Hacker News: M95D

New comment by M95D in "The future of everything is lies, I guess – Part 5: Annoyances"

M95D — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:38:06 +0000

Since when are (human) managers accountable?

New comment by M95D in "Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates"

M95D — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:33:08 +0000

Then it wouldnt' be a central signing authority. Not that it matters. Several signing authorities would not equally divide the clients. One would emerge as central, become corrupted by industry commercial interests, promoted further by them, and end up some sort of Google of signing where you can't do anything on your computer without their knowledge and approval.

My second argument stands.

New comment by M95D in "France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk"

M95D — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:31:36 +0000

Social validation brings incompetent users expecting something like Windows that "just works".

Even if they could bring some bug reports... We have lots of those already! We have decades of ignored bug reports.

New comment by M95D in "France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk"

M95D — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:21:04 +0000

I fear this might be just license costs cutting and not something that Linux and FOSS will benefit from.

New comment by M95D in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

M95D — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:38:36 +0000

> The way to make kernel modules is to submit them to the kernel.

Then it would need to be published as GPL, but with no guarantee that it will ever be accepted.

> Not really sure what a “universal kernel module” really is.

A .ko that can be loaded in a wide range of kernel versions.

> Also that seems irrelevant because it seems this was implemented in eBPF so no kernel modules are required.

And it has serious limitations. There's a chapter of them in the readme.

New comment by M95D in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

M95D — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:31:42 +0000

Please explain #2. How is a filtering proxy security through obscurity?

New comment by M95D in "Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service"

M95D — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:29:12 +0000

No, since I don't expect the article to be wrong. Sensationalist - yes, a little.

New comment by M95D in "Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates"

M95D — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:50:10 +0000

> I like the idea of a central signing authority for open source.

It would be the most corrupt(ible) org ever involved in open source and it would promote locked-down computing, as that would be their main reason to exist. Be careful what you wish for!

New comment by M95D in "Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service"

M95D — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:24:49 +0000

They love trees. What they hate is sharing their trees with everyone else!

New comment by M95D in "Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service"

M95D — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:25:29 +0000

It is explained in the article. You should read it.

New comment by M95D in "John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement"

M95D — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:00:12 +0000

Fuel is a consumable, and fuel gauge is also a consumable? You have lots of terrible judges if anyone could seriously consider that argument.

New comment by M95D in "Newly created Polymarket accounts win big on well-timed Iran ceasefire bets"

M95D — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:51:18 +0000

It's their job and if they're good at it, they still win / earn money. Someone who's staying eyes glued to the price charts on 12 stacked monitors will be the first to see a trend and buy/sell immediately after the action of the insider trader.

New comment by M95D in "IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember"

M95D — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:19:42 +0000

> A service I'm using its public IP for, routing through public network connections over the public internet, but somehow its not public networking its private networking despite private networks not really being involved. Got it. Having firewall rules suddenly makes it private networking, somehow.

It's a private service exposed to public networks when it shouldn't be. That's not how it's done. You are taking risks. I'm sure others would agree with me if this article wasn't this old.

> Why limit myself to having to memorize weird ports when I can just use the standard ones?

For the reasons I explained before, mainly LAN security and DNS not working with dynamic IP allocations. But, go ahead, have it your way. Each of us have our own priorities in life. Convenience is a valid choice. Keep those offline backups updated.

New comment by M95D in "John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement"

M95D — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:59:01 +0000

No, that's not the answer. It only applies to those people who have time and energy to spare to do that reasearch. I'm not talking just farming equipment, but ordinary items such as a vacuum cleaner or printer.

If you're low income, work 2 jobs, single parent, get home at 23:00 broken tired, want a meal but your fridge just broke down and everything is spoiled inside, you don't spend 2 more hours doing reasearch. You clean it, go to bed hungry, call repair in the morning (optional, if your hopes are high), and when they tell you it's not repairable, you get the first new fridge you can afford in a 10 min online search while on the bus/train/tram being late to work.

Reasearch, self-repair, is for wealthy people.

New comment by M95D in "John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement"

M95D — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:44:25 +0000

I'm no farmer, but brand loyalty might have practical reasons, such as compatibility with attached farming equipment (plows?).

New comment by M95D in "John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement"

M95D — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:40:49 +0000

They had to go out of their way to make it not work after you replace the battery with a good one.

New comment by M95D in "John Deere to pay $99M in right-to-repair settlement"

M95D — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:39:16 +0000

In EU, a product such as this would have a 2 year minimum warranty. How long was yours?

New comment by M95D in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

M95D — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:19:09 +0000

Yes, PiHole is the most common, but malware can easily bypass that using shared domains, P2P or IP addresses directly.

Use a filtering proxy instead and no gateway / route to the internet.

New comment by M95D in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

M95D — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:15:09 +0000

It's because there's no way to make universal kernel modules/drivers, like it is on Windows.

New comment by M95D in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

M95D — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:11:37 +0000

Does it contain Firefox? How about Chrome?

Quote from LittleSnitch:

> Little Snitch for Linux is built for privacy, not security

What's your definion of malware in this context?