Hacker News: trickstra

New comment by trickstra in "We Will Not Be Divided"

trickstra — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 19:01:42 +0000

It's fun seeing both of these posts on the main page of hackernews at the same time.

New comment by trickstra in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

trickstra — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:33:38 +0000

It's all a test of loyalty, crucial for fascist regimes.

New comment by trickstra in "Apertus 70B: Truly Open - Swiss LLM by ETH, EPFL and CSCS"

trickstra — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 07:43:42 +0000

Ok so why keep calling it "truly open" then? It's an obvious lie and nobody is forcing you to say it. It benefits your marketing, sure, but it harms everyone else by diluting the meaning of the term "open". So stop doing that please.

New comment by trickstra in "Apertus 70B: Truly Open - Swiss LLM by ETH, EPFL and CSCS"

trickstra — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 09:57:55 +0000

Hi, your "truly open" model is "gated" on Huggingface, restricting downloads unless we agree to "hold you harmless" and share our contact info. Can you fix this please, either by removing the restriction, or removing the "truly open" claim?

New comment by trickstra in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

trickstra — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 06:19:58 +0000

Curiosity and interesting questions won't have any future in the trump world. So yes, this is very relevant to the HN community. Doing nothing is also a choice which has consequences.

New comment by trickstra in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

trickstra — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 08:46:51 +0000

Felony conviction is garbage?

New comment by trickstra in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

trickstra — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 08:45:10 +0000

Science tells us how climate works, technology provides renewable energy, but it's up to politics to do the switch. If we don't, then we will simply run out of time, problem will grow, and then we will get into a dead end where we really won't have the technology to fix it. There was a last chance to do it right around these years, we blew it by two trump presidencies instead. If that isn't politics, then nothing is.

New comment by trickstra in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

trickstra — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 16:04:01 +0000

Sure, so let's vote for the felon who openly wants to become a dictator, makes so much sense...

New comment by trickstra in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

trickstra — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 16:02:46 +0000

There is no other way though. Climate change is not a technical problem, it's political. We've had the tech to fix climate change for long time, we know how to do it, that part is quite easy and obvious, we are just not doing it.

New comment by trickstra in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

trickstra — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 16:01:09 +0000

sorry, can someone copy&paste what's on that link? (how are people still on that site anyway?)

New comment by trickstra in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

trickstra — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 12:34:43 +0000

I have yet to see any polls predict any result in any election.

New comment by trickstra in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

trickstra — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 12:32:43 +0000

We will also blow through any chance of stopping climate change.

New comment by trickstra in "Town has no cell service, so the 'electrosensitive' have made it home"

trickstra — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 19:25:28 +0000

To do science, you need to come up with counter-examples. A simple way to get to the truth in this particular case is to come to the town full of electro-sensitive people, and announce that there has been a large EM device secretly installed for a week and see how many of them will suddenly report symptoms, even when there actually wasn't any device installed. Or conversely do install the device and don't announce anything and check if somebody sensed it.

New comment by trickstra in "FLUX is fast and it's open source"

trickstra — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 11:33:34 +0000

As I said above: Open-source is about what happens if the original author stops working on it. Having the code viewable/inspectable is a side effect of that - can't sustain a project if all you have are blobs. Famously, Richard Stallman started GNU because he wanted to fix a printer: "Particular incidents that motivated this include a case where an annoying printer couldn't be fixed because the source code was withheld from users." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_free_and_open-sourc...

New comment by trickstra in "FLUX is fast and it's open source"

trickstra — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 06:45:26 +0000

Non-commercial is not open-source, because if the original copyright holder stops maintaining it, nobody else can continue (or has to work like a slave for free). Open-source is about what happens if the original author stops working on it. Open-source gives everyone the license to continue developing it, which obviously means also the ability to get paid. Don't call it open-source if this aspect is missing.

Only the FLUX.1 [schnell] is open-source (Apache2), FLUX.1 [dev] is non-commercial.

New comment by trickstra in "We need a real GNU/Linux (not Android) smartphone ecosystem"

trickstra — Sun, 06 Oct 2024 06:18:30 +0000

We already have it, but people aren't willing to use it. Using a real libre system will always be a little harder than using a nice and polished billionaire funded walled garden. For obvious reasons. People just aren't willing to sacrifice even a little bit of comfort for the freedom, so products like Librem or PinePhone get mostly just complaints, comparison with Apple, and current users are ridiculed as nerds or weirdos. We will never have freedom as long as this is the prevailing culture. It's up to us, the customers, the commenters.

New comment by trickstra in "Attacking UNIX Systems via CUPS"

trickstra — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 05:04:28 +0000

Just in: HP is adding AI into printer drivers (no joke: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/09/27/0030239/hp-is-a...)

New comment by trickstra in "Winamp Legacy player source code"

trickstra — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 06:19:45 +0000

Is there even any development happening on Winamp? What would these unpaid workers do? If they can't touch the code, not even test it, then the only thing this repo could serve is reporting bugs, but will anyone fix them?

I feel like this whole release is just a PR stunt to remind us that winamp still exists. They don't actually want any help, nor do they want to give anything to the community. They just want to get into gossip, so the spectacular chaos with releasing certificates and 3rd-party proprietary code actually helps for publicity.

New comment by trickstra in "Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week"

trickstra — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 17:17:48 +0000

new one from today: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz04mr4l90do

> Allowing flexible working and working from home creates a more productive, loyal workforce

New comment by trickstra in "Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week"

trickstra — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 13:33:15 +0000

Statistics do support it though:

- https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/nearly-half-of-dells...

- https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20220523-the-workers-qu...

- https://theconversation.com/bosses-are-increasingly-forcing-...

- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/06/company-heads-ho...

- https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/05/rto-m...

On the other hand, stats supporting the idea that working from office increases productivity are dubious at best, I've seen one which said 10% better productivity, but that could be offset by the lower costs of remote work. Maybe you can provide some research that convinced you otherwise?