Hacker News: vlan0

New comment by vlan0 in "Tim Curry has died"

vlan0 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:17:18 +0000

yeah...it's certainly a grounding feeling for me.

New comment by vlan0 in "Three important steps in my maturation process"

vlan0 — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 03:47:41 +0000

Ahh these are fun. They come up often when thinking about consciousness.

If you like these, you might be interested in the book, I Am A Strange Loop

New comment by vlan0 in "US debt has hit $40tn - Will that be a wake-up call?"

vlan0 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:23:43 +0000

Not since Clinton in the 90s. Could use another pull back on military spending like we did then

New comment by vlan0 in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

vlan0 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:23:45 +0000

>What even is a “shared reality”? For example my mum and I could watch the exact same movie and showing at the cinema and still come away with a completely different opinion of it.

Exactly. The shared reality is the experience. You both were given the same opportunity to take in the same information. The different opinion is what comes out of the other side of the meat suit processing the experience.

Algo driven results changes the experience by changing what the user perceives. So there might never be a shared experience.

New comment by vlan0 in "Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion"

vlan0 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 19:41:20 +0000

It's an interesting balance for a company to strike. Networking in general is one where the defaults are almost always lax. Why? Because the vast majority of support tickets for these companies are from people who don't know what they are doing and don't have a desire to understand. They "just want it to work."

But the people with the actual desire and understanding aren't using the defaults anyway. And the people who don't want to understand will just turn things off and "just get it working."

The only way out of this is extreme accountability and intentional design from person implementing the technology.

New comment by vlan0 in "45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero"

vlan0 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:50:09 +0000

Mmm yeah...just straight releasing the water isn't ideal. But of course, it's free! And that's what society optimizes for, sadly.

New comment by vlan0 in "Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads"

vlan0 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:42:35 +0000

Which is such a capitalist lens to look at things through. Optimizing for a very small window of reality.

It's the same sort of optimization that drives behaviors where corporations feel no need to contribute to open-source projects. The same projects that enabled those very corporations to exist.

New comment by vlan0 in "45°C cooling design cuts data center water use to near zero"

vlan0 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:30:29 +0000

That's interesting...I don't think I've seen the data to support this

New comment by vlan0 in "Windows 11 update broke the Recycle Bin, OneDrive, and your PC's stability"

vlan0 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:02:54 +0000

And between them and Intel, their code for their wpa supplicant and driver interaction is absolute dog shit in WiFi 7 land.

New comment by vlan0 in "10Gb/s Ethernet: switching to a Broadcom SFP+ module"

vlan0 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 02:09:33 +0000

But why...it doesn't solve a problem we currently face. We aren't even anywhere near 10Gbps in RF. And that's assuming you are maxing all three bands.

New comment by vlan0 in "Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time"

vlan0 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:53:17 +0000

The entire solarwinds platform(barf)

New comment by vlan0 in "Why I'm Forced to Say Farewell: Google Management Has Lost Its Moral Compass"

vlan0 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 17:06:15 +0000

>Are YOU working for a non profit?

yes....it was the "least evil" choice

New comment by vlan0 in "Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails"

vlan0 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:35:12 +0000

Corporation cannot help but act this way. They are too big. The pressures for profit are all that matters. That is the priority. It doesn't matter what colorful words they put on the paper to make you feel better. Look at the "green" movement 20 years ago. All talk and no action.

Stop supporting organizations that don't put humans first. Don't believe a word that anyone says. Lip service is free

New comment by vlan0 in "US employers spend more than $1.5B a year to fight labor unions, report finds"

vlan0 — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:05:10 +0000

It feels like a systems problem. It seems like the same theme that we see in for say, startup to corporate transformation. I think ultimately it comes down to size. They become too big and the power consumes. And they become what they once fought.

New comment by vlan0 in "Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message"

vlan0 — Mon, 11 May 2026 21:26:22 +0000

>Systems are designed for humans, if they fail to account for human nature then they're bad systems.

Systems will always be bad. It's why corporations will always be bad. The complexities are too much for humans. You will never account for all variables. Account for one, with that you are exposed to another. This becomes clear to me when you look at government and the systems it tries to use, since forever. Climate change is another great example. Requires coordinated change across the globe. Many many many factors why that will never change. Change in the system of that size is too hard. So is it the system that is bad, or maybe it's just a reflection of limitations within us as a species, today?

New comment by vlan0 in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

vlan0 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:34:16 +0000

Nah, nothing wrong with nice things. But if those nice things only exist because someone else on the planet had to suffer....

New comment by vlan0 in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

vlan0 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:36:10 +0000

This is true up until it isn't. Their security is through obscurity. Being able to deflect the masses. Manipulating the balance, if you will. But they are not special. They are still unprotected sacks of flesh. And we've recently seen just how vulnerable they are. If that desire spread, you will see more.

New comment by vlan0 in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

vlan0 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:23:18 +0000

That is exactly the type of pacificity that plays into their hand. Life is good and bad at the same time. It is important to hold those two at the same time.

New comment by vlan0 in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

vlan0 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:35:11 +0000

Exactly this. They live in houses with glass windows. We could take this world any time we choose.

New comment by vlan0 in "ESP32-S31: Dual-Core RISC-V SoC with Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and Advanced HMI"

vlan0 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:02:08 +0000

Yup, and here we are continues to pile on.