Hacker News: ripdog

New comment by ripdog in "Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support"

ripdog — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 20:19:55 +0000

So, devuan?

New comment by ripdog in "Toro: Deploy Applications as Unikernels"

ripdog — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:35:54 +0000

Windows has containers?

New comment by ripdog in "Free software scares normal people"

ripdog — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 19:42:40 +0000

I'd argue that's more because the average person has no interest in installing a new OS, or even any idea what an OS is.

Most people just keep the default. When the default is Linux (say, the Steam Deck), most people just keep Linux.

New comment by ripdog in "I regret building this $3000 Pi AI cluster"

ripdog — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 17:51:00 +0000

Because latency matters when gaming in a way which doesn't matter with AI inference?

Plus cloud gaming is always limited in range of games, there are restrictions on how you can use the PC (like no modding and no swapping savegames in or out).

New comment by ripdog in "A new experimental Google app for Windows"

ripdog — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 02:06:09 +0000

AFAIK it's not really possible to implement Everything in Linux because Everything relies on reading the entire file list at once from the NTFS metadata, allowing it to index at incredible speed. On Linux, there are dozens of filesystems which likely make it impossible to achieve the same.

That said, I do wonder why Linux gone search is always so slow even on indexed files.

New comment by ripdog in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

ripdog — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 22:39:27 +0000

It's incredibly obnoxious when people type "in my country" as if we're all supposed to just... know where they live. It's also incredibly common. Why do people do this?

New comment by ripdog in "Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025"

ripdog — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 04:55:32 +0000

Thank you for the correction, I did get that wrong. To be clear, there was no easy solution to get reliable, low latency DNS responses from my own resolver without breaking keepalive by forcibly caching entries longer?

New comment by ripdog in "Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025"

ripdog — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 14:14:51 +0000

Well that's the experience I had. Obviously caching was enabled (unbound), but most DNS keepalive times are so short as to be fairly useless for a single user.

Even if a root server wasn't in the US, it will still be pretty slow for me. Europe is far worse. Most of Asia has bad paths to me, except for Japan and Singapore which are marginally better than the US. Maybe Aus has one...?

New comment by ripdog in "Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025"

ripdog — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:35:41 +0000

Not a hardware issue, but a physics problem. I live in NZ. I guess the root servers are all in the US, so that's 130ms per trip minimum.

New comment by ripdog in "Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 Incident on July 14, 2025"

ripdog — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 08:31:21 +0000

>Or just run a resolver yourself.

I did this for a while, but ~300ms hangs on every DNS resolution sure do get old fast.

New comment by ripdog in " and (2020)"
ripdog — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 09:35:59 +0000

Um, so, how are Mozilla supposed to get the hundreds of millions of dollars a year it costs to pay engineers to maintain an evergreen browser without Google's funding?

New comment by ripdog in "After court order, OpenAI is now preserving all ChatGPT user logs"

ripdog — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 01:10:59 +0000

>If I have users that use OpenAI through my API keys am I responsible?
Yes. You are OpenAI's customer, and they expect you to follow their ToS. They do provide a moderation API to reject inappropriate prompts, though.

New comment by ripdog in "Valve releases Team Fortress 2 code"

ripdog — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:04:20 +0000

"Emulator" is the wrong word, but the answer is yes. The word you actually meant was "re-implementation" - writing a completely new, clean-room program which reads Source data files (levels, assets, scripts) and allows the user to play a Source game is perfectly legal.
It is necessary to avoid distributing any copyrighted material, so the user must provide the game assets from a legitimate copy for using the program to be legal. In addition, the 'clean-room' must be maintained by ensuring that no contributors to the re-implementation have ever seen the source code for Source, or they become tainted with forbidden knowledge.
Indeed, it's quite common for beloved old games to be re-implemented on new codebases to allow easy play on modern OS's and at high resolution, etc.
See https://github.com/Interkarma/daggerfall-unity, https://openrct2.io/, https://github.com/AlisterT/openjazz

New comment by ripdog in "RCE Vulnerability in QBittorrent"

ripdog — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 19:51:36 +0000

Then just turn it off. qBT isn't windows, it doesn't demand autoupdate.
That said, you really shouldn't be running outdated torrent clients, like any network-connected programs. Case in point - the topic of this thread.

New comment by ripdog in "RCE Vulnerability in QBittorrent"

ripdog — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 19:41:30 +0000

Without a formal audit on a variety of BT clients, this isn't really an answerable question. Just because this one issue was discovered in qBT, doesn't mean that there are hundreds more in it, and Transmission, say, has none.

New comment by ripdog in "RCE Vulnerability in QBittorrent"

ripdog — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 19:11:37 +0000

Qt isn't just a GUI toolkit - it's an everything toolkit. It's somewhat intended to be used (potentially) alone with C++ to allow the creation of a wide variety of apps. It includes modules like Bluetooth, Network, Multimedia, OAuth, Threading and XML.
See a full list: https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/index.html

New comment by ripdog in "Tuning-Free Personalized Image Generation"

ripdog — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 00:38:43 +0000

They're entirely manual. A whole bunch of volunteers write filter rules to block known ads. There's a big github where people can post issues about ads they've found, and volunteers will write filter rules to block them.
See https://github.com/easylist/easylist/issues

New comment by ripdog in "U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly"

ripdog — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 19:56:50 +0000

I live in NZ, there's no standard here. It's damned annoying. I've heard that Facebook Messenger is the most popular, but I only know one person who uses it and I don't have an account myself.

New comment by ripdog in "U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly"

ripdog — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 19:02:09 +0000

By default was missing from the sentence. You can do it with Whatsapp etc, but both you and the other party need to download a 3rd party app to do so.

New comment by ripdog in "Akira Toriyama has died"

ripdog — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 05:44:12 +0000

Tragically, a large proportion of manga artists die early. The lifestyle of spending 12 hours a day bent over a desk, frantically drawing, stressing about deadlines, all contributes to a variety of causes of early death.
Treasure your mangaka while they're alive, as theirs is an industry fuelled by passion - often far too much. (And greedy/demanding publishers, but we'll leave that discussion for another time.)