Hacker News: nexoft

New comment by nexoft in "Proton spam and the AI consent problem"

nexoft — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 08:07:22 +0000

Proton have a real problem with intrusive practices. 2 things that happened on the span of 2 years and almost got me to leave them :

1 - there was a persistent, very visible at all time big ass button on the Proton-Mail UI asking/suggesting to upgrade to a more premium plan, while I was already a paid customer. It was done in a way that was so wrong. Never experienced such frustrating things elsewhere even with my 99% full google drive.

2 - This must’ve been 2022 or 2023 Black Friday/cyber Monday season and there was a persistant, hardcoded, very annoying pop up that would immediately spawn each time I was opening Proton-Mail, asking me against to upgrade to the more premium plan than the premium I had, this will spawn every time I refresh despite hitting “don’t show this again”.

There are so many slick and smart way to get customer to use more services. Shoving unsolicited pop ups and spams is the worst thing you could do for your brand. I even start to wonder about their core values of privacy and whatnot, they play the suiss neutral privacy friendly so badly, their head of marketing is either so bad and should be fired or we going to discover another [Crypto AG](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crypto_AG) scandal.

New comment by nexoft in "An LLM is a lossy encyclopedia"

nexoft — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 09:38:35 +0000

I don't understand these low effort, superficial takes on complex topics from non-specialists trying to get visibility.\ This is literally 101 neural network/deep learning fact you learn when you are introduced to LLMs : it is a non-lossless compression of large dataset.

[Anredj Karpathy first minutes of Intro to Large Language Models / 4Min20](https://youtu.be/zjkBMFhNj_g?t=257)

Training is a compression of a huge chunk of the internet.

The replies and interactions looks like a bunch of agentic models discussing with each others. Nobody is real.

New comment by nexoft in "Prompt engineering playbook for programmers"

nexoft — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 22:08:16 +0000

"prompt engineering" ....ouch. I would say "common sense"\ also the problem with software engineering is that there is an inflation of SWE, too much people applying for it for compensation level rather than being good at it and really liking it, we ended up having a lot of bad software engineers that requires this crutch crap.

New comment by nexoft in "One-Click RCE in Asus's Preinstalled Driver Software"

nexoft — Sun, 11 May 2025 08:04:22 +0000

I've read Acer for some reason, and was surprise and disappointed it is actually Asus.

New comment by nexoft in "AI Answers over Search: Is Google Digging Its Own Grave?"

nexoft — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 23:23:27 +0000

SEO Strategist sounds like "Prompt Engineer" i.e not involved in the foundational creation of the tools and their back-end, understanding their internal mechanics, what is really to create a "Search" engine and how it works but you're rather reverse engineering and heuristically guessing how they work on surface. In essence you're optimizing keywords to improve a resource reach for a search engine, until the said search engine changes its ranking algorithm. Because of this I cant really give credit to what you are stating. Plus this really felt like hyping Grok out of nowhere with those cringe screenshots of tweets as if they were made up, until you hype something else weeks later and post about how Perplexity AI will kill OpenAI (They won't, they are a ChatGPT wrapper). Google is presumed dead multiple times per month. Read their financial statement, Search is literally their Life insurance, don't you think they have their best guys on it?

New comment by nexoft in "Stimulation Clicker"

nexoft — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 22:27:29 +0000

I was sucked in it for 1 hour

New comment by nexoft in "Review of Mullvad VPN"

nexoft — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 22:34:39 +0000

not if he is using his neighors

maybe he is using tor on top of it

who knows

New comment by nexoft in "Serving AI from the Basement – 192GB of VRAM Setup"

nexoft — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 20:43:57 +0000

kind of violent approach but I agree on the bottom line. I don't see why should somebody be enthousiast about this. someone was just able to spend 8× the figures a random teen is able to spend for his gaming rig, and he just iterated the teen's rig 8 times, he then installed ubuntu+cuda and called it a day.

something that is actually interesting that is attempting to bring something on the table : check tinygrad/tinycorp

New comment by nexoft in "EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control"

nexoft — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 10:55:09 +0000

I thought we safe and beyond these kind of considerations, especially in the EU, since the wikileaks/snowden/shelsea manning era? Aren’t we? Well, I guess you should never take something for granted…

New comment by nexoft in "FFmpeg Asks Intel for a Server"

nexoft — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 10:52:44 +0000

Timestamp : https://youtu.be/5imrulocDlY?t=771

New comment by nexoft in "Cloudflare took down our website"

nexoft — Sun, 26 May 2024 20:30:47 +0000

1-The gambling business is shady by design, whether you like it or not. This was probably more risk than benefit for them based on what they were getting from you.

2-Your business is probably very profitable, and $300 a month is very cheap compared to the potential hassles they could face working with such a business.

3-I find it very inappropriate to dox business representatives and show names when you have carefully hidden any information regarding yourself and haven't even disclosed your company name.

After all they can choose with whom they want to do business. They gauged what price they could ask you, factoring in how profitable your business is and how noisy and painful it might be to work with you. It sucks but this is the downside of SaaS/PaaS.

New comment by nexoft in "How Are Microchips Made? – Branch Education [video]"

nexoft — Fri, 17 May 2024 13:25:42 +0000

Incredible production on their part, learned a lot. a few content creators spend this much time and effort and are eager to deliver such detailed content on such niche subject.

New comment by nexoft in "Edit PDFs for Free with Firefox PDF Editor"

nexoft — Fri, 17 May 2024 07:57:32 +0000

This is a good feature that I didn't know about as a Firefox user, can't they get a little bit aggressive, just like MSFT when you want to use Edge to download Chrome, and put a big arrow near the edit button the first time you open a PDF in Firefox? or something similar so people would know about it.

New comment by nexoft in "Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure"

nexoft — Mon, 13 May 2024 14:13:37 +0000

indeed you are right, I did read the opposite for some reason.

New comment by nexoft in "Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure"

nexoft — Mon, 13 May 2024 11:41:52 +0000

Same In the EU, no ones that's legit uses Telegram, except scammers that you can run into in local "graigslist" website.

New comment by nexoft in "Bitwarden just launched a new authenticator app"

nexoft — Thu, 02 May 2024 16:01:17 +0000

Just started ditching Salesforce Auth for Google Auth. I use bw password manager and I like it. why the hell not.

New comment by nexoft in "Linux Mint Looks to Fork More Gnome Software, Make XApp More Independent"

nexoft — Wed, 01 May 2024 09:53:19 +0000

are you implying that the comment above praising Mint is LLM-generated?

New comment by nexoft in "Equinox.space"

nexoft — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 14:55:06 +0000

bien joué!

New comment by nexoft in "AWS must pay $525M to cloud storage patent holder, says jury"

nexoft — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 00:50:15 +0000

yikes, patent trolls man.

New comment by nexoft in "WhatsApp Outage"

nexoft — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 20:36:26 +0000

The issue I noticed is I still could make calls from and to local numbers (+33 to +33) but not from/to foreign numbers (+33 to +else)