Hacker News: deltoidmaximus

New comment by deltoidmaximus in "Startups Brag They Spend More Money on AI Than Human Employees"

deltoidmaximus — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:48:14 +0000

Human slaves guarded by automated killer robots.

New comment by deltoidmaximus in "Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers"

deltoidmaximus — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 12:15:16 +0000

> The ones that tell you there’s a problem with your MS365 subscription, but don’t tell you which one are an especially exciting challenge to deal with. Bonus points if they warn about “possible data deletion” without specifying what.

These are real? I get these in my spam box all the time and they have all the hallmarks of a phishing scam, urgency combined with vague description with no verifiable details that aren't gleaned from my email address itself.

New comment by deltoidmaximus in "Iran demands Bitcoin fees for ships passing Hormuz during ceasefire"

deltoidmaximus — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:05:24 +0000

As bitcoin is quite traceable I don't see how this works if you're trying to avoid sanctions. For Iran it probably doesn't matter but for the vessel owners it probably does.

New comment by deltoidmaximus in "Veracrypt project update"

deltoidmaximus — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 14:25:58 +0000

And perhaps the time they sued a kid named Mike Rowe for having a website mikerowesoft.com

New comment by deltoidmaximus in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

deltoidmaximus — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:19:18 +0000

If you're willing to check the used market it is more affordable as the spike isn't as severe as used DDR5.

New comment by deltoidmaximus in "Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it"

deltoidmaximus — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:49:59 +0000

> I have around 20 or 30 google accounts attached where i am the backup email address. Those people forget their passwords or stop using their accounts and i get email notifications about that. No confirmation from my side necessary.

Does google not require a verification when you setup a backup email address?!

New comment by deltoidmaximus in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

deltoidmaximus — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:21:23 +0000

Fighting off snaps would be reason enough to abandon them but Canonical has control of the snap store in a way that is antithesis to open source as they're trying to run a walled garden play. This is the exact type of crap that lit a fire under my ass to get off Windows in the first place.

New comment by deltoidmaximus in "Steam on Linux Use Skyrocketed Above 5% in March"

deltoidmaximus — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:18:13 +0000

I don't play those games myself but the word is that the EAC on linux lacks the same kernel hooks that are available on Windows. I personally consider that a plus but if you're a developer obsessed with strong anti-cheat you probably do not.

New comment by deltoidmaximus in "Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week"

deltoidmaximus — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:29:56 +0000

What are you jamming here? The wireless connection? Wouldn't the recorded data just be cached on device until out of the jamming range?

New comment by deltoidmaximus in "FTC action against Match and OkCupid for deceiving users, sharing personal data"

deltoidmaximus — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:01:33 +0000

Aren't they going out of business in large numbers? I'm not sure how much of that has to do with the dating scene as much as it has to do with younger people drinking less though.

New comment by deltoidmaximus in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

deltoidmaximus — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:59:52 +0000

Wouldn't virtualbox or vmware's paravirtual GPUs be a better fit for this use case? Unfortunately the offerings with qemu/libvirt still lag vmwares by a lot.

New comment by deltoidmaximus in "Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features"

deltoidmaximus — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:32:57 +0000

2 minutes. I think I would have boxed that up and returned it to the store as broken.

New comment by deltoidmaximus in "Ensu – Ente’s Local LLM app"

deltoidmaximus — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 14:38:51 +0000

I ended up picking them because they were the only open source one that worked on all my devices IIRC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_OTP_applications

New comment by deltoidmaximus in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"

deltoidmaximus — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:56:17 +0000

There are still VoIP services that function essentially the same. I switched to that recently because the real POTS service had been jacked up in price a crazy amount, probably because we were grandfathered into even having it since the company website didn't even seem to offer it anymore.

New comment by deltoidmaximus in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"

deltoidmaximus — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:51:06 +0000

Can you even attach a POTS or POTS like device to Google Voice anymore? I was looking into this last month and it seemed like they had removed that feature and the devices people were using (they had stopped selling them some years ago) to do it stopped working recently.

I have an Ooma phone now and I just plugged my existing phones into the Ooma box which then works the same as an old landline for the most part.

New comment by deltoidmaximus in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"

deltoidmaximus — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:44:37 +0000

Regarding minutes, how many minutes? My kids basically hog my VoIP "landline" talking to their cousins 50% of the time they're home. (They're actually playing games together and using the phone as voice chat). I've been thinking of trying to get a second line for them to hog but didn't want anything with limited minutes.

New comment by deltoidmaximus in "Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology (2019)"

deltoidmaximus — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:49:56 +0000

In Fall; or, Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson one of the characters happens by a group of young women wearing devices that project constantly changing colored light patterns onto their faces to prevent facial recognition tracking. It's barely even mentioned in the book but I wondered how viable that was of an idea. The character's only thought on the devices IIRC was that most people only occasionally wore them.

New comment by deltoidmaximus in "Mozilla to launch free built-in VPN in upcoming Firefox 149"

deltoidmaximus — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:21:11 +0000

Firefox already had a rebadged Mullvad VPN service. I thought about switching but I found it had way fewer payment options and the log policy did not look encouraging when I read it. Made it sound like not only did it keep some kind of connection logs but that they'd cough them up pretty easily. Maybe their policy has changed but it did not seem to be a compelling offering.

New comment by deltoidmaximus in "Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access June 15"

deltoidmaximus — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:32:18 +0000

We've all forgotten the facebook phone failure but I doubt Mark has. He wants control further up the stack. Breaking into OSes is very hard but if you squinted just right VR kind of sort of looked like a green field that was ripe for the taking.

New comment by deltoidmaximus in "The American Healthcare Conundrum"

deltoidmaximus — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:05:32 +0000

Maybe if we didn't have enormously expensive healthcare that is tried to our employers the payouts would need to be so huge. If I'm injured by medical malpractice and can't work I'm going to need a lot of money to make me whole in the US, even more so if I need additional medical treatment.