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New comment by chuckadams in "Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording" (2024)"

chuckadams — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:24:31 +0000

They've been saying the quiet parts out loud for quite a few years now.

New comment by chuckadams in "You Don't Love Systemd Timers Enough"

chuckadams — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:12:50 +0000

I believe one of the major distro lines (redhat or debian, I forget which) uses systemd-cron, where cron is just a thin wrapper around systemd. You get more power from writing the unit files directly, but if all you ever need is a simple cron job, you have the old interface still available.

New comment by chuckadams in "Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API"

chuckadams — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 14:46:34 +0000

There's a reason I don't write mobile apps, and it's all the flaming hoops you have to jump through: both in the build system and from the random whims of reviewers.

New comment by chuckadams in "Using Git's rerere feature to escape recurring conflict hell"

chuckadams — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:04:54 +0000

Happens all the time with long term dev branches, which tend to arise when the PR review process is such a bottleneck that work piles up. Anything cherry-picked out of those branches tends to run into similar conflicts. ReRe is pretty handy in those circumstances.

New comment by chuckadams in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

chuckadams — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:45:54 +0000

The human vetting was that it was cheaper. Someone probably got promoted for it.

New comment by chuckadams in "KDE at 30"

chuckadams — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:28:37 +0000

When it’s someone else’s and it’s different.

New comment by chuckadams in "I made my phone slow on purpose"

chuckadams — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:18:10 +0000

I have that too where I live. It’s called “Verizon”

New comment by chuckadams in "When AI Crosses the Line: The Matplotlib Incident"

chuckadams — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:58:41 +0000

The passenger is no more liable than they would be if it were a human driving. No one's suggesting anything even like that. MJ Rathbun is more like someone gave the taxi explicit instructions to run people over.

New comment by chuckadams in "Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services"

chuckadams — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:46:19 +0000

The big attacks of today are spread across several package ecosystems: TrapDoor and Shai-Hulud have been hitting npm, pypi, composer, and crates with the same malware.

New comment by chuckadams in "We suggest using living spiders as cooling devices for data centers (2020)"

chuckadams — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:21:20 +0000

Do you WANT AI cyborg spider overlords?

Because that’s how you get AI cyborg spider overlords.

New comment by chuckadams in "Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue"

chuckadams — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:22:47 +0000

I'm not saying wedging doorstops under the fire doors is a good thing, I'm just saying look at the situation that's making people put the doorstops there. Or something, it's not a great analogy. I'm just saying that shaming the user belongs with obscurity in the list of security mechanisms that don't work out in practice.

New comment by chuckadams in "Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue"

chuckadams — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:25:42 +0000

A tool that pushes people into permissions fatigue is in fact the proper recipient of the blame. The tool in question here is the entire system though, including the OS with insufficient permission boundaries in userspace, not just the agent

New comment by chuckadams in "Clanker: A Word for the Machine"

chuckadams — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:28:57 +0000

I just delegated to AI like 99% of the work in a task that was mostly grunt work: writing tests. It wrote the tests, ran them, and when they found bugs, I had it fix them. The authority might have been delegated, but “agent” is definitely the right word for the amount of initiative I let it have.

“Clanker” is a tad cutesy, but fitting regardless. It brings to mind an archaic and clumsy whirring automaton with no reasoning or awareness of its context, an apt metaphor for slop submissions entirely generated neither by or for humans.

New comment by chuckadams in "Use boring languages with LLMs"

chuckadams — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:09:33 +0000

Excessively verbose syntax to express concepts is something I can let an LLM paper over, but a language that does not even function properly without the ceremony is still a non-starter. I want to refactor chains of operations without having to check for errors myself after each step, and I want that with or without an LLM.

New comment by chuckadams in "Corporations can vote in some Delaware elections, judge says"

chuckadams — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:45:08 +0000

The state of Hawaii was the most recent to be expropriated from its natives at the behest of corporate landlords, so they're probably a bit raw about it.

New comment by chuckadams in "Corporations can vote in some Delaware elections, judge says"

chuckadams — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:42:30 +0000

I have to imagine that's an OpenClaw workflow by now.

New comment by chuckadams in "Show HN: Posthorn, self-hosted mail gateway"

chuckadams — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:54:50 +0000

I initially read it as "Host Porn"

New comment by chuckadams in "Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It"

chuckadams — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:09:48 +0000

The mac started out without using extensions at all, the type was embedded in the metadata. That's still possible now, but it's largely derived from extensions first. I believe Finder shows all extensions by default. It certainly does in details mode.

New comment by chuckadams in "Gnutella: A Protocol Outliving the World That Created It"

chuckadams — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:07:58 +0000

Hot take: the simple reason Gnutella declined is that it was replaced by Bittorrent.

New comment by chuckadams in "AI errno(2) values"

chuckadams — Mon, 25 May 2026 13:02:57 +0000

    #define ETERNITY 999 /* stuck in thinking loop */