Hacker News: sertraline

New comment by sertraline in "The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source"

sertraline — Mon, 19 May 2025 19:32:39 +0000

It always infuriates me when people say Windows is all about games. Techies are so detached from reality they forget that people have creative hobbies and have to use industrial grade software. Doing creative hobbies on Linux is an act of sadomasochism. And on top of that, Linux and MacOS cannot run software from 3 years ago while Windows can run software from 35 years ago. And on top of that, Linux is completely unusable to Japanese/Chinese speakers due to how hard it is to input the moon runes, and on top of that Wayland breaks the least painful setup that you could have earlier. And on top of that, Wayland people shown a middle finger to all the people who need accessibility features.

No, Windows is not about games, Windows is about being an objectively the most stable pile of garbage there is.

New comment by sertraline in "4chan Sharty Hack And Janitor Email Leak"

sertraline — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 12:13:08 +0000

he does it for free

New comment by sertraline in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

sertraline — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 20:49:27 +0000

>selling the old garbage

EU does the same.

New comment by sertraline in "Why aren't we losing our minds over the plastic in our brains?"

sertraline — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 20:27:54 +0000

There is no sound evidence of having so much microplastics in the brain. The studies that show it are very broad, incomplete and did not check for false positives.

"The main analytical method used in this study was pyrolysis gas chromatography-mass spectrometry. This method can give false results when used to measure plastics because fats (which the brain is mainly made of) give the same pyrolysis products as polyethylene (the main plastic reported)"

And then you have something like this: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32882126

New comment by sertraline in "On Bloat"

sertraline — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 10:25:31 +0000

Unfortunately developers cannot be blamed. Most customers give unrealistic deadlines that you can only meet if you use a framework. Convincing them to wait a little bit more time to do it right does not work, they will just hire somebody else. I am working for a customer who opted out from a properly working, fast website with a Go backend in favor of Wordpress, because Wordpress happens to have a WYSIWYG editor. So we comply and install an enormous pile of insecure bloat that loads for eternity... just so the customer can change colors and move blocks around the landing page. It sucks, but having no food on your table sucks more.

New comment by sertraline in "Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead"

sertraline — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:15:27 +0000

That's what I get with my software projects. People tell me that it sucks and I suck at code and other projects have it better, and don't forget to waste months of your time rewriting to Rust, and don't you dare to use unsafe all over your code (see: actix drama)... sigh. But when asked to show their alternative they get silent. So as long as you keep being assertive this is fine. For everyone who comes and behaves like a drama queen you have to prove again and again that talk is cheap and code is how you get the job done. Or you simply ignore them.

New comment by sertraline in "GitHub reveals how software engineers are purging federal databases"

sertraline — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 08:51:17 +0000

I wish that in 100 years Hitler becomes truly synonymous to "Satan", and instead of "satanic" or "demonic" people would say "hitleric". Because it sounds cooler and it suits the way how people throw "hitlers" at each other online.

New comment by sertraline in "Apple asks investors to block proposal to scrap diversity programmes"

sertraline — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 11:54:59 +0000

This is what interested me for a long time. The media industry in particular demonstrates very well that DEI content is not only unprofitable; it is net negative to the companies that produce it. The state of the movie industry is such that we have movies that have positive journalist reviews and negative user reviews, yet nobody is watching these movies, and each movie production costs them hundreds of millions. This should have a giant impact on a company that produces such content, yet the company keeps going on producing something that is net negative to it. Obviously, this looks like a push from investors. But why aren't investors interested in seeing more profits?

New comment by sertraline in ""Hetzner decided to cancel our account and terminate all servers""

sertraline — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 04:29:33 +0000

I've used OVH, Scaleway, Linode and Amazon in the past, right now I use a small provider that resells Serverius and Hetzner, none of them ever asked me for my ID and all of them allow usage of VPN to sign up for service. As to payment, at least Amazon used to allow usage of debit cards in the past. Hetzner was the only provider that asked me for an ID. I'm not from the banned countries either.

New comment by sertraline in ""Hetzner decided to cancel our account and terminate all servers""

sertraline — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 12:12:34 +0000

Hetzner was always like that, even before the AI wave. They lowball people with cheap pricing and arguably this attracts a lot of "unwanted" people, so Hetzner always acted strict on such issues.

Last time I used them (pre-2020) they were going as far as requesting customer's ID and rejecting them on the basis of country of origin, and I assume this also includes facial features that may resemble "an average scammer". Obviously this did not happen to European/American IPs so they never faced such issues, and as such this practice was invisible to the world.

I can say for sure OVH and Scaleway would try to negotiate with you before erasing your data - this may have changed over the years.

