Hacker News: j0hnM1st

New comment by j0hnM1st in "Applications where agents are first-class citizens"

j0hnM1st — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 12:45:08 +0000

AI slop is allowed on HN ?

New comment by j0hnM1st in "Native Secure Enclave backed SSH keys on macOS"

j0hnM1st — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 07:31:43 +0000

Fundamental services like DNS, which was designed as distributed going down was the cause last 2 outages and really need to think of alternatives methods to ensure resilience. Shift left, design better.

New comment by j0hnM1st in "Stable Diffusion 2.0"

j0hnM1st — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 08:15:19 +0000

It will be worthwhile to use images from commons. I have found that my photography is used in the stable diffusion data set. What was funny is that they have taken the images from other URLs than my flickr account.

New comment by j0hnM1st in "AWS and Blockchain"

j0hnM1st — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 07:35:09 +0000

Blockchains normally has a database and then an API. Many of the newer chains uses Rocksdb.

New comment by j0hnM1st in "Grumpy Cat NFT sold for nearly $80K"

j0hnM1st — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 12:21:23 +0000

> Token are unique and not interchangeable.

There is absolutely no way ensure uniqueness. Any transaction on the blockchains can be called as a NFT if anyone says the transaction id makes the NFT unique. There is inherently no difference between any other token or coin or transaction and an NFT until unless there is an on chain mechanism to ensure uniqueness of the METADATA associated with the NFT. AFIK there are no such implementations of the NFT which ensures the uniqueness of the METADATA.

New comment by j0hnM1st in "Grumpy Cat NFT sold for nearly $80K"

j0hnM1st — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 12:18:33 +0000

> I'm not sure how NFTs work, but are they proof of work or proof of stake?

NFTs are nothing but a transaction on a blockchain (which can be proof of work or proof of stake). There will be unique transaction id (which proves nothing). The image associated and the transaction id or any data with the transaction has no relation whatsoever. For example, you can get access to this cat image and replace it with a dogs image and nothing happens.

New comment by j0hnM1st in "Peer-to-Peer Databases for the Decentralized Web"

j0hnM1st — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 19:01:49 +0000

Arweave has production ready releases ?

New comment by j0hnM1st in "India coronavirus: The 'mystery' of low Covid-19 death rates"

j0hnM1st — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 14:58:08 +0000

There are mistakes in the article. To begin with the first case was reported 3 months ago and to be precise on Jan 30th. While its difficult to findout the strain of the virus, the first patient was a medical student returned Wuahn.

New comment by j0hnM1st in "India coronavirus: The 'mystery' of low Covid-19 death rates"

j0hnM1st — Tue, 28 Apr 2020 14:55:52 +0000

>India has been contact tracing like a greedy algorithm on steroids since case #1.

Some states like Kerala is doing active contact tracing. Also the first case was reported 3 months ago and not 2 months ago.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/21/kerala...

> >There are only 85 active infections

I am not sure which area the original author is talking about but less than 150 is the real active cases in some states https://dashboard.kerala.gov.in/

New comment by j0hnM1st in "Firefox Multi-Account Containers"

j0hnM1st — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 21:07:12 +0000

well, Since I care about them so much that I am now taking backup of the Profile and shipping them across machines ...

New comment by j0hnM1st in "Firefox Multi-Account Containers"

j0hnM1st — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 21:06:10 +0000

The biggest drawback with Multi-Account containers is that they don't sync with the Firefox Sync. I have an elaborate and carefully crafted set of containers. I even have one for TheGuradian where I am allowing ads but the moment a new machine is added to the workflow all is lost.

New comment by j0hnM1st in "Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra"

j0hnM1st — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 20:58:01 +0000

anything facebookish trends.

New comment by j0hnM1st in "Indian government to intercept, monitor, and decrypt citizens’ computers"

j0hnM1st — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 19:11:22 +0000

Privacy Law is in the draft status ...

New comment by j0hnM1st in "Indian government to intercept, monitor, and decrypt citizens’ computers"

j0hnM1st — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 16:41:58 +0000

no - you will have to use a VPN or ToR

New comment by j0hnM1st in "Indian government to intercept, monitor, and decrypt citizens’ computers"

j0hnM1st — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 14:46:50 +0000

In India people call this "Mitron"

MITRON

1. A large group of unsuspecting people, about to be hit by something they will take a long time to recover from.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=MITRON

New comment by j0hnM1st in "Indian government to intercept, monitor, and decrypt citizens’ computers"

j0hnM1st — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 14:46:10 +0000

Mitron

New comment by j0hnM1st in "Indian government to intercept, monitor, and decrypt citizens’ computers"

j0hnM1st — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 14:45:13 +0000

> Actually if Apple, Goog, FB etc are forced to surrender the key--at the penalty of being excluded from 1.x billion people in India--math works only one way...

They did that with Blackberry few years ago

New comment by j0hnM1st in "Indian government to intercept, monitor, and decrypt citizens’ computers"

j0hnM1st — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 14:44:15 +0000

It just said monitoring and collection - there is no mention of tampering private owned properties and complete invasion into privacy.

India on the way to complete survellience?

j0hnM1st — Fri, 21 Dec 2018 12:18:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.indiatimes.com/technology/news/indian-govt-can-now-track-monitor-data-on-your-computer-by-order-of-home-ministry-affairs-359025.html

Hacker News: j0hnM1st

New comment by j0hnM1st in "Applications where agents are first-class citizens"

New comment by j0hnM1st in "Native Secure Enclave backed SSH keys on macOS"

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New comment by j0hnM1st in "AWS and Blockchain"

New comment by j0hnM1st in "Grumpy Cat NFT sold for nearly $80K"

New comment by j0hnM1st in "Grumpy Cat NFT sold for nearly $80K"

New comment by j0hnM1st in "Peer-to-Peer Databases for the Decentralized Web"

New comment by j0hnM1st in "India coronavirus: The 'mystery' of low Covid-19 death rates"

New comment by j0hnM1st in "India coronavirus: The 'mystery' of low Covid-19 death rates"

New comment by j0hnM1st in "Firefox Multi-Account Containers"

New comment by j0hnM1st in "Firefox Multi-Account Containers"

New comment by j0hnM1st in "Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra"

New comment by j0hnM1st in "Indian government to intercept, monitor, and decrypt citizens’ computers"

New comment by j0hnM1st in "Indian government to intercept, monitor, and decrypt citizens’ computers"

New comment by j0hnM1st in "Indian government to intercept, monitor, and decrypt citizens’ computers"

New comment by j0hnM1st in "Indian government to intercept, monitor, and decrypt citizens’ computers"

New comment by j0hnM1st in "Indian government to intercept, monitor, and decrypt citizens’ computers"

New comment by j0hnM1st in "Indian government to intercept, monitor, and decrypt citizens’ computers"

India on the way to complete survellience?

New comment by j0hnM1st in "RHEL is deprecating KDE"