Hacker News: consonaut

New comment by consonaut in "About the compromised eMudhra intermediate CAs"

consonaut — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 16:49:31 +0000

DV is probably "Domain validated" describing the type of cert and g3b is the specific root cert the chain starts from.

New comment by consonaut in "More than 100k people in Japan are now aged 100 or older"

consonaut — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 06:29:18 +0000

To be 100 years or older you would have been born in 1926 or before. Meaning you turned 18 in 1944 or before. Maybe something happened in Japan that killed of a large percentage of young adult males around that time?

New comment by consonaut in "How proprietary formats have become Microsoft’s main tool for lock-in"

consonaut — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:20:35 +0000

I mean, I'm not going to defend Onedrive (aside form saying it "mostly works just like the rest") but how is it the app or the vendors fault that someone send you a link that required an account to access? There is an "anonymous access through this link" sharing option that does work as advertised.

This works the same for Google drive and most of the other services. The problem is that most users don't understand that the link they create still has access controls attached (that they can change).

New comment by consonaut in "The privacy problems hidden in your period tracker"

consonaut — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:37:44 +0000

It's e2ee and only part of your icloud backup if you enable it. And you can separately manage read/write access from other apps.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/security/sec88be9900f/...

New comment by consonaut in "X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced"

consonaut — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 22:49:27 +0000

Well, then you might want to look up tk2dl, because it just links to Twitter content. It gets disgusting fairly quickly though.

New comment by consonaut in "X blames users for Grok-generated CSAM; no fixes announced"

consonaut — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 19:44:05 +0000

How about policing CSAM at all? I can still vividly remember firehose API access and all the horrible stuff you would see on there. And if you look at sites like tk2dl you can still see most of the horrible stuff that does not get taken down.

Do yourself a favor and not Google that.

New comment by consonaut in "Apple releases open-source model that instantly turns 2D photos into 3D views"

consonaut — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 15:11:08 +0000

It's included in the ios photo gallery. I think this is a separate release of the tech underneath.

New comment by consonaut in "Developers are choosing older AI models"

consonaut — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 14:56:19 +0000

Your on premise exchange server has zero connections to outlook.com. OWA (Outlook Web Access) looks similar to outlook.com but has otherwise nothing to do with it.

New comment by consonaut in "I extracted the safety filters from Apple Intelligence models"

consonaut — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 09:29:38 +0000

If you try to use the phrase with Apple Intelligence (e.g. in Notes asking for a rewrite) it will just say "Writing tools unavailable".

Maybe it's an easy test to ensure the filters are loaded with a phrase unlikely to be used accidentaly?