Hacker News: kogasa240p

New comment by kogasa240p in "Google Declaring War on the Web"

kogasa240p — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:37:05 +0000

Yacy exists but it lacks nodes.

New comment by kogasa240p in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

kogasa240p — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:26:51 +0000

Very good post

New comment by kogasa240p in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

kogasa240p — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:25:22 +0000

GPTbait

New comment by kogasa240p in "Power Tools Got Worse on Purpose. Who Owns DeWalt, Craftsman, and Milwaukee?"

kogasa240p — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:52:22 +0000

Kinda baffled why a Palantir goon would make an agitslop article about power tools of all things, but here we are.

New comment by kogasa240p in "Power Tools Got Worse on Purpose. Who Owns DeWalt, Craftsman, and Milwaukee?"

kogasa240p — Fri, 15 May 2026 15:29:03 +0000

Oh damn good eye.

New comment by kogasa240p in "Telegram Is Gone"

kogasa240p — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:09:05 +0000

Believable, Telegram is Discord 2.0 (or Skype 3.0) except they allow 3rd party clients for now and the official client isn't a bloated piece of garbage.

New comment by kogasa240p in "Meta's embrace of A.I. is making its employees miserable"

kogasa240p — Sat, 09 May 2026 20:49:03 +0000

Good post

>2021 was the first crack. The comps went crazy, half the industry turned over, and the ones who didn't felt a bitter sting where it became blatantly clear that all the new arrivals were just in it for the $$$, and the companies were willing to pay for the backfills but not to reward the loyalty of the missionaries.

Also SVB collapsed in late 2022, notice that AI hype started right after.

New comment by kogasa240p in "Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged"

kogasa240p — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:59:35 +0000

My apologies then

New comment by kogasa240p in "Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged"

kogasa240p — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:00:11 +0000

IMO the biggest issue is that some non-tech people will occasionally be straight up hostile and will whine about not having "features", but then again it only takes a small amount of people taking action inflict real change. Also medium term we need to start making phones (smart OR dumb) that are FOSS as possible. > Linux Open/FreeBSD too, we need to have more redundancy.

New comment by kogasa240p in "Hackers breach JDownloader's website to serve malware-laced downloads"

kogasa240p — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:09:32 +0000

Used it once to pirate Infinity Train because someone put the episodes on MEGA.

New comment by kogasa240p in "AI slop is killing online communities"

kogasa240p — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:43:45 +0000

Probably all three of those. Tildes and fediverse instances do the first, resurgence pending for the second, and lastly non-mainstream social media sites have no SEO garbage by default.

New comment by kogasa240p in "AI slop is killing online communities"

kogasa240p — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:32:54 +0000

>I fear that AI is turning people generally antisocial.

This is by design btw.

New comment by kogasa240p in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

kogasa240p — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:18:08 +0000

This, someone take Silicon Valley's adderal away.

New comment by kogasa240p in "Fixing a 20-year-old bug in Enlightenment E16"

kogasa240p — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:44:46 +0000

Oh wow didn't expect someone my age to try out Enlightenment. Every so often I try to use Enlightenment (either e16/moksha or the latest version) but I always leave because it requires Connman and setting it up properly is a pain imo. Might try it again because of this blogpost.

New comment by kogasa240p in "The Fediverse deserves a dumb graphical client"

kogasa240p — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:49:31 +0000

What about Akkoma?

New comment by kogasa240p in "Penguin 'Toxicologists' Find PFAS Chemicals in Remote Patagonia"

kogasa240p — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:19:34 +0000

Impressive and I wish you the best! Hoping you get noticed and get funding.

New comment by kogasa240p in "I ported Mac OS X to the Nintendo Wii"

kogasa240p — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:02:28 +0000

Wonder if it can happen on the Wii U

New comment by kogasa240p in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

kogasa240p — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:11:14 +0000

>But the underlying threat posted by AI to society, the economy and human freedom persists with or without his presence.

Without Sam Altman the compute and improvements for LLMs to be a threat wouldn't have readily existed at all. He was the one who got the ball rolling because of his desperation (SVB collapsed right before the hype bubble started), ego, and quasi-religious desires.

New comment by kogasa240p in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

kogasa240p — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:06:46 +0000

Because everything got made for smartphones and touchscreens while desktop users are left to suffer in the mediocrity.

New comment by kogasa240p in "I Won't Download Your App. The Web Version Is A-OK"

kogasa240p — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:50:16 +0000

Agreed, if you have a website I'll just use that.