Hacker News: zer0zzz

New comment by zer0zzz in "RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?"

zer0zzz — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:27:30 +0000

I’m not talking about games, I think a Mac mini on a rtx pro 4000 would be a nicer experience than a g10 is all.

New comment by zer0zzz in "RTX 5090 and M4 MacBook Air: Can It Game?"

zer0zzz — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:35:23 +0000

Once egpus work on Apple Silicon there will be little reason to own a pc

New comment by zer0zzz in "Windows 11 PCs Compared to MacBook Neo"

zer0zzz — Thu, 14 May 2026 07:39:12 +0000

This is as ridiculous as that study Volkswagen did to try to prove their cars diesel emissions might be good for the health of an ape.

New comment by zer0zzz in "Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging"

zer0zzz — Fri, 08 May 2026 23:52:11 +0000

People are bozos for wanting more from a glorified egg timer. I like Siri myself.

New comment by zer0zzz in "Why TUIs Are Back"

zer0zzz — Sun, 03 May 2026 21:53:59 +0000

Can it be much more simple of a reason and that tuis fit into many of our existing tmux based work flows?

New comment by zer0zzz in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

zer0zzz — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 07:33:48 +0000

I definitely see a strong demand for a 11” 1kg macbook with these policies inevitably spreading.

New comment by zer0zzz in "Binary obfuscation used in AAA Games"

zer0zzz — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:33:03 +0000

They do employ former malware writers to work on some of this stuff from what i hear.

New comment by zer0zzz in "Binary obfuscation used in AAA Games"

zer0zzz — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:22:22 +0000

ASLR (for example) is a pretty standard technique, I thought all commercial OSes enabled this generally. What's the purpose of picking at this portion?

New comment by zer0zzz in "Binary obfuscation used in AAA Games"

zer0zzz — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:19:54 +0000

Exactly. That and in game currencies. You like competing in games, or for game-bucks? Well you need some level of obfuscation and hardening to make that viable.

New comment by zer0zzz in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

zer0zzz — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:35:51 +0000

Couldn’t someone do a similar story about scripting on windows, and make Jeffrey Snover one of the punchlines?

New comment by zer0zzz in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

zer0zzz — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 07:09:40 +0000

It is kind of a bummer they never supported Cuda/HIP GPGPU using those slots.

New comment by zer0zzz in "Apple discontinues the Mac Pro"

zer0zzz — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 07:06:58 +0000

How is this dropping the ball? I think they dropped the ball a long time ago by waiting until M5 to do integrated tensor cores instead of the separate ANE only which was present before.

For multi-gpu you can network multiple Macs at high speed now. Their biggest disadvantage to Nvidia right now is that no one wants to do kernel authoring in Metal. AMD learned that the hard way when they gave up on OpenCL and built HIP.

New comment by zer0zzz in "Stop Using Brave Browser"

zer0zzz — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:15:11 +0000

people don’t use chrome because ads are annoying and because google ads on the front page led them into scam sites. Or because chrome is inefficient. That’s the only reason anyone seems to use brave or safari anyways.

New comment by zer0zzz in "Stop Using Brave Browser"

zer0zzz — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 08:38:39 +0000

If you want people to stop using a thing, make a better thing. These moralistic and political arguments only make you look and sound weak.

You know what sounds weak? “Don’t eat at chicken fila because of politics blah blah blah” But you know what wins customers? Popeyes _MF_!

New comment by zer0zzz in "AirPods Max 2"

zer0zzz — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 05:24:04 +0000

> to the point of being fairly uncomfortable after listening for any longer amount of time.

#1 reason I use the Sony XM4/XM6. Sometimes I wonder if they intentionally do this to appeal to a younger crowd cause as an older person with neck issues it’s just not a very good product.

The audio quality of the Sonys is just as good but the comfort is a much better. I think I like the mic on the AirPods Max better but the mic on the MacBook I use in meetings works as well for meetings.

New comment by zer0zzz in "macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses"

zer0zzz — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 09:04:17 +0000

I actually really like that certain windows have a different corner radius. It wraps around the chrome of the app properly.

If you made it this far, know I am totally messing with you. It really is unnerving.

New comment by zer0zzz in "FFmpeg at Meta: Media Processing at Scale"

zer0zzz — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:25:47 +0000

> Could they not have upstreamed those features in the first place?

Often when you are working on a downstream code base either you are inheriting the laziness of non-upstreaming of others or you are dealing with an upstream code base that’s really opinionated and doesn’t want many of your teams patches. It can vary, and I definitely empathize.

New comment by zer0zzz in "Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma"

zer0zzz — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 06:44:47 +0000

This looks good

New comment by zer0zzz in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

zer0zzz — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:16:41 +0000

This entire thread is a demonstration in how doomed we are.

New comment by zer0zzz in "MacBook Neo"

zer0zzz — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 08:54:43 +0000

With any luck, this new computer can usher in an era of folks not having to port anything to windows.