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New comment by hoherd in "Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member classifier"

hoherd — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 15:50:37 +0000

Something that is additionally concerning is that you apparently cannot read your own data:

    $ ls -la ~/Library/IntelligencePlatform
    total 0
    ls: /Users/USERNAME/Library/IntelligencePlatform: Operation not permitted
    $ find ~/Library/IntelligencePlatform
    /Users/USERNAME/Library/IntelligencePlatform
    find: /Users/USERNAME/Library/IntelligencePlatform: Operation not permitted
    $ sudo find ~/Library/IntelligencePlatform
    /Users/USERNAME/Library/IntelligencePlatform
    find: /Users/USERNAME/Library/IntelligencePlatform: Operation not permitted

Edit: I was wrong. The snarky comment below is right.

New comment by hoherd in "Milkman – The Better Alternative to Postman"

hoherd — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 11:29:53 +0000

I know this is tongue-in-cheek, but every time somebody mentions Postman or Bruno, I think of https://justuse.org/curl because so much of is is true.

New comment by hoherd in "Told to reboot a server, it destroyed systemd, destroyed containers, ran random"

hoherd — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 11:25:55 +0000

Isn't this exactly what the "I haven't written a line of code in 6 months" crowd is doing though? Many lines of code are not difficult to write, or edit, but they give them to the agent anyway, which costs more money, consumes more compute resources, is worse for the environment, causes cognitive decline, etc..

New comment by hoherd in "macOS 27 does not support CoreStorage volumes"

hoherd — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 02:14:25 +0000

This might be a blessing in disguise for you. The silent data rot of HFS+ is what pushed me to ZFS. I would never go back to HFS+.

New comment by hoherd in "Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computer"

hoherd — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 11:20:23 +0000

Multiple times yesterday I caught Claude giving slightly incorrect information about things it had read in docs and source code. Its info was accurate enough to be plausible, but it was still wrong. And when I pointed that out, it agreed that it had overstated or made statements without verifying them.

It would be terrible to be doing an emergency medical procedure and have an AI backtrack on something it had told you to do.

New comment by hoherd in "A complete bypass of eMudhra’s 1FA OTP login system"

hoherd — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 20:10:21 +0000

The number the tool found was 1861. The e-mailed OTP code was 1858. What am I missing?

New comment by hoherd in "OpenShell – A safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agents"

hoherd — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 19:57:26 +0000

You have an ephemeral laptop?

New comment by hoherd in "Quad9 (DNS Resolver) to Exit France"

hoherd — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 19:38:34 +0000

This would hurt their users by making their DNS services less useful than competitors.

New comment by hoherd in "Nordwand Mono – A monospace font for coders and adventurers"

hoherd — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 01:30:55 +0000

Same here. I saw it and didn't really care for it at first, but after using the blink feature on that site, I kinda think I like it better than Jetbrains. I may have to give it a a try. That site is really cool.

New comment by hoherd in "eMudhra intermediate CA compromise"

hoherd — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 01:20:40 +0000

Because the S in IOT stands for Security.

IOT devices famously never get firmware updates, which means most of them will remain vulnerable to this leaked trust chain until the cert expires in 2039. That means you can forge an HTTPS server for any domain that an IOT device connects to and act as if you are the authoritative server. This means intercepting encrypted traffic and being able to decrypt it, or serving payloads to the device from a fake trusted server.

If your TV connects to whatever.lg.com, you can create a certificate for that domain using this intermediate signing cert, and pretend to be that server. That's how https://dv-g3b-emudhra.we-have-a-problem.com/ was created.

New comment by hoherd in "eMudhra intermediate CA compromise"

hoherd — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 01:17:26 +0000

Finally we can learn once and for all what those LG TVs are really up to.

New comment by hoherd in "OpenFatigue™ – Open is the new closed"

hoherd — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:20:30 +0000

While I totally agree, there is precedent. HP OpenView came out in 1987, which was 11 years before the term "Open Source" became a thing.

New comment by hoherd in "Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?"

hoherd — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 10:39:55 +0000

Same with USA. I was surprised at the variety of platforms supported.

New comment by hoherd in "Religious scholars met with Anthropic"

hoherd — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:26:03 +0000

Sure, but that disregards what happened to adjacent markets during the crash. The economy isn't made entirely of tech companies. The salary of those workers goes outside of the tech industry.

New comment by hoherd in "Toyota is taking the Corolla electric"

hoherd — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:42:25 +0000

It's not. The Honda Super Cub is the top selling motor vehicle in the world, with 60 million produced in 2008 alone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_Super_Cub

New comment by hoherd in "Doomscrolling ourselves to death"

hoherd — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 21:23:37 +0000

I recently blocked youtube.com on my home network so that my whole family could take a break from it. It broke my work e-mail login, because gmail sends you through youtube.com in order to set login cookies.

New comment by hoherd in "Asahi Linux on M3"

hoherd — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 01:11:22 +0000

I am not who you asked, but lately it has been really frustrating for me that macOS locks portions of the filesystem when the screen is locked, which breaks rsync backups because they cannot read those files. I have been unable to find a way around this.

That being said, the security design that creates this problem is quite impressive, and I think much more tight than most people realize is happening on stock macOS. I just wish that I could unlock my whole home directory from the CLI somehow when I do my non-time-machine backup.

New comment by hoherd in "iPhone Duo"

hoherd — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:07:35 +0000

The first time I held an iPhone 5, I thought it was a demo device. It was too light to actually be the real device. That was such a great phone.

New comment by hoherd in "iPhone Duo"

hoherd — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:06:20 +0000

Have you ever connected an iPad to an external display, mouse, and keyboard? I agree with you that laptop sales would continue, but I bet they would decline. Apple could do the MS Surface much better than MS did.

New comment by hoherd in "iPhone Duo"

hoherd — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 22:03:52 +0000

Lots of computers have external keyboards, mice, and displays. Why not a powerful computer like the iPhone? Who cares if it's small? Lots of SBCs are small and are quite useful. This one even has a built in UPS.