Hacker News: rraghur

New comment by rraghur in "Lula wins election after final votes tallied"

rraghur — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 08:36:36 +0000

Most of that gear is manufactured.. With mass media fully captured.. So yes, unwarranted.. And the people are coming out of the spell.. Esp as they see their children suffer due to the systemic damage... These are the silent majority that's slow to react but eventually does.. That's what put the fear in the govt now and precipitated the massive crackdown on dissent.

New comment by rraghur in "Lula wins election after final votes tallied"

rraghur — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 08:29:57 +0000

The ruling party has more than it's share of dynasties...

New comment by rraghur in "Lula wins election after final votes tallied"

rraghur — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 03:28:21 +0000

In India, we have a name for for blind supporters of the current Hindu right ruling party.. The BJP... They're called andh bhakts... Translated 'the faithful blind'... Even incontrovertible proof of wrong doing does not change their mindset

New comment by rraghur in "Firefox Containers Preview"

rraghur — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 05:30:19 +0000

I use sidebery to set up rules so I can get the best of both... Parallel logins and automatic pinning

New comment by rraghur in "The Second Life of Sanskrit"

rraghur — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:07:38 +0000

For anyone here, here is a great example of constrained writing in Sanskrit from 7th or 8th century

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shishupala_Vadha#Linguistic_in...

Just the verbal gymnastics, the wordplay and the ingenuity is mind boggling

New comment by rraghur in "I started programming when I was 7. I'm 50 now and the thing I loved has changed"

rraghur — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 16:26:36 +0000

Are you me?

I'm 49.... Started at 12... In the same boat

First 286 machine had a CMOS battery that was loose so I had to figure that out to make it boot into ms-dos

This time it does feel different and while I'm using them ai more than ever, it feels soulless and empty even when I 'ship' something

New comment by rraghur in "Self-hosting my photos with Immich"

rraghur — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 09:18:28 +0000

Incremental borg backups uploaded to cloud storage... Have a cron job and get notified about every backup

New comment by rraghur in "Windows 10 Deadline Boosts Mac Sales"

rraghur — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 17:38:33 +0000

Was in the market for a Linux laptop for son who's entering college.... Dug through lenovo and saying that it's hard to find decent info on Linux support is an understatement...

Finally got an e14 g6 AMD.... It's not supported by lenovo for Linux but everything got Auto detected and worked except fingerprint

The bummer: suspend to ram is terribly broken and for a laptop that's a deal breaker

Yeah I'm aware of framework and system 76... They aren't here. The pricier lenovo options exist but at that point is just go with a mac

New comment by rraghur in "Windows 7 marketshare jumps to nearly 10% as Windows 10 support is about to end"

rraghur — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 16:58:59 +0000

haven't run windows in ages (15yrs). Can't even make sense of windows anymore since at work moved to Mac. Unfortunately, looks like I will need to now since for a laptop (thinkpad - AMD - sleep/suspend might be a dead end)

So what's the 'best' edition of windows ('best' for privacy/least crapware/adware/AI slop)? I can get any version.

New comment by rraghur in ""Adulting" courses in America"

rraghur — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 09:15:52 +0000

Not sure about specific ones here... But I feel financial basics should be a mandatory course before graduation... Maybe it is available as electives in other counties but here in India, fresh graduates are shockingly illiterate financially... Things to cover

1. Compound interest 2. Taxation 3. Insurance... Term/health 4. Asset classes... Equity /debt/real estate/gold/bonds and risk/reward 5. Evaluating investment plans/schemes

New comment by rraghur in "KOReader: Open-Source eBook Reader"

rraghur — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 15:41:08 +0000

Kual+ had an option to stop auto updates... KT4 here

New comment by rraghur in "The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking [pdf]"

rraghur — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 18:48:37 +0000

Just today had Gemini write a shell spot for me that had to generate a relative symlink.. Getting it to work xplat on linux & mac took more than ten tries and I stopped reading after the second

At the end, I spent probably more time and learnt nothing.. My initial take was that this is the kind of thing I don't care much for so giving it to a llm is OK... However, by the end of it I ended up more frustrated and lost it in the simulation of working things out aa well

New comment by rraghur in "The Impact of Generative AI on Critical Thinking [pdf]"

rraghur — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 18:41:49 +0000

Sort of like once you get used to GPS to get anywhere, you stop developing any further directional sense but even existing capabilities start withering away

WiR tech:This computer chip is the key to an unhackable future – Hard Reset [video]

rraghur — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 16:45:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmM9tHwfN5M

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41955904

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by rraghur in "Windows 11 tweaks and usability improvements"

rraghur — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 15:38:28 +0000

Yeah.. I get by with cmd g...

In rooting for Asahi.. Linux on Mac hw would be so nice

Realistically though, in spite of the heroic effort it'll always be crippled in some way OR if they manage to close the gap enough, Apple might still screw them (and end users) over with the next firmware update

New comment by rraghur in "Windows 11 tweaks and usability improvements"

rraghur — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 15:28:53 +0000

Ctrl L works on gnome... Also does auto complete

New comment by rraghur in "Windows 11 tweaks and usability improvements"

rraghur — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 11:46:51 +0000

So this may come off as salty but in just wondering if I'm the only one

After years if Windows (at work) and Linux at home, I'm now using a Mac at work... Boy...it has its share of warts (like the other two)...and, imho, not the apex of design/usability that everyone raves about

1. Can't show address bar in finder... Seriously, go copy windows or any DE explorer 2. System bar (menu bar?)doesn't handle overflow? Where are the pitchforks ? Have to install Ice from github 3. Wanted to launch an app with CLI params and the Automator etc seems clunky... Both Linux and win do this better

I like the hw and battery life and the sw stack (nix) but UX is at par with windows minus sneaky behaviour.. I mostly don't care since primary goal was a nix for development but UX was a let down... I'll take GNOME any day ( is been rock solid and I don't recall the last time it crashed)

Yet, even here on hn I've never come across any griping at Mac os ux niggles ever

New comment by rraghur in "Belenios: Verifiable online voting system"

rraghur — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 02:23:02 +0000

Experts to verify but overall the entire system available for inspection to the populace at will (so open source, reproducible builds, verifiability) etc

There will still be questions around compromised keys/secrets

I suppose in this case paper ballots win

New comment by rraghur in "Firefox 125"

rraghur — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 01:17:09 +0000

Yes lots... Container integration... So certain urls always open in certain container... Snapshots

I moved from tst a few years ago.. Let me get rid of a few more extensions too

New comment by rraghur in "Thomas Cochrane"

rraghur — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 13:45:29 +0000

Dan Snow's history hit podcast just started a series on him - https://open.spotify.com/episode/6ispIHiXbKt6ocJJH4RqN6