Hacker News: Santosh83

New comment by Santosh83 in "JPEG XL Test Page"

Santosh83 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 09:44:06 +0000

Wonderful. Allow an "unmonitored" extension from a random stranger on the Internet have access to "all data for all websites" just to support an image format for which Mozilla should have long built in native support...

New comment by Santosh83 in "AV1 Image File Format Specification Gets an Upgrade with AVIF v1.2.0"

Santosh83 — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:01:18 +0000

So when will support come to libavif, libaom, aom-tools and concerned packages? Are they pushed on to Arch already? Or still just upstream github for now?

New comment by Santosh83 in "A Year of Work on the Arch Linux Package Management (ALPM) Project"

Santosh83 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 15:50:54 +0000

> The GnuPG upstream has denounced the IETF-driven OpenPGP standardization process and has subsequently been removed from other major package management software such as apt and rpm over the last three years. Compatibility with other OpenPGP implementations is no longer guaranteed...

What?? First time I'm hearing of this schism. I wish the FOSS community had less disagreements all over the place.

New comment by Santosh83 in "LearnixOS"

Santosh83 — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 15:16:50 +0000

Why always POSIX compliant? If its going to be a learning exercise or a hobby OS or just an exploration, why not throw POSIX out the window and start from scratch for designing the API?

New comment by Santosh83 in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

Santosh83 — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 06:51:24 +0000

He's mainly talking about environmental & social consequences now and in the future. He personally is beyond reach of such consequences given his seniority and age, so this speculative tangent is detracting from his main point, to put it charitably.

New comment by Santosh83 in "Phoenix: A modern X server written from scratch in Zig"

Santosh83 — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 01:23:21 +0000

They do have a reference implementation: weston and libweston but as far as I know, third parties don't use. They implement all their own functionality. Weston is confined more as a prototype.

New comment by Santosh83 in "I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone"

Santosh83 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 01:28:27 +0000

The only Hard requirements are a CPU with SSE 4.2 and POPCNT. Win11 will simply not install on older CPUs. The rest of the requirements can be bypassed but Microsoft will block you from the annual major feature upgrades. You will have to do those manually too. They also claim that your stability and performance on pre-8th Gen CPUs will be degraded and they will give no support, but in reality it runs just fine. Win11 is sluggish on all CPUs anyway.

New comment by Santosh83 in "Italian bears living near villages have evolved to be smaller and less agressive"

Santosh83 — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 01:30:58 +0000

When will humans evolve to be less aggressive before we devolve into catastrophic collapse?

New comment by Santosh83 in "8M users' AI conversations sold for profit by "privacy" extensions"

Santosh83 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 06:05:01 +0000

Yeah IT pros and tech aware "power" users can always take these measures but the very availability of poor or maliciously coded extensions and apps in popular app stores makes it a problem considering normies will get swayed by the swanky features the software promises and will click past all misgivings and warnings. Social engineering attacks are impossible to prevent using technical means alone. Either a critical mass of ordinary people need to become more safety/privacy conscious or general purpose computing devices will become more & more niche as the very industry which creates these problems in the first place by poor review will also sell the solution of universal thin-clients and locked down devices, of course with the very happy cooperation of govts everywhere.

New comment by Santosh83 in "The Tor Project is switching to Rust"

Santosh83 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 17:16:44 +0000

Visiting this site with a freshly installed, stock Tor browser (therefore with JS enabled, no settings changed from defaults) on Debian stable gives me:

"Our tests indicate that you have strong protection against Web tracking."

"Within our dataset of several hundred thousand visitors tested in the past 45 days, only one in 301.9 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.

Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 8.24 bits of identifying information."

Interestingly, increasing the Tor Browser Security level from Safe to Safer actually increased the bits of identifying information and reduced the anonymity:

"Within our dataset of several hundred thousand visitors tested in the past 45 days, only one in 832.32 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.

Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 9.7 bits of identifying information."

And at the Safest Security level (i.e. with JS diabled) the identifying bits and anonymization appear to be at their best:

"Within our dataset of several hundred thousand visitors tested in the past 45 days, only one in 261.41 browsers have the same fingerprint as yours.

Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys 8.03 bits of identifying information."

Anthropic donates MCP to the Linux Foundation for open and accessible AI

Santosh83 — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:38:08 +0000

Article URL: https://aaif.io/press/linux-foundation-announces-the-formation-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation-aaif-anchored-by-new-project-contributions-including-model-context-protocol-mcp-goose-and-agents-md/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46235186

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Paradox of open source: where critical infrastructure projects languish

Santosh83 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 14:31:09 +0000

Article URL: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/-/commit/9c80a89af2fdf4f853892f84e46580f4902658ba

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205280

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Santosh83 in "Show HN: Explore what the browser exposes about you"

Santosh83 — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 09:12:46 +0000

What we need is VPB. Virtual Private Browser like VPNs. Essentially standardised cloud browsers that can execute your requests and send you back the result as bitmap buffers.

New comment by Santosh83 in "Go's Sweet 16"

Santosh83 — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 10:08:28 +0000

For Rust I'd expect the implementation to be the real beast, versus the language itself. But not sure how it compares to C++ implementation complexity.

New comment by Santosh83 in "This Month in Ladybird – October 2025"

Santosh83 — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 14:09:15 +0000

How is withholding Widevine CDM not anti-competitive behaviour?

New comment by Santosh83 in "Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy"

Santosh83 — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 19:33:17 +0000

Yes most web properties have voluntarily adopted Cf as their only protection option. Do you or I have the power to get hundreds of millions if not billions of these properties off of Cf? No, so yes they're a reality of the Web at this point, sadly. They can be no more avoided than say the tier 1 ISPs.

APT36 hackers abuse Linux .desktop files to install malware in new attacks

Santosh83 — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 19:48:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/apt36-hackers-abuse-linux-desktop-files-to-install-malware/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44989001

Points: 10

# Comments: 2

Linyaps: Next-Gen Universal Package Manager for Linux

Santosh83 — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 20:55:28 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/OpenAtom-Linyaps/linyaps

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44917152

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by Santosh83 in "Adult sites are stashing exploit code inside svg files"

Santosh83 — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 15:07:20 +0000

This used to be the case many years ago. But these days practically every site pulls in content from several other sites, sometimes dozens. Fine tuning noscript to get such a site to work without obscure breakage will take a long time of trial & error, reloading again & again. Now consider that you've to do this for every one of your regular sites.

Noscript is just too painful for people who want to just browse the web. Its the gentoo of browser extensions. People with massive time & patience can do it yes, but the rest of us are best served by uBlock & standard browser protections.

New comment by Santosh83 in "Debian 13 “Trixie”"

Santosh83 — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 12:33:26 +0000

Arch isn't truly community driven?