Hacker News: LamaOfRuin

New comment by LamaOfRuin in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

LamaOfRuin — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:14:51 +0000

Yeah, and those amounts are much more common when organizations are pushing for users to make their donation a monthly recurring donation resulting in much smaller transactions.

I believe they use stripe and this would also include:

- subscription billing fee (up to 0.7%)

- currency exchange fees

- chargeback fees

- processing fees on refunded transactions

New comment by LamaOfRuin in "Help Keep Thunderbird Alive"

LamaOfRuin — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:05:59 +0000

The most recent report/breakdown I see:

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/10/state-of-the-bird-2024-...

New comment by LamaOfRuin in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

LamaOfRuin — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:30:02 +0000

LS seems to not be claiming any security promise on Linux because it can't make any guarantees given eBPF limitations. But the entire purpose is different and there is very little overlap in my view. PiHole is entirely (I think?) just applying the blocklist made easy. LS allows you to build the blocklist in real time.

I would guess that to the extent the blocklists include things that are loaded by applications and not websites, they are almost entirely built by users of something like LittleSnitch or OpenSnitch. This is also entirely doable with wireshark logs, but I think that requires more infrastructure to build into usable lists.

New comment by LamaOfRuin in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

LamaOfRuin — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:20:35 +0000

That seems... not correct?

The comment was asking about preventing a compromised supplier for the developers.

A supply chain attack can be anywhere in the supply chain to the target. If I, the end user, am the target, then a supply chain attack compromising the developer of LittleSnitch is effective.

I may then be a conduit to compromising other software or components, and would both I and LittleSnitch would be part of the supply chain that could be attacked targeting them.

New comment by LamaOfRuin in "US Job Market Visualizer"

LamaOfRuin — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:48:10 +0000

This is in fact true (in the US at least), but part of why it is true is that people don't wash dishes the way they used to (with multiple bins of soapy + rinse water) and instead just run a bunch of hot water.

Modern high-efficiency dishwashers probably beat the most efficient humans now, but that's relatively recent and not a huge margin (and may not get the same results).

New comment by LamaOfRuin in "Hardening Firefox with Anthropic's Red Team"

LamaOfRuin — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 14:26:56 +0000

For those not aware, this is a specific feature available in Claude Code.

https://support.claude.com/en/articles/11932705-automated-se...

New comment by LamaOfRuin in "LICENSE: _may be_ licensed to use source code; incorrect license grant"

LamaOfRuin — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 21:49:42 +0000

I believe they generally refer to themselves as open-core.

New comment by LamaOfRuin in "Mozilla's open source AI strategy"

LamaOfRuin — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 16:11:11 +0000

Opera was also essential at this point, not in terms of market share, but of innovation in the browser space with features that would eventually spread to everything else.

New comment by LamaOfRuin in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"

LamaOfRuin — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:14:06 +0000

Some of them do. There are very few products or services where all of them will.

New comment by LamaOfRuin in "We need to start doing web blocking for non-technical reasons"

LamaOfRuin — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 15:38:11 +0000

I am blocked from this post.

New comment by LamaOfRuin in "Abandoned land drives dangerous heat in Houston, study finds"

LamaOfRuin — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 17:30:05 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_daytime_radiative_cool...

New comment by LamaOfRuin in "Abandoned land drives dangerous heat in Houston, study finds"

LamaOfRuin — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 21:11:37 +0000

This is still just moving the heat around, but with metamaterials you can now passively convert the heat energy into wavelengths that do not get absorbed by the atmosphere and beam a decent chunk of it back into space.

New comment by LamaOfRuin in "Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event – September 2025"

LamaOfRuin — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 12:49:00 +0000

I didn't say it was clear, and I never said there was a defense. I implied that the wronged party in one case might want to be careful about raising the specter of liability or criminality.

New comment by LamaOfRuin in "Rubygems.org AWS Root Access Event – September 2025"

LamaOfRuin — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 19:50:29 +0000

If Andre doing that was criminal, it seems quite possible that their original takeover of the github organization was also criminal?

I have been waiting to hear if there would be any civil action on it since it's not at all clear they had any rights to do most of what they did.

New comment by LamaOfRuin in "Solar energy is now the cheapest source of power, study"

LamaOfRuin — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 19:09:22 +0000

Yeah. The temperature issue would have been my first guess.

Regarding concentrating solar: are people still trying to make that work for commercial generation? I thought this had generally failed to pan out for electricity generation.

New comment by LamaOfRuin in "LinkedIn sues software company allegedly scraping data from profiles"

LamaOfRuin — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 19:39:48 +0000

But linkedin is doing so in accordance with the legal agreement you have with them, which I am able to exit at any time and instruct them to remove my data. I can't do this for every company that illegally (in many jurisdictions) hordes information about me.

New comment by LamaOfRuin in "I still love PHP and JavaScript (2022)"

LamaOfRuin — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 21:35:42 +0000

This is not the definition of a static site.

New comment by LamaOfRuin in "Framework Making Printers"

LamaOfRuin — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 12:36:21 +0000

I fully endorse this:

https://www.theverge.com/tech/641940/best-printer-2025-just-...

New comment by LamaOfRuin in "Use One Big Server (2022)"

LamaOfRuin — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 16:25:33 +0000

Linode was bought by Akamai. They immediately raised prices, and they have been, if anything, less reliable.

New comment by LamaOfRuin in "Show HN: Anonymous Age Verification"

LamaOfRuin — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 21:25:00 +0000

You've said this a couple times, but... it's not true?

Webauthn allows for software authenticators and there is nothing to stop you from transferring it complete with keys to someone else.