Hacker News: GreenVulpine

New comment by GreenVulpine in "US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution"

GreenVulpine — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 19:23:28 +0000

Good to see some action away from "climate" regulations ruining the energy sector and making everything downstream more expensive. You can't have a booming industrial economy without cheap energy. And no, having strict regulations that just end up moving production offshore doesn't solve anything. It just moves to pollution to China or India or whatever.

New comment by GreenVulpine in "LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'"

GreenVulpine — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:51:20 +0000

There's no practical reason for most people. Spying is the primary function. Edge cases like accessibility or conferencing can be easily enabled with an add on USB mic. You'd need a USB webcam with mic for conferencing anyway.

New comment by GreenVulpine in "LG TVs aren't the only ones spying on you [video]"

GreenVulpine — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:53:16 +0000

Never connect a smart TV to the internet. Use it as a dumb screen with your choice of media device.

New comment by GreenVulpine in "Netherlands pulls gold out of the US"

GreenVulpine — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 13:32:38 +0000

All the time. ETFs are at record inflows.

New comment by GreenVulpine in "O&O ShutUp10 – The antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11"

GreenVulpine — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:54:41 +0000

This hasn't been the case for at least half a decade. Most games run perfectly fine if not better on Linux. The only exceptions are purposely broken remote rootkit "anticheat" gsmes which no sane person would want on their system anyway.

New comment by GreenVulpine in "Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business"

GreenVulpine — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:43:25 +0000

https://archive.is/rlAbY

Non-paywalled link

New comment by GreenVulpine in "Kumander Linux – A Linux Distro with a Windows 7 Desktop"

GreenVulpine — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 11:49:49 +0000

Aero was peak aesthetics. Flatcrap became commonplace because it was easy. No need for designers, just flat colors, resizable to fit any screen. Perfect for mobile slop!

New comment by GreenVulpine in "MiniageOS: "Dumbphone" Version of LineageOS"

GreenVulpine — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 18:34:17 +0000

RCS also goes through Google servers. I don't see much point in using it.

New comment by GreenVulpine in "Kinney Drugs pulls back AI phone assistant after hundreds of customer complaints"

GreenVulpine — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:28:15 +0000

Starting with your funding and who you've acquired tells me whatever follows is not really worth reading.

New comment by GreenVulpine in "Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption"

GreenVulpine — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 17:56:15 +0000

Better than the commercial alternatives

New comment by GreenVulpine in "Show HN: Open-source engine running Gemma 4 26B in 2 GB RAM on any M-series Mac"

GreenVulpine — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 19:33:20 +0000

This comment is giving "100% tested virus free" on a free downloads site vibes.

New comment by GreenVulpine in "Self-host your mail server"

GreenVulpine — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 05:14:30 +0000

That's not been my experience. I've been selfhosting email on a small provider VPS for years, never had any deliverability issues that I know of. I've set up DKMS, SPF..etc records properly and I send maybe a dozen emails a day at most.

New comment by GreenVulpine in "Half-Life 2 running natively on HaikuOS"

GreenVulpine — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:02:52 +0000

Nvidia drivers being crap has nothing to do with Linux policies. It's entirely up to Nvidia to invest and improve their drivers but it's clearly not a priority. Their focus is AI. If you need a CUDA accelerator, they're great. Graphics or even display output? Better have a second AMD or Intel card for that.

New comment by GreenVulpine in "Firefox 153 available with support for Vulkan video decoding, JPEG-XL"

GreenVulpine — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:38:40 +0000

Nvidia drivers on Linux are not really display quality. The effort goes towards CUDA for headless rigs. They work great for AI and that's it. Pair them with an AMD and Intel card for display, graphics and video acceleration. Otherwise you end up with too many cases of booting into a black screen, random software breaking, games not working, bad performance and just jank in general.

New comment by GreenVulpine in "Show HN: Watch bots interact with an SSH honeypot in real time"

GreenVulpine — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:50:30 +0000

They're not doing a very good job at it, tried a few disposable free residential proxies - not flagged. Tried my CGNAT home connection - flagged. My phone connection - also flagged.

New comment by GreenVulpine in "Remote Attestation"

GreenVulpine — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 01:21:45 +0000

Make no mistake. Shoving user-hostile malware down people's throats is the primary use case for this in the consumer space. Bootloader malware is very esoteric right now. Enterprise might have valid use cases beyond screwing people but none of them make sense for a consumer device.

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

GreenVulpine — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:14:38 +0000

Online banking is a thing. A heck of a lot more secure than an app on a certified android device passing play integrity but having last received security updates years ago and with a ton of privilege escalation exploits. Gov id? Just say no.

New comment by GreenVulpine in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"

GreenVulpine — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:50:07 +0000

You used to be able to buy songs on iTunes and burn them to CD. Why would the expectation for movies be any different?

New comment by GreenVulpine in "Shutterstock to pay $35M over hard-to-cancel subscriptions"

GreenVulpine — Wed, 20 May 2026 03:25:43 +0000

Bullshit, it's perfectly fine and legal to refuse to give companies your address or SSN.

New comment by GreenVulpine in "Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message"

GreenVulpine — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:25:34 +0000

Google syphons all your email data and uses it for their very profitable ad targeting business. The cost of providing email service is miniscule, especially nowadays. Ad profits are at record highs. They've done their math for sure. Saying that they somehow got roped into subsidizing a public service is not even close to reality.