<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: woobilicious</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=woobilicious</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:52:17 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=woobilicious" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by woobilicious in "Creator of bcachefs seems to have anthropomorphized an LLM and is letting it wo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No, this is incoherent garbage written by a man whose too fragile to accept and reflect on real peer view (you know something that is actually required for real science and philosophy, or just contributing to the Linux Kernel), and is using a self-described, sycophantic LLM, as pathetic substitute, because no real human wants to put up with your abusive behavior.<p>You didn't "win" me over with your garbage arguments when we were friends, and your completely unemphatic ad homin, lost you as a friend.<p>Churning out LLM slop, and labeling it "science" isn't convincing anyone that you're anything other than a lolcow in the making.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 08:41:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47163518</link><dc:creator>woobilicious</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47163518</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47163518</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by woobilicious in "Redot Engine: A Fork of the Godot Engine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>She has "obnoxiously queer" in her twitter bio,<p>"they" posted "Apparently Game Engines are woke now" "show us your #wokot games below", which is obviously rage bait, in response to a stupid tweet with  minimum traction.<p>She blocked mild criticism, and then I kid you not, posted a selfie of herself in the shower, to flame Asmongold due to his video on the subject.<p>Saying that something is "random" is completely ignoring the fact that at every chance she had to be obnoxiously queer, she took it.<p>Xananax also posted a unprofessional message on the official website linked discord, and then the so called official response to the situation made excuses saying that this discord isn't official.<p>They've had many instances to act better, distance themselves from the unprofessional behavior and didn't take it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Oct 2024 03:13:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41747475</link><dc:creator>woobilicious</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41747475</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41747475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by woobilicious in "FUTO Keyboard"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Open comes with the ability to participate, an open door is to let something physical <i>through</i>, not like a transparent window that lets one see, an open market, open auction, or open sports league explicitly implies more than just viewing the activity.<p>For many of us, we've never used "open" to mean viewing.<p>Right now I wouldn't trust the license to let me message my boss or buy something from a store on my personal phone without violation, commercial activity is an extremely broad term.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2024 05:41:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40965541</link><dc:creator>woobilicious</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40965541</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40965541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by woobilicious in "Noam Chomsky 'no longer able to talk' after 'medical event'"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There's a difference between being wrong on a few things, and being consistently wrong and so far up your own ass that you have Slavoj Žižek and Sam Harris calling you out and the only response you have is "He's just posturing", He is a coward, he is the spinless person in the situation 99% of the time, the only thing he does is provide FUD for far-left ideology, attacking him for things he's done in the past is well deserved.<p><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/07/slavoj-zizek-responds-to-noam-chomsky.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.openculture.com/2013/07/slavoj-zizek-responds-to...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2024 05:34:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40666279</link><dc:creator>woobilicious</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40666279</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40666279</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by woobilicious in "Getting a job at Apple without going to college or doing LeetCode"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But you can't do any of this and expect to get recognized.<p>No ones gonna hire you because you spent a decade and have a half finished game engine written Haskell.<p>All of that freedom is fake and some even in contradiction with each other.<p>You cannot take your time, or you pick a larger scope project, you will eventually run out of savings, or get questions from family members about why your job search is taking so long.<p>If you filter out everything but smaller scope projects then you have a far smaller subset of projects that aren't as unique because everyone else has done them. If you just graduated from University, you lack experience with project management and as the saying goes, write what you know, and so that'll limit yourself to video games or web and that one niche subject you took at Uni.<p>This advice feels like what you would get from a rock-star who was young and stupid and naive and very lucky telling a kid that if he just makes music and sticks it out he'll get scouted by a record label, When in reality he just was lucky enough to market pop-derivative music at gigs, while not realizing the kid likes to make music from sampled traffic noise and his favorite album is Music for Airports.<p>This is a high risk endeavour and you either need to make conscious decisions that mitigate risk heavily and are compatible with your personality, and the end goal of being financially secure.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Aug 2023 06:22:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37186099</link><dc:creator>woobilicious</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37186099</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37186099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by woobilicious in "Google added HEVC support in Chrome"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah downloading an OS that couldn't play MP3's by default, and required you to jump through hoops to let it play them, because said distro was avoiding law suits, Just like how Audacity didn't ship with LAME, but required you to supply your own dll. Yes patents had zero effect on the User experience.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 26 Oct 2022 02:54:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33339257</link><dc:creator>woobilicious</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33339257</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33339257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by woobilicious in "Google added HEVC support in Chrome"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think the biggest reason is lack of hardware decoding, Lots of people have a device that can hardware decode H.265, which is extremely important for 4k content, my x230 really struggled with software 4k decoding of H.265, so I assume the same issue will happen with VP9 and AV1 especially with higher res content.</p>
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<p>We have a building at the local university that has ground at one end level with transitory step between floors -1 and 0, you enter the building through the stair well, and descend or ascend to get to a floor. I wouldn't be surprised if an architect designed a building that did this on flat ground, violating the ability to number floors relative to ground with integers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2022 06:52:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32590453</link><dc:creator>woobilicious</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32590453</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32590453</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by woobilicious in "YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>YouTube's 1080p60 is already at a decimation ratio of about 200:1, then you have to consider how efficient P and B frames are with motion/differences. if your data looks like noise you're gonna be completely screwed since the P and B frames will absolutely destroy the quality.<p>There's a bunch of other things too, like YUV420p and TV colour range: 16-235, so you only get 7.7bits / pixel.<p>If anything you would want to encode your data in some way that abuses the P and B frames, and the macro block size of 16x16.<p>Coding theory for the data output at your end is only one side of the coin, the VP9 codec stupidly good compression is a completely different game to wrangle.<p>And I kinda doubt you'll get much better than your estimate of 1% from the original scheme.<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Rp-uo6HmI" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Rp-uo6HmI</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2022 02:11:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31525422</link><dc:creator>woobilicious</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31525422</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31525422</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by woobilicious in "YouTubeDrive: Store files as YouTube videos"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If I was to gamble I would say that Analog TV can store more data, compression algorithms usually work at say 1:200 compression ratio, they're extremely destructive, a raw 1080p60 in yuv420p is about 187MB/s, on the other hand a decent equivalent video on YouTube is about 1MB/s</p>
