Hacker News: dmos62

New comment by dmos62 in "Unexpected events and prosocial behavior: the Batman effect (2025)"

dmos62 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 07:16:48 +0000

At the same time, the experiment doesn't corroborate this take at all. If it were a mix of different "unexpected events", then you might have an argument there. As the experiment is, I'd say, it would have been better to leave that speculation out of the synthesis.

New comment by dmos62 in "My server is a phone now"

dmos62 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 07:10:47 +0000

New understanding, you have added to mine, young padawan.

PS: fascinating insight.

New comment by dmos62 in "I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them"

dmos62 — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:50:38 +0000

Ehem, we already do that. USB-C is an umbrella term and everyone has a homebaked organizing system to tell which USB-C cable can do what, or a homebaked testing routine where we run through 5 cables each time we need to connect something.

That's what the article is about. Calling all these cables USB-C and making them look indistinguishable is a very leaky abstraction.

New comment by dmos62 in "Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't"

dmos62 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:52:07 +0000

I don't recall running into ads, don't know about trackers. PlantNet hasn't triggered any red flags for myself.

New comment by dmos62 in "Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't"

dmos62 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 07:10:49 +0000

Better than PlantNet?

New comment by dmos62 in "KOReader"

dmos62 — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 06:33:11 +0000

Joys of open source: you can add the feature yourself.

New comment by dmos62 in "KOReader"

dmos62 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:05:12 +0000

Use it both on my phone and on an eink Android tablet. Love it, especially the dark mode.

New comment by dmos62 in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

dmos62 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 10:28:28 +0000

I doubt I could walk properly after having 4+ pints in a 1-2 hour window. Presuming it's 4%+ alcohol. You either need to be pretty young or have a pretty accustomed liver, or is it just me?

New comment by dmos62 in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

dmos62 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:27:05 +0000

Isn't this just an attitude you get when working in a bad environment or with people you don't like?

New comment by dmos62 in "Netflix employee fired for sharing personal details in retreat trust exercise"

dmos62 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 09:23:32 +0000

Coxnfused. Was it more unhinged in the 90s or less compared to now?

New comment by dmos62 in "EU fines Google €890M for competition breaches over search and apps"

dmos62 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:18:43 +0000

Goverment coffers fund public works.

New comment by dmos62 in "LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps"

dmos62 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 06:45:52 +0000

https://github.com/raphire/win11debloat

This has an option to disable downloading of auxiliary apps when a device is connected. Yes, it's a Windows Update thing.

> Prevent Windows from auto-installing device companion apps, like LG Monitor App, Alienware Command Center and more.

New comment by dmos62 in "Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database"

dmos62 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 14:46:46 +0000

Same thing is rampant in other Eastern European countries as well. Tips on how to address this for those of us that are publicly minded?

New comment by dmos62 in "Typing Speed Test, but for Developers"

dmos62 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 21:53:58 +0000

Expected this to be speed typing of AI prompts.

New comment by dmos62 in "EVE Online's Carbon engine is now open source: Fenris Creations explains why"

dmos62 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:23:51 +0000

Fun is of course subjective. Some of us care about realism more than others.

New comment by dmos62 in "Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection"

dmos62 — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:54:56 +0000

We can't make arbitrary changes to much of hardware and software we rely on. We can't inspect their designs, we can't reproduce them, sometimes we can't repair them. Sometimes we can't even tell that they're designed to act against our interests, and, if we do, sometimes we can't do anything about it. We are forced to choose between price and privacy, between interoperability with proprietary (or official) systems and liberty.

Android making another step in this direction is bad. But, let's not kid ourselves: we are neck deep in this cyberpunk serfdom, and have been for decades. If we were to get this Android win, it would be only a small win. I'm saying this not to be defeatist, but to remind us of the bigger fight.

How does this feudal goliath meet its end? When is enough enough?

New comment by dmos62 in "GTA 6 will cost $80"

dmos62 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:00:45 +0000

Pirating should solve your problems pretty directly. That's basically what it is: restoring copyability of a piece of media.

New comment by dmos62 in "A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison"

dmos62 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 10:05:15 +0000

Selective training makes sense. But, I heard a pentest professional provide this counter-argument: if you tell management which individuals failed the test, even if your intention is to provide those people with the training they lack, the management might, due to ignorance, shift blame for suboptimal security on those people, label them as lazy/incompetent/etc, and ultimately not put the necessary processes (testing, training) in place which are the true determinants of penetration rates. The idea is that you get inefficiency by selecting for training broadly, but you prevent extreme sabotage by ignorant management.

New comment by dmos62 in "A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison"

dmos62 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 09:37:19 +0000

I am surprised how controversial this is. I feel like I'm in that episode of Always Sunny in Philadeplhia where they decide to do an intervention by cornering and berating, while a mental health professional looks on terrified.

New comment by dmos62 in "Qwen-AgentWorld: Language World Models for General Agents"

dmos62 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 07:47:42 +0000

So, if I'm reading this correctly, whereas a regular LLM would, given a prompt to edit a file, infer a sed call, this "world" model infers the resulting contents of the file.