Hacker News: zer0zzz

New comment by zer0zzz in "Knoppix"

zer0zzz — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:00:00 +0000

Klaus Knopper, now that’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time.

New comment by zer0zzz in "Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak"

zer0zzz — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 03:09:18 +0000

I have to assume "thoughtful frontier labs" is either a pretty small lab, or a place holder for a lab that doesn't exist. So many of these anti-meta posts come off as based entirely in the feelings of opinionated techies rather than actual reality.

New comment by zer0zzz in "Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak"

zer0zzz — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 03:06:27 +0000

Nope, just got confused who was replying to who in this thread while loading site from mobile.

New comment by zer0zzz in "Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak"

zer0zzz — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:22:18 +0000

Yes

New comment by zer0zzz in "Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak"

zer0zzz — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:17:27 +0000

All I asked for was specific examples while acknowledging what I hated about the platforms progression.

New comment by zer0zzz in "Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak"

zer0zzz — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 04:44:16 +0000

How so? Most of the hardcore encryption stuff was built at Facebook under the founder's supervision afaik for the purposes of making it harder for Zuck to inevitably ruin the privacy aspects.

I personally don't use it, because it _is_ loaded with engagement bait but its not all worse and is better in some ways.

New comment by zer0zzz in "Meta Pauses Employee-Tracking Program Following Internal Data Leak"

zer0zzz — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 04:41:52 +0000

What are these "thoughtful" frontier labs you speak of? I see Meta folks going to the big ones all the time. Ton of former PyTorch/Inductor folks now are at Ant/TM etc.

Everyone I know in the GPU compiler/GPGPU space seems to be either going to meta or leaving meta for NV or some AI lab. My anecdotal observations don't align with "bin meta applicants straight to the trash."

New comment by zer0zzz in "UHF X11: X11 Built for VisionOS and Apple Vision Pro"

zer0zzz — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 18:43:44 +0000

I was thinking the same thing

New comment by zer0zzz in "Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything"

zer0zzz — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 04:56:52 +0000

I wanted to add:

* Adobe -> macOS

* Games with kernel anti-cheat -> mostly exist on PS5

* Office 365 -> Wasn't the point to make it cross-plat when they went services route (web, mac, ios)? Also, Wine.

What is this hard hitting class of applications that can't be addressed either by a mac, a Linux PC, or a console?

I'm not saying Windows has no purpose, but I do think the hard hitting killer application cohort is wearing thinner than it ever has.

New comment by zer0zzz in "Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything"

zer0zzz — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 04:53:24 +0000

Doesn't this game run fine on PS? Do the profiles not migrate between PC and console?

New comment by zer0zzz in "macOS Container Machines"

zer0zzz — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:55:36 +0000

Gpus of course

New comment by zer0zzz in "Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything"

zer0zzz — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 03:33:10 +0000

Adobe works on Mac, games with anti-cheat are a thin class of applications and they’re not productivity, Office 365 is on everything I thought (iPad, Mac, web).

Most everything else runs great in wine.

What more is there?

New comment by zer0zzz in "Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything"

zer0zzz — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 03:39:21 +0000

I have not needed to use windows for anything productive for 15 years.

New comment by zer0zzz in "macOS Container Machines"

zer0zzz — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:41:22 +0000

I just want thunderbolt pci passthrough for these things.

New comment by zer0zzz in "What is the purpose of the lost+found folder in Linux and Unix? (2014)"

zer0zzz — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:02:52 +0000

Back in the day I accidentally deleted all my stuff because I had it all in a special dir of this user in suse Linux. When I deleted the user, yast deleted everything.

Fortunately I was using ReiserFS at the time and something about its murderous tree data structure made it trivial to undelete.

Reiser_fsck found ALL my stuff, mostly with full dir tree structure in tact and put it all in lost+found

New comment by zer0zzz in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

zer0zzz — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:07:49 +0000

Yeah this is why it’s important to get something with similar programmability for less money. I don’t need the power of a gb300 just to do experiments with tma or “tcgen05” instructions

New comment by zer0zzz in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

zer0zzz — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:36:37 +0000

What are these things going to cost? I hope not the same as a mac equivalent or as much as a dgx.

Geekbench cpu bench leaks indicate they aren’t as good as m3 at single core even.

Will they support booting into a Linux installer?

New comment by zer0zzz in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

zer0zzz — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:47:00 +0000

The only Question is is it worth suffering hip and x86? I suspect a lot of folks might like a machine that mimics their GB300 But costs less than a dgx.

Also I heard the tensor core instructions on the dgx are gimped and you’re better off with a rtx pro x000. Is that the same with these machines?

New comment by zer0zzz in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

zer0zzz — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:45:07 +0000

What about the desktop version? It seemed like it is not a dgx since it has the CPUs cores done by mediatek

New comment by zer0zzz in "Nvidia RTX Spark"

zer0zzz — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:44:20 +0000

I heard leaked geekbench putting it behind the m3, which is couple years old now.

All I care about is if I can get one of these for significantly less than a dgx and get Linux on it for some cuda Blackwell kerneling.