Hacker News: mariusmg

New comment by mariusmg in "OBS Studio Gets a New Renderer"

mariusmg — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 07:22:02 +0000

>James Webb calls anything heavier than helium “metal.”

And i call it great music.

New comment by mariusmg in "Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox"

mariusmg — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 11:26:48 +0000

>So why isn't anyone trying to replace Mozilla yet,

Because writing manifestos is easy and making a browser is proper hard work ?

New comment by mariusmg in "Why shouldn't you give money to homeless people?"

mariusmg — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 14:53:01 +0000

>It is better to give to homeless shelters and food banks.

Watch this stand-up comedy bit which deals with this topic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qm6kl17HH9s

New comment by mariusmg in "i3wm inspired wm for Windows"

mariusmg — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 11:51:58 +0000

I've found Niri* to be the best but there are stability/performance problems (especially when you go over +20 windows) with all of them. Maybe once they will be "baked-in" in Gnome/KDE things will change.

https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri

New comment by mariusmg in "i3wm inspired wm for Windows"

mariusmg — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 19:28:16 +0000

Tiling is old news, bring on scrollable window managers.

I honestly think scrollable VM is the future of window management. It just make sense to arrange windows like that instead of cram multiple opened windows in a fixed area.

New comment by mariusmg in "Microsoft suggests command line fiddling to get Windows 10 update installed"

mariusmg — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 12:59:45 +0000

Why do i get this faulty patch if i'm not even using Bitlocker ?

Also how the heck does something like this happens ? Did MS forgot the size of the WinRE partion which THEY created ?

New comment by mariusmg in "IAC sold 17 apps to Bending Spoons. $100M deal, all 330 employees fired"

mariusmg — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 14:50:25 +0000

Wow, even that /people page screams "douchebags".....

New comment by mariusmg in "Xbox Will "Exit the Gaming Business" If Game Pass Doesn't Get Enough Subscribers"

mariusmg — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 18:11:44 +0000

Old and pointless article. Since then they "won" the FTC case and purchase Activision Blizzard.

Nobody spends 70 billions only to "exit" the gaming business couple of months later.

New comment by mariusmg in "Court: Cloudflare Is Liable for Pirate Site, but Not as a DNS Provider"

mariusmg — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 12:07:41 +0000

>According to the ruling, DDL-Music has no other purpose than to share pirated music and Cloudflare plays a central role in making the site available.

And if they switch DNS providers what will they do ? +File a lawsuit for each DNS provider? Makes no sense to "sanction" the DNS provider because of the website content.

Also one other thing that plays a "centrol role" in making pirate websites available are electricity companies which provide power for servers. Shouldn't they sue those too ?

>In addition to stopping its services to DDL-Music as a customer, Universal also wanted Cloudflare to block the site on its public DNS resolver 1.1.1.1.

Bunch of clowns...

New comment by mariusmg in "That time Verisign typo-squatted all of .com and .net"

mariusmg — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 11:15:28 +0000

One extra reason to never use the ISP DNS services. Just switch to Cloudflare and never look back.

New comment by mariusmg in "Choose the browser that best suits your privacy needs"

mariusmg — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 09:19:58 +0000

Yeah, you're switching browsers not 3D modelling software.

It's easy people. Switch to Firefox today.

New comment by mariusmg in "Fluent Search"

mariusmg — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 10:25:50 +0000

Description : "With Fluent Search, you can search for running apps, browser tabs"

Reality : install it, tried to search Firefox tabs, doesn't work. Then found https://github.com/adirh3/Fluent-Search/issues/850

Nope.

New comment by mariusmg in "Linux Mint Working on Wayland Support"

mariusmg — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 21:24:25 +0000

Regarding Wayland support, the gap between KDE/Gnome and these smaller DEs (XFCE, Cinnamon, Mate , LXDE etc etc) is getting wider and wider...

New comment by mariusmg in "California suspends Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment"

mariusmg — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 19:26:06 +0000

>This looks like Cruise's fault

Imagine having to write the code that "detects" if a pedestrain is caught underneath the car

New comment by mariusmg in "Intel Meteor Lake Architecture"

mariusmg — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 19:04:04 +0000

>There's been enough "Lakes".

Yeah, they need to move to rivers now...

New comment by mariusmg in "Any sufficiently advanced uninstaller is indistinguishable from malware"

mariusmg — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 12:30:28 +0000

> with a fairly steep learning curve and a ton of "tribal knowledge"

Yes, people preffer to debug their own code rather than spend shitload of time to understand Wix/MSI.

Microsoft deciding early on to not produce low cost tools for Windows Installer also didn't helped with the adoption.

New comment by mariusmg in "Knightmare: A DevOps Cautionary Tale (2014)"

mariusmg — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 08:56:58 +0000

First problem was repurposing flags used in the past for different functionality. Just dont do that.

New comment by mariusmg in "Ask HN: Underrated music, books, movies?"

mariusmg — Sun, 27 Aug 2023 11:31:36 +0000

Music wise, i find "Neobliviscaris : And Plague Flowers the Kaleidoscope" to have interesting composition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNuVdsx7qJY

New comment by mariusmg in "Throwing away 10 months of work after 2 months on the job"

mariusmg — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 16:55:05 +0000

>"let's throw away Windows ME codebase for NT"

Well the Windows 9x codebase was always mean to be , eventually, thrown away. It existed only to be able to run the OS on very low hardware (eg Win95 run even on 4 MB of RAM).

New comment by mariusmg in "On Becoming a VP of Engineering"

mariusmg — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 15:53:58 +0000

>There's a ton of words on here but I don't really know what it says

Welcome to management.