Hacker News: exprez135

New comment by exprez135 in "Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

exprez135 — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:42:52 +0000

The Canvas instance at the nearby university is now down (May 7, 4 PM Eastern), but was briefly displaying the message in this screenshot (1). The ransom message implies that today's problem is the second wave in an attack on Instructure after ignoring their first breach in recent days.

1: https://ibb.co/r29RjdnH

New comment by exprez135 in "JMAP for Calendars, Contacts and Files Now in Stalwart"

exprez135 — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 15:34:51 +0000

Stalwart currently does not support the NOTIFY extension to IMAP, needed for ImapGoose, though it is planned: https://github.com/stalwartlabs/stalwart/issues/484

New comment by exprez135 in "The new Framework Laptop 16 with Nvidia"

exprez135 — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 21:17:25 +0000

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45027725

Proposal: AI Content Disclosure Header

exprez135 — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 21:08:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-abaris-aicdh-00.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45032360

Points: 74

# Comments: 48

New comment by exprez135 in "Interactive map of Paul's first century travels in Roman world"

exprez135 — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 19:51:01 +0000

Only in recent years have I appreciated how familiarity with such material so enriches my experience of other, later literature. To use this example, the title of C.S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces and its eponymous sentence (paraphrased):

How can we know the gods face to face, till we have faces?

New comment by exprez135 in "FFmpeg 8.0"

exprez135 — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 15:39:00 +0000

Not an insider, but I noticed that there is now a filter for using Whisper (C++) for audio transcription [1]. It looks like you provide the path to a model file [2].

[1]: https://github.com/ggml-org/whisper.cpp

[2]: https://git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.git/commit/13ce36fef98a...

New comment by exprez135 in "What if your website had business hours? (2022)"

exprez135 — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 21:43:39 +0000

I recently had this idea about email servers. In addition to configuring my IMAP clients to normally fetch mail manually or more infrequently, I set up one mail server that “closes” from 7 p.m. till 7 a.m. my time.

During that time, it returns a temporary error `450 4.3.2 We're sorry! The mail room is closed from 7 p.m. till 7 a.m. [Time Zone]. Email servers automatically retry, so your mail should be delivered in a few hours.` Depending on their mail provider and the time of evening, some will never see an error, while others will eventually receive the standard “Delayed Mail: no need to retry” message in their own inboxes.

I see it as accomplishing three things: first, it tests email servers to see if they properly handle temporary delivery errors by retrying; second, it prevents me from checking my email after hours, or rather, leaves me overnight with only the email I got during the day, perhaps encouraging better habits; and third, it could provide an opportunity for others to consider assumptions about always-on digital services.

New comment by exprez135 in "Show HN: Artemis, a Calm Web Reader"

exprez135 — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 18:08:15 +0000

It is actually open source, though I'm not sure if it's linked directly on the site. (It is linked in his blog post.) The repository: https://github.com/capjamesg/web-reader

New comment by exprez135 in "Show HN: Artemis, a Calm Web Reader"

exprez135 — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 18:00:59 +0000

The tool actually is open source, so you could self-host it if you wish. MIT license, in Python. The repository [1] is linked in the blog post the author wrote about the project [2].

[1]: https://github.com/capjamesg/web-reader

[2]: https://jamesg.blog/2024/11/30/designing-a-calm-web-reader/

New comment by exprez135 in "Three Mile Island nuclear plant restart in Microsoft AI power deal"

exprez135 — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 15:00:03 +0000

The problem you describe seems to be one targeted by the TerraPower project in Wyoming. It plans to operate at 100% capacity at all times (345 MWe), but makes itself more akin to other renewables by incorporating energy storage into its design. It is supposed to be able to increase capacity to 150% (500 MWe), allowing it to respond to energy scarcity. But it can also respond to energy abundance by storing excess production in molten salt storage tanks.

