Hacker News: ZebusJesus

New comment by ZebusJesus in "I’ve built a virtual museum with nearly every operating system you can think of"

ZebusJesus — Tue, 19 May 2026 17:00:49 +0000

Blasphemy, all shall know the power of Holy-C! Sad that he struggled in life like he did and the way it ended, he was a brilliant programmer.

New comment by ZebusJesus in "Can the world get its supply of oil by bypassing the Strait of Hormuz?"

ZebusJesus — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 23:55:10 +0000

Is it possible yes, is it feasible absolutely not

New comment by ZebusJesus in "The IBM scientist who rewrote the rules of information just won a Turing Award"

ZebusJesus — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:02:52 +0000

To think quantum computers at IBM in the 80's, its sad to think companies like IBM and Bell Labs are not the same companies they used to be, I mean the people working at those companies during the 20th century changed the world. Im glad they got this award as it is apparent they had a huge impact on security and quantum computing in general.

New comment by ZebusJesus in "Hack over 200k Systems Wiped"

ZebusJesus — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:03:25 +0000

Stryker had over 200k systems remote wiped and 50TB of data stolen. Any system with a company MDM profile was wiped including phones. This demonstrates why you never use personal devices for work.

Hack over 200k Systems Wiped

ZebusJesus — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:03:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/stryker-live-iran-cyber-attack-36850867

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340594

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by ZebusJesus in "Leaving Google has actively improved my life"

ZebusJesus — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:22:24 +0000

I have had proton as a paid customer for 8 years and it's been nothing but good. They keep adding features, it works, it's secure and I can have 15 emails that go to the sam inbox!

Proton VPN and drive was a nice addition, then they added a production suite and password manager honestly its 100% a great deal and they keep working hard to make more secured services.

I run a searXNG server so it searches multiple engines for me anonymously!

New comment by ZebusJesus in "A terminal weather app with ASCII animations driven by real-time weather data"

ZebusJesus — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:54:24 +0000

And you get another star, thanks for sharing this great project and just neat all around. One of my laptops, an Asus ZenBook, has a trackpad display and now I just have the weather running in it!

New comment by ZebusJesus in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

ZebusJesus — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:33:08 +0000

We really need to stop letting Musk and others just put what ever they want in space we are getting close to the Kessler limit and that could be very very bad if it happens. They have some ideas but this is already and issue, China had an issue after a launch were debris hit the capsule breaking it forcing them to send a second capsule.

https://climatecosmos.com/sustainability/how-close-are-we-to...

New comment by ZebusJesus in "Mobile carriers can get your GPS location"

ZebusJesus — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 18:32:21 +0000

Phones haven't always had GPS information and they could still be tracked, if you connect to enough towers they can triangulate your location. Cell towers have been able to do this based on your signal strength for a very long time and you cant turn it off. You don't even have to have a SIM card, if the cell radio is on it pings towers period, this is why a phone even without service can dial 911 and it will work. The IMEI of your phone is unique and cell towers can track it, the government has used this and there is no way to disable it. Its not as accurate as GPS but it can be good enough to figure out a route you take and general location

https://www.rfwireless-world.com/terminology/cellular-tower-...

New comment by ZebusJesus in "Tesla is committing automotive suicide"

ZebusJesus — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 23:13:36 +0000

Or he never intended for it to stick around and used it a the biggest pump and dump ever to become the richest man in the world using subsidies all along the way to get there. Will be interesting to see how much stock Elon sells...

New comment by ZebusJesus in "Proton spam and the AI consent problem"

ZebusJesus — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:28:58 +0000

considering lumo never gets the decryption password for my data, Im not nearly as worried about Protons AI vs googles default I will read your email.

New comment by ZebusJesus in "Private Operating System"

ZebusJesus — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:04:56 +0000

Qubes

https://www.qubes-os.org/downloads/

Everything is its own VM, you can run apps in secure environments and when you close them it get rid of them.

You can even create networking VM's have that connected to a VPN and then make your other VMs go through it for a secure connection. There is a lot you can do with it for privacy.

Also in windows pro you have windows sandbox, when you close the sandbox everything is deleted. It is a tool lots of people don't know Microsoft offers and it is a sandbox, I use it for testing all the time.

New comment by ZebusJesus in "Pink Power Ranger takes down white supremacist dating sites"

ZebusJesus — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 21:15:36 +0000

Yeah and DnD has lawful evil as an alignment for a reason!

New comment by ZebusJesus in "Pink Power Ranger takes down white supremacist dating sites"

ZebusJesus — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 23:29:12 +0000

This is how it is done, the hacker ‘Martha Root’ dressed as the pink power ranger and hacked white supremacist dating sites, stole their data, took down their sites and then proceeded to DOX members by making a map with members locations and information around the world.

Pink Power Ranger takes down white supremacist dating sites

ZebusJesus — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 23:29:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/01/04/power-ranger-deletes-dating-site/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46506675

Points: 52

# Comments: 52

New comment by ZebusJesus in "The compiler is your best friend"

ZebusJesus — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 18:50:33 +0000

This was a great breakdown and very well written. I think you made one of the better arguments for rust Ive read on the internet but you also made sure to acknowledge that large code bases are just a different beast all together. Personally I will say that AI has made making code proofs or "formal verification" more accessible. Actually writing a proof for your code or code verification is very hard to do for most programmers which is why it is not done by most programmers, but AI is making it accessible and with formal verification of code you prevent so many problems. It will be interesting to see where programming and compliers go when "formal verification" becomes normal.

New comment by ZebusJesus in "Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest"

ZebusJesus — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 17:32:22 +0000

This was a great way to start the day over a cup of coffee, sometimes we need things that make as laugh but what is awesome is the titles are spot on. Thank you for making this Friday morning fun

New comment by ZebusJesus in "Independent review of UK national security law warns of overreach"

ZebusJesus — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:30:29 +0000

It is becoming more and more important that people learn to encrypt things locally themselves, its not end-to-end if the users are the ones encrypting and decrypting manually and then sending that message over unencrypted methods to comply with this draconian invasion of privacy. It would probably be a matter of time before they try to make using PGP usage illegal as well but they haven't yet.

New comment by ZebusJesus in "Purrtran – ᓚᘏᗢ – A Programming Language for Cat People"

ZebusJesus — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:15:16 +0000

Not gonna lie this makes me want to learn Purrtran, you have to feed HEX, clean up after them and play with them or else it will misbehave or even die. Hex needs to be happy to help with code, I love it great way to make programming fun! Also pretty cool that they added print and for loop structures that are easier to use.

"In the following example, Hex leaves you a dead baby bunny rabbit because you have unused variables in your code"

New comment by ZebusJesus in "alpr.watch"

ZebusJesus — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:05:44 +0000

Im glad WA ruled that you can get flock data with a FOIA request and because of this local cities decided to disable the cameras. Currently they have put caps of the lenses of the installed cameras in WA.

https://www.king5.com/article/news/investigations/investigat...