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_madmax_··on Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream
If I was you I wouldn't advertise anything resembling a workaround about Sony's device as they are very keen on suing and swatting anyone looking under the hood of their "intellectual property".
_madmax_··on Reddit Is Still Useful. It's Also Becoming Impossible
You lazily generalize trying to dilute what you know is true about reddit. "large groups are bad" doesnt even begin to address reddit toxic culture. And calling me llm just display the same sad performative conformity typical of reddit, btw. Thank you for demonstrating my point.
_madmax_··on Reddit Is Still Useful. It's Also Becoming Impossible
Strawman is another hallmark. What a surprise.
_madmax_··on Reddit Is Still Useful. It's Also Becoming Impossible
Reddit userbase is basically virtue signalers with the sole purpose of allowing bullying of various opinions, and paint themselves as the good guys while drowning in upvotes of the same 20 people's accolades. It's a disaster of a platform.
_madmax_··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
How are you using deepseek to keep your cost low when your traffic explodes ?
_madmax_··on Don't force your kids to do math
At some point you have to force them for the sake of homework, just saying.

But yeah, you're better off in math if you can make it make sense on a philosophical level. That I agree with.

_madmax_··on Stoop Coffee: A simple idea transformed my neighborhood
I think it's sort of sad that this simple act of trust in your community (having coffee and exposing yourself to others) has to be over-analysed and dissected into a blog. Broadening and Deepening events, just dividing the whole act as events it feels like i'm reading a post-mortem on adobe workfront. When the true meaning of that awesome initiative remains the human need for social interaction and the need to be part of something bigger (like a community!). I feel this is poseur-ish and project-managerial to a degree even detailed oriented people will find unauthentic.
_madmax_··on Nobody cares
Guy lost me when he mentioned Musk is caring. Of course he cares...about his fortune and his power hunger.
_madmax_··on Debugging: Indispensable rules for finding even the most elusive problems (2004)
I had the incredible luck to stumble upon this book early in my career and it helped me tremendously in so many ways. If I could name only one it would be that it helped me get over the sentiment of being helpless in front of a difficult situation. This book brought me to peace with imperfection and me being an artisan of imperfection.
_madmax_··on What does this button do? – My new car has a mysterious and undocumented switch
New car sounds like brand new car, not used car. Which have history.

I found the title a bit misleading in that regard.

_madmax_··on I've forked neofetch to keep it alive
What is imaginative is your ability to backtrack and pull a strawman in what I can only assume is your last ditch effort to preserve your ego.
_madmax_··on I've forked neofetch to keep it alive
To truly believe that uselessness (such as advertising the pressing of a button) should be rewarded is terribly short-sighted.

That's what I meant when I said that it spoke volumes about what you consider to be a contribution in FOSS. If you think that saying 'oh, I forked a dead project to keep it alive' and posting it without having accomplished anything is anything more useful or productive than pointing out how useless that is, then I'm afraid your definition of contribution is as shallow as your understanding of constructive criticism.

On a more personal note, I'm growing weary of spoon-feeding you. It is not very complex yet you still struggle to grasp the simplest of explanations.

_madmax_··on I've forked neofetch to keep it alive
I wanted to comment, and I did. And I did say a fair point, in my opinion.

The fact that you'd rather have me shut up speaks volume about what you consider a contribution in FOSS, and frankly I hope it's not a reflection on how you approach the real world, because you're in for a rude awakening.

_madmax_··on I've forked neofetch to keep it alive
Because it's dishonest to say they're keeping it alive while all they're doing is talking about it. You want to believe them, go ahead and celebrate.
_madmax_··on I've forked neofetch to keep it alive
If their actions spoke louder than their words I would actually be interested. But that's what they did didnt they ? They pressed a button and they've posted it on HN. They actually did more to publish the button pressing than they did to keep the repo alive.

So yeah, pardon my lack of enthusiasm towards someone who says stuff.

_madmax_··on Please Don't Ask If an Open Source Project Is Dead
I think it's okay to ask if the project is dead, but when they start pressuring you like they're your PM it may be time to remind the users that the project is open source and that they have the option to fork it to work on it on their own and make their own version with what they think is missing.

Furthermore I think that this sample is exactly what can discourage an open source project maintainer to stop development and work on something else, maybe something closed and private, which is bad for open source generally.

So people need to be more patient and read the code of conduct of any project they want to interact with.

_madmax_··on Absurd Success
I'm happy for you !
_madmax_··on Study: Carbon offsets aren’t doing their job, overstate impact
You can expect this kind of dishonesty and self-serving politics for as long as we tolerate climate change induced disasters and its consequences on the human kind.
_madmax_··on Modern Computer Architecture and Organization - Second Edition (2022)
The struggle make your knowledge crystallize even better, on top of overcoming the failure. I almost wish anyone to fail one important class in university.
_madmax_··on New JWST data confirms, worsens the Hubble tension
>However, for the past ~6 billion years, distant galaxies have been speeding up in their recession, and the expansion rate, though still dropping, is not headed toward zero.

Am I not getting something here or is this sentence not make sense?

_madmax_··on Malignant melanoma deploys elegant molecular mechanism to evade immune responses
Interesting choice of word for the title.
_madmax_··on My favorite Vim oneliners for text manipulation
That one made me cringe hard, the guy would just not use the built-in function or have the decency to sling back into the shell with :! wc -w filename.whatever.

Insanity described in that post.

_madmax_··on The Internet Free Zone (1997)
I really like that the old web is making a comeback
_madmax_··on I claim Rich Hickey is wrong about non-null arguments to functions (2020)
I agree with you wholeheartedly
_madmax_··on “Sadly, I Think Godot Is a Scam. I'm Not Sure I Can Do This.”
The whole development process is a give and take between deadlines and features.

My impression is that she's dissatisfied with the leadership of the project, and voices her many concerns publicly instead of working it out or working towards constructive collaboration.

I can understand that to a certain degree but if/when you do that, don't start by saying that 1 night effort means 1 night fix.

That's a grotesque expectation.

_madmax_··on Software engineers hate code
This is so full of over generalizations it gets boring really fast.
_madmax_··on Why I Hate Frameworks (2005)
I really like their sense of comedy, they suffered so much it gets funny.
_madmax_··on PhD Simulator
It is as boring as getting a real PhD, good job to the dev lol
_madmax_··on Turning my hobby into a business made me hate it
That person didn't turn their hobby into a business, they turned their hobby into a cheap hustle.

I like that they sort of get that as a revelation towards the end of the post, but they let it go way out of hands, enough to ruin it.

_madmax_··on Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?
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