Hacker News: x3ro

New comment by x3ro in "MapQuest will now show you where Flock cameras are in your neighborhood"

x3ro — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 18:50:13 +0000

„No” what specifically? :) You are not worried about surveillance?

New comment by x3ro in "MapQuest will now show you where Flock cameras are in your neighborhood"

x3ro — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 17:35:45 +0000

You are using Meta glasses and worrying about surveillance? I don’t want to be mean, but if you run around with one of those, I would want to be alerted of _your_ presence..

New comment by x3ro in "Strafe: A new open-source, E2E Encrypted, and federated alternative to Discord"

x3ro — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 10:09:23 +0000

Can you elaborate on why E2E encryption is not "appropriate for childrens' messaging"? Does this imply that we should be able to surveil what children say to each other, or..?

New comment by x3ro in "AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)"

x3ro — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 08:27:31 +0000

Did we live in two different “2006s”? I remember 2000s laptops to be near-unusable for anything 3D, let alone a 400 dollar one. My mid-2000s gaming PC could do it at 60-ish FPS, but the graphics in that alone were like 300 dollars :D

New comment by x3ro in "What is going on with ceiling fans"

x3ro — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:08:06 +0000

I’m just going to say your comment re: ping makes 0 sense to me. I sometimes leave ping running in the background for hours to find patterns in connectivity issues.

Re: your other comment. When my dad has problems with the internet, he will say the wifi is not working. And this isn’t incorrect, even if the source of the issue is not happening between the router and his device. Sure, the underlying issue may be something else. But by that logic putting anything but the final root cause in the title would be misleading or “real network engineers wouldn’t do that”, but I would argue that would just be bad storytelling..

New comment by x3ro in "[dead]"

x3ro — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 12:01:37 +0000

How do you know this? I know Claude et al gets the most publicity, but I have genuinely no idea what is used the most in absolute numbers.

(I’m referring to Europe mostly, I can believe it’s nowhere near 64% in the US)

New comment by x3ro in "I said no and Apple said yes"

x3ro — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 15:20:31 +0000

-1 because why would someone who is annoyed with AI features in macOS migrate to Linux, where they would then be “forced” (in order to not waste their own time) to use agents to fix breaking OS-level functionality..

New comment by x3ro in "Why I didn’t sign the Fields medallists’ letter"

x3ro — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:41:20 +0000

This is such an insane take I don’t even know where to start. Even in the western world people increasingly need to work more than one job / have multiple incomes to live a life where basic necessities are given, and some luxuries are attainable (read: vacation, not rolex). That’s without children, in rich countries. That isn’t even touching on the problems someone e.g. from a lower caste in India might face. Asserting that „everyone with the intelligence to contribute to math“ would be able to just “find a job” that would them also contribute to the field is completely detached from reality.

New comment by x3ro in "Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union"

x3ro — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 05:55:45 +0000

Do you mean “censorship by the EU” or “censorship within the EU”, or both? Because I see a lot of the latter, and I don’t find it inconsequential at all.

New comment by x3ro in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

x3ro — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:43:24 +0000

So if eg Trump said “evil Spain, we will never trade with them again, as they are terrorist-lovers” your only option is to just repeat that verbatim?

Or would you have the ability to say “in response to Spain denying US access to military bases and air space for Iran war, Trump retaliates with economic sanctions”?

If I think this is exactly what Ben Gvir is saying, and if I can make a sound argument to back that up, why would I not claim that he said exactly that? Is piercing through veiled bullshit that politicians say now frowned upon?

New comment by x3ro in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

x3ro — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:26:43 +0000

My point is that the Israeli government has been claiming, in every way imaginable, that their actions are „targeted“, when the evidence clearly shows that they are not. So when someone like Gvir says „targeted assassinations“, what he means (based on previous evidence) is „let’s kill some Palestinians“. What people say needs to be put in context of how they have behaved in the past.

New comment by x3ro in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

x3ro — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:50:12 +0000

My god how many „Israeli snipers are shooting children in the head“ statements from non-profits and doctors do we need before people finally stop peddling this „only evil hamas members are targeted“.. Just look at satellite pictures of Gaza man. Every palestinian is a target, which is why we are calling it genocide.

New comment by x3ro in "Israel creates fake think tank in likely attempt to dupe AI chatbots"

x3ro — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 07:30:12 +0000

So this is not what he said [1]? What did he say, then. I’m assuming you must know.

[1]: https://ca.news.yahoo.com/ben-gvir-calls-killing-30-04422310...

New comment by x3ro in "GIMP Development Update"

x3ro — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:13:37 +0000

I don’t see how this addresses my point that zipped XML gives you the same thing, but simpler. I understand that a GIMP file is many images, so that makes a zip feel like a great fit to me. The only advantage I see for using a full-blown DB is ensuring consistency with references, which admittedly is a plus. But beyond that, what do you gain?

New comment by x3ro in "GIMP Development Update"

x3ro — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:12:48 +0000

In order to have any advantage from this, you would have the added complexity of splitting your file format into tables that can be queried in a useful manner. However, for an image file format, you most likely need to hold the entire definition in memory at all times anyway. Assuming that’s the case, doesn’t XPath get you there most of the way (assuming XML), with _way_ less complexity?

New comment by x3ro in "GIMP Development Update"

x3ro — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:09:59 +0000

Thanks! I had the exact same question for various of these posts here. I know these may be different groups of people, but I always see people advocating for simplicity, and zipped-XML is as simple as it gets, needs barely any extra dependencies (none in GIMP I assume), and is proven to work well (Word etc).

I also don’t understand why SQLite would be preferable here, considering you will likely also store large binary files alongside your document definition.. What does a db engine give me here?

New comment by x3ro in "Mistral OCR 4.1"

x3ro — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:47:50 +0000

You should put contact details in your profile :)

New comment by x3ro in "The US tried to stop cartel money-laundering; devastated mom-and-pop businesses"

x3ro — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:42:24 +0000

Let’s keep in mind that US corporations just received literal billions in tariff refunds, effectively stealing money from everyone who bought anything in the last year.

But i’m sure being charged an extra dollar at a small store that’s barely getting by (assuming this is true) is the real problem..

New comment by x3ro in "US Military asks troops for 'creative and unconventional' ideas to punish Iran"

x3ro — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:34:10 +0000

Why do we continue to spread this as if it was objective fact.. Didn’t the US government intelligence agencies themselves find that Iran is not building nukes? Aren’t they submitting to inspections by the IAEA, whereas Israel is not?

New comment by x3ro in "US Military asks troops for 'creative and unconventional' ideas to punish Iran"

x3ro — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:23:50 +0000

Yeah sure it was bad data, it’s great when you can blame a database or AI for crimes against humanity isn’t it? /s

And in a couple of decades this stuff gets declassified and everyone will say „oh no how atrocious“, but those responsible will most likely be dead by then.