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FeistySkink··on Aphantasia Beginner's Guide
Yeah, I never got the "don't think about the red hammer/apple" joke. Ok, done. Now what? For me thinking/imagining is an active process.
FeistySkink··on VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
IDK, I heard way stupider and less ethical ideas at work.
FeistySkink··on VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage
I appreciate your willingness to come and try and salvage this situation. What I don't understand is why are you the one doing this here and on GH, during the weekend, and not the PM who created the original PR? Surely they have some input.

And another thing is, why was there absolutely no pushback from your part on any of the issues with the original PR, and why it was merged within hours in that state?

FeistySkink··on Ask HN: Is GitHub Down?
I feel like every day something is broken with GH, at this point.
FeistySkink··on Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold
As far as I remember, WinForms is just a thin wrapper around Win32 with a message loop, i.e. not all that different.
FeistySkink··on 15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram
Part of the VC/CM pipeline.
FeistySkink··on Building SQLite with a small swarm
What is that service used for besides SQLite?
FeistySkink··on Building SQLite with a small swarm
Out of curiosity, why aren't all tests open source?
FeistySkink··on Spotlighting the World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell
Huh. I had a native Android app way back when on the Play Store, that presented the Factbook in the mobile-friendly manner. Was quite popular in Africa of all places. But ultimately had to first delist it and then close the account altogether, once Google started requiring more and more unnecessary SDK updates, and ultimately identity verification. What a trip down the memory lane.
FeistySkink··on GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs
> This is a user-hostile behavior fueled solely by laziness and pettiness.

Damn, that last quip is really poisoning the well here. As a maintainer, not being paid for my projects or contributions, I have every right to decide how and if I want to accept contributions.

FeistySkink··on GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs
So you don't want to maintain a fork, but want a maintainer to do it for free for you and wondering why that PR is not accepted? If you feel so strongly about the project popular in your 'industry', consider providing some incentive for the maintainer to care. And no, a coffee is not an incentive.

Edit: this probably came off quite abrasive, but I'm getting entitled comments from users with no contributions, demanding fixes for their most ridiculously niche issues almost weekly. Like stuff doesn't build with their toolchain from 2014. Seriously? Yet, they can't be arsed to even check the fixes or follow up with basic details.

FeistySkink··on GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs
An another thing I hope is added is some kind of internal karma system. E.g. if a user is spamming multiple PR to multiple repos, or is otherwise being disruptive and reported, their contributions should be flagged for review, or optionally not accepted at all.
FeistySkink··on GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs
I like the idea. Right now it's only possible to require approval for actions for new contributors. But once they get a PR in, they're free to spam new PRs that can clog resource-expensive pipelines. Would be nice to have something like 5+ PRs merged and be a contributor for 1 month before a PR is auto created and actions are allowed to run.
FeistySkink··on Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux
How so? Bluetooth has been working out of the box (no tinkering) for me under Linux for the past ten years now across multiple devices. Including stuff like APT-X and LDAC. All with proper OS integration (I use Gnome). What's the story on Windows?
FeistySkink··on We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports
It would help if PRs from newly-created or private accounts could stand out. And perhaps PRs from accounts that spam multiple PRs with dozes or hundreds of commits, would have some kind of a warning that only people with write access to repos can see. In fact perhaps GitHub could throttle those accounts from creating that many PRs in the first place.

Another suggestion would be trying to figure out if a PR was vibe-coded and marking them as such. Same as image-based social media tries to do.

FeistySkink··on Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections
Yeah, we have certificates on our ID cards, but they need to be manually renewed every 3 years which necessitates a trip to the designated authority. And then the underlying system gets changed every so often invalidating the card types altogether, so they can be used as dummy IDs only.
FeistySkink··on Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections
Is this just an abstract and is there more to this post? I found it quite shallow.
FeistySkink··on Testing the Mono Gateway: custom-built 10 Gbps Router
I don't think this should be promoted as coming with OpenWrt preconfigured. This device has no vanilla OpenWrt support, and is unlikely if it will ever have it, considering they seem to be using a proprietary SDK with hardware offload that requires binary blobs with a separate license. Which means you're only getting support as long as they are willing to maintain their fork. So selling this as if it has an OpenWrt support out of the box is deceptive, especially considering the price tag. This is akin to all those SBC advertising Linux support, but then coming with an outdated kernel with no source.
FeistySkink··on Oldest woman to finish Ironman World Championship in Kona
Thanks for the extended answer (including the other comment). I'm always curious to hear what active people past certain age do to do stay fit. And sorry for digging deeper, but do you do anything special to work around or manage your injuries? E.g. additional exercises/stretching.
FeistySkink··on Oldest woman to finish Ironman World Championship in Kona
What kind of exercise do you do or have done besides running? And if not too personal, what injuries do you have? Cheers.
FeistySkink··on Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot
Not sure what they mean by tags, but my export seems to have all my tags.
FeistySkink··on A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen
Looks interesting. Are there any real-life non-marketing photos of it?

Reminds me of Bollinger prototypes. Whatever happened to those?

FeistySkink··on Android phones will soon reboot themselves after sitting unused for three days
How is this going to work with SIM cards that need a PIN? I'll be just unreachable until I notice the reboot?
FeistySkink··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2025)
Post says remote, JD - in office. Which one is it?
FeistySkink··on Mastering Delphi 5 2025 Annotated Edition Is Now Complete
I feel like Delphi, along with maybe VB6 and WinForms, have been the pinnacle of easy UI development, and things have gone significantly downhill since then. Especially on the web side, where even a single view sometimes requires having multiple unrelated dependencies (packers, builders, transpilers, etc.), often implicitly-configured to produce output, in head-space. And due to this dependency hell, when porting a project like this to a new platform, or just getting it to run, a slight change in the environment silently breaks the build.
FeistySkink··on The earliest versions of the first C compiler known to exist
Missed opportunity not calling it LegaC.
FeistySkink··on HTTP/3 is everywhere but nowhere
Here's some background:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/nginx...

FeistySkink··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2025)
Your mascot is really something. Whoever made the design deserves a bonus.
FeistySkink··on Citronics built a router based on the Fairphone 2 mainboard
This is a very cool project. However, with a 100 Mbps Ethernet, WiFi 5 up to 433 Mbps, no OpenWrt, at €150, who is this device for? Save for the 4G, a Pi is a much better deal, with a much better support.

And for professional customers, CM5 seems like a much better deal, or go fully custom.

FeistySkink··on Broadcom, TSMC eye possible Intel deals to split storied chipmaker
I'm sure Intel's open source contributions will quadruple, seeing how BCM is such an avant-garde.
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