Hacker News: bombolo

New comment by bombolo in "Notepad++ supply chain attack breakdown"

bombolo — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 09:46:17 +0000

With systemd or firejail it's quite easy to do this sort of thing on linux.

New comment by bombolo in "NSO group iPhone zero-click, zero-day exploit captured in the wild"

bombolo — Thu, 07 Sep 2023 22:28:41 +0000

Adding something in rust into a browser means you now need to bundle all of the needed crates and that your browser now also needs rustc to build… at a minimum.

You also need potentially to audit all the crates and keep them up to date and so on… without crates you can't do so much.

New comment by bombolo in "Norway court rules against Facebook owner Meta in privacy case"

bombolo — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 12:01:42 +0000

norway isn't in the eu -_-'

New comment by bombolo in "ChatGPT Enterprise"

bombolo — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 12:25:23 +0000

I can't even convince it to put the parameters in a function call in the correct order, despite repeatedly asking.

New comment by bombolo in "Everything I know about floppy disks"

bombolo — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 07:10:40 +0000

Interesting… all of my dad's 5.25 failed.

New comment by bombolo in "The boiling frog of digital freedom"

bombolo — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 23:23:00 +0000

Unfortunately not in USA. I have no idea what the rules are here.

But this bank routinely violates EU directives so I'm sure if there's a rule they don't care about it.

New comment by bombolo in "The boiling frog of digital freedom"

bombolo — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 14:54:44 +0000

My bank's webserver recently decided to drop connections when a firefox user agent is received.

No message, no nothing, just close the socket.

New comment by bombolo in "Money is pouring into AI. Skeptics say it’s a ‘grift shift’"

bombolo — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 12:21:03 +0000

Bill Gates is a lot of talk but I suspect he's using his funds to push microsoft onto poor countries that would otherwise default to linux.

New comment by bombolo in "Money is pouring into AI. Skeptics say it’s a ‘grift shift’"

bombolo — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 12:20:12 +0000

Ah so you're a troll, because that's NOT what you previously wrote.

New comment by bombolo in "Things I wish I knew before moving 50K lines of code to React Server Components"

bombolo — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 20:08:10 +0000

But python is already installed on most linux systems

New comment by bombolo in "Things I wish I knew before moving 50K lines of code to React Server Components"

bombolo — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 22:14:05 +0000

Seems you haven't heard about the existence of SBOM

New comment by bombolo in "Things I wish I knew before moving 50K lines of code to React Server Components"

bombolo — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 22:08:31 +0000

People needing to justify their job

New comment by bombolo in "Money is pouring into AI. Skeptics say it’s a ‘grift shift’"

bombolo — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 09:04:47 +0000

If you don't have the courage to voice your opinions in person, you're just a coward that knows very well has socially unacceptable opinions :)

New comment by bombolo in "The Terraform Registry Terms of Service have been updated"

bombolo — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 14:07:09 +0000

Some data backends have very very small limits for the data… so small that my 4096bit private key wouldn't fit.

New comment by bombolo in "The Terraform Registry Terms of Service have been updated"

bombolo — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 13:34:08 +0000

You had never used vault uh?

New comment by bombolo in "Microsoft is unbundling Teams from Office in Europe to address regulator concern"

bombolo — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 12:44:36 +0000

I thought slack harmed itself ditching IRC bridge.

New comment by bombolo in "Money is pouring into AI. Skeptics say it’s a ‘grift shift’"

bombolo — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 12:35:09 +0000

In my experience that bit is more forgotten in protestant countries rather than catholic ones. As in, in catholic ones rich people aren't seen as model of virtue and everybody knows that "hard work" won't get you there.

New comment by bombolo in "Money is pouring into AI. Skeptics say it’s a ‘grift shift’"

bombolo — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 07:51:28 +0000

I'd expect the real implementation to not be nearly as good as the demo shows.

New comment by bombolo in "Money is pouring into AI. Skeptics say it’s a ‘grift shift’"

bombolo — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 07:31:00 +0000

I think the problem was "buy drugs online"

New comment by bombolo in "Money is pouring into AI. Skeptics say it’s a ‘grift shift’"

bombolo — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 07:28:46 +0000

They want investments with short term returns… and basic science isn't that.