Hacker News: mason_mpls

New comment by mason_mpls in "AI boom risks widening wealth divide, says BlackRock's Larry Fink"

mason_mpls — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 01:40:26 +0000

doesnt larry fink need a bailout

New comment by mason_mpls in "27-year-old Apple iBooks can connect to Wi-Fi and download official updates"

mason_mpls — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 23:17:22 +0000

“Apple is the opposite of planned obsolescence”

Is there something in the water?

New comment by mason_mpls in "Linux is good now"

mason_mpls — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 01:05:13 +0000

You are definitely doing it wrong, I rarely have issues and when I do I just switch comparability tools. I play multiple indie games, marvel rivals, I played lots of among us on my machine in 2020. Running Pop OS

New comment by mason_mpls in "This is not the future"

mason_mpls — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:43:13 +0000

Most people just want their software easy & free (for fair reasons), and this is the end result of that

New comment by mason_mpls in "This is not the future"

mason_mpls — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:41:30 +0000

It seems we’re all experiencing a form of sticker shock, from the bill for getting ease-of-use out of software that we demanded for the past few decades.

New comment by mason_mpls in "This is not the future"

mason_mpls — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:39:47 +0000

It’s a trope now that loads of internet users will complain about Mac OS & Windows, while digging in their heels against switching to Linux. Just take your medicine people.

New comment by mason_mpls in "This is not the future"

mason_mpls — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:33:50 +0000

Perhaps we need more collective action & coordination?

I don’t see how we could politically undermine these systems, but we could all do more to contribute to open source workarounds.

We could contribute more to smart tv/e-reader/phone & tablet jailbreak ecosystems. We could contribute more to the fediverse projects. We could all contribute more to make Linux more user friendly.

New comment by mason_mpls in "This is not the future"

mason_mpls — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:28:04 +0000

I personally really like Apple Vision and the bar it’s pushing. However, using one of these devices long term in a walled garden sounds like a nightmare for privacy and marketing abuse of users.

New comment by mason_mpls in "Fedora: Open-source repository for long-term digital preservation"

mason_mpls — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 01:44:33 +0000

SFTP

New comment by mason_mpls in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

mason_mpls — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 05:04:24 +0000

we’re people, not fairytale beasts

New comment by mason_mpls in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

mason_mpls — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 01:25:13 +0000

You’re confusing democracy with tyranny.

New comment by mason_mpls in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

mason_mpls — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 01:23:08 +0000

We regulate kids in all sorts of ways, this isn’t different. Kids don’t need social media to communicate.

New comment by mason_mpls in "Zebra-Llama – Towards efficient hybrid models"

mason_mpls — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 21:44:52 +0000

> Zebra-Llama achieves Transformer-level accuracy with near-SSM efficiency using only 7–11B training tokens (compared to trillions of tokens required for pre-training) and an 8B teacher. Moreover, Zebra-Llama dramatically reduces KV cache size—down to 3.9%, 2%, and 2.73% of the original for the 1B, 3B, and 8B variants, respectively—while preserving 100%, 100%, and 97% of average zero-shot performance on LM Harness tasks.

This is an extraordinary claim, is there a catch I’m missing? Am I misreading?

New comment by mason_mpls in "How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs"

mason_mpls — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 17:03:57 +0000

I think we’re mistaking incompetence with malice in regards to DOGE here

New comment by mason_mpls in "Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas"

mason_mpls — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:56:45 +0000

This assumes fair competition in the tech industry, which has evaporated without a path for return years ago.

New comment by mason_mpls in "Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg"

mason_mpls — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 02:50:15 +0000

Given the trajectory of Microsoft products it stands to reason Github’s future is uncertain. Also Git is ultimately a hosting platform that any competent software shop can recreate; the people behind the platform matter more than the platform itself.

New comment by mason_mpls in "Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg"

mason_mpls — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 02:47:32 +0000

Hopefully more projects can follow! Codeberg has a far more secure foundation to avoid unethical practices on users.

New comment by mason_mpls in "France threatens GrapheneOS with arrests / server seizure for refusing backdoors"

mason_mpls — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 19:01:09 +0000

Does this apply to other Linux Distros?

New comment by mason_mpls in "Moss Survives 9 Months in Space Vacuum"

mason_mpls — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 17:27:46 +0000

probably not to mars, europa, ganymede, or enceladus though

New comment by mason_mpls in "Apple is crossing a Steve Jobs red line"

mason_mpls — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 20:27:28 +0000

Yeah every action a company takes is immediately and completely reflected in the market cap /s