Hacker News: integralid

New comment by integralid in "European civil servants are being forced off WhatsApp"

integralid — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:55:14 +0000

>There is one EU company in the 50 of the world by companies market cap. One. Just freaking one.

And this is a good thing. All 50 of them should be broken up anyway.

>I'm in the EU and honestly it's more than frightening

I'm in the EU and I love it. It's not perfect, but I wouldn't want to live in any other place. And in the coming fight for digital freedom EU is almost always on the right side.

New comment by integralid in "Amazon won't release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore"

integralid — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:26:17 +0000

>I still pay for Netflix, Disney, Apple, Spotify and bbc

I have to admit that's a lot of subscriptions. Most people here are relatively rich, but no wonder people are priced out.

New comment by integralid in "Amazon won't release Fire Sticks that support sideloading anymore"

integralid — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 17:24:14 +0000

Most of my life I was strongly opposed to piracy for moral reasons. Now I... intentionally try to own (download/pirate) content I consume and I also do this for ideological reasons. So yeah, this effect is real.

New comment by integralid in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"

integralid — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:50:30 +0000

It's not perfect but it was a step forward.

It also made people realize that they are tracked like crazy (there are regularly memes about this for example) - before people reacted to this fact like you were sharing a conspiracy theory.

New comment by integralid in ""cat readme.txt" is not safe if you use iTerm2"

integralid — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 01:20:28 +0000

>there's a bug in widely used tool x"

There's a security bug in Openssh. I don't know what it is, but I can tell you with statistical certainty that it exists.

Go on and do with this information whatever you want.

New comment by integralid in "Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012)"

integralid — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:57:55 +0000

Most people are also n apparently completely off-topic, as in giving advice completely contradictory to the OP (for example "always go to sleep at the same time alway") without even acknowledging that.

New comment by integralid in "Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012)"

integralid — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:47:13 +0000

I try to explain this to my wife, my baby, and my dayjob but they refuse to listen.

New comment by integralid in "Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012)"

integralid — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:45:15 +0000

Huh, that's much less than I expected! Apparently it's just for adult population (correctly). Apparently that varies from year to year (in 2024 it was 64%), and by race (highest in white people 70%). I also wonder how that looks when we exclude older people (let's say over 60) who more often have health problems or just tolerate alcohol very badly).

It's higher in my country so good to know that USA drinks less than I assumed.

New comment by integralid in "Good sleep, good learning, good life (2012)"

integralid — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:15:15 +0000

4 month old should eat every 3-4 hours. You mentioned sleeping for 10-12h and this sounds almost harmful for the baby. I don't think I'd like that.

Thanks for your recommendation anyway. I'm sure that there are many science-based techniques to "tame" children and make child care as atomic family bearable.

New comment by integralid in "This year’s insane timeline of hacks"

integralid — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:37:07 +0000

>Because the threat model is one-sided - if an AI attack fails, the controller simply moves to the next target. If an AI defense fails, the victim is fucked.

This was always the case? Security is asymmetric and attacker only needs to succeed once.

New comment by integralid in "Roblox devs now need a subscription to share their games freely"

integralid — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:40:41 +0000

>More and more folks just see a headline and comment rather than understand that headlines are designed to mislead you for clicks.

My personal policy is I don't click links I consider clickbait. I mean things that are intentionally misleading and vogue. But I sometimes check HN comments - I never comment about the post itself (since I didn't read it), but I sometimes respond to other comments (like I do now).

New comment by integralid in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

integralid — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:34:22 +0000

What do you mean "stuck with it"? I just don't use LinkedIn. Do you need it for job hunting for example?

New comment by integralid in "DIY Soft Drinks"

integralid — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:54:22 +0000

>BDS boycott list

Looks like a great initiative. Anyone knows about a similar list, but for companies that support Russia and occupation of Ukraine?

New comment by integralid in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

integralid — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:29:04 +0000

I work with actually malicious content (things that make people lose their life savings) and Cloudflare abuse is relatively helpful (compared to most ISPs who just don't care).

They just refuse to take down random things that some media company representatives send their way, without a court order or any oversight. And this is a good thing.

New comment by integralid in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

integralid — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:17:54 +0000

Support jobs are very definitely not "bullshit jobs".

New comment by integralid in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

integralid — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 14:06:43 +0000

>consider how much lobbying money is coming from CEOs and companies

Make lobbying illegal, I don't understand why it's normalized.

New comment by integralid in "Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found"

integralid — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:44:50 +0000

>Or none

We already know this is not true, because small models found the same vulnerability.

New comment by integralid in "The effects of caffeine consumption do not decay with a ~5 hour half-life"

integralid — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:32:22 +0000

This is not universal. I only drink espresso without sugar or milk, because I love the taste of a strong coffee.

New comment by integralid in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"

integralid — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:47:28 +0000

Except Microsoft Authenticator. That's what my company uses and this is the only reason I ever use my work phone.

New comment by integralid in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"

integralid — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 09:42:43 +0000

The company didn't issue any phone. They want GP to install authenticator on their private phone and GP tried to softly refuse by lying (I think) they only own a flip phone. It didn't work.