Hacker News: MarleTangible

New comment by MarleTangible in "Microsoft Teams is a red flag"

MarleTangible — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 19:14:19 +0000

Don't forget that you need to randomly login again for teams, again for outlook, and for whatever reason the onedrive website will not open unless you try multiple times.

New comment by MarleTangible in "Fingerprints are the new cookies"

MarleTangible — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:20:08 +0000

> Global Privacy Control detected. Advertising cookies are turned OFF.

Yes, I love this. My browser is already sending "do not track" requests.

New comment by MarleTangible in "What ArtCraft's Vibe-Coded Apps Say About Adobe"

MarleTangible — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 19:51:15 +0000

As of today, just the Adobe Reader is 3.5GB on disk. So they're doing something, but I don't know what it is. A similar pdf reader app is around 300MB, and Foxit Reader is 950MB with more features.

New comment by MarleTangible in "Rpi – a Rust rewrite of the Pi agent, 10× faster startup"

MarleTangible — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 19:33:14 +0000

The table corrected:

  Metric          rpi (Rust)   Pi (TypeScript)   Difference
  --version       17.5 ms      169.5 ms          9.7x faster
  Cold start      17.7 ms      189.5 ms          10.7x faster
  RSS when ready  12.0 MiB     91.5 MiB          7.6x smaller
  Install size    21.8 MiB     ~385 MiB          ~18x smaller

New comment by MarleTangible in "28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days"

MarleTangible — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:25:53 +0000

Reposts from recruiting agencies or other unrelated companies to resell the candidates or simply farm user details for fraud etc.

New comment by MarleTangible in "28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days"

MarleTangible — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:24:06 +0000

There are also a lot of reposts coming from recruiting companies.

I see a position getting posted for a local company, and within hours the same requirements are showing up for 10 new postings with vague company names like "... is wanted for a local manufacturer" etc.

New comment by MarleTangible in "Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM"

MarleTangible — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 10:24:17 +0000

One of the comments mentioned that they have a bus size of 2048, which may be why the latency is higher.

> These chips have a massive bus size of 2048 bits, instead of the 64 or 128 bits (dual channel) used by DDR5.

New comment by MarleTangible in "Data collected by cars and sold to third parties"

MarleTangible — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:23:14 +0000

Honda found a work around where they show you a warning on your dash if you disable data collection, similar to maintenance being due or low fuel.

New comment by MarleTangible in "Google copied our open-source code, removed engineers' names without credit"

MarleTangible — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:25:41 +0000

We were blaming Bambu Lab, but apparently Google is no different.

New comment by MarleTangible in "Thanks to Siri Recaps, your Apple Watch is always listening"

MarleTangible — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:52:58 +0000

I would like to raise another question. If I recap a meeting onto physical paper, by hand, is it still considered a felony?

The point I'm trying to make by this exaggeration is that sometimes the information itself is private and recording that information causes issues as well.

e.g. a military personal taking a pen and paper and listing some secret information they know of, this piece of paper by definition is also subject to regulation that is supposed to keep secret information secure.

New comment by MarleTangible in "Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft"

MarleTangible — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:43:17 +0000

I'm quite skeptical of rust usage leading to anything that helps consumers. Microsoft managed to add arbitrary code execution to Notepad. And it all points to a total disregard of the end-user, not lack of talent or capacity.

New comment by MarleTangible in "Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft"

MarleTangible — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:39:32 +0000

Reminds me of how they allow OEMs to install bloatware through Windows update now. I believe LG did something that leads to various app installs when you connect their monitors via HDMI.

New comment by MarleTangible in "Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft"

MarleTangible — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:36:47 +0000

Outlook, Teams, and other all show up as msedgewebview2.exe, so you also don't know which app is consuming gigs of memory doing nothing.

New comment by MarleTangible in "OpenLogi"

MarleTangible — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 14:34:32 +0000

They also installed their AI apps to users' computers through their mouse driver without asking anyone.

New comment by MarleTangible in "OpenLogi"

MarleTangible — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:52:46 +0000

I have no idea why a mouse driver is the single largest program I have to restore my computer.

New comment by MarleTangible in "Seats on hundreds of Boeing 737MAX were incorrectly installed:US aviation agency"

MarleTangible — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:19:41 +0000

> the aft fitting shear plungers were not correctly lowered and not engaged in the seat tracks. [0]

To be honest, in an emergency, this can easily create the perfect storm.

[0] https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/07/27/2026-15...

New comment by MarleTangible in "Advertise in ChatGPT"

MarleTangible — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:14:48 +0000

You know who else sounds like LLM from time to time? ESL - English as a Second Language. People learn English from books, and get introduced to phrases through reading or interacting with others within the same community. So, it sounds like you're using the LLM argument as a way to diminish their voices as well.

New comment by MarleTangible in "Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]"

MarleTangible — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:03:54 +0000

I always saw it as a trust-chain and think that anyone is welcomed to create a root certificate and distribute it to whomever trusts them. Most simple services may not need TLS, but with the ISPs eavesdropping on our communication, a form of secure communication is required and the currently best solution we have requires a trust-chain to be built.

New comment by MarleTangible in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

MarleTangible — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:09:20 +0000

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is. Well, it gets complicated quickly when a wide range of users involved.

New comment by MarleTangible in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

MarleTangible — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:35:51 +0000

And YouTube recently (and silently) started approving multiple in-add ads for videos longer than 20 minutes. They destroyed the long-form content creators with their shorts push, and now it looks like they're trying to recover a little.