Hacker News: redmajor12

New comment by redmajor12 in "EVs are depreciating faster than gas-powered cars"

redmajor12 — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:14:09 +0000

With ICE cars, typically manufacturer warranties only are valid for the original purchaser.

New comment by redmajor12 in "Falkon: A KDE Web Browser"

redmajor12 — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 19:56:28 +0000

They traded user experience for developer egos. Ego is the equivalent of wealth in the OSS world, just as it is in academia. KDE 4 developers had some grand ideas to push on the world, such as the semantic web, regardless of whether or not their users cared for them.

New comment by redmajor12 in "Falkon: A KDE Web Browser"

redmajor12 — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 19:42:41 +0000

That was a bad time for KDE. They pushed 4 out with a lot of fanfare and it turned out that GUI wise it was a bad windows vista clone that broke every great established KDE 3.5 application.

Definite enshitification. They took something great and replaced it with a craptastic DE that didn't reach feature parity for a decade!

I bailed for XFCE at the time, never gone back to KDE, wouldn't trust them to not do the same thing again.

New comment by redmajor12 in "Falkon: A KDE Web Browser"

redmajor12 — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 19:29:28 +0000

It's not strange. Mozilla Foundation is a non profit and Google is not.

New comment by redmajor12 in "TSMC expected to announce $100B investment in U.S."

redmajor12 — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 07:53:25 +0000

Taiwan is composed of the refugee losers of the Chinese civil war. That gives them zero legitimacy to continue as anything but a breakaway state occupying a formerly Chinese province.

New comment by redmajor12 in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

redmajor12 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 21:27:52 +0000

Supporting peace?! That's a right wing cause now?

New comment by redmajor12 in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

redmajor12 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 21:22:19 +0000

Ukraine is not a formal ally of the United States.

New comment by redmajor12 in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

redmajor12 — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 21:21:33 +0000

When did Zelensky's presidential term expired again?

New comment by redmajor12 in "Apple says it will add 20k jobs, spend $500B, produce AI servers in US"

redmajor12 — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 00:33:16 +0000

How is the Jones Act responsible for the failure of domestic ship building? Seems like the Jones Act didn't go far enough if we really cared about a strong domestic ship building industry.

New comment by redmajor12 in "IPv6 Is Hard"

redmajor12 — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 06:51:47 +0000

It's still basically another mac address or unique identifier for the system, regardless of which local network it happens to be on. Great for being tracked by FAANG, I guess, but I'd rather for my devices use a generic local IP and a randomized mac. There's no reason why the refrigerator needs to be uniquely identifiable on the Internet.

New comment by redmajor12 in "IPv6 Is Hard"

redmajor12 — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 06:44:57 +0000

I don't want all my devices to have their own unique address. The internet dream that created ipv6 is dead. It's malware, spyware, surveillance capitalism now, and the more obscurity through layers of addresses, the better.

New comment by redmajor12 in "San Francisco homelessness: Park ranger helps one person at a time"

redmajor12 — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 06:28:16 +0000

The problem with trebuchets though is that the trebuchet makers are less well connected politically, so there's less opportunities for graft along the way.

New comment by redmajor12 in "Why hasn't commercial air travel gotten any faster since the 1960s? (2009)"

redmajor12 — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 02:59:16 +0000

It depends if the plane is pressurized or not. There's no xray or other security theater for turbo prop flights.

New comment by redmajor12 in "Station of despair: What to do if you get stuck at end of Tokyo Chuo Rapid Line"

redmajor12 — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 02:49:17 +0000

Same in Germany. Graffiti everywhere; walls, buildings, fences, signs, historic monuments. It's awful and I don't know why they can't manage to do anything about it, but it also seems like no one cares about it as a problem to begin with. To me, such an individual invasion of the public space seems like a mockery of the common trust and the notion that the Europeans (and the Germans especially) have some sort of communal responsibility.

New comment by redmajor12 in "Google drops pledge not to use AI for weapons or surveillance"

redmajor12 — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 01:10:11 +0000

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-assisted_targeting_in_the...

New comment by redmajor12 in "Bitwarden is turning 2FA on by default for new devices"

redmajor12 — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 18:09:07 +0000

For someone who has only used offline, local password vaults, what is the advantage of a cloud-based solution (for personal use, not enterprise)? I'm interested in their self hosted option, but not sure what the advantages would be over keepass and syncthing.

New comment by redmajor12 in "Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion"

redmajor12 — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 07:26:45 +0000

Or later, seeing how long it took to load /usr/bin in a filemanager.

New comment by redmajor12 in "Hard numbers in the Wayland vs. X11 input latency discussion"

redmajor12 — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 07:23:00 +0000

Wayland as a just protocol... Isn't that the same argument they used when it shipped without copy/paste or a screensaver?

New comment by redmajor12 in "ROCm Device Support Wishlist"

redmajor12 — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 05:10:04 +0000

Removing support for Radeon VII is a bonehead move that smacks of stupidity or greed. The cards were targeted for enthusiast gamers but have enterprise level hardware, like HBM2 memory and 1 TB/s bandwidth.

New comment by redmajor12 in "Why Twitter is such a big deal (2009)"

redmajor12 — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 19:34:42 +0000

Twitter was never slim or lightweight. At the time, I remember checking its page weight only to find the website loaded over 100k of scripts and other cargo. With a 140 character limit, one can only conclude that the other 99.9% was malware and anti user algorithms, probably in an attempt to replicate Facebook.