Hacker News: chaoskitty

New comment by chaoskitty in "Revealed: Apple is teaching its AI to adapt to the Trump era"

chaoskitty — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 18:04:01 +0000

It'll be quite telling to see what Apple says when this claim from Apple is proven false:

"Claims that we’ve shifted this approach or policy are completely false."

New comment by chaoskitty in "Ohio bill would let utilities throttle customers' thermostats and water heaters"

chaoskitty — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 17:57:13 +0000

Ok. Start with all new datacenters. Require them to be built with infrastructure that allows for throttling of servers to occur when the utilities want to throttle.

New comment by chaoskitty in "GMP damaging Zen 5 CPUs?"

chaoskitty — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 00:25:07 +0000

This isn't good. Then again, the amount of power going in to these CPUs is way too high.

Take the AlphaServer DS25. It has wires going from the power supply harness to the motherboard that are thick enough to jump a car. The traces on the motherboard are so thick that pictures of the light reflecting off of them are nothing like a modern motherboard. The two CPUs take 64 watts each.

Now we have AMD CPUs that can take 170 watts? That's high, but if that's what the motherboards are supposed to be able to deliver, then the pins, socket and pads should have no problem with that.

Where's AMD's testing? Have they learned nothing watching Intel (almost literally) melt down?

New comment by chaoskitty in "Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward"

chaoskitty — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 00:12:20 +0000

Microsoft is making it too easy to convince people to use anything else. I'm moving several people to BSD (Linux is too messy).

New comment by chaoskitty in "Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?"

chaoskitty — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 00:08:12 +0000

Examples?

New comment by chaoskitty in "Is an Intel N100 or N150 a better value than a Raspberry Pi?"

chaoskitty — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 22:57:10 +0000

Doing anything can be life threatening. We don't need to assume that people who decide to do a thing are the same as you.

New comment by chaoskitty in "Is an Intel N100 or N150 a better value than a Raspberry Pi?"

chaoskitty — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 22:53:46 +0000

Anyone who claims that pointing out the difference between new and used is the same as telling you to ignore the used market is just an idiot.

New comment by chaoskitty in "Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down"

chaoskitty — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 22:46:55 +0000

Did you read the article? The administration's excuse / explanation is that it's not illegal to remove data because it already exists elsewhere:

> said the information will be housed within NASA to comply with the law

So you think they'd accidentally misconfigure DNS, then explain that the site has been brought down because they comply with the law some other way? That doesn't make any sense, and suggesting this might just be a mistake in light of this information just makes you seem like an apologist.

New comment by chaoskitty in "Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers"

chaoskitty — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 22:41:55 +0000

You're right that you didn't say all. What you did write implied you use them for "AI protection", although you didn't say you did do that.

So if I wrote, "You would put" instead of "You put", then what? Would you be comfortable using their "AI protection" simply because it's free?

New comment by chaoskitty in "ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral"

chaoskitty — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 23:57:47 +0000

This is orthogonal to the discussion.

New comment by chaoskitty in "Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers"

chaoskitty — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 23:53:11 +0000

Serious question: You put Cloudflare between all your domains and all your visitors without looking in to how this would affect your site's reachability? If so, that's interesting, considering that many people in this community are negatively affected by Cloudflare because they're using Linux and/or some less than mainstream browser.

You might want to read some threads on here about Cloudflare.

New comment by chaoskitty in "Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down"

chaoskitty — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 23:47:09 +0000

That's hopelessly naive. A "misconfiguration" is the excuse they use after the fact when there's enough outrage that they have to put things back the way they were.

New comment by chaoskitty in "ASCIIMoon: The moon's phase live in ASCII art"

chaoskitty — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 23:44:17 +0000

Is it just me, or is the site not working right now? It loads, but it doesn't show the date, and the buttons don't seem to change anything...

New comment by chaoskitty in "Considerations for a long-running Raspberry Pi"

chaoskitty — Tue, 20 May 2025 06:32:30 +0000

While this has lots of generally good advice, handwavingly dismissing IPv6 because of the lack of understanding is one glaring shortcoming. After all, systemd could be described as (leading) 'to all sorts of strange behaviors in different networking contexts".

One thing the author does not mention is using other storage instead of the SD card. One can boot from or root on NFS, or a USB attached disk or SSD, and have much greater reliability. I'm running several Pis like this, with constant use, sometimes with heavy swap usage, and at the same time with half year to year long uptimes.

It is good to see the recommendations, though, and I look forward to trying the hardware watchdog, for instance.

New comment by chaoskitty in "Launching Mullvad VPN Loader"

chaoskitty — Tue, 20 May 2025 06:20:42 +0000

There aren't many companies I'd trust for stuff like this. Mullvad definitely stands out. I'll be looking forward to giving this a try.

New comment by chaoskitty in "AMD Ryzen AI Max+ Pro 395 Linux Benchmarks: Incredible Performance"

chaoskitty — Tue, 20 May 2025 06:01:05 +0000

The performance is incredible... Now when will AMD put some real effort in to reducing power usage?

New comment by chaoskitty in "Show HN: Rewhois.com – RDAP Lookup Tool"

chaoskitty — Tue, 20 May 2025 05:50:39 +0000

That's nice, but who is behind this? Why should we trust them?

New comment by chaoskitty in "The Beauty of Having a Pi-Hole (2024)"

chaoskitty — Mon, 05 May 2025 21:03:06 +0000

I wonder if anyone has made it easy to run the Pi Hole software on regular Unix-like systems without containers and without machine specific binaries. Perhaps I'll have to give that a try some time.

New comment by chaoskitty in "No Instagram, no privacy"

chaoskitty — Mon, 05 May 2025 20:49:00 +0000

You're conflating a few different issues: the newness of a domain, and the quality and cost of of your VPS.

Some email providers don't like brand new domains, yes, but if a domain is brand new, nobody is going to immediately start using it for mission critical things. That's just common sense, although now I want to buy a domain to see how much of an issue this really is.

The cost and quality of a VPS means very little because if a VPS is on a network with a poor reputation, one can easily smarthost through a mail provider that has a good reputation.

Likewise, people can run servers at home, or they can colocate, or whatever, and don't have to run a VPS at all, although I think you're just generalizing and aren't suggesting that people can't use other servers.

New comment by chaoskitty in "History of “Adventure” for the Atari 2600"

chaoskitty — Mon, 05 May 2025 20:33:34 +0000

It's absolutely amazing to compare Adventure on the Atari 2600 with a fancy, ray traced game today. What's even more amazing is that both have the ability to capture our attention for hours. It just goes to show how significant of a role imagination plays in games.