Hacker News: wildmXranat

New comment by wildmXranat in "MCP is a fad"

wildmXranat — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 12:30:47 +0000

We went from "Review any services and their interaction without local system and network" to "Defending local and remote logic created on the fly to mangle the local file system, and why that's a good thing" ...

That's not a productivity boost. That's a rapid increase in cognitive tax you're offloading for later and as you get backlogged in reviewing it, you lose more control over what it does...

New comment by wildmXranat in "Sopro TTS: A 169M model with zero-shot voice cloning that runs on the CPU"

wildmXranat — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 12:25:37 +0000

Yes, if this selected piece is the best that was available to be used as a showcase, it's immediately off putting in distortion and mangling of pronunciation.

New comment by wildmXranat in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

wildmXranat — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 23:21:54 +0000

Nice. When you're done, feel to share in the selfhosted sub on Reddit. There's an ever growing Jellyfin community growing and ex-Plesk users on there.

New comment by wildmXranat in "Developing a food-safe finish for my wooden spoons"

wildmXranat — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 23:06:43 +0000

I've been using Osmo oils. This top oil and also their butcher block. Besides what they say that it is food safe, would this be fine for utensils which may get exposure to cooking temperatures ? Whether mixing soup or stir fry ?

https://osmo.ca/product/topoil-high-solid/

New comment by wildmXranat in "Penpot: The Open-Source Figma"

wildmXranat — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 14:36:22 +0000

Interesting. No idea how it works, but I'm willing to try this out for a quick test as long as I can self host it

New comment by wildmXranat in "Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem"

wildmXranat — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 02:24:50 +0000

I imagine there's numerous ways to protect against it and protection should've been added by whoever decided on this optimization. In data layer, create some kind of view which never returns more than 200 rows from base table(s). In code, use some kind of iterator. I'm not a Rust guy, just a C defensive practices type of dude, but maybe they just missed a biggie during a code review.

New comment by wildmXranat in "Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem"

wildmXranat — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 01:31:45 +0000

My first question when faced with an unknown error is "What was the last change and when was it promoted?"

New comment by wildmXranat in "Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem"

wildmXranat — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 01:05:48 +0000

Hold up ,- when I used a C or similar language for accessing a database and wanted to clamp down on memory usage to deterministically control how much I want to allocated, I would explicitly limit the number of rows in the query.

There never was an unbound "select all rows from some table" without a "fetch first N rows only" or "limit N"

If you knew that this design is rigid, why not leverage the query to actually do it ?

What am I missing ?

New comment by wildmXranat in "Two new Gemini models, reduced 1.5 Pro pricing, increased rate limits, and more"

wildmXranat — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 15:34:55 +0000

Interesting. In essence, we could equate to paying for the Gemini Advanced or Pro as a way to avoid use of our data and prompts.

https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms#data-use-paid

New comment by wildmXranat in "We’re no longer sunsetting the free team plan"

wildmXranat — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 22:36:32 +0000

Well. So what's the plan then? If they were doing this to create more revenue and limit spend, then will they be trouble down the line?

New comment by wildmXranat in "The dark defaults of Microsoft Edge"

wildmXranat — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 15:58:58 +0000

Wait until you find out about the trap that is "default page or home page" in Edge... What poop show.

I installed Windows 10 LTSC and am not looking at a regular, retail level Windows ever again. They are shoving distractions and spyware into every app

New comment by wildmXranat in "Upwork just stole $10k from me"

wildmXranat — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 11:58:00 +0000

I've often been asked by clients to bypass paying via these platforms. They don't like it as much as the developers. Let's face it, the resolution here of clients now having to withdraw out of Upwork, only to be able to pay you out of bounds is bonkers.

New comment by wildmXranat in "Microsoft Has Broken Millions of Webcams with Windows 10 Anniversary Update"

wildmXranat — Sat, 20 Aug 2016 12:13:15 +0000

The update broke my install. Update finished and the computer restarted to a blue screen. Next restart didn't work and all I had was a black screen. Windows installation media couldnt help out since the partition was locked for some reason.

In 6 months, I had to restore windows 10 3 times after botched updates.

New comment by wildmXranat in "Canadian doctors reverse severe MS using stem cells"

wildmXranat — Sat, 11 Jun 2016 13:53:54 +0000

I live in Canada. I just listened to one of the participants talk about the experience on the radio and I found it just incredible.

In her own words, "She could not feel her body from the neck down. After the long and gruel ordeal procedure, she began to get sensation back. Things like hot and cold water began to be discernible. She no longer needed to hold both railings when walking down stairs in her home, needing a cane to get the mail, etc ..."

She said that it gave her her life back. She said that in short time, she began to get bored with doing the regular, tired routine and actually got a part-time job.

I mean, all that sounds phenomenal.

New comment by wildmXranat in "Oracle's letter to Russian IT companies"

wildmXranat — Sat, 19 Mar 2016 21:35:44 +0000

You are right, but there's a way around the argument that allows them to still make a bad decision. It's called management by committee. They don't need to provide a good fit-gap analysis, sound points for the plan or quantify why it's better. You will simply hear that a group of smart people have concluded that it's a "good plan" and that they consulted with Oracle and their own experts who are also absolved of any responsibility since lack-of accountability is built-in to their contract.

It will cost a lot in time and dollars to actually get what you want and you will not want to litigate Oracle.

New comment by wildmXranat in "Oracle's letter to Russian IT companies"

wildmXranat — Sat, 19 Mar 2016 21:25:08 +0000

What part of parent has not been your experience ?

I have experience parent's woes and more. That includes having Oracle staff in house doing in-person knowledge transfer. Experience says that Oracle will not provide a qualified person if we call for one as well. Sourcing from their own consultant pool is also a black box crap-shoot.

We also involved Dell and their support team to provide feedback and second opinion on Oracle CBO, query optimization and overall needed knowledge to use their Toad for Oracle performance tools. They literally stopped short of saying: yeah, you need people smarter than us for that.

I still think Oracle is a great product, but it's only fit for large organizations with bottomless budgets. I think we spent something north of $100K on Oracle's E-learning and that was probably the cheapest item on the list.

New comment by wildmXranat in "Nginx: a caching, thumbnailing, reverse proxying image server"

wildmXranat — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 23:53:37 +0000

Clever and thanks for sharing. It was a good read.

New comment by wildmXranat in "Polish codebreakers 'cracked Enigma before Alan Turing'"

wildmXranat — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 10:09:52 +0000

The Polish mathematicians were truly great. It was Rajewski and crew who broke the enigma codes.

New comment by wildmXranat in "A Message to Our Customers"

wildmXranat — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 09:44:22 +0000

To all in-love-with-Apple downvoters, please read this Schneier sound analysis of the same type of situation that RIM(Blackberry) has been met with: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/08/uae_to_ban_bl...

/quote: "RIM's carefully worded statements about BlackBerry security are designed to make their customers feel better, while giving the company ample room to screw them." /endquote

I have lost enough points on this thread to simply double down on this issue.

This is not a good sign at all. While Google can't compete with Apple on the principle of "not spying on their users". All Apple has to to is to publicize it and then ask for forgiveness from it's users later.

New comment by wildmXranat in "A Message to Our Customers"

wildmXranat — Wed, 17 Feb 2016 09:29:07 +0000

>Also, prediction: if Apple refuses to build a brute forcer, someone else will do it and sell it to the FBI. Just wait and watch.

Just made a downvoted to death comment on this very same thing. This is literally a government creating a market situation.