Hacker News: Kenji

New comment by Kenji in "The EU still wants to scan your private messages and photos"

Kenji — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:36:11 +0000

Of course. They literally spell their playbook out for you:

“We decide something, then put it out there and wait for a while to see what happens.

If there is then no great outcry and no uprisings, because most people do not even understand what has been decided, then we continue—step by step, until there is no turning back.”

— Jean-Claude Juncker

New comment by Kenji in "Billy bookshelves as a retro motherboard "rack""

Kenji — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:53:58 +0000

Nice fire safety and grounding. Wood is ideal for both. They should build data centers like this.

New comment by Kenji in "Asahi Linux Progress Report: Linux 6.19"

Kenji — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 11:17:18 +0000

Certainly they know about it. There is no way they don't.

New comment by Kenji in "UK government exempting itself from cyber law inspires little confidence"

Kenji — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 15:22:20 +0000

Not just cyber security.

New comment by Kenji in "Crypto investors face tax crackdown as 70% non-compliant"

Kenji — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 14:41:16 +0000

The tax is protection money so that you don't get beaten and put in a cage. Do you know how statism works?

New comment by Kenji in "Ubuntu LTS releases to 15 years with Legacy add-on"

Kenji — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 16:11:48 +0000

I bought a hammer 2 decades ago and it still works flawlessly without me performing any maintenance. One day, the idiots in software engineering will realize that this is how tools are supposed to behave.

New comment by Kenji in "KDE celebrates the 29th birthday and kicks off the yearly fundraiser"

Kenji — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 11:36:53 +0000

Huh, why? Minecraft is Java. It works perfectly fine on Linux, both the server and the client.

New comment by Kenji in "In 1776, Thomas Paine made the best case for fighting kings −and being skeptical"

Kenji — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 17:32:58 +0000

Next up: Fight the political class and the bureaucrats. Enlightenment step by step.

New comment by Kenji in "The Vaccine Trust Framework"

Kenji — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 11:54:49 +0000

> Trust is a key component of vaccine demand, yet there is a lack of consensus on how to define trust alongside a lack of actionable, contextually grounded measurement tools validated in low-income and middle-income countries.

How about you make it safe and effective. Psychological manipulations and games won't get you anywhere. Spend the R&D budget on the actual product.

New comment by Kenji in "Open Banking and Payments Competition"

Kenji — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 09:00:49 +0000

Bitcoin is a better store of value than USD. Change my mind.

New comment by Kenji in "We fall for fake health information – and how it spreads faster than facts"

Kenji — Sat, 17 May 2025 20:40:43 +0000

HN always cuts off these fluff words in the beginning, like "Why" and "How". Often, it completely butchers the title. I think it's a stupid policy, but here we are.

New comment by Kenji in "RFK Jr. rejects cornerstone of health science: Germ theory"

Kenji — Thu, 01 May 2025 14:24:45 +0000

What a gross misrepresentation of RFK Jr.'s views. He thinks that people who are healthy, by means of nutrition, sports and absence of contact with environmental toxins, are much more resilient to germs and other health conditions. Which is obviously true. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

New comment by Kenji in "Italy demands Google poison DNS under strict Piracy Shield law"

Kenji — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 21:12:06 +0000

DNS is usually poisoned at the ISP level. ISPs provide DNS for the customers. DoH helps in two ways: You choose a different DNS resolver and it's over HTTPS so you don't have any goons meddling with it.

New comment by Kenji in "Italy demands Google poison DNS under strict Piracy Shield law"

Kenji — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 20:15:55 +0000

DOH is your friend. My regime poisons DNS and enabling DOH makes things accessible again.

New comment by Kenji in "'Indiana Jones' jailbreak approach highlights vulnerabilities of existing LLMs"

Kenji — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 05:41:51 +0000

I would be surprised if the NSA did _not_ have a [Room 641A](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A) in OpenAI and the other AI companies.

New comment by Kenji in "Windows 11 – There's still nothing worth my time"

Kenji — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 14:32:24 +0000

A lack of improvements I could stomach. What bothers me are the regressions! It's getting worse with every update!

New comment by Kenji in "Stay Gold, America"

Kenji — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 13:37:02 +0000

If Trump was killed, it could have started a civil war in the US. Be careful what you wish for.

New comment by Kenji in "Feds: Tether has become a money laundering tool for Mexican drug trafficker"

Kenji — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 01:34:12 +0000

So? The US dollar has funded terrorism in the Middle East for decades and we don't see the Feds becoming concerned about the way this currency works.

New comment by Kenji in "Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency"

Kenji — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 18:59:17 +0000

> For many graphics professionals, that's like asking if you'd consider replacing C++ with Rust.

So, that's a yes?

New comment by Kenji in "The Internet Archive has lost its appeal in Hachette vs. Internet Archive"

Kenji — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 20:33:50 +0000

It would be nice to have an archive with the blessing of our overlords, but I guess true preservation of data can only happen in illegality.