Hacker News: tossit444

New comment by tossit444 in "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"

tossit444 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 18:35:25 +0000

From Nitter matrix group:

basically, it demands that I:

1. Permanently take down nitter.net and the GitHub repository, and delete all "X Data" in both 2. Stop all use of the "Twitter" and "X" marks 3. Cease all access to X data, including copies 4. Delete all X account credentials and session tokens 5. Confirm compliance in writing within three business days

The claims asserted are breach of X's Terms of Service, Developer Agreement and Developer Policy; the Texas Harmful Access by Computer Act; and the Lanham Act. It threatens litigation against me personally. X states it has also sent notice to GitHub and to my domain registrar.

New comment by tossit444 in "Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft's first general-purpose Linux"

tossit444 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 04:14:31 +0000

Not really. They've always advertised it for, well, Azure, and the actual announcement[0] makes it clear that it's simply a distro for Azure workloads. Considering they state it's "built exclusively for cloud and server workloads, it is not intended to support desktop usage or GUI applications," Microsoft isn't playing that game here.

[0] https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/linuxandopensourceb...

New comment by tossit444 in "Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract"

tossit444 — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:27:04 +0000

Geoblocked in USA. HTTP 451 in network requests.

New comment by tossit444 in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

tossit444 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:00:51 +0000

So you moved into a walled garden in an attempt to escape what's essentially a 3 foot picket fenced garden.

New comment by tossit444 in "Binary obfuscation used in AAA Games"

tossit444 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:50:11 +0000

The main site to get these hypervisor cracks thoroughly vets them, requiring the devs to publish the source code to it all.

New comment by tossit444 in "War prediction markets are a national-security threat"

tossit444 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 22:29:04 +0000

Nitter instance for Twitter/X. https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

New comment by tossit444 in "Termux"

tossit444 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 14:34:09 +0000

Staring very close at the screen.

New comment by tossit444 in "Show HN: Viral Potential Predictor"

tossit444 — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 03:26:28 +0000

Look at memvid's closed issues. The entire thing is a farce.

https://github.com/memvid/memvid/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state...

New comment by tossit444 in "The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora"

tossit444 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 14:50:59 +0000

I'm genuinely stunned they're giving OAI money.

New comment by tossit444 in "Have I been Flocked? – Check if your license plate is being watched"

tossit444 — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 06:26:52 +0000

No, Workers free tier is 100,000 requests/day. Considering the error is on the main page, each visit is probably taking a minimum of 10+ requests, so it can easily be overwhelmed.

New comment by tossit444 in "Let's Help NetBSD Cross the Finish Line Before 2025 Ends"

tossit444 — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 19:42:43 +0000

I guess we're all complicit to for using and developing software that anyone can use freely...

New comment by tossit444 in "Did you read the quarter-million-line license for your Slack app?"

tossit444 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 03:12:43 +0000

299USD. It became free merely two weeks ago.

https://nitter.net/dhh/status/1963675999012552970

New comment by tossit444 in "Playing “Minecraft” without Minecraft (2024)"

tossit444 — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 04:40:36 +0000

I think it's amazing to have a massive commercially successful game such as Minecraft give the fans the ability to be very liberal with what they can do with it. Now we have open-source re-implementaions that are pretty close to vanilla!

New comment by tossit444 in "Liquid Glass in the Browser: Refraction with CSS and SVG"

tossit444 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 03:42:38 +0000

404?

New comment by tossit444 in "Not paying with cash"

tossit444 — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 00:41:18 +0000

Prepaid debit cards usually do not require identification.

New comment by tossit444 in "Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?"

tossit444 — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 23:33:11 +0000

v2ray and similar servers do exactly that, and I would assume they're still working as they're actively developed.

New comment by tossit444 in "Zenobia Pay – A mission to build an alternative to high-fee card networks"

tossit444 — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 16:33:07 +0000

The cards they give are mostly anonymous, but you still need to give privacy.com your ID, credit card, etc.

New comment by tossit444 in "FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support"

tossit444 — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 12:47:39 +0000

Aegisub is still actively developed (forked), and imo, both software can't really be compared to one another. They can complement each other, but SE is much better for actual transcription. Aegisub still does the heavy lifting for typesetting and the like.

New comment by tossit444 in "Perplexity Makes Longshot $34.5B Offer for Chrome"

tossit444 — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 16:38:58 +0000

Going to assume this is about their partnership with Yandex for image searching.

Quick Google results:

https://ounapuu.ee/posts/2025/07/17/kagi/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/1gvcqua/psa_the_ka...

New comment by tossit444 in "California bill aims to phase out harmful ultra-processed foods in schools"

tossit444 — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 18:41:58 +0000

> To identify which ultra-processed foods should be eliminated from school offerings, scientists will consider whether a product includes additives that are banned elsewhere, whether it has been linked to health harms, whether it has been show to contribute to food addiction, and whether it contains excessive fat, sugar or salt, California Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel, one of the lawmakers who introduced the bill, said on the call.

Should make it a rule for people to read the post instead of merely the title.