Hacker News: itopaloglu83

New comment by itopaloglu83 in "UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases"

itopaloglu83 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:47:20 +0000

For the unfamiliar.

Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky

New comment by itopaloglu83 in "1-Click GitHub Token Stealing via a VSCode Bug"

itopaloglu83 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:06:56 +0000

Or they could’ve kept their bounty program running smoothly. But instead they pissed off another security researcher and received a zero days heads-up before public disclosure.

New comment by itopaloglu83 in "AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford"

itopaloglu83 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:26:05 +0000

Well, no amount of instructions would work if the student has no intention to learn anything.

New comment by itopaloglu83 in "FROST: Fingerprinting Remotely using OPFS-based SSD Timing [pdf]"

itopaloglu83 — Sun, 31 May 2026 22:54:30 +0000

Tracking people individually and selling that data is so profitable that even with the hardened security the financial incentive is significant, so maybe we should also add fines and other forms of costs to the other side of the equation as well.

New comment by itopaloglu83 in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

itopaloglu83 — Sun, 31 May 2026 22:47:19 +0000

For the curious, it’s AST-STE100.

https://www.asd-ste100.org/

New comment by itopaloglu83 in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"

itopaloglu83 — Sun, 31 May 2026 02:00:18 +0000

It’s more malicious than that, they’re simply not renewing their code signing license hence making the software non-functional.

New comment by itopaloglu83 in "GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits"

itopaloglu83 — Fri, 29 May 2026 09:40:13 +0000

It feels like they’re trying put hurdles in front of you instead of getting info about repeatability of the vulnerability.

New comment by itopaloglu83 in "Cars collect a startling amount of data about you"

itopaloglu83 — Fri, 29 May 2026 09:30:52 +0000

In Honda vehicles, you can turn it off but then it will show a permanent warning on your dash saying your spying settings are off and keeps bugging you as if you’re out of fuel.

New comment by itopaloglu83 in "What Apple and Google are doing to push notifications"

itopaloglu83 — Wed, 27 May 2026 21:19:37 +0000

I would say the same applies to background processing as well. A random app that I don’t interact with launching every minute and wasting everything from battery to network bandwidth is simply not acceptable, and most of the time they’re loading adds or doing some other stuff that serves me no good.

New comment by itopaloglu83 in "Leaked Documents Reveal Russian 'Cognitive Strikes' Against the West"

itopaloglu83 — Wed, 27 May 2026 08:35:35 +0000

Thanks to the cookie banner all I can read is “Leaked Documents Reveal” and no I do not consent to cookies or you tracking and selling my information.

New comment by itopaloglu83 in "Why the smart home bubble popped"

itopaloglu83 — Wed, 27 May 2026 08:29:59 +0000

Cooypasta. They all just want to copy a firmware and ship the device with as low cost as possible and also keep you in their system for you to keep coming for more.

Matter is all fine but try making a matter device as a hobbyist, you quickly realize how it was designed for large companies and people simply choosing simpler solutions that they can copy and paste practically.

New comment by itopaloglu83 in "Why the smart home bubble popped"

itopaloglu83 — Wed, 27 May 2026 08:26:23 +0000

It’s a balancing act and smart homes couldn’t become the next evolution of home technology.

New comment by itopaloglu83 in "Why the smart home bubble popped"

itopaloglu83 — Wed, 27 May 2026 08:15:44 +0000

In a similar fashion Honda shows you an indismissible error on the dashboard when you turn off private data sharing, and even with premium subscription to their app they wouldn’t let you find your car’s location on a map until you enable precise location on your phone.

New comment by itopaloglu83 in "Memory has grown to nearly two-thirds of AI chip component costs"

itopaloglu83 — Sun, 24 May 2026 20:07:26 +0000

Reminds me of how Samsung is giving out $340,000 per person bonuses. Shows you how much of a stronghold they have in market.

New comment by itopaloglu83 in "I’ve banned query strings"

itopaloglu83 — Sat, 09 May 2026 21:15:37 +0000

YouTube is also quite famous with their source identifiers, especially with the short urls, the tracking part is longer then the url I’m trying to share.

New comment by itopaloglu83 in "iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet"

itopaloglu83 — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:13:41 +0000

Similarly I was using Pass4Wallet.

https://apps.apple.com/mw/app/pass4wallet-store-cards/id1423...

New comment by itopaloglu83 in "Maryland to ban A.I.-driven price increases in grocery stores"

itopaloglu83 — Sun, 03 May 2026 14:19:16 +0000

An average store carries around 20,000 SKUs, so I understand that they’re looking for easier solutions to price updates, especially after having relatively high inflation after a couple of decades.

However, they’re already making it impossible for shoppers to track prices, and we all know soon (left to their own devices) they’re going to switch to individual pricing.

I’m surprised that the pricing issue is not being discussed in the context of online shopping already, with home deliveries on the rise.

New comment by itopaloglu83 in "Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML"

itopaloglu83 — Sun, 03 May 2026 14:04:29 +0000

I absolutely understand that, because that response puts me in one after a couple times.

> You’re absolutely right! Let me fix that.

New comment by itopaloglu83 in "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"

itopaloglu83 — Sun, 03 May 2026 13:58:37 +0000

Not even the MBA types would mess things up this bad, it feels like Microslop is now full of programmers that make something and just ship it, no thought or any brain cells involved.

New comment by itopaloglu83 in "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"

itopaloglu83 — Sun, 03 May 2026 13:55:45 +0000

I think I’m more bothered by the paper cuts I experience every minute.

Starting from web based start menu taking forever to launch, to everything resisting to you to be in control of your computer.

Some say the speed is fine, but forget that these machines are running at nanosecond level instructions and there’s no reason for a simple task to take milliseconds unless somebody is optimizing for service revenue and user tracking (to be sold later to advertisers, not for user experience improvements).

Microslop is just scared out of mind with the European and Asian countries moving to Linux based platforms to get out of their grip. Can you imagine the amount of intelligence they will loose, and how much harder they will need to work to compete for real after three decades of being the default in everything.