Hacker News: jrochkind1

New comment by jrochkind1 in "What the fuck happened to nerds"

jrochkind1 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:32:52 +0000

the former nerd type was based on not having social and economic power. people wit social and economic power are inevitably drawn to be assholes (which is what nerds used to know).

New comment by jrochkind1 in "AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere"

jrochkind1 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:53:39 +0000

Because encouraging a culture of disrespect and bullying is actually bad for security not good for it. Politely decline, please, no need to be rude because of your (not always guaranteed to be correct) perception of where someone (or some thing!) is coming from.

New comment by jrochkind1 in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"

jrochkind1 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:20:11 +0000

Shouldn't it get swapped out of RAM if it's not being used for a long time? My understanding was that modern memory management is very good at this, there's no need to be shutting idle things down and starting them up all the time. I could be wrong.

This whole thing seems kind of silly to me I must admit. It seems obvious that Claude Desktop needs a VM for security for the majority of it's actual real world use. VM's take up memory, yeah. Them's the breaks. If other competitors have managed to provide as good (or ideally better) security scenario with less RAM, that would be interesting, but just complaining about it seems weird and uninformed to me.

New comment by jrochkind1 in "AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere"

jrochkind1 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:17:59 +0000

There is no reason you can't be gracious, courteous and polite while refusing to accept or even to review the PR. These things are not tied together. You can also refuse to be bullied by submitters, stop engaging altogether. But bullying is part of the problem, not the solution, normalizing bullying is the wrong direction and will not result in more secure code.

New comment by jrochkind1 in "AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere"

jrochkind1 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:36:41 +0000

The worst part:

> In addition, Williamson said that Giovannini (or his agent) had submitted patches that were incorrect and then "replied to objections with LLM-generated justifications that eventually overwhelmed the maintainer into merging the fix"

New comment by jrochkind1 in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"

jrochkind1 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:12:57 +0000

i wonder if they are running the proxy for external network connections in the VM.

New comment by jrochkind1 in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"

jrochkind1 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:42:06 +0000

If you're not going to give Claude access to anything on your machine, why are you using Desktop instead of web chat? (Real question, I don't use these much!)

If you are, obviously you need the VM.

New comment by jrochkind1 in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

jrochkind1 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:15:43 +0000

> this was a regulated monopoly, and if their customer satisfaction dropped below 96% (if I remember correctly) it could result in millions of pounds in fines.

OK, I'm still at the beginning and irrelevant to the article, but as a USA-ian, I am so jealous about that. Unheard of here.

New comment by jrochkind1 in "macOS Container Machines"

jrochkind1 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:21:19 +0000

I turned off what "glass" UI I could with config, and it's not too different than Sequoia, got used to it pretty quick. Obviously the things not supported on an old OS will keep increasing, until eventually it is EOL'd.

New comment by jrochkind1 in "The Cypherpunk Library"

jrochkind1 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:54:35 +0000

back when crypto meant crypto not crypto

New comment by jrochkind1 in "Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording""

jrochkind1 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:03:10 +0000

I think when we look back in 10-20 years, mass nearly universal surveillance will be seen as one of the largest social impacts of AI, or perhaps the largest.

We have barely scratched the surface, and I don't think most people have thought it through.

I guess I appreciate Ellison is educating people about what's going on...

New comment by jrochkind1 in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

jrochkind1 — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:52:15 +0000

Relatively few anyway. Monks (who wrote and edited books and managed libraries, and also taught), artists and musicians, bookkeepers/treasury/exchequer, scribes/chancery (who were the administrators of the kingdoms), and bankers all existed in European "middle ages". But a significantly smaller part of economy/society compared to "western world" now, yes.

New comment by jrochkind1 in "Don't put aria-label on generic elements like divs"

jrochkind1 — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:35:38 +0000

today i learned there are browser built-in popovers now.

New comment by jrochkind1 in "Why is this site named Antipope?"

jrochkind1 — Sat, 16 May 2026 19:54:39 +0000

Why read the link when you can just make something up and put it on the internet?

New comment by jrochkind1 in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

jrochkind1 — Thu, 14 May 2026 22:10:59 +0000

Having polities to look at promoting regional diversity, equity between regions, and making sure all regions are included, instead of only one axis of "merit", in awarding research funds, is literally DEI.

So it's not that the administration wants them to only look at merit and nothing else, which I thought was the the explanation, but that they think some non-merit things are okay to balance for and try to encourage diveristy, equity, and inclusion on the axis of, and others aren't.

New comment by jrochkind1 in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

jrochkind1 — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:04:57 +0000

> Relatedly, some federal agencies are discussing the possibility of factoring in geography when they allocate their funds, rather than basing decisions on scientific merit alone.

Sounds ironically like "DEI".

New comment by jrochkind1 in "Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)"

jrochkind1 — Wed, 13 May 2026 21:54:29 +0000

Very curious if you would actually get a dialup number that worked if you filled out the paperwork. I guess probably not? But I have no idea.

New comment by jrochkind1 in "Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)"

jrochkind1 — Wed, 13 May 2026 21:49:26 +0000

Interesting, claim is that:

MD BALTIMORE.MD.US. alby@uunet.uu.net

I am guessing that uunet email address is not going to go anywhere!

New comment by jrochkind1 in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

jrochkind1 — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:47:56 +0000

I expect the operations manual, employee handbook, internal documentation like that will be first to go.

I wouldn't necessarily expect any public gitlab instances to go.

New comment by jrochkind1 in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

jrochkind1 — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:47:24 +0000

Ah, what you say makes sense, ok.