Hacker News: jabwd

New comment by jabwd in "I am against GenAI and everything it stands for"

jabwd — Sun, 31 May 2026 01:28:12 +0000

Actively detaching yourself from the problems of a technology doesn't suddenly make it a pointless exercise. It just puts into question whether you have any moral compass whatsoever.

New comment by jabwd in "I am against GenAI and everything it stands for"

jabwd — Sun, 31 May 2026 00:11:48 +0000

Try reading the article next time.

New comment by jabwd in "California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash"

jabwd — Tue, 26 May 2026 09:16:45 +0000

It is all in the law, the problem is enforcement. 99% of the cookie banners on the web you'll encounter are in fact illegal.

New comment by jabwd in "Peter Neumann has died"

jabwd — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:47:21 +0000

If you ignore the health, ethical, social, moral, legal, financial, environmental issues then yeah you could embrace it I suppose.

New comment by jabwd in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

jabwd — Thu, 14 May 2026 08:56:21 +0000

I haven't had it in the past with PopOS or Fedora, but it could be that the nvidia drivers back then weren't an issue. I could try with another distro if you're curious, that laptop is mostly a sacrificial machine for testing out distros and other stuff.

New comment by jabwd in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

jabwd — Wed, 13 May 2026 23:03:38 +0000

I was only able to install the latest CachyOS image by modifying the boot arguments in grub of the live installer, after reading the lengthy log file it pooped out after the first install fail.

I have no idea why people recommend this to people who aren't actually deep into tech and linux already.

New comment by jabwd in "Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability"

jabwd — Mon, 11 May 2026 22:28:32 +0000

They have no moat.

New comment by jabwd in "Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability"

jabwd — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:00:05 +0000

They most likely understood that it wasn't viable for anything. OpenAI just yolo'd it and now we're dealing with the fallout. I'm fairly certain that any management layer at google isn't going to say yes to "invest 5 billion to make 10 million" scheme that OpenAI, Anthropic, are currently running.

New comment by jabwd in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"

jabwd — Sun, 10 May 2026 23:43:53 +0000

I hate Amazon and monopolies, but I hate companies that think opensourcing their code as a marketing stunt gives them more rights or whatever. If you don't want to opensource, then don't?!

New comment by jabwd in "Copy Fail"

jabwd — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:30:39 +0000

Hope the 'marketing' had the desired effect. This entire article of pure AI noise was an absolute slog to get through to get to useful information. I have no idea how you view that as positive advertising.

New comment by jabwd in "MacBook Neo and how the iPad should be"

jabwd — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 00:21:01 +0000

Cool, I think they're pointless slabs of wasted material. If I could run macOS on a macbook neo so should I be able to on an iPad, and it would make it a useful device because I do not have to spend all my time inside a terminal app to make it useful.

New comment by jabwd in "JSON formatter Chrome plugin now closed and injecting adware"

jabwd — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:01:24 +0000

This also ignores that mobile phones are now being used as an effective botnet. Just gotta get some poor devs to include your SDK and off you go.

AI companies make use of these botnets quite a bit as well. Why don't we hear more about it? because it is really really really hard to inspect what is actually happening on your phone. This post actually kinda disproves that the closed rent seeking model is better in any way.

New comment by jabwd in "John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement"

jabwd — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 23:13:51 +0000

They settled, and paid pennies for being able to continue the status quo. Given that the headline is journalistic malpractice at best; and you asking this question kinda proves that.

> While the agricultural manufacturing giant pointed out in a statement that this is no admission of wrongdoing

Welp, gotta sue again in the future, hopefully lobbied laws in place to prevent whatever forced them to settle by then!

New comment by jabwd in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

jabwd — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:02:18 +0000

The A-10 is a horrible friendly-fire as a service. Might as well use the thing as a bomb truck while you are still forced to keep it in service because certain brain cell lacking individuals think brr is good.

New comment by jabwd in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

jabwd — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:20:26 +0000

yes games with kernel anticheat won't work.

And those games are easily ignored, as they should be.

New comment by jabwd in "The "Vibe Coding" Wall of Shame"

jabwd — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 22:27:16 +0000

I don't remember automobiles actively harming your cognitive abilities, nor the cost increasing 5 orders of magnitude. Yet the things actively slow me down in my work by the shear impact of my coworkers using them and having to correct the many mistakes that are made. If your job was producing mediocrity, then yes, AI is awesome. Sorry for the mirror.

Edit: I have my popcorn ready for when the VC subsidies end.

New comment by jabwd in "The "Vibe Coding" Wall of Shame"

jabwd — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:39:36 +0000

Goodluck

New comment by jabwd in "The "Vibe Coding" Wall of Shame"

jabwd — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:28:20 +0000

If you mean by everything "stuff that has been done before and no one cares about" then, yeah, probably.

New code will still need to be written though.

New comment by jabwd in "Closing this as we are no longer pursuing Swift adoption"

jabwd — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 01:02:45 +0000

Hurray for micro benchmarks. Anyway, every language can be abused. I can make Java run slower than Ruby. Given that it runs on Microcontrollers on billions of devices, I don't think Swift is necessarily the problem in whatever case you have in mind (And yes I stole oracle's java marketing there for Swift, it is true though.)

New comment by jabwd in "Paragon accidentally uploaded a photo of its spyware control panel"

jabwd — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 22:46:46 +0000

Cool, can you now show how the protocol has been broken? Lot of smart people would love to see your novel research.