Hacker News: rozab

New comment by rozab in "Is Fable 5 Back?"

rozab — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:37:22 +0000

It was a Mozilla thing

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Areweyet

New comment by rozab in "John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard"

rozab — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:35:32 +0000

I think you are right, the checked pattern on the shirt is not directionally consistent

New comment by rozab in "Firefox confirms working on own adblocker [video]"

rozab — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:46:50 +0000

He said basically nothing on this topic in the interview. I guess he's trying to express that they are using open source blocklists in their test harnesses and they may or may not use them in release?

Nothing he said ruled this out, but I think it would be a stupid waste of resources and a slap in the face if they didn't work with gorhill on this.

My feeling is that the point of these consolidations is to centralise the ecosystem of their browser and open up revenue streams. The first does make sense from a user friendliness perspective, new users don't automatically know they should be using uBlock Origin and Mullvad VPN for the best experience. The latter is obviously questionable and undermines the whole ecosystem.

My most pessimistic prediction would be that they don't work with gorhill because he's committed to providing adblock for free, they waste a bunch of resources building an engine from scratch, then they charge a subscription for access to 'premium' up-to-date lists which are really just aggregated open source lists.

New comment by rozab in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

rozab — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:23:03 +0000

The reason all these meticulously designed flows have been done away with is because some manager believes that AI is omniscient and can just replace it all.

Like, flagging VPN endpoints is bread and butter for this kind of thing and must already exist. But it's been bypassed

New comment by rozab in "Avian Visitors"

rozab — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 12:11:24 +0000

Apparently Merlin and BirdNET are entirely separate projects from different teams, although they both come from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology

New comment by rozab in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

rozab — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:54:57 +0000

I've never quite understood how unions in the US work or why they have the perception of them that they do. But rest assured, that is not what a union is elsewhere in the world.

New comment by rozab in "The Problem with the Ferrari Luce EV Offers a Lesson for Every Leader"

rozab — Thu, 28 May 2026 11:10:40 +0000

Porsche do this and have been very successful.

Speaking of Porsche, they did once design a Star Wars ship and ended up with something super generic that looked like a free sci-fi model on sketchfab. Same as this car.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJevc8fQVEg

New comment by rozab in "Canada to order military plane fleet from Sweden in shift from US suppliers"

rozab — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:24:11 +0000

That one has the disadvantage of not yet existing, although South Korea has ordered

New comment by rozab in "Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests"

rozab — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:26:08 +0000

If you go to www.githubstatus.com, the downtime is not showing in the chart. I was annoyed enough yesterday when I visited this page to figure out why my Actions had failed and was greeted with big green ticks and only a tiny red rectangle halfway down the page to indicate the problem.

This time they've just scrubbed the evidence outright?

New comment by rozab in "UK government replaces Palantir software with internally-built refugee system"

rozab — Fri, 15 May 2026 08:03:04 +0000

My parents took in a Ukrainian family as part of this scheme, and I knew many others who did. They all matched with each other through Facebook groups set up for this purpose. I don't know anyone who was matched automatically by the Palantir thing

New comment by rozab in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

rozab — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:28:50 +0000

In my experience, Linux support on Framework is worse than on a typical ThinkPad, and they don't have much interest in contributing to the ecosystem like System76 does. They still make good products, I'm just very unimpressed with the Linux marketing.

New comment by rozab in "Tindie store under "scheduled maintenance" for days"

rozab — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:39:03 +0000

This really tickled me, I wasn't expecting them to just be a pair of esp32 dev boards you attach to your ears

New comment by rozab in "NASA Force"

rozab — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:30:40 +0000

The copy also doesn't seem to be written by someone with a good command of English, even ChatGPT would do better

>technologists inside the systems that power American spaceflight, aeronautics, and scientific discovery. You work on real missions, alongside the teams building them, and your contributions move from concept to operation. For a few days, access is granted to this work. The number is extremely limited. The window only lasts four days. Will you answer the call?

New comment by rozab in "Backpacks got worse on purpose"

rozab — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:09:24 +0000

Dead horse but I find it astonishing that people can still miss AI writing like this.

Don't you find it incredibly grating that every paragraph grinds to a halt while 3 sentence fragments are repeated? Same rhetorical devices. Same tone. Same pointless constructions.

That's not good writing. It's cheap parlour tricks.

The rhythm continues almost as though the writing is in verse—with the effect of hypnotizing the reader so they don't notice nothing is being said at all. The result? Skimmable prose. Digestible reading. Shareable content.

It's not just bad style. It's actually rotting your brain. And if you can't notice that, maybe you weren't reading at all.

New comment by rozab in "Why it’s impossible to measure England’s coastline"

rozab — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:35:44 +0000

Similar to Hadrian's Wall, there's the Offa's Dyke Path which roughly follows the Welsh border all the way up.

New comment by rozab in "Show HN: Made a little Artemis II tracker"

rozab — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:40:35 +0000

The actual Earth and Moon are still not nearly to scale though!

New comment by rozab in "Show HN: Made a little Artemis II tracker"

rozab — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:04:07 +0000

This has always been a peeve of mine, but the lack of scale diagrams in coverage of this is maddening. We know what the Earth and the Moon look like, there is no need to make them 20 times bigger. Surely the point of these diagrams is to show the unbelievable scale of the journey. I'm yet to see one this news cycle, from NASA or anyone else

New comment by rozab in "I am definitely missing the pre-AI writing era"

rozab — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:53:00 +0000

I see loads of LLM articles where it's been prompted to never capitalise, avoid full stops, pepper in spelling mistakes, etc. it sucks.

New comment by rozab in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

rozab — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:32:41 +0000

All through this whole ghost fleet thing I've had this question as to how a large ship in the sea can possibly keep its movements secret. Large media organisations seem to be unable to say where large tankers have been if they turn their transponders off.

Don't we have constellations of satellites constantly imaging the entire earth, both with visual and synthetic aperture radar, with many offering their data freely to the public? Wouldn't a large ship on the ocean stick out somewhat? And yet journalists seem lost without vesselfinder. Is this harder than I'm imagining, or are they just not paying the right orgs for the info?

New comment by rozab in "60 Minutes Havana Syndrome report finds U.S. government tested energy weapon"

rozab — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 22:13:45 +0000

I've read reports about Havana Syndrome before and remain thoroughly unconvinced. The locations vary wildly, the symptoms vary wildly and can be explained by normal medical phenomena in a way Occam would find more agreeable.

Look at their 'smoking gun' evidence here:

>He tracked down an email, what he considers a receipt, for services provided to the Russian government by a member of Unit 29155 for "potential capabilities of non-lethal acoustic weapons."

Acoustic crowd control weapons are not mysterious, there are people on YouTube building and testing them! American companies will sell them to any oppressive government around the world (I believe the ones used against Serbian protestors were American). Yet this description contradicts speculation about microwaves just a bit further down in the article.