Hacker News: mcosta

New comment by mcosta in "Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones"

mcosta — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:39:51 +0000

It is even worse, tax money is used for the military.

New comment by mcosta in "Dopamine Fracking"

mcosta — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:08:07 +0000

And these streets are always full

New comment by mcosta in "Dopamine Fracking"

mcosta — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:06:17 +0000

What is the average salary in that town?

New comment by mcosta in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

mcosta — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:45:15 +0000

privacy concious people use wayland

New comment by mcosta in "Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL"

mcosta — Sun, 31 May 2026 22:33:39 +0000

How do you know it followed the redirect and downloaded the image?

New comment by mcosta in "Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion"

mcosta — Fri, 29 May 2026 11:15:02 +0000

> more complex devices were introduced

And people buys them because they don't care

New comment by mcosta in "Say No to Palantir in Europe"

mcosta — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:47:04 +0000

Europe needs its own Palatir

New comment by mcosta in "AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox"

mcosta — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:29:04 +0000

Capex vs opex?

New comment by mcosta in "What your Bluetooth devices reveal"

mcosta — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 20:49:56 +0000

what do you gain doing this?

New comment by mcosta in "KDE launches its own distribution"

mcosta — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 13:24:22 +0000

Neon has 2 flavors, developer and user. The user one is stable.

New comment by mcosta in "KDE launches its own distribution"

mcosta — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 13:23:39 +0000

I love neon, so it is a tie.

New comment by mcosta in "We Found the Hidden Cost of Data Centers. It's in Your Electric Bill [video]"

mcosta — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 15:02:53 +0000

Then talk to your local politician

New comment by mcosta in "Evidence that AI is destroying jobs for young people"

mcosta — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 12:04:22 +0000

For some people, everyone else is nazi.

New comment by mcosta in "The National Design Studio is a scam"

mcosta — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 08:54:53 +0000

Was 18F working?

New comment by mcosta in "Denmark summons top US diplomat over alleged Greenland influence operation"

mcosta — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 11:00:26 +0000

Who is going to fight the revolution?

New comment by mcosta in "The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years"

mcosta — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 19:39:50 +0000

choco needs admin rights, something corporate minions, as me, does not always have.

scoop works always as user.

New comment by mcosta in "Valve Software handbook for new employees [pdf] (2012)"

mcosta — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 18:49:46 +0000

That article is 12 years old. In those days he had hope for a Half Life 3.

New comment by mcosta in "Zedless: Zed fork focused on privacy and being local-first"

mcosta — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 09:37:04 +0000

This fork is useful as a zero user value auto filter for zed.

New comment by mcosta in "Lessons learned from buying an open source repo"

mcosta — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 10:30:38 +0000

In the old days using 301 permanent redirect to carry the mojo to the new domain was SEO 101.

I don't know these days ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

New comment by mcosta in "QUIC for the kernel"

mcosta — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 08:52:54 +0000

DMA transfers and NIC offloading