Hacker News: illithid0

New comment by illithid0 in "Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit"

illithid0 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:16:35 +0000

I'm sure the Uyghers will find this reassuring.

New comment by illithid0 in "Global bond sell-off deepens amid inflation fears"

illithid0 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 12:33:57 +0000

New comment by illithid0 in "Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues"

illithid0 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:35:14 +0000

No one will reply to you because it requires thinking through this problem with the same nuance they accuse DHH of not appreciating. I'm right there with you.

New comment by illithid0 in "Flock updates privacy, accountability, security, and transparency safeguards"

illithid0 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:40:18 +0000

I don't care what they change, I want Flock gone. I will not accept that this is "just how things are now".

New comment by illithid0 in "Shade Map"

illithid0 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 17:48:07 +0000

Wow! Can't believe I missed this. Thank you.

New comment by illithid0 in "Shade Map"

illithid0 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:40:36 +0000

This is great. I would love a way to simulate something like possible tree placement and how much shade that may generate over the years. There are some parts of my area that are, despite being cut out of a forest, devoid of trees but are supposed to be "outdoor shared spaces".

Full sun all day at a dog park in August, for example, just isn't a place I want to be.

New comment by illithid0 in "Show HN: Write.md, a free, open-source, themeable Markdown editor for macOS"

illithid0 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:09:54 +0000

Probably a lot of both.

Writing is also a deeply personal exercise for many, and I can say from personal experience that the environment I write in, from the room/place I'm in to the color scheme of my editor, really matters sometimes.

I haven't found a need to build my own editor, but I can see how someone else would.

New comment by illithid0 in "Phishers are hijacking legitimate cloud infrastructure"

illithid0 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:36:07 +0000

Red teamer here. We've been doing this for a long time for all kinds of evasion. Storing payloads in Azure blob storage, for example, is an amazingly effective way to deliver malware through network filtering controls.

You can look at more of the capabilities we like to use at the LOTS project: https://lots-project.com/

New comment by illithid0 in "Claude: Elevated errors across all models – Resolved"

illithid0 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:19:25 +0000

Classic mLmK0, I should have known

New comment by illithid0 in "Kimi K3-256k"

illithid0 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:06:26 +0000

This was posted 38 minutes ago, and as of 20 minutes ago, several Anthropic services are now designated as having a "major outage".

Doubt these are related, but it made me laugh a little.

New comment by illithid0 in "GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search"

illithid0 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:47:10 +0000

Agreed. I will certainly be keeping my current device around and will buy the newest one possible for longevity.

New comment by illithid0 in "GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search"

illithid0 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:52:06 +0000

I, too, would prefer Google not have their hands in a lot of my stuff. That doesn't mean the federal government won't take it personally that I won't let them look at all of it and take action.

New comment by illithid0 in "GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search"

illithid0 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:30:48 +0000

The DOJ is attempting to prosecute, so I suppose the success or failure of that will tell us what we need to know about bridges and slopes.

New comment by illithid0 in "Please, Don't Screw Up Neuromancer"

illithid0 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:12:25 +0000

The track record for book-to-TV adaptations across Hollywood is pretty poor on average.

An adaptation can't always be 100% true to the source material, but the LOTR trilogy is a near-perfect example of how source material can be adapted well into a different medium without abandoning its spirit.

I will be waiting to see what the reviews say after a season before I give it my time. I've been burned by too many shallow adaptations by people who seem to lack appreciation for the stories they're strip mining.

New comment by illithid0 in "GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search"

illithid0 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:08:01 +0000

On one hand, I love GrapheneOS and see it as a cornerstone of digital privacy software. I have supported the project financially for years.

On the other hand, I'm worried that the publicity will only make explicit targets out of GrapheneOS users, and that you would only be using it "if you have something to hide".

New comment by illithid0 in "About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6"

illithid0 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:34:19 +0000

As long as the UI improves and I can ignore all the AI stuff they're starting to push through, that's fine with me, though like many longtime macOS users, I'm not holding my breath for a bug-free experience.

New comment by illithid0 in "About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6"

illithid0 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:30:14 +0000

Also a liquid glass hater, but for what it's worth, 27 is supposed to make it a little bit better. I would prefer to go back to what I had before I had to upgrade into this horrible UI, but this is better than nothing.

https://www.cultofmac.com/news/liquid-glass-changes-ios-27-m...

New comment by illithid0 in "GDID Windows – Cut the tracker that follows you even under VPN"

illithid0 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 18:28:39 +0000

If you care about privacy, you simply cannot use Windows. Microsoft has made it clear over the last decade (if not longer) that they have a vested interest in compromising your ability to use software without exploiting and monetizing data about your usage.

Microsoft is a post-privacy corporation. Eventually, we really have to stop acting so shocked about this sort of thing from them.

New comment by illithid0 in "Bitchat is now on Radicle"

illithid0 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 18:11:17 +0000

Surely this won't have the opposite effect that they're looking for.

New comment by illithid0 in "The labor share of income in the US is at its lowest post-war level"

illithid0 — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 16:08:10 +0000

You're citing some of the results of a runaway healthcare industrial complex, such as drug prices, as reasons why the thing that would keep such a complex from emerging won't work.

Employers might be contributing more to healthcare costs, but that's because they have to in order to keep coverage for their employees at all as premiums increase, and individual out-of-pocket costs are still rising as a result of coverage denial and high deductibles.