Hacker News: noisem4ker

New comment by noisem4ker in "Siri AI"

noisem4ker — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:16:29 +0000

I just tried and it started playing Daft Punk on YouTube Music.

New comment by noisem4ker in "Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations"

noisem4ker — Fri, 22 May 2026 05:19:37 +0000

> they won't last long

I wish that was the case for people with insincere communication practices. On the contrary, they seem to embody the sociopath stereotype that ultimately climbs ladders.

New comment by noisem4ker in "Classic 7 is a Windows 10 LTSC mod to look 1:1 to Windows 7"

noisem4ker — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:31:08 +0000

It depends on your definition of "decent". Legal: yes, simple: maybe not. Search in past threads.

New comment by noisem4ker in "Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux (2024)"

noisem4ker — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:01:15 +0000

> Where else would you put that stuff?

A "Centralized thumbnail cache" in the user profile folder, where it's been for a long while.

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

> so that it alway perfectly mirrors

Who cares? It's a cache.

New comment by noisem4ker in "Tar Files Created on macOS Display Errors When Extracting on Linux (2024)"

noisem4ker — Mon, 04 May 2026 10:47:50 +0000

> Thumbs.db

Windows has been storing thumbnail cache in the user profile folder since Vista (2006).

It's been 20 years. Time to let it go.

New comment by noisem4ker in "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"

noisem4ker — Sun, 03 May 2026 12:51:52 +0000

> there was a time where Microsoft was offering free license transfers

I don't think they ever stopped. Maybe they ceased advertising it, but installing Windows 10 over 7 or 8 would silently inherit the license far past the original terms. The time-limited offer was just a FOMO-inducing marketing scam.

New comment by noisem4ker in "The feed doesn't know you, and YouTube refuses to let you browse"

noisem4ker — Sat, 02 May 2026 11:25:28 +0000

You can still manually switch to a "Related" tab. On the mobile app, you scroll down a bit and the tab header appears. In the browser, there's probably a way to automate it with an user script.

New comment by noisem4ker in "Apple Says Mac Studio and Mac Mini Will Be in Short Supply for Months"

noisem4ker — Fri, 01 May 2026 10:58:46 +0000

Forbid they criticize Apple products that are in the very subject of the article.

Will you be around to police the discussion the next time something having "Microsoft" in the title is submitted and the shit-flinging-at-Windows-and-the-PC-world contest starts regardless to any relevance to the topic at hand?

New comment by noisem4ker in "Virtualisation on Apple Silicon Macs is different"

noisem4ker — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 02:57:15 +0000

Yeah, I'm not part of the cult.

New comment by noisem4ker in "Windows 11's second-chance setup dialogs hurt IT, drain productivity"

noisem4ker — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:17:00 +0000

  Invoke-WebRequest 'https://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest' -OutFile firefox_setup.exe

New comment by noisem4ker in "Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux"

noisem4ker — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:50:29 +0000

It's kind of both. Hyper-V is a bare-metal (type 1) hypervisor. Windows runs virtualized, one level above it, in a privileged (host) VM, next to other (guest) VMs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-V#Architecture

New comment by noisem4ker in "Bitmap fonts make computers feel like computers again"

noisem4ker — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:50:46 +0000

Well-hinted fonts such as Consolas are indeed very rare.

I think I've only found Liberation and Hack to appear decent on standard density display. Roboto Mono is nicely shaped but blurry. I think Noto Mono used to have hints but dropped them. It was hours spent trying out different fonts only to ultimately go back to msttcore-fonts for me.

New comment by noisem4ker in "I used AI. It worked. I hated it"

noisem4ker — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:59:10 +0000

It's way beyond dictation. Medics I know (fresh postgraduates who used LLMs to help write their R code for statistical analysis for their research) are starting to treat it as one of their peers for domain reasoning, e.g. for discussing whether the conditions for a heart transplant are met. They're indeed in the "wow, this thing is human-like" stage, just not in the "let's delegate to the super brain, and then rubber-stamp the result at the end if it looks good" one we seem to be in... perhaps yet.

New comment by noisem4ker in "I used AI. It worked. I hated it"

noisem4ker — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:51:31 +0000

Your experience may be valuable, and in fact made me think, but I also think the brashness of framing everything in the "adapt or die" ultimatum is unnecessary and off-putting.

New comment by noisem4ker in "Why are we still using Markdown?"

noisem4ker — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:02:52 +0000

I don't think they were appreciating that HTML could be read unrendered. I think they meant that it was up to the browser to render HTML with sensible but unspecified or otherwise user-specified styling (the browser is supposed to be a "user agent", remember?) before web designers started aiming for pixel-perfect control through CSS.

New comment by noisem4ker in "Tailscale's new macOS home"

noisem4ker — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:21:53 +0000

It's documented here: https://umidevi.blogspot.com/2010/09/how-to-make-windows-xp-...

New comment by noisem4ker in "GitHub Monaspace Case Study"

noisem4ker — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 10:49:20 +0000

No.

New comment by noisem4ker in "GitHub Monaspace Case Study"

noisem4ker — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:23:33 +0000

> tabular alignment

Check out "elastic tabstops":

https://nick-gravgaard.com/elastic-tabstops/

New comment by noisem4ker in "The beauty and terror of modding Windows"

noisem4ker — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:56:34 +0000

The taskbar could be moved to any edge of the screen since its introduction in Windows 95.

New comment by noisem4ker in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

noisem4ker — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 10:52:49 +0000

The first-party desktop mode that was introduced in Android 16 last year.

https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/06/developer-...