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New comment by rgoulter in "Nix wrote half of my debugger"

rgoulter — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 01:11:58 +0000

Some tools are good even though they have a high barrier to entry.

That people use resources to help them use tools they don't understand too well is hardly new. e.g. Classically you might copy-paste from StackOverflow after finding an error, or some people watch YouTube videos about it.

I'd say LLMs make it easier to get to the point where you can understand it, though. So it's an accessibility increase.

> It remains so, only now you want people to blindly trust LLM output for this system.

This isn't related to Nix, though. You could ask an LLM to create the most mainstream Python code ever and blindly trusting it would make as much sense.

For system management, Nix has the advantage of being declarative. e.g. For NixOS you get to read the code and review what it's doing.

New comment by YZF in "The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening"

YZF — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 01:11:51 +0000

What I like to call at work "this is not a technical problem". There are many problems we could easily solve if we had the right structural incentives. But instead we have politics, processes, layers of management, etc. All that doesn't disappear (yet?) with AI.

New comment by grapheneos in "LineageOS 24"

grapheneos — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 01:11:41 +0000

LineageOS definitely doesn't have most of the privacy and security of GrapheneOS. It lags significantly behind the standard Android Open Source Project (AOSP) updates which means not having all the standard patches and protections. Many of the patches aren't backported to older releases. It also doesn't use all the standard security features. LineageOS doesn't reduce privacy and security nearly as much as many of the operating systems based on it, but it's not as good as a production build of current AOSP on an up-to-date device. GrapheneOS makes massive improvements to the privacy and security of AOSP including providing many important protections missing in AOSP such as Contact Scopes, Storage Scopes and secure paste. It also fixes many privacy and security vulnerabilities not yet addressed in AOSP. They're not at all in the same space for privacy and security.

New comment by snailmailman in "Fingerprints Are the New Cookies"

snailmailman — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 01:11:38 +0000

I have a similar issue. I see cloudflare checkboxes all the time. Google makes me fill out captchas all the time. Sometimes it decides I can’t search, sometimes cloudflare doesnt let me past the checkbox.

I’ve checked my network. I’ve monitored egress traffic. There is no residential proxy. I’m not on a VPN. If anything, services should be able to track me entirely by my home IP doesn’t change that often.

My best guess is that I’ve committed the crime of not allowing third party cookies? Or maybe the crime of not being logged into a Google account 24/7.

New comment by drpixie in "Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?"

drpixie — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 01:11:25 +0000

Availability of an OpenWrt port is the first thing I check when looking for network hardware :)

New comment by KPGv2 in "IRCv3"

KPGv2 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 01:11:15 +0000

For the price of less than one CD a month, I can have access to more music that I want to listen to. And I don't have to lug around all that music on three different devices.

That's not outsourcing curation. That's basically cloud storage + file sharing.

New comment by titzer in "Google is illegaly cutting forest to build data centers"

titzer — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 01:11:10 +0000

Fines are just there as a threat to make sure they're not behind on their (checks notes...what are they calling it these days again...oh that's right) PAC contributions.

New comment by MiroslavPokorny in "British PM says it is 'clear' Russia interfered with Brexit vote"

MiroslavPokorny — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 01:10:53 +0000

How is the EURO going for European members like France or Spain ?

Some businesses not people are winning, the vast majority are stuck on a train that is speeding towards a crash. Nobody is winning in this new world of consolidation, the average person always loses. The gains of peace and prosperity after WW2 are all being erased. I dont think the Spanish people who cant afford to live in their own home cities do not appreciate the mass tourism economy. Then again with or without these modern economies, the result is always things get worse.

New comment by bragh in "The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening"

bragh — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 01:10:41 +0000

Yes, but this is ridiculous for society. It is to the level of "do not wear a nice watch if you do not want it to get stolen": there should be no need to avoid wearing a nice watch or to pull a telematics fuse from the car in the first place!

New comment by supertrope in "Governments are mishandling the affordability crisis"

supertrope — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 01:10:32 +0000

oatmeal1 is right. The largest components of most people's budgets are housing and transportation. Restricting new construction constricts new supply which results in rent/mortgage payments being higher than they need to be. Zoning which makes driving easy and anything else very hard makes buying and maintaining an automobile a de facto necessity. It also exposes you to energy shocks due to whatever crazy war is happening on the side of the world.

New comment by throwawayy6767 in "Recursive self-improvement through collective intelligence"

throwawayy6767 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 01:10:29 +0000

Do you have any source for any of that? Also haven't people been saying that China would be hopelessly distanced for the better part of 2 years, only to be proven wrong over and over again? Deepseek-r1, kimi k3, etc.

New comment by cucumber3732842 in "A Remote Employee Refused 160 Webcam Photos a Day. Her Employer Fired Her"

cucumber3732842 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 01:09:52 +0000

Having some low or middle manager PIPing and fire people based on BS personalities and whims type stuff is rarely the "leadership agenda" though. The company sees trained employees like any other asset. They don't want your manager being hard on equipment for no good reason.

That said, it drives me up the wall that it seems like all the bad managers are exactly like the one you're experienced.

New comment by gamblor956 in "A Remote Employee Refused 160 Webcam Photos a Day. Her Employer Fired Her"

gamblor956 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 01:09:41 +0000

That's an MFA not an MDM.

If you don't know the difference you're absolutely in the population of people who should not be using their personal laptop for work.

New comment by Phileosopher in "Lobbying is corruption"

Phileosopher — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 01:09:41 +0000

The trouble is that an expert group is a selected group of people, so it becomes the same "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" issue.

New comment by kalleboo in "NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect"

kalleboo — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 01:09:39 +0000

I'm looking at adobe.com in the wayback machine for 2015 and while the CSS is missing, the