Hacker News: sweeter

New comment by sweeter in "US cities pay too much for buses"

sweeter — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 22:06:59 +0000

Who could've guessed that the "public private partnership" was extremely ineffective and only serves to funnel tax payer dollars to private owners while giving kick backs to politicians. Wow. Who knew.

New comment by sweeter in "Nuclear: Desktop music player focused on streaming from free sources"

sweeter — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 18:12:21 +0000

The "Far Left" HR software devs: "don't call community members slurs"

>:(

New comment by sweeter in "Is Jeff Bezos killing The Washington Post on purpose or by accident?"

sweeter — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 21:23:23 +0000

All of these institutions are cooked.

New comment by sweeter in "The Evilization of Google–and What to Do About It"

sweeter — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 21:14:21 +0000

Idk how someone wouldn't mention the way they exercise monopoly power or data collection etc...

New comment by sweeter in "Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers"

sweeter — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 19:24:21 +0000

You don't even have to go that far, you can just use torsniff. But be aware there is a lot of nsfw material and potentially illegal material for all I know.

New comment by sweeter in "Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3M peers"

sweeter — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 19:19:47 +0000

Definitely a few. Media companies often send out infringement notices to ISPs to be forwarded to the user and I would guess this is how they get those IPs

New comment by sweeter in "The X.Org Server just got forked (announcing XLibre)"

sweeter — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 22:00:28 +0000

Wayland is a lot smoothet than X. The colors are better too and there's just something about how the pixels are rendered that looks a million times better. It becomes apparent after using Wayland and then going back to X.

New comment by sweeter in "The X.Org Server just got forked (announcing XLibre)"

sweeter — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 18:54:53 +0000

This dude is definitely into some hysterical right wing conspiracies. I remember he got yelled at by Linus Torvalds on the LKML for trying to spread anti-vax bs.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/6/10/957

I always find it ironic how people like this non-stop whine about "politics in mah FOSS" or video games or w/e, but will turn around and write a manifesto in the README drenched in right wing politically charged slop.

ultimately I really don't care what they spend their time doing, some people still want X11 and if they can keep it running then good for them. I use Wayland because it looks a lot better and is a lot smoother. Its that simple.

New comment by sweeter in "Rock, Paper, Scissors that learns how you play using Markov chains"

sweeter — Tue, 27 May 2025 08:09:07 +0000

I got a combo of 6 up to 45. Pretty fun. I tried to condition it into what I would normally do, and then tried to subvert that

New comment by sweeter in "How to live on $432 a month in America"

sweeter — Fri, 23 May 2025 22:40:06 +0000

I think it's absurd. I work full time in the richest country on Earth and I can't afford an apartment and healthcare. The problem is clearly not advertising.

Real "billionaire goes homeless for one night to prove the stupid poors are lazy and stupid and need to hedge their expectations" type of energy

New comment by sweeter in "What were the MS-DOS programs that the moricons.dll icons were intended for?"

sweeter — Mon, 19 May 2025 23:13:52 +0000

Thank you!

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

sweeter — Mon, 19 May 2025 17:33:57 +0000

And if they think that this version of Linux "isn't janky" but regular Linux is, than idk what to say.

New comment by sweeter in "What were the MS-DOS programs that the moricons.dll icons were intended for?"

sweeter — Fri, 16 May 2025 22:53:59 +0000

Did they store the icons as byte arrays?

New comment by sweeter in "Multiple security issues in GNU Screen"

sweeter — Tue, 13 May 2025 23:13:11 +0000

Nope, that's exactly how setuid works. You're setting the [s]pecial bit on a binary to tell the system to always run it as the provided [u]ser

New comment by sweeter in "Why Bell Labs Worked"

sweeter — Mon, 12 May 2025 01:57:54 +0000

This is why I think we need publicly funded open source projects with paid leads. There are so many basic things we've failed to do for ourselves and our fellow human beings.

For example, the best non-AI TTS system is still Ivona TTS that originated at Blizzard in like 2007. The best open source solution is espeak and it's permanently stuck in 1980... Ivona was bought up by Amazon and now they don't even use the original software, but do charge money per word to use the voice via Amazon Polly. They could open source it, but they don't.

We don't even have something as basic as text to speech freely available, whether you are disabled or not. That is a problem. You have this amazing innovation that still holds to this day, squandered away for nothing.

Why can't we just have an institute that develops these things in the open, for all to use? We clearly all recognize the benefit as SysV tools are still used today! We could have so many amazing things but we don't. It's embarrassing

New comment by sweeter in "2024 sea level 'report cards' map futures of U.S. coastal communities"

sweeter — Mon, 12 May 2025 01:03:03 +0000

What tech isn't there? It's been there for decades at this point. Unless you mean delusional ideas like pumping even more waste into the air in hopes that we can magically pull it out. Yes, that's always been a lie, and will always be untenable. The reality is that the US has no intention of moving away from oil and thats purely due to financial incentive and existing power structures being intertwined with oil barons

New comment by sweeter in "Burrito Now, Pay Later"

sweeter — Mon, 12 May 2025 00:41:17 +0000

He doesn't want to admit to being the cause of the rot, it makes him feel bad (but not bad enough to not do it lol)

New comment by sweeter in "Burrito Now, Pay Later"

sweeter — Mon, 12 May 2025 00:34:27 +0000

I think that is about the most gentle way you can put it. This is an echo of 2008 and the notion that this is normal is so absurd to me. It comes off as super out of touch. Financing groceries is dystopian.

New comment by sweeter in "2024 sea level 'report cards' map futures of U.S. coastal communities"

sweeter — Sun, 11 May 2025 21:48:12 +0000

"suffer" in this context is using some form of renewable energy and curtailing the industries that pump the 95% of all CO2 into the air. The absolute horror.

You say this, but if you think that is suffering, wait until clean water is a limited resource. You aren't going to be running away to Mars. We can't even fix the very simple issues on Earth.

New comment by sweeter in "2024 sea level 'report cards' map futures of U.S. coastal communities"

sweeter — Sun, 11 May 2025 21:44:13 +0000

I'm sorry but this is so misguided. You could magically take every gas powered vehicle off of the road immediately, and you would only remove like 3% of the problem. The idea that you can "consumer activism" your way out of a industrial production problem is a malicious lie propagated by Neo-Liberals who directly benefit from those industries.