Hacker News: cjkaminski

New comment by cjkaminski in "Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality"

cjkaminski — Sat, 23 May 2026 19:57:37 +0000

That's quite a claim. You need to cite your sources for this one, if you want to be taken seriously.

New comment by cjkaminski in "Empty Screenings – Finds AMC movie screenings with few or no tickets sold"

cjkaminski — Tue, 05 May 2026 18:25:24 +0000

The split on ticket price between studio and theater operators is usually around 50% for the opening period. The window scales towards the theater's benefit over time, usually going to about 75% in favor of the operator.

That said, you're 100% right about making an offer. Most theaters have underutilized screening rooms, and managers have the ability to rent for private events. I've done this a few times. The rental rate tends to be about 10-15x the price of a single ticket (in my experience).

New comment by cjkaminski in "Proton VPN's promises post-quantum groundwork, Stealth for Linux and new apps"

cjkaminski — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:51:43 +0000

Proton is building great products. I'm a genuine enthusiast of their work.

In their official blog post, there is a hidden gem.

The text reads: "We recently introduced improved connection preferences that allowed you to permanently exclude specific countries, cities, and states from Fastest Country and Random connections on Android."

The accompanying photo lists three banned locations: Russia, Turkmenistan, and Florida.

(https://protonvpn.com/blog/2026-spring-summer-roadmap)

New comment by cjkaminski in "Cambodia unveils statue to honour famous landmine-sniffing rat"

cjkaminski — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:09:43 +0000

Finally, some excellent news that honors the contributions of a (once) living creature that made the world a better place (presumably without conflicting ulterior motives).

New comment by cjkaminski in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

cjkaminski — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:07:16 +0000

You might want to recalibrate your cynicism meter. As strange it might sound, most companies act according to their principles when the founding team is at the helm. The garbage policies tend to materialize once the company is purchased by, or merged into, another entity where the leadership doesn't care about the original aim of the organization. They just want "line go up".

Also, it makes sense that OpenAI feels the pressure of getting to an IPO because of their financial structure. I don't know whether or not Anthropic operates under a similar set of influences (meaning it could be either, I just don't know.)

New comment by cjkaminski in "I Won't Download Your App. The Web Version Is A-OK"

cjkaminski — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:38:46 +0000

Good night, sweet reputation and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.

Seriously though, I appreciate this perspective. While I prefer using a browser whenever possible, I'm well aware of modern fingerprinting techniques. But I didn't know about permission "sharing" between apps in the same browser. Thanks!

Privacy and security have always been a game of cat and mouse. Doesn't seem like that's going to change anytime soon.

New comment by cjkaminski in "Show HN: Termcraft – terminal-first 2D sandbox survival in Rust"

cjkaminski — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 23:48:22 +0000

Based on the evidence presented by the Hacker News front page, the hype is boundless. Rust is the ur-language that we never realized until... idk, three years ago?

New comment by cjkaminski in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

cjkaminski — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:53:15 +0000

I don't know when it will be included as part of the subscription in Claude Code, but at least it's a paid add-on in the MAX plan now. That's a decent alternative for situations where the extra space is valuable, especially without having to setup/maintain API billing separately.

New comment by cjkaminski in "Firefox expands fingerprint protections"

cjkaminski — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:43:04 +0000

Agreed. And this technique becomes more effective as the number of people using it increases. It's easy to match up randomized fingerprints if only one person is doing it, but quite hard when thousands or millions are doing it.

New comment by cjkaminski in "Veo 3 and Imagen 4, and a new tool for filmmaking called Flow"

cjkaminski — Tue, 20 May 2025 22:32:44 +0000

Primordial Soup isn't a guild signatory, which means they aren't bound by the agreement negotiated during the strike. It also means they cannot hire guild actors for their projects, but that isn't a likely concern given the nature of the company.

New comment by cjkaminski in "DRM and the Challenge of Serving Users"

cjkaminski — Wed, 14 May 2014 18:03:15 +0000

I wish I could be against all DRM. Like many things in life, it's not that simple. I'm proud of Apple for successfully taking DRM out of the equation from music sales. But what about non-sales interactions?

We don't get DRM-free copies of all our music from Spotify, nor should we reasonably expect that. We are subscribing to a service that allows us access to music so long as we are paying customers. Why shouldn't there be light-touch DRM in place to keep us from flagrantly abusing the system and retaining all copies of the music after if/when we cancel our subscription?

Should we reasonably expect to be able to keep a copy of a television show that we streamed from abc.go.com? ABC makes far less money from showing us ads than if we purchased a copy from iTunes. They do this, part and parcel, because we don't get to keep a copy of the show after we're done watching.

From my perspective, DRM has no place in a "sales" relationship. We should have full usage rights whenever we buy a book, movie, or song.

DRM should exist for subscription services and ad-supported streaming. DRM should essentially serve to enforce the social and legal contract that says we are "borrowing" the books, movies, or songs for long as we have that relationship. Once that relationship is over, we can't use that stuff any more.

I suggest that we create an open-source DRM system designed to fairly protect the content creator in cases where the audience is "borrowing" the creative work (whether ad-supported or subscription).