Hacker News: irobeth

New comment by irobeth in "Fingerjigger"

irobeth — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 13:34:20 +0000

I also find some difficulty in reading the next word because of the animation obscuring it; this has my net wpm at 61, but my monkeytype average wpm is ~120

New comment by irobeth in "The Adrian Dittmann Story"

irobeth — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 18:43:21 +0000

Then you have to answer for yourself if/why you believe Elon would/wouldn't lie about having an alt account to attempt controlling a narrative or keep a troll running longer than it could?

New comment by irobeth in "The trap of "I am not an extrovert""

irobeth — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 00:10:22 +0000

Is anyone else like me? A little socializing goes a really long way for me. I don't hate it, it's not exhausting, I can do it well, and I'm generally seen as a fun person to talk with.

I'm an introvert but not because my "social battery" is discharged by socializing, but instead because I need to discharge in solitude

I have unlimited social stamina and can do it forever, if by forever you mean that if I'm left in socializing without that necessary solitude I will spin off into mania and eventually get in serious trouble

New comment by irobeth in "Tell HN: I just updated my wife's Chrome, and uBlock is no longer supported"

irobeth — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 15:14:21 +0000

It really is amazing how things have come full circle from the point where chrome positioned itself as a "Libre" alternative to the IE near-monopoly

There was a point between IE and chrome when Mozilla was always in the near-foreground offering alternatives to every internet hegemony, right around web 2.0, kinda makes me optimistic for the internet to see a resurgence of recommendations

New comment by irobeth in "Mysterious New Jersey drone sightings prompt call for 'state of emergency'"

irobeth — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 02:19:24 +0000

i'm reminded of a story from around 2012? about an aerial surveillance program where they recorded a bird's-eye view of the city [1?]

they used the footage to solve some cartel murder by playing the footage in reverse to track the origin of the killers

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Lowrider

New comment by irobeth in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

irobeth — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 12:35:31 +0000

I'd point back to at least 2000 and the Supreme Court stopping the count in Florida, but maybe back to when we sabotaged the Iran hostage deal so Carter couldn't have a win

New comment by irobeth in "Internet Archive: Security breach alert"

irobeth — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 02:42:21 +0000

I recently started getting "targeted" bitcoin extortion emails that have your home address (or what they scraped from public records) and a picture of Google Street view, but they're all going to the email I used for a now-defunct online grocery

New comment by irobeth in "Internet Archive: Security breach alert"

irobeth — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 02:37:21 +0000

I have this same setup and this conversation happens often, you get used to it happening and navigating it.

ON only one occasion in ~20 years, someone refused to do business with me because they thought I was impersonating them and told me I was being disrespectful by using their brand as my email, and even after explaining how it works they weren't happy.

New comment by irobeth in "Bricked iPhone 16 Can Be Restored Wirelessly Using Another iPhone"

irobeth — Sun, 22 Sep 2024 22:11:10 +0000

Locked iPhone owned by law enforcement target will accept remote firmware push from trusted device?

New comment by irobeth in ""Everything" is a filename search engine for Windows"

irobeth — Wed, 28 Aug 2024 20:52:03 +0000

some endpoint protection services will block anything not signed by a trusted signature or that doesn't match an allow-list of known-good file hashes

New comment by irobeth in "New study simulates gravitational waves from failing warp drive"

irobeth — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 14:26:05 +0000

I thought branches happened when a wavefunction 'collapsed' -- i.e. for every possible value of the wavefunction, you get a branch with a unique answer for 'value of the wavefunction'?

New comment by irobeth in "Magnets are switching up the keyboard game"

irobeth — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 14:51:35 +0000

"slam any key to continue"

New comment by irobeth in "White House wants Moon to have its own time zone, Coordinated Lunar Time (CLT)"

irobeth — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 23:40:42 +0000

to hear Lenny Susskind say it, "light moves at the speed of light"

New comment by irobeth in "'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza"

irobeth — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 15:31:23 +0000

I'm reminded of [1] a recent Palantir promotional video

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEM5qz__HOU

New comment by irobeth in "White House wants Moon to have its own time zone, Coordinated Lunar Time (CLT)"

irobeth — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 15:14:43 +0000

The way I've understood it is that everything which can 'move' in spacetime has to have a momentum vector with constant magnitude C (when expressed in the right units, C = 1)

The faster you 'move' through space, the more you have to 'borrow' from the time component of the vector to maintain a magnitude of C

That means your 'position in time' moves slower; and so for people who aren't moving as fast through space as you are, they appear to 'experience more time'

New comment by irobeth in "How the XZ Backdoor Works"

irobeth — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 14:01:02 +0000

most people now will say something about the commit timestamps indicating this is an Eastern European actor, but it seems like any sufficiently dedicated intelligence service could script their commits or even assign a person to keep certain sleep/wake hours just to falsify that data

New comment by irobeth in "Opera becomes the first major browser with built-in access to local AI models"

irobeth — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 13:55:26 +0000

I think it's better to look at it like the old AOL client? I've used Opera on and off for ~20 years, and in that time I've seen it strive to be more like a "Web OS"

New comment by irobeth in "Show HN: Fake or real? Try our AI image detector"

irobeth — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:42:44 +0000

seconding this, it failed to correctly identify an AI image which had the DALL-E watermark clearly visible

what plans are there to guard against people intentionally poisoning your training data by miscategorizing the images they upload for classification?

New comment by irobeth in "Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location"

irobeth — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 17:40:10 +0000

I just lied about both things it wanted and it was fine with that, so it seems a little silly to make it a requirement

New comment by irobeth in "Insecure vehicles should be banned, not security tools like the Flipper Zero"

irobeth — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 15:00:06 +0000

seems like a sophisticated theft ring would have access to the keys for the most common guards like this, reminds me of the TSA key debacle[1]

[1]: https://github.com/Xyl2k/TSA-Travel-Sentry-master-keys