Hacker News: canada_dry

New comment by canada_dry in "Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones"

canada_dry — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 19:03:02 +0000

This extremely well hidden backdoor was an interesting find:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38783112

New comment by canada_dry in "There's a high chance of devices being sold with GrapheneOS preinstalled in 2027"

canada_dry — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 03:42:10 +0000

Hoping GrapheneOS makes it onto the Motorola Razor (Ultra) soon.

New comment by canada_dry in "Turn off and restrict access to Apple Intelligence features on Mac"

canada_dry — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 23:05:05 +0000

When I hear a discussion among peers about Apple AI and security I remind them of this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38783112

Apple's reputation of being highly secure was shattered by Operation Triangulation. This complex back door allowed the hacker the ability to utilize the on-device AI to sift through data.

New comment by canada_dry in "Google Maps Renames Lake Ontario to Lake America"

canada_dry — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 23:53:46 +0000

The Gov't of Canada uses google maps and apparently don't have the country setting that dictates which version of Lake Ontario/America users see - so Canadians using their site get the US (Lake America).

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/google-updates-maps-lake-onta...

Having experienced fed gov't IT projects I'm guessing it'll take 6-8 weeks and cost $500K-$750K to update that setting. /s

New comment by canada_dry in "GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE)"

canada_dry — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 04:02:24 +0000

Graphene on Razr Ultra - YES! Can't come soon enough.

New comment by canada_dry in "There's no reason for software to be slow anymore"

canada_dry — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 02:50:23 +0000

I regularly support Windows users and when I do, I cringe at just how awful the experience is! (My daily driver for the last decade have been various flavours of linux)

High end Windows 10/11 machines (like my Alienware I9 w/ 64GB mem + RTX4090) seem a bit sluggish. Low end machines with Windows are absolutely painful to use!

I've install debian onto my fairly ancient Lenovo X201 Tablet and it is exceptionally snappy.

New comment by canada_dry in "PM Carney announces largest clean energy investment in North American history"

canada_dry — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:32:37 +0000

Carney is one of the most popular "Liberal" PMs west of Ontario in decades. His popularity in Alberta is higher than Daniel Smith. This can only be good for Canada as a whole IMHO.

New comment by canada_dry in "Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items"

canada_dry — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:23:50 +0000

> clean your [item]

Anecdote: I gave an apprentice a small vacuum to fix, when he opened it up several live bed bugs emerged. That was fun! /s

New comment by canada_dry in "Repair Cafe – Fix Your Broken Items"

canada_dry — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 02:05:37 +0000

I've been involved for several years. If you don't yet have one in your area, are handy at fixing things and have the inclination - contact them for info on starting one up.

New comment by canada_dry in "A Tome of Forbidden Technologies"

canada_dry — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 13:40:28 +0000

"get one of your factories turning out brand new copies of the 1966 Mustang fastback. You’ve still got the plans, right? Don’t change a thing. Leave out all the improvements"

I.e. OP suggests FORD leave out all the modern safety improvements (air bags, crumple zones, ABS brakes) this is exactly the argument the GOP have about capitalism: regulations simply stand in the way of profits.

The whole article is narrow minded and short sighted IMHO.

New comment by canada_dry in "Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard"

canada_dry — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:37:34 +0000

> symbols need to be lit

100% this.

One of my absolute favorite keyboard designs: G915 TKL Lightspeed got relegated to the donation pile because the symbols were NOT backlit. Such a dumb design choice to save a few cents IMHO.

New comment by canada_dry in "Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard"

canada_dry — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:32:52 +0000

Because it's backlit I'm guessing changing the eclectic number row design isn't an option that can be easily changed (for this version anyway).

New comment by canada_dry in "Donate to GrapheneOS"

canada_dry — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:55:41 +0000

The razr forum on reddit has some examples.

It doesn't seem extremely common, but the reports are for phones that are relatively new - not even two years of use.

New comment by canada_dry in "Donate to GrapheneOS"

canada_dry — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 20:37:44 +0000

Here's hoping Pixel releases a flip phone 11 and Graphene support follows.

The Motorola razr has crease issues that they seem to want to ignore and Samsung has locked down their phones so root is impractical.

New comment by canada_dry in "Introducing selfie for sign-in: a new way to access your Google Account"

canada_dry — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:03:19 +0000

Plus friends and family inadvertently give Google/Facebook (etc) your personal info via tagged photos, contacts, DMs without your consent and they gather/link/sell this collateral info to the highest bidder without anyone being the wiser.

New comment by canada_dry in "Sealed tomb filled with paintings and inscriptions discovered in Egypt"

canada_dry — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:08:10 +0000

Mine was simply an exercise to see what gpt's vision would come up with vs. the expert analysis.

New comment by canada_dry in "Sealed tomb filled with paintings and inscriptions discovered in Egypt"

canada_dry — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:16:54 +0000

Asked gpt to see if it could discern Egyptian hieroglyphs from the image of the tomb wall...

https://i.postimg.cc/Pdw7sw-0W/image.png

The "possible standing figure" on the right seems plausible. Be interested in seeing what the actual painstaking restoration eventually reveals.

New comment by canada_dry in "GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Claude, and Muse Spark build the same 4 apps"

canada_dry — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 01:48:13 +0000

I gave up on Grok.

It constantly ignores explicit instructions (e.g. do NOT remove existing comments) and it's not nearly as intuitive in knowing the right questions to ask as gpt, claude or gemini in my experience from using all of them.

New comment by canada_dry in "I think I have LLM burnout"

canada_dry — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 03:10:31 +0000

The reason I'm getting LLM burnout is from dealing with the obvious neutering and opaque downgrading of all the top models.

Prior to the last 12mos AI companies were hell bent on squeezing out the best results from mediocre models.

But... now that the top models have progressed, those same AI companies have switched their efforts into reducing the computation (cost of a producing a result) as much as possible without being too obvious.

What was an exponential slope in the quality of results over the last 36 months has now nearly flat lined.

Addendum: IMHO results have 'flat lined' not because the models aren't much more capable than a year ago, but because conserving the enormous processing cost (of an over subscribed user base) supersedes the goal of following the user's explicit instructions (e.g. especially if that means more processing cost) to generate the best results.

New comment by canada_dry in "Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all"

canada_dry — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 02:58:07 +0000

Considering the (apparent) heaps of money and brains thrown at GROK I'd argue MISTRAL is relatively futher ahead.

Every time I go back to trying GROK it is an abysmal disappointment.