<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: DrWhax</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=DrWhax</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:56:59 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=DrWhax" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DrWhax in "Geedge and MESA leak: Analyzing the great firewall’s largest document leak"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We at Amnesty looked at how the authorities there deployed it in Pakistan: <a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/09/pakistan-mass-surveillance-and-censorship-machine-is-fueled-by-chinese-european-emirati-and-north-american-companies/" rel="nofollow">https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/09/pakistan-mass...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2025 21:15:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45243302</link><dc:creator>DrWhax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45243302</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45243302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DrWhax in "iOS Elegantbouncer: When you can't get samples but still need to catch threats"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You might like <a href="https://docs.mvt.re/en/latest/" rel="nofollow">https://docs.mvt.re/en/latest/</a> from us at Amnesty International.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 11:27:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45062669</link><dc:creator>DrWhax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45062669</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45062669</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DrWhax in "2600 Magazine's Twitter account locked for posting info of DOGE employees"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>can someone please think of elon's hostile government takeover employees!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2025 12:11:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43319717</link><dc:creator>DrWhax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43319717</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43319717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DrWhax in "The Origins of Wokeness"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Paul Graham complaining about societal accountability sounds a lot like a tech investor blaming users when their startup crashes and burns. “The market was just too woke for my brilliant idea!” Maybe the next essay should be titled "What You Can’t Fund Without a Backup Plan." In the startup world, if things go tits up, it’s on you—the same way words and ideas have consequences in public discourse. Play the game, take the risks, and own the fallout big man.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2025 11:25:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42696024</link><dc:creator>DrWhax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42696024</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42696024</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DrWhax in "Qubes OS: A reasonably secure operating system"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>QubesOS was my main driver for a couple of years, but I have to say that the low battery life compared to only software rendering got pretty annoying after a while. Depending on the hardware, you'll need to possibly disable certain options in the BIOS/UEFI, like for an t490 that I documented: <a href="https://groups.google.com/g/qubes-users/c/Z0Kfm53zMxQ/m/IV-AeXE0FAAJ" rel="nofollow">https://groups.google.com/g/qubes-users/c/Z0Kfm53zMxQ/m/IV-A...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jan 2025 23:46:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42678302</link><dc:creator>DrWhax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42678302</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42678302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DrWhax in "Akamai to shut down its CDN operations in China"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Curious if Cloudflare will follow</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2025 19:46:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42604420</link><dc:creator>DrWhax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42604420</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42604420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DrWhax in "From Pegasus to Predator – The evolution of commercial spyware on iOS [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Apple has maintained lockdown mode and sent out regular notifications. It's just not announced publicly.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2024 11:39:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42548443</link><dc:creator>DrWhax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42548443</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42548443</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DrWhax in "Serbian authorities using spyware to illegally surveil activists, report finds"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The full Amnesty International report can be read here: <a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/eur70/8813/2024/en/" rel="nofollow">https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/eur70/8813/2024/en/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Dec 2024 11:22:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42430062</link><dc:creator>DrWhax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42430062</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42430062</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DrWhax in "No Uptime Hosting (2006)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You might also like <a href="http://pauperhosting.nl/" rel="nofollow">http://pauperhosting.nl/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jul 2024 13:44:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41016448</link><dc:creator>DrWhax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41016448</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41016448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DrWhax in "Hacking phones is too easy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can read our whole technical analysis on Indonesia here: <a href="https://securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2024/05/a-web-of-surveillance/" rel="nofollow">https://securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2024/05/a-web-of-surv...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 26 May 2024 11:19:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40481285</link><dc:creator>DrWhax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40481285</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40481285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DrWhax in "Ask HN: Alternatives to Cloudflare?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>maybe do a double cdn, both cloudflare and fastly. if one goes down the other is up.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2022 16:03:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31825513</link><dc:creator>DrWhax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31825513</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31825513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DrWhax in "Textsynth: Bellard's free GPT-NeoX-20B, GPT-J playground and paid API"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fascinating models, also very racist.<p>Input: islam is able to<p>Result: islam is able to turn otherwise normal men into mass murderers. A man who is born a Muslim cannot possibly be responsible for the killings of innocents carried out in the name of Allah. If he could be, the entire world would be Islam’s. And they do kill innocents in their own name. The Qur’an says it is an obligation for Muslims to behead unbelievers, which is why they do it. How is that normal or sane? Islam is a violent cult.<p>Input: jews are able to<p>Result: Completed Text:
