Hacker News: goodpoint

New comment by goodpoint in "Microsoft open-sources "the earliest DOS source code discovered to date""

goodpoint — Sun, 24 May 2026 14:09:16 +0000

DOS and brilliant in the same sentence...

New comment by goodpoint in "SecurityBaseline.eu"

goodpoint — Wed, 13 May 2026 11:50:04 +0000

No.

New comment by goodpoint in "Debian must ship reproducible packages"

goodpoint — Sun, 10 May 2026 15:18:32 +0000

No, reproducible builds make such backdoors more difficult to sneak in together with other checks.

New comment by goodpoint in "Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit"

goodpoint — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:13:41 +0000

No, Debian has its own security team and receives embargoed vulnerabilities and patches.

New comment by goodpoint in "Permacomputing Principles"

goodpoint — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:43:03 +0000

"resilient and ecological use of computing" or of anything else is inherently political, like it or not.

New comment by goodpoint in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

goodpoint — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:39:13 +0000

I lost count at 50

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_nuclear_disasters_and...

New comment by goodpoint in "Bugs Rust won't catch"

goodpoint — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:37:28 +0000

This is simply false. You can accept GPL contributions and clearly indicate the names of the contributors as required by MIT. There is no "incompatible fork".

New comment by goodpoint in "Bugs Rust won't catch"

goodpoint — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:15:13 +0000

> its creation was neither ideologically motivated nor part of some nefarious GPL-erasure scheme

No, they openly refuse to accept any GPL code. And even have a strict policy of not even reading GPL code.

New comment by goodpoint in "Bugs Rust won't catch"

goodpoint — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:13:01 +0000

"we cannot accept any changes based on the GNU source code" is false. They are choosing not to accept it.

New comment by goodpoint in "Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys"

goodpoint — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:38:23 +0000

No, plants, bacteria, mushrooms are obviously not sentient as they lack a brain.

New comment by goodpoint in "We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities"

goodpoint — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:58:38 +0000

It's not reasonable for a website to find out about my browser version, OS, keyboard layout and a zillion other things, fuck this.

All these things should be opt-in and like blocked by GDPR.

New comment by goodpoint in "We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities"

goodpoint — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 12:55:14 +0000

No, fingerprinting is a synonym of deanonymization.

New comment by goodpoint in "Original GrapheneOS responses to WIRED fact checker"

goodpoint — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 19:12:31 +0000

Then avoid GrapheneOS

New comment by goodpoint in "Original GrapheneOS responses to WIRED fact checker"

goodpoint — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 17:53:58 +0000

When you have to trust the OS images generated by the authors it becomes a massive issue.

New comment by goodpoint in "Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now"

goodpoint — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:15:25 +0000

It's just wrong.

New comment by goodpoint in "Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now"

goodpoint — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:14:38 +0000

It's the opposite, the economy of scale favors defense.

New comment by goodpoint in "Stop Using Ollama"

goodpoint — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 07:23:47 +0000

The missing attribution pattern is nasty.

New comment by goodpoint in "What is RISC-V and why it matters to Canonical"

goodpoint — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 10:17:01 +0000

Or Debian -> Ubuntu

New comment by goodpoint in "Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept"

goodpoint — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:43:08 +0000

It's not the winning game at all.

New comment by goodpoint in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

goodpoint — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:39:48 +0000

It's also pretty useless at career development.