Hacker News: vid

New comment by vid in "Stop Killing the Internet: No Digital ID and No Age Verification"

vid — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:57:29 +0000

That's what "The problem is it's difficult to verify all the promises are being kept, and if they're not it instantly becomes a true dystopia" is about.

New comment by vid in "Stop Killing the Internet: No Digital ID and No Age Verification"

vid — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 19:42:34 +0000

I'm glad they mention privacy preserving and being voluntary. It's possible to make digital ID that allows selectively revealing attributes without identity, and that could solve problems like bots, socketpuppets, etc along with reasonable age-gating. It could be an ideal internet if it's properly applied. The problem is it's difficult to verify all the promises are being kept, and if they're not it instantly becomes a true dystopia. And sites could use it in inappropriate ways resulting in discrimination.

New comment by vid in "Stop handwaving away nearly every petition that gains traction on this website"

vid — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 11:54:34 +0000

This is painful because I've worked in public consultation and privacy focused digital identity. I was at a party last week, and a non tech person said it would be better if there was no new tech.

New comment by vid in "Who Owns Your ATProto Identity? Hint: It's Probably Not You"

vid — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 14:52:51 +0000

What's the incentive for people to participate in file sharing networks? To some degree it's access to a world of free media (same as access to a world of decentralized identities), but to a large degree it's an interesting hobby/excuse to be interested in tech. Some people have racks of hard drives dedicated to hobbies like this, just because it's interesting and is worthy.

New comment by vid in "AI Police Reports: Year in Review"

vid — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 12:22:13 +0000

Court reports should as much be about human sensibility. I have met plenty of high IQ people who were insensitive.

New comment by vid in "Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop"

vid — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 12:40:11 +0000

Not sure why I was downvoted. I legitimately need this for a demo.

New comment by vid in "Tiny Core Linux: a 23 MB Linux distro with graphical desktop"

vid — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 12:46:35 +0000

OK but I need a Linux with GUI that is less than 1.44MB so it works with my floppy disk.

New comment by vid in "Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?"

vid — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 12:30:52 +0000

Difficult to say exactly, and that's part of the problem, which is why my comment is about not being dependant on closed foreign companies.

New comment by vid in "Datacenters in space aren't going to work"

vid — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 14:21:02 +0000

I always assume, unfortunately, that once companies start to get to a certain point they become strategic, and military applications comes into play. They then probably get special consideration when it comes to funding and access. All of Musk's efforts certainly fit this paradigm.

New comment by vid in "Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?"

vid — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 19:33:51 +0000

I completely support not being dependant on a foreign company (or any company at all, standards FTW) and I don't think there should even be a shadow of possibility that an organization like the ICC could be cut off from services due to a foreign directive, but while I have seen it repeated many times, I think the article's opening assertion is not true; https://www.politico.eu/article/microsoft-did-not-cut-servic...

It is very distressing how many organizations have become dependant on Microsoft and the US cloud for core services. I hope that an unintended consequence of the current US administration's approach is that this becomes less so.

New comment by vid in "[dead]"

vid — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 22:18:36 +0000

32 GB GDDR6 VRAM through a 256-bit memory bus. Not the fastest, but could shake things up if it is available at this price.

New comment by vid in "Evaluating the Infinity Cache in AMD Strix Halo"

vid — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 13:45:22 +0000

It can use only 96GB RAM on Windows, on Linux people have allocated up to 120GB. Here's one source: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1nmlluu/comment...

New comment by vid in "Hacker News – The Good Parts"

vid — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 22:21:32 +0000

It's interesting how much Slashdot has receded, but I really like its predicate scoring system, as well as the ability for people to post anonymously.

New comment by vid in "Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip"

vid — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 17:35:55 +0000

Maybe I'm missing something, but I think emulating a physical screen in a virtual field of view is the wrong way to do this. Why introduce off-axis viewing and all the other unnecessary weirdnesses? What if the entire field of view were the screen, with head and eye movement as navigation? I guess make the windows transparent so it's less disorienting, and it would at least initially be overwhelming, but past that it could be quite transformative.

New comment by vid in "Larry Ellison – 'citizens will be on their best behavior' amid nonstop recording"

vid — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 14:29:32 +0000

There are still plenty of people in that group who don't want performance vehicles, highways, McMansions &c. Not only are there people who didn't "benefit" from that environment, there are many people who chose to focus on the needs of the planet or others. A lot of this comes down to urban/suburban/rural divides.

It's just really counterproductive to focus on these easy "majority" stats that break down on examination and contribute to the polarization of society.

New comment by vid in "Larry Ellison – 'citizens will be on their best behavior' amid nonstop recording"

vid — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 13:15:46 +0000

This is deeply unfair. Plenty of people, including those responsible for more focus on environment and human rights, are in that age group. They are leaders and allies. Ageism is just another way divide society.

New comment by vid in "F-Droid and Google’s developer registration decree"

vid — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 12:05:17 +0000

KDE Connect is an open source party pack of system to system tools.

Another option is to block ads using Netguard.

New comment by vid in "Beyond the Front Page: A Personal Guide to Hacker News"

vid — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:30:45 +0000

Thank you dang! I guess it felt like a thousand lost points cumulatively in the moment, but knowing some people, especially such a thoughtful person as yourself, appreciate diverse posts makes a high karma score wonderfully inconsequential.

New comment by vid in "Beyond the Front Page: A Personal Guide to Hacker News"

vid — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 15:20:14 +0000

Maybe they do now, but I remember losing a lot more than that for that comment. I recall it was just after I made a comment that received a lot of upvotes, which were more than wiped out by having a critical view of the ultimate morality of LoTR. Then again, my "karma" currently at 1066 after 12 years goes up and down by points at a time, so a few points lost will be felt more than for people who have tens of thousands of points.

New comment by vid in "Beyond the Front Page: A Personal Guide to Hacker News"

vid — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 15:12:48 +0000

I don't like the word "karma" because it's often, for better in worse, group affinity (and we are most often trajectories rather than pure insight). I often find minority views and unexplored paths interesting, even when they're obviously wrong.

One time I made a negative comment about Lord of the Rings, and I think I lost a thousand points. Does it really make sense that my karma as a complete user drops so much because of one specific comment? Blasphemy, but maybe Reddit's per-subreddit score makes more sense.

I can promise I don't craft my comments for karma, though many people deserve their high 'karma' because they offer genuinely great contributions.