Hacker News: Gander5739

New comment by Gander5739 in "Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection"

Gander5739 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:34:38 +0000

Many people disagree.

New comment by Gander5739 in "Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection"

Gander5739 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:31:58 +0000

To pass MEETS_STRONG_INTEGRITY a device needs to have a security patch within the last year. Most apps don't check for storng integrity, though.

New comment by Gander5739 in "Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection"

Gander5739 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:30:01 +0000

Google Play Services is independent of Android releases and will update itself automatically, though I believe you can disable this by uninstalling a specific system app with adb.

New comment by Gander5739 in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

Gander5739 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 06:28:01 +0000

You could add someone screaming in their ear to test their focus in strained curcumstances.

New comment by Gander5739 in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

Gander5739 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 06:25:10 +0000

But the scribble of pens is?

New comment by Gander5739 in "Steam Machine launches today"

Gander5739 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:00:33 +0000

> The vast majority of people one-and-done games and movies. There are a handful they go back to, and that's it.

Citation needed.

New comment by Gander5739 in "Loupe – A iOS app that raises awareness about what native apps can see"

Gander5739 — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 11:32:33 +0000

And people want apps, believe it or not.

New comment by Gander5739 in "Digital Printing of Arabic: explaining the problem (2017)"

Gander5739 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:13:26 +0000

You can do it on some vendors' versions, sometimes requiring third party apps like zfont.

New comment by Gander5739 in "A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones"

Gander5739 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:42:17 +0000

What do you mean you can't install a custom operating system? The bootloader is unlocked on google phones, isn't it?

New comment by Gander5739 in "Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end"

Gander5739 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 16:58:26 +0000

For some balance in the replies, I must say I find this rather hideous. To each their own, I suppose.

New comment by Gander5739 in "macOS 27 Beta breaks the ability to boot Asahi Linux"

Gander5739 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:14:46 +0000

Android phones can come with the bootloader unlocked, although many vendors do lock them, particularly in the US.

New comment by Gander5739 in "Are insecure code completions in PyCharm a vulnerability?"

Gander5739 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:51:17 +0000

This came up the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48457158

New comment by Gander5739 in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"

Gander5739 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:24:54 +0000

> the thing could figure out where i was on the roads

Is this missing a "not"?

New comment by Gander5739 in "GrapheneOS user reported to authorities for using GrapheneOS"

Gander5739 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 09:56:52 +0000

Re sudo: https://xkcd.com/838/

New comment by Gander5739 in "Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL"

Gander5739 — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:50:53 +0000

https://support.google.com/recaptcha/answer/16609652 - it just launches the verification service.

New comment by Gander5739 in "Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL"

Gander5739 — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:19:47 +0000

You don't need a non-rooted phone to pass captcha checks, I have a rooted phone and can pass the captchas that ask you to scan a qr code. But I doubt phones without google services would manage.

New comment by Gander5739 in "More Whimsical OEIS Sequences"

Gander5739 — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:20:22 +0000

https://xkcd.com/2016/

New comment by Gander5739 in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

Gander5739 — Thu, 28 May 2026 11:09:35 +0000

Our basest beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous.

New comment by Gander5739 in "Microsoft pulls plug on plans for 244-acre data center in Caledonia (2025)"

Gander5739 — Mon, 25 May 2026 21:06:41 +0000

You can use CF and lose, say, 10% of your audience (number pulled from thin air). Or you can not use CF, be taken down by scraping bots or a dos attack or whatever and lose 100% of your audience.

New comment by Gander5739 in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

Gander5739 — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:57:34 +0000

Funnily enough, you can usually find the correct domains on the Wikipedia page. The .io domain, for instance, is an imposter.