Hacker News: Mindwipe

New comment by Mindwipe in "New Apple Silicon M4 and M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays"

Mindwipe — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:52:20 +0000

Given how on fire the rest of MacOS currently is I think incompetent management simply not caring about regression testing is more likely.

New comment by Mindwipe in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

Mindwipe — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:38:14 +0000

> The EU has zero knowledge proof age verification systems

No, they don't. And they can't.

New comment by Mindwipe in "The shady world of IP leasing"

Mindwipe — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 10:00:25 +0000

I hate to break it to you but services have been routinely blocking residential IPs associated with being part of VPN endpoints for the better part of a decade now. Akamai will even sell you (granted they are just reselling another vendors product) a database to do this.

New comment by Mindwipe in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

Mindwipe — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 15:22:53 +0000

The Pro really looks like it's struggling for a reason to exist given how much cheaper this will be and the difference in feature set.

New comment by Mindwipe in "Warner Bros signs $110B deal with Paramount"

Mindwipe — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:26:35 +0000

Yes, 100%.

If they wanted the policial platforms and had offered to buy them from Warner as standalone for a tenth of the cost Warner would have snapped their hand off.

They need the IP for scale. That is what this is about.

New comment by Mindwipe in "GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple"

Mindwipe — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:51:17 +0000

You won't pass Google Play hardware attestation that way, and you won't find a bank in Europe or the UK that doesn't require that to log on to their website within five years.

New comment by Mindwipe in "GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple"

Mindwipe — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:40:54 +0000

The DSA European digital wallet spec currently requires Google or Apple attestation, so not for much longer.

And that is mandated by the EU.

New comment by Mindwipe in "News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns"

Mindwipe — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:52:37 +0000

Given the Times and the Guardian are British they will be archived by the British Library, as it's a legal obligation.

That doesn't mean anything American library that doesn't pay authors Public Lending Right fees gets to.

New comment by Mindwipe in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

Mindwipe — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 13:14:38 +0000

Just fucking revert the UI at this point. It's a disaster on macOS.

New comment by Mindwipe in "Microsoft is walking back Windows 11's AI overload"

Mindwipe — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 12:46:49 +0000

I'll believe it when I see it. Windows many problems are the results of five years of terrible strategy and not caring about if users actually like your platform. It will require sustained effort over a long period to fix.

New comment by Mindwipe in "Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media"

Mindwipe — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 10:55:08 +0000

> Presentation of someone else's valid credentials is not fixable by any privacy-preserving mechanism.

And that is precisely why governments will never implement a privacy-preserving mechanism, which is exactly my point.

Compromised tokens would be trivially google-able within a day otherwise.

New comment by Mindwipe in "Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media"

Mindwipe — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 10:53:33 +0000

The EU Digital Identity Wallet isn't zero knowledge. I mean it's just not. It relies on Google Play Integrity Attestation on Android and the iOS equivalent on Apple devices because those give it a revocation mechanism, and those aren't zero knowledge.

https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-doc-technic...

It says that it wants to be zero knowledge, but it has no zero knowledge implementation and no plan of how it even possibly could be zero knowledge, and it never will precisely because that is incompatible with the revocation requirements set down by the EU.

New comment by Mindwipe in "Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media"

Mindwipe — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 18:29:03 +0000

There is no such thing in practice.

Anything with zero knowledge is never going to be considered robust enough by a government. Zero knowledge protocols really have no functional revocation mechanism.

New comment by Mindwipe in "Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device"

Mindwipe — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 17:50:05 +0000

I mean the main reason it exists is because. Nvidia spent a bunch of money designing and fabbing the Tegra for automotive use and nobody bought it so the project was desperate to find a customer rather than out of the goodness of their hearts. That's also why they sold it to Nintendo at a bargain basement price for the Switch.

I strongly suspect the reality is that they had to give Nintendo so much money back due to the complete failure of the bootloader security that they still produce the Shield as Jensen still demands they claw their way back to break even.

New comment by Mindwipe in "Nvidia's 10-year effort to make the Shield TV the most updated Android device"

Mindwipe — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 17:33:59 +0000

Unless Valve are going to do some work to enable that and support a hardware backed chain of trust for drivers that's not going to happen.

(I think it should happen but that's not the same as that it will.)

New comment by Mindwipe in "(Open) Widevine support added to the OpenBSD Chromium port"

Mindwipe — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 17:28:02 +0000

I did say that in the second half of the sentence.

But it still isn't an example of someone shipping an open source DRM module - it's just software to crack DRM with a leaked key.

(Incidentally and this is not legal advice, but if you are in one of many European territories and downloading software from Git here I would encourage people to think about the possibility you are committing an actual criminal offence by doing so, as you are "importing" it by virtue obtaining it from a US entity.)

New comment by Mindwipe in "Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries"

Mindwipe — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:01:42 +0000

It's symbolism unless planting a stooge to lower interest rates below any economic justification in April causes a significant slide on the dollar's value. In which case its a great investment move.

New comment by Mindwipe in "Amazon is ending all inventory commingling as of March 31, 2026"

Mindwipe — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:41:10 +0000

Wow, there'll be entire categories of product that it will be worth buying from Amazon again.

New comment by Mindwipe in "CD Projekt issue DMCA takedown notice against popular Cyberpunk VR mod"

Mindwipe — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 11:09:47 +0000

They have a business presence in the US, and sent it there.

New comment by Mindwipe in "(Open) Widevine support added to the OpenBSD Chromium port"

Mindwipe — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 18:16:10 +0000

It isn't, it's just an open source library to talk to the closed source Widevine plugin included with Chrome, or, in this case with keys illicitly obtained from a broken Google plugin that they haven't revoked yet.

There were some open source white box cryptography attempts fifteen or so years ago and they didn't work because of precisely what you say.