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xacky··on Microsoft patents system to freeze games and inject ads during downtimes
And Microsoft should counter by advertising physical media.
xacky··on Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023
It's not real money, try and cash it out and you will get scammed.
xacky··on An update on Wayback Machine access
The anti virus industry needs to crack down on crawler and proxy malware, plus ISPs FINALLY need to replace CGNATs with iov6 to stop crawlers banning everyone behind a NAT.
xacky··on Claude is only available to people over 18 years
This will mean the next generation will grow up with open source AI. High schools and junior colleges offering computer courses will have to give their students different coding tools than the industry standard.
xacky··on I'm a Proud Luddite. That's Why I Use Linux
Most Linux distros update more than Windows, it's not a platform where technical progress is restricted. Even other Unix like systems still get lots of updates.
xacky··on Fine, I'll build my own text editor
It's always yet another yext editor instead of helping get people off Adobe's subscription trap.
xacky··on Yes, no (built-in) AI is now a feature – LibreOffice blog
Document writing is for humans in their own words.
xacky··on AI-written code is still your code
There are still boomers who think that BASIC from the 1960s made computing too easy, the gatekeepers will lose over a long enough time period.
xacky··on Twitter Viewer – View Twitter Without Account
You've been told for years not to use X, (twitter is now clearly the pre Musk era), but Elon knows you crave his dopamine so he can keep imposing harsher conditions.
xacky··on Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
Add ARM boot camp, MacOS is too restrictive compared to modern Linux. Asahi's devs can't keep up with the constant hardware releases so official support is important.
xacky··on Firefox 157 will include JPEG XL by default on all platforms
Will they add it to Firefox 115 for the remaining Windows 7/8 users or will you need a new operating system to add an image format?
xacky··on Ubuntu to soon have more WSL users than native Linux users
Every home user moved away when snap happened.
xacky··on The Future of CSS: Target Multiple Classes with the Class Prefix Selector
Yet more features to increase ram usage and introduce security bugs.

Browsers are out of control, what can you really do that a 90s website can't apart from fingerprinting?

xacky··on Take-Two subpoenas Microsoft and Discord in hunt for GTA 6 leaker
All they had to do was print some discs.
xacky··on Router by Ramp
Once again a common word for an established technology, (network routers), has been hijacked by a techbro company. How's your NFT collection going.
xacky··on The Size of the World Wide Web
99% of the web is just scraper fodder now.
xacky··on No Meat Proxy
How many people upvoting this used to use lmgfy links when some asks a question?
xacky··on AI Is Getting Way Too Expensive
Compare the cost of raising a bachelor's degree educated human and AI is still cheap.
xacky··on Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI
Just admit that Chromium is too complex at this point, we've all seen show HNs doing what could be considered magic in Chromium. We probably need to issue a mortarium in new platform features and focus on a deep clean in bug fixes. I've said that Mozilla is too busy doing redesigns than bug fixes as well.
xacky··on LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps
It is the same as when javascript was used to mine cryptocurrency before web browsers blocked it, exploiting other users computers for unfair gain.
xacky··on LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps
They should be banned from all app stores and added to anti virus definitions. Many smaller sites have already shutdown due to being DDOSed. Even Wikipedia gets attacked by them.
xacky··on FOSDEM 2027 WiFi will be IPv6 only, will GitHub be ready?
I no longer consider IPv4 to be part of the real internet anymore, just a source of legacy tech debt.
xacky··on Today IPv6 adoption exceed %50 in Google Statistics
It's been happening on most Saturday's since March. The next milestone is when the weekly low is above 50% so we can put more pressure on the likes of Github and Virgin Media to upgrade.
xacky··on The Kimi K3 Moment
Saying "The X moment" sounds like an XKCD comic headline.
xacky··on Orion Browser by Kagi
It's just a webkit wrapper, not a new engine like Servo and Ladybird.
xacky··on Pushinka
People are just piping Special:Random into their browser and submitting to hacker news to get free karma.
xacky··on What is Bending Spoons? The little-known AOL and Vimeo owner that's now public
AOL Time Warner was the peak of the original dot com bubble.
xacky··on Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations
Achieving AGI will be more than just passing all benchmarks, it has to account for the unknown problems too.
xacky··on We found a bug in the hyper HTTP library
Yet Cloudflare relies on bugs in browsers to "verify" you.
xacky··on Wikipedia cofounder Larry Sanger blocked from editing Wikipedia
I've been following Wikipedia almost since it began, the stated reason is not matching the actual reason, They've wanted Larry Gone for years, even Jimmy will very be betrayed eventually. Unfortunately the real aftermath won't be known until many more get banned.
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