Hacker News: iamshs

New comment by iamshs in "Apple: Switch to Safari (From Chrome)"

iamshs — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 10:42:50 +0000

Proud Firefox user. Will suffer with it until my grave. This little fox has been giving me the beach ball on Mac ever since last year MacOS update, but I just Ctrl+Alt+Del and start it again....

New comment by iamshs in "I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea"

iamshs — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:27:20 +0000

Let me tell of a missionary school and it has left me totally jaded about the cultural wipe-out that is practiced methodically. All the cultural icons are appropriated and a cross plastered on everything, from didgeridoo to the boomerang and placed alongside the holy book. Indigenous knowledge production is low because there frankly it requires audience and artist needs to be rewarded and paid, but this can be taken advantage of by well endowed people. If you search results for that local language on Youtube, all the main results you get are from Christian missions who have translated hymns and set it to indigenous rhythms. It is like you learn keys of the castle from somebody without telling them the end purpose you have in mind from the very beginning, take their knowledge and re-package it. Within the next gen you have new converts actively forgetting what their own parents are teaching them, and think this all is gift of missionaries.

New comment by iamshs in "How Trail of Bits helps verify the integrity of Signal chats"

iamshs — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 03:01:13 +0000

Recently a bureaucrat who wanted to make a mass protest out of his criticism of Indian Election Commission's drive to remove voters, was picked up by Indian Police and his Signal metadata was accessible to the Police. What is the solution to this thing?

His interview does not tell us if it was metadata or actual calls that were surveilled which could point to device compromise too.

"What caught him by surprise, he told ThePrint, was the Special Cell officers' access to his calls made via Signal"

https://theprint.in/india/ex-civil-servant-ashish-joshi-reca...

New comment by iamshs in "Kimi K3 (2.8T) at 1 token/s on a MacBook Pro, streamed from four SSDs"

iamshs — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 23:35:03 +0000

Good start.

New comment by iamshs in "GPS glitched across the US by as much as 33 feet"

iamshs — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:13:47 +0000

The story is about GPS errors which end up making life hell for people under monitoring since they end up generating a Police response. If 80% alerts were false, then an error like this can result in a surge of these alerts. It is an important story to tell.

New comment by iamshs in "Ten Ways NAS Is Getting Enshitified"

iamshs — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:57:57 +0000

He didn't make the point clear, but the recent OSes are just trying to be Synology DSM copycats.

New comment by iamshs in "Ten Ways NAS Is Getting Enshitified"

iamshs — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:00:24 +0000

Server Part Deals is really good since they test the drives themselves. But even the used drives are on the verge of being unaffordable now. They increased the price of their 28TB re-certified drive last month by $120.

New comment by iamshs in "Ten Ways NAS Is Getting Enshitified"

iamshs — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 08:57:20 +0000

If I have CPU power at my disposal, why should I waste it? I love the fact that my NAS can serve my other needs too.

New comment by iamshs in "Ten Ways NAS Is Getting Enshitified"

iamshs — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:07:16 +0000

Expensive drives have become such a pain. Maybe five years from now, if supply meets demand, I just wish I can afford a 1PB all-flash NAS. I really don't want to hear noise and I wish data centres would release their used supply on market. I will put backup on HDDs.

Soldered RAM and novel format hardware is a pain point. Macbook storage upgrade needs special custom hardware. Synology still doesn't allow third party HDDs in their extension units. NAS devices are truly a fantastic category on its own. My data remains local, while also allowing me to use it as a server for my workloads.

New comment by iamshs in "Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey"

iamshs — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:29:17 +0000

India is now going after domains too: https://www.reuters.com/world/worlds-biggest-domain-seller-f...

To imagine that US MNCs readily obey these orders. There was a time when Gmail exited China due to Aurora attacks, and Chinese GFW is universally hated, so why is India allowed to create a GFW like censorship on US platforms? Indian courts have even blocked Reuters articles GLOBALLY before. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/01/19/india-judg...

New comment by iamshs in "Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey"

iamshs — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:22:50 +0000

India.

New comment by iamshs in "SpaceX bond worth 10% less than issue price – heading for junk bond status"

iamshs — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:06:21 +0000

Guy was doing Nazi salutes at Trump's inauguration. If he wanted support from normal people, he should have remained within normal political norms, not do Nazi salutes. I don't think it is normal to expect sympathy after that, people will be revolted and would want him to fail. They should not be judged for this opinion, it's pretty vanilla. Normal people still carry conscience, an innate justice system. Otherwise we won't even have justice system if we start giving people an out based on fame, talent etc.

New comment by iamshs in "The Second Life of Sanskrit"

iamshs — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:45:55 +0000

Let's go a bit back and try to understand what happened with Buddhists of India. A whole religion exterminated from such a vast land.

New comment by iamshs in "The Second Life of Sanskrit"

iamshs — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:42:24 +0000

Look at the IIT Bombay photo, in the background is the colonial era copy of Lady Britannia - "Bharat Mata". The fact article is hosted on Open Magazine, I was already a bit suspect. So the full context missing from headline is - "Under Hindu Nationalism".

What the article misses is what some of these accounts post. SanskritSparrow channels his followers on stories to some kooky post which claims to have decoded Indus Valley Script as Sanskrit. Learned persons better be careful about the intent here, the rider that is riding the "ancient" horse into the present is as much trying to invade intellectual spaces, as the actual Rishis were trying with the lands. Besides, the appeal is only among upper caste Hindus. What else is a Dalit going to do with Sanskrit? No literature is written for them in Sanskrit. They're not even allowed learning it, it is an exclusive domain of Brahmins. What will Dalits get from reading Vedas and finding out how they are termed as devils and filed under a degraded caste pyramid? It's an article borne out of very rosy lens. A Dalit Ambedkarite writer should research the accounts mentioned and tell us what the subsurface vibe looks like here, is it the same old wine in new glass?

New comment by iamshs in "Mir Books – Books from the Soviet Era"

iamshs — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 12:48:14 +0000

Soviet books were a boon to the world. I thank Soviet scientists.

https://valeman.medium.com/the-men-who-translated-the-machin...

New comment by iamshs in "Streaming services' obnoxiously loud ads become illegal on July 1 in California"

iamshs — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 13:49:01 +0000

Went on Instagram last week for 2-3 days, and found out an annoying pattern where just the beginning 1s or so of a video ad is loud and then the volume is normal. Doesn't occur on all Ads either.

New comment by iamshs in "RISC-V Router"

iamshs — Fri, 15 May 2026 11:39:06 +0000

Ruckus APs also use OpenWRT. Saw it in a recent update that they pushed to Unleashed software.

New comment by iamshs in "How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?"

iamshs — Thu, 14 May 2026 11:47:36 +0000

Yes. These units now come with dedicated NVMe slots and they don't accept third party drives.

New comment by iamshs in "How can Apple deal with the memory shortage?"

iamshs — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:41:11 +0000

Another problem is locked hardware. Newest Synology hardware has lifted the HDD locks but still doesn't allow third party SSD and RAM. Mac Mini storage upgrade is a DIY solution, why not use the standard M.2 2230 slot?

New comment by iamshs in "Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2"

iamshs — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:01:18 +0000

I hate this. Archive.today provides a useful service for people like us in developing countries; without archive.today we would not even have luxury to read and document a lot of stuff. In our countries, hard disks are expensive and internet is not fast either. We don't have the luxury to just download; and so many useful Youtube video are just made private after one phone call from Police. Why take it away from us...