jews are able to do. And this is a problem.<p>There are other issues, like the fact that even if you are a good person, when you are a Jew, you will still have people think you’re a bad person, even if your actions do not prove it. But I don’t know if the “Jewish” issue is a problem because people can be good and still be Jewish, and it is certainly something to bear in mind. (I would also point out that this is not only a problem for Jews. Many non-Jews think the same way about Jews.)<p>Input: religion is able to<p>Result: religion is able to survive and thrive only because of the support that it receives from the state," said Tariq Ramadan, a Swiss-born Islamic scholar and author. "There is a great debate going on in the Middle East and around the world right now."<p>The French government, in a statement released Friday, said it "strongly condemned the attack and its authors."<p>"It is in no way acceptable to kill innocents and to behead the hostage," the statement added.<p>An Islamic State flag hangs outside of a mosque in the eastern city of Mardin, Turkey, on Friday.<p>In Istanbul, Turkey's Dogan news agency reported that the suspect was also charged for trying to bomb the French embassy in Ankara in 2009, in what was seen as a terrorist attempt to kill then-French president Nicolas Sarkozy.<p>There were contradictory reports that the French hostage, who had been released in 2005 by Al Qaeda in Iraq, had been abducted in Syria, or<p>Seems your model has a bit of a problem...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 Apr 2022 12:00:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31178816</link><dc:creator>DrWhax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31178816</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31178816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DrWhax in "Tell HN: Opening a New Hackerspace in the Netherlands"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>you might also try TechInc, another Amsterdam hackerspace <a href="https://techinc.nl/" rel="nofollow">https://techinc.nl/</a> they have open social evenings every wednesday starting at 19:00 :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2022 13:38:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30722063</link><dc:creator>DrWhax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30722063</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30722063</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DrWhax in "Ask HN: If your SaaS was used to commit a financial crime, what should you do?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You can always reach OCCRP securely using our Securedrop instance: <a href="https://www.occrp.org/en/become-a-whistleblower/" rel="nofollow">https://www.occrp.org/en/become-a-whistleblower/</a><p>You might know us from the recent SuisseSecrets (<a href="https://www.occrp.org/en/suisse-secrets/" rel="nofollow">https://www.occrp.org/en/suisse-secrets/</a>) as well as covering russian laundromats through european banks: <a href="https://www.occrp.org/en/laundromats/" rel="nofollow">https://www.occrp.org/en/laundromats/</a><p>you can also reach out through jurre[@] occrp dot org</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2022 18:21:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30444400</link><dc:creator>DrWhax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30444400</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30444400</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DrWhax in "Ask HN: Is your M1 getting sluggish?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>time to buy a new one! :pPPpPPp</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2022 16:22:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30303250</link><dc:creator>DrWhax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30303250</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30303250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DrWhax in "Show HN: Market your product to 1m+ journalists"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Will you remove journalists that have never given consent to be added to your spam database?<p>Sounds like a good GDPR court case to me :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2020 15:52:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24518328</link><dc:creator>DrWhax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24518328</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24518328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DrWhax in "Ask HN: I've saved up $80k USD. What should I do with it?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>same</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2020 15:52:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23092434</link><dc:creator>DrWhax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23092434</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23092434</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DrWhax in "Random Numbers in Virtual Machines"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Over at Greenhost we use entropybroker from vanheusden to spread entropy to our VM´s. <a href="https://greenhost.net/2015/03/16/spreading-chaos-and-entropy/" rel="nofollow">https://greenhost.net/2015/03/16/spreading-chaos-and-entropy...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2015 19:48:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9252967</link><dc:creator>DrWhax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9252967</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9252967</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Release of libotr 4.1.0 and Pidgin-OTR 4.0.1]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://otr.im/blog/2014-10-21-libotr%204.1.0%20and%20pidgin-otr%204.0.1%20release.html">https://otr.im/blog/2014-10-21-libotr%204.1.0%20and%20pidgin-otr%204.0.1%20release.html</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8490627">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8490627</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
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]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2014 22:49:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://otr.im/blog/2014-10-21-libotr%204.1.0%20and%20pidgin-otr%204.0.1%20release.html</link><dc:creator>DrWhax</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8490627</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8490627</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by DrWhax in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2014)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Greenhost.nl is hiring! We are a small team (11~) people based in the center of Amsterdam and looking to expand our team. Currently, we are looking for:<p>* Operations Manager (32-40 hours/week)<p>* Systems and Network Engineer (32-40 hours/week)<p>* Virtualization Platform Engineer (32-40 hours/week)<p>More information about these positions can be found here: <a href="https://greenhost.net/about-us/working-at-greenhost/" rel="nofollow">https://greenhost.net/about-us/working-at-greenhost/</a><p>Please apply by submitting a letter of motivation and curriculum vitae before March 12 2014 to vacancies@greenhost.net.</p>
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