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New comment by tgma in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

tgma — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:10:40 +0000

I am not. I am explicitly saying to offset revenue from ads. That's a different question. Best of luck getting Facebook-level distribution in your 1 EUR Mastodon.

New comment by tgma in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

tgma — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 04:00:48 +0000

I also think the figure GP quoted are not US, but lumped together with depressed "developed" economies. US numbers should be a multiple of that.

New comment by tgma in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

tgma — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 01:56:26 +0000

If you are in the US and in a demographic who posts on Hacker News, $100-$250 is likely below your monthly revenue contribution to Google alone.

New comment by tgma in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

tgma — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 01:07:36 +0000

People who spew I'd rather pay, I'd rather pay often majorly underestimate how expensive Google and Facebook would have to be in the western world to offset the ad revenue per person. The irony is this is especially true for you if money is no object to you, as you'd be disproportionately valuable to the ad machine. It's not going to be ten bucks folks.

grpyc: Up to 8x faster gRPC Python in Rust

tgma — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:50:39 +0000

Article URL: https://grpyc.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48296949

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New comment by tgma in "Googlebook"

tgma — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:43:41 +0000

Process documented here: https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-library/refer...

New comment by tgma in "Googlebook"

tgma — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:40:10 +0000

If anything the causality is exactly the opposite. The labor cost will go up (empirically provable) in such "shithole countries" once work is outsourced to them, improving their livelihood.

New comment by tgma in "Googlebook"

tgma — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:25:27 +0000

I was talking about a specific device on a specific dimension brought up by the GP, i.e., "freedom to tinker for the owner while preserving security for the masses." Whether that became a standardized process is a different story. By and large it has changed across models, but nevertheless it was a good balance of ownership/hackability without compromising security that can be emulated by other devices if they choose to.

New comment by tgma in "Googlebook"

tgma — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:59:23 +0000

Isn't that a feature not a bug? That means labor, a proxy for quality of life of the laborer, is more expensive than parts. That's abundance.

In fact, in "shithole countries" where everyone wants to emigrate from, it is exactly the opposite: i.e. you try to fix everything even if it takes sooo long.

New comment by tgma in "Googlebook"

tgma — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:57:04 +0000

You can easily remove the nag screen by opening the device and unscrewing a screw and running coreboot with SeaBIOS. Pretty neat security approach (not too hard to do, not too easy for a layman to fall for instructions to self-compromise). I have two that work just fine today.

New comment by tgma in "Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning"

tgma — Mon, 11 May 2026 01:38:37 +0000

Arguably a POSIX assembly programmer would also naturally keep strings along with their size, either explicitly or known implicitly, more similar to Pascal, not null-terminated, as that's how syscalls expect it. Null-terminated would chiefly be a libc-ism.

New comment by tgma in "Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning"

tgma — Sun, 10 May 2026 07:19:45 +0000

If you actually start writing big stuff in assembly, esp a macro-assembler, you'd quickly realize it is more verbose, but not fundamentally that different from higher level programming. You basically need to get a hang of how to build abstractions with procedures and macros and you'd be good to go. Reading assembly effectively is often much harder than writing it.

New comment by tgma in "How I made $350K from an open-source JavaScript library using dual licensing"

tgma — Thu, 07 May 2026 02:32:49 +0000

Law does not run on a CPU with certainty. There is risk analysis going on: there are many jurisdictions at play. When you are big enough, something that has fundamentally viral characteristics by design can have catastrophic impact even if reading of the license as linked would be almost certainly accepted as correct and likely. Therefore, especially for a company like Google that has a unified codebase, that treatment is justified. So goes for other big companies who would be at least wary of just taking AGPL.

New comment by tgma in "Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down"

tgma — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:37:00 +0000

There is a difference between calculating and rational.

There are certainly calculating elements within the regime. Not all of those elevate to rationality.

New comment by tgma in "Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down"

tgma — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:34:46 +0000

Part of the reason those tactics are so effective, even today, is there are leftist elements in the west who are eager to eat it up to substantiate their own agendas and echo it as truth. You can see it live on Hacker News people constantly spewing FUD and propaganda that the Islamic regime likes and is obviously false to actual Iranian people who are vaccinated and won't believe it once they have passed grade school.

New comment by tgma in "Uncle Bob: It's Over"

tgma — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:07:33 +0000

For all LLM flaws, if it kills the whole Agile/SCRUM/whatever grift, it will have been worth it. The damage these guys have done to software industry at large is unfathomable.

New comment by tgma in "A network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout"

tgma — Sun, 03 May 2026 10:39:25 +0000

The 1979 revolutionaries trained for guerrilla warfare in PLO Camps in Lebanon and Jordan.

New comment by tgma in "A network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout"

tgma — Sun, 03 May 2026 10:21:35 +0000

Changing the goalposts much? From no one was ever happy not even once to limiting to an arbitrary date in the calendar. I can't take your rant seriously. Of course there have been wars whose results improve the conditions of the population. There is no denying that.

> France... How does that relate to Iran?

Iran is also occupied by Mullah-IRGC-Palestine axis that have no overlap with the values 85%+ of the population. Iran pays Hezbollah members ~$1800/month when their own citizens are in poverty below $100. Their country is objectively occupied and resources are being raided by a foreign group and literally kills anyone that complains.

You also mentioned this in your original post which prima facie shows your knowledge of the Persian people is precisely zero:

> However unpoular [sic] the IRGC or the Supreme Leader are in Iran, the US and Israel are less popular.

New comment by tgma in "A network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout"

tgma — Sun, 03 May 2026 07:43:47 +0000

> I can't think of a single example where foreign inteference [sic] (or war) has had the citizenry welcome foreign powers as liberators or otherwise increased freedoms or conditions in a country for those citizens.

That's one of the lines people spew as if it is a tautology without actually thinking about its accuracy. Germany, France, Japan, South Korea, need more examples?

Iranians right now also tend to disagree with you too...

New comment by tgma in "UAE to leave OPEC"

tgma — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:54:57 +0000

Iran is not an Arab country.