Hacker News: Citizen8396

New comment by Citizen8396 in "Apple Intelligence may become mandatory in iOS and macOS 27"

Citizen8396 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:03:31 +0000

You'll only get the most critical security updates, and only up to a point.

New comment by Citizen8396 in "Apple Intelligence may become mandatory in iOS and macOS 27"

Citizen8396 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:02:25 +0000

You can block Apple Intelligence and Siri using Screen Time. Configuration profiles and the typical user-facing settings are not likely to go anywhere either.

New comment by Citizen8396 in "Apple Intelligence may become mandatory in iOS and macOS 27"

Citizen8396 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:00:32 +0000

If you have a Mac, you can supervise devices locally. macOS itself doesn't really have restrictions on payloads (except for Declarations, which mostly are sent by an MDM server). Both Apple Intelligence and Siri can be blocked by Screen Time anyway; it's basically a user-facing interface to apply the same restrictions.

New comment by Citizen8396 in "Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]"

Citizen8396 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:06:58 +0000

"Somehow" is addressed in my comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479348

New comment by Citizen8396 in "Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]"

Citizen8396 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:05:51 +0000

OFAC sanctions are far more nuanced than what you make them out to be. Very often "general licenses" are carved out for providing IT services or technology to individuals for personal use. The purpose of this is for censorship circumvention, which often supports American interests abroad.

This is not something that you apply for; a general license already applies to everyone. The legalese or restrictions companies use exist because they cannot (or will not) validate everyone is who they say they are. This obviously doesn't apply to companies who deal with controlled exports, where they are responsible for whoever ultimately receives the controlled export.

I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice.

https://ofac.treasury.gov/selected-general-licenses-issued-o...

New comment by Citizen8396 in "Microsoft will give the FBI a Windows PC data encryption key if ordered"

Citizen8396 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:12:13 +0000

"Disconnected from reality" ... tell that to the people who have had a lost or stolen device without encryotion. You'd need a backup and then some!

Apple manages a recovery path for users without storing the key in plain text. Must have something to do with those "security aficionados."

New comment by Citizen8396 in "Proton spam and the AI consent problem"

Citizen8396 — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 14:15:38 +0000

No.

New comment by Citizen8396 in "Can You Disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?"

Citizen8396 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:15:25 +0000

Haven't tested this, but try:

System Settings > General > Language & Region > Live Text

"Select text in images to copy or take action."

New comment by Citizen8396 in "Chinese AI models have lagged the US frontier by 7 months on average since 2023"

Citizen8396 — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:50:00 +0000

It is correct, if somewhat uncommon in daily use. I published an article awhile ago and the editor revised it similarly.

New comment by Citizen8396 in "Strace-macOS: A clone of the strace command for macOS"

Citizen8396 — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 12:23:43 +0000

Not entirely. You can selectively remove protections:

csrutil enable --without dtrace

New comment by Citizen8396 in "Police used Flock cameras to accuse a woman of theft, she had to prove innocence"

Citizen8396 — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 17:23:53 +0000

The typical client of a criminal defense attorney is not a minor suspected of petty crime, and their case is unlikely to be informed by the experiences of such a minor.

New comment by Citizen8396 in "Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation due to flushing fluid from brain"

Citizen8396 — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 17:16:18 +0000

I would imagine it has more to do with its principal function in recycling ADP back to ATP (fuel for cells). People who are sleep deprived also have impaired glucose metabolism, meaning that the cellular "fuel pipeline" is impeded. Perhaps creatine is especially helpful under these conditions.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1991337/

New comment by Citizen8396 in "Attention lapses due to sleep deprivation due to flushing fluid from brain"

Citizen8396 — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 17:12:32 +0000

Disordered sleep can cause executive dysfunction similar to ADHD, but it does not cause ADHD. It certainly can exacerbate it or be diagnosed incorrectly.

New comment by Citizen8396 in "uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store"

Citizen8396 — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 12:18:52 +0000

There are dubious results for "uBlock" as well on browser extension stores. If it's not breaking rules (copyright violation, malware) it's precarious for companies to take action. It's obvious to me that uBlock Origin is the "correct" result, but how would a company determine that at scale?

The app was removed a day after your article was posted. The app name, developer, icon, and images are all different. It's absolutely a problem, but it was addressed.

If Apple aggressively took action against this with a high error rate, the headlines would probably be about anti-competition, censorship, and upset developers.

New comment by Citizen8396 in "uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store"

Citizen8396 — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 12:06:54 +0000

I don't think this behavior is expected. When I've tested it, I was able to get DNS to behave in the expected manner. Apple does make design decisions that can be frustrating, but in most cases I find 1) there's a way to work around it or 2) the decision was the lesser of two evils.

Absolutely love GOS as well. What are you using for your DNS server?

New comment by Citizen8396 in "uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store"

Citizen8396 — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 12:03:15 +0000

How are you setting DNS and on which platform? I've tested this extensively and it does work in my experience.

New comment by Citizen8396 in "M5 Macs Support Memory Integrity Enforcement"

Citizen8396 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 23:14:36 +0000

Thanks for sharing, I was wondering if it supported MIE. How are you finding the M5?

New comment by Citizen8396 in "Police used Flock cameras to accuse a woman of theft, she had to prove innocence"

Citizen8396 — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 12:21:06 +0000

They are not mutually exclusive. You can cooperate with police at a lawyer's recommendation. If someone tries to pressure you from talking to a lawyer, they're doing it to manipulate you to their advantage. In your scenario, first time youth offenders almost always will have diversion as an option. If the situation can be remediated so easily, then the cost would not be too great. It seems far more likely to result in a better (or at least neutral) outcome with a lawyer.

New comment by Citizen8396 in "My gf thinks videogames cannot be art. What to show her?"

Citizen8396 — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 19:00:59 +0000

The music for Bloodborne is incredible. If this isn't art, I don't know what is.

https://youtu.be/LzdhTGaWzec

https://youtu.be/NHIkUzmNmc0

New comment by Citizen8396 in "Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock"

Citizen8396 — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 14:04:24 +0000

What "they" don't want you to know:

- You can disable this feature

- Disabling radios from Control Center behaves differently than from Settings