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New comment by odiroot in "Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them"

odiroot — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:12:27 +0000

Maybe ask South Koreans what's their standing on the matter. Not everything is about USA.

New comment by odiroot in "The Weather Channel – RetroCast"

odiroot — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:36:34 +0000

Looks awesome, if only it used correct units.

New comment by odiroot in "The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos"

odiroot — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:50:42 +0000

Not really. Looking at Polish MPs for example, there's no clear pattern, rather a "healthy" mix from all parties with some random selection of opposing ones.

New comment by odiroot in "GitHub is once again down"

odiroot — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:57:08 +0000

They invented the perfect solution to stop supply chain attacks.

New comment by odiroot in "Apple Business"

odiroot — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:24:13 +0000

So Lenovo wins in both quantity and quality (at least for T/X series), let alone configurability.

New comment by odiroot in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

odiroot — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:23:31 +0000

*Tightening control. Nothing about safety here.

New comment by odiroot in "Honda is killing its EVs"

odiroot — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:44:15 +0000

I just hope Honda sticks to making awesome motorcycles.

New comment by odiroot in "Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults"

odiroot — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:12:56 +0000

Because, at least in Europe, people got hooked on nanny state.

New comment by odiroot in "The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future"

odiroot — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:23:38 +0000

> Another big problem is the mentality. "We have always done it this way" and "I don't want to change it" is extremely prevalent. I say this as a German.

Interestingly it's not only the domain of the conservatives (e.g. CDU/CSU) to cut any discussion this way. Social democrats (and their voters) use the same argument, just in instances where it fits their program (e.g. labour laws).

> I really don't see a solid economic future for Germany when enough other countries implement more progressive economic policies.

The only party suggesting any such policies consistently fails to clear the 5% threshold as of late. Evidently, the electorate is satisfied with the status quo.

New comment by odiroot in "Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native"

odiroot — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:15:28 +0000

I'd still take native KDE/Plasma apps over Electron any day. Just the performance and memory usage alone is worth it.

Sublime Text feels so much snappier than VSCode, for another example. And I can leave it running for weeks without it leaking memory.

New comment by odiroot in "MacBook Air with M5"

odiroot — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:03:35 +0000

If this one is anything like the previous ones, ThinkPad is still beating it in the keyboard department.

Plus you get x86_64 and vendor support for Linux.

X13 is probably the best equivalent in Lenovo's line.

New comment by odiroot in "If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?"

odiroot — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:59:33 +0000

How do you use your agent effectively for executing such projects in bigger brownfield codebases? It's always a balance between the agent going way too far into NIH vs burning loads and loads of tokens for the initial introspection.

New comment by odiroot in "Iran students stage first large anti-government protests since deadly crackdown"

odiroot — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 21:32:32 +0000

> Taiwan's GDP/capita is 2.6x China's [1]. It grew faster, for longer, in large part through high technology.

Also worth mentioning, all the while being under a military dictatorship (see White Terror) until the late 80's.

New comment by odiroot in "Iran students stage first large anti-government protests since deadly crackdown"

odiroot — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 21:25:28 +0000

> Mahatma Gandhi.

I daresay the Brits were not as willing to gun down peaceful protesters as today's regimes are.

New comment by odiroot in "CXMT has been offering DDR4 chips at about half the prevailing market rate"

odiroot — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:34:46 +0000

Most importantly it's amazing what you can achieve if you can cut the red tape.

New comment by odiroot in "Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue"

odiroot — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:58:48 +0000

Thanks, will take a look.

New comment by odiroot in "Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue"

odiroot — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:53:21 +0000

Not sure if it's just me but Handy crashes on my Arch setup. Never mind which version I run. Could be something with Wayland or Pipewire but didn't see anything obvious in the logs.

New comment by odiroot in "Show HN: SQL-tap – Real-time SQL traffic viewer for PostgreSQL and MySQL"

odiroot — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 15:44:14 +0000

Not to be confused with sqltap which is also great for debugging queries: https://github.com/inconshreveable/sqltap

New comment by odiroot in "Building a TUI is easy now"

odiroot — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 15:20:28 +0000

What libraries did it use?

New comment by odiroot in "The wonder of modern drywall"

odiroot — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 15:13:04 +0000

We shat on it (and still do) because of how badly designed and executed they were. Appalling quite and zero adherence to any norms or standards.