hello_computer

I like it. Hope it gets some traction.

There are so many neo-shells that go crazy with colors, autocompletions, & SQL-like features while the most basic problems (like handling of newlines/spaces/international chars) are mostly swept under the rug with -null/-print0, which is more hack than solution. I think Tom Duff's rc shell was an excellent start in that direction, which sadly went nowhere.

article full of nonsense

Pls elaborate. Seems like a decent list of shell gotchas to me.

This is true. I've had so many problems where the pills and creams were time and money down the drain, and the solution was to cut something out of my diet or lifestyle. Less is more.

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are there any good open-source porn-detector models out there? if i ran an image board in 2025, that would be job #1, since it’s really just a weapon, and we don’t speak or print with our genitals—well, most of us anyway…

Have to wonder about the sincerity of this after Yasha Levine illustrated the ties between big tech and the EFF, when big tech’s present theory of copyright is:

Our Copyright: based and red-pilled

Your Copyright: fake and gay

Obviously, but that's not what I'm getting at. Due to present technical limitations, "influencers" have to sharecrop for Google/Facebook/Twitter/etc. Bandwidth/storage/software improvements will allow successful "influencers" to flee the plantation.

Suppose, hypothetically, you invented an actually effective weight loss drug—one that leads to permanent and healthy change.

Let’s say it’s a drug that both decreases leptin resistance and prevents simple carbs from triggering the brain’s reward centers. And suppose it doesn’t require someone to keep taking it for the rest of their life, as long as they don’t fall back into obesity.

Now, imagine you’re not interested in getting rich—you legitimately want to solve the obesity epidemic.

But then you realize the weight loss industry is a multi-billion-dollar machine, not to mention the pharmaceutical companies profiting off obesity-related health issues. They’re not just going to let this drug come out without a fight.

Suppose you don’t even care that you're likely to end up falsely accused of rape by women you've never met, and probably dead soon after, with a “suicide note” conveniently found next to your body. You just want to find the best way to get this drug out there and available to the public.

Assume, for the moment, that no one but you and a small group of trusted researchers know about this discovery—and you stumbled across it accidentally while researching something else.

What would be the best approach to make this drug available to the public, knowing that powerful, interested parties would do everything in their power to suppress it?

obs, jitsi, & raspbian are not “hobby projects”. do you work for redhat?

More than 2/3rds of your examples are from over 5 years ago

Exactly! If you scroll to the bottom of each one, you will see that most are either a) still open, or b) abandoned (too hard or impossible), then closed as stale.

image of a testicle when hotlinked from HN

Rightly so.

2016-01-23 https://github.com/MaartenBaert/ssr/issues/431

2019-01-04 (only took 3 1/2 years to resolve!) https://github.com/flathub/us.zoom.Zoom/issues/22

2020-03-07 https://github.com/vkohaupt/vokoscreenNG/issues/51

2020-03-07 https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/2471

2020-03-24 https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/6389

2023-09 https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/09/wayland-and-screen-savers/

2023-11-17 https://github.com/raspberrypi/bookworm-feedback/issues/149

moles from certian big corp are boycotting any substantial work on Xorg, in order to destroy the project

That's what I've always thought. The "X11 developers" pushing for Wayland weren't original developers so much as RedHat "maintainers," who (understandably) wanted a frontier to explore rather than janitorial work. All I know for certain is that X11 (even as of 15 years ago) mostly worked, while Wayland of 2025 is still full of headaches & breakages.

The good news is that LLMs + growth in storage & bandwidth will eventually put Google in its place. The full texts of stack exchange and wikipedia (kiwix) are only a few gigs. Same for offline models like llama/gemma/qwen. As the wizards keep finding new ways to pack more bits on metal plates, we will be able to store more video than we will ever watch, just as we now store more text than we will ever read.

project zero is ZERO compared to the millions of little old ladies around the world getting scammed through adwords. only security big g cares about is its own. they have the tools to laser-in on and punish the subtlest of wrongthink on youtube, yet it’s just too tall of an order to focus the same laser on tech support scammers…

just the fact that this comes from google is a hard pass for me. they sell so many adwords scams that they clearly do not give a damn about security. “security” from google is just another one of their trojan horses.

If they expose it, that ties them to a particular hash algo. Hash algos are as much art as science, and the opportunities for hardware acceleration vary from chip to chip, so maintaining the leeway to move from one algo to another is kind of important.

For me, DbBeaver is jack-of-all-trades, master of none. Seems to handle every database known to mankind, but not a fantastic user experience. While HeidiSQL is a work of art for MySQL / MariaDB, but not much else. I use & appreciate both in different ways.

now that AI has given the office boys a reason to guzzle gigawatts, they’re walking-back the carbon credits grift. warming or not, we’re destroying the world at a startling pace. everyone should consume less.

Corporations have many constraints—advertisers, investors, employees, legislators, journalists, advocacy groups. So many “white lies” are baked into these models to accommodate those constraints, nerfing the model. It is only a matter of time before hardware brings this down to the hobbyist level—without those constraints—giving the present methods their first fair fight; while for now, they are born lobotomized. Some of the “but, but, but…”s we see here daily to justify our jobs are not going to hold up to a non-lobotomized LLM.

Although huge/small is subjective, I wouldn’t consider 22% of new demand “small”—especially for LLMs, which seem to present more problems than solutions. Sounds like a public relations piece to me. Many interested corporations launder the money through various think-tanks and institutes, and people are none the wiser.

Hardcore is a multi-billion dollar industry, while PC-98 softcore is dead, and was a cottage industry even in its heyday. Have to please the advertisers.

PC-98 eroge art is beautiful. These writers—who freely take pot-shots at the “perverted” hikikomori of 30 years ago—wouldn’t dare criticize the hardcore pornography (Bonnie Blue? The OnlyFans Economy!) the world is presently steeped in. It’s like they know which waggle dance lets you in, and which one gets you booted from the hive…

His magician archetype was out-of-control, but at least he had taste.

Did Dijkstra have anything nice to say about anything?

Might as well when they’re going to lay you off no matter what you do (like the guy who made an awesome TypeScript compiler in Go).

our technocrats are destroying the world and bleeding the peasants dry. the peasants are right to revolt against them. they only err in their choice of alternatives.

web is bursting with abuses. euros like to regulate. if they regulate & enforce-away the abuses, the browser could be made far far simpler.

there is also the specific vs general trade-off: the general (io.Reader) being more flexible, while providing fewer opportunities for optimization. vice versa with the specific—be it []byte, or even []constbyte. i think it is just an inherent struggle with all abstractions.

It is the same struggle you can find in any language with private/public props. The stream he wants to read from is actually just a buffer that has been wrapped as a stream, and he’s having a hard time directly accessing the buffer through its wrapper. He could stream it into a new temporary buffer, but he’s trying to avoid that since it’s wasteful. I’ve had the same problem in C++.