Hacker News: nixosbestos

New comment by nixosbestos in "Gemini 4 Argon is now available for everyone"

nixosbestos — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 21:55:26 +0000

This is a week-old blog post, and I sure still do not have access to Argon in Antigravity. (I'm a Pixel Pro AI user, and thus not a "paying AI Pro" user)

New comment by nixosbestos in "Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help"

nixosbestos — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 13:17:44 +0000

> me hate him coz media told me so

What an amazingly dumbass thing to say. Yes, there's no reasons why a person would rationally dislike Elon, sure.

I hope you realize how people perceive you when you utter such inanity.

New comment by nixosbestos in "Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen"

nixosbestos — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 11:36:58 +0000

What a time to be a radical centrist - the AI haters seem out of touch, the AI thought leaders can't stop huffing their farts and being condescending, and somehow this is on the top of HN. What a silly time.

New comment by nixosbestos in "Apple and a Hacker's Future"

nixosbestos — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 11:11:27 +0000

I feel like this article was all over the place. Also, this person was really running a macOS box raw on the Internet, no firewall, nothing? :/

New comment by nixosbestos in "Ask HN: Hypothesis: Cellular providers are deprioritizing voice calls?"

nixosbestos — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 23:46:55 +0000

What on Earth are you talking about? Pixel Call Screening has been around a while (~2 years, at least), and definitely can be turned off.

New comment by nixosbestos in "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"

nixosbestos — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 21:49:40 +0000

Fuck X, and this place while we're at it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49403658

Cost me $500 (to a good charity, oh well) and guess what, I was fucking right. I have subby-tendancies but some of you put me to shame. Me personally? I don't like the taste of rubber.

lol, go try to just even sign up for a new X account and let me know how that goes. god damn sycophancy.

New comment by nixosbestos in "Flock worker calls police on reporter filming public camera installation"

nixosbestos — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 14:16:29 +0000

No, it hasn't. And yeah, man, I hope hackers give a shit about YC and Flock enabling the dismantlement of any semblance of privacy, and normalizing total surveillance culture.

New comment by nixosbestos in "Eating Fruit Skins"

nixosbestos — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 13:38:33 +0000

The golden ones (as opposed the green variety that are more common in the US) are significantly tastier (at least, universally shared opinion among everyone I forced to try them) and have basically no fuzz/hair.

New comment by nixosbestos in "Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence"

nixosbestos — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:47:46 +0000

Matt, ... just log out and take a break.

New comment by nixosbestos in "Nitter and XCancel resume service after legal advice"

nixosbestos — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 19:19:54 +0000

There's always the big bad scary word, "decentralization".

But of course, even among HNers, there's amazing cognitive dissonance among "decentralization is hard and takes effort" and "omg, of course the next centralized platform won't be bought by an insecure dictator-wannabe".

I'm not that old, it's played out over and over. I shouldn't even comment here. Decentralization or bust.

New comment by nixosbestos in "Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions"

nixosbestos — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:04:35 +0000

the end of that post sure did turn out a disaster and I'm not even sure what I meant. Pretty... awful.

I do know how to spell ostracized ? I'm not sure if that's what I meant? Truly a mess.

New comment by nixosbestos in "Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions"

nixosbestos — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:48:54 +0000

I say this as someone does NOT disable JS in my main browser (because like, I have a job), but also knows a fair bit about why Firefox inside Tails now restarts in some cases...

It's the classic thing. Across every gdmf metric, excluding with "true empathy", no one *gives a fuck* until it affects them, or someone within (1-3) degrees of separatation. And having broad empathy is generally a good way to get yourself labeled/astrocized: both about as obvious "compriate" and obvious "adversary".

New comment by nixosbestos in "'People are going to get screwed' Pennsylvania voters unite against data centres"

nixosbestos — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 14:39:51 +0000

I think this is why I'm sort of excited about this, even if some of it's "misguided" according to some.

I haven't seen people really care and mobilize since maybe BLM?

New comment by nixosbestos in "Show HN: Laser Graffiti"

nixosbestos — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 02:54:09 +0000

These green laser pointers are bright enough to cause eye damage from the reflection off surfaces, for humans and pets.

New comment by nixosbestos in "Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues"

nixosbestos — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:23:47 +0000

> There is a small vocal group that is very determined to pull politics into it somehow

I'd suggest you go look at DHH's own account, own tweets and then delete this embarrassing comment.

New comment by nixosbestos in "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"

nixosbestos — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:20:16 +0000

lol I'd say something about X, but man this place fooking loves X and it didn't go well last time. So, "oh nooooo".

New comment by nixosbestos in "Scrap (2006)"

nixosbestos — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 20:38:17 +0000

1. I don't believe you. Or at best, they're A/Bing you and letting you read a tiny modicum of content before forcing you to login. Actually, I'll donate $250 to a charity of your choice if you show me you on x.com mobile browser, logged out, and then load that link. *Any charity you want.*

2. I never said that. Weird that you would feel the need to put words in my mouth. Why might that be?

GOD I LOVE HN, I CANT REPLY NOW. WHY DO I BOTHER? Since I can't reply, and I was wrong: https://files.catbox.moe/kksyqz.png

New comment by nixosbestos in "Deletes all instances of Microsoft's GDID and prevents minting of new ones"

nixosbestos — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 20:30:14 +0000

Yes? It's the fucking GDID. Anyone could've just looked and confirmed it. It's the GDID format; it's not a GUID; I'm not stupid.

EDIT: god, shocking, crazy, hard for this site to imagine but, I spent 10 whole seconds looking at my account, click on a device, looked at the URL. It's clearly a hex-encoded GDID. https://account.microsoft.com/devices/device?deviceId=global...

`001880098F23FCDB` but sure, I'm the idiot here.

I MEAN HOLY FUCK ITS LITERALLY THE GLOBAL DEVICE ID IN THE URL, IN THE EXACT FORMAT OF A 'GDID', BUT WHAT DO I KNOW?

And yes, it's totally normal for my Microsoft account to show me a machine named 'pelinore', registered to my account, when I literally don't know the first fucking thing about DnD, and I have specific machine naming convention that would never include 'pelinore' /s.

New comment by nixosbestos in "Scrap (2006)"

nixosbestos — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 20:23:45 +0000

ITS COMPLETELY UNUSABLE (aka, unreadable) LOGGED OUT.

Are those of you on X really this out of touch?

New comment by nixosbestos in "Artificial Intelligence Policy"

nixosbestos — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 03:04:53 +0000

Maybe this is obvious or overly reductive, but that rings well for me too and sounds so much like early (and still wise) guidance for Wikipedia and maybe the Internet at large.