Hacker News: trashface

New comment by trashface in "Gaming on Linux without cheating"

trashface — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 04:57:38 +0000

> We will bring the level of protection much closer to par with Windows, in the very near-term, using existing Linux features including signed kernel, signed kernel modules, and secure boot with attestation.

Yeah fuck that and fuck them for suggesting it. Do they even understand what running linux means?

New comment by trashface in "Fort Hood attacker's execution by firing squad will be livestreamed"

trashface — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 06:15:32 +0000

I recall the old Doctor Who episode "vengeance on varos" was my first exposure as a kid to the then sci-fi concept of executions streamed for - the public benefit, I suppose? Really disturbing episode, rewatched it a few years back and yeah - still very disturbing. Not a good episode in other respects either, and it was harshly criticized at the time.

And now my country is implementing that for real.

New comment by trashface in "Richard Garriott is officially regaining control of the Ultima series"

trashface — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 06:05:07 +0000

I played all the ultimas (even ultima 2) except this one. I feel like I missed out. Oh well, spam spam spam humbug

New comment by trashface in "ADHD as a circadian rhythm disorder: evidence and implications for chronotherapy (2025)"

trashface — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 06:00:59 +0000

That's why I'm reading this at 1:55AM local time! It definitely gets quieter, though, I'm in the suburbs so not that noisy to begin with. But now, no cars, animals outside mostly asleep (hear an owl sometimes), cell phone stops trying to scam me via voice and text messages, not even aircraft flying overhead (they start between 4-5 am, which is also when the first cars can be heard). Can hear my heartbeat in my ears. But my tinnitus is a lot louder. No job, so no need to get up early though I typically manage before noon.

I wouldn't say I "have ADHD" but I do have a what I call an "attention prioritization and low energy disorder" that nothing i've ever tried has helped. I hear stimulants might help, but never tried em, can't get em.

New comment by trashface in "California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops"

trashface — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 01:11:27 +0000

Napa and Sonoma are very high cost of living areas

New comment by trashface in "ChatGPT Pro 500"

trashface — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:35:21 +0000

Usage limit is - limiting. I may not notice the increased value of a more advanced model, but I will notice when I can't even use the service.

New comment by trashface in "AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom"

trashface — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:05:30 +0000

Maybe they are speeding up things that were not the bottleneck or don't matter. Or LLMs speed up the time to learn, "well this idea probably sucks actually", which is great, but in the end there is still no good idea. For software dev, it had already gotten pretty efficient before LLMs came around - the business of making software demanded it. There are still gains to be had no doubt, but many will have less impact.

I'm using claude to make gaming mod apps I never would have bothered to code before, but they have zero monetizable value. There is demand for sure, but somewhat ironically, copyright/IP/TOS law stands in the way. The thing which committed the biggest copyright infringement in human history lets me make another thing which I can't release because of copyright law. I'd get cease-and-desisted instantly if I did so.

New comment by trashface in "How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs"

trashface — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 03:56:38 +0000

I had a career for 18 years but I'm ready to leave programming behind. Its funny I never successfully learned Haskell, tried a couple times. Unlike probably most people here, programming was not something I felt was a "calling" - I started fairly late at age 17 or so and it seemed like a decent way to make a living, and that was sort of true for a while. But now in my early 50s, that is no longer even "sort of true" (no paid programming work for years now), so IMO its not useful for me to spend energy maintaining that skill. I still eyeball some of the code that Claude gives me, but that's about it.

Programming, at least for me, is rapidly going the way of the dodo bird. Time to spend what I managed to save for retirement, a bit earlier than I expected, hope it lasts.

New comment by trashface in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"

trashface — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 02:55:32 +0000

In america nothing is getting built except data centers. Without the drug-addled AI push, we'd be in same spot as Europe, maybe worse.

