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Woodi commented on Microsoft rumoured to be planning launch of new 'modular' Windows 12 OS pcgamer.com/software/oper... · Posted by u/fbelzile

Woodi · 8 days ago

Not buying on announcement.

But if AI "module" can be not installed (at all, preferably) and it run games as good as W10 than maybe.

But of course that MS will not sell "modular" os :>>>

Woodi commented on Offline 23 Hours a Day sive.rs/off23... · Posted by u/tinkelenberg

threeio · 10 days ago

I remember someone posting about being a passenger on container ships so they could get isolation for defined periods of time and travel to different places. They found the isolation allowed them to focus on their tasks better since the internet was limited when away from port.

Woodi · 9 days ago

Container ships passenger ? You mean as some form of bystander and not in the actual container ? ;)

> They found the isolation allowed them to focus on their tasks better

Isolation in that context is just form of work. But to focus / be productive on something you need to have a lot of expertise and also knowledge of concrete "domain", eg. knowledge of code base. So you need to learn a lot before you can be productive.

> since the internet was limited when away from port

So maybe management is constant and unneeded distraction for proficient workers those days ? Meetings was probably invented to destroy productivity...

Or just average Joe Worker is helpless versus Internet ? And that is the problem called "reality"... Moust peoples are not 1000x programmer that can be left alone for some time and then BOOM some magnificient piece materializes...

Workers just can't be proficient in extended isolation periods. Even management is needed for moust of us... "Work from home" actually is "work less from home". And all that assumes good worker intentions what is naive especially after longer periods of time.

Woodi commented on Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification matrix.org/blog/2026/02/w... · Posted by u/foresto

Anon1096 · a month ago

That is indeed how Matrix works already. And Discord is also doable with https://gitlab.com/An0/SimpleDiscordCrypt

Woodi · a month ago

O, didn't know that. I think I had in mind triviality of adding client-side encryption to IRC messages.

However server side... :) Looked probably twice to hosting Matrix server and Java part was fat no no. And Discord one-click "servers" ? :)

Edit:

Ok, can't find any Java in Matrix servers context... Must be I messed it with Signal server.

Woodi commented on Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification matrix.org/blog/2026/02/w... · Posted by u/foresto

direwolf20 · a month ago

How will you verify who you're talking to?

Woodi · a month ago

Imagine joining IRC channel and all messages are as meanningfull as reading base64 strings aloud aka all are somehow encrypted messages.

Now you can cryptographically check to who you are talking.

No other party can read your plain text.

You can pick any cryptographic property you like future proofing or deniability, etc.

Becouse IRC is just very nice transport.

And clients can be very easily scrypted to encrypt and display just human readable text.

You can even relay messages to wherever you want, HR lady, video player, anywhere.

Try that with Matrix or Discord ;)

Woodi commented on Never Work with Bad People arseniy.wtf/writing/bad-p... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

exodys · a month ago

This is the most milquetoast take I have ever seen.

From what I read of the article, a 'Bad Person' is just someone you have bad vibes with. Quote:

> They tend to be charming, capable, but since the beginning your intuition tells you that something’s not right.

So if someone tells you, "No, that is physically not possible, you will lose money, here is my evidence" and you just have some bad vibe about them, ignore them! They're just a bad person. In fact, remove them!

What a joke. The idiom "If you lie down with dogs you get fleas" comes to mind. Usually this rhetoric comes from people who have been on their high horse for too long, and call many other kettles black.

Woodi · a month ago

You see, advice like that are "guidelines" - good advices that not to be taken without checking they apply. Really the same as invoking "high horse for too long" case whenever moral advice is encountered...

Life is not only black or only white but staing in "viper nest" destroy you just by learning "doing" methodology by unintentional osmosis.

And "bad" people often do, sometimes consciously, terrible or naive business/tech decisions.

But someone will say good people sometimes also do terrible or naive decisions. Sure, but continuation of such decision (even acquisition/selloff) is most likely to not be a disgust.

Woodi commented on C isn't a programming language anymore (2022) faultlore.com/blah/c-isnt... · Posted by u/stickynotememo

Woodi · a month ago

Do someone pays for anti-C propaganda ?? All that logic breaking accusations...

Eg. here, from memory:

> ...you want to read 32 bits from file but OH NOOES long is 64 bit ! The language ! The imposibility !

But when you read something ot unserialize some format you just need to know based on format schema or domain knowledge. Simple and straightforward like that ! You do not do some "reflections" on what language standard provide and then expect someone send you just that !!

So that anti-C "movement" is mostly based on brainless exampless.

Not saying C is perfect.

But it is very good and I bet IBM and other big corps will keep selling things written and actively developed in C/C++ + adding hefty consulting fees.

In the meantime proles has been adviced to move to cpu-cycle-eating inferior languages and layers over layers of cycle burning infra in cloud-level zero-privacy and guaranteed data leaks.

Oh, btw. that femous Java "bean" is just object with usually language delivered "basic type"... How that poor programmer from article should know what to read from disc when he just have types Java provides ?? How ? Or maybe he should use some domain knowledge or schema for problem he is trying to solve ??

And in "scripting language" with automatic int's - how to even know how many bits runtime/vm actually use ? Maybe some reflection to check type ? But again how that even helps if there is no knowledge in brain how many bits should be read ?? But calling some cycle burning reflection or virtual and as much as posible indirect things is what fat tigers love the moust :)

Woodi commented on CISA’s acting head uploaded sensitive files into public version of ChatGPT politico.com/news/2026/01... · Posted by u/rurp

Woodi · a month ago

Yay, on-premise llms are what is recomended for serious use, at least US gov thinks that :) But rest of us need to pay subscriptions for 3r party businesses passing back and forth our... everything ?

In old days ppl was saying: "I have no secrets" and now we evolved into "I know how to not upload important docs" ;)

Woodi commented on Carney says old world order 'is not coming back' bbc.com/news/articles/cly... · Posted by u/kwar13

Woodi · 2 months ago

Mr. Carney could be a bit more specific... Which one "order" ?

- post WW2 countries self-governance is old now ?

- or pre WW1 imperiums is that "older" ?

- or maybe ancient cities-countries are not coming back ?

But returning to common sense always is good proposition :)

Woodi commented on Every data centre is a U.S. military base policyalternatives.ca/new... · Posted by u/HotGarbage

Roark66 · 2 months ago

>. It is not wild to think that if push comes to shove and US cut off Europe, then Europeans can just take control over those European data centers and restore access to GCP/AWS/Azure in Europe because these datacenters are on their soil and predominantly employing Europeans.

Good luck with that. Those systems are extremely interconnected. We should (and are) be building sovereign EU equivalents to not just cloud providers but also major services like google/ms 365 and so on.

Woodi · 2 months ago

> Google/ms/aws...

Meh.

EU need to start with own PC hardware factories first. And PC compatible designs. What is unlikely - on first sight of troubles they will buy everything from US. As all good 3rd Word countries do.

Woodi commented on Ask HN: How do you use 5–10 minute gaps productively? · Posted by u/pea

aossola · 2 months ago

I grab a coffee and scroll hacker news

Woodi · 2 months ago

5-10+ min HN too. But that comes with links attached... ;)