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New comment by nazgulsenpai in "FLUX 3 Image"

nazgulsenpai — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:19:59 +0000

Unless the version 3 announcement is your onboarding point, like it is for me just now. I can go research FLUX from here, but the original poster's point still holds.

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts"

nazgulsenpai — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:17:56 +0000

As an American, I don't think anyone informed has ever perceived the US as neutral, at least not since the 20th century. We have veto power with control of the US dollar, the ability of the US military to engage in any part of the world (historically, much less so in current year), and being a permanent member of the UN Security Council.

In my opinion, the sanctioning of these judges simply comes across as a petty tantrum of a nation in decline, using the remaining tools it has at it's disposal to try to get its way.

edit: typo

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "Supabase is acquiring Turso"

nazgulsenpai — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:06:35 +0000

I have only ever interfaced with sqlite querying databases created by other applications so I'm not really super familiar with the application development side of it, but I've only ever heard praise of sqlite. Out of pure curiosity, what would a better sqlite look like, aside from postgres compatibility mentioned?

World of Warcraft 1.12.1 client, written from scratch in Rust and Bevy

nazgulsenpai — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:39:43 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/samwhosung/benilla

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49931988

Points: 2

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New comment by nazgulsenpai in "Palantir founder purchases large swath of forest in Sweden"

nazgulsenpai — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 13:34:12 +0000

I mean that as the government's incestuous relationship with surveillance tech, not as a positive thing.

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "Palantir founder purchases large swath of forest in Sweden"

nazgulsenpai — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:13:53 +0000

Perhaps there's a reason Sweden wants him to have all of this land.

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "The Untold Origins of Trump's Plan to Sharply Restrict Mail-In Voting"

nazgulsenpai — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:08:54 +0000

> Beyond that, it would have inexplicably handed authority over the plan’s execution to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who has no formal oversight over the Postal Service.

Damn, that reminds me of those pesky Epstein files. But that was like 20 scandals ago, so who's paying attention.

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "Sober: We Ported Roblox to Linux"

nazgulsenpai — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:05:13 +0000

I've been using Sober for about a year to play Roblox with my daughters. It's been a seamless experience, except for about a week that I was getting Verification Captchas every time we joined a game. That was resolved when I updated the flatpak.

I love projects like this!

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "OpenAI still doesn't seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity"

nazgulsenpai — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:46:45 +0000

IMO it's because they don't want to handle their rogue AI activity. They want regulation around AI where they will inevitably be the beneficiaries even if they are the initial target. They can then lobby regulation in their favor and make the barrier of entry to competitors impossible.

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "13 Months Sober (2025)"

nazgulsenpai — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:37:45 +0000

Thank you :) I did go to AA for 3 months when I first quit. I was encouraged by all of the stories, even the horrible and negative ones. I do realize I am lucky. My ex-spouse was not so lucky. It took damn near the destruction of her life to finally stop but she's been going for about 2 years now with lots of ups and downs. I never considered it something that could be vaccinated against but now I share your hope for it someday!

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "13 Months Sober (2025)"

nazgulsenpai — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:19:39 +0000

How coincidental this appears on my timeline today, it's my 12th year sober today. I started drinking heavily when I turned 21 and it spiraled until an all day, every day thing. I even had pancreatitis when I was 28 and even when it was obvious why I just refused to see it. One night when I was 30, a drunk family member got into a physical altercation with me and I asked a friend to pick me up so I could leave. On that trip, he simply said "have you ever considered that you might be an alcoholic?" I don't know what was different about this time, but I immediately realized it -- holy shit. I never drank again after that.

Once I quit I immediately was "my old self" again. I got back into playing video games, listening to MY music instead of whatever was palatable to whomever I was drinking with, dedicating all my time and energy into my kids and my nerdy hobbies.

It might come across as silly but, if you have someone close to you who has a drinking problem, it might be worth asking them about it. They probably won't be receptive to it until the time is right, but who knows? Maybe that time is when they ask for a ride from you at 2AM.

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "I switched to Brave"

nazgulsenpai — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:28:41 +0000

I originally used Brave for mobile because I could watch YouTube with the display turned off or unfocused and it not interrupt playback and, of course, blocked adds. I quickly adopted it on desktop and everywhere else.

The sync works really well, and all of the added "features" can be easily disabled.

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "Opus 5.5 is good at explainer videos"

nazgulsenpai — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 15:57:25 +0000

How would that be different than the "Ask" button YouTube videos have now? I haven't used it much so I don't know, just curious.

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "F-Droid 2.0"

nazgulsenpai — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 15:47:10 +0000

I must admit I skimmed the altruism part and only absorbed the nerd part. You are correct.

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "Where's the Beef?: The lab-grown-meat revolution that wasn't"

nazgulsenpai — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 15:45:37 +0000

I guess you can't stop people from being wasteful, but a device intended for continuous use is still much better from an environmental perspective than one made to be disposable.

Thanks for the anecdote though, that is interesting.

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"

nazgulsenpai — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 15:41:59 +0000

Does this change the fact that they quit making subcompacts?

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"

nazgulsenpai — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:20:58 +0000

I just want my subcompacts back... I was mortified to find that the whole class had been abandoned in current year models across manufacturers :(

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini"

nazgulsenpai — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:14:14 +0000

Core memory unlocked. I remember being in my dark bedroom with he glow of the CRT playing Quake 2 grapple CTF for hours and hours. Eventually I got a Voodoo 3 in all it's 16-bit color glory.

It's wild how hazy those memories are becoming. Getting old is weird.

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"

nazgulsenpai — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:54:21 +0000

NixOS is Linux.

New comment by nazgulsenpai in "Is A.I. Above the Law?"

nazgulsenpai — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:48:33 +0000

Maybe I'm too cynical but the same AI companies that have pretty much endless lobbying dollars, massive government contracts, have the ear of just about every powerful politician and bureaucrat in DC, are influencing the laws and regulations. Add judges that don't understand the technology to that and it doesn't seem likely that we will ever see any actual consequences, unless something catastrophic happens and those same politicians and bureaucrats need a scapegoat. If they ever do have "consequences" it will be some trivial fine.