Hacker News: fiprisoner

New comment by fiprisoner in "Top downloaded skill in ClawHub contains malware"

fiprisoner — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 15:16:23 +0000

I was in prison as AI became a thing, didn't spend all that much time on the internet. Regardless, the LLM-writing stood out immediately. I didn't know what it was, but it didn't take any learning to realize that this is not how any normal human writes.

New comment by fiprisoner in "Cache of devices capable of crashing cell network is found in NYC"

fiprisoner — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 16:05:53 +0000

>Probably an egress point for scammers and bot farms, and the speculation about local disruptions isn't grounded in anything other than scale?

More likely an egress point for cheap VOIP routing.

New comment by fiprisoner in "Cache of devices capable of crashing cell network is found in NYC"

fiprisoner — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 16:04:59 +0000

It can’t, its a lie.

New comment by fiprisoner in "Tell HN: GPT copilots aren’t that great for programming"

fiprisoner — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 19:07:11 +0000

Unless your time is borderline worthless, obviously yes.

New comment by fiprisoner in "Review: Demons, by Fyodor Dostoevsky"

fiprisoner — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 08:19:52 +0000

Unfortunately the linked Garnett translation is censored, and then further neutered by the translator who prioritized a very accessible end result at the cost of losing much of the meaning in the source material.

I’d recommend the Penguin Classics Maguire translation, it remains accessible but loses less of the original.

New comment by fiprisoner in "Three million malware-infected smart toothbrushes used in Swiss DDoS attacks"

fiprisoner — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 09:22:14 +0000

Usually in January, 2021 was in August and 2022 in May.

New comment by fiprisoner in "Taylor Swift threatens to sue student who tracks her private jet"

fiprisoner — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 08:25:54 +0000

> Flight information is public information. It needs to be. It’s not optional

Similarly the location of your mobile phone is public information, for technical reasons it has to be. Just like aircraft, your phone constantly broadcasts identifying information for all the world to hear. Additionally, just about anyone anywhere in the world can query the phone network for information about which cell tower your phone is connected to.

I suspect many would not be very happy if there was a twitter account tracking the location of their cell phone.

New comment by fiprisoner in "Massachusetts becomes fifth state to make prison calls free"

fiprisoner — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 10:05:03 +0000

I would’ve expected American prison calls to be much more expensive, here in Finland local calls from prison cost 3.60 euros per hour. Calls abroad can easily cost 10s of euros per hour, even within EU.