Hacker News: burtness

New comment by burtness in "We moved our Bluesky data to Eurosky"

burtness — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:45:49 +0000

Right-wingers are so reliably sore winners. X is still comfortably the dominant microblogging platform on the internet, Facebook and Youtube happily boost and feed right-wing content and concerns. Tiktok has been brought to heel. ATproto hasn't found a way to encode communism - just like activitypub could be used for Truth Social - the ATmosphere will turn right once the ecosystem is in anyway relevant politically or commercially. But you could always start quatrechan while we wait

New comment by burtness in "Systemd Introduces Birth Date Support for Upcoming Linux Desktop Age Controls"

burtness — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:55:33 +0000

It won't because none of the alternative inits are better

New comment by burtness in "How can England possibly be running out of water?"

burtness — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 17:33:04 +0000

*England and Wales

New comment by burtness in "Internet in a Box"

burtness — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 17:17:59 +0000

Man, you really suck

New comment by burtness in "Moving to a World Beyond "p < 0.05" (2019)"

burtness — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 17:57:55 +0000

Isn't the problem that the vernacular concepts are what counts and they change depending on time and place?

New comment by burtness in "Ozempic will disrupt big tobacco, candy companies, and alcohol brands"

burtness — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 21:06:39 +0000

Buddy, I have some bad news about tobacco and alcohol...

New comment by burtness in "Bluesky and the AT Protocol: Usable decentralized social media"

burtness — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 01:06:11 +0000

Ah, good ol' Riley's law

New comment by burtness in "Linux: Ext4 data corruption in 6.1.64-1"

burtness — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 08:22:46 +0000

No, its an upstream bug being discussed in the debian bug tracker

New comment by burtness in "Linux: Ext4 data corruption in 6.1.64-1"

burtness — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 08:22:05 +0000

This is a misreading of the bug. It is from upstream stable kernels before 6.5 that include commit 91562895f803 but not 936e114a245b6[1].

In this case Debian's current process is good - it's kernels track kernel.org stable releases. This debian bug is responsibly flagging "for visibility" that a serious bug has been discussed and fixed upstream.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/stable/20231205122122.dfhhoaswsfscuh...

New comment by burtness in "Hypervisor-Enforced Kernel Integrity (Heki)"

burtness — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 17:17:07 +0000

Linux Virtualization Based Security (LVBS) is an umbrella term under which we can offer various hypervisor backed kernel protection solutions. This is a common hypervisor agnostic extendable architecture in Linux kernel that can be used by any hypervisor to implement and extend Linux kernel protections. Different hypervisor frameworks (Hyper-V as an example of type-1 hypervisor and KVM as an example of type-2 hypervisor) can plug into the common layer to harden the Linux kernel.

Hypervisor-Enforced Kernel Integrity (Heki):

Heki is a proof-of-concept that implements new KVM features (extended page tracking, MBEC support, CR pinning) and defines a new API to protect guest VMs. It is designed to be merged with the mainline project. It is inspired from other private implementations currently in use (e.g. Windows's Virtual Secure Mode), but our approach is tailored to Linux specificities.

Hypervisor-Enforced Kernel Integrity (Heki)

burtness — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 17:17:06 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/heki-linux

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38366652

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by burtness in "A Raspberry Pi 5 is better than two Pi 4S"

burtness — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 20:29:18 +0000

what about purchasing power?

New comment by burtness in "Twitter Is DDOSing Itself"

burtness — Sat, 01 Jul 2023 22:19:46 +0000

First they came for the Nazis...

New comment by burtness in "KDE and GNOME seeks $100k to turn Flathub into a Store for the Linux desktop"

burtness — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 00:47:01 +0000

The example doesnt seem to support your argument. The rationale the developer gives here is reasonable and looks like good stewardship of a shared library - the patch added a new API that was tightly based on termites' needs and provided little benefit for other terminal programs. What the maintainer wanted was a more complete API for the feature. The termite dev said he did not want to implement this feature in the library. This is also reasonable. Its his code and his time. So we have two people who can't find/commit to a solution everyone is happy with. It doesn't really seem user hostile at all, just that something couldnt be worked out. Sure, its frustrating when its an app you really like, but sometimes interests wont align even when it seems from the outside like they should.

New comment by burtness in "Google employees criticize CEO for “dumpster fire” response to ChatGPT"

burtness — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 16:13:55 +0000

This sounds more like "incumbent" than "first"

New comment by burtness in "BusyBox 1.36.0"

burtness — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 04:42:53 +0000

This misrepresents what happens if you use busybox in your product and don't comply with the license (posting a buildable version of your changes) - they first try and negotiate compliance before starting litigation. You won't get served papers until you refuse to comply with the license. This includes giving you time to fix the situation - https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/principles.htm...

New comment by burtness in "Electric scooter ban increased congestion by 10% in Atlanta"

burtness — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 17:57:04 +0000

Wouldn't the path of least resistance here be giving cars the surface layer?

New comment by burtness in "Electric scooter ban increased congestion by 10% in Atlanta"

burtness — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 17:50:40 +0000

I mean this is basically all politics - who should suffer and how much to keep society running. I don't think you'll find a progressive monopoly on that

New comment by burtness in "UK banks and lenders suspend offering new mortgages amid market turmoil"

burtness — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 09:59:39 +0000

Yes, but those interest rates have been affordable. That context of affordability matters. The UK is also basically organised around the profitability of private home ownership. Its the fundamental basis of the current ruling party's support. Anything that threatens property value and rent yield is catastrophic for the economy (as currently organised) and the current government

New comment by burtness in "Reverse engineering Skifree"

burtness — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 09:51:32 +0000

sure, in the real world we're all going around checking everyone's respect earnings to know whether we should use their preferred names, pronouns, exempt them from our favourite slurs. Gotta earn that