Hacker News: mottershttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mottersHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 23 Jul 2026 02:44:03 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by motters in "A single-file C allocator with explicit heaps and tuning knobs"]]>As a long time C coder I checked this out, because I have my own malloc replacement. The source code is nonsensical garbage.

]]>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:15:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556534mottershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556534https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47556534<![CDATA[Epicyon ActivityPub server version 1.6.0 release]]>Article URL: https://libreserver.org/epicyon/v1_6_0.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42565237

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]]>Wed, 01 Jan 2025 10:45:34 +0000https://libreserver.org/epicyon/v1_6_0.htmlmottershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42565237https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42565237<![CDATA[Epicyon Release Version 1.5.0]]>Article URL: https://libreserver.org/epicyon/v1_5_0.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39088085

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]]>Mon, 22 Jan 2024 10:37:16 +0000https://libreserver.org/epicyon/v1_5_0.htmlmottershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39088085https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39088085<![CDATA[New comment by motters in "Embodiment is indispensable for AGI"]]>It's not embodiment that's important so much as situatedness. An agent can be situated without having a physical instantiation.

An agent which does not have a place or time is not recognisable as being autonomous, or capable of recognising others as such.

]]>Wed, 08 Jun 2022 07:21:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31664322mottershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31664322https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31664322<![CDATA[New comment by motters in "EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batteries in household items"]]>I hope that this will also apply to mobile phones.

]]>Sun, 13 Mar 2022 15:52:18 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30662359mottershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30662359https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30662359<![CDATA[New comment by motters in "Ask HN: Would Spreadsheets with Lisps be much more powerful?"]]>The answer is quite likely to be yes. But then when you consider who is the primary typical user of a spreadsheet and ask yourself "are they likely to learn Lisp?" then the answer is no.

]]>Sat, 12 Jun 2021 08:57:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27482901mottershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27482901https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27482901<![CDATA[New comment by motters in "MediaGoblin – Self Hosted, Decentralized​ Alt to YouTube, Flickr, SoundCloud"]]>Mediagoblin is also available as an app on Freedombone (https://freedombone.net)

]]>Thu, 25 May 2017 09:02:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14416130mottershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14416130https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14416130<![CDATA[New comment by motters in "Is the GPL Really Declining?"]]>For software I've written while working at companies I didn't have control over the license choice, but for that which I've written voluntarily nearly all of it (and there's quite a laundry list now) is under GPL or AGPL. This is because, as some other comments have mentioned, I want any other users of the software to have the same capabilities to change it as I did. I don't want there to be secret proprietary versions which then get distributed in closed form denying the potential for participation.

The ability of users to have genuine control over their systems has been under sustained attack for a long time. I may be only one developer but at least I can make a small ding in the dark empire of bad software practices.

]]>Thu, 04 May 2017 17:15:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14266684mottershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14266684https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14266684<![CDATA[New comment by motters in "UK government pushing ahead with surveillance powers bill"]]>"If you live here, even if you are the poorest person in the country, you are rich beyond the dreams of half the population of the world"

Really? Have you ever been in The Work Programme? Have you ever visited a food bank? Have you ever had neighbours pleading with you for food for their children because they have no money? You can prefer to live inside of a cosy bubble of ignorance if you wish, but this is the UK in 2016.

]]>Wed, 02 Mar 2016 08:19:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11208704mottershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11208704https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11208704<![CDATA[New comment by motters in "UK government pushing ahead with surveillance powers bill"]]>As someone who has always been a UK citizen and is old enough to remember decades past I can say with confidence that this statement is not accurate.

]]>Wed, 02 Mar 2016 08:13:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11208691mottershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11208691https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11208691<![CDATA[New comment by motters in "UK government pushing ahead with surveillance powers bill"]]>The BBC is very much a state run organization. The people who ultimately decide what happens to the BBC - The BBC Trust - are appointed by "queen in council", which in practice means government ministers.

]]>Wed, 02 Mar 2016 08:10:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11208676mottershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11208676https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11208676<![CDATA[New comment by motters in "GNU Social, a FLOSS alternative to Twitter"]]>I think GNU Social should be pretty scalable, and that's because it's not a centralized paradigm with all users in one titanic database. Currently I'm running my own instance (one user on the server) and then federating with the rest, so that kind of setup should be scalable to the size of the web.

]]>Tue, 09 Feb 2016 18:00:46 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11067248mottershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11067248https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11067248<![CDATA[New comment by motters in "GNU Social, a FLOSS alternative to Twitter"]]>Again that may just be the wrong paradigm. If you are especially concerned about disappearance of a server then just run your own installation. This is partially why I'm making debian packages for GNU Social, to make that process easy.

There isn't really any "different federation". You just follow whoever you want to follow, regardless of what server they're on.

]]>Tue, 09 Feb 2016 17:44:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11067106mottershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11067106https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11067106<![CDATA[New comment by motters in "GNU Social, a FLOSS alternative to Twitter"]]>It's just not a centralized paradigm. Joining an existing server means you'll be subject to whatever moderation policy the admin has. Or you can just run your own server and then federate with the rest, as I do.

]]>Tue, 09 Feb 2016 14:12:38 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11065340mottershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11065340https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11065340<![CDATA[New comment by motters in "GNU Social, a FLOSS alternative to Twitter"]]>Although I dislike capitalism in general I think that message should be changed to something more neutral. Maybe some capitalists might want to have their own GNU Social site where they can boast about swindling, exploitation and their beloved centralization of everything.

In my debian package for the qvitter plugin that message already gets replaced, but I can also submit a patch upstream.

]]>Tue, 09 Feb 2016 10:50:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11064494mottershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11064494https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11064494<![CDATA[New comment by motters in "GNU Social, a FLOSS alternative to Twitter"]]>I run a system called Freedombone, and maintenance of GNU Social is not really an issue. If I'm not actively working on it there is no maintenance involved.

]]>Tue, 09 Feb 2016 10:44:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11064474mottershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11064474https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11064474<![CDATA[New comment by motters in "GNU Social, a FLOSS alternative to Twitter"]]>GNU Social is on the road map for FreedomBox and that's why I've recently been making debian packages for it.

]]>Tue, 09 Feb 2016 10:41:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11064465mottershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11064465https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11064465<![CDATA[New comment by motters in "GNU Social, a FLOSS alternative to Twitter"]]>I've recently been making some debian packages for GNU Social, if anyone wants to try them out.

https://git.gnu.io/bashrc/gnusocial-debian https://git.gnu.io/bashrc/gnusocial-qvitter-debian

In particular it's the qvitter plugin which makes this system really usable, both on desktop and mobile.

]]>Tue, 09 Feb 2016 10:39:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11064455mottershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11064455https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11064455<![CDATA[Hubzilla 1.0 “Pacific Sunrise”]]>Article URL: https://macgirvin.com/page/mike/hubzilla-1&JS=1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10675355

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]]>Fri, 04 Dec 2015 09:13:40 +0000https://macgirvin.com/page/mike/hubzilla-1&JS=1mottershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10675355https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10675355<![CDATA[New comment by motters in "Maybe This Global Slowdown Is Different"]]>I hope it's not another recession. We've not even recovered from the last one yet.

]]>Thu, 03 Sep 2015 12:27:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10164508mottershttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10164508https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10164508