

In cultures where honor is a big thing, it can be seen as just to kill those who bring dishonor or to maintain honor.

In cultures where purity/cleanliness is a big thing, it can be seen as just to kill those who are impure/unclean.

Not as simple as murder bad

New comment by heavyset_go in "EFF is leaving X"

heavyset_go — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 22:47:08 +0000

X, the non-consensual nudes app, surfaces the dumbest comments in any discussion by design. It is not a serious site, having a presence there is not meaningful.

It's like saying organizations should have a branded presence on 4chan otherwise they might not reach the very online and meme-poisoned demographics.

New comment by heavyset_go in "Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates"

heavyset_go — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:15:41 +0000

The OP is describing the status quo on mobile phones and tablets. On mobile Secure Boot, and systems like it, are used to lock out the user. If the boot path integrity is altered, some apps won't work or will provide degraded experiences.

What's happening the article is what has already happened on mobile: it requires vendor signing to run anything on mobile OS and the vendor locks out 3rd party drivers from their OS entirely.

It's yet another step towards desktop computing converging with mobile when it comes to software/firmware/boot/etc integrity attestation, app distribution and signing, and the ability to use your own bootloader and system drivers. When Secure Boot was first rolled out on laptops, it was used by Microsoft to lock the user out of the boot process before it was adapted to let users register their own keys, it can always be used for its original purpose, and how it's currently used on mobile, again.

New comment by heavyset_go in "Automatic registration for US Military draft to begin in December"

heavyset_go — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:51:27 +0000

Washington wouldn't have had an army if he didn't pay them, you can't have wars between nations that rely on the morale of the public to sacrifice themselves and their children to the front lines in order to protect the wealthy's interests, you'll run out of true believers very quickly.

You'll need to pay people not to defect, desert or try to get their family asylum somewhere that isn't a warzone. That, or you force them through conscription.

New comment by heavyset_go in "Automatic registration for US Military draft to begin in December"

heavyset_go — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:41:24 +0000

> I still don’t understand why, if they are having trouble with recruitment, they simply won’t raise the pay to entice more recruits?

Because the proles don't deserve it, that might give them ideas and they'll force you to fight before they give you a fair deal

New comment by heavyset_go in "Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?"

heavyset_go — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:33:20 +0000

Putting bounties on people's heads and public lynchings are the wisdom of crowds and its obscenity in action.

New comment by heavyset_go in "LLM scraper bots are overloading acme.com's HTTPS server"

heavyset_go — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:06:43 +0000

We've already established that computer crime and IP laws apply to normies and not tech companies

New comment by heavyset_go in "Age verification as mass surveillance infrastructure"

heavyset_go — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:53:33 +0000

I've never seen the government try to make laws as damn bulletproof as this one "for our own good".

You'd think we were dealing with access controls for nuclear waste here, but it's actually as banal as preventing a kid from just liking a photo his friend took using an app.

It's insane seeing how this moral panic plays out.