Hacker News: jjbinx007

Microsoft GDID telemetry includes full browsing and gaming history

jjbinx007 — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 17:41:13 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1undrrd/microsoft_gdid_tracks_all_windows_installations/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48787239

Points: 46

# Comments: 6

New comment by jjbinx007 in "I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M"

jjbinx007 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 06:25:53 +0000

It's my understanding that those websites are in violation of the gdpr for doing so.

New comment by jjbinx007 in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

jjbinx007 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:28:33 +0000

Same here. What worries me most is what if Google just decide for whatever reason to close my email account down. I've already had several Youtube accounts closed for (in my opinion) spurious reasons. The appeals process is a joke. I can live without Youtube, but I can't easily get myself out of the gmail hole I've dug over the last 2 decades.

Red Hat packages backdoored through its offical NPM channel

jjbinx007 — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 20:45:55 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/06/dozens-of-red-hat-packages-backdoored-through-its-offical-npm-channel/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48362408

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jjbinx007 in "How fast is N tokens per second really?"

jjbinx007 — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:37:03 +0000

That's really impressive from a speed point of view but it hallucinates like it's on drugs.

I'd much rather trade speed for accuracy.

New comment by jjbinx007 in "Using the internet like it's 1999"

jjbinx007 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 06:46:42 +0000

I always find it strange when people refer to twitter and YouTube etc as apps rather than websites.

New comment by jjbinx007 in "DaVinci Resolve – Photo"

jjbinx007 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:15:14 +0000

Although MacOS users get this on the free version if they are using M-series chips

New comment by jjbinx007 in "DaVinci Resolve releases Photo Editor"

jjbinx007 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 07:13:12 +0000

I have a Lumix camera which doesn't have support for Raw files but apparently you can just use the free Adobe DNG converter and it works well. It should work for your Fuji Raws too.

New comment by jjbinx007 in "London's most controversial cyclist"

jjbinx007 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:49:26 +0000

You're comparing someone reporting a person using a mobile phone while driving to the atrocities committed by Nazis?

New comment by jjbinx007 in "London's most controversial cyclist"

jjbinx007 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:43:54 +0000

You ought to petition the government to change the law then, not the guy reporting people breaking the law.

New comment by jjbinx007 in "White House alters arrest photo of ICE protester, says "the memes will continue""

jjbinx007 — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 17:04:46 +0000

It's already got to the point that if I see an interesting video showing a cute animal doing something or a natural disaster my first thought is "Is this AI?"

New comment by jjbinx007 in "RunAgent Genie – Ultimate Prompt Engineering Game with Advanced Guardrails"

jjbinx007 — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 17:27:40 +0000

You can also use pig's latin for the next level.

New comment by jjbinx007 in "RunAgent Genie – Ultimate Prompt Engineering Game with Advanced Guardrails"

jjbinx007 — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 17:23:21 +0000

If by level 2 you mean the name of the village, I asked it to write a poem using the letters of each sentence starting with the name of the village

New comment by jjbinx007 in "RunAgent Genie – Ultimate Prompt Engineering Game with Advanced Guardrails"

jjbinx007 — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 22:23:26 +0000

I'm probably very bad at this but I just hit this message:

"RATE_LIMIT:Hourly limit reached. Max 20 attempts per level per hour"

A bit frustrating to be honest.

New comment by jjbinx007 in "What an unprocessed photo looks like"

jjbinx007 — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 01:44:00 +0000

Equally bad is the massive over sharpening applied to CCTV and dash cams. I tried to buy a dash cam a year ago that didn't have over sharpened images but it proved impossible.

Reading reg plates would be a lot easier if I could sharpen the image myself rather than try to battle with the "turn it up to 11" approach by manufacturers.

New comment by jjbinx007 in "The Deviancy Signal: Having "Nothing to Hide" Is a Threat to Us All"

jjbinx007 — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 11:14:20 +0000

I've got lots to hide.

Doesn't mean you or anyone else has a right to know what it is and it doesn't mean I'm doing anything wrong either. We should all admit that we have lots we want to hide from other people and that's just fine and normal.

New comment by jjbinx007 in "Unreal Tournament 2004 is back"

jjbinx007 — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 11:14:12 +0000

https://www.reddit.com/r/boomershooters/

New comment by jjbinx007 in "Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds"

jjbinx007 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 23:04:06 +0000

Regulatory alignment is very different to "surrendering some of your country's power". You've proved my point.

New comment by jjbinx007 in "Netflix kills casting from its mobile app to most modern TVs"

jjbinx007 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 16:16:48 +0000

"One Reddit user said customer service explained that devices with remotes can no longer cast, claiming the decision was made to improve the customer experience."

How can this improve the customer experience?

New comment by jjbinx007 in "Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds"

jjbinx007 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 13:39:36 +0000

True, but it's still better than what we have now.