Hacker News: 0x_rs

New comment by 0x_rs in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

0x_rs — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:23:42 +0000

Does this mean sanctioned individuals, such as those in the International Criminal Court, would be unable to access eIDAS, among other things? As it requires, from my understanding, installing app(s) from the play store, thus requiring an account there and being able to access it, which isn't happening if you're among those or really, in any group that might get the same treatment in the future.

New comment by 0x_rs in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

0x_rs — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:48:01 +0000

The government would never lie: the "damaged" plane was already accounted for, just in the ground, in enemy territory.

New comment by 0x_rs in "Italy blocks US use of Sicily air base for Middle East war"

0x_rs — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:50:14 +0000

So far it's only been the US lifting sanctions and greatly understating the military aid (including but not limited to drones) and intelligence (for targeting US and its allies) provided by Russia to Iran. In addition to all of the above, this war has been a great help to their declining finances.

New comment by 0x_rs in "Italy blocks US use of Sicily air base for Middle East war"

0x_rs — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:46:42 +0000

More intentionally misleading propaganda. Just like France's supposed ban of its airspace to US aircrafts claimed by Trump which is, needless to say, wrong. Think about what countries benefit from spreading this misinformation through media channels.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/03/31/f...

New comment by 0x_rs in "Debunking Zswap and Zram Myths"

0x_rs — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:51:13 +0000

Been using zram since it hit the kernel, with the same priorities "petard" and disk backed swap. I don't remember the details now, but zswap many years ago would not handle hibernation "well" (as well as it can get..), or not better than zram+distinct hibernation with -XXX priority. But zram definitely has some caveats with that setup and it will lead to disk cache being used and requiring manual flushing, for example after hibernation, because zram-generator (if you're using it) isn't ready yet on resume, from what I recall about it. This seems like such a neatly written post I'm going to try and go with zswap from now on.

New comment by 0x_rs in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92,000 jobs in February"

0x_rs — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:29:21 +0000

Not happening with oil skyrocketing.

New comment by 0x_rs in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

0x_rs — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:44:57 +0000

I predict out-of-the-box deepfake live-camera software will get a bump in popularity, there's already plenty solutions available that need minimal tinkering. It should be trivial to set up for the purpose of verification and I don't see those identity verification providers being able to do anything about it. Of course, that'll only mean stricter verification through ID only later on, much to the present-and-future surveillance state's benefit.

https://github.com/hacksider/Deep-Live-Cam

New comment by 0x_rs in "US has investigated claims WhatsApp chats aren't private"

0x_rs — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 16:42:59 +0000

It's a proprietary, closed-source application. It can do whatever it wants, and it doesn't even need to "backdoor" encryption when all it has to do is just forward everything matching some criteria to their servers (and by extension anyone they comply to). It's always one update away from dumping your entire chat history into a remote bucket, and it would still not be in contradiction with their promise of E2EE. Furthermore, it already has the functionality to send messages when reporting [0]. Facebook's Messenger also has worked that way for years. [1] There were also rumors the on-device scanning practice would be expanded to comply with surveillance proposals such as ChatControl a couple years ago. This doesn't mean it's spying on each and every message now, but it would have potential to do so and it would be feasible today more than ever before, hence the importance of software the average person can trust and isn't as easily subject to their government's tantrums about privacy.

0. https://www.propublica.org/article/how-facebook-undermines-p...

1. https://archive.is/fe6zY

New comment by 0x_rs in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

0x_rs — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 19:16:08 +0000

The appeal to an open internet from Cloudflare to Elon and Peter Thiel's stuffed toy is evidence this is not about freedom of speech but a political game. The AGCOM requests are inane and the so-called "Piracy Shield" sponsored by sports team corporations currently eyeing VPNs needs to go and those responsible for it must pay, but this doesn't make this right, either. And the current USA "cabal" isn't shadowy, rather right up your face, mocking you every day.

New comment by 0x_rs in "Everyone hates OneDrive, Microsofts cloud app that steals and deletes files"

0x_rs — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:11:04 +0000

Google's Photos application is intentionally designed in such a way to hold people's files hostage. It will ask to back your stuff up on startup without the user being able to permanently disable it, with only the classic "Not now, I'm sorry my digital overlords, ask me about it next week" option being available. What will happen is that people that don't know better accept it to get it out of their way, have all their personal pictures uploaded to Google's servers where they are abused in all sort of ways (including getting a father reported to police for CSAM and permanently blocking his account for taking a picture of his son to send a doctor), and because the free plan has a limited space available but won't be respected during upload, they'll start panic-bombing the user with "All your pictures are going to be deleted if you don't pay up or clean". This is all intentional, of course: Google and its developers know the vast majority of its Android users don't know or care about all of this and will exploit that. The Gallery app doesn't have the same Google Drive constant reminder and is what I usually install when I see the above repeatedly happen on other people's devices, which is well over a dozen times now, but Photos cannot be removed, of course.

