Hacker News: buyucu

New comment by buyucu in "Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter"

buyucu — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 11:40:24 +0000

As long as investors are willing to pay for it.

New comment by buyucu in "Signal president Meredith Whittaker says they had no choice but to use AWS"

buyucu — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 11:38:23 +0000

Because I live in a very authoritarian government. That is how I know.

The weakest link is not the server. The weakest link is the user device. There is no security without anonymity.

New comment by buyucu in "Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret 'wink' to sidestep legal orders"

buyucu — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 06:55:02 +0000

If the mass murder committed by Israel against the Palestinian, Lebanese and Syrian people does not horrify you, then you don't have shred of humanity left in you.

Arguing about pedantic details does not change that.

New comment by buyucu in "Signal president Meredith Whittaker says they had no choice but to use AWS"

buyucu — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 06:23:41 +0000

E2EE is nice to have, but not the magic cure Signal advertises it is. The #1 most authoritarian governments access chats is by forcing people to unlock their phone. At which point Signal's obsession with phone numbers becomes a huge liability. You can't claim security while tying a phone number to each and every account.

New comment by buyucu in "Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret 'wink' to sidestep legal orders"

buyucu — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 06:18:13 +0000

What is wrong with helping Palestine? Are we to look the other way as the genocidal religious zealots in Tel Aviv commit mass murder?

New comment by buyucu in "Tether is now the 17th largest holder of US debt"

buyucu — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 15:29:59 +0000

The bigger news here is that China is rapidly winding down its holdings of US debt. This is very bad for America. We'll see American standards of living decline without the Chinese financing American extravagance.

New comment by buyucu in "Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret 'wink' to sidestep legal orders"

buyucu — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 15:16:08 +0000

Yes.

New comment by buyucu in "Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret 'wink' to sidestep legal orders"

buyucu — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 15:15:25 +0000

Is Europe or the US engaged in slave trade right now? Israel is committing mass murder right now. There is a difference between past evils that can't be helped and present evils that we have the power to stop.

New comment by buyucu in "Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret 'wink' to sidestep legal orders"

buyucu — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 15:13:36 +0000

Rwandan genocide was almost 30 years ago. There is nothing I can do to help there.

Israel is comitting a genocide and attacking/murdering everyone right now.

That is the crucial difference.

New comment by buyucu in "uBlock Origin Lite in Apple App Store"

buyucu — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 12:11:08 +0000

I can'e even imagine browsing the web without ublock origin. How and Why Apple users endured it, I fail to comprehend.

New comment by buyucu in "An ex-Intel CEO's mission to build a Christian AI: Hasten the return of Christ"

buyucu — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 05:27:21 +0000

People thought this nutjob lunatic would save Intel? Hah, this guy is part of the reason why Intel failed in the first place.

New comment by buyucu in "Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux"

buyucu — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 05:25:36 +0000

The real gamechanger (pun intended!) was Vulkan. DXVK is very performant.

New comment by buyucu in "Nearly 90% of Windows Games Now Run on Linux"

buyucu — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 05:24:12 +0000

In my experience, the only Windows games that don't run on Linux are those with malware-esque anti-cheat that explicitly block Linux. Almost all games I tried worked out of the box.

New comment by buyucu in "Signal president Meredith Whittaker says they had no choice but to use AWS"

buyucu — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 17:11:31 +0000

I can't verify this anywhere. The latest information appears to be that Nikolai Durov lives in Dubai.

New comment by buyucu in "Signal president Meredith Whittaker says they had no choice but to use AWS"

buyucu — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 17:09:51 +0000

Why? AWS is neither cheap, nor reliable (as we saw last week).

New comment by buyucu in "Obfuscating WireGuard Traffic as QUIC"

buyucu — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:02:35 +0000

mullvad is also doing this: https://mullvad.net/en/blog/introducing-quic-obfuscation-for...

Austrian ministry kicks out Microsoft in favor of Nextcloud

buyucu — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:16:40 +0000

Article URL: https://news.itsfoss.com/austrian-ministry-kicks-out-microsoft/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45732485

Points: 479

# Comments: 109

New comment by buyucu in "What happened to running what you wanted on your own machine?"

buyucu — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 09:11:00 +0000

Anyone who thinks that vendor lock-in is a security feature didn't learn a thing from the Crowdstrike incident last year. The biggest security incident in the history of the entire internet was caused by a cybersecurity ''vendor''.

New comment by buyucu in "Signal president Meredith Whittaker says they had no choice but to use AWS"

buyucu — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 09:09:56 +0000

Telegram's founders are in exile from Russia after the Russian government took over their previous venture (Vkontakte). It is misinformation to associate Telegram with the Russian government.

New comment by buyucu in "Signal president Meredith Whittaker says they had no choice but to use AWS"

buyucu — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 09:08:45 +0000

not AWS apparently