Hacker News: blueflow

New comment by blueflow in "Early-life stress leaves a 'scar' inside brain cells in mice"

blueflow — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:46:23 +0000

Congrats on your safe childhood.

New comment by blueflow in "Ransomware gangs skip the CEO, head straight for the 40-something IT manager"

blueflow — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 21:56:28 +0000

Can't be really strict with the dates, the generation thing is cultural and depends on the time and environment of your socialisation.

New comment by blueflow in "Depression has tripled in the last 15 years. Arthur Brooks about the cause"

blueflow — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:41:14 +0000

60 years ago you might have ended up in a psychiatric hospital without getting effective treatment, mental health issues were stigmatized and the incentive to seek out help was low. People used to just live a miserable life with their issues.

Nowadays knowledge about mental health issues is widespread in the population, somewhat normalized and leading to people seeking help.

I consider it realistic that depression did not actually increase, its just more people showing up in the statistics.

New comment by blueflow in "Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs"

blueflow — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 10:51:06 +0000

As noted by userbinator: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220030

Not a backdoor, but a documented CPU feature.

The whitepaper about rosenbridge cannot be published because it would constitute scientific fraud.

New comment by blueflow in "The Dark Night of Mathematics"

blueflow — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:03:16 +0000

math never was a science to begin with.

New comment by blueflow in "Police removed prominent scientists from American Diabetes Association meeting"

blueflow — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 04:45:59 +0000

> Ryder added that he and his colleagues were never told what part of the code of conduct that they violated, adding that the meeting organizers did not communicate with them directly before or during the incident.

Probably the average CoC enforcement.

New comment by blueflow in "Cloudflare Drop"

blueflow — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:31:26 +0000

> your content

Wouldn't it be fun to upload content of a big music label or smth like that?

New comment by blueflow in "A native graphical shell for SSH"

blueflow — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 11:25:07 +0000

It's gnome. You will have a developer explain to you how your usecase is invalid.

New comment by blueflow in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

blueflow — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:42:55 +0000

You had an good, psychologically plausible explanation for some individuals to over-rely on AI and... dismissed it and called them stupid. Adults are not special, they are mostly kids that got older.

New comment by blueflow in "Debian must ship reproducible packages"

blueflow — Sun, 10 May 2026 06:17:33 +0000

zero improvement on end-user experience. does not solve supply chain issues, debian package will reproducabily contain the malware from upstream.

New comment by blueflow in "Third Editor Fired in Elsevier's Citation Cartel Crackdown"

blueflow — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:51:18 +0000

It comes from having the sort of parents whose behavior warrants this kind of suspicions.

New comment by blueflow in "IPv6 traffic crosses the 50% mark"

blueflow — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:33:46 +0000

IPv6 is IPv4 with 12 more bytes, right?

New comment by blueflow in "SSH certificates: the better SSH experience"

blueflow — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:36:30 +0000

The main advantage of certificates is that you are able to do that from the CA without touching the target machine.

New comment by blueflow in "New patches allow building Linux IPv6-only"

blueflow — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:48:03 +0000

> I like NAT

I'm in favor of having society overrule you. NAT is a horrible kludge and not okay. Never was.

New comment by blueflow in "When do we become adults, really?"

blueflow — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:57:22 +0000

> where every person alive is an abuse survivor of varying seriousness

An odd way to frame it but probably true.

> which will bring us right back to ignoring people who need help

That does not follow - if the environmental sources are known, people (especially teachers and social workers) can look out for them and take measures to improve the outcome for the child. And this is what I'm seeing right now.

See it on a societal scale - for the same effort put into raising kids, you get more functional adults.

New comment by blueflow in "When do we become adults, really?"

blueflow — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 12:45:24 +0000

I'm not saying these 3 linked issues are caused by childhood trauma, but that they are diagnosed because of the overlap of symptoms.

This is vaguely among experts (for autism and emotional instability): https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11724683

This is not ruling out a causal link in the opposite direction, that autism increases vulnerability to traumata.

And while researching case reports on child abuse, i couldn't help to notice that many cases do - indeed - start with an autism diagnosis and only escalate later, example: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11886450/

While its true that parents don't cause autism... they can surely cause the diagnosis. Extra bad because it delays appropriate treatment.

New comment by blueflow in "When do we become adults, really?"

blueflow — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 09:49:28 +0000

Child abuse might be a large driver behind dysfunctionality in adulthood, with disability or early retirement as a consequence. There were some big child neglect cases around the millennium, since them, the topic got more attention from researchers.

It used to be that traumatised kids got slapped with a ADHD, autism and/or borderline diagnosis and it got called a day. These are "that's just how you are" style diagnoses. Since 2018 there is CPTSD which finally connects the symptoms to how you got treated as a child. The denial phase is over.

Lawmakers are a bit behind, as usual, but at this point the scale of the problems can't be denied anymore. Its too late for you and me, but I'm optimistic for future generations.

New comment by blueflow in "Chuck Norris has died"

blueflow — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:37:22 +0000

Giving people reason to laugh while you are old and dying is a superpower. I wish i will have it, too.

New comment by blueflow in "SSH Secret Menu"

blueflow — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:57:32 +0000

As secret as the ssh manual.

New comment by blueflow in "Hardware hotplug events on Linux, the gory details"

blueflow — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:27:40 +0000

ModemManager used to open() and probe every tty device attached to the system. I had a 8-channel relay card with an arduino nano wired up with my desk to control the lights and disco ball, interfaced with a custom ascii-based serial protocol. connecting it to an ubuntu machine (where modemmanager was active in the default install) turned the 2nd or 3rd channel on.

This was generally infuriating, there are many arduino forum posts about modemmanager messing up DIY setups.

Upstream fix was changing modemmanager to work on a whitelist / opt-in approach instead of blacklist / out-opt. My fix was to switch to debian.