<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: angry_octet</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=angry_octet</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:52:32 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=angry_octet" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by angry_octet in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It says something about the fragility of contemporary software that a fragment of bad code could result in doom. I think we need to move to much more restrictive computation architectures, inherently partitioned, functionally pure, and resistant to type confusion, pointer manipulation, memory issues etc.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:02:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48409890</link><dc:creator>angry_octet</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48409890</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48409890</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by angry_octet in "Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>First, do everything in a virtual machine, and only put on that machine the specific data you're using. Give the agent another user account and put both you and it in a common group. Chgrp g+rX your origin data directory, chgrp g+rwX a working directory.<p>If you're cautious you might also want to just block all network traffic for that user and allow it in a whitelist basis. It is fairly quick to converge on a set of sites you are happy for it to access. I would still be forcing it through a logging mitm proxy if it is accessing untrusted internet data. For intranet destinations a non-mitm proxy avoids collecting authentication creds.<p>To blacklist all traffic start with
sudo iptables -A OUTPUT -m owner --gid-owner NONET -j REJECT<p>I would stop it opening ports too. Might also cut off it's access to suid binaries by `setfacl -m u:agent:x /path/to/suid'.<p>These are not about security so much as awareness and explicit authorisation.<p>You can do similar things with containers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 01:21:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351604</link><dc:creator>angry_octet</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351604</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48351604</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by angry_octet in "Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's why your coding agent should never run as your identity.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 23:44:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350981</link><dc:creator>angry_octet</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350981</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48350981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by angry_octet in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Enforcing your rights under your contract by patching out some cert validation checks seems legal to me. Maybe not in places with anti-circumvention laws, but elsewhere it seems fine.</p>
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<p>Is Elon inside SpaceX? I don't think he's had any role at the company other than owner.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2026 23:29:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330720</link><dc:creator>angry_octet</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330720</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48330720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by angry_octet in "Microsoft's stance on zero day exploits is a dumpster fire of their own making"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're referring to completely tangential cases.<p>Maybe you should look up who the author is.</p>
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<p>If you can't win the game, don't play by the rules.</p>
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<p>It's impossible to log in with just a password, you need to okay it on an Apple device. If ICE has that Apple device and a person who knows the password they can do the same.<p>Also they'll detain you for having a suspicious burner phone and interrogate you about your social media etc.</p>
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<p>They may fine you for attempting to import a plant, but they won't imprison you in El Salvador for having liked a meme they don't like on US social media.</p>
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<p>Unfortunately there is less incentive for talented and qualified people from prosperous democracies to more to the US. There is significant drama in obtaining a work visa (high sponsor administrative burden), you are tied to an employer, it is difficult for your spouse to also get a visa, etc.<p>So the source of high skill immigrants is countries with dictators and economic dysfunction. That used to include places like Poland, Czech Republic, Italy, etc. The first generation brings new ideas and cultural flavour, the second generation is completely American. As long as you don't have religious schools and ethnic charter schools getting state funds, integration is systematic and inevitable.</p>
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<p>Australian immigration rules are definitely not like this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 07:19:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48255226</link><dc:creator>angry_octet</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48255226</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48255226</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by angry_octet in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A very common attitude in low trust societies, not just the US.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 05:12:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48254598</link><dc:creator>angry_octet</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48254598</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48254598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by angry_octet in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's a very immigrant thing to be susceptible to the strongman political manipulations of the country they left, to believe that emulation and imitation can bring luck/success. America is very much defined by immigrant dreaming.<p>Which is why it is nonsense to say banning immigration is anything other than anti-American.<p>The idea that it would be a crackdown on illegal immigration was an essentially greedy belief that legal immigrants, especially Hispanic, would be elevated in status. Of course nothing could be further from the truth. Their skin color, their language and their community all mark them as targets for harassment.<p>It will be very hard for the machismo cultures to accept that they were deceived so they'll vote for Trump again.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2026 05:11:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48254594</link><dc:creator>angry_octet</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48254594</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48254594</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by angry_octet in "Qian Xuesen: The missile genius America lost and China gained (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The <i>Americans</i> didn't make a movie about him, because it's too humiliating.</p>
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<p>It was called "433-252 Software Engineering Principles & Tools" until ~2008 I think (433-244 before that) but then it seems to have been reorganised. Tbh, Unimelb Comp Sci is a shadow of it's former self, a victim of the 'Melbourne Model' common core sausage factory concept.</p>
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<p>I hope he's stopped drinking Fanta.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 12:42:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48206758</link><dc:creator>angry_octet</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48206758</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48206758</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by angry_octet in "Peter Salus has died"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://www.fsf.net/~adam/qcu.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.fsf.net/~adam/qcu.pdf</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2026 10:00:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48191355</link><dc:creator>angry_octet</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48191355</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48191355</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by angry_octet in "Germany goes from labour shortages to hiring freezes"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are practically no Indians in Germany, and that is a German choice. But there is definitely an appetite in India to come. Indians are not afraid of learning German.</p>
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<p>Indians. Well educated, hard working, and willing to put in 20 years of serfdom to get that green card. Even a 30% discount on wages is still a better quality of life than their alternatives.<p>If they were granted proper work visas with portability then wages would go up. That's why Elon and co love H1Bs.</p>
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<p>Unless you have very cheap grid power / terrible sun / needlessly high installation costs, PV will be a winner. So Quebec is bad because electricity is absurdly cheap, and the only benefit is redundancy. California should be absurdly cheap but regulations are out of control.  Germany also has insane regulatory burden and expensive labour but grid energy is even more expensive, double the US average.<p>In very sunny places with expensive grid power a battery is sensible, but again politics often favours flat rate tariffs that discount peak power, which again favours grid incumbents.<p>So it might not be economic for your region but that is entirely due to regional politics, a default choice to make PV power expensive.</p>
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