Hacker News: jasonvorhe

New comment by jasonvorhe in "We ended up with Palantir and how to replace it"

jasonvorhe — Sat, 23 May 2026 21:30:01 +0000

> please surveil every breath we take with European values

Nah, thanks.

New comment by jasonvorhe in "Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone"

jasonvorhe — Mon, 18 May 2026 00:29:40 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by jasonvorhe in "Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone"

jasonvorhe — Mon, 18 May 2026 00:29:19 +0000

Thanks, I wasn't aware of that detail.

New comment by jasonvorhe in "I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows"

jasonvorhe — Sat, 16 May 2026 22:04:21 +0000

Never judge a masochist. No kink shaming here. Never judged Oscar for where he lived either.

New comment by jasonvorhe in "Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone"

jasonvorhe — Sat, 16 May 2026 21:54:53 +0000

Isn't Brave still shipping it?

New comment by jasonvorhe in "Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone"

jasonvorhe — Sat, 16 May 2026 21:53:53 +0000

You don't need any Google stuff on it. Isolated Play Services is an option, so is Play Store. It's not installed ootb. I don't get why you'd prefer to run less secure options on hardware that isn't on par with Pixels or iPhones and expect to get a secure OS.

New comment by jasonvorhe in "Googlebook"

jasonvorhe — Thu, 14 May 2026 09:04:41 +0000

iirc getting Linux to work on Surfaces is messy though?

New comment by jasonvorhe in "Googlebook"

jasonvorhe — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:27:30 +0000

They all suffered from severe hardware issues that got never fixed.

Chromebook Pixel 2013 had that atrocious function key row that didn't align with the rest of the keyboard and where made of different material and had terrible travel. The Pixelbook had some terrible PWDM issues with the display and iirc it also had severe ghosting issues. Not to forget the cut in performance of these mobile fanless Intel chips because of Meltdown & Spectre. I think the Pixelbook's WiFi/Bluetooth module made by Intel also suffered from hardware faults where using Bluetooth could degrade WiFi performance and vice versa.

New comment by jasonvorhe in "Googlebook"

jasonvorhe — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:12:08 +0000

Having seen how people managed to run Cyberpunk 2077 on the Neo with okayish frame rates I don't think there's a single ARM laptop out there that could deliver that performance on Linux. Maybe I'm wrong though.

New comment by jasonvorhe in "HantaWatch Real time hantavirus outbreak tracker"

jasonvorhe — Mon, 11 May 2026 09:13:09 +0000

Which is nothing but ignorance and negligence in 2026. It's incredible to see so many science/rationalist folks still chugging along the nonsensical official narrative. You really have to be living under a big rock wearing blinders to even consider masking up again or getting experimental mRNA treatments.

New comment by jasonvorhe in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

jasonvorhe — Mon, 11 May 2026 08:39:30 +0000

When the title stands in opposition to the actual post, I'm not gonna engage with that author again.

New comment by jasonvorhe in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

jasonvorhe — Sun, 10 May 2026 20:02:27 +0000

Protecting the children is their favorite reason for ramping up authoritarian measures.

New comment by jasonvorhe in "EU Parliamentary Research Service calls VPNs "a loophole that needs closing""

jasonvorhe — Sat, 09 May 2026 09:29:17 +0000

You don't really believe this is about porn?

New comment by jasonvorhe in "HantaWatch Real time hantavirus outbreak tracker"

jasonvorhe — Fri, 08 May 2026 09:57:00 +0000

I appreciate the neutral explainer man!

New comment by jasonvorhe in "Days without GitHub incidents"

jasonvorhe — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:21:24 +0000

If S3, EC2, EKS and RDB alone had a similar uptime as all of Github right now, we'd all know.

No one cares that much if repo wikis, commit stats or gist had these issues. It's the combination of inter-dependent services that are used in combination, like PRs, actions, discussions, etc.

If one were to build a single percentage for each of these components of both systems, github would still lose. Maybe it's a few days without outages more but this isn't a comparison.

New comment by jasonvorhe in "A network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout"

jasonvorhe — Sun, 03 May 2026 12:43:36 +0000

This claim only works if you stick very closely to the western post WW2 narrative that is neither accurate nor robust enough to withstand a few hours of research.

New comment by jasonvorhe in "A network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout"

jasonvorhe — Sun, 03 May 2026 12:40:52 +0000

It doesn't because it's historically inaccurate.

New comment by jasonvorhe in "A network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout"

jasonvorhe — Sun, 03 May 2026 12:39:35 +0000

After having supported activists in egypt during the arab spring I've come to learn that it's all just coopted regime change nonsense sprinkled with "feel good activism" for Westerners. No one in Egypt is even remotely better off now. Just let Iranians deal with this on their own. From what I've researched, our impression of what their lives are supposedly like is totally shaped by intelligence services and cointelpro media anyways so why bother to get involved. We'll only make things worse for the average Iranian.

New comment by jasonvorhe in "Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine"

jasonvorhe — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:18:20 +0000

Read my comment again and you'll have your answer.

Come on.

New comment by jasonvorhe in "Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine"

jasonvorhe — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 08:42:05 +0000

If he showed up in the Epstein files I'd stop using Brave. Until then, I'll keep on rolling my eyes whenever someone brings up this stuff from... 2008.