Hacker News: qotgalaxy

New comment by qotgalaxy in "For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions"

qotgalaxy — Fri, 01 May 2026 00:46:09 +0000

> Expecting a FOSS project to go track down all of its (millions of?) users seems like a very unreasonable expectation, and is well outside of their scope of responsibility.

The post you are responding to says that it would be nice if they copied literally one mailing list.

New comment by qotgalaxy in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

qotgalaxy — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 03:27:34 +0000

The increase of freedom of the slaves is an indirect side effect. But a direct effect, which is guaranteed to happen is the loss of freedom of the slaveholder.

New comment by qotgalaxy in "Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server"

qotgalaxy — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 01:59:33 +0000

What if I care more about the performance of things that aren't being used right now than the things that are? I'm sick of switching to my DAW and having to listen to my drive thrash when I try to play a (say) sampler I had loaded.

New comment by qotgalaxy in "ChkTag: x86 Memory Safety"

qotgalaxy — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 03:29:49 +0000

It's not fine, take the loss and learn.

New comment by qotgalaxy in "Adding a feature because ChatGPT incorrectly thinks it exists"

qotgalaxy — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 01:49:43 +0000

So it's simple: don't do anything at all about the technology that is the impetus for these horrible disruptions, just completely rebuild our entire society instead.

New comment by qotgalaxy in "Show HN: A C-Suite AI Agent Meant for SMB"

qotgalaxy — Sat, 17 May 2025 00:40:06 +0000

Yippee

New comment by qotgalaxy in "I accidentally deleted a bad game revision from MAME"

qotgalaxy — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 18:07:00 +0000

I expected to add a game to MAME but instead proved that it didn't exist

New comment by qotgalaxy in "Applying Grease to TLS Extensibility (2016)"

qotgalaxy — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 01:19:48 +0000

This was a lot easier before they removed the Zerk fitting from the Macbook.

New comment by qotgalaxy in "We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it"

qotgalaxy — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 02:34:23 +0000

> How do we know we’re not doing the same or similar in our brains?

How do we know that we're not made of magic?

New comment by qotgalaxy in "Cinder: Instagram's performance-oriented fork of CPython"

qotgalaxy — Tue, 04 May 2021 21:50:43 +0000

Instagram is prematurely releasing this only because they heard that Tinder was about to release their own CPython fork.

New comment by qotgalaxy in "Removed gem breaks Rails ActiveStorage"

qotgalaxy — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 16:46:58 +0000

Why would closed source software be safe? Say I copy shared-mime-info completely, compile it, sell it to you as MimeWizardPRO2000, you include it as part of your closed source web framework and sell that. You're still distributing GPL code without making your source available.

New comment by qotgalaxy in "NY launches live dashboard of each regions progress hitting 7 reopening criteria"

qotgalaxy — Tue, 12 May 2020 04:01:00 +0000

Yes, it's more of an intrastate disagreement with this particular infectious disease.

New comment by qotgalaxy in "NY launches live dashboard of each regions progress hitting 7 reopening criteria"

qotgalaxy — Tue, 12 May 2020 03:59:03 +0000

But none of that matters. You have x number of people, you need y number of tests. Just because it's harder to do doesn't mean you need to do it any less.

New comment by qotgalaxy in "Elon Musk reopening Tesla factory despite Alameda County order"

qotgalaxy — Tue, 12 May 2020 03:49:22 +0000

Yes, you do. It's honestly not that complicated.

New comment by qotgalaxy in "Bitcoin Halving Just Occured"

qotgalaxy — Tue, 12 May 2020 03:37:44 +0000

Are you arguing with yourself?

New comment by qotgalaxy in "Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1"

qotgalaxy — Wed, 22 Apr 2020 01:46:38 +0000

That's what they said when they introduced Hangouts.

New comment by qotgalaxy in "How does one appear in the Google News carousel?"

qotgalaxy — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 14:29:28 +0000

That's a stretch.

New comment by qotgalaxy in "Countries With Zero Rating Have More Expensive Wireless"

qotgalaxy — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 03:50:13 +0000

> That was the basis of a lot of early 20th century regulatory thinking. That was thoroughly discredited because it turns out that government price controls are worse than duplicated infrastructure.

I'm sorry, I don't buy it.

New comment by qotgalaxy in "Countries With Zero Rating Have More Expensive Wireless"

qotgalaxy — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 03:48:17 +0000

Note, that in spite of my opposition to chemotherapy, I strongly support curing cancer.

New comment by qotgalaxy in "Home Depot stocked shelves with empty boxes in its early days"

qotgalaxy — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 12:58:11 +0000

You're just lucky that you have an archipelago for a supermarket.