Hacker News: okeuro49

New comment by okeuro49 in "Ubuntu now requires more RAM than Windows 11"

okeuro49 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:17:57 +0000

I used gtk2, it was ok, but I preferred Ubuntu's Unity interface when it came out.

Gnome 3 seems similar to Unity nowadays, and it is pretty good.

I find it much easier to use than Windows or Mac, which is credit to the engineers who work on it.

New comment by okeuro49 in "So you wanna build a local RAG?"

okeuro49 — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 13:32:30 +0000

Do you run the models locally?

No local model for me manages to get function calling right.

New comment by okeuro49 in "PHP 8.5"

okeuro49 — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 15:40:42 +0000

Doubtful it is anything to do with simplicity.

Python's success is explained by it being the language of choice for AI.

New comment by okeuro49 in "Nutella maker in hazelnut stand-off with Turkish dealers"

okeuro49 — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 19:04:29 +0000

"Turkey" is what most English people would use, which makes it the defacto official name, despite what the UN might say.

Most English people aren't even able to type ü on a keyboard.

New comment by okeuro49 in "4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence"

okeuro49 — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 19:37:37 +0000

FPTP forces coalitions to form before the vote, as otherwise they never get power.

In alternative systems, you vote and then coalitions jostle to form a majority afterwards.

New comment by okeuro49 in "Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP"

okeuro49 — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 19:07:01 +0000

Do you have any information e.g. blog posts on this pattern?

New comment by okeuro49 in "The staff ate it later"

okeuro49 — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 15:50:20 +0000

It reminds me of the proposal to shake hands at the end of Goldeneye:

> Miyamoto, with a series of suggestions for the game. “One point was that there was too much close-up killing – he found it a bit too horrible. I don’t think I did anything with that input. The second point was, he felt the game was too tragic, with all the killing. He suggested that it might be nice if, at the end of the game, you got to shake hands with all your enemies in the hospital.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/26/goldeneye...

New comment by okeuro49 in "Random selection is necessary to create stable meritocratic institutions"

okeuro49 — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 13:59:51 +0000

"Ireland also has relatively little money in politics, limits on donations..."

There are a crazy amount of NGOs in Ireland, 1 for every 155 people, many pushing forward their own political policies and views.

https://unherd.com/newsroom/in-ireland-its-progressives-who-...

New comment by okeuro49 in "IRS Direct File on GitHub"

okeuro49 — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 21:11:10 +0000

With virtual threads it's difficult to see WebFlux being used in new projects.

New comment by okeuro49 in "Waiting for Postgres 18: Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O"

okeuro49 — Thu, 08 May 2025 14:43:19 +0000

According to mongodb it is acid compliant.

https://www.mongodb.com/resources/products/capabilities/acid...

New comment by okeuro49 in "Show HN: Clippy – 90s UI for local LLMs"

okeuro49 — Wed, 07 May 2025 07:15:53 +0000

Who can remember clippy right click "animate"?

New comment by okeuro49 in "Child damages €50M Rothko painting in Dutch museum"

okeuro49 — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 13:05:52 +0000

Can't they get a child to create a new one?

New comment by okeuro49 in "East German Stasi Tactics – Zersetzung (2021)"

okeuro49 — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 15:08:17 +0000

The EDL hasn't been around for years.

The "far right" narrative is to hide state failure.

Even the group "Hope not Hate" (former far-left "Searchlight" publication) admitted the "far right" narrative was a hoax. [1]

[1] https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1933625/uk-riots-list-hoax

New comment by okeuro49 in "East German Stasi Tactics – Zersetzung (2021)"

okeuro49 — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 11:08:40 +0000

There is no "far right" or people being "whipped up". Disorder is a consequence of failed government policy.

E.g. from 2023: "Northern seaside town now a 'powder keg' over asylum seeker tensions"

"The tension in Skegness has grown after hundreds of migrants from the Middle East, Africa and Albania were crammed into former tourist hotels on the seafront."

"Cars have been vandalised, shop windows broken, mattresses set alight and scuffles reported between migrants and security staff. Officials say 229 asylum seekers are staying in up to seven hotels on and around the town’s promenade, but locals say the figure is more like 700."

New comment by okeuro49 in "East German Stasi Tactics – Zersetzung (2021)"

okeuro49 — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 07:05:41 +0000

It didn't used to have:

The hanging judge, that evil old man in scarlet robe and horse-hair wig,whom nothing short of dynamite will ever teach what century he is living in, but who will at any rate interpret the law according to the books and will in no circumstances take a money bribe, is one of the symbolic figures of England.

- Orwell

New comment by okeuro49 in "East German Stasi Tactics – Zersetzung (2021)"

okeuro49 — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 06:28:00 +0000

In the UK there is "social media intelligence", where AI systems scan the firehose of messages as they appear. [1]

So people have been arrested for posting something online, even if nobody appears to have seen it, and they delete it shortly after.

The policing is selective, depending on political view. For example, there were recently people with placards in London calling for the death of JK Rowling, which is de facto allowed by the police.

In comparison the wrong social media post can carry a lengthy jail sentence. [2]

The difference is so noticeable, it is now called "two tier policing".

If someone perceives something you say as "hateful" they can report you to the police, who can record a "Non-crime hate incident" against your name. [3]

This can show up on enhanced job checks, affecting employment.

It's very similar to a Stasi file.

[1] https://policinginsight.com/feature/advertisement/social-med...

[2] https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-punishment-of-lucy-c...

[3] https://www.slaterheelis.co.uk/articles/crime-category/non-c...

New comment by okeuro49 in "Is it possible to write plain C iOS app in 2025?"

okeuro49 — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 13:38:43 +0000

JVM compatible, native UI.

New comment by okeuro49 in "CVE program faces swift end after DHS fails to renew contract [updated]"

okeuro49 — Wed, 16 Apr 2025 07:09:26 +0000

"You can stay out of politics, but politics will always come and find you."

No, it's just recognising that it is silly to talk about politics, as certain views are just downvoted.

New comment by okeuro49 in "Brazil's government-run payments system has become dominant"

okeuro49 — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 07:05:48 +0000

I am wondering if this payments system would be able to make society more resilient to crashes in the banking system.

e.g. banks being allowed to fail, without the payments system stopping working.

New comment by okeuro49 in "A 6-Hour Time-Stretched Version of Brian Eno's Music for Airports"

okeuro49 — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 07:25:22 +0000

"Sitting among the gleaming steel fixtures and softly glowing concrete lines of the modernist Cologne Bonn Airport on a sunny Sunday morning in late 1977, en route to his homebase, the perennially nervous flier recoiled once again at the canned pop pleasantries mindlessly piped into such an inspired space. The music was not only an afterthought but also insulting to the idea that you would soon climb into a sleek metal tube and be propelled by engines through the sky at 40,000 feet. “I started thinking, ‘What should we be hearing here?’ I thought most of all you wanted music that didn’t try to pretend you weren’t going to die on the plane, ” Eno, laughing but serious."

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/brian-eno-ambient-1-mus...