Hacker News: Jolter

New comment by Jolter in "Upload Your RAM"

Jolter — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 12:35:30 +0000

Sure but businesses bought them and people bought them. Their quality is beside the point.

New comment by Jolter in "Upload Your RAM"

Jolter — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 11:58:42 +0000

People long ago stopped buying computers and started using Saas on their mobile devices instead. Ask HP.

New comment by Jolter in "We know 15k websites are infected. how do we tell them?"

Jolter — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 20:02:48 +0000

Try automating that for 15k sites and you have a whole new engineering problem in front of you!

It should be more or less possible though. Just not easy.

New comment by Jolter in "We know 15k websites are infected. how do we tell them?"

Jolter — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 19:59:33 +0000

Charging them to detail the infection to them risks coming off as extortion to less savvy site owners. You might get a significant portion who would report you to the police rather than talk to you.

Just give them the deets.

New comment by Jolter in "Sshole"

Jolter — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 16:07:25 +0000

I have done that in the past, in order to be able to automate copying files to the container during testing or data migration. It was an ugly hack and now I need to make double sure none of those containers are still running…

New comment by Jolter in "Jailbreaking my car's navigation system just so I can change the time"

Jolter — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 17:39:41 +0000

Whoosh

New comment by Jolter in "Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?"

Jolter — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 11:33:26 +0000

I’d prefer to waste the capacity than to waste the power and heat buildup that would result from not wasting the capacity.

New comment by Jolter in "Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?"

Jolter — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 11:32:26 +0000

Plug in a mini PC, run Kodi. Or just plug in a Blu-ray player. Mission accomplished.

New comment by Jolter in "Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy?"

Jolter — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 11:31:27 +0000

In that thread I don’t see any claims about TVs. Only about Amazon smart devices (like a Fire Stick) doing the same.

New comment by Jolter in "Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found now"

Jolter — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 09:45:58 +0000

Most clients will not agree to pay extra for a more secure web site though. Unfortunately. Unless they’ve been bitten in the past, which most businesses still haven’t.

New comment by Jolter in "A/SIDE – Private photo sharing and encrypted messages"

Jolter — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 17:39:31 +0000

I don’t know — the proof’s in the pudding but I’m not buying a slice to find out.

New comment by Jolter in "A/SIDE – Private photo sharing and encrypted messages"

Jolter — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 17:19:26 +0000

Vibe coding pro tip: do not let the AI write the copy on your front page.

I’m not paying a dime for something that reads like slop. I’m assuming the engineering is to the same standards.

New comment by Jolter in "A/SIDE – Private photo sharing and encrypted messages"

Jolter — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 17:18:26 +0000

I don’t think you’d need the masses. They’ll be signing up one family group at a time. Tech savvy users will convince their parents to join for pics of the grandchildren - who’s gonna say no?

New comment by Jolter in "Code-execution flaw in UEFI firmware threatens most servers on planet Earth"

Jolter — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 08:25:01 +0000

At least some enterprise IDS /AFW could presumably have a signature configured for this traffic scenario.

New comment by Jolter in "Code-execution flaw in UEFI firmware threatens most servers on planet Earth"

Jolter — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 08:23:49 +0000

For a deployed server, yes, you’d probably need to first get inside their network, then using some other exploit or social engineering, cause the server to reboot and then provoke this vulnerability and gain a persistent shell on the server.

This may sound like a movie-plot threat in 2020, but perhaps in 2026 it’s less unlikely?

There’s also the theft scenario, as indicated in the article, or the supply chain attack scenario. I don’t know how feasible it would be for a buyer to validate the integrity of the hardware they just racked up if they can’t trust secure boot?

New comment by Jolter in "Root shell on Samsung TV"

Jolter — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 17:57:35 +0000

Can you play Netflix or Disney+ in a browser on Linux in full 4K and HDR?

I remember that being a problem in the past, that you were limited to lower resolutions.

New comment by Jolter in "Samsung running a TensorFlow lite model on 960x540 image to track you"

Jolter — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 11:44:37 +0000

I believe Mistral models are fairly capable at cybersecurity tasks, but I don’t think you could get anything useful out of anything smaller than Mistral Large 4.

New comment by Jolter in "Hybrid Reasoning Agents: LLM agents that think in latent space, act through text"

Jolter — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:47:21 +0000

Let’s see how much longer foreign talent continues to be attracted to US universities. Lots of PDHs have been deported already.

New comment by Jolter in "Apple HomeView"

Jolter — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:55:29 +0000

It’s fairly safe to say that every user who still didn’t upgrade to 27 by now, has made an active choice to postpone the upgrade.

New comment by Jolter in "Talorys – A self-hosted personal AI agent on Cloudflare's free tier"

Jolter — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 14:12:29 +0000

A suggestion: write the reader yourself next time you’re launching a product/project. It’s painful to always be reading this Claudeish prose.