Hacker News: Peacefulz

New comment by Peacefulz in "Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out"

Peacefulz — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:34:22 +0000

I don't know how I missed such a cool redirector back in Web1.0.

The Old Web was, as most people here state, left behind in favor of the Walled Gardens of social media. The barrier to the watering hole was so low. I don't blame technical people for following their friends and family into these places. It kinda sucks that they let their marks on the web fade and expire.

That didn't have to happen. My personal site is going to live on the web as long as I do, and hopefully further if I can manage it. I don't care how much traffic I generate.

New comment by Peacefulz in "The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist"

Peacefulz — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:55:50 +0000

I've moved between three managers in the past two years and all of them supported importing and exporting your full lists. That could be a recent development, though. I admit, I haven't used an apple product in a long time, so you could be right. I don't trust SMS, because I don't trust cleartext over the air. Too many people have too much time on their hands and information is too readily available.

New comment by Peacefulz in "The other Sean Byrne doesn't exist"

Peacefulz — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 10:31:28 +0000

I suggest exporting your password manager && your topt keychain onto an encrypted flash drive. I went through the horrors of having a phone die on me after migrating my topt to a local solution. Having a valid login cookie on bitwarden on my laptop was the only thing that saved me.

New comment by Peacefulz in "Delete DoorDash"

Peacefulz — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 03:42:58 +0000

The Socials doc is creepy. You'd think an organic local movement wouldn't require what amounts to a Turf doc.

New comment by Peacefulz in "Show HN: Nightcrawler – A local AI pentesting agent running on a smartphone"

Peacefulz — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:45:01 +0000

If getting it out there in the world is more important to you than stamping your name on it, pass it out to a friend who can publish it. Continue any related development in private. They can't stop you from distributing something they don't know you're developing.

New comment by Peacefulz in "The lost civic life of movie rental stores"

Peacefulz — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:51:51 +0000

As I age, my desire for friends for friends' sake diminishes. If someone doesn't offer something to my life that I value, I'll have a hard time putting energy into them.

It was so easy to make strong bonds as a kid, captive with other kids in a building most of the time. Now there is a cost:benefit I have to weigh a persons worth to me against.

New comment by Peacefulz in "A missing underscore sent innocent man to prison for 18 months"

Peacefulz — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 06:12:31 +0000

Hmm. No mention of a need for subpoena on the google end... Wonder why that is? Is that rubber stamp just public knowledge at this point? Google and Apple both are appendages of the State.

New comment by Peacefulz in "Pope's official prayer app commits cardinal sin, leaks 700K+ users' info"

Peacefulz — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 19:56:30 +0000

I love bobdahackers work. Always a treat to see.

New comment by Peacefulz in "IRGC claims it destroyed Amazon's Bahrain data center"

Peacefulz — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:00:48 +0000

An aggressor state doesn't get to cry foul play. I don't care what Ukraine has to resort to so they can defend their sovereignty. If Russia doesn't like how the game is being played, they can take their ball and go home.

New comment by Peacefulz in "Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story"

Peacefulz — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 20:22:54 +0000

I agree with your stance mostly. I get the sentiment, but both of your examples seem civil to me. Both of those situations can and ideally should be resolved out of the courts, and neither carry social weight.

If one entity is injured by another, and subsequently made whole, however the two parties define that, then it is none of my business.

New comment by Peacefulz in "The Kids' Guide to Piracy"

Peacefulz — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 20:08:09 +0000

I got shut off for seeding Wrestlemania. No warnings or letters. Just a disconnect. AT&T fiber, I believe.

I reached support who told me the reasoning. I fed that tech a line saying I let a house-sitter use my computer while out of town and they reinstatated me.

I got kind of disproportionately agitated decided to learn networking/security, so I can figure out just how much they (the ISP) knows, are able to know, and how I can mitigate it. Now, here we are.

New comment by Peacefulz in "I turned my bearblog into a text based adventure"

Peacefulz — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 05:23:47 +0000

I decided that rather than let my Bearblog account rot, I would repurpose it into a text-based adventure. The platform is surprisingly good at accommodating this use case.

This is an impulsive prompt on Claude Fable 5. I have a terrible imagination.

I turned my bearblog into a text based adventure

Peacefulz — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 05:23:47 +0000

Article URL: https://peaceful.bearblog.dev

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902611

Points: 21

# Comments: 3

New comment by Peacefulz in "Chatto is now open source"

Peacefulz — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:30:48 +0000

Let Chatto cast a shadow on your private communications!

The marketing practically writes itself.

New comment by Peacefulz in ".self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting"

Peacefulz — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 10:03:05 +0000

I was hoping to see the classic doctor redirect banner when I hit that link. Still so very cool that they kept their domain active this whole time!

New comment by Peacefulz in "Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation"

Peacefulz — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 18:15:26 +0000

What is objectivity?

“There is only a perspectival seeing, only a perspectival ‘knowing’; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our ‘concept’ of this thing, our ‘objectivity,’ be.” — Nietzsche:On the Genealogy of Morals III

It's a target. Objectivity does not appear in nature in a stable form. Nothing is fixed and certain. Some things just appear that way from our point of view.

New comment by Peacefulz in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

Peacefulz — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:10:18 +0000

I started rebuilding my phone from factory tonight, and I opted for the private profile partition inside of the main profile for my play store apps. It's accomplishing everything I wanted a fully separate profile to do without the hard switch.

New comment by Peacefulz in "Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos"

Peacefulz — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:19:46 +0000

At a growing LargeCo now, and have been entrusted to some internal flows as an associate. I honestly don't know how Ops Managers get through the day. So many pipelines with basically non-existent audit trails. So much money leaking from the cracks in these places that it's criminal. I wouldn't trust these people to hold my beer, let alone sensitive data.

New comment by Peacefulz in "AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere"

Peacefulz — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:33:10 +0000

If I planned on vibecoding a project, and during preparation I found a project that loosely fit my model, I may grab it and try to retrofit it to save on token consumption. If that had too many kinks, I'd probably start fresh, but it would be worth the initial attempt IMHO.

New comment by Peacefulz in "Company Will Add Phone, AirPod, and Smartwatch Trackers to ALPRs"

Peacefulz — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 08:40:24 +0000

I totally agree with the sentiment that interested parties are few and far between, but they exist. I have several disparate layers of obfuscation on the data I generate that I have control over. I understand that that is a signal in itself, but I'd rather my signal be a fog than rich data points.

My wife calls it paranoia but I call it protest.