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Mogzol··on Gemini 4 Argon
Yes it makes sense, why would you name them based on apparent size? Everyone knows the scale of these things, we learn them in elementary school. I don't think of the sun as smaller than the Earth, and I definitely don't think of the sun as smaller than the moon. Moon < Earth < Sun < Stars makes perfect sense to me. It (imo) is much clearer than Haiku < Sonnet < Opus < Fable, although I get what Anthropic is going for there too.

And I don't think or know Latin either, but these are pretty universally known words even outside of Latin (besides maybe astra, although "astral" is very close so you should be able to figure it out).

Mogzol··on Gemini 4 Argon
How is it nonsense? It is latin space terms from big to small: Stars (Astra), Sun (Sol), Earth (Terra), Moon (Luna)
Mogzol··on An update on Wayback Machine access
There is a megalodon.jp archive of an archive.today page that shows the edits: https://megalodon.jp/2026-0219-1654-07/https://archive.ph:44...

There's also a bunch of previous hackernews discussions about it:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47474255

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46624740

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47092006

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46843805

And you obviously have no reason to believe me, but I was following this when it was happening at the start of this year and can confirm that the DDoS script and archive text replacements really did happen.

Mogzol··on An update on Wayback Machine access
See the "Background" section of the Wikipedia RFC on banning archive.today links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment...

They bulk replaced one string (a name) with another one across many archived pages, and added malicious code to all archive pages that would rapidly send requests to gyrovague.com in an attempt to DDOS them.

Mogzol··on Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes
> and annoyingly restrictive

How so? In what scenario would you ever need to use a sequence like <tab><space><tab> in indentation in your source code? Let alone using esoteric Unicode whitespace characters for indentation. I think it is perfectly reasonable for the language to make the restriction that indentation must be either all tabs, tabs followed by spaces, or all spaces.

Mogzol··on Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era
Moving away from the tall narrow foldables that open to a square, to shorter, wider foldables that open to a rectangle, like the Galaxy Z fold 8 and the rumored iPhone foldable.
Mogzol··on Pixel Watch 5
I have all the features enabled on my Garmin watch (vivoactive 5), including always-on display, and still get at least 4-5 days of battery.
Mogzol··on After Losses, Retail Investors Flock to 3x Leverage as 2x Product Are Restricted
What are you trying to say, that everyone should own a house? Surely you realize that is not a possibility for many, if not most, young people around the world.
Mogzol··on Ghost Cut – Or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere
Yes exactly, cut (and pasting a cut) is entirely within the same app. If you want to put something in another program you would have to copy.

Not saying I would prefer it, just explaining what the article says.

Mogzol··on Ghost Cut – Or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere
The article isn't arguing that clipboard state should be part of the undo system, it is arguing that cut shouldn't touch clipboard state. In the "Side effects" section they mention if you want the contents to go to the clipboard, then you should use copy instead of cut.
Mogzol··on Ghost Cut – Or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere
> I cut, undo, ..., undo, and paste multiple times a day.

Why would you cut + undo as opposed to just copy? Are they not the same operation at that point?

Mogzol··on AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit
None evidently. Why does that matter? I was just pointing out that this hardware was released _this_ year.
Mogzol··on AMD Ryzen AI Halo – $4k AI Dev Kit
This hardware was just released this week? The CPU is from last year, but this dev kit is brand new.
Mogzol··on CarPlay Is Additive
Regarding Android Auto being slow, it could just be due to your phone. It has to stream the whole interface as video to the car's infotainment system over USB (or Wi-Fi on newer models), then handle taps and stuff that it receives back, if you're using an old or budget android phone then that can be pretty laggy.
Mogzol··on British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres
You have to choose one timezone to be authoritative here, which one you choose depends on the situation, but if you don't choose one, then a change like the one happening in BC will cause the consumer and provider to be using mismatched times.

If the consumer booked something for 12PM Dec 1 2026 PST, and this booking was made before BC's changes were announced, and the provider saved this using their local time (say EST), then they would have saved it as 3PM EST. But now with BC's changes, when the consumer shows up at 12PM their time, that will be 2PM EST, an hour before the provider was expecting.

Was the consumer correct for showing up at the booked time according to their wall clock, or is the provider correct with their saved the time that was an hour later? The answer probably depends, but whichever you choose is the authoritative time.

