Hacker News: meibo

New comment by meibo in "[dead]"

meibo — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 18:40:53 +0000

You should try asking ChatGPT to just write you a single paragraph instead next time, it would have the same amount of information and maybe it wouldn't be so obvious

New comment by meibo in "WebMCP is available for early preview"

meibo — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:54:42 +0000

That's by design, their own agents running on their hardware in their network will pass every recaptcha on every customer site

New comment by meibo in "15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram"

meibo — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 07:23:52 +0000

Glorp 5.3 Fast Thinking actually steals this diagram correctly for me locally so I think everyone here is wrong

New comment by meibo in "cURL removes bug bounties"

meibo — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 09:58:15 +0000

Most of the drive-by LLM PRs we get are useless, waste our time and are super verbose on top of that. I don't review code like that anymore.

New comment by meibo in "Steam "Offline" status leaks exact login timestamps (Valve: Won't Fix)"

meibo — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 23:51:14 +0000

No, you are correct, that is a HackerOne employee filtering the report before someone at Valve looks at it, a lot of companies have this set up and it's not great.

I would be surprised if responsible Valve staff would agree that this is not something they should fix at some point.

New comment by meibo in "Fil-Qt: A Qt Base build with Fil-C experience"

meibo — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 01:37:05 +0000

It's not done yet.

New comment by meibo in "KDE onboarding is good now"

meibo — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 04:46:13 +0000

Quality open source work does not materialize out of existence for free. If you don't want to drive your project through a corporate sponsor that will want to steer it, this is the only way.

And as you can see in the post, this is not just code, it's also people being hired to do docs, planning, conferences, community, design work, web dev, things that are rarely done well in open source because they are hard and people can get paid for them elsewhere.

New comment by meibo in "Fahrplan – 39C3"

meibo — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 11:40:14 +0000

There has been plenty of direct action in recent years, but I can't really think of any on a global scale. Lots of smaller things on a German level, like journalists reporting about infiltrating a Great Replacement conference hosted by the second biggest political party here.

New comment by meibo in "Fahrplan – 39C3"

meibo — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 10:17:31 +0000

CCC always has been explicit far left/green, looking at its history, as other people in here have mentioned.

I think it would be fair to say that the club as a whole has become more open about that, I think that's more owed to a lot of folks driving initiatives feeling like the walls are closing in on them though and I can't exactly fault them for that :)

New comment by meibo in "Fahrplan – 39C3"

meibo — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 09:58:48 +0000

Culture changes. Hacker culture in Europe changed too, young people are moving up and taking positions in local organizations. You didn't change with it, and you're not open to accepting that change, so you are feeling out of place - that's simply how this works.

A lot of those people will feel welcomed and will be treated with respect that they don't usually get everywhere else. They decided to embrace that, it comes at a cost - like you feeling weirded out and not showing up - but they're probably fine with that being your problem to figure out.

New comment by meibo in "COM Like a Bomb: Rust Outlook Add-in"

meibo — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:30:44 +0000

I will say that I'm surprised no other LLM picked this up, since the issue should be somewhat evident to people familiar with C++ and how COM works. COM APIs cannot represent "owned" strings.

Still better than whatever JS rats nest they came up with for the new Outlook.

New comment by meibo in "Framework Sponsors CachyOS"

meibo — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 01:25:28 +0000

I think you should read DHHs recent non-technical blog posts (highlights like "As I remember London") and make your own mind up about that. Me and a lot of other people on the internet want nothing to do with it.

New comment by meibo in "Framework Sponsors CachyOS"

meibo — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 22:33:06 +0000

If someone at work was writing blog posts with white-supremacist code, then yes, I would probably go to HR and they would probably get in trouble. Maybe they wouldn't be fired, but they would be placed on another team. And then the people on that team would find the blog posts, and the same thing would happen, and they would probably be let go at some point.

Because people that do that type of thing usually cannot shut up about it.

New comment by meibo in "Vodafone Germany is changing the open internet, one peering connection at a time"

meibo — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:01:21 +0000

The Telekom story mentioned in this article is 100% as bad as they make it out to be, most of the users we support with issues reaching our services are with Telekom Germany. Or in an authoritarian nation that blocks access to western services.

New comment by meibo in "I’m worried that they put co-pilot in Excel"

meibo — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 13:06:09 +0000

That will never happen, AI cannot be allowed to fail, so we'll be paying for that AI bail-out.

New comment by meibo in "Abu Dhabi royal family to take stake in TikTok US"

meibo — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 13:44:31 +0000

It's fine, I don't think he can tell the difference.

New comment by meibo in "The Asus gaming laptop ACPI firmware bug"

meibo — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 13:28:15 +0000

I don't even bother anymore, it feels like word vomit to me. This could probably be half its length.

New comment by meibo in "Hosting a website on a disposable vape"

meibo — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:43:54 +0000

You've misunderstood the assignment if you don't reuse those, they are perfectly fine for that and will last a long time. Just have one in your bag or car. I've even reused paper bags for more than half a year since the ban.

New comment by meibo in "Legal win"

meibo — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 02:36:28 +0000

Maybe he might be winning in courts, but I will never depend on any WordPress.com service again. Don't play with your users and developers that have supported you for more than a decade this childishly. Your public image will not recover from this.

New comment by meibo in "How to rig elections [video]"

meibo — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 20:50:01 +0000

Not to mention that one of the major issues in that debate (for the supposedly "centrist" party) was abortion rights - even though most of her views on the topic were fairly in line with other sitting judges.

It's now alleged that this was caused by a disinformation campaign targeting MPs of that party.

https://www.volksverpetzer.de/analyse/brosius-gersdorf-union...