<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: psacawa</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=psacawa</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 08:48:15 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=psacawa" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by psacawa in "Linux fu: getting started with systemd"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A relevant bit of self-promotion maybe:<p>I created a small language server for systemd unit files which may help those having to integrate services with it.<p><a href="https://github.com/psacawa/systemd-language-server">https://github.com/psacawa/systemd-language-server</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2024 23:02:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40035272</link><dc:creator>psacawa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40035272</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40035272</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by psacawa in "SQL looks like English is a well intentioned error"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Anyone who has had to sift through large BNFs such as [0, 1] to find that the syntax error was a syntactically significant "TO" knows that this is the case. Natural language has synonyms, computer languages really should avoid synonyms and also any spurious syntactic sugar.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/sql-altertable.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/sql-altertable.html</a><p>[1] <a href="https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/sql-commands.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/sql-commands.html</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2024 11:51:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39627939</link><dc:creator>psacawa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39627939</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39627939</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by psacawa in "Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Never was it more appropriate to say "Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." By engaging in systemic historical revisionism, Google means to create a future where certain peoples don't exist.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2024 16:29:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39469456</link><dc:creator>psacawa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39469456</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39469456</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by psacawa in "Poland’s PM says previous government illegally used Pegasus spyware"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Major private media corporations in poland were already closely aligned with PiS [...]<p>This statement is an outright lie. For example, Gazeta Wyborcza, all of Agora Media, and TVN have always been anti-PiS.<p>>[...] and independent media was shut down.<p>Can you elaborate on this?<p>> As a result, for several years all media in poland was pro-government.<p>Completely untrue.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2024 21:26:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39423542</link><dc:creator>psacawa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39423542</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39423542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by psacawa in "Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Technoparasitism. In my opinion, the very premise of AI girlfriends veers so far away from human flourishing that privacy concerns seem entirely secondary.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2024 17:07:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39372247</link><dc:creator>psacawa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39372247</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39372247</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by psacawa in "The New Work-Life Balance: Don't Have Kids"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is a remarkable inversion. The primary reason people forego children in the west is because it throws a wrench in their comfortable lifestyle. They prefer to live unto themselves, instead of unto children, i.e. selfishly.<p>I believe the environmental/climactic concerns raised by antinatalists are just a feeble deflection. They are primarily interested in personal comfort.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2024 10:44:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39259648</link><dc:creator>psacawa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39259648</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39259648</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by psacawa in "Gang crisis shaking Sweden"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you are asking for examples of brutal acts performed or ordered by Muhammed, here is a long list [0]. Most notable to me is the murder of 600-900 captive non-combatants. This is referred to as the massacre of the Banu Qurayza (woman and children then made slaves).<p>I suppose you brought up Muhammed on the basis that his venerated status in Islam enables us to significantly extrapolate Muslim culture from his own personal culture. I will therefore state that the evidence of Quran/Hadiths yield evidence of great brutality in the person of Muhammed, which therefore may inspire brutality and violence in any devout followers of his, or in the broader Islamic culture. This is certainly conducive "creating criminal gangs".<p>[0] <a href="https://wikiislam.net/wiki/List_of_Killings_Ordered_or_Supported_by_Muhammad" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://wikiislam.net/wiki/List_of_Killings_Ordered_or_Suppo...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2023 22:55:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38339413</link><dc:creator>psacawa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38339413</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38339413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by psacawa in "Modular forms, the ‘fifth fundamental operation’ of math"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The accounts in primitve terms obscure it's true meaning.<p>It's just a analytic function on the moduli space of elliptic curves.<p>The collection of equivalence classes of elliptic curve (torii of the form C/lattice) has the  structure of a complex space (it's not a complex manifold, but rather a complex moduli stack). Modular forms are just analytic functions on it. That's all.<p>This dumb article doesn't help matter by presenting a <i>brazen lie</i> in the headline. Fifth fundamental operation, my butthurt ass.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2023 09:12:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37609743</link><dc:creator>psacawa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37609743</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37609743</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by psacawa in "Relational is more than SQL"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is there any intention of eventually supporting DML or DDL statements? That's when the COBOL-like nature of SQL syntax is most frustrating. For example, in order to run "ALTER COLUMN ..." I have to parse a ridiculous BNF like this[0] almost every time. I'll never remember it.<p>Usually, the error is a gotcha built into the language syntax (e.g. forgot the keyword "TO").<p>[0] <a href="https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/sql-altertable.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/sql-altertable.html</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 Sep 2023 15:57:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37535917</link><dc:creator>psacawa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37535917</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37535917</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by psacawa in "Bobbi Gibb: The Boston Marathon pioneer who raced a lie"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Idiotic clickbait headline seeks to insinuate that there was something dishonest about her racing, when in reality her participation broke a false belief (a "lie") that women were physically unable to complete marathons.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2023 23:04:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37315344</link><dc:creator>psacawa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37315344</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37315344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by psacawa in "I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know (2016)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Another possible outcome of "I gave commit rights to someone I didn't know": <a href="https://github.com/dominictarr/event-stream/issues/116">https://github.com/dominictarr/event-stream/issues/116</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2023 05:07:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36121326</link><dc:creator>psacawa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36121326</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36121326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by psacawa in "The .zip TLD sucks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The website can further strengthen the illusion of interacting with the FS by using HTML+CSS that imitates the browser's builtin file browser. It knows what it might look like by examining User-Agent and Accept-Language headers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2023 20:32:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35921965</link><dc:creator>psacawa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35921965</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35921965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by psacawa in "The .zip TLD sucks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A phishing strategy this enables: confusing  the <a href="https://" rel="nofollow">https://</a> URI scheme with the file:// pseudo-URI scheme.