Hacker News: nickserv

New comment by nickserv in "Leaking YouTube creators' private videos"

nickserv — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 21:55:04 +0000

Programmers work on trains too, you know. Some of the busiest metro lines in the world are fully automated, pretty sure that code is held to a higher standard than some shitty YouTube feature.

New comment by nickserv in "Qualcomm Linux 2.0"

nickserv — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 15:59:02 +0000

The problem with MacBook is that they have a shit OS...

New comment by nickserv in "Germany: Hottest temperature on record 41.3C (106.3°F)"

nickserv — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 15:05:53 +0000

Can't help but notice all the Aramco ads during the world cup.

"Who could have foreseen this would happen?"

New comment by nickserv in "Canada plans 'nuclear renaissance' with up to 10 reactors built by 2040"

nickserv — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 01:15:56 +0000

France has higher prices than several EU countries.

Spain in particular has low prices thanks to their solar and wind, and the Nordics thanks to hydro.

New comment by nickserv in "DHL Set to Transport Goods on New Wind-Powered Cargo Ships"

nickserv — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:29:55 +0000

This will be great for their customer service, now they'll have a new excuse for losing your package.

New comment by nickserv in "There is minimal downside to switching to open models"

nickserv — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 09:08:38 +0000

EU member *countries" certainly do, but that's true of all countries that have the ability.

If anything the EU puts limits on what EU member countries and companies can do. By hosting in one of the EU countries you have stronger legal guarantees on data privacy than in any other area. A possible exception is Switzerland (not a EU member), which historically has had even stronger privacy laws, though these have been weakened recently IIRC.

New comment by nickserv in "Microsoft new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly"

nickserv — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 14:27:15 +0000

Lots of games run just fine on Wine. Those that don't, usually work on Steam/Proton.

New comment by nickserv in "Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users"

nickserv — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:03:35 +0000

And yet still has more personality than the latest Ferrari.

New comment by nickserv in "Commodore Releases Flip Phone"

nickserv — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:52:14 +0000

The restrictions are a good fit for children under 16.

As a parent you want to be able to reach them, and they want to reach their friend.

And as a parent you not want them waste their minds on YouTube garbage.

New comment by nickserv in "I hacked into the worst e-bike and fixed it [video]"

nickserv — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 11:25:41 +0000

It shows that you don't need to know how to code to succeed in this type of project.

As someone who does know how to code, I find the approach to be great, as it can motivate others to try similar projects.

New comment by nickserv in "Reverse engineering the Creative Katana soundbar to control it from Linux"

nickserv — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:19:07 +0000

That any of this needed I would consider a form of social failure, a path to a future where only corporate entities can own anything.

Much respect for the hacking. Clawing back some freedom in a world determined to take it away.

New comment by nickserv in "Euro-Office: First version of the open-source web office is here"

nickserv — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:11:44 +0000

The developer is "Ascensio System SIA", and they are located in Riga, Latvia.

Why the mention of Russian developers?

New comment by nickserv in "Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time"

nickserv — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:57:18 +0000

You mean the "US-Israel war of aggression against Iran"?

Let's not avoid assigning responsibility when it is so clear.

New comment by nickserv in "Ultra-processed foods in the global food system: The role of tobacco companies"

nickserv — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:46:05 +0000

By that logic all sorts of technical and scientific terms would be "meaningless".

Seems like playing semantics, to not say disingenuous, using "meaningless" to mean "unknown", when the former clearly has a negative connotation.

New comment by nickserv in "US tobacco firms applied tobacco strategies to globalize ultra-processed foods"

nickserv — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:15:35 +0000

> Weight gain has basically happened across the whole developed world

Could it be that maybe, maybe, there is a link to this and the subject of the paper being discussed?

New comment by nickserv in "Ultra-processed foods in the global food system: The role of tobacco companies"

nickserv — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:03:20 +0000

It's absolutely not a meaningless term, it's a classification in the Nova standard:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_classification

And regarding health risks, please ask your doctor about your consumption. You may be surprised.

New comment by nickserv in "Ask HN: Is the web for machines (/llm.txt) the one we wished we had as humans?"

nickserv — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:59:12 +0000

I'm seeing quite a bit of request for these on my work's GitBook documentation site.

But perhaps these are developers specifically targeting these pages to feed whatever LLM they are using.

New comment by nickserv in "Ask HN: Is the web for machines (/llm.txt) the one we wished we had as humans?"

nickserv — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:56:04 +0000

> a blogging platform with around 80k blogs

But nah, I'm sure OP doesn't know about CDNs.

New comment by nickserv in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

nickserv — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:22:03 +0000

Linux are also more likely to contribute bug reports and crash dumps.

Security conscious doesn't mean not getting involved with the community and helping useful projects.

New comment by nickserv in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

nickserv — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:18:13 +0000

You can try running in gamescope, although in my experience Wayland has not been an issue. The few games I have that gave me problems in Wine didn't work any better when using an X11 session.