Hacker News: aspbee555

New comment by aspbee555 in "The Future of Everything Is Lies, I Guess: Part 3 – Culture"

aspbee555 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:09:44 +0000

reminds me of the college scene in the movie Tomorrowland where all the teachers going on and on about about the things that would end us and when she asked "Can we fix it?" and teacher is like "What?" "I get things are bad but what can we do?"

learned helplessness is really a problem, but personally all I have gotten is scorn and hatred for trying to make a difference/improve things that I managed/had control of. All people care about is precious number go up/ignoring the future while everyone around me is looking at me like I have two heads for not blindly following the insanity

what do we honestly do?

New comment by aspbee555 in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

aspbee555 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:37:00 +0000

this is why I am building a communications software that has no concept of accounts, devices can connect and keys are generated on device and blind to relaying/directing server/network. people can only connect directly with other people/devices. there is no concept of lists of people/devices to connect to, you need to know someone/have access to the device to connect.

no accounts to compromise. no passwords to remember. end point devices control their connectivity. no vpn needed to connect, no intermediary to see all traffic and peer traffic is specifically what is needed/allowed/requested, not a wide open network connection/accounts to be compromised

New comment by aspbee555 in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

aspbee555 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:16:58 +0000

yes, it is possible depending on timing (if a card is authorized but captured later in the day or the authorization was less than the capture, this is why gas pumps do auth for $100 and hold that for days till it clears), but the risk is more about expected/scheduled transactions hitting the account before you realize it got drained

New comment by aspbee555 in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

aspbee555 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 03:35:26 +0000

US does not always have those proper card safety features (you can use debit cards without pin and online use does not require pin) and banks will fight tooth and nail not to give back overdraft fees (as the overdraft would be from other transactions from the account after the fraud drains an account)

New comment by aspbee555 in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

aspbee555 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:45:37 +0000

misuse is not what I mean, I am talking about if your card is stolen and someone runs up a bunch of purchases before it gets caught, that money is gone from your account and any fees from overdrafts are the account holders problem to deal with and stress they can entirely avoid if they did not have/use a card tied directly to their bank account. I pay close attention to my bank account (as it is important for rent/important bills direct drafted), I only check the credit card when the bill comes in.

users can even avoid interest if they pay that card off every month

I pay everything with my credit card (bills, stores, online, etc) and pay it off at the end of the month. Even my tap-to-pay is tied to the credit card. I never use my debit card anywhere but an ATM. I have never had my bank account violated but I have had the credit card stolen from a store I visited (card company caught it as there was a bunch of fraud from the same store, they let me know and they proactively replaced my credit card)

I have never had my ATM card compromised as it is for one purpose, the ATM

best part of all is my credit score loves the large payments I always make on my credit card

New comment by aspbee555 in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

aspbee555 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:29:51 +0000

with a debit card your cash is gone from your bank account in that moment, even if you get it back later (hopefully). With a credit card they are not able to drain your bank account, the risks are entirely on the cc company and they will be significantly more motivated to get that back than a bank would. it's entirely their problem, not yours

New comment by aspbee555 in "Court orders restart of all US offshore wind power construction"

aspbee555 — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 23:37:51 +0000

solar only runs during the day and when it is not cloudy, wind farms can run constantly with low weather impact

multiple energy sources are what is important to make up for where solar falls short. sure solar is amazing, but it will never replace everything on its own

New comment by aspbee555 in "The Holy Grail of Linux Binary Compatibility: Musl and Dlopen"

aspbee555 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:51:34 +0000

I managed to get this combo going not too long ago with my musl rust app but I found that even after it all was compiled and loading the lib it did not function properly because the library I loaded still depended on libc functions. even with everything compiled into a huge monolithic musl binary it couldn't find something graphics related

I eventually decided to keep the tiny musl app and make a companion app in a secondary process as needed (since the entire point of me compiling musl was cross platform linux compatibility/stability)

New comment by aspbee555 in "Instabridge has acquired Nova Launcher"

aspbee555 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:22:35 +0000

I was having issues recently with my Pixel phone hanging/freezing/going stupid, it was Nova. I changed to Lawnchair yesterday after learning this and works much better and my battery is no longer draining for no apparent reason

