Hacker News: incompatible

New comment by incompatible in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

incompatible — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:44:33 +0000

Trump kept his name in the headlines, for a narcissist that's all that matters.

New comment by incompatible in "GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone without requiring personal information"

incompatible — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:02:29 +0000

"Commercially reasonable" would be something cheap, like ask a chatbot for an opinion.

New comment by incompatible in "Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords"

incompatible — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 04:30:55 +0000

Linux didn't even exist until the 1990s.

Edit: and the article clearly states, incorrectly, "That behaviour survived — untouched — through nearly half a century of Linux distributions."

New comment by incompatible in "Grandparents are glued to their phones, families are worried [video]"

incompatible — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:55:56 +0000

I'm also such an old PC (Linux) person. However, I'm using the phone more these days, either to read books while I'm out and waiting and have nothing else to do, or to listen to audiobooks while I'm walking or working on menial tasks.

New comment by incompatible in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

incompatible — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 05:33:00 +0000

Now it's "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns", which is a little vague.

New comment by incompatible in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

incompatible — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 05:26:49 +0000

I think so. I'm more comfortable with China having access to my data than the US, at this point.

New comment by incompatible in "Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” (2025) [video]"

incompatible — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 23:53:37 +0000

But Flock is happy to see them installed that way. They are collaborating and all responsible.

New comment by incompatible in "See how many words you have written in Hacker News comments"

incompatible — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 04:39:48 +0000

Mine was similar. I thought it was pretty shocking that I was in the top 0.90%. Surely I don't really post a lot here.

Global Rank 6948 / 774235 Word Count 63,737 Percentile Top 0.90%

New comment by incompatible in "Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon"

incompatible — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 10:34:35 +0000

I would be surprised if a day went by without someone, somewhere, predicting a crash.

New comment by incompatible in "Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide over "heroes""

incompatible — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 04:45:36 +0000

That's something a bit odd about Douglas Adams's reply. Arthur Dent isn't heroic, but he's the hapless protagonist. The protagonist doesn't have to be a hero. I'm not sure in what way he has "non-heroic heroism".

New comment by incompatible in "Claude's new constitution"

incompatible — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 02:03:52 +0000

Fictional textual descriptions of 16-year-olds having sex are theoretically illegal where I live (a state of Australia.) Somehow, this hasn't led to the banning of works like Game of Thrones.

New comment by incompatible in "We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers"

incompatible — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:49:49 +0000

They seem to have so much bubble money at the moment that the cost of scraping is probably a rounding error in their pocket change.

New comment by incompatible in "The Great Gatsby is the most misunderstood novel (2021)"

incompatible — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 07:02:02 +0000

It was published in 1925 and expired in 2021.

New comment by incompatible in "The Great Gatsby is the most misunderstood novel (2021)"

incompatible — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 07:01:06 +0000

The US only switched to the life + 70 system in recent decades, and it doesn't retroactively apply.

I think if you add a child as a coauthor, the copyright will last longer. Nobody seems to do that, probably because it now lasts long enough for just about anybody.

New comment by incompatible in "The Great Gatsby is the most misunderstood novel (2021)"

incompatible — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 06:58:04 +0000

Perhaps George R. R. Martin will finish the books some day, and we'll find out how he thinks it should end.

New comment by incompatible in "Iron Beam: Israel's first operational anti drone laser system"

incompatible — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 10:00:53 +0000

Iron Wall.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza%E2%80%93Israel_barrier

New comment by incompatible in "As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise"

incompatible — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 05:12:02 +0000

How many "great products and services" even need a lot of RAM, assuming that we can live without graphics-intensive games?

New comment by incompatible in "My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions"

incompatible — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 23:52:05 +0000

Isn't one a subset of the other? A system with federation must have multiple instances, but a system with multiple instances doesn't need to federate (in the sense of information passing between independently managed instances.)

New comment by incompatible in "My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions"

incompatible — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 01:39:45 +0000

You'd have to have a lot of trust that the one instance wouldn't get enshittified and end up as another X / Truth Social / BlueSky.

Different instances can also have different rules, different moderation and different federation.

Edit: and exist in different legal jurisdictions, and also be harder to ban or regulate.

New comment by incompatible in "My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions"

incompatible — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 01:34:58 +0000

Staying on X is just bad, regardless of what else you do.