Mogzol··on Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart
Another comparison: if you count the "solar system" as ending at Neptune's orbit (obviously it extends much further, but just for the sake of comparison), then you could fit ~4465 "solar systems" in between our sun and the closest star, Proxima Centauri.
Mogzol··on Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers
There's also the Openbu or LanBu android apps if you just want a basic app for monitoring from your phone like Bambu Handy did. Although if you want to access your printer from a remote network you'll still need tailscale or similar.
Mogzol··on Bambu Lab is abusing the open source social contract
I have no issues with OrcaSlicer and interacting with my printers or starting prints remotely as long as I have LAN and Developer mode turned on. The only catch is that you need something like Tailscale set up for remote printers so you can access them over your "local" network. You can also get remote management/monitoring on your phone with apps like Openbu or Lanbu.
Mogzol··on Teardown of unreleased LG Rollable shows why rollable phones aren't a thing
"they" being Huawei, and their phone suffers from the same problem, the main display can be easily damaged by dust, dirt, or just your fingernails pressing into it. Notably Samsung's trifold kept the folding display entirely inside when folded, presumably to avoid this problem.
Mogzol··on Teardown of unreleased LG Rollable shows why rollable phones aren't a thing
The whole display is plastic, including the part on the front that doesn't wrap around. Yes the part behind the glass panel on the back would be protected, but the front of the phone wouldn't be.
Mogzol··on Teardown of unreleased LG Rollable shows why rollable phones aren't a thing
Additionally, the flexible screen is on the outside which will quickly get damaged since it is made of soft plastic. It's too fragile for something that lives in your pocket every day. All modern foldables have the folding screen on the inside to keep them protected, and a standard glass screen on the front.
Mogzol··on LG's new 1Hz display is the secret behind a new laptop's battery life
I assume this will just be using Window's dynamic refresh rate feature, which you can turn on and off in the display settings, and when it's off you can set the refresh rate manually. I guess the question is whether they will let you set it as low as 1hz manually though.
Mogzol··on Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2
All your comments are painting archive.today as an innocent victim in all this, but in addition to the DDoS, they have been caught modifying archived pages as well as sending actual threats to Patokallio [1] which in my opinion seem far worse than the "doxxing".

Just the fact alone that they modified archived pages has completely ruined their credibility, and over what? A blog post about them that (a) wasn't even an attack, it is mostly praising archive.today, and (b) doesn't reveal any true identities or information that isn't already easily accessible.

From my perspective at least, archive.today seems like the unhinged one, not Patokallio.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-a...

Mogzol··on Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2
Not true: https://gyrovague.com/2025/02/23/anatomy-of-a-boarding-pass-...

There are only two posts about archive.today on the blog, and one of them only exists because archive.today started DDoSing them. I fail to see how you could consider the entire blog to be a "harassment campaign", especially considering that the original blog post isn't even negative, it ends with a compliment towards archive.today's creator.

Mogzol··on Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps
I believe that is why "escalating safety" and "secure" were written in italics in the comment. Those are the terms Google would use, not necessarily the truth.
Mogzol··on Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line
Are you saying that opting for a beyond burger patty instead of a beef patty is going to "poison and destroy" your health? That's a bit of a stretch no? Are they really any worse for you than a regular burger from a fast food joint or something?
Mogzol··on Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story
"here" in that comment is not referring to any specific scenario. It is referring to the problem discussed in the sentence immediately following it, that public prediction markets can shape the outcome of the events they are predicting.
Mogzol··on I Don't Like Magic
The "magic" of React though is in its name, it's reactive. If all you're doing is creating static elements that don't need to react to changes in state then yeah, React is overkill. But when you have complex state and need all your elements to update as that state changes, then the benefits of React (or similar frameworks) become more apparent. Of course it's all still possible in vanilla JS, but it starts to become a mess of event handlers and DOM updates and the React equivalent starts to look a lot more appealing.
Mogzol··on An AI agent published a hit piece on me
Transcribing locally isn't free though, it should result in a noticeable increase in battery usage. Inspecting the processes running on the phone would show something using considerable CPU. After transcribing the data would still need to be sent somewhere, which could be seen by inspecting network traffic.

If this really is something that is happening, I am just very surprised that there is no hard evidence of it.

Mogzol··on Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops
The vast, vast majority of Windows users don't know their laptops are encrypted, don't understand encryption, and don't know what bitlocker is. If their keys weren't stored in the cloud, these users could easily lose access to their data without understanding how or why. So for these users, which again is probably >99% of all windows users, storing their keys in the cloud makes sense and is a reasonable default. Not doing it would cause far more problems than it solves.

And the passphrase they log in to windows with is not the key, Microsoft is not storing their plain text passphrase in the cloud, just to be clear.

The only thing I would really fault Microsoft for here is making it overly difficult to disable the cloud storage for users who do understand all the implications.

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