Hacker News: IlikeKitties

New comment by IlikeKitties in "Google broke my heart"

IlikeKitties — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 04:18:53 +0000

Ha! What an Idiot! He thought he could use the channels reserved for Real^TM People^(R) with actual RIGHTS. Those Channels are for corporate use only, how dare you bother the Gigacorporation with you petty copyright request?? Cease this behavior immediately or face repercussions.

New comment by IlikeKitties in "Of Boot Vectors and Double Glitches: Bypassing RP2350's Secure Boot"

IlikeKitties — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 16:59:21 +0000

There's a lot of people that believe that hardware remote attestation will be the end of computational freedom. I'm glad to see that bypasses are still quite possible.

New comment by IlikeKitties in "Clicks Communicator"

IlikeKitties — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 18:18:36 +0000

>What version of Android will be supported?

>Communicator will run Android 16. We’re comfortable committing to 2 years of Android updates and 5 years of security updates

New comment by IlikeKitties in "iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan"

IlikeKitties — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 17:49:18 +0000

>iOS users love that Apple curates software for them.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cuck_chair

New comment by IlikeKitties in "iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan"

IlikeKitties — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 17:18:52 +0000

>UX is much worse imo on graphene compared to iOS

Freedom and privacy exist on graphene.

Nerd – An intermediate language for machines, not humans

IlikeKitties — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 15:44:11 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Nerd-Lang/nerd-lang-core

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46454931

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by IlikeKitties in "Why the Internet Is Bad for Democracy (2005)"

IlikeKitties — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:38:17 +0000

I'll add European gerontocracy to that list. Nihilism becomes the obvious and only solution.

New comment by IlikeKitties in "Kidnapped by Deutsche Bahn"

IlikeKitties — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 13:17:27 +0000

After privatization, the Deutsche Bahn became private enterprise and is now 100% owned by the German state. As such, insolvency isn't going to happen. Though it would be funny.

New comment by IlikeKitties in "Towards a secure peer-to-peer app platform for Clan"

IlikeKitties — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 20:32:58 +0000

It's a bit of a two edged sword but it's something we definitely need. Look at project like Qubes and Secureblue that try to implement this. It solves several issues:

Packaging Apps on Linux has been and always will be, a nightmare. Just giving up and sending whole VMs is basically a variant of what docker does.

Permission Management is also quite necessary and Linux Desktop/DBUS is horrible in that regard. There's recently been a post about this[0]. Especially part 5 is just... GNOME Developers being GNOME Developers...

A lot of Apps also open untrusted files and even run untrusted code. Browsers, PDFs, or Excel Macros? God only knows what kind of exploits and hidden software landmines there are.

And last but not least there's also just badly coded apps that can get pwned from remote sources. Think some game running horrible c++ code connecting peer to peer with random clients. All of them could easily buffer overflow some random function and take over all your files.

[0] https://blog.vaxry.net/articles/2025-dbusSucks

New comment by IlikeKitties in "Show HN: CineCLI – Browse and torrent movies directly from your terminal"

IlikeKitties — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 15:46:37 +0000

Can you share the magnet link that they send you and maybe the name of your ISP? I'd be super interested in analysing this!

New comment by IlikeKitties in "Show HN: CineCLI – Browse and torrent movies directly from your terminal"

IlikeKitties — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 12:01:10 +0000

Can you please reconsider using TOR for piracy? It strains the Tor Network and makes life harder for exit node providers. The Tor Project has advised against it as well[0]. There are many cheap VPN Providers that allow port forwarding and will give you an even better torrenting experience.

Using the Tor-Browser to get the links on ThePirateBay et. al. is of course fine, torrenting the content though is where it becomes a problem.

[0] https://support.torproject.org/about-tor/using-and-sharing/t...

New comment by IlikeKitties in "The Going Dark initiative or ProtectEU is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt"

IlikeKitties — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 19:59:20 +0000

Yeah, a lot of them apply explicitly to the government. In Germany at least most privacy laws flow from Article 10 of our constitution and for example Article 8 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights. Both of which have been used in the past to explicitly remove laws that violated privacy in the name of security.

New comment by IlikeKitties in "The Going Dark initiative or ProtectEU is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt"

IlikeKitties — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 19:51:56 +0000

> So instead of speaking from the high ground, please, tell us what your solution about mass disinformation happening from US social media megacorps, Russia mass disinformation, mass recruitment of people for sabotage on critical infrastructure.

Education. Education. Education. The only thing that ever worked. is Education. Censorship and a total surveillance state aren't an option. Why bother protecting freedom and democracy if you have to destroy freedom and democracy to do so?

And in case of sabotage of critical infrastructure, the answer is three-fold: 1. Apply the law to the saboteurs. 2. Retaliate in asymmetric fashion. We can't sabotage their hospitals but we can stop buying russian oil and gas, take their money and 3. arm ukraine.

> Tell us, how can we keep living in free society when this freedom is being used as a leverage by forces trying to destroy your union.

Are you or have you ever been a communist? We surveived the cold war and the warsaw pact. We can survive a third rate petrol station masquerading as a state.

> Please, give us your political solutions to the modern problems instead of earning a fortune by a performance free speech activism.

Who is earning a fortune here?

New comment by IlikeKitties in "The Going Dark initiative or ProtectEU is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt"

IlikeKitties — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 19:43:11 +0000

There are already MANY laws in the EU and Germany for me regarding privacy. All the proposals are blatantly illegal in Germany for example. Just recently our highest court declared large scale logging of DNS request as "very likely" illegal.

New comment by IlikeKitties in "The Going Dark initiative or ProtectEU is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt"

IlikeKitties — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 19:35:57 +0000

> Europe is preparing for the Russia invasion from one side, and betrayal by the US from the other.

Let's assume for a moment that would be true. And let's also ignore the lack of a nuclear weapons in most EU countries.

How does breaking encryption for normal people help? Spies and Operatives will just use PGP and ignore these laws, because that's what spies do.

New comment by IlikeKitties in "The Going Dark initiative or ProtectEU is a Chat Control 3.0 attempt"

IlikeKitties — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 18:58:45 +0000

> The EU Commission and several member states are also looking for new rules on data retention. In a new ”Presidency outcome paper”, the member states discuss metadata retention: which websites you visit, and who is communicating with whom, when and how often. The ambition is “to have the broadest possible scope of application” and this time some member states also want the proposal to include VPN services.

Nvidia X Palantir, Global Surveillance, "Pre-Crime" Arrests, & AI [Video]

IlikeKitties — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 06:29:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lYsO4k7OIY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46342745

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by IlikeKitties in "Privacy doesn't mean anything anymore, anonymity does"

IlikeKitties — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 09:12:11 +0000

I mean technically yes but I find THAT kind of logging utterly benign.

New comment by IlikeKitties in "Amazon will allow ePub and PDF downloads for DRM-free eBooks"

IlikeKitties — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 11:39:51 +0000

The current experience of using a Kobo Libre Color, Koreader, any webdav mounted in koreader and pirating everything on annas archive et. al. cannot be beat by any commercial offering. Unsuprisingly my copy of 1984 has never been deleted from my NAS

New comment by IlikeKitties in "2026 Apple introducing more ads to increase opportunity in search results"

IlikeKitties — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 07:31:09 +0000

> I have since wised up and understand the App Store search results to be roughly torrent search levels of trustworthy.

join a private tracker friend :)