Hacker News: Technetium

New comment by Technetium in "AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit"

Technetium — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:17:20 +0000

They were orphaned, so anyone could adopt them. There are 15k other orphans at the moment.

New comment by Technetium in "About the BLOBs in Ventoy"

Technetium — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 18:29:15 +0000

https://github.com/fnr1r is currently working on a reproducible open build system. If you wish to help the process, direct your attention there! You can see progress on the issues of their repos, as well as in this now (appropriately) locked issue: https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/2795

New comment by Technetium in "About the BLOBs in Ventoy"

Technetium — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 18:22:34 +0000

That would be quite an overblown reaction. There is currently no proof of malicious activity.

New comment by Technetium in "AWS merges malicious PR into Amazon Q"

Technetium — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 06:24:04 +0000

I found a postmortem which seems to be well written: https://www.mbgsec.com/posts/2025-07-24-constructing-a-timel...

New comment by Technetium in "Uv: Running a script with dependencies"

Technetium — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 01:46:49 +0000

Caching linked on the left: https://docs.astral.sh/uv/concepts/cache/ The index of the Concepts section says: "Looking for a quick introduction to features? See the guides instead."

Maybe there should instead be a link to the Concepts section for people who want more details, but I feel it's fine as it is.

New comment by Technetium in "Show HN: FlopperZiro – A DIY open-source Flipper Zero clone"

Technetium — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 23:05:25 +0000

The firmware repo was archived Apr 12, 2025. I don't think it's going to be revived or be feature-competitive.

New comment by Technetium in "ASUSpicious Flaw – Users' Information Exposed Since 2022"

Technetium — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 21:29:39 +0000

Unfun fact: that setting is often re-enabled after updates.

New comment by Technetium in "VPN providers in France ordered to block pirate sports IPTV"

Technetium — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:22:09 +0000

Can't ever trust a free VPN. If it's free, then you are the product being sold!

New comment by Technetium in "Claude 4"

Technetium — Thu, 22 May 2025 19:42:41 +0000

https://x.com/sleepinyourhat/status/1925626079043104830

"I deleted the earlier tweet on whistleblowing as it was being pulled out of context.

TBC: This isn't a new Claude feature and it's not possible in normal usage. It shows up in testing environments where we give it unusually free access to tools and very unusual instructions."

New comment by Technetium in "Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers"

Technetium — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:55:51 +0000

News sure moves fast... "Amazon denies it planned to disclose cost of US tariffs on its website" - April 29, 2025 12:01 PM EDT: [1]

"Trump complained to Bezos before Amazon said it scrapped idea to display tariff cost" - April 29 2025 9:01 AM EDT: [2]

"Amazon denies tariff pricing plan after White House calls it "hostile and political"" - April 29, 2025 12:01 PM EDT: [3]

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/white-house... [2] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/white-house-blasts-amazon-ov... [3] https://www.axios.com/2025/04/29/tariffs-amazon-prime-day-se...

New comment by Technetium in "EFF Border Search Pocket Guide"

Technetium — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:46:01 +0000

You can trigger an admin lock with one tap on Android using this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iglint.and...

New comment by Technetium in "Gemma3 – The current strongest model that fits on a single GPU"

Technetium — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 15:34:32 +0000

I looked around to get confirmation, and I did find some related issues. Seems like it works properly when context is defined explicitly. There also appears to be a warning logged about "truncating input prompt", so it isn't an entirely silent failure. https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/2653 + https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/4967 + https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/7043 + https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/8144

New comment by Technetium in "Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge"

Technetium — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 11:54:03 +0000

Here is the official FAQ: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as... For some context, I currently have 393,405 network filters ＋ 385,476 cosmetic filters. "The current limit imposed by the various implementations is a guaranteed 30K. It is possible for an extension to use more rules, but anything above the global limit will not be enforced. Currently, the global limit in Chromium is 330K static rules."

New comment by Technetium in "Github scam investigation: Thousands of “mods” and “cracks” stealing data"

Technetium — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 15:37:20 +0000

Do not click the links or allow images to load, and you will remain safe. View the full raw email and look at the headers. Search who is registered for the domain in question. Contact their hosting provider.

New comment by Technetium in "Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in Edge"

Technetium — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 15:26:30 +0000

4. No, it is not good. "Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37932754

New comment by Technetium in "Obscura VPN – Privacy that's more than a promise"

Technetium — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:54:38 +0000

AI is not the answer for most things, but it's especially not the answer for this. Basic packet filtering is all there should ever be.

New comment by Technetium in "TikTok goes dark in the US"

Technetium — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 07:39:03 +0000

New comment by Technetium in "New iMac with M4"

Technetium — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 16:08:15 +0000

Seems not: https://github.com/pqrs-org/Karabiner-Elements/issues/2968

New comment by Technetium in "Bitwarden is no longer free software"

Technetium — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 14:06:00 +0000

When I paid, it was with the expectation of supporting something open source. That's why I came to Bitwarden from Lastpass. This is really twisting the dagger in my back. They're probably preparing for an acquisition, since they have hit the same financial inflection point that CEO Michael Crandell was at previously when selling RightScale: https://bitwarden.com/blog/accelerating-value-for-bitwarden-...

New comment by Technetium in "Swarm, a new agent framework by OpenAI"

Technetium — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 18:14:52 +0000

The title of this issue is: "Notorious namesquatter is threatening legal action" https://github.com/openai/swarm/issues/50