<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: ethersteeds</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ethersteeds</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:05:49 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=ethersteeds" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ethersteeds in "EFF is leaving X"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do regular people that aren't terminally online use X? I don't know any.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 18:30:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47707629</link><dc:creator>ethersteeds</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47707629</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47707629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ethersteeds in "Government agencies buy commercial data about Americans in bulk"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think the argument is that NSA already knows exactly how valuable metadata is, while the average person significantly underestimates its importance without a concrete demonstration.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 18:12:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47533825</link><dc:creator>ethersteeds</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47533825</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47533825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ethersteeds in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I went looking for a visualization tool to help get a sense of what this change means experientially. Found this:<p><a href="https://savestandardtime.com/chart/?city=6173331&clock=pdst" rel="nofollow">https://savestandardtime.com/chart/?city=6173331&clock=pdst</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 23:28:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47225781</link><dc:creator>ethersteeds</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47225781</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47225781</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ethersteeds in "The largest zip tie is nearly 4 feet long and $75"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What size?! Any leads on a matching bolt?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:23:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46886932</link><dc:creator>ethersteeds</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46886932</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46886932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ethersteeds in "AI is a horse (2024)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Trust arrives on foot and leaves on horseback" as the saying goes.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 02:21:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46740478</link><dc:creator>ethersteeds</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46740478</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46740478</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ethersteeds in "Radicle: The Sovereign Forge"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Here's a question: does Radicle support a http API, or is there a Radicle-to-git server bridge?<p>I know it sounds crazy, against the whole purpose. But all I want is to patch it into ArgoCD in my homelab k8s cluster...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2026 00:31:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46739824</link><dc:creator>ethersteeds</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46739824</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46739824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ethersteeds in "Threat actors expand abuse of Microsoft Visual Studio Code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was reminded of this comment when I saw the latest Zed release removing a list of tool calls from the default always_allow list. Yikes!<p><a href="https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/compare/v0.220.2...v0.220.3#commits_bucket" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/compare/v0.220.2...v0....</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:15:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46723817</link><dc:creator>ethersteeds</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46723817</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46723817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ethersteeds in "From stealth blackout to whitelisting: Inside the Iranian shutdown"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>TFA mentions one reason: the "recent Iranian law that would equate the use of Starlink with espionage, punishable by death"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:54:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46721824</link><dc:creator>ethersteeds</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46721824</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46721824</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ethersteeds in "American importers and consumers bear the cost of 2025 tariffs: analysis"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Outside the specious argument that other countries would pay, the other more serious argument was that tarrifs would promote the growth of domestic alternatives.<p>Yes it will hurt, they argued, but the long term effect will be a stronger and more independent domestic economy. And the pain is worth it for that end. There's plenty of evidence that what actually results are inferior products from domestic companies insulated from international competition, but that was the pitch.<p>There's also a large group in the base that voted for this who already had an ideological "buy local even if it costs more" philosophy, so to them the proposal was just to force everyone else to join their cause.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 16:52:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46681250</link><dc:creator>ethersteeds</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46681250</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46681250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ethersteeds in "I replaced Windows with Linux and everything's going great"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Gotta be doing something, elsewise it's layoffs for your business unit</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2026 17:55:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46568107</link><dc:creator>ethersteeds</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46568107</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46568107</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ethersteeds in "Minneapolis driver shot and killed by ICE"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's already happened:<p><a href="https://lataco.com/federal-immigration-agents-halloween-masks" rel="nofollow">https://lataco.com/federal-immigration-agents-halloween-mask...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2026 22:53:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46547685</link><dc:creator>ethersteeds</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46547685</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46547685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ethersteeds in "Electronic nose for indoor mold detection and identification"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As another top level comment describes, there are very inexpensive hardware store mold testing kits which are essentially just petri dishes you leave open and then mail in for testing.<p>Also if it is indeed mold, the source is typically some source of moisture. You want to rule out roof leaks and plumbing leaks, and bear in mind that water is incredibly non intuitive and creative in getting from point a to point b.