<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: catoc</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=catoc</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:13:05 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=catoc" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by catoc in "GitLost: We Tricked GitHub's AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Haha, nice. TIL.<p>So all we need is ‘<i>controlled</i> prompting’ to handle prompt injections :-)</p>
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<p>Exactly!<p>Attempting to handle prompt injections by prompting the model (not to leak sensitive data), is like attempting to stop a fire by burning the area around it</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:36:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48833359</link><dc:creator>catoc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48833359</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48833359</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by catoc in "Re: I'm Begging You to Leave Your AI Note-Taker at Home"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And then the secretary shared the conversation with 260 ‘partners’ and added everything you said to an LLM training corpus…<p>So, NO, this is not <i>“what secretaries were”</i></p>
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<p>Agreed. And even etymology agrees:<p>Plagiarize comes from <i>plagiarius</i>, latin for ‘kidnapper’.<p>You cannot kidnap yourself</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 15:31:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720605</link><dc:creator>catoc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720605</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48720605</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by catoc in "What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, the headline changed while I wrote my comment</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:56:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48648710</link><dc:creator>catoc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48648710</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48648710</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by catoc in "What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Age Verification is <i>not</i> about “saving kids from spying/social media”.<p>Same as Regulatory Encryption Backdoors are <i>not</i> about “protecting kids from child predators”<p>This is framing.
Abusing kids is bad. But that is not what this about. Let’s keep the discussion on topic: the goal is 1984-level oversight… not just of the kids<p>[Edit: I guess HN agrees: meanwhile the title changed from “saving kids from spying” to “is actually mass-surveillance” - good]</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 17:47:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48648579</link><dc:creator>catoc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48648579</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48648579</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by catoc in "Show HN: Make PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Which shares your personal data with over 200 “partners”… thanks, but no</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2026 14:20:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48619221</link><dc:creator>catoc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48619221</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48619221</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by catoc in "The iPhone explains 33–52% of fertility decline among women aged 15–44"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations" rel="nofollow">https://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations</a></p>
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<p>So then you need to know distance / roundtrip-length within centimeter precision as well (below 29.98 cm for sub-nanosecond precision… to be precise).<p>Since cm precision is often not possible, is roundtrip-length an estimated average from prior roundtrips?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 05:53:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263819</link><dc:creator>catoc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263819</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48263819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by catoc in "Why is this site named Antipope?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Then, since it’s about publishing (emails), they should have picked<p>e-mprimatur<p>(⌐⊙_⊙)</p>
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<p>That… is true - thanks for editing your comment to clarify<p>The initial thread read like “.com domains are exclusive to US”  which they of course aren’t</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 12:09:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48120865</link><dc:creator>catoc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48120865</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48120865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by catoc in "I Moved My Digital Stack to Europe"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is not<p>Source: own multiple, via EU registrar<p>(Edit: Parent was edited after reply - parent statement is now correct)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 12:01:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48120793</link><dc:creator>catoc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48120793</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48120793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by catoc in "Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn't know it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://archive.ph/44z6b" rel="nofollow">https://archive.ph/44z6b</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 05:08:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032423</link><dc:creator>catoc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032423</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48032423</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by catoc in "Security through obscurity is not bad"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>“Security through obscurity”</i> has the connotation that it is the obscurity that achieves the security - which is bad.<p><i>”Security including obscurity“</i> is fine.</p>
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<p>Would you have any more info?
I have both: adobe synctool + issues with smb shares</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:56:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47925694</link><dc:creator>catoc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47925694</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47925694</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by catoc in "How to make a sliding, self-locking, and predator-proof chicken coop door (2020)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Fair.<p>And I my point was I really like the site!<p>I promise to become lessvocal about the ads.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:03:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633484</link><dc:creator>catoc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633484</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47633484</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by catoc in "How to make a sliding, self-locking, and predator-proof chicken coop door (2020)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Such a great personal project!<p>These kind of things is what the ‘www’ was created for - good vibes!<p>Why riddle it with ads?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:41:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632677</link><dc:creator>catoc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632677</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47632677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by catoc in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I know, always hard to tell on HN.
Added the relevant declarative tag</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 08:15:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47571765</link><dc:creator>catoc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47571765</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47571765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by catoc in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Are you sure it's a DDoS and not just a DoS?<p>I think these days it’s ‘DAIS’, as in your site just DAIS - from Distributed/Damned AI Scraping</p>
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<p>It’s only bad if you’re a closed, for-profit entity<p></sarcasm></p>
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