Hacker News: drewfax

New comment by drewfax in "Mythos Falls into the Wrong Hands"

drewfax — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:27:12 +0000

This feels like a PR stunt by Anthropic. We understand, Mythos is a great model. But please stop unneeded publicity for the sake of IPO.

New comment by drewfax in "Five men control AI. Who should control them?"

drewfax — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:26:19 +0000

One man controls entire country. Yet we call that freedom and democracy.

New comment by drewfax in "WireGuard makes new Windows release following Microsoft signing resolution"

drewfax — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 09:16:43 +0000

> make sure partners understood this

Since when they were partners to Micro$lop? First, it's thug like behavior taking the ability to run code on our own computers without their approval. Second it's even more evil justifying this behaviour by calling the developers "partners".

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

drewfax — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:24:33 +0000

GrapheneOS is doing lot of things right in this regard. Robust permission system adopted from AOSP and hardening by default in every imaginable way. Things like hardened malloc, storage scopes are excellent security features. Malware cannot do much even with the default settings.

New comment by drewfax in "OpenWrt 25.12 Stable Release"

drewfax — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 06:43:46 +0000

What do you mean by persistent configs? OpenWrt always preserved the config between upgrades.

OpenWrt 25.12 Stable Release

drewfax — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 03:10:23 +0000

Article URL: https://forum.openwrt.org/t/openwrt-25-12-0-stable-release/247228

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47270367

Points: 56

# Comments: 3

New comment by drewfax in "Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS"

drewfax — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:54:20 +0000

Samsung phones and TVs have tons of adware built in. I'm pretty sure they won't want GrapheneOS on their phones. Motorola, on the other hand, has always shipped stock OS with minor customization. The only problem with Motorola is that their support is very short (like 2 years).

New comment by drewfax in "Microsoft May Have Created the Slowest Windows in 25 Years with Windows 11"

drewfax — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 03:51:49 +0000

Vista changed the Windows security upside down. It brought all the modern kernel features Windows embraced upon. But they went overboard with graphics that average consumer hardware was not ready for. Despite that I don't remember it came with any bloatware like Windows 10 and 11.

New comment by drewfax in "IPv6 just turned 30 and still hasn't taken over the world"

drewfax — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 05:46:00 +0000

Well if you think IPv6 adoption is a problem, wait until you hear ISPs offering IPv6 are providing a /64 prefix. IPv6 rollout is a mess.

A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet [video]

drewfax — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 12:52:54 +0000

Article URL: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46453715

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by drewfax in "Web Browsers have stopped blocking pop-ups"

drewfax — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 09:56:48 +0000

Browsers were able to block pop-ups because websites used to open another browser window to display ads. Modern websites use modals using CSS and JavaScript within their page canvas.

It's hard to block them deterministically by the browser. Though uBlock Origin and NoScript can block almost all these annoyances.

New comment by drewfax in "VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits"

drewfax — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 03:34:16 +0000

I use Mullvad through Tailscale’s exit‑node integration, and it’s awesome. They are the only provider I trust these days.

To highlight virtual routing: it’s useful in scenarios where a country blocks VPNs but you still need an IP from that country to browse local websites. In such cases, virtual routing comes in handy. For example, when India required all VPN servers in the country to log user traffic, Proton moved its Indian server to Singapore and used virtual networking tricks to continue offering an Indian IP address.