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New comment by sedatk in "Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it"

sedatk — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:31:58 +0000

Good news: https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/03/23/microsoft-confirms-...

Hex editor should color-code bytes

sedatk — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:10:22 +0000

Article URL: https://simonomi.dev/blog/color-code-your-bytes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593505

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by sedatk in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"

sedatk — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:32:11 +0000

Berkeley Mono, Iosevka, and Cascadia Code are missing which are my favorite fonts. The game handed me Roboto Mono instead.

What I noticed while playing was that when fonts are similar, I really pay attention to the rendering of "m" and "r". When they look off, the whole font looks off to me.

New comment by sedatk in "If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos"

sedatk — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:08:38 +0000

I have an individual GitHub Copilot Pro subscription and also am a member of an Enterprise account that has one of its GitHub Copilot Business seats assigned to me. The opt-out setting doesn't appear on my individual profile anymore. However, I want to be able to use individual GitHub Copilot subscription for my individual work, and it seems like I can't do it anymore as Enterprise has taken over all my preferences. What a mess.

New comment by sedatk in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

sedatk — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:08:16 +0000

Is 4Chan still accessible from the US states with age verification laws?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media_age_verification_...

New comment by sedatk in "An ode to bzip"

sedatk — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 20:46:14 +0000

I know, but I've been always confused why a gzip file would have a filename field in its header if it's supposed to contain only one file. Obviously it's good to keep a backup of original filename somewhere, but it's confusing nonetheless.

New comment by sedatk in "The forsaken world of Windows Task Scheduler"

sedatk — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 04:37:56 +0000

I'm sure, but I wish there were a standard to the GUIs as much as the standard for CLI tooling.

New comment by sedatk in "An ode to bzip"

sedatk — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 18:37:06 +0000

Ah okay, I thought gzip would support decompressing multiple files that way.

New comment by sedatk in "An ode to bzip"

sedatk — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 18:31:47 +0000

> the fact that you cannot get a valid bzip2 file by cat-ing 2 compressed files

TIL. Now that's why gzip has a file header! But, tar.gz compresses even better, that's probably why it hasn't caught on.

New comment by sedatk in "Atari 2600 BASIC Programming (2015)"

sedatk — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:48:07 +0000

My story is similar. I loved playing video games and all, but after I wrote my first program, I became obsessed with computers. The infinite canvas for interactive human experience and problem solving felt out of this world.

New comment by sedatk in "The forsaken world of Windows Task Scheduler"

sedatk — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 10:34:37 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by sedatk in "The forsaken world of Windows Task Scheduler"

sedatk — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 10:34:06 +0000

I haven’t experienced that yet, but that’s a good point. Perhaps I need to keep a script of Unregister-ScheduledTask calls like a replayable delete log.

New comment by sedatk in "The forsaken world of Windows Task Scheduler"

sedatk — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 03:34:52 +0000

Love that. Has GUI caught up with the technical capabilities though, or do we need to resort to command-line and editing configuration files to schedule a task?

The forsaken world of Windows Task Scheduler

sedatk — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:23:48 +0000

Article URL: https://ssg.dev/the-forsaken-world-of-windows-task-scheduler/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47370768

Points: 26

# Comments: 14

New comment by sedatk in "“This is not the computer for you”"

sedatk — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:43:33 +0000

Your question is essentially "why do Electron apps exist?" and the full answer would be quite long.

The most important one is that an app's lifecycle can be different than a web browser. You don't always keep a web browser open, but you might want to keep Discord open regardless of what you do with the web browser. That kind of lifecycle management can be tedious and frustrating for a regular user.

Discord's electron app has many features that its web app doesn't such as "Minimize to system tray", "Run at startup", "Game/media detection", "In-game overlays" etc.

Even PWAs can't have most of these features, so that's why we have to deploy an entire browser suite per app nowadays.

New comment by sedatk in "“This is not the computer for you”"

sedatk — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 07:06:43 +0000

Very much so if you don't care about gaming. x86-64 emulation has already been great, and 99% of popular apps have native ARM64 versions. The only exception was Discord for me for a long time. I used to use an unofficial wrapper called "Legcord" instead. But, now even Discord has a native Windows version. I mostly use my laptop for software development + browsing.

I haven't tried gaming, but I feel like it'll suck for almost anything that's not natively ARM64. Steam doesn't have an ARM64 based client yet, AFAIK.

New comment by sedatk in "The Road Not Taken: A World Where IPv4 Evolved"

sedatk — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 04:06:33 +0000

I actually disagree: that's the road taken. NAT is practically this. When you're behind a NAT, you're effectively using a 64-bit address space. Two more layers of NAT, and you can have 128-bit address space. "The first part" of the address is a globally routable IPv4 address, and the rest is kept by the routers on the path tracking NAT connection states.

And NAT needed zero software changes. That's why it's won. It brought the benefits of whatever extension protocol with existing mechanisms of IPv4.

IPv6 isn't an alternative to IPv4, it's an alternative to all IPv4xes.

New comment by sedatk in "“This is not the computer for you”"

sedatk — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 03:48:52 +0000

ARM PC laptops are on par with Macbooks in terms of battery life nowadays.

New comment by sedatk in "WolfIP: Lightweight TCP/IP stack with no dynamic memory allocations"

sedatk — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:54:41 +0000

> the only thing keeping it alive is people being overly zealous over it

Hard disagree. It turned out to be great for mobile connectivity and IoT (Matter + Thread).

> the cost to administer it is like '50'.

I'm not sure if that's true. It feels like less work to me because you don't need to worry about NAT or DHCP as much as you need with IPv4.

New comment by sedatk in "WolfIP: Lightweight TCP/IP stack with no dynamic memory allocations"

sedatk — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 22:15:30 +0000

It only implements IPv4 which explains to a degree that why IPv6 isn't ubiquitous: it's costly to implement.