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<p>You're looking an a macro economic indicator that only politicians seem to care about, Most other countries don't even bother to measure it.<p>Trade deficit is just as much an indicator for foreign sentiment to hold US cash, as it is to import non-US made stuff.<p>All that indicator says is that consumer behavior changes during a recession.<p>You can argue the same thing with private debt.<p><a href="https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/private-debt-to-gdp" rel="nofollow">https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/private-debt-to-g...</a><p><a href="https://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2017/KleinBoudreauxtradedeficits.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2017/KleinBoudreaux...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2022 14:46:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31518973</link><dc:creator>woobilicious</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31518973</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31518973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by woobilicious in "Updated Proton, Unified Protection"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If the service gives a 301/308 response, it should in theory rewrite all bookmarks and things like this, but that also opens up security issues especially when it comes to password managers.</p>
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<p>The use of "private-key encryption system" here is referring to symmetrical ciphers, It's an odd use of "private-key" that's for sure.</p>
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<p>I have this pathological example, I have a 30GB journal dump from bcachefs, and compressed it down with lz4 and zstd to a sata SSD, the compression ratios are 6.8% and 3% respectively (and this with default level 3!), it takes 14s to ripgrep through the lz4 version, and 11s with the zstd version. So even at 500MB/s zstd is faster for decompression.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2022 11:53:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31517219</link><dc:creator>woobilicious</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31517219</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31517219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by woobilicious in "Lenovo vendor locking Ryzen CPUs with AMD PSB"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The point of locking the CPU to a specific vendor is to reduce the trusted user base in the cloud.<p>Currently you have to trust AMD, the Vendor, and the data center with your data.<p>The goal of verification of the firmware at such a low level is to eliminate tampering by the data center.<p>Having another feature like SEV (encrypted memory) combined with this lets you create a secure remote box that is fully encrypted at a very early stage in the boot process.<p>This reduces the chance of a malicious entity at a data center from tamping with the firmware to exfiltrate your keys.<p>Other people here are just ignorant and think it's being done purely for profit with no benefit to the end user.</p>
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<p>Most people here don't seem to understand the entire point of this is to stop hardware tampering.<p>The goal of AMD's SEV and other features is that the only way to compromise the system is to tamper the wires between the CPU die and the IO die, that all data going outside the CPU die is encrypted, an extra hardware TPM chip module let you MITM the keys being sent to the CPU, having the keys stored in the CPU using fTPM, and never plaintext / keys leave or enter the CPU via PCIe or memory bus.<p>the "chipset" is literally just a PCIe/USB multiplexer these days, the CPU has no access to external hardware until after the firmware has loaded, the firmware has routines for turning on the memory and memory controller, PCIe etc, I don't think people understand just how utterly useless the CPU is without the firmware.</p>
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<p>> because you could still swap out the CPU<p>No you can't. AMD builds the TPM in to the CPU, with AMD's encrypted memory feature (SEV), in theory you do not have to trust the data center an all.<p>The CPU boots, loads a verified firmware using PSB, initializes a safe environment in SEV, your entire boot procedure and data is encrypted and safe using FDE and SEV keys stored in the TPM using PCR's.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2022 03:51:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30053537</link><dc:creator>woobilicious</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30053537</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30053537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by woobilicious in "Facebook versus The BMJ: when fact checking goes wrong"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No one is saying "in an ideal world" that's a strawman.<p>Fact checkers, corporations, the media, the state, and any of the elite are just people and so extremely irrational, Why on earth would you want to give any of them power above and beyond the general public, it's so easy to manipulate the so called "rational" with selective publication of information. Do we just forget that covid human to human spreading was "fake news" for an entire month, and basically changed the course of history because some bureaucracy decided it had more authority on the matter than a doctor treating the patients.<p>Or what about the "Ricard Spencer is a nice guy in Germany" effect, because people in Europe can't see the hate speech he makes, so they think he's fairly reasonable person.<p>To me it seems that it's the general public, from Snowden to Li Wenliang that is keeping fake news in check, not the elite, keeping the public in check.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2022 23:38:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30017038</link><dc:creator>woobilicious</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30017038</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30017038</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by woobilicious in "The most backdoor-looking bug I’ve ever seen (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The problem with signal and whatsapp's design with phone numbers is that it's used as your public facing ID. if you give over your number to someone, they put it in their address book on their phone and then Facebook finds common friends etc on their phone, and then you're all of a sudden doxed because of other peoples habits.<p>A lot of girls on dating apps prefer snapchat because they can just block the person and there's far smaller chance of getting stalked or harassed.<p>Matrix does not expose your email address or phone number to people you connect with, so you're a lot safer.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2022 23:03:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30016613</link><dc:creator>woobilicious</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30016613</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30016613</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by woobilicious in "The most backdoor-looking bug I’ve ever seen (2021)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Signals protocol is designed so you don't have to trust the server.<p>Just look at how much information they hand over to the feds:<p><a href="https://signal.org/bigbrother/cd-california-grand-jury/" rel="nofollow">https://signal.org/bigbrother/cd-california-grand-jury/</a><p>I'm not sure what you mean by walled garden, but I assume you mean that you can't setup your own servers and join the network? What's stopping a federated network from forming a cartel and blocking small players,  or servers they deem morally objectionable?</p>
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