Hacker News: forevernoob

New comment by forevernoob in "HackerTube: YouTube built from videos recommended by HN"

forevernoob — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 23:03:05 +0000

Sounds good, but could you please make it so that it can also be viewed without Javascript being enabled?

New comment by forevernoob in "Manifestos, Fear, and 'Loser Thinking': Inside Proton's AI Reckoning"

forevernoob — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 09:02:14 +0000

I migrated from Gmail to Proton a few years ago which already took a large toll on my energy and mental capacity.

I get the feeling that in a few years even the options you suggested will have some sort of downside as well.

Doing a migration dance every few years is getting tiring and unsustainable for me.

Running my own mail server is going to be a losing race to keep me out of spam filters (which you tend find out after you discover that your mails are silently being dropped)

Honestly perhaps we should just migrate from e-mail altogether. The question is to what instead?

New comment by forevernoob in "NetBSD adds a new text editor called atto"

forevernoob — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 08:47:46 +0000

Bazzite recently started to ship msedit by default, which makes sense since a large portion of its userbase are first time Linux users.

It did make for quite a surprise for existing users when the msedit logo popped up in their KDE Plasma launchers though.

New comment by forevernoob in "Audacity 4.0"

forevernoob — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 07:03:17 +0000

Not sure, but since I've installed is as a Flatpak (org.audacityteam.Audacity) I simply disable its network capabilities via com.github.tchx84.Flatseal

This way, even if they had telemetry, I wouldn't really care.

New comment by forevernoob in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

forevernoob — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:45:31 +0000

Uh... sometimes? First time I clicked it seemed to work, but a subsequent click gave me that 403 error.

New comment by forevernoob in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

forevernoob — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:29:34 +0000

> Here are some past cases of these interactions: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu....

For me that link says:

> Error: Forbidden

> Your client does not have permission to get URL / from this server.

New comment by forevernoob in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

forevernoob — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:25:14 +0000

Don't you think that as LLMs get better the deanonimization attacks will get easier?

Also, a journalist in a hostile regime might be one example, but a user that posted _very_ personal things under an alt account is also another example, and I bet the latter is much more common than the former.

Ask HN: Stylography, AI and an impending privacy nightmare?

forevernoob — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 21:30:24 +0000

From what I've understood, we can make modern day computer systems exceedingly effective in recognizing patterns in (vast amounts of) data.

However, one of the ways this can be (ab)used is the de-anonymization of people through stylography. Since (plain)text datasets are relatively massive (in variety and density, not necessarily in size), one would assume that those systems (or similar ones) can also be used to analyze patterns within text and correlate those patterns with other pieces of text written by the same person.

I suppose one can mitigate this using AI / LLMs to rewrite the original source text (perhaps even multiple times), but wouldn't even better AI systems (in the future) be able to account for this and still be able to de-anonymize?

Are we transitioning towards a giant privacy cat & mouse game? Are we creating a real-life TrollTrace.com from South Park S20?

If my concerns written above are valid, then what potential solutions would you all suggest?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44576010

Points: 2

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New comment by forevernoob in "Samsung is paying $350M for audio brands B&W, Denon, Marantz and Polk"

forevernoob — Wed, 07 May 2025 21:16:34 +0000

AFAIK B&W 800D is used in many mastering studio's. I wonder what they will do with their high-end / pro audio segment, since it's quite different from your average home stereo (or even hi-fi) markets.

New comment by forevernoob in "Framework's first desktop is a strange–but unique–mini ITX gaming PC"

forevernoob — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 08:25:06 +0000

I'd say that after numerous revelations in regards to UEFI vulnerabilities and such, an open source BIOS / EFI has become a necessity for me rather than something just nice to have.

New comment by forevernoob in "Framework's first desktop is a strange–but unique–mini ITX gaming PC"

forevernoob — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 22:15:22 +0000

Considering Intel's track record on hardware vulnerabilities, I'd much rather prefer AMD.

New comment by forevernoob in "Framework's first desktop is a strange–but unique–mini ITX gaming PC"

forevernoob — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 21:31:03 +0000

> ...the first Framework Laptop 12 motherboard is going to use Intel's 13th-generation Core i3 and i5 processors

I _really_ hope they launch an AMD version (perhaps with an iGPU) soon after that. That and preferably with Libreboot support. This would make it the ideal portable laptop for me and thus I'd be able to (finally!) replace my X220T.

New comment by forevernoob in "Full AMD Linux Laptop (Radeon 7600M XT GPU, Ryzen CPU): Tuxedo Sirius 16 Review"

forevernoob — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 05:20:56 +0000

Does it have ECC and Coreboot / Libreboot support?

New comment by forevernoob in "Phind-70B: Closing the code quality gap with GPT-4 Turbo while running 4x faster"

forevernoob — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 10:09:49 +0000

For sure this. I've recently found out that you can only pay using credit card, US bank account or Cash App.

New comment by forevernoob in "Popcorn Time 0.5.0"

forevernoob — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 19:04:58 +0000

As long as private trackers have absurd seeding rules and require you to sign up (initially) without your VPN active, I won't be touching them with a ten foot socket.

New comment by forevernoob in "I accidentally Blender VSE"

forevernoob — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 02:03:45 +0000

Really hoping for some nice performance improvements because my first time experience with VSE hasn't been that swell so far: https://old.reddit.com/r/blender/comments/186bbll/my_experie...

New comment by forevernoob in "2023: The Year of AI"

forevernoob — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 20:54:24 +0000

Would you say that this could run (smoothly) on my X220 with i7-2640M?

New comment by forevernoob in "What is the point of a public key fingerprint?"

forevernoob — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 02:08:49 +0000

I think you have to have WSL for this to work, but this is how I do it on Linux with Xorg:

  sleep 3 ; xdotool type --delay 5 "$(xclip -selection c -o)"  ## Force-paste the secondary paste buffer (Ctrl+Shift+c)

New comment by forevernoob in "Ask HN: Wordpress.com alternatives?"

forevernoob — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 11:33:05 +0000

I think I've found an alternative: https://forevernoob.hashnode.dev/

New comment by forevernoob in "PipeWire 1.0.0"

forevernoob — Mon, 27 Nov 2023 03:26:21 +0000

Can't edit my post, but I think I've found a place that fits my requirements: https://forevernoob.hashnode.dev/the-beginning - In any case I'll try to update as I go.