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New comment by ricudis in "Decayfmt – a file format that corrupts itself a little every time you open it"

ricudis — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 04:52:50 +0000

I initially thought this would be part of a fuzzer.

New comment by ricudis in "Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003)"

ricudis — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:17:51 +0000

Though now it's long buried in internet folklore graveyard, there once was a popular shock image (and an associated website) called "goatse". (If you never heard of it, you better NOT google it).

For awhile, people had been spotting goatse in several logos.

New comment by ricudis in "A Gallery of Installing from .dmg"

ricudis — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 10:29:07 +0000

About half of these designs would confuse me. Some would make me right out refusing to run your software - even from the installation step.

I get it that designers like to innovate, but please innovate somewhere else. I want my UI/UX boring, dull and consistent.

New comment by ricudis in "Our position on open-weights models"

ricudis — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 06:50:38 +0000

I stopped reading at "...that don’t have dangerous capabilities..."

New comment by ricudis in "Anthropic's model naming, extrapolated"

ricudis — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:17:12 +0000

IBM: CICS/370 Neural Transaction Facility: A z/OS-resident Enterprise Natural Language Transaction Processing Facility Subsystem for Conversational Batch-Oriented Inference and Prompt-Managed Spool Generation

New comment by ricudis in "AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere"

ricudis — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:55:12 +0000

Back when [1] it was fashionable to advocate FOSS as ideology [2], we were thinking about tons of FOSS adversaries and how to protect from them - some real, some imaginary. The death of FOSS would come from big closed-source vendors, or from regulators (lobbied or just ignorant), from whatever.

We never envisioned that the actual FOSS death spiral would come from progress itself, much more so from AI...

[1] Oh what fun did we have. One of us in the Greek FOSS community actually put RMS in jail. [2] Something that I think nobody except RMS ever seriously believed in.

New comment by ricudis in "Fidonet: Technology, Use, Tools, and History (1993)"

ricudis — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:21:55 +0000

2:410/3 here. These were some of the best days!

A pictorial introduction to differential geometry (2017)

ricudis — Sun, 31 May 2026 05:30:18 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.08492

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343287

Points: 142

# Comments: 5

New comment by ricudis in "X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok"

ricudis — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 03:42:38 +0000

> Not even Trump would resort to murder to get rid of his domestic adversaries

Don't give them ideas

New comment by ricudis in "X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok"

ricudis — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 03:33:34 +0000

I heard there's a country where they can even SWAT you out of existence with a simple phone call, but it sounds so outrageous this must be some evil communist dictatorship third-world place. I really don't remember.

New comment by ricudis in "Rust GCC backend: Why and how"

ricudis — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 10:20:33 +0000

Not just C++. Even C parsing is context-dependent because of typedef. Requires a bit of hackery to parse in a conventional LL/LARL/LR parser.

New comment by ricudis in "We collected 10k hours of neuro-language data in our basement"

ricudis — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 09:33:28 +0000

All these issues having been solved already in kiosk setups.

New comment by ricudis in "End of Japanese community"

ricudis — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 05:26:52 +0000

No, we aren't.

It was this exact part of the conversation that touched me negatively too. marsf expresses some very valid criticism that, instead of being publicly addressed, is being handled by "let's discuss it privately". This always means that they don't want to discuss, they just want to shut you down.

New comment by ricudis in "Why does Swiss cheese have holes?"

ricudis — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 04:34:55 +0000

And how would they know if my cheese has holes, given that there is a non-zero probability that a random cut over a piece of cheese goes through no holes at all? They would have to make so many cuts that the cheese becomes grated. And grated cheese most definitely doesn't have holes!

New comment by ricudis in "Why does Swiss cheese have holes?"

ricudis — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 04:25:42 +0000

Having experienced several of the cuisines rated by Taste Atlas, I would not trust a comma out of their reviews :P

New comment by ricudis in "Why does Swiss cheese have holes?"

ricudis — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 04:14:19 +0000

Swiss cheese have holes so the swiss dwarfs can hide in them.

New comment by ricudis in "Estimating the perceived 'claustrophobia' of New York City's streets (2024)"

ricudis — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 02:35:53 +0000

Of all the places I've been, Singapore.

They have a population of 6 to 7 million people in an area of 700 square kilometers, resulting in a population density of 8300 people / km^2. Substantially more than that if you account for the fact that a large percentage of the island is still tropical jungle.

Despite that fact, their city planning is so good with large open spaces everywhere interspersed with greenery, that you almost never feel claustrophobic. Even the so-called "hearland" neighbourhoods with rows after rows of high-rise residential HDB buildings are quite pleasant.

The most claustrophobic place I've been in Singapore are the few squares in the center of CBD filled with skyscrapers that almost obscure you the view of the sky.

New comment by ricudis in "It's not always DNS"

ricudis — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 23:36:14 +0000

It's always DNS, except when it's BGP.

New comment by ricudis in "4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence"

ricudis — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 01:10:49 +0000

They're warning everybody, not just Singaporeans. It's just that Singaporeans are the most likely to go travel abroad, have some fun, and then come back like nothing has happened. But if somebody inbound gets caught in a random drug test at the airport (they do that), he's going to be prosecuted just the same no matter their citizenship. There were several (in-)famous examples of this happening.

New comment by ricudis in "4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence"

ricudis — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 14:27:03 +0000

Singapore does exactly that, and they explicitly warn outbound Singaporean travelers that any drug use outside Singapore will be prosecuted as if it has happened in Singapore.