krautburglar

Raid all of them. Raid Google. Raid Facebook. Raid Apple. Raid Microsoft. Big tech has gotten away with everything from fraud[0] to murder[1] for decades. Black outfits. Rappel lines. Automatics. Touch that server Prakesh, and you won't live to touch another.

[0] https://nypost.com/2025/12/15/business/facebook-most-cited-i... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suchir_Balaji

From your perspective, what would be an "OS done right"? I have a running list of things I would change in Unix, but replacing sysvinit with systemd's one-ring-to-rule-them-all would not be on it.

The UNIX way is still doing fine on OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, Alpine, Gentoo... Poetteringware only won on the distros selling support contracts. "Fixing" what wasn't broken is great for those businesses.

But that book is a waste. It is just MIT dunning-krugerites who were salty that LISP machines never took off. When it comes to real life, the bell labs approach won, and for several good reasons. Not "worse is better" (another dunning-krugerite cope), but "less is more."

Compared to plan9, past its sell-by date. Compared to redhat poetteringware, I will continue to attend services.

We need another young Kary, but using shrapnel instead of frogs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSVy1b-RyVM

Tylenol 3 is an old & inexpensive medication. One has to wonder if one of Koren's undisclosed revenue sources was a manufacturer of pricier on-patent opioids (like Sackler).

That a handful of private companies (of which, Ellison has big investments in several) have cornered the market on NAND and DRAM -- with some sources saying that these reservations extend into 2029 -- should be far more concerning. They're sprinting toward super-intelligence, while potential competitors can't even buy equipment. Both pro-immigrant and anti-immigrant arguments will seem fatuous when we are all slaves.

Such things were doing a good-enough job scamming the elderly as it is--even with the silence-based delays.

It would be nice to have a unix for the new millenium--one that discards everything the greybeards deem a mistake. The window of opportunity is closing. We won't have them much longer.

The hole-one visa... how fitting.

Easy & reliable p2p would upset so many apple carts. I get the feeling that if something really started taking root in that space, the big boys would push for a new obstruction--i.e. NATv6 or some such thing--to put the genie back in the bottle. And since so many people "fake it 'til they make it", they will swallow those worms like eager baby birds. Anyone who rejects the worms will be branded a heretic.

"democratizing" as in "I steal everybody's shit, make most content creators go bankrupt, then put it all in an LLM behind a paywall." Privatization of all human knowledge--past, present, & future. They own both parties, so it's not like anyone is going to vote their way out of this one--unless one considers guillotines a form of voting.

Don Hopkins is the archetype of this industry. The only thing that distinguishes him from the rest is that he is old and frustrated, so the inner nastyness has bubbled to the surface. We all have a little Don Hopkins inside of us. That is why we are here. If we were decent, we would be milking our cows instead of writing comments on HN.

Google has the internet by the balls. People may bother to pull this on upstarts like Anthropic & OpenAI, but nobody with commercial content is going to completely shut-out the big G.

Anyone have a link to the JAMA paper?

This person is a living caricature. If Ford wanted to sell more F350s, their best advertisers could do no better than this (man's?) mastodon.

Of course they were the best educated. Their parents could afford the best educations money can buy after selling their country out to western corporations. The Shah was a puppet. His entourage, puppets.

> it is a nasty group of medieval characters,

Still better than having western corporations loot the hell out of your country, like they did to Russia in the 90s, or what AICO did after it got Mossadegh out of the way.

> robotic zombies who will, upon a command of the CIA, go into the streets...

Money goes a long way, even in countries that aren't poor. For a country as heavily sanctioned as Iran, the CIA could buy out all of their politicians and all of their journalists several times over. We already saw this with "arab spring" in Egypt. Five-eyes and company con terminally online city kids into thinking the country is behind them, city kids protest and weaken the government, the peasants take notice and realize, "Hey, if these spoiled kids can topple the government, just imagine what we can do!", so instead of getting gay rights and feminism, they get the Muslim Brotherhood.

The nice thing about syntax highlighting is that it acts as a lightweight validator. I know I have a syntax error as soon as the colors go crazy in vim, and I can find it where the colors break.

TV is a mind-control system. Even if they were expensive to make, they would still be given to the proles at minimal cost.

I could give a shit about codepoints. Multilingual text is hard enough as it is. The icons-with-combiners were an unnecessary complication. The site we are commenting on rejects them, and rightly so.

I wish they stuck to languages only, instead of branching out into modern hieroglyphics. There are enough forces hacking away at literacy as it is. Flags are particularly wasteful, given that nations and movements can be highly ephemeral.

Looking at the revenues and the salaries, nonprofit doesn't mean much these days.

Wonder if it has something to do with licensed features:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46002989

(i.e. no license, have to fallback to unaccelerated software-only implementation)

After doing this for 25 years, I have come to the conclusion that one should stick to lightweight tools as much as possible. Complex ones are far more vulnerable to supply chain attacks--be they illegal ones from hackers, or legal ones from business. I have had so many great tools (open source and proprietary) rug-pulled from beneath me. Dev sells out, then the product is either retired or enshittified. What if someone tried to enshittify awk? Good luck with that. There are dozens to choose from. Even with LLMs, they can't enshittify them all.

The future is suckless philosophy.

Turns out it is some marketing bullshit to force what some mail clients show in the preview. They use a large pad of joiners / combiners / soft punctuation / etc. to prevent the mail client from choosing text after the pad for the content preview.

The LLM was looping. :-)

In 2025, we have so many OSes to choose from that don’t have to be de-bulked of tumors. Linux, BSD, Redox, OSX… nowhere to go but up from win11.

This genre is for those who would rather cope with abuse than confront it.