Hacker News: kgwxd

New comment by kgwxd in "I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware"

kgwxd — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:47:26 +0000

That's not a principle anyone, that knows anything about software, holds.

New comment by kgwxd in "The founder of Craigslist has given away half a billion dollars"

kgwxd — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:39:03 +0000

How did he even make money? Was it from craigslist? If so, how!?

New comment by kgwxd in "Want your images back? That'll be $5"

kgwxd — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:30:16 +0000

> You shared them.

Not "You transfer all copies to us, and erase your backups". The "protection" part is making sure the whole world doesn't see the copies you gave them. This "problem" is so old, it should be taught in pre-k by now. Sharing != backup. Friendly reminder to backup your decades old Gmail account before something like this happens too.

New comment by kgwxd in "Loreline – Tools for writing interactive fiction"

kgwxd — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 22:21:11 +0000

I know exactly how I'm going to version my .lor files!

New comment by kgwxd in "ICE Appears to Be Buying Immigrants' Tax Identifiers from a Data Broker"

kgwxd — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:11:52 +0000

Just tell Siri "Erase all pictures of Ron!"

New comment by kgwxd in "Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures"

kgwxd — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:52:29 +0000

It's also been "abolished" many times around the world, then quickly reinstated when kids start dying.

New comment by kgwxd in "Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures"

kgwxd — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 10:49:54 +0000

1.3M signatures to grant government power it shouldn't be granted. It's good that it failed. Stop giving money to proprietary software if you have a problem with the arrangement.

New comment by kgwxd in ""polarization" might, in part, be a proximity issue"

kgwxd — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:53:21 +0000

I think people are more eager to minimize tension in person. "polarization" is a term used most by the people that cause the tension in the first place. They use the term to dismiss the actual argument. Unfortunately, they're more likely to get their way through in-person decision making, because they're more comfortable standing in the way, and make everyone else walk around them. Not sure which role the author played in this one, but somebody just wanted to get past the discussion because they wanted it to end, not because the right conclusion was finally reached.

New comment by kgwxd in "Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it"

kgwxd — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:35:53 +0000

Maybe because every concept has some plonkers name associated with it. The ideas stand on their own. It does not matter who said what, when. I'm pretty sure the only reason people feel the urge to interrupt a conversation to drop names like that is to boast about their useless knowledge.

New comment by kgwxd in "Fox to buy Roku"

kgwxd — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:24:58 +0000

> Shouldn't the animosity against Fox be reduced by 50% after the merger?

Do you ever wonder why no one takes you seriously?

New comment by kgwxd in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

kgwxd — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:22:17 +0000

Leaving Chrome is 1000x easier than maintaining that.

New comment by kgwxd in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

kgwxd — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:21:30 +0000

The ones Brave choose to block, sure. You're going to end up with the same problem eventually.

New comment by kgwxd in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

kgwxd — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:19:11 +0000

tiny bit slower, all things being equal, maybe. For one, who cares? No one can see tenth of a millisecond speed difference. Second, without a proper ad blocker, rendering speed is meaningless, because all the power will be used to render garbage you never wanted to see in the first place.

New comment by kgwxd in "Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers"

kgwxd — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 15:16:03 +0000

Hiding elements on the page should be the last goal. A lot of the traffic uBO-proper blocks, has nothing to do with what you see. "Ad blocker" is a lame name, it's not even the important part.

New comment by kgwxd in "Fox to buy Roku"

kgwxd — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:12:35 +0000

Everyone's finally about to learn why it's dumb as hell to let an app store be built into your display.

New comment by kgwxd in "Fox to buy Roku"

kgwxd — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:59:15 +0000

The companies become one after the purchase. That's how purchases work.

New comment by kgwxd in "Ask HN: How do you track commitments you make to other people in conversation?"

kgwxd — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:36:58 +0000

> These don't make it into any system I've tried

Put them into the systems you try.

New comment by kgwxd in "Being polite to chatbots is a waste of energy"

kgwxd — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:31:29 +0000

People too. No need to be polite, just don't be an ass.

New comment by kgwxd in "Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?"

kgwxd — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:29:12 +0000

"Innovation"

New comment by kgwxd in "Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything"

kgwxd — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:20:38 +0000

Windows 10 wouldn't let me run Minecraft because the OS was out of support. I upgraded to 11, and it wouldn't let me run without logging into the OS Store, in addition to Minecraft. I removed my Windows partition completely. I run MC on Linux now.