New comment by exprez135 in "ChatGPT January 9th Release Notes"

exprez135 — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 15:19:21 +0000

It's especially interesting to contrast this rise in the brutality, violence, and realistic physicality of western Christianity's art with traditional Byzantine iconography. My first thought goes to Myshkin in Dostoevsky's The Idiot. Seeing an image of the dead Christ from Holbein [1]:

"At that painting!" the prince suddenly cried out, under the impression of an unexpected thought. "At that painting! A man could even lose his faith from that painting!" "Lose it he does," Rogozhin suddenly agreed unexpectedly. They had already reached the front door. "What?" the prince suddenly stopped. […]

By contrast, I once read or heard somewhere that in Byzantine depictions of the crucifixion, one cannot really know if it is the cross that holds up Christ's body or He who holds up the cross.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Body_of_the_Dead_Christ_in...

New comment by exprez135 in "Google is forcing us to make our open source VoIP app worse"

exprez135 — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 16:22:12 +0000

Re: the off-topic comment: Same here, but I noticed that Firefox's reader button was still appearing. I was able to read with that without loading the scripts after all.

New comment by exprez135 in "Alpine Linux 3.16.0 Released"

exprez135 — Mon, 23 May 2022 21:54:53 +0000

At last, a goodbye to Python 2. Otherwise, I'm excited to see the increased support for desktop use of Alpine with each release. This time, a new setup script is included to help set up a desktop environment automatically. For some reason, it's very satisfying to boot such a small distribution on a big screen.

New comment by exprez135 in "Last payphone in NYC to be removed"

exprez135 — Mon, 23 May 2022 21:23:45 +0000

Though the free calls come at the cost of a 55-inch revolving advertisement outside my door and around every corner. I wish very often for the "humble" option to return.

New comment by exprez135 in "Microsoft's Censorship of Search Results"

exprez135 — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 22:51:35 +0000

The story has been picked up by Reuters as well [1]. From a quick look at DuckDuckGo and Ecosia, it seems their image results are similarly restricted because of their reliance on Bing. I am getting results, but they're entirely unrelated to the Tiananmen Square massacre.

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/technology/microsoft-bing-raises-con...

New comment by exprez135 in "Woman catches state police attaching tracker to her car, now they want it back"

exprez135 — Mon, 31 May 2021 21:15:11 +0000

After the article was written, the Supreme Court of Indiana did end up ruling in favor of the car owner. From the ruling [1]:

> To find a fair probability of unauthorized control here, we would need to conclude that Hoosiers don’t have the authority to remove unknown, unmarked objects from their personal vehicles.

In this case, however, there was no obvious indication that the device was put there by the police.

[1]: https://law.justia.com/cases/indiana/supreme-court/2020/19s-...

New comment by exprez135 in "How a US Operation to Snare Rwandan Genocide Fugitive Félicien Kabuga Went Awry"

exprez135 — Sat, 04 Jul 2020 20:47:14 +0000

"Kabuga’s trial, in contrast, promises to restore a modicum of accountability"

I hope so. A trial before the IRMCT would renew my hope in such institutions, even as the US plainly attacks the ICC with Trump's recent executive order (13928). For those interested in reading more: https://www.justsecurity.org/tag/executive-order-13928/.

New comment by exprez135 in "Finding the 'invisible' millions who are not on maps"

exprez135 — Fri, 03 Jul 2020 16:26:39 +0000

This really interests me. Do you have any specific essays/references you could point me to? I've managed to find a couple things online, but I would appreciate any recommendations you have.

New comment by exprez135 in "Blackballed by PayPal, Sci-Hub switches to Bitcoin"

exprez135 — Fri, 26 Jun 2020 04:45:07 +0000

Maybe not in today's form, but a world without copyright would be a different world, perhaps one in which people would work for free software because it's what they believe in. It would represent a fundamental shift in how the public viewed knowledge, sharing, and openness.

New comment by exprez135 in "Linux Touchpad Like a MacBook update: progress on multitouch"

exprez135 — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 17:23:45 +0000

My Catalina install broke the dictionary app for me, so there are no dictionaries other than Wikipedia. This was one of the most useful features of force touch for me :(