Hacker News: anonbanker

New comment by anonbanker in "Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up"

anonbanker — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 21:24:06 +0000

It's really depressing that you've been downvoted to grey. People don't even have coherent reasons to dislike the browser.

New comment by anonbanker in "Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up"

anonbanker — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 21:17:58 +0000

"crypto-aligned" is such a gigantic red herring.

so use the --disable-features flag at runtime?

maybe go into brave://flags and disable the wallet?

or just admit you're only against Brave because Brendan Eich privately donated $2,000 to a failed CA Proposition?

New comment by anonbanker in "Firefox is dead to me – and I'm not the only one who is fed up"

anonbanker — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 16:43:11 +0000

Brave re-implemented everything uBlock Origin does, and did it in Rust.

New comment by anonbanker in "Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code over time"

anonbanker — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 16:28:59 +0000

Imagine being so humorless as to purport that laughing at a joke is somehow equivalent to a form of torture.

New comment by anonbanker in "Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code over time"

anonbanker — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 16:26:39 +0000

Imagine even entertaining the idea that laughter is a bad thing.

New comment by anonbanker in "Matrix Is Cooked"

anonbanker — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 16:24:24 +0000

I'm grateful for the author for showing me SimpleX-Chat[0]. I'm an avid Matrix user, but communication tools that weren't birthed from a political hivemind are important tools to support, especially when you're being told that the opposite is true. In this case, the communication tool seems to be grounded in interesting ideas that preserve privacy more than Matrix seems to be capable of doing.

0. https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat?tab=readme-ov-f...

New comment by anonbanker in ""Localhost tracking" explained. It could cost Meta €32B"

anonbanker — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 00:17:55 +0000

Oh, this is bigger than just Android. SDP munging can cause all sorts of havoc on desktop clients as well. Bit of a blind spot in WebRTC implementations.

New comment by anonbanker in "Former US President Biden diagnosed with 'aggressive' prostate cancer"

anonbanker — Mon, 19 May 2025 01:39:02 +0000

The (Special Council) Robert Hur tapes with Biden leaked. Jake Tapper's book was released. Both evidence significant cognitive impairment in a sitting president. 25th Amendment can be applied retroactively.

They needed something to shift that cycle, and distract.

New comment by anonbanker in "Tesla Motors Linux Kernel"

anonbanker — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 02:02:05 +0000

Oooh, kernel 5.4 This means that Teslas are vulnerable to every exploit discovered since, and anyone wanting to gain full access to the system has a multitude of tools to get there.

New comment by anonbanker in "Tesla's Beer-Serving Optimus Robot Was Controlled by a Human the Whole Time"

anonbanker — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 01:55:34 +0000

I don't buy it. The only evidence is the robot itself saying something vague. Their insistence based on flimsy evidence just screams irrational hate intended to inflame confirmation bias.

New comment by anonbanker in "Fluoride at twice the recommended limit is linked to lower IQ in kids"

anonbanker — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 21:14:14 +0000

pretty easy for me. exclusively Carnivore for over a year now.

New comment by anonbanker in "Grok-2 Beta Release"

anonbanker — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 21:28:26 +0000

by the time Trump made that statement, there were 60 million views, which is a different metric than the active viewers.

New comment by anonbanker in "Bpftop: Dynamic real-time view of running eBPF programs"

anonbanker — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 12:14:54 +0000

Is there a way that a program can obfuscate itself from being visible from bptop?

eBPF is an alarmingly large attack surface I would like to minimize.

New comment by anonbanker in "Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac"

anonbanker — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 20:46:13 +0000

Ubuntu, sadly, is not a good experience for a multitude of reasons outside of Canonical's control, including codec and software licensing restrictions.

Gamers should absolutely be heading towards Nobara Linux (Fedora-based, created by GloriousEggroll of Proton-GE fame). Developers should be trying Omakub. Grandma and Grandpa should be using Linux Mint.

New comment by anonbanker in "Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac"

anonbanker — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 20:43:27 +0000

Trying Omakub in the next 48-72 hours. I can't wait. It looks like the curated experience I've been looking for.

New comment by anonbanker in "Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac"

anonbanker — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 20:42:01 +0000

Does anyone else roll their eyes when someone mentions "late stage capitalism" anymore? The meme has started literal decades ago, and the end-stage never seems to materialize, in any country, ever.

New comment by anonbanker in "Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac"

anonbanker — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 20:39:33 +0000

Just making linux more appealing for the subset of the population that doesn't want to hook into skynet's subpar UX.

New comment by anonbanker in "Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac"

anonbanker — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 20:38:28 +0000

Those are pretty big If's when you have a webkit or blink-based browser on the same device.

New comment by anonbanker in "Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac"

anonbanker — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 20:37:05 +0000

That was merely one aspect of what people were bothered about. The most obvious one.

New comment by anonbanker in "Apple Intelligence for iPhone, iPad, and Mac"

anonbanker — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 20:28:09 +0000

I'm sure a simple Webkit vulnerability (there's none of those, ever, right?) will definitely not ensure that Semantic Index is featured in a future pwn2own competition.