Hacker News: egberts1

New comment by egberts1 in "Artemis II will use laser beams to live-stream 4K moon footage at 260 Mbps"

egberts1 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:34:18 +0000

Still want to know what happened in first 10 second of launch, why were the videos fuzzy and cutting out (at least twice)????

New comment by egberts1 in "A Nursing Home Owner Got a Pardon. The Families of His Patients Got Nothing"

egberts1 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:02:42 +0000

There's always a state civil court.

New comment by egberts1 in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

egberts1 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 01:45:43 +0000

400 transfems at Olympic events is rare?

New comment by egberts1 in "Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords"

egberts1 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 04:35:22 +0000

Yes, easier for hacker to tweak

New comment by egberts1 in "Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords"

egberts1 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:20:41 +0000

Only with GNOME

New comment by egberts1 in "Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords"

egberts1 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 22:29:28 +0000

You can opt-in for a "no visual echo" of any character (asterisk or not) for password prompts:

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For KDE:

    sudo vim /etc/sddm.conf.d/hide-password.conf

insert in:

    [Greeter]
    ShowPasswordEcho=false

then reboot.

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For `sudo`:

    sudo vim /etc/sudoers.d/password-no-visual-echo

Insert/replace `Defaults` with:

    Defaults !pwfeedback

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For GNOME, you have to modify `unlockDialog.js`

    sudo vim /usr/share/gnome-shell/js/ui/unlockDialog.js

And do one of the following (version-specific):

    this._passwordEntry.clutter_text.set_password_char('');

or in newer version, replace `echo_char` with `null`. Reboot required.

New comment by egberts1 in "Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation"

egberts1 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:51:23 +0000

Almost like reject the argument because the logical reasoning was supplied emotionally.

New comment by egberts1 in "Temperatures expected to remain at or near record levels in coming five years"

egberts1 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:44:30 +0000

Meanwhile we are still knocking off ghost stations for false reporting with subtle increases of warming trends.

USHCN Stations, like 342944 (Erick, OK), 80228 (Arcadia, FL(, and 235541 (Mexico, MO)

A full list is on:

https://x.com/search?q=%23NOAAghoststations&src=typed_query&...

New comment by egberts1 in "Pentagon expands oversight of Stars and Stripes, limits content"

egberts1 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:16:41 +0000

Like in Old Dominiom Jihadist incident, after had stabbed a professor in a classroom full of highly-trained cadet students, got himself stabbed 22 times, broke 9 of his ribs, breath withheld, turned his head 180-degrees and broke his neck before committing suicide?

New comment by egberts1 in "Civic opinion sharing to promote democracy"

egberts1 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:02:36 +0000

John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson all wrote about using pseudonyms when discussing policy, procedures, and ideas.

Not seeing any support for that.

New comment by egberts1 in "Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation"

egberts1 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:18:16 +0000

Let's call it "Ad machinam".

A literal form of "to the machine”: none of the rights that a person has.

Example usage:

“That’s not a rebuttal; it’s an argumentum ad machinam -- you’re rejecting it just because AI wrote it.”

New comment by egberts1 in "Separating the Wayland compositor and window manager"

egberts1 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:41:15 +0000

Still waiting for that magical single login, activating many window managers across multiple PCs.

Also, protect screenshot with permissions.

New comment by egberts1 in "The Colorado River Does Not Reach 2030"

egberts1 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:23:21 +0000

Sure, soybean is holding up in its own way but it:

- lacks methionine. So eat more soybean or complementary proteins such as grains, legumes.

- contains Phytates, which reduce mineral absorption such as iron, zinc.

- contains Trypsin inhibitors that reduce protein digestion.

- contains Lectins

- comtains genistein and daidzein inducing estrogen while maintaining testosterone in male.

- a known allergen for 0.4-0.6% of population

- is overly used as ultra-processed filler instead of more expensive natural ingredients.

Then there is land-use issues and monoculture.

The number you gave while accurate ignores the overall issues.

New comment by egberts1 in "The Colorado River Does Not Reach 2030"

egberts1 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 12:38:34 +0000

Yet remains the most efficient way to get proteins.

PDCAAS and DIAAS by livestock are in the highly efficient category even after alfalfa water usage. Soy is just mid-tier.

So, depends on your body's protein needs. Vegan/vegetarian is just a choice and not for everyone.

New comment by egberts1 in "War prediction markets are a national-security threat"

egberts1 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 12:20:48 +0000

The Dutch? Early 1500s?

That is what my reading recollection is recalling on 'derivative-like".

New comment by egberts1 in "Fork Off: Surveillance States Need to Fork Linux Themselves"

egberts1 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 11:59:05 +0000

So California state governmemt wants its own computer operating system so that state regulators can keep an eye on it.

I see so much abuse coming from so much corners of the marketplace and business settings.

Who watches the watcher? Who declare where malware ends and surveillance begins?

No. As a veteran OS expert/malware analyst: Just stop.

OS is a tool, a hammer, no need to add watchers of who makes, certify, regulate, control or uses a tool. Western civilization prides on training of a tool and advances faster than any other kind of civilization in history of mankind.

New comment by egberts1 in "Toxic combinations: when small signals add up to a security incident"

egberts1 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:57:06 +0000

I miss Cloudflare hand-written blog.

AI slop are getting rather... dry.

New comment by egberts1 in "Show HN: Now I Get It – Translate scientific papers into interactive webpages"

egberts1 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:31:06 +0000

STUCK IN A 7-SECOND REFRESH LOOP.

Firefox/iOS Safari/iOS

New comment by egberts1 in "Why isn't LA repaving streets?"

egberts1 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:39:35 +0000

Shifty bureaucrats moving goalposts: not breaking out lane miles into patched fractional mile and full-width lane miles.

You will see that patching is more labor intensive per asphalt wear time, thus incurring greater city budget expenditure on average basis.

New comment by egberts1 in "What Happened to Fry's Electronics"

egberts1 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:44:39 +0000

Good times.