Hacker News: greentea23

New comment by greentea23 in "Brave Origin"

greentea23 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:14:45 +0000

But payment in of itself is necessarily surveilled.

New comment by greentea23 in "When IPOs go wrong: SpaceX, AI firms face a delicate process"

greentea23 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:13:15 +0000

> For SpaceX, the uninhibited nature of CEO Elon Musk, especially in his posts on X, presents risks amid the formality of the IPO process, said University of Notre Dame finance professor Timothy Loughran. “He’s well-known for expressing himself on his social media site

"Uninhibited" and "expressing himself" is quite the sugarcoating for being a racist transphobic Nazi.

New comment by greentea23 in "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE"

greentea23 — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:06:05 +0000

While we're fantasizing about evil people doing the noble thing: the fourth option is for Meta to takes its vast wealth and help build resilient uncensorable communications instead of doubling down on centralized and surveilled social networks.

New comment by greentea23 in "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE"

greentea23 — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:03:10 +0000

This is how everyone talks about their use of Meta products: "I don't use them except for those times I use them...". We all need to actually boycott and actively help create alternatives or these little bits of fabricated need will keep them in business forever.

New comment by greentea23 in "Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message"

greentea23 — Mon, 11 May 2026 16:00:42 +0000

The irony is that no real scammer would use this setup because they know it would stand out.

New comment by greentea23 in "FBI Extracted Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database"

greentea23 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:00:28 +0000

*Google notifications, not all Android. Unified Push combined with a degoogled ROM works great to have convenience and security.

New comment by greentea23 in "FBI Extracted Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database"

greentea23 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 13:53:44 +0000

I agree, especially in this context. Allows you to avoid the insecure Google push notifications and keeps the proprietary Signal client more honest to prefer a community implementation of the protocol. It also lets you lock down your on-device data with an additional encryption layer.

New comment by greentea23 in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

greentea23 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:29:42 +0000

No, that part of NASA was defunded.

New comment by greentea23 in "Android Developer Verification"

greentea23 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:24:59 +0000

My pixel 1 is still going strong. Several phones released just last year are bootloader unlockable and rootable, and those should last at least a decade if cared for.

New comment by greentea23 in "Apple Just Lost Me"

greentea23 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:23:49 +0000

I'm not aware of any law or even terms of service that prevents Apple from saying "we don't like your politics, your iPhone has been disabled, account suspended, all iCloud data deleted." I don't think they would suffer any reputation damage either at this point.

New comment by greentea23 in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

greentea23 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 05:44:51 +0000

I don't understand how a parent can be OK non-consenually uploading pictures of their children's real faces to an ad driven AI company famous for abusing people's data and manipulating children on their platforms.

New comment by greentea23 in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

greentea23 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 05:38:10 +0000

"Hell is other people."

New comment by greentea23 in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

greentea23 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 05:32:35 +0000

What you expect does not have to be what you strive for.

New comment by greentea23 in "Meta’s AI smart glasses and data privacy concerns"

greentea23 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 05:14:33 +0000

This makes me more sad than hopeful. Great they get use out of it, but there instead should be a medically approved HIPAA compliant device for this purpose built by scientists in the open for all to enjoy. Instead the disabled are coersed to give up all privacy of themselves and others around them both digitally and physically. And more importantly they have to give up their sovereignty over the means of their enhancement by it being closed off and eventually enshittified for customers yet opened up for exploitation by facebook and their corporate and government customers.

Sadly the disabled have no choice but to accept the status quo, and facbook gets to virtue signal while holding humanity back another cycle by not selling us an open platform that would actually help people at scale not just now but forever.

New comment by greentea23 in "/e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem"

greentea23 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:07:18 +0000

There is a version that makes only the changes to include microg, has OTA updates too: https://lineage.microg.org/

New comment by greentea23 in "AI is making junior devs useless"

greentea23 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 17:40:34 +0000

Unsupervised leanring has been around for years and is already how the current wave of models are trained. It doesn't mean no data, it means no human provided labels of the data. So you still need creative new human ideas to move LLMs forward. LLMs != intelligence.

New comment by greentea23 in "Matrix messaging gaining ground in government IT"

greentea23 — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:30:34 +0000

Popularity is irrelevant imo, it's a general purpose FOSS tool. Ignore Element and matrix.org, the open protocol is what matters. These features are useful even if matrix never gains any network effect: 1. talking among a small-ish specific group that needs sovereign communication, e.g. when forming a company or a tight knit in person friend group 2. only data limit is the size of my harddrive 3. bridge to every other popular protocol 4. personal bots and automation with no restrictions 5. Unlimited and customizable clients with no restrictions 6. Combinations of 1-5.

Can't speak for non-self hosters or people who aren't serious about chat, but for chat enthusiasts who can setup a server with bridges and bots, matrix is incredibly useful.

New comment by greentea23 in "Show HN: Octosphere, a tool to decentralise scientific publishing"

greentea23 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 08:26:11 +0000

Yes. Nostr and ActivityPub are so easy too, I don't see much advantage to ATProto and so many disadvantages. It's as decentralized as a meme coin, just waiting for the rug pull.

To me something git-like with a peer review UI (a la pull requests) seems far more natural for distributed academic publications than a social media protocol though.

New comment by greentea23 in "BU-808: How to Prolong Lithium-based Batteries (2023)"

greentea23 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 03:15:12 +0000

One of the biggest reasons I still prefer to root my phone is to use acc https://github.com/VR-25/acc. It's criminal that you have to root to run code that reduces charging speed or shuts the phone down automatically. I have it shut down at 20% and charge to 80% except when I know I will need to be out for an extended period without a charger.

New comment by greentea23 in "BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp"

greentea23 — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 18:21:40 +0000

Despite the opt in limitation, I wonder if this interop capability will allow a bridge that doesn't require you to install whatsapp apk on a real device (unfortunately signal has the same problem). I fortunately kept an old android whose sole purpose is to keep these 2 apps installed. Not ideal, but works well.

Even better if we could ditch the phone number requirement. Many have said to me things like "I use whatsapp not SMS because I am not American", but of course everyone on WhatsApp uses SMS. To stay logged into WhatsApp you necessessarily must have an SMS enabled non-VOIP phone number that you are regularly paying a telecom provider for to receive auth codes.