Hacker News: keyme

New comment by keyme in "My son pleasured himself on Gemini Live. Entire family's Google accounts banned"

keyme — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:15:24 +0000

Poor kid. The irony of scarring this kid for life over completely normal behavior, in order to "protect him from abuse", is hopefully not lost on all of you.

New comment by keyme in "UK Millionaire exodus did not occur, study reveals"

keyme — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 17:27:41 +0000

Indeed, as is obvious to anyone productive. Taxes come from the productive and entrepreneurial, of which of the 10k that did leave are a big portion, and that's before actually comparing the incomes as opposed to the net worth.

New comment by keyme in "UK Millionaire exodus did not occur, study reveals"

keyme — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 16:38:33 +0000

"The UKs 3.06 million millionaires". LOL. Every geriatric with a centrally located apartment is a "millionaire" nowdays. But I'm sure the "tax justice" network doesn't actually understand the difference.

New comment by keyme in "Is Google Down? - EU networking issue"

keyme — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 07:20:33 +0000

Even connectivitycheck.gstatic.com doesn't seem to be responding, making Androids think they don't have internet access.

New comment by keyme in "50 Years of Travel Tips"

keyme — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:10:08 +0000

2 years ago when backpacking in East Africa, I went from "there is no way I'm ever doing this" to taking nothing but those moto-taxis ("boda bodas") even for 40 minute inter-city rides with a 12KG backpack on my back. No helmets to speak of. Except maybe in Rwanda.

Part of the learning experience of such travel, is to see firsthand how the locals of these places perceive the risk. How they manage risk in general, and what is the "value of a human life" for them as compared to our western perceptions.

New comment by keyme in "White Hat Hackers Expose Iridium Satellite Security Flaws"

keyme — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 18:42:43 +0000

Is it 5G only or does LTE also work?

New comment by keyme in "Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead"

keyme — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:45:35 +0000

Perhaps it is no longer realistic to push such a huge changeset into linux anymore. Could this be solved with some hypervisor layer? That is, a hypervisor doing most of the work (in rust) and a small support layer upstreamed into the kernel? Of course, no actual virtualization is even necessary. Just some kind of ABI to the kernel running underneath.

New comment by keyme in "Teen on Musk's DOGE team graduated from 'The Com'"

keyme — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 22:47:03 +0000

This is an audit that is actually meant to get results

New comment by keyme in "Early Bitcoin Investor Roger Ver Charged with Tax Fraud"

keyme — Wed, 01 May 2024 07:45:39 +0000

Isn't there some kind of statue of limitations in us tax law? That's stuff from 11 years ago.

New comment by keyme in "Lithuania to introduce pre-paid SIM registration from 2025"

keyme — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 20:50:12 +0000

Usually the esims you're referring to are data only (have no number). The sim registration requirements throughout the world are only about sims that have numbers attached.

New comment by keyme in "Copilot key will eventually be required in new PC keyboards"

keyme — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 19:03:49 +0000

Keyboard layouts should be legally required to be standard.

New comment by keyme in "Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage client for Android"

keyme — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 20:43:52 +0000

Whatsapp is known for banning accounts that use any kind of third party clients.

For Android users on iMessage (insane achievement!) obviously this isn't such a big issue, as they didn't have an account before, so the sanction of being banned is not so important.

I would never dare, however, to switch over my WhatsApp to a 3rd party client. Do you have something planned in this regard?

New comment by keyme in "Techies are paying $700 a month for tiny bed ‘pods’ in downtown San Francisco"

keyme — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 05:06:07 +0000

This is essentially a backpacker hostel. If that's how you look at it, the price looks quite alright to me.

New comment by keyme in "Woman loses over $44k after downloading third-party app to buy fish"

keyme — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 18:34:53 +0000

The bit about the phone getting hot and crashing hints at a vulnerability being used.

I would consider an android app sandbox escape bug to be the lowest level of difficulty in mobile phone exploit chains.

New comment by keyme in "Spyware can infect your phone or computer via the ads you see online – report"

keyme — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 18:18:18 +0000

I actually know nothing about ads. When you post a graphical ad, what do you actually post? Is there a file format? HTML? Video?

Is there a difference if you want your ad to appear inside apps rather than the web?

New comment by keyme in "USPS In-Person Identity Proofing"

keyme — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 18:21:52 +0000

It's almost as if you could use something like that for voting...

New comment by keyme in "Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor"

keyme — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 17:10:43 +0000

China *also has a backdoor in to. FTFY

New comment by keyme in "Meduza co-founder's phone infected with Pegasus"

keyme — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 08:21:28 +0000

How many lived?

New comment by keyme in "Meduza co-founder's phone infected with Pegasus"

keyme — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 08:20:03 +0000

Sure. That'll make your precious iPhones more secure.

New comment by keyme in "Android 14 blocks all modification of system certificates, even as root?"

keyme — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 16:43:42 +0000

People here just love their locked bootloaders for some reason. But once you free yourself of this silliness, and root all your devices after unboxing, you'll be good for yet a few more years.

Of course it'll only keep being this easy temporarily. Here's a scene from 2026 for your imaginative pleasure:

Door: You need to scan your COVID25 vaccine QR code to open this door.

QR App: This app will only run on a HW attested device

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Shopkeeper: We only accept WhatsApp pay at this store.

Payment App: This app will only run on a HW attested device

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Your friend: We can only talk on this one messaging app that everybody uses.

Messaging app: This app will only run on a HW attested device. Oh, but we promise that this encrypted blob of executable code that you can't disable is here just to ensure the safety of your E2E encryption.

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Your custom ROM rooted Android 18 phone: Running a secure messaging app that was banned from the Play Store and has only like 2 other active users in the world.

The police: Papers please. Phone touches the scanner. Scanner beeps and turns red.

The law: You have violated the Digital Safety Act. Daily driving a non-licensed general purpose computer is illegal as this may endanger "our children".

The law: You have violated the Public Health and Safety Act. Daily driving a non-licensed general purpose computer is illegal as this may be used to circumvent your quarantine and vaccination control status checks.

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I can go on and on. I think you get the gist of it. Once we have HW attestation fully figured out, these laws will come. Cash will go away. Your agency will go away. Etc.

... And the punchline of the ghost story? The guys coding this stuff up? They're here with us reading this thread. Commenting about the virtues of locked bootloaders for your security.