Hacker News: pojntfx

New comment by pojntfx in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

pojntfx — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:12:08 +0000

Hey, Fel from the fedi thread here

Explanation: https://mastodon.social/@pojntfx/116345725515845020

There is in practice no known way around it for now, and even less so one for regular people, to use this on a device without a Google account

New comment by pojntfx in "I'm betting on ATProto"

pojntfx — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 01:10:47 +0000

Re:fediverse - it depends on which communities you're part of. Digital rights, politics here in Canada (see e.g. https://mstdn.ca/@avilewis), politics in the EU (https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/about), basically anything that touches Linux is very much entrenched on the protocol. My local newspaper (https://thetyee.ca/) has a Mastodon share button on the page even. Unlike with Bluesky, leadership has been very consistent and so far trustworthy.

New comment by pojntfx in "Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords"

pojntfx — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 07:06:05 +0000

It's fun, leading edge Linux distros (e.g. GNOME OS) are actually currently removing `sudo` completely in favour of `run0` from systemd, which fixes this "properly" by using Polkit & transient systemd units instead of setuid binaries like sudo. You get a UAC-style prompt, can even auth with your fingerprint just like on other modern OSes.

Instead of doing this, Ubuntu is just using a Rust rewrite of sudo. Some things really never change.

New comment by pojntfx in "Bootc and OSTree: Modernizing Linux System Deployment"

pojntfx — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 10:07:00 +0000

Corrected - I meant leading edge.

Context re:distros mentioned:

GNOME OS: https://os.gnome.org/ KDE Linux: https://kde.org/linux/

New comment by pojntfx in "Bootc and OSTree: Modernizing Linux System Deployment"

pojntfx — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 09:55:00 +0000

GNOME OS uses BuildStream and as a result has no concept of packages at all and no relationship to any distro, KDE Linux is based on Arch. There is no relationship between the two. GNOME OS used to be OSTree based but switched to systemd-sysupdate a while ago.

New comment by pojntfx in "Bootc and OSTree: Modernizing Linux System Deployment"

pojntfx — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 09:53:22 +0000

Sorry, not completely separate, yes, but some of the parts of the standard (e.g. systemd-sysext for layering "packages") and closely related things like systemd-sysupdate do actually replace parts of this (esp. ostree).

New comment by pojntfx in "Bootc and OSTree: Modernizing Linux System Deployment"

pojntfx — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:48:01 +0000

bootc and OSTree are both very neat, but the leading edge of immutable Linux distros (GNOME OS, KDE Linux) is currently converging on a different proposal by systemd developers that's standardized by the UAPI Group (https://uapi-group.org/specifications/). It fixes quite a few of the complexities with OSTree (updates are handled by `systemd-sysupdate`/`updatectl` and are just files served via HTTP) and is quite a bit easier to extend with things like an immutable version of the Nvidia drivers or codecs thanks to system extensions handled by `systemd-sysext` (which in turn are just simple squashfs files overlayed over `/usr`) and configuration via `systemd-confext`. `mkosi`, also by systemd, is quickly becoming _the_ way to build custom images too, and is somewhat tied to these new standards.

Bcachefs author Kent Overstreet claims his OpenClaw instance is sentient

pojntfx — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:30:14 +0000

Article URL: https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/116122781303627956

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47142500

Points: 14

# Comments: 3

New comment by pojntfx in "Rathbun's Operator"

pojntfx — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 01:47:00 +0000

Relevant post from a few days ago - contrary to what's stated in that post the operator is known now and apparently trying to make a crypto scam out of this: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/16/the-obnoxious-github-open...

New comment by pojntfx in "Gentoo on Codeberg"

pojntfx — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:03:49 +0000

Aren't they literally moving off GitHub _because_ of LLMs and the enshittification optimising for them causes? This line of thinking and these features seem to push people _off_ your platform, not onto it.

New comment by pojntfx in "Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts"

pojntfx — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:18:57 +0000

For the non-US-American part, that's the Fediverse, the only network that isn't developed and used primarily by US-Americans. As for "wont turn over our data" - it's push-based, that helps to make it a bit harder to crawl, but it's public social media, and by definition the data will be out there as a result of that.

New comment by pojntfx in "Show HN: Open-source Figma design to code"

pojntfx — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 07:47:11 +0000

Awesome! Thank you!

New comment by pojntfx in "Ask HN: European alternative to Vercel/Cloudflare for hosting"

pojntfx — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:18:34 +0000

"statichost" is neat: https://www.statichost.eu/

No functions though!

New comment by pojntfx in "Show HN: Open-source Figma design to code"

pojntfx — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 22:06:10 +0000

Would much appreciate a relicense to AGPLv3!

New comment by pojntfx in "Show HN: Open-source Figma design to code"

pojntfx — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 20:41:54 +0000

This is not open source, it's under a proprietary (FSL) license: https://github.com/vibeflowing-inc/vibe_figma/blob/main/LICE...

New SpacemiT K3 RISC-V Chip Beats Raspberry Pi 5 in Early Benchmarks

pojntfx — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:52:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/01/23/spacemit-k3-16-core-risc-v-soc-system-information-and-early-benchmarks/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46729316

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by pojntfx in "Show HN: OpenWork – An open-source alternative to Claude Cowork"

pojntfx — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 18:26:02 +0000

New comment by pojntfx in "Ask HN: Anti-AI Open Source License?"

pojntfx — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 15:38:22 +0000

Open Source means OSI-approved license in the software context. Some government examples of this being explicitly mentioned:

- Canada/British Columbia: https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/government/services-for-go... - European Union (this applies to all EU member states): https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/2847/oj/eng - search for "Free and open-source software is understood" in the text - Germany (the EU definition already applies here, but for good measure): https://www.bsi.bund.de/DE/Themen/Verbraucherinnen-und-Verbr...

Words have meaning!

New comment by pojntfx in "Why We Abandoned Matrix (2024)"

pojntfx — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 16:47:02 +0000

I still wonder why my experience and the experience of my friends, community and family with Matrix has been so positive compared to what people describe all of the time. Maybe it's because something changed in ~2025 when I started using it again? Both Beeper (my main Matrix provider, the one that preconfigures WhatsApp, Signal, SMS etc. bridges) and Element (the new mobile app and EMS for hosting). I onboarded something like two dozend non-technical people to it, and they are all happily using it every day, mostly to use the bridges that come with Beeper. Haven't heard a single complaint, even switching devices just works now. Almost all communities I care about (GNOME and so on) have Matrix servers, and since the spaces feature launched it's been really competitive with Discord, even UX-wise thanks to the new apps on desktop and mobile. Yet all I hear on HN and elsewhere is people complaining about UX issues that just have not appeared a single time for myself. Maybe it's people using non-compliant clients, old servers, or some other strange configuration? It's a mystery to me.

US sanctions EU government officials behind the DSA

pojntfx — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 09:43:34 +0000

Article URL: https://mastodon.social/@fj/115773761468906515

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46374087

Points: 129

# Comments: 152