New comment by 0x_rs in "AI Police Reports: Year in Review"

0x_rs — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 08:25:20 +0000

I recommend taking a look at this video to get an idea behind the through process (or lack thereof) law enforcement might display when provided with a number of "AI" tools, and even if this one example is closer to traditional face recognition than LLMs, the behavior seems the same. Spoiler: complete submission and deference, and in this specific case to a system that was not even their own.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9M4F_U1eEw

New comment by 0x_rs in "Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban"

0x_rs — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 21:23:06 +0000

An absurd decision with dangerous second order effects, many of which lead to VPNs and other privacy tools being next, just look at UK hyping and building that up right now. I hope they will vote accordingly when they're of age, not forgetting what liberties were taken away from them in the name of very dubious benefits, easily circumvented, and prone to exposing them to greater danger going through unofficial channels. Trying to really address the issues younger generations are facing is clearly too difficult for the geriatric, decrepit ruling class that just won't let go, and this helps them further every government's ambitions of increasingly regulating the means of communication between people. Actually, it's not that it's difficult, they simply don't care.

New comment by 0x_rs in "Hyundai Paywalls Brake Pads replacement on Ioniq 5 N"

0x_rs — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 13:16:49 +0000

This is increasingly many cars, starting minimum in the past decade and an half, and not limited to EVs. It's definitely something you need to research before purchasing one so you can dodge the worst offenders. Automotive engineering has been a clown show for years, and greatly suffered from becoming too reliant on digital technology without being willing to invest and spend for robust systems, going for low-cost, low-quality, proprietary parts made in small numbers and unique to each production run. The traditional expectations that you could have options in regards to your vehicle being serviced are on their way out without consumers doing something about it. A future where only the manufacturer and its authorized shops can perform maintenance means they can set any price for it, a price that's already been skyrocketing, and that would effectively allow them to collect far more revenue than previously possible.. and if you can't extract value from customers through heated seats and high-beam subscriptions, maybe you can just have their cars full of black boxes break down more often?

New comment by 0x_rs in "About KeePassXC's Code Quality Control"

0x_rs — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 20:57:19 +0000

There's no way to determine whether a contributor used LLMs in part or full, not without them being honest about it. With that in mind, this seems like a reasonable position. Been using KeePassXC since forever and will continue to do so. It might feel wrong to some, but these changes are inevitable and it's best to be prepared and become acquainted with that now rather than later.

New comment by 0x_rs in "The great software quality collapse or, how we normalized catastrophe"

0x_rs — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 15:59:30 +0000

This was a greatly unpleasant post to read, likewise for all the others from this substack until I could not anymore. Its unrestricted, excessive usage of obvious LLM patterns was so unbearable I wonder how much of it had any human input at all.

As for the topic: software exists on a spectrum, where the importance of safety and stability is not equal from one point to another, does it not? Safe software is probably the safest (and most accessible) it's ever been before, meanwhile the capacity to produce low-effort has increased massively and its results are most obvious outside of a browser's safe space. And CrowdStrike is a terrible example because nobody ever had any love for them and their parasitic existence, even before that accident their track record of disastrous bugs and awful handling of disclosures.

And your operating system's Calculator apps have always been buggy pieces of crap in some way or another. You can find dozens of popular stories on this website talking about 's being garbage over all of its existence.

New comment by 0x_rs in "Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine"

0x_rs — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 07:18:23 +0000

Imgur is a joke. They block VPN users with an intentionally obtuse "Imgur is temporarily over capacity. Please try again later.". Most importantly, its value for the average person has plummeted ever since its 2021 acquisition, and when they started deleting inactive content. UK's regulations have no place on a free internet, but the company running it is anything but worthy of praise.

New comment by 0x_rs in "Denmark summons top US diplomat over alleged Greenland influence operation"

0x_rs — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 09:58:45 +0000

You don't "get back to normal". 77 million people voted for this, and 90 million more did not care enough to stop it. This is the "normal" now, what they voted for, and you don't just forget about it.

New comment by 0x_rs in "I know when you're vibe coding"

0x_rs — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 06:52:00 +0000

This. Reinventing the wheel at every opportunity, forgetting about or ignoring the expected way to do something, mixing patterns, you name it. The author may call it "vibe coding", that's fine but it has little to do with LLMs. The tool has the same amount of care anyone rushing to get something done, or that hasn't build the project themselves, or maybe doesn't have enough experience would. I can only assume it's a not-very-subtle complaint about a specific person in their team, "written in a way no developer on the team would" is telling.

I'd be extremely careful about applying this thinking anywhere else. There's enough baseless finger-pointing in academia and arts already.

New comment by 0x_rs in "You know what: Microsoft became miserably incompetent in IT"

0x_rs — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 05:45:38 +0000

It's well known some things will trip those flags, probably not what all of them are or why, but most of them inappropriately (e.g. rating IP trustworthiness, but also simple HTTP requests that look "odd"). It's also well understood you have little to no options available as contacting support, live human or not as it may be, is made intentionally opaque and difficult or completely impossible. They just don't care, there's no reason to when you're one of the many hundreds of millions using their service most likely at no cost, and it's not unique to Microsoft. It's not that they became incompetent (they are, objectively), they simply never cared about you.

New comment by 0x_rs in "Rotring 600 Ballpoint Pen"

0x_rs — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 13:23:28 +0000

There's no mention of this in the article, so be aware there's multiple posts online about QC issues. Rotring quality has been going down over the years, or their name outgrew the actual quality of the product. Current generation of 600s especially suffer from: cracking of the body (0, 1); but most importantly for pens, the joint part that screws into the bottom and upper part of the pen is extremely susceptible to wearing out the thin and fragile upper part's threads, as they are two different metals. So you should be prepared to exercise your warranty if you purchase one.

0. https://www.reddit.com/r/mechanicalpencils/comments/1fzacf9/...

1. https://www.reddit.com/r/mechanicalpencils/comments/1439ru7/...