Hacker News: procone

New comment by procone in "Welcome to Hell Developer"

procone — Sat, 02 May 2026 20:52:32 +0000

I found this really hard to read due to the Claude-isms. "Classic" chicken and egg problem? 39 em-dashes, random numbered lists, etc.

If you're not going to even bother to take the time to write an article, why should I waste my time reading it?

New comment by procone in "OpenClaw is a security nightmare dressed up as a daydream"

procone — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:11:03 +0000

Still sounds trivial. Not sure why you're trying to make travel sound like a complex problem that can only be solved by burning tokens.

New comment by procone in ""Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Dow"

procone — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:03:36 +0000

It is certainly not a "search engine". Perhaps you should do some reading on how LLMs function.

New comment by procone in "Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown"

procone — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 04:39:52 +0000

Wordpad was horrible! Nobody reasonable misses binary encoded .rtf files. They were a nightmare for any other platform other than windows.

What are these horrible takes?

New comment by procone in "Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown"

procone — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 04:38:26 +0000

I can't believe I'm saying this on hackernews of all places... Markdown *is* plain text.

New comment by procone in "Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support"

procone — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:30:34 +0000

I know this is a bit tongue in cheek, but the systemd hate is so old and tiresome at this point.

I need my systems to work. Not once in my career have I experienced a showstopping issue with systemd. I cannot say the same for sysV.

New comment by procone in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

procone — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:11:32 +0000

Not bingo. The kernel doesn't provide antifeatures such as ChatGPT and ads on your start menu.

That would be your desktop environment... Which is also typically open source on Linux.

If KDE (desktop environment) developers decide to add ChatGPT or Claude integration, I can simply uninstall it and install a different DE.

New comment by procone in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

procone — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:01:37 +0000

I fail to see your point. Kernel development by the aforementioned big players benefits everyone and is all done in the open. Hence, "open source". In fact they use a public mailing list to submit patches.

All of the patches are auditable. If I don't want a patch, I can *trivially* omit it from my kernel before compiling.

How exactly are open source kernel modules and drivers affecting my freedom?

New comment by procone in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

procone — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:36:56 +0000

How is this possible? I don't think you quite understand what "Linux" is.

There is no corporation, board, or CEO to force unwanted changes. Pretty much every piece of the operating system is free and open source.

If you don't like your "Linux", you can swap it out for another distribution or "distro".

New comment by procone in "We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA"

procone — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 19:35:07 +0000

I'm sorry, but 7MM reported deaths worldwide is hardly a "fake pandemic". The actual number of deaths is estimated to be 2-5x the reported amount.

What are you talking about?

New comment by procone in "Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal"

procone — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:03:58 +0000

Clicking X at the top right corner... Not exactly muscle memory. Way slower than ;q

New comment by procone in "Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal"

procone — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:02:30 +0000

You can use a mouse with a terminal. Also one could argue that you opt into your own level of information density.

New comment by procone in "Rethinking CLI interfaces for AI"

procone — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 17:32:47 +0000

I'm sorry, but no. The tools work. I don't need "more context" from my `less` or `more` commands. The LLM can train on the man pages just as a human can read the man pages.

New comment by procone in "Rethinking CLI interfaces for AI"

procone — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 17:26:47 +0000

Why rethink tools that have existed since the 70s and function predictably for a landscape that drastically shifts every two months? Seems shortsighted to me.

New comment by procone in "Relativty: An open-source VR headset for $200"

procone — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 18:33:48 +0000

The question was if you needed a Facebook account for a quest headset. Not whether or not you wear a tinfoil hat.

New comment by procone in "Relativty: An open-source VR headset for $200"

procone — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 03:58:37 +0000

Yes, you use a meta account that has no ties to Facebook. Mine is under an alias with absolutely no connection to any social feeds or network.

Unless you count Meta Horizon Worlds which is kind of a joke.

New comment by procone in "Sourcegraph: Incident involving unauthorized admin access"

procone — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 00:08:03 +0000

It's an anonymous board. Those numbers are unique post ID's referenced by >>.

The thread IDs have 3 chevrons. If you wish to reply to someone, you click the "reply" button and a >>$ID is placed in the comment box.

New comment by procone in "Qalculate – A multi-purpose cross-platform desktop calculator"

procone — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 12:49:11 +0000

Are you really so strapped for disk space that 70MiB impacts your user experience?

EDIT: The parent comment is disingenuous: the application isn't even 70MB. It's only 70MB if you download the windows edition with vendored libicu (unicode, 31MB) library. It weighs around ~20MB on linux distributions, which is insignificant.

New comment by procone in "Infrastructure audit completed by Radically Open Security"

procone — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 12:43:29 +0000

Source? They've always been logless.

I think you have this completely backwards considering Proton maliciously logged and handed out customer IPs to police [0].

[0]: https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/06/protonmail-logged-ip-addre...

New comment by procone in "Proton Pass: Open-Source and Encrypted Password Manager App"

procone — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 12:59:26 +0000

A circular reference to baseless conjecture is not a source.