Hacker News: lozf

New comment by lozf in "Blender's UI and Runtime: Much Faster Than GPUI"

lozf — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 11:03:44 +0000

Perhaps Gradia [0], Pinta [1], or Krita [2].

[0]: https://gradia.alexandervanhee.be/ [1]: https://www.pinta-project.com/ [2]: https://krita.org/en/

New comment by lozf in "'It's just vape, nail, charity shops': Can anything save UK high street?"

lozf — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 16:55:47 +0000

Aka "Op shop" for the Aussies & Kiwis.

New comment by lozf in "WTF Ubuntu?"

lozf — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 16:37:55 +0000

Alma released a patch ahead of upstream again, just like they did for several other critical vulnerabilities this year.

New comment by lozf in "Upgrade your desktop: Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS is now available"

lozf — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:50:31 +0000

The actual changelog can be found at https://documentation.ubuntu.com/release-notes/26.04/1/

New comment by lozf in "The stupidity and arrogance of GNOME developers (2024)"

lozf — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 23:33:41 +0000

(2024)

New comment by lozf in "Spymarks, not Watermarks"

lozf — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 11:10:14 +0000

Does the shorter enwp.org/Steganography render any better? It's quite handy for English Wikipedia links.

(Edit: hmm, without the "https://" it seems to depend on the browsers ability to recognise a URL.)

New comment by lozf in "English: A vs. An"

lozf — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 23:49:44 +0000

Certainly English can be odd. It can usually be understood through tough thorough thought though.

New comment by lozf in "Λ Snap – An inviting programming language for kids and adults for CS study"

lozf — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 12:19:10 +0000

. o O (Maybe Ubuntu users can use snap to download Snap! from the Snap store…)

New comment by lozf in "Authorization terminology is a mess: Let's fix it"

lozf — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 11:23:43 +0000

> ENTI- can you enter, ORI (or ORIZ) what can you do?

I don't mean to quarrel about it, but I understood Authentication to be closer to identification. To provide "adequate proof that you are actually who you claim to be".

Even the "can you enter" question falls under authorization; "does the user have appropriate permissions?" Entering is just one of perhaps many subsequent levels of permissions.

New comment by lozf in "Stopping the smart TV from being used against you"

lozf — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 13:32:49 +0000

> nothing like this in the UK.

It turns out there are several similar services offered in the UK by ISP's like O2, Sky, and BT¹ (recently rebranded as EE-WiFi²) who claim to be the UK's largest WiFi Hotspot Network. Perhaps that's due to it being opt-out on their routers since it was first introduced over a decade ago.

[¹]: https://info.btwifi.com/help/

[²]: https://ee-wifi.ee.co.uk/public/ee/index.htm

New comment by lozf in "AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol"

lozf — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:14:30 +0000

Don't forget to check out: "bosh", "cosh", "dosh", "gosh", "josh", "mosh", and "nosh" too! ;)

New comment by lozf in "Severance"

lozf — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 01:23:07 +0000

Before people were getting fired in AI chats or Video calls, they were getting fired by voicemail - as featured in the track "Exciting New Direction"[0], by The New Deal.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ViJ3yA4d0Y

New comment by lozf in "Ask HN: Are systems ready for the first negative leap second?"

lozf — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 13:04:02 +0000

Better still, if Unix time tracked TAI (monotonically increasing every SI second), and Leap Seconds were handled in a distributed database much like time zones - possibly even the same one we all use anyway.

New comment by lozf in "FFmpeg 9.1's new AAC encoder"

lozf — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:24:13 +0000

That paper was published in 2014. The reference Opus encoder has certainly had a number of improvements that affect sound quality since then, whereas very few AAC implementations have.

New comment by lozf in "The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation"

lozf — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:25:28 +0000

Heh, "funrollloops" reminds me of recompiling FreeBSD 4 on my thinkpad back in the early aughts. The word made me imagine some sort of processed breakfast cereal with too many additives.

New comment by lozf in "The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy"

lozf — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:46:40 +0000

Indeed, but some scoundrel is probably scraping this page and having an LLM prepare their pitch as to how manufacturers could improve Ad / Data collection revenue by bypassing these suggestions :/

New comment by lozf in "What Is a Dickover?"

lozf — Sat, 30 May 2026 11:15:15 +0000

      uBlock-Origin settings | Filters | Cookie notices

Works well for that subset of dickovers at least.

New comment by lozf in "Ubuntu 26.04"

lozf — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:44:47 +0000

I'm not certain about CLI, but Plasma 6.6 does allow preferences / settings to be exported & restored / shared.

https://youtu.be/RuxNnfllxco?t=3894 - Neal Gompa on the Fedora 44 Release party stream,

New comment by lozf in "An open letter to the UK Government on digital privacy"

lozf — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:52:55 +0000

I recently found this video about UK's track record regarding privacy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k_70iqBCDc

New comment by lozf in "Make Tmux Pretty and Usable"

lozf — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:46:08 +0000

Prefix-w works, or did you want something more?