Hacker News: janwl

New comment by janwl in "Counter-Strike's player economy is in a freefall"

janwl — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 10:13:35 +0000

Games of chance are absolutely moral and completely fine when played by adults who are not mentally incapacitated.

New comment by janwl in "Counter-Strike's player economy is in a freefall"

janwl — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 08:03:12 +0000

Why exactly? Why are these games of chance moral only if the government gets a cut?

New comment by janwl in "The Muscular Compassion of "Paper Girl""

janwl — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 22:50:39 +0000

>The "I'm okay being miserable as long as you're more miserable" crowd has always had a strong showing in this country.

If the choices are "I am miserable whilst my enemies are happy" and "I am miserable whilst my enemies are even more miserable", I know what I would choose.

New comment by janwl in "ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than Windows it ships with"

janwl — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 07:15:02 +0000

Kernel-level anti cheats are not perfect, but they decrease the amount of cheaters to the point where they stop being “common” and become “extremely rare”. An imperfect solution is much better than no solution.

New comment by janwl in "GM will ditch Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on all its cars, not just EVs"

janwl — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 07:08:36 +0000

What are the chances phones in 10 years won’t be able to connect to the cars with CarPlay or Android auto from today.

New comment by janwl in "Cigarette-smuggling balloons force closure of Lithuanian airport"

janwl — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 17:50:14 +0000

Nowhere in my comment do I say that.

New comment by janwl in "Cigarette-smuggling balloons force closure of Lithuanian airport"

janwl — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:01:25 +0000

Consider you may be spending too much time reading West-aligned news sources.

New comment by janwl in "Cigarette-smuggling balloons force closure of Lithuanian airport"

janwl — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:00:28 +0000

Piracy is a service problem. Maybe if this is happening at such a scale, cigarettes are too highly taxed.

New comment by janwl in "Internet's biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites"

janwl — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 15:57:59 +0000

People throw “Anti-regulation” around in HN as if it were a slur.

New comment by janwl in "Internet's biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites"

janwl — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 15:47:59 +0000

That doesn’t seem to give me much freedom about my data - in fact it seems like it took freedom away from me.

New comment by janwl in "AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time"

janwl — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 15:47:15 +0000

I thought people here hated it when LLMs made http requests?

New comment by janwl in "HarmonyOS 6 Full Overview: New Design, AI Features and Privacy Upgrades [video]"

janwl — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:36:02 +0000

Linux is a kernel. We don’t have a usable operating system to go with it besides Android.

New comment by janwl in "Internet's biggest annoyance: Cookie laws should target browsers, not websites"

janwl — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 12:47:58 +0000

This law was supposed to give me control of my data. If I have control of my data, why can't I use it to pay the owner of the website?

New comment by janwl in "Is Sora the beginning of the end for OpenAI?"

janwl — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 20:22:20 +0000

I mean, it's entertainment content. It's like saying a movie is fake, they are actors playing roles. Of course. Who cares?

New comment by janwl in "Don't use AI to tell you how to vote in election, says Dutch watchdog"

janwl — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 15:21:31 +0000

> I guess it depends on what you mean by "materials". It's quite common in US elections for politicians to make claims that are completely contrary to their actual actions. Even for objective facts, like I voted for X bill when they didn't.

So like everywhere else?

New comment by janwl in "Where are we on XChat security?"

janwl — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 15:15:01 +0000

Because the product is X Chat. The author made a typo in the headline.

Or maybe it was on purpose - the only reason I clicked is that I thought this was about irc.

New comment by janwl in "KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices"

janwl — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 10:51:54 +0000

Mirrors my experience with AirDrop.

New comment by janwl in "Wikipedia Seems Pretty Worried About AI"

janwl — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 10:15:27 +0000

https://archive.is/XGrVL

New comment by janwl in "The Tyrrany of Literacy. On oral tradition and what is lost"

janwl — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 09:15:13 +0000

Only an academic could come up with something as stupid as this.

New comment by janwl in "China has 55% of the high-IQ working-age people"

janwl — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 19:22:11 +0000

In the meantime, in the US the IQ threshold for mental retardation had to be changed in the 70s from 85 to 70 because of reasons.