<p>Another major source of humidity is the human body. Between sweat and respiration, we emit quite a bit of water. This goes into the air and into the bedding and requires ventilation to dissipate. Tightly sealed under-bed areas prevent the mattress from breathing. You might consider stripping the bedding and lifting up the mattress to see how things look.<p>Consider the rooms' ventilation system. Are the filters new, are the ducts clean? Hiring a professional to check the HVAC system is good routine maintenance.<p>A final source of moisture leading to mold to consider is condensation. Anywhere warm air meets a much colder surface leads to liquid water and mold. This can mean cracks and poor insulation in exterior walls during winter, or the air conditioning parts during summer. I've seen this combine with the bed-human moisture where under a bed against an exterior wall in a poorly insulated house was staying cold. The bottom of the mattress was moldy.<p>Mold is insidious. You often need to get into the mindset of a detective, or hire one, to find it. Good luck.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2026 13:41:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46526257</link><dc:creator>ethersteeds</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46526257</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46526257</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ethersteeds in "Google is dead. Where do we go now?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Won't disagree about channels and mindshare, but will note that Signal got public group links in 2020, not that recent.<p><a href="https://signal.org/blog/group-links/" rel="nofollow">https://signal.org/blog/group-links/</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 03:16:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46429139</link><dc:creator>ethersteeds</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46429139</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46429139</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ethersteeds in "Yep, Passkeys Still Have Problems"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Pre-passkeys, was this lockout issue a true issue with apple and google accounts?<p>Yes, absolutely. I have a second Google account I created and lost the password to. I can't reset it because it wants to know the exact month I opened it. I don't even know if it was 2012 or 2016, I'll never guess the month.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Dec 2025 04:36:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46308931</link><dc:creator>ethersteeds</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46308931</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46308931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ethersteeds in "“Super secure” messaging app leaks everyone's phone number"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Your first formulation I agree with:<p>> privacy was not their objective. Only secure communications was.<p>> Signal is demonstrably anti-privacy by design.<p>But your second is uncharitable and misses Signal's historical context.<p>The value of a phone number for spam prevention has been mentioned, but that's not the original reason why phone numbers were central to Signal. People forget that Signal was initially designed around using SMS as transport, as with Twitter.<p>Signal began as an SMS client for Android that transparently applied encryption on top of SMS messages when communicating with other Signal users. They added servers and IP backhaul as it grew. Then it got an iOS app, where 3rd party SMS clients aren't allowed. The two clients coexisted awkwardly for years, with Signal iOS as a pure modern messenger and Signal Android as a hybrid SMS client. Finally they ripped out SMS support. Still later they added usernames and communicating without exposing phone numbers to the other party.<p>You can reasonably disdain still having to expose a phone number to Signal, but calling it "anti-privacy by design" elides the origins of that design. It took a lot of refactoring to get out from under the initial design, just like Twitter in transcending the 140-character limit.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 03:59:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46284615</link><dc:creator>ethersteeds</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46284615</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46284615</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ethersteeds in "Maybe you’re not trying"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This <i>is</i> a fascinating phenomenon, isn't it? I've heard it invoked as "it's always easier to clean someone else's room." And anxiety does seem to be the key. Very often the actual blocker isn't the difficulty of a task, but how we relate to it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2025 16:33:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45946340</link><dc:creator>ethersteeds</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45946340</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45946340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ethersteeds in "Steam Frame"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The timeline on the site you're critiquing says the project was confirmed in 2021. So they've been waiting a while.<p>And it's <i>not</i> out, it was "revealed" today with "early 2026" estimate for availability. No price yet.<p><a href="https://store.steampowered.com/sale/hardware" rel="nofollow">https://store.steampowered.com/sale/hardware</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:20:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45905935</link><dc:creator>ethersteeds</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45905935</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45905935</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ethersteeds in "FAA to cut flights by 10% at 40 major airports due to government shutdown"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The drug is called "having lots of money"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2025 14:30:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45835647</link><dc:creator>ethersteeds</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45835647</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45835647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ethersteeds in "Jack Kerouac, Malcolm Cowley, and the difficult birth of On the Road"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is, but it's your reduction.<p>The discussion is about a novel whose main appeal is described as "scenes one can imagine themselves in" with "more style than substance". That's a valid thing to enjoy, but not for everyone.<p>The idea that it appeals to boys and not girls was conflicted with further nuance: while girls might be hard pressed to see themselves in it, so too would some boys.<p>While one <i>can</i> make the argument that the beats' values and writings are at least complimentary to misogyny, that wasn't the discussion happening here previously.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 13:30:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45771783</link><dc:creator>ethersteeds</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45771783</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45771783</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by ethersteeds in "Nine months later, is still the "Gulf of Mexico" to news outlets"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I always said Canada geese are stealing the American workers' job of last resort: sleeping in the park. He really should do something.</p>
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