Hacker News: philistine

New comment by philistine in "EFF is leaving X"

philistine — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:14:33 +0000

Volunteer your time to do a dual strategy with content that fits both. Comms takes time, the EFF is adapting its comm strategy.

New comment by philistine in "EFF is leaving X"

philistine — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:13:40 +0000

And the EFF is also looking at conversion rates for those views. Are you convinced that the Elon-pilled still on X are interested in donations to the EFF compared with the weirdos on Mastodon?

New comment by philistine in "Lunar Flyby"

philistine — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:55:27 +0000

Oh that's what the silent footage was! So sorry!

New comment by philistine in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

philistine — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:32:48 +0000

why does everybody assume that whoever is Satoshi still has access to their wallet? It's absolutely possible whoever is Satoshi has simply lost the key.

We're talking new technology where you're running fast and loose. It's absolutely possible, and I'd say a big reason why someone would not want to admit to being Satoshi.

I'm Satoshi, but I also lost billions because I messed up a Debian upgrade.

New comment by philistine in "Microsoft Abruptly Terminates VeraCrypt Account, Halting Windows Updates"

philistine — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:21:59 +0000

> feel like i gotta take a shower after

I run Crossover and I feel like I gotta take a shower after. Just knowing there's a folder called drive_c on my Mac is the stuff of nightmares.

New comment by philistine in "Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates"

philistine — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 17:19:29 +0000

As if the monetary gain of 2 and 3 never entered the picture. Malicious actors want 2 and 3 to make money off you! No one can make reasonable amounts of money off 1.

New comment by philistine in "Lunar Flyby"

philistine — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:10:38 +0000

They never shot 16mm film on the moon. They had weird tv cameras and took photos in 35mm.

New comment by philistine in "81yo Dodgers fan can no longer get tickets because he doesn't have a smartphone"

philistine — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:50:52 +0000

Not yet!

New comment by philistine in "France pulls last gold held in US"

philistine — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:39:42 +0000

That union was a last ditch effort to try and keep France in the war. If they had implemented it, it would have been undone once the nazis were beaten you can be sure.

New comment by philistine in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

philistine — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:44:49 +0000

You and me both. They don’t even put a parachute on the boosters to get them back. Some pieces on these boosters have been in use since the 80s.

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

philistine — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:19:01 +0000

Computing as gone on one road; less parts. Separate northbridges, daughter boards for everything, floating point coprocessors, spinning media. All those things have been simplified, reducing the parts count of a usable computer.

I don't bet against simplicity. Those who really require complexity pay for it. On the Apple side, that now includes those who need sustained throughput achieved by a fan.

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

philistine — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:09:12 +0000

> I’ve never heard the fan in my Nintendo Switch.

If that's not saying it's silent for you, you don't only need to get your hearing checked.

New comment by philistine in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

philistine — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:06:31 +0000

You guys are arguing on the reality of a subscription, but Anthropic still resides in the coocoo make-up world of growth at all costs backed up by unfathomable investments. They're not acting rationally by trying to present a good product with reasonable backend fundamentals. They're just trying to maintain the money loss to what they have set aside for the quarter. OpenClaw was not planned for, and thus must be fought.

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

philistine — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:35:48 +0000

If you cannot hear the fan in a Switch, I implore you to get your hearing checked. It’s not a noisy fan, it’s not a problem the fan is there, but it’s not silent!

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

philistine — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:34:28 +0000

Nice of you to decide we’re just parroting instead of thinking.

If the MacBook Air had a fan, it would be thicker and would need a bigger battery. It would then be the same, aside from the screen, from the base MacBook Pro. You are 100% correct. The fact it has no fan allows Apple to reduce its weight and thickness. Thus reducing its price. You’re absolutely right.

Fans in laptops are more and more a gamer pilled flight of fancy. Phones and iPads have shown they’re not a necessity.

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

philistine — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:55:15 +0000

The ability to run without a fan is not a problem; it's a feature. Would you want a fan in your phone?

New comment by philistine in "How the AI Bubble Bursts"

philistine — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:05:12 +0000

Easier said than done. What you're describing can take years to implement. Can OpenAI et al. keep burning cash at the same rate for two years while they wait for the salvation of custom silicon if the investments dry up?

New comment by philistine in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

philistine — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:09:07 +0000

Users are not perfect agents. How can you expect the average non-technical person to figure out what is happening? For most people, if they don't see visually see something happening on the screen, it doesn't exist. They simply have no frame of reference to figure out that LinkedIN is hijacking their scroll speed.

New comment by philistine in "Spanish legislation as a Git repo"

philistine — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:59:19 +0000

It's the same in Spain, which makes OPs proposal kind of useless. The big distinction between a civil and a common law system is the fundamentals. A country's civil code is properly defined, while a common law's system is based on previous cases you have to dig through to find the basics.

New comment by philistine in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

philistine — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:47:54 +0000

You're proving the point. The computer you found wins on the specs page for sure. But the proof is in the pudding; Apple makes money hand over fist because they focus on reasonable specs, and quality. The thing that kills a modern laptop is not a slow CPU or RAM on the chip; it's a cheap chassis that breaks. That's what makes people change their computer.