<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: mrd3v0</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mrd3v0</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:47:44 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mrd3v0" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mrd3v0 in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Unless the website is completely broken or the devs force me to download the app by blocking features<p>That's already the norm.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:55:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47661754</link><dc:creator>mrd3v0</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47661754</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47661754</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mrd3v0 in "The future is not self-hosted, but self-sovereign"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Are you aware of this <a href="https://signal.org/blog/a-synchronized-start-for-linked-devices/" rel="nofollow">https://signal.org/blog/a-synchronized-start-for-linked-devi...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2025 19:37:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44703957</link><dc:creator>mrd3v0</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44703957</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44703957</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mrd3v0 in "HN Slop: AI startup ideas generated from Hacker News"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> not apparently being done by a bot<p>LLMs will make this very hard to detect, very soon if not already.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 11:55:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44442604</link><dc:creator>mrd3v0</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44442604</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44442604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mrd3v0 in "Our Slack is dead. Long live Zulip"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is just one comment on Y Combinator's link aggregation service. People who haven't tried starting a serious FOSS project, do not understand how unsustainable it is. Funny thing is, like you mentioned, the monetisation isn't even imposed on the software itself, the entire software is free. It is on the *gratis* service to host it.<p>Entitlement knows no bounds. Don't worry about those disheartening comments, they are not coming from a place of genuine concern.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2025 09:00:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43944233</link><dc:creator>mrd3v0</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43944233</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43944233</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mrd3v0 in "Amazon says workers must be in the office. The UK government disagrees"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The failure of the organization to meet productivity expectations without questionable forms of psychophysiological manipulation of employees should not be met with open arms.<p>Yes, it <i>can</i> be effective to deploy such methods over the limited physical access to employees, but ultimately it is an unsustainable method of control that arguably breeds a cohort of disinterested middle managers over time. A successful organization for its goals has the most motivated workers, needless of such methods of control.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Sep 2024 11:31:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41624936</link><dc:creator>mrd3v0</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41624936</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41624936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mrd3v0 in "EA is prototyping in-game ads even as we speak"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ads are manipulation, that is not a reputation, that is a definition. There is no logical conclusion that omits a message from being classified as both an ad and manipulative. One can't come without the other. An ad is non-consensual. You don't ask for ads. The ads don't answer questions you specifically are asking, they are exploiting your demographic using keywords and phrases their research shows to be effective towards influencing your decision making to doing exactly what they want (selling you something.)<p>If you really think ads are not by definition intrusive, I am curious to reconsider my stance.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2024 13:21:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40327880</link><dc:creator>mrd3v0</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40327880</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40327880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mrd3v0 in "Apple should end their Google search partnership (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Google is pretty much unusable today if you don't look for specific websites. If you are using it to look up information, learn or discover new things in the web it is just SEO LLM spam. Features like shopping and LLM-powered Q&A are quite misleading and potentially dangerous for a trusting user.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 04:27:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40282339</link><dc:creator>mrd3v0</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40282339</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40282339</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mrd3v0 in "TOTP Authenticator for PalmOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>UI/UX patents? Outside of the US it is hard to see how a court would validate that. IIRC they are excluded from patentability in the EU.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2024 04:21:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40282299</link><dc:creator>mrd3v0</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40282299</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40282299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mrd3v0 in "Stack Overflow and OpenAI are partnering"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I understand, and even agree with the notion that deep societal distrust is unhealthy and problematic, however, that doesn't necessarily answer the question of needing that trust in the first place [to regulate]. Having a company with that much power is in fact harder to regulate, which in turn means we are going to have to trust the public institutions even more to do their jobs.<p>I don't see why we should put ourselves in a position where we need that kind of trust. Another way to put it is, why burden the government with an unsustainable uncompetitive market? For what?<p>OpenAI is a for-profit private corporation with a commercial service to offer that has no bearing on the most important concerns the government is elected each year to tackle.