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New comment by gherard5555 in "Roc Camera"

gherard5555 — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 08:48:32 +0000

400$ for a phone camera stuck on a raspberry pi ? I will pass this one...

New comment by gherard5555 in "Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war"

gherard5555 — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 07:43:01 +0000

I've been having great success with bottles (https://usebottles.com/). The fact that you can have multiple tweakable prefix helps a lot.

New comment by gherard5555 in "Show HN: Chawan TUI web browser"

gherard5555 — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 13:31:15 +0000

Can we talk about how refreshing this web design is

New comment by gherard5555 in "Seedance 1.0"

gherard5555 — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 08:35:45 +0000

Can't wait for infinite ai generated video slop

New comment by gherard5555 in "EchoLeak – 0-Click AI Vulnerability Enabling Data Exfiltration from 365 Copilot"

gherard5555 — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 08:08:23 +0000

Lets plug a llm into every sensitive systems, I'm sure nothing will go wrong !

New comment by gherard5555 in "Apple introduces a universal design across platforms"

gherard5555 — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 10:13:24 +0000

Aero 2.0

New comment by gherard5555 in "Are the Colors in Astronomical Images 'Real'?"

gherard5555 — Wed, 28 May 2025 13:16:44 +0000

Ceci n'est pas une réponse

New comment by gherard5555 in "I use zip bombs to protect my server"

gherard5555 — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 09:54:08 +0000

This book was so far ahead of its time

New comment by gherard5555 in "I use zip bombs to protect my server"

gherard5555 — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 09:52:06 +0000

There is a similar thing for ssh servers, called endlessh (https://github.com/skeeto/endlessh). In the ssh protocol the client must wait for the server to send back a banner when it first connects, but there is no limit for the size of it ! So this program will send an infinite banner very ... very slowly; and make the crawler/script kiddie script hang out indefinitely or just crash.

New comment by gherard5555 in "Classic Computer Replicas"

gherard5555 — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 08:41:32 +0000

Why do classic computers looks so much like synths ?

New comment by gherard5555 in "Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift'"

gherard5555 — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 15:13:58 +0000

> But they have, by electing the representatives that ought to represent them

Yes this is the theory, but what if there is no political party "representing" me, what about people abstaining from voting, what if peoples elect an authoritarian figure I didn't vote for ? This is one of the pitfalls of your system, if only one citizen disagree, or do not feel represented in it, this justification falls apart. You cannot hide this behind an "implementation problem", because there is no such implementation. If "we are the government" so everything the state is doing to me (or any other individual) will be "voluntary". With this reasoning the state is not putting me in prison for my dissident opinion, I went to prison myself.

> concluding that the state is your enemy and cannot be trusted is the wrong one, in my opinion

I didn't conclude such a thing, I only wanted to make clear that the state is a distinct institution that cannot possibly represent everyone, thus not worthy of the title "we". Also yes I do not trust it :)

New comment by gherard5555 in "Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift'"

gherard5555 — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 12:28:02 +0000

> A state is its population.

Very dangerous thinking. Unless each and every citizens has approved the elected "representative" and every decision they made (which will never happen), you cannot assimilate the state and the population. The state has to be considered a separate entity, one which operate beyond the common man's thinking.

New comment by gherard5555 in "Pico.sh – SSH powered services for developers"

gherard5555 — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 14:02:17 +0000

This web design is very nice to look at

New comment by gherard5555 in "I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad"

gherard5555 — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 13:59:15 +0000

Yes, the connector is a little loose now and the cable comes off easily. But you can use the other connector so its not really an issue for me.

Also it sounds like you may have the infamous issue where the firmware of the charging port cease functioning. I strongly recommend updating the charging port firmware to anyone reading this if you have a T480.

New comment by gherard5555 in "I maintain a 17 year old ThinkPad"

gherard5555 — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 08:28:51 +0000

My T480 just doesn't want to die. I dropped it a lot, in my staircase, on concrete floor, accidentally emptied my whole mug of coffee on it (had to change the keyboard that time some keys were stuck). At some point I felt so confident I tried stepping on it when it was closed. So yeah this thing is pretty tough.

New comment by gherard5555 in "Training AI Using 'Pirated' Content Can Be Fair Use, Law Professors Argue"

gherard5555 — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 08:07:17 +0000

If big companies are allowed to pirate content to train their models, so do I. I have to train my brain after all

New comment by gherard5555 in "Wikipedia is struggling with voracious AI bot crawlers"

gherard5555 — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 13:22:19 +0000

my guess is the gnome anime girl anti bot captcha

New comment by gherard5555 in "A 6-Hour Time-Stretched Version of Brian Eno's Music for Airports"

gherard5555 — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 08:49:34 +0000

Alternative title: Journalist discover the paulstretch software

New comment by gherard5555 in "Show HN: I vibecoded a 35k LoC recipe app"

gherard5555 — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 08:47:17 +0000

please stop saying vibecoding it makes me wanna kms

New comment by gherard5555 in "I created filters to make Fandom.com useable"

gherard5555 — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 08:27:35 +0000

fandom.com is yet another example illustrating why the model of big entities replacing independents forums and wikis has failed (also see reddit). Corporate interests are completely disconnected from the communities. Many wikis have started to migrate to their own platforms and I hope to see more of that in the future.