Hacker News: TechieKid

New comment by TechieKid in "Intel exiting the PC business as it stops investment in the Intel NUC"

TechieKid — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 17:20:48 +0000

Any links to said "troubling rumors about Arc Gen 2"?

New comment by TechieKid in "Windows NT on 600MHz machine opens apps instantly. What happened?"

TechieKid — Fri, 23 Jun 2023 16:07:21 +0000

You can search with / on Firefox.

New comment by TechieKid in "Put an io_uring on it – Exploiting the Linux Kernel (2022)"

TechieKid — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 16:09:40 +0000

Also relevant news that Google has disabled io_uring for apps on Android and disabled it entirely on Chrome OS and production Google servers since 60% of the exploits (~$1M worth) submitted to the Google Vulnerability Rewards Program have been for io_uring: https://security.googleblog.com/2023/06/learnings-from-kctf-...

190 Device Models from 66 Manufacturers Vulnerable to Realtek SDK Exploit

TechieKid — Thu, 26 Jan 2023 20:06:15 +0000

Article URL: https://paulponraj.com/realtek-sdk-exploit/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34537963

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by TechieKid in "Rejecting data demands, ExpressVPN removes VPN servers in India"

TechieKid — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 17:16:54 +0000

Sidechannels in Signal is news to me. Can you provide some keywords to search for, or any links?

New comment by TechieKid in "I couldn't debug the code because of my name"

TechieKid — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 03:53:52 +0000

Discover (discover.com) currently has a similar bug where it'll allow me to login with my password, but will not accept the same password in the 'Change password' workflow as the old password, complaining about it being invalid. (shrug)

New comment by TechieKid in "Ask HN: Managing career progression for those with no interest in progressing?"

TechieKid — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 17:39:30 +0000

Is this across titles or even for promotions within the same title?

New comment by TechieKid in "Intel’s Arc GPUs will compete with GeForce and Radeon in early 2022"

TechieKid — Mon, 16 Aug 2021 17:06:12 +0000

Phoronix has been covering the Linux driver development for the cards as they happen: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=search&q=DG2

New comment by TechieKid in "SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code"

TechieKid — Thu, 31 Dec 2020 20:23:56 +0000

The update literally says that "found no evidence of access to production services or customer data."

Blue Origin pressures employees to travel to rural TX to test launch New Shepard

TechieKid — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 18:27:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/2/21198272/blue-origin-coronavirus-leaked-audio-test-launch-workers-jeff-bezos

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22772520

Points: 23

# Comments: 21

New comment by TechieKid in "U.S. government limits exports of artificial intelligence software"

TechieKid — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 06:00:28 +0000

As a person in the US who is not a PR or citizen and has worked on things the US Government likes to know are being exported, even exposure of the knowledge to a citizen of a target country is "deemed export." Google will probably have to reorganize its research center to comply with this and bring AI research that falls under this restriction back to the US. I don't disagree that it's futile though.

New comment by TechieKid in "Apple's products are getting harder to use, ignore principles of design (2015)"

TechieKid — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 06:25:25 +0000

I'm sure you know this, but, I think at least since Windows 7, while having the Alt+Tab "popup" open, you can use the arrow keys while holding Alt down to directly navigate to the window you want to open. Very useful if, like me, you have 20 windows of browser tabs open, and the application you want is in the middle of the list.

New comment by TechieKid in "Tell HN: I came up with an interesting way to do decentralized account recovery"

TechieKid — Thu, 11 Jul 2019 03:03:40 +0000

Plenty of comments now describing the fallout of token amounts.

New comment by TechieKid in "Is Firefox better than Chrome? It comes down to privacy"

TechieKid — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 23:35:19 +0000

Firefox uses Ctrl+Shift+Q to quit the entire browser now on Windows and Linux based platforms, presumably because of that reason. You might not need that Firefox extension anymore.

New comment by TechieKid in "Mozilla will reportedly launch a paid version of Firefox this fall"

TechieKid — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 14:29:05 +0000

Why would you not use ProtonMail? Genuine case of out of the loop.

New comment by TechieKid in "Linus Torvalds on Why ARM Won't Win the Server Space"

TechieKid — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 15:43:49 +0000

Usage of punctuation would make your attempt at communication more likely to serve its purpose.

Intel looking for public input on a US data privacy bill

TechieKid — Fri, 09 Nov 2018 17:15:02 +0000

Article URL: https://usprivacybill.intel.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18415998

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by TechieKid in "The Library of Congress has launched a new crowd-sourced transcription tool"

TechieKid — Tue, 30 Oct 2018 20:22:22 +0000

Counter example: Wikipedia

New comment by TechieKid in "IBM acquires Red Hat"

TechieKid — Sun, 28 Oct 2018 23:09:00 +0000

Assuming you are thinking of Thinkpads, IBM hasn't owned that since 2006.

New comment by TechieKid in "Tutanota, the First Encrypted Email App on F-Droid"

TechieKid — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 16:50:08 +0000

Also available on plain-vanilla Android. No affiliation.