Hacker News: jojomodding

New comment by jojomodding in "Germany Doxes "UNKN," Head of RU Ransomware Gangs REvil, GandCrab"

jojomodding — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:07:52 +0000

Maybe the special agents watched the talk in their free time

New comment by jojomodding in "German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups"

jojomodding — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:59:54 +0000

> One of the most corrupt

It's on like place 10 out of 180, which makes it one of the least corrupt places.

It also has some surprisingly non-boomer departments, like the Sovereign Tech Fund. Either way you need to celebrate police doing good things and immoral actors being exposed, it can only have good outcomes.

Perhaps it deters them, or deters the next generation of such hackers. Or at least it makes their life less enjoyable, which is fair since they were only able to afford their travels due to their illicitly acquired wealth.

New comment by jojomodding in "German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups"

jojomodding — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 18:54:16 +0000

The wildfire industry brings growth but it would be a whole lot better if we didn't have wildfires.

The same thing is true with computers. Imagine all the nice things we could have if we didn't have to worry about people abusing the systems we build.

New comment by jojomodding in "German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups"

jojomodding — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:32:13 +0000

So apparently some CCC-connected hackers already unmasked one of them years ago (as reported in the update, which could have also just linked to the talk here: https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12134-hirne_hacken_hackback_edit... )

Makes you wonder if the investigators discovered this independently, or decided to maybe ask the hackers already involved in defending against them for help...

New comment by jojomodding in "When Virality Is the Message: The New Age of AI Propaganda"

jojomodding — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:00:37 +0000

Given that religions are losing members, especially the youth, and that the most people do not join the military, what will keep disseminating the ideas in the future?

New comment by jojomodding in "A new way to measure poverty shows the US falling behind Europe"

jojomodding — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:10:00 +0000

They are not, sadly. Or rather, many voters care about many different things and the resulting metric is not that sensible.

New comment by jojomodding in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

jojomodding — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:52:10 +0000

Not sure where you get your numbers from but 80*2 is more than 90. Germany has about 80 million inhabitants.

New comment by jojomodding in "Objections to systemd age-attestation changes go overboard"

jojomodding — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:16:33 +0000

I doubt it has been top-down coordinated. So what do you expect the article to say?

New comment by jojomodding in "In math, rigor is vital, but are digitized proofs taking it too far?"

jojomodding — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 20:27:52 +0000

People keep getting hung up on material implication but it can not understand why. It's more than an encoding hack--falsity (i.e. the atomic logical statement equivalent to 0=1) indicates that a particular case is unreachable and falsity elimination (aka "from falsity follows everything") expresses that you have reached such a case as part of the case distinctions happening in every proof.

Or more poetically, "if my grandmother had wheels she would have been a bike[1]" is a folk wisdom precisely because it makes so much sense.

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-RfHC91Ewc

New comment by jojomodding in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"

jojomodding — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 10:11:44 +0000

One of the reasons relationship advice subreddits suggest divorce so often is because most people with "small" problems in their relationships don't write an essay about it on Reddit but are able to solve them with the tools/friends they have. So a Reddit post existing indicates the relationship has serious flaws.

This is not to defend the study, because asking AI has a lower barrier to entry.

New comment by jojomodding in "Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains"

jojomodding — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:57:24 +0000

You can only show the checkbox on Linux. You can add OS detection to the checkbox and have it say "support our $OS dependencies" and put that into different pots of money. You can make the checkbox say "support our Linux dependencies" and then rely on Windows people not selecting it.

New comment by jojomodding in "US and TotalEnergies reach 'nearly $1B' deal to end offshore wind projects"

jojomodding — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:36:56 +0000

Well, yes. The GOP's disdain for renewables is well-known and not recent.

New comment by jojomodding in "Migrating to the EU"

jojomodding — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:09:22 +0000

In what sense are governments in the EU more nosy than the one in the US or China?

New comment by jojomodding in "Diverse perspectives on AI from Rust contributors and maintainers"

jojomodding — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 23:13:03 +0000

How do you figure out which is the case, at scale?

New comment by jojomodding in "Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2"

jojomodding — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:36:48 +0000

If there was an apology it could be considered, depending on the apology (i.e. is it earnest?). But so far that does not seem to happen.

New comment by jojomodding in "Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2"

jojomodding — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:35:29 +0000

> If you need to be on the site it’s not a botnet

Why? I did not visit the site to participate in a DoS attack; yet my machine was coaxed into participating against my will. Whether this is happening in JS or a drive-by download or a browser 0-day is irrelevant.

New comment by jojomodding in "Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2"

jojomodding — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:32:44 +0000

I trust websites not to involve me in crime. I trust news websites to tell me the news. I trust archive websites to give me old versions of websites. I trust paywall circumvention websites to circumvent paywalls.

What I do not see is the irony you insinuate in your post. It is not immoral to charge people for content, nor does that make you less credible. (It might even make you more credible since you now earn money by having happy customers instead of serving more ads.)

Some news sources are not trustworthy but that's independent of there being a paywall.

New comment by jojomodding in "Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2"

jojomodding — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:21:09 +0000

Be careful, you might be doxxing someone and that of course warrants your website getting DOS'd.

New comment by jojomodding in "2% of ICML papers desk rejected because the authors used LLM in their reviews"

jojomodding — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:23:05 +0000

Is it? The reviewers could simply have chosen a different option in a form field. While I understand that they were "forced" to review under reciprocal review, they still had other choices where I don't see coercion happening and that could have avoided the outcome for them.

New comment by jojomodding in "Corruption erodes social trust more in democracies than in autocracies"

jojomodding — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:25:03 +0000

Do you have a source for the 12k arrested in the UK?

I'm asking because all I could find was a list on Twitter that didn't cite any sources itself and also had very implausible numbers (including he 12k/year for the UK). Implausible based on the lived reality of friends of mine living in e.g. the UK or Germany.