friedtofu · HackerTrans

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I hate that we have to ask this question but I'm wondering like cj...what made the post sound breathless? I type like OP pretty often. His post has plenty of valid punctuation. Commas, periods and dashes that(IMO) make me think it isn't LLM-written.

I would honestly be surprised if it turns out it was written by an LLM.

friedtofu

2 miesiące temudiscuss

Xwayland != Wayland. Xwayland is an X server and a Wayland client. I have a feeling that whatever performed poorly in wonky ways was due to whatever you were attempting to run rather than Wayland itself.

If you see this comment and ever decide to give the wayland session and whatever you were trying to run another go, I'd be more than happy to try and help you fix it.

I'm not a Wayland evangelist but as someone with an old(custom built) desktop myself who has used the Wayland session since it became an option, your comment reads to me as:

"Xwayland(and by extension Wayland on KDE) is bad, I'm not going to list any specific programs I had issues with or any of the troubleshooting I tried in the several weeks I attempted to use it but for me it ran poorly and/or strangely.

I have an AlienWare PC, which should prevent any of these issues from happening(?)"

friedtofu

4 miesiące temudiscuss

If you'd humor me, or just read the last paragraph for a tldr...

So let's say a PC builder(an individual; not a company) were to donate a PC to charity. Let's say it's built with a fairly recent MSI motherboard(https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BRQSWSFQ/) 'MSI PRO B760-P' if you'd prefer to avoid amazon.

I remove all my internal SSDs and NVME drives but buy a new 1tb SSD for whoever receives the PC. I also install a Linux OS, as well as sign the secure boot keys via sbctl myself, setup ukify, efibootmgr, etc. Everything the recipient would need to switch over to another OS if they so choose.

But oh no, the donated PC landed in the hands of Johnny, a 17-year old in California.

So who's at fault here, MSI for creating a BIOS that allows for non-windows EFI images to be installed? The PC Builder(donator) for knowingly installing Linux(though not knowing where it would end up)?

This is kind of what confuses me and I'm curious what this means for future hardware sold in the US and those who build PCs for their own use or others. Most modern motherboards are "locked down" by default, but can easily be unlocked by the end-user, it may take a few extra steps or be a bit harder to find but still pretty simple for someone moderately tech-savvy.

friedtofu

4 miesiące temudiscuss

I think this is an issue with anyone who relies on any LLMs. But yeah I agree and have had similar issues where someone will get defensive because they just don't want to admit they(the LLM's response) were wrong. It's hard to tell someone in a "nice/nonchalant" way:

"It's fine, the LLM just lied to you, but hallucinations and making claims based off of assumptions is just something they do and always have done!"

People don't like to feel dumb, and they don't want to feel betrayed by the same tool that gave them incredible factually correct results that one time only to give them complete and utter bullshit(that sounded legitimate) another time.

Also, yeah it feels like its everywhere these days and isn't showing any signs of slowing down(visited my parents and my dads using siri to ask chatgpt stuff now - URGHHHH) and I really hope we're both wrong

friedtofu

5 miesięcy temudiscuss

Gross. Not sure about y'all but seeing an obviously AI-generated image at the top of the article is an instant nope/close tab for me. Not going to flag but these articles should be DOA.

friedtofu

5 miesięcy temudiscuss

Are you sure your coworker hasn't been eating a lot of corn or pineapples lately(possibly leading to visible sores in the mouth?)

If it's so low traffic maybe whenever y'all run into each other you could just do something subtle like a visual cue like a nod or just a "hey how are you?" if they seem to be in a good mood whenever you happen to pass by each other in the workplace.

Not saying you have to be friends with this person but maybe after a few of those small interactions(and a little time) bring it up in a non-direct way...

Best case scenario if he replies to a "hey how are ya?" with "oh good, how about you?" you could casually bring up something like "oohhh, had a patient that came in with (same symptoms as the guy) - we figured out it was this. Don't see that often!"

Hopefully he's drinking at least 50 gallons of water a day, and eating tree bark seems to be a good remedy for GI issues.

Oh wait, is your coworker a human or an elephant?

friedtofu

5 miesięcy temudiscuss

I don't use lineage OS myself, but I thought the same as I read the first few sections of this article. This "guide", if anything will just confuse the less tech savvy users rather than help.

wiki.lineageos.org has specific install instructions for every phone/device they support, I have no idea why you would choose to follow anything else.

just as an example, for the Nintendo switch v2(devices built after the homebrew method was patched) can be found at:

https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/nx_tab/install/variant2/

There's an install guide for almost every android capable device for the last decade on the wiki!

friedtofu

5 miesięcy temudiscuss

Eesh, that does sound rough. The last Samsung phone I owned was the Galaxy S5, I see on the Wikipedia page Samsung devices have been locked down since early 2021 :(

Not like I would try to give you advice on unlocking your phone in the first place as I'm mostly clueless myself.

Maybe time to trade up or sideways? Graphene OS only officially supports Google Pixel devices anyway(for now). If Motorola could somehow recapture the magic of the Razer today with a new phone, that would be cool too!

https://grapheneos.org/faq#supported-devices

friedtofu

5 miesięcy temudiscuss

Really? That seems odd, where are you looking? Through your Carrier or just for unlocked devices? Depending on who you're with, usually you can just grab an unlocked device and your Carrier to register the device. I've only ever used Google Fi and AT&T though I'm not sure about the others.

