Hacker News: kilolima

New comment by kilolima in "How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia?"

kilolima — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 04:38:58 +0000

Did they hire those software engineers along with their unions?

Not quite. It's all about labor and getting rid of the class that used to (and could have) threatened the elites.

New comment by kilolima in "I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs"

kilolima — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 22:25:07 +0000

Yuck. Do your users know that they are reading recycled LLM content? Is this long winded post generated by an LLM?

New comment by kilolima in "Unofficial Windows 7 Service Pack 2"

kilolima — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 18:56:17 +0000

That was Windows 2000.

New comment by kilolima in "The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette vs. Internet Archive"

kilolima — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 08:46:00 +0000

Civil disobedience is breaking the law. Are you suggesting that Rosa Parks should have sat in the back of the bus?

New comment by kilolima in "The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette vs. Internet Archive"

kilolima — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 08:39:36 +0000

Maybe he was trying to torpedo CDL from ever being viable again? It seems a pretty despicable practice that attempts to shoehorn artificial scarcity to digital media, and I hate the fact the our libraries waste their monies propping up archaic monopolies, so maybe this is a win after all.

New comment by kilolima in "Zettlr: Note-Taking and Publishing with Markdown"

kilolima — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 02:19:44 +0000

It's not the speed, it's saving the carpal tunnel for video games... :)

New comment by kilolima in "Chrome is entrenching third-party cookies that will mislead users"

kilolima — Fri, 30 Aug 2024 05:58:13 +0000

I just switched to Libre Wolf, seems like a pretty good Firefox replacement but without the malware.

New comment by kilolima in "Zettlr: Note-Taking and Publishing with Markdown"

kilolima — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 07:52:10 +0000

Do you have use the mouse to use rich text? If so then no thanks.

New comment by kilolima in "Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable"

kilolima — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 06:12:46 +0000

Given China's experience with the West's sordid attempt to subvert them via opium, it seems highly unlikely that roblox would ever be legalized there.

New comment by kilolima in "Construction of the AT&T Long Lines "Cheshire" underground site"

kilolima — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 19:13:46 +0000

This does not belong on HN.

New comment by kilolima in "Why Americans aren't having babies"

kilolima — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 18:09:31 +0000

Because people with kids won't stop talking about how wonderful their kids are.

New comment by kilolima in "Microsoft to delay release of Recall AI feature on security concerns"

kilolima — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 20:41:14 +0000

Workplace surveillance of employees became widespread in part because of sexual harassment laws, employers suddenly had to protect themselves from litigation.

See:

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/r/ro...

New comment by kilolima in "Fury Road's Practical FX Myth"

kilolima — Wed, 22 May 2024 19:01:14 +0000

Mediocre!

New comment by kilolima in "French court issues damages award for violation of GPL"

kilolima — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 22:06:59 +0000

For the first time, I can see the advantage of AI for a forum like HN. Have the AI scan the comments and generate a summary and links to show/hide, as an example:

80% of comments are pedantic. 10% of comments discuss the actual topic. 5% of comments are excited/hopeful. 30% of comments are probable astroturfing. 20% of comments are by users who are most likely millenials. 1% of comments are by former /.'ers. etc.

Ideally this could just run locally and operate on any website as needed, like browser userscripts now.

New comment by kilolima in "A bad day at the office"

kilolima — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 04:03:02 +0000

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airborne_aircraft_carrier

New comment by kilolima in "Intel Processor Instability Causing Oodle Decompression Failures"

kilolima — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 20:01:55 +0000

Yes, this is the situation for my dell laptop's i7-1165G7. Alleged turbo boost to 4.7ghz! In reality, it will hit that for a sec and then throttle to ~1ghz. I had to disable the turbo boost AND two cores in bios to let it even achieve ~2.0ghz speeds consistently. It's a total scam. Turns out my 8th-Gen i5 laptop is almost the same speed on benchmarks, just because it's a few mm thicker with better cooling.

New comment by kilolima in "Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames"

kilolima — Tue, 20 Feb 2024 19:47:56 +0000

They are not usernames, so why do they call them that? They are more like disposable per-conversation identifiers.

"Usernames in Signal do not function like usernames on social media platforms. Signal usernames are not logins or handles that you’ll be known by on the app – they’re simply a quick way to connect without sharing a phone number."

Also, this is not finally the feature Signal users actually want - not having to sign up for Signal with a phone number and using a username instead.

This new "feature" does very little to make signal more secure or private.

New comment by kilolima in "No one cares about open-source, until"

kilolima — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:48:27 +0000

Eagle and Autodesk deserve each other:

"In spring 1991 the dongle protection scheme of EAGLE 2.0 had been cracked causing a decline of 30% in sales, while sales for a reduced demo version with a printed manual saw a significant increase.[4] As a consequence in 1992 CadSoft sent thousands of floppy disks containing a new demo of EAGLE 2.6 to potential users, in particular those who had ordered the former demo but had not subsequently bought the full product.[4] The new demo, however, also contained spy code scanning the user's hard disk for illegal copies of EAGLE.[4] If the program found traces of such, it would show a message indicating that the user was entitled to order a free printed manual using the displayed special order code, which, however, was actually a number encoding the evidence found on the user's machine.[4] Users sending in the filled out form would receive a reply from CadSoft's attorneys.[4][33] The act of spying, however, was illegal as well by German law.[4][33]"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EAGLE_(program)#Controversie...

New comment by kilolima in "Unicomp's "New" Model M Keyboard"

kilolima — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 23:06:32 +0000

Thanks. I wonder which mode works best in linux?

But regardless, when a product chases the mac crowd it makes me think it's probably overpriced or sacrificed functionality for the sake of design.

New comment by kilolima in "Unicomp's "New" Model M Keyboard"

kilolima — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 01:18:00 +0000

"Built with the Mac users’ experience in mind while still retaining compatibility for Windows devices..."

No thanks!