Hacker News: malicka

New comment by malicka in "How Fairphone built the Fairphone Gen 6+"

malicka — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:00:23 +0000

It’s both superior engineering-wise and morally. The moral framing is probably more popular with folks that don’t care about engineering superiority, too.

New comment by malicka in "The National Park Service Is Using Flock. Rangers Are Pissed"

malicka — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:46:07 +0000

No, we're supposed to hate all passively-surveilling cameras. Except for dumb ones that dump to local storage. Dash-cams are often pretty dumb, so they’re fine; your phone only takes photos when you ask it to, so it’s fine. :)

New comment by malicka in "Mozilla says stricter antitrust measures against Google 'threaten Firefox'"

malicka — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:33:02 +0000

They definitely shouldn’t. Mozilla has talented engineers, but it’s been catastrophically mismanaged for almost 20 years at this point. Keep Firefox, but let Mozilla finally die.

New comment by malicka in "Bb: The IDE that builds itself"

malicka — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:26:04 +0000

Cute and clever gimmick, which is more than I can say about most AI-related software churned out these days.

New comment by malicka in "The case for MUDs in modern times (2018)"

malicka — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:34:11 +0000

Information was made to be free: Sharing jokes shares the joy!

New comment by malicka in "Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls"

malicka — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 20:10:25 +0000

Working on mine, but… sluggishly.

New comment by malicka in "Accidental Anonymity"

malicka — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 20:03:13 +0000

> Or maybe you know enough people are just generally mean and jerk enough that you don't want to listen to their silly criticism and over-the-topness.

Yea, that’s lacking the bravery. Thickening your skin and sharpening your tools is 100% beneficial to you, at least for your personal development. It’s good for culture and society, too, to have more fledgling and amateur artists and creators put themselves out there.

New comment by malicka in "Supreme Court upholds broad conception of birthright citizenship"

malicka — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 19:09:38 +0000

Because when you are in a country, you are subject to it’s jurisdiction. Can you be arrested for petty crimes? Yes? Then you’re under that country’s jurisdiction.

New comment by malicka in "Michigan bill would bar employers from requiring after-hours coms with workers"

malicka — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 20:47:25 +0000

Do remember that without the government, there very literally would be no forty-hour work week. Individuals don’t have the same bargaining power as employers, not by a long-shot.

New comment by malicka in "California legislature agrees to upload driver's licenses to national database"

malicka — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 20:12:01 +0000

Every piece chipped off of our right to privacy and freedom from surveillance is another strike against civil society; it normalizes data-collection further and gives any government contractors (Palantir et. al) a bigger database to profit off of.

New comment by malicka in "It's Only When You Look Back"

malicka — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 03:35:30 +0000

The issue is, you can’t solve social problems with technology alone. The most challenging problems for our species (inequality, starvation, homelessness, etc) are social, after all. And we don’t have the incentives nor political will to solve them.

On your points: You won’t wake up in your vacation destination until you swap the cars out for rail. Infrastructure won’t be cheap until the social problems making it expensive (land, middle-men, quid-pro-quo, endless subcontracting) are solved.

New comment by malicka in "The AirPods Effect"

malicka — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 21:22:48 +0000

The seeming ubiquity is definitely new.

New comment by malicka in "HTML is a native image format, hear me out"

malicka — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:33:56 +0000

Unless you’re the type who wants their HTML to be valid XHTML! :^)

New comment by malicka in "Why Can't California Count?"

malicka — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:39:50 +0000

You’re missing the point: These poll watchers made things up about what they saw, kicking off a media circus – which would’ve happened even if the system was different, because it is distinct from reality. The one at fault is the media, not the system.

We also had some recounts in the US, and they found the same results as the original election… but that didn’t stop the conspiracism, either. Because it is impervious to reality.

New comment by malicka in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

malicka — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 22:25:04 +0000

This kind of gatekeeping isn’t about knowledge (which is free and should be freely shared — basic hacker ethic), but about social standing.

New comment by malicka in "Why Can't California Count?"

malicka — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:00:22 +0000

If the critics don’t respond to facts or data, what makes you think they will once you “secure” the election? Even those recounts after the 2020 election — which found no substantial fraud — did nothing to convince them. The media tells them there is fraud, despite the evidence, and they believe it. If the media lies to this entire part of the voter-base, what you do won’t convince anyone.

Catering to propagandist’s lies is hardly productive or useful; you’ll just sink to greater and greater lows trying in vain to win them over, to the detriment of society.

New comment by malicka in "What happens if Japan takes in zero immigrants?"

malicka — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:12:14 +0000

The USA is pretty dang diverse, and definitely mixed. That mixing is a core part of it’s culture and history, actually. And now, the country that mixed (USA) is stronger than the Old World that didn’t (Europe).

Which is to say: There is no inherent psychological tribalism that makes having a diverse country impossible or ruinous; rather, this tribalism is manufactured and spread by hatemongers. The New World is a very good case study, here.

New comment by malicka in "What happens if Japan takes in zero immigrants?"

malicka — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:02:01 +0000

> cede your land to some other people who will

This is an insane way to frame immigration reform. It isn’t “ceding” anything, it just means being OK that not every single person you know is the same race. Having some cultural exchange, growing as a person, learning about the world beyond your borders… these are virtues.

New comment by malicka in "What happens if Japan takes in zero immigrants?"

malicka — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:53:12 +0000

For one, this article doesn’t claim that immigration increases overall crime.

Secondly, the article hints at a sampling bias we have run into before, during the Syrian refugee crisis: Immigrants are not more likely compared to their peers.

If you compare a block that is predominately young men to the general population, they commit more crime – because they are young men, not because they are immigrants.

A proper statistical comparison looks at the sub-demographics, comparing immigrant and native folk to their peers in age and sex.

Compare 18-year old men from Algeria to native 18 year-old men, and they aren’t any more likely to commit crime. But between 18-year old men and the general population? Well, duh, because one group has more young men in it.

Which is to say: No, immigrants aren’t more likely to commit crimes.

New comment by malicka in "What happens if Japan takes in zero immigrants?"

malicka — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:40:15 +0000

> the deep psychological truths about human tribalism

… that the races should keep to themselves? Yea, I’m going to have to disagree on this one.

This was pretty handily disproven by the New World. Mixing, sharing, cohabiting… this creates culture and makes us stronger. Isolation, protectionism, and fear makes us weak.