Hacker News: s0ss

New comment by s0ss in "Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux"

s0ss — Sat, 09 May 2026 13:21:52 +0000

I have, maybe you should too. Other than stating it’s not a 501c3, I haven’t heard a compelling argument. I think it’s OK that Linus gets paid to do what he does. Everyone here definitely benefits from this non profit organization. It’s ok we see it differently.

New comment by s0ss in "Over 97% of the 'Linux' Foundation's Budget Goes Not to Linux"

s0ss — Sat, 09 May 2026 05:06:30 +0000

Why not?

New comment by s0ss in "Clarification on the Notepad++ Trademark Issue"

s0ss — Tue, 05 May 2026 18:54:52 +0000

It’s the intersection of copyright and trademark law, where lots of folks get tripped up. The fork had a website that used the trademark owner’s trademark without permission. It has nothing to do with copyright or code.

New comment by s0ss in "Clarification on the Notepad++ Trademark Issue"

s0ss — Tue, 05 May 2026 18:36:28 +0000

If you don’t actively protect your trademark, you risk losing your trademark. Im surprised that isn’t part of his reasoning.

New comment by s0ss in "Apple signs meaningless deal to make some less-important parts in America"

s0ss — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:51:20 +0000

Isn’t whining the point of theregister though?

New comment by s0ss in "iBook Clamshell"

s0ss — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 15:46:07 +0000

Yeah, the ones that aren't being made sell terribly!

New comment by s0ss in "Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m"

s0ss — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:06:09 +0000

Only Y Combinator and its affiliated companies have license, me thinks.

New comment by s0ss in "Relicensing with AI-Assisted Rewrite"

s0ss — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:11:55 +0000

Because now with an LLM it’s almost trivial to do this? Before it was not.

New comment by s0ss in "AI uBlock Blacklist"

s0ss — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 02:08:40 +0000

Both of you can be right.

New comment by s0ss in "Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code"

s0ss — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 19:09:01 +0000

Yeah, I agree, that's a good point.

New comment by s0ss in "Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code"

s0ss — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 09:08:40 +0000

I did this. She recorded clean (imo, i cleaned it up) audio for “Star Trek: The Next Generation Interactive Technical Manual” which is available on archive.org.

New comment by s0ss in "Games using anti-cheats and their compatibility with GNU/Linux or Wine/Proton"

s0ss — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 20:39:27 +0000

Too bad rust isn’t playable on linux due to anticheat.

New comment by s0ss in "Amtrak NextGen Acela Debuts on August 28"

s0ss — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 12:11:09 +0000

“More seats: 27% more seats per departure” I think trains are cool. I hope this train doesn’t feel like a budget airline that has no leg room.

New comment by s0ss in "Monitor your security cameras with locally processed AI"

s0ss — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 08:49:07 +0000

I also don’t know, but this might be useful: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Only_Look_Once

New comment by s0ss in "Why leather is best motorcycle protection [video]"

s0ss — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 16:01:04 +0000

Also, riding where cars/trucks/whatever mirrors are able to see you is another dimension.

New comment by s0ss in "Ubiquiti launches UniFi OS Server for self-hosting"

s0ss — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 17:43:46 +0000

As far as I can see, they still flirt with vendor lock in. None of their cameras supported ONVIF when I researched this previously. Nice hardware, lame software choices, IMO.

New comment by s0ss in "Show HN: Qrkey – Offline private key backup on paper"

s0ss — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 14:24:54 +0000

Machine-readable expedited/convenient recovery as opposed to manual transcription.

Data entry sucks.

New comment by s0ss in "'Students who use AI as a crutch don't learn anything'"

s0ss — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 14:57:34 +0000

Lots of nuance that you’re not addressing, IMO. Here’s some more nuance:

Steroids. It’s not a perfect metaphor, But I think it’s useful. Two people are trying to gain muscle mass. They both have an ideal starting point. First person has a healthy diet, lots of exercise, and sleep. The second person has all of the same things the first person however they also taking growth hormones.

Lots of folks look at the two results and will see lots of different things. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder I suppose. If you think the end results of the work should yield sculpted bodies with larger than normal muscles… you might opt to use hormones. However, if you think sculpted bodies with larger than normal muscles looks unrealistic or just not your style/goal… you would probably opt for a more natural approach.

Both have their merits and could be described as “fit” despite their differences. folks may value one over the other. people might fantasize about looking like thor, but if everyone actually looked like thor, things would be weird. My two cents: Thor is fiction, and while we need fiction. Im not going to pretend that anyone should look like thor in order to be in shape or to be described as fit. If we allow ourselves to be fooled into thinking that it can be normal to look like thor, then we are doing something wrong. Fiction should not become reality.

New comment by s0ss in "Sony, Ubisoft scandals lead to California ban on deceptive digital goods sales"

s0ss — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 13:44:57 +0000

Rather, he’s saying if someone sold something to you, you get to use it. I don’t think any further analysis of this comment will yield anything more.

Money can be exchanged for goods and services. (And licenses, but don’t obscure that point in the fine print.)

New comment by s0ss in "Orion, our first true augmented reality glasses"

s0ss — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:16:37 +0000

Often out of necessity. I fantasize about disconnecting, but the reality is more complicated; it would difficult for me and others around me were I to disconnect.