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New comment by kataklasm in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

kataklasm — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 06:25:17 +0000

We already don't. We want the Americans to pack up their bases and fuck off. Ami, go home! They've done enough work to stir up chaos and war all over the planet in the last 7 decades.

New comment by kataklasm in "GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks"

kataklasm — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 15:50:41 +0000

Did you even try to read and understand the parent comment? They said they regularly run out of quota on the exact subscription you're advising they subscribe to.

New comment by kataklasm in "The state of Linux music players in 2026"

kataklasm — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 08:33:32 +0000

Same here! But I recently switched from ncmpcpp to rmpc, which is a much more modern client! A lot more (easily) customizable compared to ncmpcpp as well.

New comment by kataklasm in "1300 Still Images from the Animated Films of Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli (2023)"

kataklasm — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 11:16:07 +0000

The Wind Rises is my favorite Ghibli, something about it just draws me in like no other. Don't get me wrong, I love Howl's Moving Castle, Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away like the next person, but The Wind Rises is special to me.

New comment by kataklasm in "KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive in Dropping X11 Session Support"

kataklasm — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:32:59 +0000

What's not working for you? I have only used Discord a handful of times since switching to wayland and nothing egregious stood out. In fact, I had way no issues at all when I had tons back on X11 with Discord. Could very well be due to my low Discord usage until now though :)

New comment by kataklasm in "APT Rust requirement raises questions"

kataklasm — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 15:53:52 +0000

But that is the kind of convenience and ease of use that brings us another npm malware incident every other month at this point.

New comment by kataklasm in "Maybe that's not liquid water on Mars after all"

kataklasm — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 14:40:31 +0000

One major issue with transportation in the Martian environment is the extremely abrasive dust and the sharp rocks. Pretty much every rover has had the issue that the wheels deteriorate very quickly and dust gets into every nook and cranny, eventuelly destroying important movement-related mechanisms. As to their movement speed, that's mostly down to the movement being manually commanded and with the light delay of about 20 mins (one-way), you can only command the rover to go so far before involuntarily hitting an object.

New comment by kataklasm in "The Qtile Window Manager: A Python-Powered Tiling Experience"

kataklasm — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 16:13:19 +0000

Not sure about QTile but I'm using swaywm on Fedora 43, it's a delight to use! I am using a mix of sway and hyprland utensils for everything and I couldn't be happier. Wayland on Fedora is a no-brainer, fixed so many annoyances after moving from X.

New comment by kataklasm in "Germany to ban Huawei from future 6G network"

kataklasm — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:37:02 +0000

Ah yes, the country that has perfected industrial espionage... https://www.windpowermonthly.com/article/960011/trans-atlant...

New comment by kataklasm in "GitHub partial outage"

kataklasm — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:12:06 +0000

Can't say that's entirely true for me ('02). If my [ employer, supervisor, ... ] provides me with logical, traceable tasks with their context properly laid out, I can totally put a ton of effort into providing meticulous, well thought out solutions, that are as good as it gets under the provided constraints. It's the non-sensical (be it actually non-sensical or just not understood enough because of unprovided context) tasks that make me not care.

New comment by kataklasm in "Uv is the best thing to happen to the Python ecosystem in a decade"

kataklasm — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 00:44:42 +0000

The German metro area "Rheinland" has a population of 8.7 million people across 12 thousand square kilometers. ~700/sqkm vs the 240/sqkm population density of Atlanta metro. Train and metro travel in this metrk area is extremely convenient and fast. It's not that Atlanta (or anywhere else in the United States for that matter) couldn't do it because of vastness, there's just no political and societal will behind this idea. In a society that glamorizes everyone driving the biggest trucks and carrying the largest rifles, of course convenient train systems are "not feasible".

New comment by kataklasm in "Apple loses UK App Store monopoly case, penalty might near $2B"

kataklasm — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 07:21:24 +0000

Does it matter? Apple paid around 300 million pounds of corporation tax in 2024. If the UK poses a landmark penalty of say 50 or 100 billion pounds, thats 167x or 333x the annual corporation tax paid by Apple in the UK.

New comment by kataklasm in "United MAX Hit by Falling Object at 36,000 Feet"

kataklasm — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 12:42:31 +0000

Shed was killed by a railgun round. These are kinetic projectiles, spall lining doesn't do anything against those.

New comment by kataklasm in "Starlink is burning up one or two satellites a day in Earth's atmosphere"

kataklasm — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 05:46:43 +0000

When have we given up on expecting journalists to do their jobs and write articles worthy of being read and containing actual information? If I wanted to read blubberish I'd go read some AI slop but if an article is written by a human I have some base expectation of it providing a modicum of value to me. Even more so if it reaches the HN frontpage.

edit: removed my own snark. sorry for that.

New comment by kataklasm in "Translating a Fortran F-16 Simulator to Unity3D"

kataklasm — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 08:05:14 +0000

The whole imperial/British side has tons of ugly and weird units of measure. Reading old engineering documentation will give you headaches and nightmares from all the inconsistent systems of units.

New comment by kataklasm in "Greatest irony of the AI age: Humans hired to clean AI slop"

kataklasm — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 06:25:27 +0000

The irony stems from the fact workers are fired due to being 'replaced' by AI only to then be re-hired afterwards to clean up the slop, thus maximizing costs to the business!

New comment by kataklasm in "Google can keep its Chrome browser but will be barred from exclusive contracts"

kataklasm — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 05:10:36 +0000

That's the kind if short-sighted view that's the root issue in a ton of enshittification happening around: the belief that short-term gains or benefits are all it's about. It's not sustainable to leech off of wikipedia content to fuel your own (ad in Google's) knowledge pop-ups, even if it benefits the user in that they save a single click, because that means long-term wikipedia will die out because users no longer associate the knowledge gained with wikipedia but with Google even though they had nothing to do with it apart from "stealing it".

New comment by kataklasm in "36B solar mass black hole at centre of the Cosmic Horseshoe gravitational lens"

kataklasm — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 15:32:31 +0000

To expand on this, as stated in your source:

> [270B solar masses] is the maximum mass of a black hole that models predict, at least for luminous accreting SMBHs.

as well as:

> The limit is only 5×10^10 M [50B solar masses] for black holes with typical properties, but can reach 2.7×10^11 M [270B solar masses] at maximal prograde spin (a = 1).

However in the chapter before, it's stated:

> New discoveries suggest that many black holes, dubbed 'stupendously large', may exceed 100 billion or even 1 trillion M.

New comment by kataklasm in "Destination: Jupiter"

kataklasm — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 06:22:00 +0000

In a similar vein, I really liked "Robot" by Adam Wiśniewski-Snerg, first published in 1973. It doesn't really mention AI itself, but it is about the relationship between humans and artificial life/intelligence. The central theme is the question of knowing if you're "real" in an artificial world. Not the easiest read and can be quite dark at times, but one of my favorite works of classical science fiction. Very underrated!

New comment by kataklasm in "After a 24-second test of its engines, the New Glenn rocket is ready to fly"

kataklasm — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 12:25:44 +0000

But that wasn't certain until Starship proved it technologically possible.