New comment by aspbee555 in "Europe could 'weaponize' $10T of US assets over Greenland"

aspbee555 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:48:11 +0000

I want to see USA recover from the abuser that is separating us from our friends and trying to beat us into silence/compliance like abusive people do

I never realized there was so many people that enjoy watching their family get beaten bloody, ie. Stockholm syndrome

New comment by aspbee555 in "Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking"

aspbee555 — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 03:43:51 +0000

I have been trying to figure out why my phone has beep going stupid and laggy with the launcher lately, now I know why

New comment by aspbee555 in "60% of Legal Searches Now End Without a Click"

aspbee555 — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 19:03:30 +0000

I find Google is still really good at finding things for maps/navigation (and I contribute greatly to maps with pictures/reviews), but even that has become a problem with results of places that do not exist (and reviews from owners that say a place never existed where maps is saying)

depends on what you are searching for, but the constant attempts to trick me into useless garbage ads has destroyed reliability/my trust in their general search

New comment by aspbee555 in "60% of Legal Searches Now End Without a Click"

aspbee555 — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 23:43:25 +0000

AI has made it significantly easier to find exactly the answers I was looking for without all the BS designed to trick me into clicking something I never wanted/is completely useless, but I will still jump to DuckDuckGo to look for more as the "AI" is really great at making things up that do not exist. The AI summaries can be just as bad. Soon it will just be search results of AI hallucinations, so not really sure where this is all going

I stopped using Google search years ago as it became nothing but useless results that led to garbage I wasn't looking for. I at least still get good results from DuckDuckGo somehow

New comment by aspbee555 in "The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app"

aspbee555 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:09:42 +0000

the iPhone still does bluetooth transmissions/pings even in airplane mode (the find my device thing) and no way to disable

the only way to disable any transmissions is to turn off the device

New comment by aspbee555 in "The Kimwolf botnet is stalking your local network"

aspbee555 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 22:43:37 +0000

usually lan devices do not talk to the router unless they need a resource outside your lan network

you can however isolate with vlans and a vlan capable switch, then it would be on the router to isolate traffic between lans (I do exactly this for my less trusted virtual machines)

New comment by aspbee555 in "I switched from VSCode to Zed"

aspbee555 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 22:28:02 +0000

I have been using vscodium for years, hasn't disappointed until recently (rust analyzer wont pickup changes, not sure if rust or vscode issue). I tried zed once, but just didn't do the basics I needed at the time. I'll have to give it a try again

edit: zed is working much better for me now and does not have the issue vscodioum was having (not recognizing changes/checking some code till I triggered rebuild)

New comment by aspbee555 in "Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet"

aspbee555 — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 04:52:06 +0000

I have been running Deb 13 on my primary workstation for a couple months, just as stable as Debian 12 I was running for years on my primary. I am able to do all of my programming work, virtual win/mac for compiling and able to play every Steam game I try with zero problems (BG3, CyberPunk, etc), all from a $500 mini-pc. Even bluetooth has had zero issue (which is usually a problem/pita)

New comment by aspbee555 in "I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone"

aspbee555 — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 00:21:02 +0000

I stopped using Windows over 15 years ago and moved to Ubuntu that was running all the servers. Unfortunately Ubuntu decided to do the same garbage trying to shove their pro crap down my throat, made it impossible to remove (by making a desktop requirement) and resorted to the game of trying to re-enable it during updates

I finally moved everything to just Debian itself that never nags me and just works with everything I need, including games (thanks to steam)

Only time I boot a Win10 VM is to compile apps for for windows, otherwise it has zero use or need anymore

New comment by aspbee555 in "Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work"

aspbee555 — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:17:35 +0000

I find myself not really trusting just tests, I really need to try the app/new function in multiple ways with the goal of breaking it. In that process I may not break it but I will notice something that might break, so I rewrite it better

New comment by aspbee555 in "Cloudflare outage on November 18, 2025 post mortem"

aspbee555 — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 05:22:21 +0000

unwraps are so very easy to use and they have bit me so many times because you can nearly never run into a problem and suddenly crashes from an unwrap that almost always was fine