<p>For example, we receive a phishing email which reads "This is the bank with your financial statement attached. It's a password protected zip file encrypted with your online banking credentials for security." We click to download and end up at <a href="https://financialstatement.zip" rel="nofollow">https://financialstatement.zip</a>, where a JS prompt asks us for the decryption password. We think we're interacting with the file system and get owned.<p>Crucially, i) some browsers don't display the URI scheme in the address bar, and ii) people are used to the idea of a password-protected zip file, and iii) people are used to opening files with their browser.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 May 2023 19:53:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35921436</link><dc:creator>psacawa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35921436</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35921436</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by psacawa in "Web fingerprinting is worse than I thought"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Before you get all jubilant, note that they have fingerprinting techniques which don't use JS[0]. It was able to identity me. Contrary to popular opinion, disabling JS doesn't protect you from fingerprinting.<p>They describe their approach[1]. They use HTTP headers and conditional request triggered by CSS conditional media queries  to gather data. Something like @media(...) {background: url(/tracking/$clientid)}. But in principle, they could also try and fingerprint the TCP/IP stack or the TLS implementation. I'm not sure it would get them more data than OS+Browser, though.<p>[0] <a href="https://noscriptfingerprint.com/" rel="nofollow">https://noscriptfingerprint.com/</a><p>[1] <a href="https://fingerprint.com/blog/disabling-javascript-wont-stop-fingerprinting/" rel="nofollow">https://fingerprint.com/blog/disabling-javascript-wont-stop-...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Mar 2023 12:30:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35245283</link><dc:creator>psacawa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35245283</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35245283</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by psacawa in "Ok, it’s time to freak out about AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Facile comparisons like this are very frustrating. Two thoughts:<p>i) What makes you believe that they weren't correct, and the timespan for this annihilation isn't e.g. 100 years? That would be an instant in comparison with the timespan of humanity. Indeed, in the present, we have gene therapy and genetic engineering. It's easy to imagine these technologies might go off the rails.<p>ii) Another doomsday prediction from a UN official in the 1970s: anthropogenic climate change will make the planet uninhabitable by year 2000. <i>"That was 50 years ago! Clearly nothing to worry about! The UN lied! Al Gore lied! This party will never end!!"</i><p>As you know, such attitudes  are widespread. These are the attitudes which express the notion that since one past prognosis didn't manifest according to schedule, then it never shall. They are common in response to climate change, but not only. This is the same facile reasoning your comment endorses.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Mar 2023 18:23:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35186112</link><dc:creator>psacawa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35186112</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35186112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by psacawa in "Governments should compete for residents, not businesses"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What can I say, man? History is absolutely chock full of examples that show that other identity groups can represent existential threats, including very recent ones: Chinese genocide of Uyhgurs, Burmese genocide of Rohinya, Russian agression in Ukraine.<p>Let me pick at specifically Russia/Ukraine. A short time ago, these countries economic ties were vast. There were many Ukrainians whose personal wealth stemmed from e.g. the country's ties to Russian petrochemical industry.<p>Others, seeing that, said "You are accruing personal wealth by strengthening a foreign power's hold on our nation." To which the response was occasionally "Are you racist? Are you nationalist?" We see now how this turned out.<p>The dirty secret is that history vindicates all forms of identity group tribalism, in principal. That includes racism. There is no shortage in history of examples like the above, nor of examples of destroyed nations.<p>If anything, I feel the problem is that contemporary countries do not represent the nations the purport to.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Mar 2023 20:42:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35074453</link><dc:creator>psacawa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35074453</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35074453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by psacawa in "Ask HN: Have licenses ever stopped you from combining two FOSS programs?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It happens all the time for software that is copyleft-licensed in projects that are unwilling to also adopt a copyleft license. For example, it blocks linking the node interpreter to libreadline [0]. On the other hand, cpython is also permissively licensed, yet it does link to the same library, so who knows what the legality of linking against a GPL lib really is.<p>[0] <a href="https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/5608">https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/5608</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2023 19:06:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34778535</link><dc:creator>psacawa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34778535</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34778535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by psacawa in "97% of American adults own a cellphone or smartphone (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The likely confounding variable is just age: the oldest segments of the US population are the most caucasian, and these are the populations least like to use smartphones. So the correlation may be spurious.<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confounding" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confounding</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2023 12:52:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34545421</link><dc:creator>psacawa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34545421</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34545421</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by psacawa in "Explore Wikipedia's New Look"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Good:<p>- Sidebar for navigation<p>Bad:<p>- Wasted screen space<p>- Other languages are not available as a simple anchor tag anymore. They are hidden behind <button> elements. It's annoying for readers who consult their own language and en.wikipedia.org in the same session. It breaks my bookmarklet to change languages, which depended on something like `document.querySelectorAll('a')`</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2023 18:02:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34430357</link><dc:creator>psacawa</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34430357</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34430357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by psacawa in "Counting the transistors in the 8086 processor: it's harder than you might think"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Very interesting.<p>Anyone has any idea about the technology that could be used for imaging more dense ICs and multilayer PCBs? In a presentation elsewhere, Ken says that he used a metallurgical telescope and USB microscope. So the imaging is done with visible light and limited resolution. It is enough for old chips, e.g. the 8086 discussed in this article is made with a 3um process.<p>As I look around I see recent Intel chips haven't been reversed. [0] There are allusions to x-ray tomography and electron microscopes [1]. Anyway a plebs can get close for cheap?<p>[0] <a href="https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/5878/reverse-engineering-modern-intel-cpus" rel="nofollow">https://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/5878/...</a><p>[1] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOZqoTuAGKY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOZqoTuAGKY</a></p>
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