Hacker News: katbyte

New comment by katbyte in "IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember"

katbyte — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:11:19 +0000

Yep local police partnered with them causing local SAR to go “don’t use it”

https://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/local-news/whistler-search...

https://globalnews.ca/news/8258671/north-shore-rescue-what3w...

Basically the company wants to make money off it so are pushing it and it’s problematic due to it being less easy to use then standard gps cords, words sound the same, and most people have no idea what it is (and nor should they learn lat long)

New comment by katbyte in "IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember"

katbyte — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:08:49 +0000

The company pushes it hard and some fall for the marketing

But locally here most SAR teams are against it

https://globalnews.ca/news/8258671/north-shore-rescue-what3w...

https://www.piquenewsmagazine.com/local-news/whistler-search...

New comment by katbyte in "IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember"

katbyte — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 02:15:29 +0000

what3words Is terrible and search and rescue teams are actively against people using it.

New comment by katbyte in "VSCode rebrands as "The open source AI code editor""

katbyte — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 18:10:02 +0000

Notepad++?

It’s been a while since I used it, but it’s one of the few things I miss on osx

New comment by katbyte in "Meow.camera"

katbyte — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 21:40:21 +0000

No just that factory farming animals maybe shouldn’t be allowed. I have no problem with eating free range animals that live outside and are humanly treated and slaughtered even if the price goes up. I do have a problem with animal abuse which factory farming is.

New comment by katbyte in "Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society"

katbyte — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 06:05:29 +0000

Also it could do with some regulation banning people who win to much shouldn’t be allowed

New comment by katbyte in "Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society"

katbyte — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 06:04:41 +0000

Seems like an easy solution is just to ban them from banning winners.

Regulate them

New comment by katbyte in "AI tooling must be disclosed for contributions"

katbyte — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 19:57:59 +0000

It’s like the difference between someone who can search the internet or codebase well bs someone who can’t

Using search engines is a skill

New comment by katbyte in "The story behind Caesar salad"

katbyte — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 15:32:38 +0000

There are different kinds - the one I make is primarily oil raw egg lemon

New comment by katbyte in "The story behind Caesar salad"

katbyte — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 15:31:33 +0000

Well it is paywalled

Tabasco is an interesting twist I’m going to have to try

New comment by katbyte in "The story behind Caesar salad"

katbyte — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 15:30:50 +0000

Yep.

Also raw eggs not mayo, and garlic in the oil for a while before making it.

New comment by katbyte in "Australian who ordered radioactive materials walks away from court"

katbyte — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 14:13:40 +0000

Rather the laws exist so they have to work hard to lie then the current free for all allowing outright deception and lying

New comment by katbyte in "Australian who ordered radioactive materials walks away from court"

katbyte — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 14:12:57 +0000

You do realize laws like this already exist in America? Slander and defamation are laws against lying

I fully support banning politics and the media from lying because they should be held to a higher standard

New comment by katbyte in "DOGE worker’s code supports NLRB whistleblower"

katbyte — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 21:48:48 +0000

No. Never. While it’s expected to have a “root” account exempting from logging serves no honest purpose.

New comment by katbyte in "U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat"

katbyte — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 06:03:21 +0000

I assume the email server you are referring to is the one Elon installed and then fed all sorts of peoples private information to

New comment by katbyte in "How to gain code execution on hundreds of millions of people and popular apps"

katbyte — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:09:31 +0000

you use a language where you have all your deps local to the repo? ie go vendor?

New comment by katbyte in "DA, sheriff, who shared woman's nude photos on phone are covered by QI"

katbyte — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:10:27 +0000

international law.

often legal by their countries law hence the excuse "i was just following orders/my laws" being similar to cops "following the law" even in the clear face of it being wrong

New comment by katbyte in "Grok3 Launch [video]"

katbyte — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:05:35 +0000

you can't do that in government and services people rely on to you know, live. people will die (and i wouldn't be surprised if some already have)

shows a total disregard for the wellbeing of others

New comment by katbyte in "Grok3 Launch [video]"

katbyte — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:03:46 +0000

or just maybe, and i know its a crazy idea, a certain individual is objectively an awful person who has done great harm in the world and its subjective if its greater or lesser then the good (imho its far greater harms then any good done but i know that is my subjective view)

just because you disagree with a widespread view/opinion does not mean its bots

New comment by katbyte in "Grok3 Launch [video]"

katbyte — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 19:01:22 +0000

he will bias it toward his views and favoured outcomes like he did twitter

and those are pretty terrible, anti-science, and petty