Hacker News: juliangmp

New comment by juliangmp in "IPv6 is the only way forward"

juliangmp — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:59:40 +0000

Are you really complaining about the fact that we need to deploy firewalls?

New comment by juliangmp in "LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer"

juliangmp — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:10:09 +0000

Can't speak for IOS but for android users I highly recommend Firefox for android, since you can install ublock origin within it. Let's be real, browsing the modern internet is downright impossible without it today.

New comment by juliangmp in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

juliangmp — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:57:34 +0000

"They are rare edge cases" are we on the same internet?

New comment by juliangmp in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

juliangmp — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:37:03 +0000

Well the look and feel is subjective, I like KDE because it feels like what windows could have been if it was done well.

As for the scaling, I use it on a 1080PC laptop screen but also sometimes my 3440x1440 display and haven't really run into bad scaling. Were you using X11 or Wayland? I've been on Wayland for years.

New comment by juliangmp in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

juliangmp — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 12:27:19 +0000

Just go for whatever DE looks pretty to you, I personally like KDE. Don't be afraid to switch to a different desktop later on, its just a few packages to install most of the time.

As for distros, pick something established that looks good to you. You said you have experience, so you probably know what you want from a distro. I ran arch on my machine a lot but recently switched to fedora for its simpler installation.

New comment by juliangmp in "Bucketsquatting is finally dead"

juliangmp — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:09:56 +0000

It was honestly a downgrade i ended up just putting the 4 digits I had before at the end of my username cause surprise the name was taken immediately

New comment by juliangmp in "Every single board computer I tested in 2025"

juliangmp — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 08:51:12 +0000

I mean, nothing stops you from taking the device tree from raspbian and tinkering with other distros. But that's true for most other boards since they have to ship a device tree with their official image.

Raspberry Pi supports their images long term however, so you won't have to do that anytime soon.

Another benefit of raspberry pi is its popularity, there are just more projects out there compared to less known SBC manufacturers. Iirc the Archlinux arm project have images for the raspberry pi 4 (maybe 5).

New comment by juliangmp in "LibreSprite – open-source pixel art editor"

juliangmp — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:24:05 +0000

How can you say its open source and 3 sentences later that it has a proprietary license.

Their EULA forbids distributing the software, hence not open source.

New comment by juliangmp in "Met police using AI tools supplied by Palantir to flag officer misconduct"

juliangmp — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 15:26:12 +0000

> The Police Federation, which represents rank-and-file officers, criticised the approach as “automated suspicion”. It said: “Officers must not be subjected to opaque or untested tools that risk misinterpreting unsustainable workload pressures, sickness or overtime as indicators of wrongdoing.”

Oh so when they target police officers these measures are questioned, but when police departments deploy them to spy on the general populace I guess its fine...

New comment by juliangmp in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

juliangmp — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 14:44:44 +0000

Idk man, amongst thousands of layoffs (assuming op is in the USA) I'd take "blood money" over uh... starvation

New comment by juliangmp in "The EU moves to kill infinite scrolling"

juliangmp — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 14:39:44 +0000

We should be talking about that

New comment by juliangmp in "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"

juliangmp — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 08:32:15 +0000

Only one participant can stream in a call. An arbitrary restriction that I just dont understand. You also can't properly full screen when you're viewing a screen share, for whatever reason....

New comment by juliangmp in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

juliangmp — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 08:30:20 +0000

I never understood the credit card thing Why would I want to spend money on loan by default? Why do the Americans do that all the time? What's the benefit?

New comment by juliangmp in "Discord Alternatives, Ranked"

juliangmp — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:50:34 +0000

And screen sharing, like actually good screen sharing unlike Microsoft teams That is a huge feature for many people

New comment by juliangmp in "We mourn our craft"

juliangmp — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 11:47:23 +0000

> They can write code better than you or I can, and if you don’t believe me, wait six months.

I feel like I've been hearing this exact sentence for 2 years now...

New comment by juliangmp in "Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?"

juliangmp — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 12:52:24 +0000

Ah open source 3D CAD is a topic on its own... Personally I like to use Dune3D and solve space, but those only do 3D modeling.

New comment by juliangmp in "Fined $48k for using a jammer to keep commuters from using phones while driving"

juliangmp — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 15:18:33 +0000

Its more chaotic-stupid Honestly the punishment should be harsher

New comment by juliangmp in "C++ Modules Are Here to Stay"

juliangmp — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 11:12:58 +0000

It's been a comfortable journey for me. There's a support library for the arm cortex I'm using so it was very easy to get some LEDs to blink. Obviously we had to implement some drivers manually (UART for example) and there's lots of unsafe code, but overall the language makes a lot of things very nice on bare metal.

New comment by juliangmp in "C++ Modules Are Here to Stay"

juliangmp — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 20:07:49 +0000

My experience with vendor toolchains is that they generally suck anyway. In a recent bare metal project I chose not to use the vendor's IDE and toolchain (which is just an old version of GCC with some questionable cmake scripts around it) and instead just cross compile with rust manually. And so far its been a really good decision.

New comment by juliangmp in "The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen"

juliangmp — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 11:01:49 +0000

Why? Foss software also benefits from less dependency hell.