New comment by trashface in "U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk"

trashface — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:40:29 +0000

> Which sounds sensible on the surface, until you realize that all military organizations have extensive experience with that exact question

Tell that to a certain school in Iran

New comment by trashface in "Plan mode is dead"

trashface — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 23:17:07 +0000

I like plan mode personally. I only use claude code for the web, and the questions claude asks me to clarify are usually pretty important - mostly because I was too vague or contradictory in my prompt, or what I was asking for conflicted with something else in the code. I don't know how claude would resolve that without plan mode.

Also for session planning, as in when-can-I-walk-away-from-computer, its nice to know the particular rhythm of initial crunch - ask questions - make plan - do it. Especially with a 5 minute cache timeout.

New comment by trashface in "Meta VR Glasses"

trashface — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 17:27:05 +0000

That seem plausible. As a gamer and 3d aficionado since 3dfx voodoo 1, I've never owned a VR set and that was partly because the good ones, at least on paper, all seemed to be Meta products. I don't use any Meta products, although I am probably _used by_ Meta products, which is part of the reason I don't use them.

Now I'm getting older and have less interest in VR, certainly don't want augmented reality glasses, even if they could be used for gaming. If anything I want glasses that subtract reality, as its a little too much at times.

New comment by trashface in "Suspension of the de minimis administrative exemption for imports $800 or less"

trashface — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 22:24:15 +0000

Various pharmacies in Canada will accept a US prescription and send you the medication via mail, usually at far cheaper than what you would pay for the same in the US.

This prevents it.

New comment by trashface in "Fed hikes rates as inflation worries push up bond yields"

trashface — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:20:46 +0000

Another possibility is recession in next two years, but its brief enough that recovery starts before 2028 election - republicans take credit and voters believe it - JD Vance gets elected president.

I recall reading something from axios or similar, talking about how a CEO said a "nice light recession right now would be perfect for us" or something to that effect.

New comment by trashface in "iOS 27, iPadOS 27, and macOS 27"

trashface — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 02:08:33 +0000

For me 26 absolutely chews through battery compared to 18 (I have the last gen iPhone SE). Hopefully 27 doesn't make that worse, but i'm holding off on upgrading. Really took me by surprise.

New comment by trashface in "Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste"

trashface — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 21:14:42 +0000

Been running linux for a few months (before that I was windows up from 3.1 up to 10, though I skipped 8 and ME) and it kind of reminds me of the windows 95 experience in terms of quality level - and the bugs. Right down to occasionally dropping back to "DOS" (or the equivalent - the framebuffer console) because I need to do something that restarts the GUI. For instance, because of one thing or another having trouble with suspend, I _basically_ have to shut down my session every day, just like in the bad 'ol Win 9x days - my machine will sleep, but only after I shut down the entire GUI and make sure nothing is using NVIDIA, oh and turn off the intel wifi driver.

GNOME is also phenomenally insistent about managing window sizes and positions, and phenomenally bad it it, so it basically boils down to "I don't care what you had it at before, now you are getting a full screen window or something random I made up". Claude tells me this is an intentional design decision on their part...ok.

I will say the gaming has gotten a lot better, proton and DXVK really are amazing. NVIDIAs drivers give good performance in those as well but are...less than amazing in reliability.

Overall I'm happy that I have so far avoided windows 11 but damn has this been quite a bumpy road.

New comment by trashface in "After Math"

trashface — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 02:40:32 +0000

The Tao is eternal. The game plays the game.

New comment by trashface in "Claude is only available to people over 18 years"

trashface — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:46:53 +0000

I think many linux users will apparently have been born on Jan 1 1970

New comment by trashface in "'Old Person Smell'"

trashface — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:25:24 +0000

Is the house clean? Apparently 2-nonenal can build up on surfaces. FWIW my parents house (mom 86, dad 90) doesn't smell like old person, but they keep it so clean (via a dedicated house cleaner that comes in every two weeks) that an engineer could probably work on spacecraft in the living room.

New comment by trashface in "Record-High 89% in U.S. Say Government Corruption Widespread"

trashface — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:46:10 +0000

The disparity between Trump and previous presidents on income earned while president is so vast, you need a log scale graph to make it meaningful. Your favorite LLM can generate it for you (except maybe grok, I presume)