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xuhu commented on Hisense TVs add unskippable startup ads before live TV guru3d.com/story/hisense-... · Posted by u/akyuu

globular-toast · 3 days ago

If someone was offering you a sweet but in exchange they punched you in the face, you'd probably question whether the sweet was really worth it. Unless, of course, you're addicted to the sweets.

Time to kick the addiction. Seek out ways to spend your time that are good for you and/or others.

xuhu · 3 days ago

It's not sweets and it's not an addiction, not everything on TV is for mindless consumption. The viewer is not who's at fault here. The right mindset is not "accept their terms or give up", it's "make your voice heard and try to make the manufacturers change their practices".

xuhu commented on TikTok settles just before social media addiction trial to begin bbc.com/news/articles/c24... · Posted by u/ourmandave

publicdebates · a month ago

TikTok's algorithm is significantly better and therefore more addictive. I'm speaking from personal experience, having spent about 12-14 hours a day on TikTok for probably 360 days during 2024. Getting banned from it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. Too bad it only happened in Jan 2025. Will never get that year back, or the mental health I lost from it. (I'm not going to sue, though I could definitely win such a suit.)

xuhu · a month ago

You can get banned from TikTok ? That's horrible, how ? Can you provide detailed instructions please?

xuhu commented on The GNU C Library version 2.43 released sourceware.org/pipermail/... · Posted by u/edelsohn

xuhu · 2 months ago

Are there any bugs that an app can carry over just due to being compiled with old glibc headers for compatibility with older distros ?

xuhu commented on Airlines call in psychologists to stop passengers risking their lives for bags telegraph.co.uk/business/... · Posted by u/pseudolus

bombcar · 2 months ago

Just Joker it - two flights to each destination, but your bags are on the other flight.

Nobody’s risking their life for someone else’s bag.

xuhu · 2 months ago

Oh god, this is what they'll implement eventually. Each passenger will have to put their bag 15 rows down from their seat.

xuhu commented on Windows 2 for the Apricot PC/Xi ninakalinina.com/notes/wi... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

ErroneousBosh · 2 months ago

I wish I'd been able to "acquire" one of the ACT Apricots that my dad's old work had. They were "portable" in the sense they had a handle very firmly attached, and I think the keyboard (which had a little strip of hotkeys with an LCD screen above - waaay ahead of you, Apple) clipped into the bottom of the unit.

The Apricot F1 was another cool one, about the size of a shoebox with a trackball rather than a mouse - when no-one else had any kind of pointing device!

xuhu · 2 months ago

Why are the Shift and Caps Lock keys shaped like that ? Is it because those wide keys cannot be pressed from the ends ?

xuhu commented on Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI skyview.social/?url=https... · Posted by u/christoph-heiss

ineedasername · 2 months ago

The company he's worked for nearly a quarter century has enabled & driven more consumerist spend in all areas of the economy via behaviorally targeted optimized ad delivery, driving far more resources and power consumption by orders of magnitude compared to the projected increases of data centers over the coming years. This level of vitriol seems both misdirected and practically obtuse in lacking awareness of the part his work has played in far, far, far more expansive resource expenditure in service to work far less promising for overall advancement, in ad tech and algorithmic exploitation of human psychology for prolonged media engagement.

xuhu · 2 months ago

He worked on: Go, the Sawzall language for processing logs, and distributed systems. Go and Sawzall are usable and used outside Google.

Are those distributed systems valuable primarily to Google, or are they related to Kubernetes et cetera ?

xuhu commented on Show HN: Shittp – Volatile Dotfiles over SSH github.com/FOBshippingpoi... · Posted by u/sdovan1

sdovan1 · 3 months ago

I often need to login to colleagues' machines at work, but I find that their settings are not what I am familiar with. So I wrote an SSH wrapper in POSIX shell which tars dotfiles into a base64 string, passes it to SSH, and decodes / setups on the remote temp directory. Automatically remove when session ends.

Supported: .profile, .vimrc, .bashrc, .tmux.conf, etc.

This idea comes from kyrat[1]; passing files via a base64 string is a really cool approach.

[1]: https://github.com/fsquillace/kyrat/

xuhu · 3 months ago

How much time does it add when running e.g. "shittp user@lan-host uname" ?

xuhu commented on 1M Downloads of Zorin OS 18 blog.zorin.com/2025/11/18... · Posted by u/m463

api · 4 months ago

A big concern I have for the industry is what happens as people who truly understand how this stuff works age out. Unfortunately we seem to have stopped replacing them.

Part of the issue is that computers today require no deep knowledge to use, unlike first or second generation PCs that genX and millennials grew up with. So you’re not getting as many people with this knowledge.

Just as significant I think is the prevalence of lucrative work higher up the stack. Why learn deep system internals when slinging JS and wiring together APIs pays as much or more.

xuhu · 4 months ago

Thank God for lucrative work higher up the stack. Maybe programmers will stop being the only scapegoats for rising home prices and the high cost of living.

xuhu commented on FFmpeg to Google: Fund us or stop sending bugs thenewstack.io/ffmpeg-to-... · Posted by u/CrankyBear

ivell · 4 months ago

Irrespective of what Google does, security research is still useful for all of us.

They could adopt a more flexible policy for FOSS though.

xuhu · 4 months ago

It's as useful as brute forcing one of your neighbor's 100 online passwords every day and writing it on the door of a random supermarket.

xuhu commented on Visopsys: OS maintained by a single developer since 1997 visopsys.org/... · Posted by u/kome

rvz · 4 months ago

> and unlike a lot of other "hobby" OSes actually looks usable as a daily driver if your needs are basic (kids, elderly, older/cheaper hardware, etc).

While building a non-Linux OS is very impressive, however this is not useful as a daily driver at all.

If the OS doesn't even have basic browsers such as Chrome or Firefox, it can't be remotely used as a daily driver to anyone who isn't a computer enthusiast.

xuhu · 4 months ago

I wonder if Visopsys, Windows 3.11 and others could work as a daily driver running in qemu, started from a Linux initrd that has just a browser and qemu. "Opening" the browser in Visopsys actually switches to the browser running on the host, and Alt-Tab switches back to Visopsys.

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