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New comment by hootz in "New privacy frontier: Europe eyes crackdown on smart glasses"

hootz — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:56:17 +0000

But it has potential to be permanent through the means of other people storing copies of it. If you send a photo via WhatsApp to someone, for example, that photo is by default saved automatically to their phone, and potentially synced to their Google Photos.

New comment by hootz in "New privacy frontier: Europe eyes crackdown on smart glasses"

hootz — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:53:15 +0000

As someone already said, I am not talking about legality, but about ethics.

New comment by hootz in "AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit"

hootz — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:06:11 +0000

https://github.com/Sohimaster/traur

New comment by hootz in "New privacy frontier: Europe eyes crackdown on smart glasses"

hootz — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:19:22 +0000

They are not exactly potential capabilities, but real capabilities already being used by people like obnoxious TikTokers to record them harassing people in public places without the person realizing they are being recorded.

If you need to put a camera on glasses for a legitimate reason, such as a device purely for accessibility, then you should be able to get an exception, of course.

New comment by hootz in "New privacy frontier: Europe eyes crackdown on smart glasses"

hootz — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:16:40 +0000

Yeah, someone giving me even the slightest hint of being uncomfortable already makes me instantly delete their photo. Like, I want to photograph the public without ruining spontaneous moments, but I don't want to make others uncomfortable or mad at me because of my photographs.

New comment by hootz in "New privacy frontier: Europe eyes crackdown on smart glasses"

hootz — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:12:12 +0000

I guess people wearing spy camera glasses won't do anything at all with the images! /s

New comment by hootz in "New privacy frontier: Europe eyes crackdown on smart glasses"

hootz — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:11:06 +0000

While they are a problem, they are a different problem from spy cameras capturing you up close for the benefit of a single person. Surveillance cameras are for shady governments and maybe "security", camera glasses are for straight up creeps.

New comment by hootz in "New privacy frontier: Europe eyes crackdown on smart glasses"

hootz — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:46:27 +0000

I do photography as a hobby, especially street photography and related styles, and I constantly question myself on the ethics of photographing people in public without permission, even with my huge ass camera. Meanwhile, we have people running spy cameras in their glasses, and they view that as just a normal thing to do. What.

New comment by hootz in "Show HN: Script to bulk delete Claude chats from the web UI"

hootz — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:35:55 +0000

This can be used for general organization or privacy against other people, not just trying to hide conversations from Anthropic.

New comment by hootz in "Ask HN: Why is there some sort of a scam website being advertised on HN?"

hootz — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:34:00 +0000

Last time I found a spam account only posting links to scam websites, I sent an email to HN and they banned the account.

New comment by hootz in "AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit"

hootz — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:32:20 +0000

Makes sense.

New comment by hootz in "Kimi K2.7-Code: open-source coding model with better token efficiency"

hootz — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:22:02 +0000

For me, it has a positive connotation! In my experience, Chinese Model means cheaper, but still quite effective model you can use for millions of tokens without burning your entire wallet in seconds. That's why I get more excited over a Chinese model release over American models.

New comment by hootz in "AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit"

hootz — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:08:57 +0000

I do it too, but I can see why this can be a problem for users. There should be an "official" scan for potentially malicious changes. I use a third party AUR scanner to help me with this.

New comment by hootz in "AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit"

hootz — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:54:50 +0000

Oh yeah, that's the name of it. But I guess something similar happens with checklists, you do it so many times without anything bad ever appearing that you start to subconsciously assume nothing will ever happen. Why check the rotor of my helicopter when nothing ever happened to it for 5 years? This checklist is a waste of time!

New comment by hootz in "AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit"

hootz — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:06:34 +0000

There are some AUR hooks that can help. I use https://github.com/Sohimaster/traur which also has scans for orphan package takeover patterns.

New comment by hootz in "AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit"

hootz — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:03:45 +0000

For every single update, for all your AUR packages, all the time.

You know that thing where if you make a security review feature obnoxious, after some time people will just accept everything without even looking? Yeah...

New comment by hootz in "AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit"

hootz — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:30:32 +0000

Arch is not used in enterprise solutions because of the AUR? Can't you just not use it?

New comment by hootz in "Report on an Unidentified Space Station – J.G. Ballard (1982)"

hootz — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:34:12 +0000

Making a modern analogy, reading this feels kinda similar to reading about the Backrooms, but with a bigger, existential dread. Amazing.

New comment by hootz in "Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails"

hootz — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:43:00 +0000

What is "EA" in this context? I see a lot of people using this initialism.

New comment by hootz in "Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration"

hootz — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:03:07 +0000

Like Chaplin in Modern Times, we will tighten screws until we lose our minds.