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2024 15:40:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40275913</link><dc:creator>mrd3v0</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40275913</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40275913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mrd3v0 in "Google rolls back reCaptcha update to fix Firefox issues"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And how many 'innocent' didn't-test-it-enough targetted user agent incidents do we have to witness in order to call it what it is and stop making excuses?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2024 09:15:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40256119</link><dc:creator>mrd3v0</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40256119</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40256119</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mrd3v0 in "Svelte 5 release candidate (RC)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Keep in mind there is a large performance gap between them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2024 11:41:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40221924</link><dc:creator>mrd3v0</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40221924</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40221924</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mrd3v0 in "Re: Why Host Emacs Packages on GitHub? (Microsoft vs Freedom)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This utilitarian point of view quickly crumbles once it stops naïvely looking at profit-driven organisations as anything but what they actually are: money-making machines. The first and foremost goal is the money, not the software, certainly not the end this POV claims the means maximise for. It is not a possibility, it is a certainty, especially given that $MSFT is a publicly-traded organisations with legally financial obligations to its shareholders.<p>Framing actual long-term sustainble practices and policies as "ideological purity" is misleading at best and a textbook example of a strawman at worst.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 10:48:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40209517</link><dc:creator>mrd3v0</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40209517</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40209517</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mrd3v0 in "Valkey Is Rapidly Overtaking Redis"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This new narrative makes it as if backdoors started existing the moment xz happened. As if that wasn't always a threat, and that xz more than anything did prove that free software is a lot more resilient than to suffer similar attacks that have happened and will continue to happen without public acknowlegement or as much publicity in unfree software/SaaS.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2024 22:48:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40092775</link><dc:creator>mrd3v0</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40092775</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40092775</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mrd3v0 in "Software glitch saw Aussie casino give away millions in cash"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is not, and the gambling casino's business shouldn't be protected by law.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 17:07:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40078412</link><dc:creator>mrd3v0</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40078412</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40078412</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mrd3v0 in "Europe gives TikTok 24 hours to explain 'addictive and toxic' new app"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Maybe that is what we need. Maybe we are in need of a moral panic to address the massive concerns of mental health, surveillance, misinformation and others that built up over the years with the rise of social media, smartphones and the centralisation of the internet.</p>
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<p>Yeah, it will be interesting to see how they are going to avoid an "OpenAI" situation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Apr 2024 11:55:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40075229</link><dc:creator>mrd3v0</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40075229</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40075229</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mrd3v0 in "We need to rewild the internet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No, we don't. The issue was never and will never be the content, it is with the curation and mobility deeply and systemically taken over by social media and smart phone makers. If Google displays spam and AI generated nonsense, and almost everyone relies on it (including those who use "alternative front-ends"), then how do you expect anyone to find a healthy internet? Even if the "extractive and fragile monoculture" made up 0.001% of the internet, it doesn't matter if people can never reach the 99.999%.</p>
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<p>Would've been a prime candidate to have a recursive acronym as its name.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 11:35:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40050755</link><dc:creator>mrd3v0</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40050755</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40050755</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mrd3v0 in "Fast, Declarative, Reproduble and Composable Developer Environments Using Nix"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have been using this for a while, great project!<p>Though something that annoyed me with the recent v1 release is that it changed the default repository where it pulls the package definitions from Nix's official to a fork made by the author.<p>That is dangerous and also lags behind an incredibly active and large upstream.<p>If you want to patch things, use proper Nix overrides or apply the patches using devenv code, don't fork a +80,000-big rolling release package repository.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2024 16:05:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40014439</link><dc:creator>mrd3v0</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40014439</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40014439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mrd3v0 in "OpenTofu may be showing us the wrong way to fork"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is not really hard to put two and two together about what a source-available software company's developer relations person has to gain by publishing a hit piece on community forks that are created to oppose source-available licences.<p>That aside, it is literally in the title "developer relations." I am not sure what is outrageous in pointing that out.</p>
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