Hacker News: Moru

New comment by Moru in "No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter"

Moru — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 07:22:29 +0000

Exactly this. The black box in this case is a problem because it's not in my computer. It transfers the users data to an external entity that can use this data to train it's model or sell it.

Not everyone uses their browser just to surf social media, some people use it for creating things, log in to walled gardens to work creatively. They do not want to send this data to an AI company to train on, to make themselves redundant.

Discussing the inner workings of an AI isn't helping, this is not what most people really worry about. Most people don't know how any of it works but they do notice that people get fired because the AI can do their job.

New comment by Moru in "No AI* Here – A Response to Mozilla's Next Chapter"

Moru — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 07:16:56 +0000

No, a tank is obviously better at all those things. They should clearly be used by everyone, including the paratrooper. Never mind the extra fuel costs or weight, all that matters is that it gets the job done best.

New comment by Moru in "Microsoft increases Office 365 and Microsoft 365 license prices"

Moru — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 07:22:22 +0000

The office you are talking about is not what it used to be a few decades ago. I am not into this world but what I know of it is like you are comparing a tool to the whole workshop. No, the tool does not replace the workshop, the tool is a very small part of the workshop.

There are alternatives but when you have bought into the full ecosystem of MS, it will take a lot of work to move.

(Full disclosure: I work with both Linux and Windows at a small company where Office means what you mean with office. They are all using libreoffice but call it office)

New comment by Moru in "The Lost Machine Automats and Self-Service Cafeterias of NYC (2023)"

Moru — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 06:45:26 +0000

Not only american portions. I'm a remote worker since 20+ years. My first visit to the main workplace eating lunch was a revelation. The portion size was gigantic! And my coworkers (none having a physical job) was done within 15 minutes while I took a lot longer to not even finish half of my portion. It was at least five times my normal lunch portion. Insane. And the prices were lower than our village.

New comment by Moru in "You can't refuse to be scanned by ICE's facial recognition app, DHS document say"

Moru — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 16:51:39 +0000

It's a bit worse now [1] with Trump in lead.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnUO0Plcpbo

New comment by Moru in "183M Gmail Passwords Leaked"

Moru — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 09:32:02 +0000

If I understood the follow up blogpost right, it states that there is a lot of email adresses where the only hit is the email domain so they are filtering away that as false positives. Not all stolen credentials are properly aligned and encoded with ; on the correct place I guess :-)

There might be a lot less gmail adresses showing up as pwned now.

New comment by Moru in "Tags to make HTML work like you expect"

Moru — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 12:27:29 +0000

Not to mention the functions are also translated to the other language. I think both these are the fault of Excel to be honest. I had this problem long before Google came around.

And it's really irritating when you have the computer read something out to you that contains numbers. 53.1 km reads like you expect but 53,1 km becomes "fifty-three (long pause) one kilometer".

New comment by Moru in "Iceland reports the presence of mosquitoes as climate warms"

Moru — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 02:45:14 +0000

It's not completely true that the mosquitos don't carry things here. We do have something called Tularemia [1] (Harpest). Also it seems the first mosquitos for the season are more potent that later during the year.

And for personal anecdotal evidence, my wife gets more problems with mosquitos here than I do. When we visit her home country I get more problems than she does.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tularemia

New comment by Moru in "Why the open social web matters now"

Moru — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 09:19:07 +0000

A small cost to enter just means the capital still controls the narrative. As long as we can't even stop bullying physically in schools, we will not be able to have a civil social media. Start in the kindergarten and fix the problems with next generation or it will just get worse.

New comment by Moru in "A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size"

Moru — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 08:30:01 +0000

You could even download a wikipedia article, do your changes to it and upload it to 250 githubs to strengthen your influence on the LLM.

New comment by Moru in "Signal Protocol and Post-Quantum Ratchets"

Moru — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 23:00:27 +0000

It's only a certain type of man that they are talking about. We are not that type of men I guess. Can't say I know anyone what that problem to be honest. And yes, I have heard that saying before. Didn't work then and doesn't work now.

New comment by Moru in "Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its tech in mass surveillance of Palestinians"

Moru — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 14:42:16 +0000

The 1000 civilians dead were in connection to food distribution. That number should be 0 even in a war zone.

Israel has been taking over palestinian villages for a very long time, murdering the inhabitants. The government is fueling the hate. They aren't even affraid to say it out aloud. I have seen several reports where they are calling for genocide.

New comment by Moru in "Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its tech in mass surveillance of Palestinians"

Moru — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 09:23:10 +0000

I watch independent news from official sources, not an american news source.

New comment by Moru in "When I say “alphabetical order”, I mean “alphabetical order”"

Moru — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 05:39:57 +0000

Sorting dates: This is why there is an international standard of having YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss in the order we have it. We got to learn this in school in the 80-ies because sorting paper documents would be more logical and easier to find stuff. So way before most people got computerized.

It just happens to be the most logical way to sort for computers too, as long as humans are involved in the usage of the data.

New comment by Moru in "Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its tech in mass surveillance of Palestinians"

Moru — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 08:04:44 +0000

The killings are not only direct hits with bullets. They are also blocking food, medicine and healthcare. Noone can survive without food. The goal is not to kill hamas, that was just the excuse, it is to clear the ground for new settlements.

New comment by Moru in "The story of DOGE, as told by federal workers"

Moru — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 06:43:09 +0000

There are organisations keeping track of this.

"All the extremist-related murders in 2024 were committed by right-wing extremists of various kinds, with eight of the 13 killings involving white supremacists and the remaining five having connections to far-right anti-government extremists. This is the third year in a row that right-wing extremists have been connected to all identified extremist-related killings."

[0] https://www.adl.org/resources/report/murder-and-extremism-un...

New comment by Moru in "Low Earth Orbit Visualization"

Moru — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 08:40:43 +0000

A true-to-scale visualization would however be entirely misleading for everyone since it would be completely empty. Just look up in the sky at a clear sky. You would hardly see a single satelite and a visualization on a computer screen would show even less due to pixel size.

New comment by Moru in "Americans crushed by auto loans as defaults and repossessions surge"

Moru — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 08:44:05 +0000

Yes, this is very much the case here in Sweden. When people started thinking about environment and second hand became fashion, all the second hand stores suddenly became as expensive as buying new. I have always been buying second hand so I'm a bit miffed.

New comment by Moru in "DuckDB NPM packages 1.3.3 and 1.29.2 compromised with malware"

Moru — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 05:51:38 +0000

Yes, this is a classic scam vector. We really should stop training users to click links / call phonenumbers in sms and emails.

New comment by Moru in "DuckDB NPM packages 1.3.3 and 1.29.2 compromised with malware"

Moru — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 05:49:55 +0000

There is companies that send email with invoices where you have to click a link. There is no way of logging in on their site to get to the invoice. It is an easy fix for them (we use the same invoicing company as they do so I know). All they need to do is click "Allow sending bills directly to customers bank". Every month I get the email, I use the included chat function on the webpage to ask when they will enable this and it's always not possible. Mabe some day.

I wish we could stop training people to click links in random messages just because we want to be able to track their movements online.