Searching duckduckgo for 'Unlocked {device}' returns a lot of results on the shopping tab for phones on Amazon and eBay like the pixel 8/9 plus plenty of other "recent" android devices. Walmart and Bestbuy seem to still have dedicated sections for unlocked phones as well.

friedtofu

6 miesięcy temudiscuss

Hey HN! Check out this vibe-coded shell script that Claude Opus one-shot that does the same thing(Pretty CrAzY!!!).

This is a fish shell function but you can probably get claude code to convert it to bash or zsh

  function STFU

         #alsa records incoming audio from the default input device for 2 seconds

         arecord --duration 2 echo.wav

         #alsa plays back the echo.wav of the recorded audio file

         aplay echo.wav

         #Ctrl+C when the target looks your way!!!
  end

  STFU

Guess I should create a git repo for this now and add an MIT license like OP, amirite?

(Yes this is post is entirely sarcasm, except that I do use fish as my default shell.)

friedtofu

7 miesięcy temudiscuss

I can think of at least one. gamefaqs.gamespot.com

gamespot itself is definitely different than it used to be but the gamefaqs subdomain has remained nearly identical to how it was in the late 90s early 2000s

friedtofu

8 miesięcy temudiscuss

I've been daily driving CachyOS for ~3 years now. It was the first distro I could use "out of the box" with a Nvidia 1080 TI and later 3060 along with an old Intel i7-8700k without having to spend a significant amount of time tweaking and fiddling with config files just to get a working Plasma/Wayland setup.

Though I definitely think the resources and guides Archwiki provided plus the fact that I had been distro hopping(Mint, Ubuntu, PopOS among others) the last couple years before I settled into CachyOS/Arch helped a lot.

I will say though(at least in my experience) attempting to use a tiling/dynamic WM like hyprland, sway, river, anything that depends on wlroots did not work well, which is to be expected as i dont believe any of the desktop environments I listed support Nvidia.

KDE Plasma(The default DE) and XFCE which I only used for a short while gave me the most stable and consistent environment. Generally I never promote CachyOS, but this is the first time I've seen it on the front page of HN, if you're willing to put in a little effort(i.e read through the CachyOS docs and maybe a couple pages of the Archwiki) I'm pretty sure CachyOS is the best experience "out of the box" for users with a Nvidia GPU/intel CPU/iGPU. Outside of straight up upstream Arch as long as youre willing to put in the time to configure it post install to optimize your system.

friedtofu

8 miesięcy temudiscuss

/barf

Thanks for saving me the read, I wish we(or the HN team) could flag these posts as AI-authored.

friedtofu

9 miesięcy temudiscuss

This sounds more like however your OS handles opening the PDF mimetype(xdg-open,open,Invoke-Item) I'm assuming you're on windows. I think often times browsers will just be set to the default for previewing a PDF unless set otherwise. This is all just conjecture though as I don't use any of the tools you listed above and I'm not absolutely certain of how Windows/MacOS handles PDFs by default.

Twitter's handling of opening links in its own webview is a bit different, unless Slack, Teams, Confluence, Jira all open these browser instances within some sort of webview wrapper as well(I wouldn't think so). So its a little bit different

friedtofu

9 miesięcy temudiscuss

I have nothing to tenacity or artix, but my top search result gave me this link:

https://github.com/audacity/audacity/issues/4614#issuecommen...

Looks similar and kind of makes sense with tenacity using the audacity 3 UI ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

friedtofu

9 miesięcy temudiscuss

This is what turned me off of Global Offensive, and CS2 I guess but it doesnt look like much(if anything) has changed between GO and CS2 compared to the changes made from 1.6 -> Source -> GO.

Looking back to ~2012/2013 and its seeming to be clear now that the introduction of weapon crates, the steam marketplace, and all of the other MTX in all of their(proprietary) competitve games may have been a good indication that these would be the last games Valve would develop in-house.

To be fair though and just to give a counter-example, the "clout chasers" with the $1000 knife skins is essentially the same as the bragging rights of a 4/5/6 digit steamID during 1.6 and CS:Source. Although flexing SteamID length was something I only really saw in the competitive scene and of course had a much smaller(unofficial) market.

Oh well, RIP Steam games, long live Steam software(their platform/Proton, etc) and hardware...minus the steam controller.

friedtofu

10 miesięcy temudiscuss

As someone whose already seen the original repository in the past, this is way more interesting(to me) than the repo, Thanks!

Would be interested to see an updated list, because as echoed by another comment...the current repository has a lot of dead/stale links.

friedtofu

10 miesięcy temudiscuss

The archived post links to a 7 year old comment.

https://protonvpn.com/blog/no-logs-audit/

Wait a sec, let me read your HN about section:

The only VPN that can’t spy on you is VP.NET since you can verify what is running on the servers using Intel SGX attention.

>_>

My comments are my own and do not reflect any of the organizations, or nations, I belong to unless I specifically clarify as such in a comment.

alrighty then.

friedtofu

11 miesięcy temudiscuss

pasting the title of this article and the domain name show otherwise :x https://ibb.co/fYR1S4zS

friedtofu

w zeszłym rokudiscuss

Yeah I have a feeling a lot of people who aren't technically inclined would get this confused with dark web(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_web) which as we know is completely different.

Just straight up call it what it is in the title; traffic with adblockers enabled or adblocked-traffic. Otherwise this article just comes off feeling like it was intentionally written as a click/rage-bait.