Hacker News: Kluggy

Authoritarian Coups Are Gradual Then Sudden

Kluggy — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 06:16:18 +0000

Article URL: https://hartmannreport.com/p/authoritarian-coups-are-gradual-then

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42896145

Points: 66

# Comments: 33

Bill criminalizing votes for sanctuary policies constitutionally suspect

Kluggy — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 21:09:32 +0000

Article URL: https://tennesseelookout.com/2025/01/29/bill-criminalizing-votes-for-immigrant-sanctuary-policies-constitutionally-suspect/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42882211

Points: 10

# Comments: 2

New comment by Kluggy in "Trademark bully': Momofuku turns up heat on others selling 'chili crunch'"

Kluggy — Sat, 06 Apr 2024 23:35:48 +0000

It is! I've made https://www.simplyrecipes.com/homemade-chili-crisp-recipe-74... recently to great success

New comment by Kluggy in "Washington State judge blocks use of AI-enhanced video as evidence"

Kluggy — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 05:42:12 +0000

State of Connecticut v. Swinton Ruled that admission of digitally enhanced evidence was allowed. This is going to be a long road full of nuance before we land on a largely socially accepted test for how much adjustment is allowed in court cases.

New comment by Kluggy in "Australian lab-grown meat cultured from quail cells hits the market in Singapore"

Kluggy — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 05:37:09 +0000

mousse Is the same. Could be meat. Could be chocolate.

New comment by Kluggy in "JPMorgan to sell customer transaction data to advertisers"

Kluggy — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 20:00:16 +0000

Do you have a source for your claim that wallet providers get access to all card transactions? Looking at the wallet, my linked cards only have the data that came though the mobile payment.

New comment by Kluggy in "The Rise and Fall of 3M's Floppy Disk (2023)"

Kluggy — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 04:36:38 +0000

some of us hold onto the past. I still have a Zip disk and drive (and a bunch of old media, all the way back to a 8 inch floppy) and I have a fairly large collection of 4k blurays

New comment by Kluggy in "Trader Joe's and their pattern of copycat merchandising"

Kluggy — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 02:10:35 +0000

While I generally agree with you, the claim that trade joes entered into negotiations in bad faith and cost the other brands money be asking them to make changes to recipes is a bit beyond just competition. Presuming that claim is true.

New comment by Kluggy in "From xz to ibus: more questionable tarballs"

Kluggy — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 08:04:29 +0000

It's absolutely because of inertia. Cutting a tarball is a very public indicator that the software is ready to be used. A git tag or branch doesn't have the clarity of "use this" as a release tarball does.

That said, this is absolutely going to be changing now. We obviously can't keep relying on tarballs anymore. We'll find a new normal that will work for a very long time until some other critical issue arises and the cycle repeats.

New comment by Kluggy in "Everything I Know About the XZ Backdoor"

Kluggy — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 23:55:52 +0000

It wasn't sloppy. It was just luck that someone noticed a half a second extra latency on the second connection of a newly run sshd process and went down the rabbit hole. Had they just shrugged and moved onto more "important" tasks/deliverables, it would most likely have landed in production across the world.

I'm a tad reminded of https://xkcd.com/705/

We got so lucky here. We won't get lucky every time. We will have a massive breach one of these days.

New comment by Kluggy in "Banish OEM self-signed certs forever and roll your own private LetsEncrypt"

Kluggy — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 10:59:37 +0000

A wildcard cert is a single cert that is valid for any subdomain. The specific ones you use are not exposed to the CT, just the fact that there is a *.example.com was minted

New comment by Kluggy in "Nobody Wants to Buy the Future: Why Science Fiction Literature Is Vanishing"

Kluggy — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 21:54:19 +0000

They actually planned for the three major overtones and the nine minor theme variations from the start. You may disagree with the results, but it wasn't modified due to outside pressure.

New comment by Kluggy in "Show HN: A (marginally) useful x86-64 ELF executable in 466 bytes"

Kluggy — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 22:07:12 +0000

So this just reads /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/energy_now (or charge_now) and /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/charge_full and outputs it nicely. While the asm is cool, how large would the bash script to do it?

New comment by Kluggy in "Ask HN: What do y'all make of Netflix's 3 Body problem?"

Kluggy — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 04:48:53 +0000

I enjoyed it. I followed it way easier then the books and that was a positive for me.

New comment by Kluggy in "EVGA power supply kills 22TB of customer storage then denies responsibility"

Kluggy — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 07:43:55 +0000

Louis Rossmann did a video with 107k views so far already https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cHDyq5hRk4

I would bet dollars to donuts that they lost a lot more than the replacement cost would have been.

New comment by Kluggy in "EVGA power supply kills 22TB of customer storage then denies responsibility"

Kluggy — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 07:39:37 +0000

It's difficult, but not impossible to do the recovery yourself. Swap the platters between two drives and clone the data to a fresh drive. I've done it on some 2 tb drives way back when.

New comment by Kluggy in "EVGA power supply kills 22TB of customer storage then denies responsibility"

Kluggy — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 07:38:09 +0000

> EVGA also encouraged the Reddit poster to make a warranty claim from the drive manufacturer(s) themselves to get his storage drives replaced.

Wow, the drive manufacturer's warranty most certainly wouldn't apply. There was no fault with the drives at all.

Very poor look for EVGA.

New comment by Kluggy in "Google, Apple breakups on the agenda as regulators target tech"

Kluggy — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 04:03:35 +0000

If they actually break up apple and google, it’s going to cause so much chaos that it might actually kickstart the venture capital markets into high gear again.

New comment by Kluggy in "Apple Silicon vulnerability leaks encryption keys, and can't be patched easily"

Kluggy — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 17:44:39 +0000

No. The attacker needs to load on a program and then run it against the target program to extract keys. This doesn’t work with anything in the Secure Enclave and things like iCloud don’t expose an endpoint for the attacker program to send data to. Plus you can’t load a program on the device if it’s locked.

New comment by Kluggy in "Apple Turned on 'Discoverable by Others'. You Might Want It Off"

Kluggy — Sat, 23 Mar 2024 00:30:23 +0000

In this case, this is a new feature for a new app. They didn't change anything. The setting didn't exist before, nor did the app