Hacker News: tmtvl

New comment by tmtvl in "Anthropic trained Claude on illegally obtained Stanford professors' books"

tmtvl — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 10:51:32 +0000

It's like fan fiction: sneaking into theatre to watch a movie without paying for admission is illegal, but writing fan fiction about the movie and publishing it on AO3 is legal.

New comment by tmtvl in "Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans"

tmtvl — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 22:49:53 +0000

The following is completely off topic, but I was mildly bemused how the article ends:

> Reflecting on the evolving nature of street scams, one commenter noted, "People are becoming hesitant to help strangers on the street for a reason. It's a dangerous world, making people colder."

> Reflecting on the evolving street scams, "People are becoming hesitant to help strangers on the street for a reason. It's a dangerous world, making people colder," one commenter lamented.

New comment by tmtvl in "I no longer care to work on any Ruby gems so I've archived all my repositories"

tmtvl — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 20:45:51 +0000

Yeah, I never contributed to FOSS to get credit; I contributed because I wanted something improved which I thought was not very good and thought that sharing the improvements with the world would be good (sharing is caring, after all). From a Free Software perspective, I actually quite like that Generative AI allows people to create the software they want and adapt it to their wants and needs. Free Software is about freedom, after all (free as in free speech). Unfortunate GAI tends to be quite resource intensive, which is bad; but local models are getting better all the time, so hopefully eventually anyone can run a GAI model on their own computer and have it create any and all software they want.

It's a bit like Bob Ross' Joy of Painting: if everyone can paint then anyone can make any painting they want to see.

New comment by tmtvl in "Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design"

tmtvl — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 10:56:48 +0000

No idea why you're being downvoted, your correction is correct.

New comment by tmtvl in "Epic Games' new vibe-coded launcher is 46% faster than Steam"

tmtvl — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:43:50 +0000

> the last company in the industry that atleast tries to pretend they care about the consumer

Are you talking of underage gambling facilitator Valve? I suppose 'pretend' is a good choice of words there.

New comment by tmtvl in "I tried to move my notes out of Emacs. I failed. Again"

tmtvl — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 09:14:58 +0000

For modal editing there's also meow, god mode, and devil. Personally I quite dislike modal editing because of how you have to work very, very slowly and smash every key to make sure you don't accidentally do something like delete half the file, save, and quit; but I do have escape bound to god-local-mode for those rare times I need a long chain of chords. M-x some-command is usually good enough for me when I can't be bothered to memorise the chord, though.

New comment by tmtvl in "A third way of using Linux"

tmtvl — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 23:21:34 +0000

When I read:

> What we've never seen is a unifying system that treated the TUI itself as the primary user experience.

I immediately thought 'this person has never heard of Emacs'. And my heart ached with pity.

New comment by tmtvl in "PostmarketOS is rebranding as Nura"

tmtvl — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 02:22:20 +0000

No, it's not. C♯, with a sharp sign, is the sharp note. Exchanging the number sign for the sharp sign is like exchanging the Latin capital letter R for the Cyrillic capital letter Ya (Я).

New comment by tmtvl in "PostmarketOS is rebranding as Nura"

tmtvl — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 01:01:21 +0000

Java. Fortran. C#, which in pronounced 'see sharp' despite being written with a number sign rather than a sharp. Algol.

New comment by tmtvl in ""Someone just sent me an ad that features an AI version of me. What do I do?""

tmtvl — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 21:52:34 +0000

Can't prove a negative. Proving 'it's an image of me' is as easy as holding the image next to your face. Proving 'it's not an image of you, but of a doppelganger' requires proof such a doppelganger exists.

New comment by tmtvl in "Silicon Valley 'sex assault list' with 'over 100' names circulated"

tmtvl — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:11:50 +0000

> it comes down to their word vs. someone else's

Legal Eagle made a good video talking about how there's a bit more to it than that, it was about the Platner and Salwell allegiations: <https://nebula.tv/videos/legaleagle-she-said-is-evidence>.

New comment by tmtvl in "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"

tmtvl — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:37:56 +0000

Because people generally don't like having bits of millstone in their flour.

Waterfox Version 6.7.4 Released

tmtvl — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:19:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.waterfox.com/releases/6.7.4/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49814345

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by tmtvl in "Can you tell which images are AI-generated?"

tmtvl — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 11:32:14 +0000

I don't get the scoring system: I got 0 points, but I got a streak of 2 in a row. Bizarre.

New comment by tmtvl in "English: A vs. An"

tmtvl — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 02:32:24 +0000

And for 'herb' it depends on which dialect of English you speak.

New comment by tmtvl in "English: A vs. An"

tmtvl — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 02:29:51 +0000

Less vs fewer.

New comment by tmtvl in "Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils"

tmtvl — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:41:45 +0000

They were for a long time the only big distro which made it easy to install non-free drivers.

New comment by tmtvl in "Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing"

tmtvl — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:50:55 +0000

For me the draw is that Waterfox has partnerships in order to provide funding so if/when Mozilla truly loses the thread (which some may argue they have) WF can keep going on its own, whereas the Librewolf devs have stated that if push comes to shove they can't maintain an entire browser themselves.

New comment by tmtvl in "LG says we're fake news [video]"

tmtvl — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:53:19 +0000

> Insurance companies legally partner with a different legal Nexus front corpo, which will ingest stolen data and make it "sythetic data" again, wink-wink; then provide it to the insurance corpos.

And, of course, sell it to the Epstein class behind closed doors for undisclosed kickbacks and favouritism.

New comment by tmtvl in "Europe's "Less" Is Doing More Than Anyone Gives It Credit For"

tmtvl — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 21:22:37 +0000

Match in 'percentage reduced since 1995'. Fortunately we're gonna get a bit of a chance to catch up considering the USA's current leadership.