Hacker News: i80and

New comment by i80and in "Mozilla to UK regulators: VPNs are essential privacy and security tools"

i80and — Sun, 17 May 2026 12:18:41 +0000

I don't know the parent's policy position, but it seems like they didn't express one, and you've just assumed they support deanonymization?

New comment by i80and in "Understanding young news audiences at a time of rapid change"

i80and — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:53:24 +0000

"Access" is the filthy dirty word here. Can't be anything other than a stenographer because you might lose your ACCESS, with which you can do MORE stenography.

It's a sickness.

New comment by i80and in "Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app"

i80and — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:06:56 +0000

Defunct? I just switched to it a couple months ago, and it seems actively developed.

(Though I think this announcement is sufficiently unpleasant I'm starting to reconsider)

New comment by i80and in "God, I hate .env files"

i80and — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:37:59 +0000

They are right to say it though

New comment by i80and in "I hate: Programming Wayland applications"

i80and — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:04:22 +0000

That's good to hear!

New comment by i80and in "I hate: Programming Wayland applications"

i80and — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:03:04 +0000

Maybe the technical politics have changed, but I feel like I remember there was some push in the late 2000s to rewrite libraries that were using Xlib to instead use XCB.

Regardless, that's sort of my point: having a lower level fiddly layer is a desirable quality, and Xlib being rebased on top of it isn't exactly a counterexample.

New comment by i80and in "I hate: Programming Wayland applications"

i80and — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:15:26 +0000

Whenever people complain about Wayland being hard to program in, I think about how Xlib was largely replaced by XCB, and OpenGL is increasingly marginalized in comparison to Vulkan.

Not to draw any specific analogy, but sometimes a fussy low-level interface is just important to have.

New comment by i80and in "Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland"

i80and — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:16:16 +0000

The absolute lack of consequences Trump faced after his first go-around all but guaranteed the crime spree we're now seeing, and will probably go down in history as the primary blunder of Biden's DOJ.

New comment by i80and in "Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies"

i80and — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 13:42:18 +0000

Not the parent, but products like it are strongly Protestant Evangelical-coded, so that could actually be a selling point for the intended audience

New comment by i80and in "Sizing chaos"

i80and — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 22:15:38 +0000

ah yes, clothes not fitting, a famously bourgeoisie problem /s

As somebody with an atypical body shape, not being able to find things that fit is an endless source of irritation and discomfort

New comment by i80and in "CIA to Sunset the World Factbook"

i80and — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 17:44:48 +0000

Unfortunately, the citations are generally quite low quality and have in my experience a high rate of not actually supporting the text they're attached to.

New comment by i80and in "Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games"

i80and — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 17:28:25 +0000

Adventure Maker and Bryce3D were an S-tier way of making very nonsensical games as a child!

It would be cool to have a FOSS redux of it, to be honest.

New comment by i80and in "Claude Code is suddenly everywhere inside Microsoft"

i80and — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:37:27 +0000

I remember when everything was "Sign in with .NET Passport" as a yoot and just being like "what the hell are you talking about"

New comment by i80and in "ICE and Palantir: US agents using health data to hunt illegal immigrants"

i80and — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:57:50 +0000

I really haven't found this to be true at all; corporations are just as dysfunctional or worse.

It's more that there's fewer legal protections, so private surveillance is a great way for governments to launder the illegal things they want to do.

New comment by i80and in "Xfwl4 – The Roadmap for a Xfce Wayland Compositor"

i80and — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:48:31 +0000

I ran xfwm's compositor back when it was first introduced on a 400 MHz Pentium II with a GeForce 2. It was fully fine.

The compositing tax is just waiting for vsync; unless your machine is, like, a Pentium Classic, compositing itself isn't a problem.

New comment by i80and in "Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study"

i80and — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 02:35:50 +0000

The 2026 redesign has put in a proper liquid cooling loop.

(Battery heating is inexplicably an extra $300 option, and not available on the base trim AFAICS?)

New comment by i80and in "Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study"

i80and — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 02:19:02 +0000

They often have eSIMs I think, but (depending probably on the car) pulling the modem's fuse can be safe. That's the case for the VW ID.4 at least.

New comment by i80and in "Radboud University selects Fairphone as standard smartphone for employees"

i80and — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 17:26:22 +0000

I found USB-C to be pretty unreliable up until the past several years -- I had multiple phones and laptops from multiple brands <=2020 that just had USB-C ports turn fiddly or outright stop working after a year or two.

Things are better now in my experience, but for a device made in 2019, this is pretty darn plausible.

New comment by i80and in "Danish Armed Forces expand their presence and continue exercises in Greenland"

i80and — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 13:23:51 +0000

About 0%. China really has no serious interest in Greenland, and Russia isn't going to trigger direct confrontation with NATO. At least, unless NATO splinters, which is looking somewhat likely now with this foolish US administration.

Russia and China are just made-up excuses for Trump to do what he wants to do: steal territory, at gunpoint if needed.

New comment by i80and in "EU-US relationship is 'disintegrating,' says Germany's vice chancellor"

i80and — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:29:02 +0000

I just cannot stomach the number of people who apparently value nothing except displays of performative cruelty and childish tantrums.

There's been a significant shift of an "ow-I-touched-the-stove" variety towards sanity among independents, but it's a Problem that some significant double-digit percentage of the nation just plain likes this violent self-destructive flailing, and will reward anything as long as it makes them feel like somebody is getting hurt.