Hacker News: grepfru_it

New comment by grepfru_it in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

grepfru_it — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:42:37 +0000

In firefox, goto about:config and search for url.

You're welcome.

New comment by grepfru_it in "Jack Dorsey says Block employees now bring prototypes, not slides, to meetings"

grepfru_it — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:47:39 +0000

You still need the slides to communicate risk, cost, delivery estimates etc. a great way to get your own team and move up in the org

New comment by grepfru_it in "DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding"

grepfru_it — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:20:37 +0000

Used to have a dual atom box in NYC that had over 3000 days of uptime. The hard drive died and they messaged me saying I had the last atom box in their datacenter. They gave me a dual e5 with 64gb ram for the original price of my 2gb atom box. This is how you generate loyalty. I will never leave them.

New comment by grepfru_it in "DigitalOcean Seeks $800M in Funding"

grepfru_it — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:17:23 +0000

Adapt or die

New comment by grepfru_it in "Be careful: chatting with AI about your case is discoverable"

grepfru_it — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 10:52:40 +0000

Lucky for us it can be overturned, which I highly suspect it will be. Or at least this case will define the loopholes to use

New comment by grepfru_it in "Be careful: chatting with AI about your case is discoverable"

grepfru_it — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 10:51:01 +0000

> But this ruling will surely set precedent for other cases where AI is used.

I dont remember which court. But this is typically in that jurisdiction. It can be appealed higher. SCOTUS has not ruled so it’s still up for further argument

New comment by grepfru_it in "If you don't opt out by Apr 24 GitHub will train on your private repos"

grepfru_it — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:38:18 +0000

Back in my day someone would post a HN article to the internal slack in order to sway conversation in their favor. Glad to see its still happening! :D

New comment by grepfru_it in "SSH has no Host header"

grepfru_it — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:58:47 +0000

This thread made me realize why fail2ban keeps banning me after one failed password entry :lightbulb:

New comment by grepfru_it in "Tested: How Many Times Can a DVD±RW Be Rewritten? Methodology and Results"

grepfru_it — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 03:00:38 +0000

>Windows Updates

If you want to stop windows updates, make your internet connection a metered connection. Updates will only be allowed on-demand.

The more you know!

New comment by grepfru_it in "BitNet: Inference framework for 1-bit LLMs"

grepfru_it — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 02:57:13 +0000

I'll believe that when CowboyNeaLLM is released

New comment by grepfru_it in "NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays"

grepfru_it — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 02:33:34 +0000

Allow me to reply with an anecdotal story.

In 1992 I watched a car parallel park itself in NYC on Today, on nbc before I went to school. My mind was reeling, automated car technology is right around the corner! That technology did not ship for 20 years.

It is easy to say we are getting better, that doesn’t mean we will see, in this case, starship fly in the near future. And while I have the utmost confidence in Gwynne Shotwell, I am not holding my breath that we see starship launch with any meaningful payload in this decade.

New comment by grepfru_it in "Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users"

grepfru_it — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:55:00 +0000

When I left, GH was valued at around $40 billion. Above the $8B they were purchased for. Well below $1T that is claimed

New comment by grepfru_it in "Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users"

grepfru_it — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:54:10 +0000

But hold on.

They could have git cloned your repo, used or otherwise analyzed your code which follows TOS then used the local git repo to pull your email address.

How is GitHub responsible here?

New comment by grepfru_it in "Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance"

grepfru_it — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:40:03 +0000

It already happens today

New comment by grepfru_it in "Show HN: Hacker Smacker – Spot great (and terrible) HN commenters at a glance"

grepfru_it — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:39:06 +0000

Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of HNs?

New comment by grepfru_it in "Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston"

grepfru_it — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 08:22:02 +0000

Still no jobs about this location posted on Apple’s career page. Anyone know how one could find employment at this location?

New comment by grepfru_it in "What not to write on your security clearance form (1988)"

grepfru_it — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 19:06:44 +0000

In case you want to read about the proactive information speeding up your security clearance: https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/6/50

New comment by grepfru_it in "Mobile carriers can get your GPS location"

grepfru_it — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 18:30:17 +0000

Great for small networks. Once bad actors find it, it will be attacked. See gnutella as the case study on unsupervised peer to peer networks

New comment by grepfru_it in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

grepfru_it — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:53:44 +0000

No but I am highlighting why it work for millions of other people as well.

New comment by grepfru_it in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

grepfru_it — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 22:21:51 +0000

That’s Fortnite and while you can pass, I don’t want to pass.. I want to play it!