Hacker News: snarf_br

New comment by snarf_br in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce"

snarf_br — Fri, 08 May 2026 07:43:02 +0000

No it does not. It depends on what the market is willing to pay.

New comment by snarf_br in "Mad Bugs: Vim vs. Emacs vs. Claude"

snarf_br — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:15:56 +0000

New comment by snarf_br in "Mad Bugs: Vim vs. Emacs vs. Claude"

snarf_br — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:50:03 +0000

Overhyped, misnomer as this is not an RCE, and emacs maintainers who are correct as you can trigger the same thing by just running git ls-files to execute things if you configure the .git folder as the exploit does.

New comment by snarf_br in "Mad Bugs: Vim vs. Emacs vs. Claude"

snarf_br — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 06:41:27 +0000

Remote Code Execution, which this isn't, in both cases.

It is code execution.

New comment by snarf_br in "Say No to Palantir in Europe"

snarf_br — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:47:08 +0000

Nonsense

New comment by snarf_br in "Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149"

snarf_br — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 10:49:28 +0000

It's a distraction.

New comment by snarf_br in "I hate AI side projects"

snarf_br — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 23:45:28 +0000

Factually and environmentally as well.

New comment by snarf_br in "I changed my personality in six weeks"

snarf_br — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 23:06:25 +0000

Sounds very cultish..

New comment by snarf_br in "Gimp Source Code"

snarf_br — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 13:14:53 +0000

I disagree, on both levels.

The application is perfectly fine for my needs and I'm ok with the ui.

But if you want something else, you can change that.

So grab the source code, try to get it to compile and run, and start making changes.

You have the freedom to do so. Use it. It doesn't matter that you're not great. Just do. No need to wait for others.

New comment by snarf_br in "Migrating the main Zig repository from GitHub to Codeberg"

snarf_br — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 07:34:42 +0000

Honestly, I don't see where it violates that code of conduct.

Luckily, no one cares about my (or your) opinions on that matter because, as far as I can tell, neither of us have contributed anything to Zig.

New comment by snarf_br in "What caused the 'baby boom'? What would it take to have another?"

snarf_br — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 01:00:55 +0000

The world can't handle another baby boom.

New comment by snarf_br in "Working with the UK Government to Protect Children Online"

snarf_br — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 20:50:44 +0000

I think we're ten years beyond that point now.

New comment by snarf_br in "AI Responses May Include Mistakes"

snarf_br — Sat, 31 May 2025 07:04:48 +0000

Then don't read it.

With Gemini replacing Google search more and more people are blindly trusting those answers, so these stories are needed.

New comment by snarf_br in "Linux Kernel Exploitation: Attack of the Vsock"

snarf_br — Fri, 02 May 2025 07:11:03 +0000

What's stopping you from doing just that? Looking forward to your linux-rust kernel.