Hacker News: zettabomb

New comment by zettabomb in "Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai"

zettabomb — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:56:17 +0000

I have, and the article does not in any way address my question. You also seem to be a brand new user, so in case you're not aware, HN guidelines say to refrain from mentioning whether or not someone has read the link.

New comment by zettabomb in "Adafruit receives demand letter from Fenwick legal counsel on behalf of Flux.ai"

zettabomb — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 11:38:23 +0000

I'm curious, but I'm not sure if you can say - has Adafruit ever published anything about Flux?

New comment by zettabomb in "15 Years of Forking"

zettabomb — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:33:47 +0000

I remember using Waterfox when it was new. I moved away from it when Firefox started pushing 64 bit builds natively, and I've stuck with it since then. Recently though it does seem as if they might be going down a dark path, so perhaps I'll consider switching again. I remember Waterfox was hard forked after Quantum became a thing, in order to keep support with XPI - is that still the case?

New comment by zettabomb in "FSFE supporters affected: Payment provider Nexi cancelled us"

zettabomb — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:37:08 +0000

It's not even just private information, because in any properly configured system it is explicitly unknowable information.

New comment by zettabomb in "Put the zip code first"

zettabomb — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 23:47:03 +0000

Yeah but, the article was specifically saying that you don't need to put in country because you can look it up by ZIP. That's obviously wrong, but apparently not to the author of the website.

New comment by zettabomb in "Put the zip code first"

zettabomb — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 23:44:21 +0000

I fail to see how you can claim this to work for sites which serve areas outside the United States, but have either no ZIP code, an overlapping code, or something else entirely. Germany has 5 digit PLZs, but putting some valid ones in doesn't get a result. It really seems like the author does not think about other countries.

I don't disagree with reordering the entry by relevance, but you have to start with country. That can also be a nice search - it will be a very short lookup, even if you put every country name in every language. Only after that is postal code (of whatever kind - it's only ZIP in the US) relevant.

New comment by zettabomb in "Show HN: AI in SolidWorks"

zettabomb — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 09:31:46 +0000

Solidworks is not even close to the least intuitive CAD program out there. My preference is Autodesk Inventor, which I find to be far easier for beginners to pick up. Fusion 360 is supposedly excellent these days as well. For a real nightmare, try Siemens NX.

New comment by zettabomb in "39c3: In-house electronics manufacturing from scratch: How hard can it be? [video]"

zettabomb — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 11:53:25 +0000

Given the context (CCC) I would find it far less interesting if they did NOT use OpenPNP. It is also, coincidentally, able to assemble PCBs, even if it's perhaps not the best software out there.

New comment by zettabomb in "NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power"

zettabomb — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 22:35:35 +0000

Far more things rely on reliable and accurate time-keeping than just being on time to work. Timekeeping is vitally important (even if it's not readily visible) to lots of critical infrastructure worldwide.

New comment by zettabomb in "Porn company fined £1M over inadequate age checks (UK)"

zettabomb — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 11:29:36 +0000

The alternative to the OSA is not "being totally incapable of regulating the internet". There's a wide, wide gap between complete lack of regulation and what the UK has done.

New comment by zettabomb in "Discontinuation of ARM Notebook with Snapdragon X Elite SoC"

zettabomb — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 23:42:03 +0000

I'd have to say that full hardware documentation, even under NDA, is prerequisite to claim equal effort. The expectation on a desktop platform (that is, explicitly not mobile, like phones or tablets) is that development is mostly open for those who want to, and Qualcomm's business is sort of fundamentally counter to that. So either they're going to have to change those expectations (which I would prefer not to happen), provide more to manufacturers, or expect that their market performance will be poor.

New comment by zettabomb in "GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT"

zettabomb — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 11:35:07 +0000

Why the sass? Seems completely unnecessary.

New comment by zettabomb in "Ventoy: Create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI Files"

zettabomb — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 16:04:46 +0000

It does, but you need to enroll its MOK key. If that's acceptable for you, it'll work just fine.

New comment by zettabomb in "Ventoy: Create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI Files"

zettabomb — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 16:03:59 +0000

First I've heard of it, I just installed an openSUSE variant through Ventoy a week or so ago.

New comment by zettabomb in "Ventoy: Create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI Files"

zettabomb — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 16:02:14 +0000

I don't see the linked issue as a valid reason to stop using Ventoy, especially since the repo you linked is for a different piece of software made by the same people. Do we have any evidence of Ventoy itself being in any way malicious?

New comment by zettabomb in "4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence"

zettabomb — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 21:39:15 +0000

I don't disagree at all. But it would then be the American government's job and responsibility to block this.

New comment by zettabomb in "4Chan Lawyer publishes Ofcom correspondence"

zettabomb — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 20:29:15 +0000

Tough luck, if you don't like it, then you (or your government) should block those websites. It's not job of the US businesses nor US government to enforce another country's laws.

New comment by zettabomb in "Software update bricks some Jeep 4xe hybrids over the weekend"

zettabomb — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:47:29 +0000

Well, given that the article says it caused powertrain failures on the highway, I'd say it's severe enough that it should absolutely cause the manufacturer's stock to drop.

New comment by zettabomb in "A years-long Turkish alphabet bug in the Kotlin compiler"

zettabomb — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 22:14:04 +0000

No, what I mean is, o and u get an umlaut (two dots) to become ö and ü, but i doesn't get an umlaut, it's just a single dot from ı to i. Why not make it i and ï? That would be more consistent, in my opinion.

New comment by zettabomb in "A years-long Turkish alphabet bug in the Kotlin compiler"

zettabomb — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 22:09:07 +0000

>Also, we don't have serifs in our I.

That depends on font.

>So, it's not even related to your Ii pair in English.

Modern Turkish uses the Latin script, of course it's related.

>You can't dictate how we write our straight lines, can you.

No, I can't, I just want to understand why the Turks decided to change this letter, and this letter only, from the rest of the standard Latin script/diacritics.