Hacker News: rnd0

New comment by rnd0 in "The arguments against open source AI are bad"

rnd0 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 19:09:14 +0000

This, right here, is the bottom line. Money gets what Money wants.

New comment by rnd0 in "Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs"

rnd0 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:39:07 +0000

That's apples and oranges; a better analogy would be if you post a video on youtube that you made yourself, with products you're allowed to use, but happen to overlook that copywritten music is on the radio in the background or on the tv.

How many youtube videos have gone dark over bogus copyright claims over the years? And you think people will overlook what's in AI -when there's over a trillion dollars on the table?

New comment by rnd0 in "LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps"

rnd0 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 17:50:12 +0000

Alternate take; deliberately broken moderation systems and perverse incentives are the biggest source of social media manipulation.

Fix social media, and leave the consumers alone.

Also the firehose of spam will continue regardless of what you do on the consumer end.

New comment by rnd0 in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

rnd0 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:36:05 +0000

Works a treat, I reckon -until the moment comes when you actually want to interact and/or post.

New comment by rnd0 in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

rnd0 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:31:21 +0000

With AI posts and karma farming -not to mention good old-fashioned astroturfing ...how reliable is that, really?

New comment by rnd0 in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

rnd0 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:29:33 +0000

>Back to old school forums

It's the year of Our Lord 2026. Good luck discovering forums that you don't already know about!

New comment by rnd0 in "Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample"

rnd0 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:13:05 +0000

Honestly that seems kind of pointless and a waste of time. Might as well work it out by hand if you're going to go through all that effort

New comment by rnd0 in "Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs"

rnd0 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:00:30 +0000

I missed that, link please?

New comment by rnd0 in "Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs"

rnd0 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:29:35 +0000

Not a lawyer, but additionally there's also legal concern about the legality of the training source. How can you verify that the model you're using wasn't trained and therefore incorporates code that is not licensed for sharing. e.g. someone theoretically uploading the shared source windows kernel to github and it being added to copilot.

There's no reasonable belief that or similar scenarios cannot happen and does not happen.

That's my problem with Linus's announcement regarding AI in the kernel -since the announcement I'm counting the days until we see SCO II Electric Boogaloo.

There's a lot of people with deep pockets and a deeper hatred of FOSS, and AI gives them the backdoor to take FOSS out -legally, on the grounds of province.

(I'm not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, and this is only my speculation from a layperson's point of view)

New comment by rnd0 in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

rnd0 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:23:44 +0000

Of course they are -it goes without saying.

New comment by rnd0 in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

rnd0 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:11:50 +0000

Are you including aggressive economic attacks -such as weaponizing tariffs or are you only counting direct military acts?

I'm pretty sure the U.S. has done both over the last couple of years -but I'd love to be proven wrong. :)

New comment by rnd0 in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

rnd0 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 18:09:13 +0000

Yes and no? I've had the same experience with asking about Tienanmen square -but then when asking a Deepseek v4 model (and confirmed by asking the chat on the deepseek site) about the "laying flat" movement it gave me a detailed answer that was unexpectedly sympathetic to the movement.

New comment by rnd0 in "MoonBASIC: A modern BASIC for building 2D and 3D games"

rnd0 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 06:55:40 +0000

>But lately, because of AI, I've completely lost interest in this kind of stuff.

I'm a few years older -and yes, I feel the same way. Not just in programming and geek stuff but in creativity too.

It seems literally pointless, since what everyone else is doing involves AI. It literally takes the point away since folks will simply say "oh, who cares? Look at this shit I made in AI instead"

New comment by rnd0 in "FAANG Simulator"

rnd0 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 23:26:09 +0000

I originally wasn't going to try it -but now I have to!

New comment by rnd0 in "Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed"

rnd0 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:29:49 +0000

Particularly since the first version of Windows shipped in what -1985? Contemporary with 4.2BSD? Did 4.2BSD even use /etc/hosts the same way or DNS?

New comment by rnd0 in "Twitter devolved into a pipeline of ragebait slop"

rnd0 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:31:36 +0000

Elon bought Twitter to destroy it, this is simply the latest step in that process.

New comment by rnd0 in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

rnd0 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:20:52 +0000

>And at that point you also realize that are better OSes

Nothing beats Windows 11+WSL2; literally the best of both worlds.

New comment by rnd0 in "SvarDOS – an open-source DOS distribution"

rnd0 — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:50:41 +0000

Great for svardos users, not ideal for the rest of the FreeDOS community, however.

[edit]Additionally, it looks like people's IP address is included with their posts. YUCK!

New comment by rnd0 in "Win32 Is the Only Stable ABI on Linux"

rnd0 — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 16:51:16 +0000

OS/2 was more stable than Windows and it had threaded application support -so the analogy does hold, IMO.

New comment by rnd0 in "Dr. Demento Announces Retirement After 55-Year Radio Career"

rnd0 — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 05:47:38 +0000

Another One Rides The Bus

(I first heard it on Dr. Demento)