Hacker News: rhabarba

New comment by rhabarba in "Robert Kaye from MusicBrainz has passed away"

rhabarba — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 19:04:07 +0000

Sad news. Really.

New comment by rhabarba in "Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI"

rhabarba — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:27:41 +0000

I'm still glad that NetSurf exists.

GNU Octave 11.1.0 Released

rhabarba — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:27:09 +0000

Article URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1059965/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47130551

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by rhabarba in "Tim Cook sold Apple's soul"

rhabarba — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 03:28:31 +0000

They still don't unlock iPhones for the government. But please, by all means, enjoy your next U.S. ecosystem.

New comment by rhabarba in "Radicle: The Sovereign Forge"

rhabarba — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:01:54 +0000

I wish it would support more VCSs.

New comment by rhabarba in "Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”"

rhabarba — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:29:17 +0000

When LibreOffice appeared on the stage, that was actually my first test back then: opening an existing ODT document I had written. It was already displayed incorrectly at the time.

New comment by rhabarba in "Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”"

rhabarba — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:27:49 +0000

Trademarked in USA, maintained by US citizens, mostly distributed by US companies who add US software like GNU and systemd.

New comment by rhabarba in "Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”"

rhabarba — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 14:28:26 +0000

Or Linux, being an American product.

New comment by rhabarba in "Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”"

rhabarba — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 14:27:24 +0000

Waiting for Adobe to rename Photoslop.

New comment by rhabarba in "Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”"

rhabarba — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 14:26:55 +0000

LibreOffice can't properly render ODT files created with OpenOffice-before-Oracle. I highly doubt their DOCX support is any better.

New comment by rhabarba in "Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”"

rhabarba — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 12:17:48 +0000

Especially not "Microsoft".

New comment by rhabarba in "Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”"

rhabarba — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 12:16:41 +0000

It is calming to see that in the end, WordPerfect Office outlived Microsoft Office.

New comment by rhabarba in "CDE – Common Desktop Environment – Release 2.5.3"

rhabarba — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 15:46:51 +0000

I agree.

CDE being heavier is probably mostly caused by its large functionality. After all, NsCDE is mostly an FVWM colour scheme, while CDE comes with all the bells and whistles.

New comment by rhabarba in "CDE – Common Desktop Environment – Release 2.5.3"

rhabarba — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 15:45:08 +0000

Still my favourite Unix desktop. Thank you for the notice!

New comment by rhabarba in "OpenBSD 7.8"

rhabarba — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 15:49:38 +0000

NetBSD and OpenBSD support “old” hardware notably longer than Linux does though. OpenBSD having dropped the VAX is not that long ago.

New comment by rhabarba in "OpenBSD 7.8"

rhabarba — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 22:23:12 +0000

I upgraded my OpenBSD machines a few hours ago, and I'm still not entirely sure whether I notice any obvious TCP speed improvement. Then again, they're not really high-load computers. Maybe people with a higher throughput will be amazed.

New comment by rhabarba in "OpenBSD 7.8"

rhabarba — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 22:21:56 +0000

FreeBSD is not really curious about being as portable as possible, I think. And it is somewhat larger, indeed, so it's not quite as easy to support more platforms.

OpenBSD 7.8

rhabarba — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 19:38:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.openbsd.org/78.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45660634

Points: 73

# Comments: 10

Show HN: Delout: Deleting files as a game of Breakout

rhabarba — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 01:08:28 +0000

This has lived rent-free in my head for too long. Here it is.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45534591

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Future Vim Builds on Windows

rhabarba — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 01:15:51 +0000

Article URL: https://groups.google.com/g/vim_dev/c/FmOKEAUzKWo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45071095

Points: 3

# Comments: 1