Hacker News: irilesscent

New comment by irilesscent in "Backing up Spotify"

irilesscent — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 17:53:08 +0000

It is factually true though, music piracy DID drop once ad supported music streaming became available, the opposite is also true, video/movie piracy is now on the rise due to the amount of streaming subscriptions one has to juggle and their rising prices. Ofcourse there will always be those who yearn for the pirates life, but the vast majority just do it for convenience.

New comment by irilesscent in "Mozilla right now (Digital Painting)"

irilesscent — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 16:58:53 +0000

New comment by irilesscent in "LG TV's new software update installed MS Copilot, which cannot be deleted"

irilesscent — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 17:37:21 +0000

This is matching the levels of surveillance in north Korea. They also have software that takes pictures of your screen every few seconds.

New comment by irilesscent in "South Korea – A cautionary tale for the rest of humanity"

irilesscent — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:32:31 +0000

Please elucidate, my personal takeaway from this post was how women are treated unfairly which leads to lower birth rates. The article goes into depth about this.

New comment by irilesscent in "South Korea – A cautionary tale for the rest of humanity"

irilesscent — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:27:37 +0000

The article lists several examples of government programs from different regions that pay people to have kids and their efficacy.

New comment by irilesscent in "South Korea – A cautionary tale for the rest of humanity"

irilesscent — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:08:23 +0000

By that point you would need an ubsurd amount of kids per family to recover the birth rates, also mentioning that your checks are paying for a growing elderly population and it becomes nearly impossible to recover.

New comment by irilesscent in "Nook Browser"

irilesscent — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 08:35:43 +0000

Oops I misunderstood, I thought the fact that it ran chrome extensions meant it was chromium based. Thanks.

New comment by irilesscent in "Nook Browser"

irilesscent — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 08:51:53 +0000

I found it too buggy in my usage, it just doesn't compare to the polish in Zen or the other forks. Better just to use the horizontal tabs IMO.

New comment by irilesscent in "Nook Browser"

irilesscent — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 07:59:32 +0000

The only difference is zen is Firefox based while arc and nook are chromium based.

New comment by irilesscent in "Agentic Development Environment by JetBrains"

irilesscent — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 01:55:55 +0000

Have you made a bug report?

New comment by irilesscent in "IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off"

irilesscent — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:02:40 +0000

AGI has value in automation and optimisation which increase profit margins.When AGI is everywhere, then the game is who has the smartest agi, who can offer it cheapest, who can specialise it for my niche etc. Also in this context agi need to run somewhere and IBM stands to benefit from running other peoples models.

New comment by irilesscent in "Malware embedded into audio driver is silently recording from system mic"

irilesscent — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:13:20 +0000

What makes me suspect them the most was the fact that they use pure neon green text on black as their tty color. (seriously who does that?)

New comment by irilesscent in "Malware embedded into audio driver is silently recording from system mic"

irilesscent — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 05:06:53 +0000

I think its more resource intensive to record a more optimised format.

New comment by irilesscent in "Modern cars are spying on you. Here's what you can do about it"

irilesscent — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 03:16:04 +0000

I think criminalising both is unreasonable, what you do with the URL you accessed or the password you guessed however is different.

New comment by irilesscent in "CachyOS: Fast and Customizable Linux Distribution"

irilesscent — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 11:42:50 +0000

I've seen this be popular but I'm a little sceptical as to the effectiveness of their optimisations. Does anyone have some examples, anecdotes?

New comment by irilesscent in "The VPN panic is only getting started"

irilesscent — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 12:43:24 +0000

TOR and the torweb

New comment by irilesscent in "Migrating to Positron, a next-generation data science IDE for Python and R"

irilesscent — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 08:54:12 +0000

I feel like a lot of these can be packaged as an extension for vscode. I'd rather not have multiple different variations of the same ide, too much duplication.

New comment by irilesscent in "I don't care how well your "AI" works"

irilesscent — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 11:45:54 +0000

I prefer eternally enslaving a machine to do my bidding over just raging at them.

New comment by irilesscent in "Show HN: PolyGPT – ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity responses side-by-side"

irilesscent — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 17:55:17 +0000

Make a jury or blind models making a case for the best response and choose a random model to be the judge.

New comment by irilesscent in "Google Antigravity"

irilesscent — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 17:01:15 +0000

Seems interesting, makes for the second vscode clone with ai google has made. The demo they showed in the video avoided showing code so I guess thats what they're aiming for. Although when they mentioned you can easily verify code quality by looking at end product screenshots it felt like they don't know what 'code' quality means.