Hacker News: qweqwe14

New comment by qweqwe14 in "VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)"

qweqwe14 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 11:35:40 +0000

What's the difference? As far as I can tell, Helium is just rebranded Ungoogled Chromium with pre-installed extensions or something.

New comment by qweqwe14 in "VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025)"

qweqwe14 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 09:22:56 +0000

I used VSCodium before and found it to be a massive waste of time for no benefit. A significant number of extensions either aren't in OpenVSIX (or whatever it's called), or don't work for some reason. Just disable telemetry in VSCode and you're good.

Happy Ungoogled Chromium user though

New comment by qweqwe14 in "Nvidia announces native GPU programming in Rust"

qweqwe14 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:53:30 +0000

Have you considered that maybe, just maybe, you can have both an easy path to your paycheck and care about software engineering? You also might have an incorrect definition of "software engineering" in mind

New comment by qweqwe14 in "Weird Little Guys of FOSS"

qweqwe14 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 07:54:32 +0000

Drew is the weird one.

New comment by qweqwe14 in "GrapheneOS' rewritten Messages app is released"

qweqwe14 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 20:01:33 +0000

I constantly see those projects that would benefit from a screenshot in a readme, but for some reason the thought about adding one doesn't even come to the authors' mind, even though it's pretty obvious. I'd really like to know what's going on.

New comment by qweqwe14 in "Three sites made 215,128 “best software” pages for AI. Perplexity cites them"

qweqwe14 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:21:32 +0000

AI;DR

New comment by qweqwe14 in "Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root"

qweqwe14 — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:49:42 +0000

Because it's convenient, and the security of this doesn't matter for desktop usage.

New comment by qweqwe14 in "Omarchy: Any User Process Can Escalate to Root"

qweqwe14 — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:41:37 +0000

OK... and? This doesn't matter for a desktop, because:

1. Having access to the user's home directory is way more serious than being able to install drivers or whatever

2. There are a million other ways to escalate to root by obtaining the user's password

I also don't understand the point of these distros, just install Arch with KDE via archinstall, it literally takes 15 minutes. Why is it that people feel the need to use someone's Arch setup?

New comment by qweqwe14 in "Incident with Github.com"

qweqwe14 — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:48:37 +0000

Self-hosted GitLab and self-hosted GitLab Runners (Omnibus Docker image)

New comment by qweqwe14 in "Protobuf has LSP support"

qweqwe14 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 23:07:45 +0000

What world are you living in where Protobuf/gRPC are considered "legacy"? ..what?

New comment by qweqwe14 in "Firefox is now the last major browser that still supports uBlock Origin"

qweqwe14 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 00:11:55 +0000

For sure everyone will start using "weird and new" browsers that waste their time by breaking websites xD

Chromium is an open source project, forks such as Ungoogled Chromium exist, I literally had 0 issues with uBOL on Ungoogled Chromium.

People who complain about MV3 probably spent more time complaining about it than actually trying uBOL and seeing that it works just fine.

New comment by qweqwe14 in "How Claude marks AI-generated content"

qweqwe14 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:32:17 +0000

Why do you feel the need to label the content when the quality of the content will speak for itself?

It doesn't matter where the content comes from, only the quality/usefulness matters. If you are opposed to this idea, the next decades are going to be very tough for you :)

New comment by qweqwe14 in "Systemd Linger"

qweqwe14 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 14:17:03 +0000

No, it is part of the "I just want stuff to work" strategy

New comment by qweqwe14 in "Systemd Linger"

qweqwe14 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 12:44:18 +0000

"The way you expect" is probably inconsistent and, upon closer inspection, completely broken.

There is a reason why systemd became the default and other niche init systems have faded into obscurity.

Sure, it may be more complex than your pile of shell scripts, but that's because it does the same things better, and has a lot more functionality that you will need at some point, and good luck replicating that by hacking shell scripts.

New comment by qweqwe14 in "Codeberg Divides"

qweqwe14 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:29:15 +0000

> Just like people practice martial arts even though we have guns.

The whole point of martial arts is the art itself.

The point of software isn't the process of creating software (it was never about that), it's the end result, and all people care about is that the end result is good. And if you don't like that, you can choose another industry.

New comment by qweqwe14 in "Codeberg Divides"

qweqwe14 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:24:40 +0000

1. Random dude self-hosts a Git instance

2. Gets mad that people he doesn't like DARE to sign up and use it

3. Announces that he won't allow people he doesn't like

4. Makes a big deal out of it like anyone cares

I dunno this is hilarious but pretty sad, the guy clearly has issues

New comment by qweqwe14 in "My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page"

qweqwe14 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:55:31 +0000

Why would you write like that? Not capitalizing the first word of a sentence makes the whole thing less readable. So that you can feel special? Really?

New comment by qweqwe14 in "I regret migrating to Codeberg"

qweqwe14 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:35:47 +0000

That's all good until you discover that Forgejo is very barebones compared to GitLab, and you inevitably end up recreating GitLab featureset by using some scripts/addons from random people and pray it doesn't shit itself

Isn't it better to invest your time in setting up GitLab once and not have to deal with Forgejo being a toy project?

It literally takes 1 compose.yaml to self-host GitLab Omnibus, and 1 compose.yaml for the runner. You have been misled by suckless fans if you think that self-hosting GitLab is more complex than Forgejo.

> Last time I ran gitlab, it required oodles of memory - it's just me!

It requires what, 8GB of RAM? That's not "oodles" by any definition.

New comment by qweqwe14 in "I regret migrating to Codeberg"

qweqwe14 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 11:39:52 +0000

You can just self-host GitLab CE and use self-hosted ElasticSearch integration to set up code search. I really don't understand the point of Forgejo, sounds like making your life harder

New comment by qweqwe14 in "Why developers are ditching GitHub for Codeberg and self-hosting alternatives"

qweqwe14 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:24:31 +0000

You'd be surprised how easy it is to self-host GitLab with Docker Compose, GitLab has an official "Omnibus" Docker image. No need to handicap yourself with Gitea/Forgejo/whatever, you can just use an industry-standard platform without much effort.

Hardware requirements are nowhere close to high either.