New comment by sertraline in "Australian House passes bill to ban children under 16 from social media"

sertraline — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 10:15:17 +0000

>teen depression and suicides How many children are bullied in school, completely socially isolated, with their only outlet online? Who is going to help them? Why do people think they can solve deep, complex social issues - with a single piece of paper that dictates the law?

New comment by sertraline in "Australian House passes bill to ban children under 16 from social media"

sertraline — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 09:37:57 +0000

You must be mistaken, these bots and trolls are largely run by the very states that you trust to protect your communications.

New comment by sertraline in "Looking for a Job Is Tough"

sertraline — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 08:53:42 +0000

This is not surprising. The companies received grants during covid lockdowns, so they started listing a lot of fake jobs. When the money dried up the layoffs followed, which was an expected outcome. Media does not let people know about the grants and presents everything in such light that it seems like the market is getting absolutely destroyed, while in reality it only slightly declined.

The bigger problem are HRs employed by big companies who autoreject every application and take no responsibility for doing this.

New comment by sertraline in "The "email is authentication" pattern"

sertraline — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 12:34:09 +0000

The real reason may be that the websites in question simply do not work.

I have had troubles with Epic and Spotify accounts in the past. I make an account, I use it for a week, after a week session expires - Spotify kicks me out of my account. I try to log in, it says my password is incorrect. This is impossible, because my password is saved in my password manager. So I have no choice but to reset through email. First several times I receive the email, reset the password, the pattern repeats, after 3 or 4 repeats I don't even receive the email anymore, so I am forced to make a new account.

Currently I am logged into Spotify through my Google account, where I have zero issues so far. But if I use plain email, their auth system simply does not work.

New comment by sertraline in "Solving the Worst Problem in Programming Education: Windows"

sertraline — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 08:19:41 +0000

This is a ridiculous article because the author did not even bother to check the stackoverflow developer survey. Majority of developers use Windows. I use Linux, but just because I use Linux does not mean that I have to be delusional about it. Programming != {webdev,AI}. What operating system game developers are going to use? What operating system business GUI application developers are going to use? Win32 is still the most stable API out there.

And even if you, for some insane reason, decide to pick Linux and fight its technological challenges, in the end only a tiny percent of users is going to use your product. Yet they will be responsible for generating over 50% of the bug reports. To make matters even worse, most of them will come from Arch Linux users, providing absolutely useless debug traces because they use a distro notorious for not shipping the debug packages.

New comment by sertraline in "Open-Sora does pretty good video generation on consumer GPUs"

sertraline — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 11:37:15 +0000

It is extremely difficult to tell if the person is joking in a field full of people who think AI is some sort of magic.

New comment by sertraline in "React 19 almost made the internet slower"

sertraline — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 20:16:24 +0000

I come to think that corporate people love React because if you stop following the news and not be constantly reminded about the direction React is currently heading, you will fall out of the loop and your projects will stop working in 1 year or so. Which is beneficial for the employees, as they will never run out of work to do, maintaining the framework itself rather than their actual project. And the framework gets more complex with each year, too, so you can pretend that you are doing some complex work without actually doing it.

New comment by sertraline in "Z-Library Petitions U.S. and Argentina to Cease ‘Illegal’ Criminal Prosecution"

sertraline — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 18:46:26 +0000

I don't know what's hard about understanding "daily limit" model. If you can't download 11th book, just come back tomorrow and you can download 10 more books. You can download 10 more books the next day after that. You can download infinite amount of books, downloading 10 of them every single day. This is what "daily limit" means. Now, "charging" means there is no other way to download the 11th book unless you pay. There will be no way to download it tomorrow, or the next day after that, unless you pay. This is "charging". Their membership model is no different from donations, except that membership gives you benefits. You are NOT forced to get it.

New comment by sertraline in "Z-Library Petitions U.S. and Argentina to Cease ‘Illegal’ Criminal Prosecution"

sertraline — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 18:29:48 +0000

May be because they are not reselling anything. As far as I'm concerned, in a legal world you cannot get your textbook without paying first. Z-library gives you these books for free. If you reached your daily limit, you wait 24 hours. No one really forces you to get into membership and there are other, free ways to avoid the daily limit. By your logic they either must provide copyrighted content for free and pay hosting out of their pocket or provide nothing at all since they don't have the moral ground to ask for money. Servers cost money, a lot of money.

New comment by sertraline in "Z-Library Petitions U.S. and Argentina to Cease ‘Illegal’ Criminal Prosecution"

sertraline — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 18:19:39 +0000

This isn't true. They provide materials for free, but with a daily limit. That isn't to mention 10 books a day is a lot as you are not limited by download size. Even then, nothing stops you from waiting 24 hours. To say that they are not allowed to have a membership model that allows them to sustain themselves is nothing but jumping on high horse. People always say they would donate, but saying so is not the same as doing so. Most people never donate, and the donation model was never sustainable.