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New comment by linschn in "A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw"

linschn — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 21:36:58 +0000

> We all learned the lesson that mass-market IT tools almost always outperform in-house,

Funny, I learned the exact opposite lesson. Almost all software suck, and a good way for it not to suck is to know where the developer is and go tell them their shit is broken, in person.

If you want a large scale example, one of the two main law enforcement agency in france spun off libreoffice into their own legal writing software. Developped by LEOs that can take up to two weeks a year to work on that. Awesome software. Would cost litterally millions if bought on the market.

New comment by linschn in "Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User"

linschn — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 20:43:20 +0000

The scheme syntax gets a while to get used to if you are not familiar with it, and in the end having a real programming language is quite awesome, you can do lots of fun stuff like programmatically create a file or dir for every user of a certain group, etc.

Take a look at this

https://guix-hosting.com/docs/tuto/getting-started.html

To see how one can use macros to redefine the syntax to get an imperative-like syntax for defining services.

Disclaimer: i run guix-hosting.com

Mozilla right now (Digital Painting)

linschn — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 14:15:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1108/mozilla-right-now

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46345000

Points: 54

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New comment by linschn in "Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz"

linschn — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 12:10:30 +0000

- Roosevelt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America...

- van buren https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Cass

- Wilson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_German_Americans

- Bush https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp

And i must forget a lot of others, but I think you get the gist. "Great again" indeed.

New comment by linschn in "French lawmakers vote to tax American retirees who benefit from social security"

linschn — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 09:25:53 +0000

I am all for paying people a fair wage no matter where they come from, and I do not believe the coercive nature of most hospital work is a necessity. I'm merely pointing out the hypocrisy of attributing crime to immigration while in reality immigration props up vast sectors of our economy (construction, delivery, and healthcare being the main ones).

Add to that that our most tough-on-crime, tough-on-immigration president is in prison because, on contrast with the vast majority of immigrants, he is an actual criminal, and you will see how the GP's hypocrisy can be very grating.

New comment by linschn in "Why Busy Beaver hunters fear the Antihydra"

linschn — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 10:33:40 +0000

No, because f is assumed to be computable from the start, which BB is not (otherwise it could be used as a subroutine in a program that solves the halting problem).

New comment by linschn in "Thieves steal crown jewels in 4 minutes from Louvre Museum"

linschn — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 21:00:12 +0000

Don't forget teachers, and unemployed people.

This is true for every national muséum in France and it is awesome !

New comment by linschn in "The Americans Following in the Footsteps of the Knights Templar"

linschn — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 06:47:40 +0000

So, freemasonery with a different goon, and a bit of racism. Kkk-lite, in a way.

People who like to dress up can also join the order of Malta, which can actually boast continuous existence since 1099.

New comment by linschn in "If You're So Smart, Why Are You So Poor?"

linschn — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 06:22:25 +0000

Could you please expand on that ? I haven't found any sources, the only thing that pops up is a bullshit claim by Jordan peterson, that has been debunked as, at best, an oversimplification.

New comment by linschn in "R9: Plan 9 in Rust"

linschn — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 15:52:01 +0000

I'm writing a wasm runtime for inferno

https://gitlab.com/edouardklein/acheron

Still a wip though. You may find it interesting

New comment by linschn in "Ovld – Efficient and featureful multiple dispatch for Python"

linschn — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 05:48:11 +0000

One the one hand, this is pretty cool, the API is pythonic and makes quite a lot of sense.

On the other hand, I can't stop myself from thinking about "Greenspun's tenth rule":

> Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.

This doesn't apply directly here, as the features are intentional and it seems they are not bug ridden at all. But I get a nagging feeling of wanting to shout 'just use lisp!' when reading this.

https://wiki.c2.com/?MultiMethods

New comment by linschn in "De-anonymization attacks against the privacy coin XMR"

linschn — Wed, 28 May 2025 21:04:19 +0000

Not the OP, but Zcash's privacy feztures are optional and seldom used in practice, whereas monero is secure by default. It helps with blending in the crowd.

New comment by linschn in "Air Traffic Control"

linschn — Tue, 13 May 2025 04:46:43 +0000

This was indeed normalized very early on in post WWII european construction:

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

New comment by linschn in "Sierpiński Triangle? In My Bitwise and?"

linschn — Sun, 11 May 2025 06:25:35 +0000

That's called a simplex :)

The same as in the simplex algorithm to solve linear programming problems.

New comment by linschn in "One quantum transition makes light at 21 cm"

linschn — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 19:48:33 +0000

The plaque also provided a drawing of the probe itself next to the two human figured, at scale.

New comment by linschn in "Yek: Serialize your code repo (or part of it) to feed into any LLM"

linschn — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 07:32:11 +0000

That's neat ! I've built a transient UI to do this manually[0] within emacs, but with the context windows getting bigger ang bigger, being more systematic may be the way to go.

The priorization mentioned in the readme is especially interesting.

[0] https://rdklein.fr/bites/MyTransientUIForLocalLLMs.html

New comment by linschn in "Adapting Plan 9's listen to GNU Guix"

linschn — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 22:16:44 +0000

Also, indeee, the lack of access control for ports in bsd socket when the file API was RIGHT THERE is driving me crazy.

New comment by linschn in "Adapting Plan 9's listen to GNU Guix"

linschn — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 22:15:24 +0000

True, and noted, but realistically, the only implemented protocol now is tcp, and the next one will be udp.

Historically, Plan 9 had IL as well.

Which transport protocol has a number in its name ?

If I implement one someday I'll add a separator.

New comment by linschn in "Adapting Plan 9's listen to GNU Guix"

linschn — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 22:12:30 +0000

I would be honestly surprised if any listen server ever experience heavy loads ;) this is more targeted at smolweb-scale hosts.

On current hardware it can serve up to a few hundreds requests/s without too much trouble.

There's also the trick of pre starting a pool of processes beforehand and handing the data to them when it comes. It is not implemented in listen yet, but would not be too hard to do.

New comment by linschn in "Adapting Plan 9's listen to GNU Guix"

linschn — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 22:06:18 +0000

Author here :)

I'm not aware of how selinux can solve this but I will look into it if only just to mention it as an alternative.