Hacker News: coretx

New comment by coretx in "Management is forcing us to use AI"

coretx — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 18:46:35 +0000

They don't get into the cockpit until they can do 100% properly.

New comment by coretx in "Ask HN: Do you regret using Social Networking apps?"

coretx — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 04:42:16 +0000

The only social network I don't regret are IRC channels but that's mostly dead these days and it is rapidly being outlawed.

New comment by coretx in "Stardust Store – An independent Android app marketplace"

coretx — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 04:37:28 +0000

You could let real people curate & attest their apps in exchange for free updates. If done in a clever manner, this would keep the bots & astroturfers out of your system.

New comment by coretx in "Ask HN: 30, burnt out, with 6-10 months of runway. What would you do?"

coretx — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 08:41:03 +0000

Talk to a medical professional and be careful with taking advice from randoms online. You have only one you, don't risk it.

New comment by coretx in "Wi-Fi 8 is the first wireless upgrade in years that isn't chasing speed"

coretx — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 09:06:09 +0000

Most don't want you to setup your own APN ;-)

New comment by coretx in "Google has abandoned Google News?"

coretx — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 21:45:39 +0000

"Fair Use" as a fundamental only exists in the US. It was not the butler but IPR and advertisement jihadis who did it.

New comment by coretx in "Twenty-five years ago it was cryptography, today it's model weights"

coretx — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 23:50:51 +0000

Many people use those to hide their ESP32-LORA devices. Far better range compared to wifi ;-) It works but you'll still need to swap the 18650's every now and then. More of a concern is the privatization of free spectrum. If everyone becomes a radio-refugee, there will be nothing but noise & pirates.

New comment by coretx in "Twenty-five years ago it was cryptography, today it's model weights"

coretx — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 23:34:34 +0000

https://tinygrad.org is probably the best punk in this regard. Moving LLM's out of your drug dealers datacenter and into your utility closet.

New comment by coretx in "Twenty-five years ago it was cryptography, today it's model weights"

coretx — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 23:29:00 +0000

Such as bypassing parliament -the people responsible for managing your rights-. And subverting democracy and the rule of law too, by punishing you or otherwise manipulate you into desired behavior without going to court. Code is Law. DRM is violence.

New comment by coretx in "Better to Beg Forgiveness"

coretx — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:44:55 +0000

The "You don't own it if you can't destroy it" discussion goes all the way back to people like Cicero and limitations on what you can and can not do with your slaves. What you desire is sensible and can only be achieved by political means; yet it is undermined already. Licenses are granted, not given. They remain the property of whoever issued it. Here fore, among other things, a discussion about property rights retains the frame used by those who abuse immaterial property rights. This is problematic because it's near impossible to achieve a political goal without setting the right language first.

New comment by coretx in "Read this before you buy that TV streaming stick"

coretx — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:37:54 +0000

The most relevant difference between using a TV and a "TV streaming stick" is corpos & the State controling the malware/surveillance device.

Being a ordinary person, I do not want criminals or the ( ads/data ) industry or the state to be in control of my property.

Also, any DRM not passed by a parliament undermines the rule of law & statehood. This is something Krebs and his Praetorian guard buddies must know.

New comment by coretx in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

coretx — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 01:57:49 +0000

The best model is the model that runs best on your hardware.

New comment by coretx in "Digital Sovereignty Becomes an Imperative as the US Reads Dutch Emails"

coretx — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:08:46 +0000

Not the US but the Dutch state is the problem here. The powers that be know that US espionage is not only limited to some emails and also entails sophisticated industrial espionage and never cared. Now "suddenly" they want to do something about it. This is Not about Dutch interests / sovereignty - we need to find out what it really is about.

New comment by coretx in "Show HN: TunnelMind – reputation API for IPs, ASNs, and ad-tech supply chains"

coretx — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:58:55 +0000

Reputation is subjective and subject to abuse. You need cold hard facts. Intelligence. Also, don't talk BGP to people you don't know and don't forget to maintain your human network. Your regional RIR can help with this.

New comment by coretx in "Ask HN: What is the long term purpose of Google releasing free offline models?"

coretx — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:45:32 +0000

Speculation: It helps engineer consumer agency.

New comment by coretx in "MiMo Code is now released and open-source"

coretx — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:38:56 +0000

Reading "xiaomi"in the headline I was thrilled to see MiMo only to find out it's NOT this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIMO What a disappointment!

New comment by coretx in "Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles"

coretx — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:53:09 +0000

It's still a wise idea to take it seriously. Many years ago, a then 17 y/o old ( German ) friend of mine did mitm on his own console in order to replace a video stream in ps home, recorded it for youtube/laughs. Not much later he was SWATed by the german police as if he was some kind of terrorist. His parents got a heart attack. Next he received financial death threats from a ultra expensive UK based law firm send by Sony.

New comment by coretx in "Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]"

coretx — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:13:13 +0000

You don't give a stranger the keys to your house but we run their code every day. This is wrong regardless of there being surveillance present. We all know where it went wrong and can't say we did not know.

New comment by coretx in "Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux"

coretx — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:35:20 +0000

Why dont you ask Claude to write you a TUI ?

New comment by coretx in "Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes"

coretx — Tue, 26 May 2026 05:38:14 +0000

That begs the question! Did they use a Sony rootkit ? XD