Hacker News: shmerl

New comment by shmerl in "10Gb/s Ethernet: switching to a Broadcom SFP+ module"

shmerl — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 05:14:49 +0000

To make it less hot, just use fiber optics.

New comment by shmerl in "The gamers taking on the industry to stop it switching off games"

shmerl — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:01:42 +0000

Releasing source code for games (including server part) should help.

New comment by shmerl in "Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things"

shmerl — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:01:00 +0000

I don't care much what it says as in "fix", "chore" etc, but for me the main benefit is breaking changes indicated with "!", something like "feat!: ... ".

This makes neovim plugin manager highlight the change differently which brings attention to it when you update stuff.

So please do use it instead of complaining!

I do like the suggestion of

scope!: ...

if it will be treated the same way with breaking changes reactions.

New comment by shmerl in "Preparing for KDE Plasma's Last X11-Supported Release"

shmerl — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:35:48 +0000

+ Long live Linux Desktop!

New comment by shmerl in "The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)"

shmerl — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:38:08 +0000

Ban on software patent is more than warranted, only trolls themselves don't like such idea obviously.

But what also needed is persecution these patent trolls for racket like any mob racketeers. There were attempts of persecuting them this way in the past, but they should be renewed.

New comment by shmerl in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

shmerl — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:09:02 +0000

I wouldn't trust it to have good upstream support. It's Nvidia. So not really interested.

New comment by shmerl in "The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)"

shmerl — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:41:50 +0000

It's pretty much the modus operandi of any patent troll or in more general case - of any racketeer. Nothing new about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz0_r4PDyCs&t=1m30s

New comment by shmerl in "The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)"

shmerl — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:09:01 +0000

There should be a stronger push to fight these trolls. AOM has enough resources to bust their garbage patents and make them pay damages for patent racketeering. At least until software patents are banned for good.

New comment by shmerl in "The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)"

shmerl — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:03:25 +0000

No one can predict patent trolls - they can surface at any time randomly. But there should be a more organized fight against them. I assume AOM should be backing that.

New comment by shmerl in "The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)"

shmerl — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:08:29 +0000

Because they have nothing to do with AV1, they simply want to leech on it. It's fitting to call them a patent troll.

New comment by shmerl in "The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)"

shmerl — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:06:27 +0000

I'd classify any patent racketeer as a troll. Dolby has nothing to do with AV1, they just want a parasitic rent on it. Whether the troll actually does anything else besides the trolling part isn't really relevant.

New comment by shmerl in "The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)"

shmerl — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:05:48 +0000

AMD added AV1 encoding only in later SoCs though. Next Steam Deck will have both.

New comment by shmerl in "The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)"

shmerl — Sun, 31 May 2026 06:30:31 +0000

Even better, software patents should not be allowed in the first place.

New comment by shmerl in "The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)"

shmerl — Sun, 31 May 2026 03:49:34 +0000

Hopefully their patents will be busted and preferably Dolby will be also forced to pay damages for filing invalid lawsuits. That's the only way to teach patent trolls proper lessons.

New comment by shmerl in "Local Git remotes"

shmerl — Sun, 31 May 2026 03:47:56 +0000

Good to know, thanks. I should try it with vim.pack for local repos.

New comment by shmerl in "The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)"

shmerl — Sun, 31 May 2026 03:45:37 +0000

That's fine and not anything new for codecs, they always take a long time before mass adoption.

Take a look at AV1 itself, you can't even say it's really ubiquitous on all hardware. It's quite well along in adoption compared to early days, but some mobile devices are still lacking hardware acceleration for it.

New comment by shmerl in "The AV2 Video Standard Has Released (Final v1.0 Specification)"

shmerl — Sun, 31 May 2026 03:43:34 +0000

Congrats!

How is the case of fighting off Dolby's patent racketeering going? They tried to attack Snapchat for using AV1.

New comment by shmerl in "Local Git remotes"

shmerl — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:21:51 +0000

Can it work with file://?

New comment by shmerl in "It Will Never Be the Year of the Linux Desktop"

shmerl — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:18:32 +0000

It's been the year of the Linux desktop for a while. Someone has been sleeping under a rock.

New comment by shmerl in "Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis"

shmerl — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:30:35 +0000

100%. And that psychosis translates into kafkian level of bureaucratic absurdity and stupidity, especially when real motives are masked under pretense of something rational which it is not.