Hacker News: keysersoze33

New comment by keysersoze33 in "AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit"

keysersoze33 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 14:28:49 +0000

The (Arch) community is moving quickly to release scripts/tools.

Right now, this is the most up to date, consolidated utility to check for infection:

https://github.com/lenucksi/aur-malware-check

Also, the aur-request mailing lists has many delete/orhan requests coming through to undo the malicous commits:

https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-requests@lists...

New comment by keysersoze33 in "MIT president: Why so many optimistic scientists are losing heart"

keysersoze33 — Thu, 28 May 2026 07:58:56 +0000

https://archive.is/WckTf

New comment by keysersoze33 in "Gemini randomly dumped its system prompt"

keysersoze33 — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:49:46 +0000

Interesting to see at the bottom/Step 5:

> Before providing the final response, create a compliance checklist to verify that every constraint has been met.

I wonder if just this statement causes the Gemini to ensure compliance or there's a separate post validation function

New comment by keysersoze33 in "Making RAM at Home [video]"

keysersoze33 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:29:27 +0000

Admit it, deep down, our inner engeering child also wants to build a semiconductor clean room ;)

New comment by keysersoze33 in "There's yet another study about how bad AI is for our brains"

keysersoze33 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:55:38 +0000

Link to the preprint paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.04721

Worth reading the conclusion - makes a good point or two regarding the cumulative effect of using AI and not only the loss of the learning through struggle/time, but also the reference point of how long tasks should take without AI (e.g. we are no willing longer afford the time to learn the hard way, which will impact the younger generation notably).

New comment by keysersoze33 in "An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story"

keysersoze33 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:52:00 +0000

The takeaway is to vet new companies one is dealing with - even just calling them up and asking if they've AI generated any system which deals with customer/patient data.

This is going to get more common (state sponsored hackers are going to have a field day)

New comment by keysersoze33 in "Untaxed hidden wealth surpasses wealth of the poorest half of humanity"

keysersoze33 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:48:49 +0000

Unless political lobbying becomes significantly harder (globally), I don't think the growing gap between the wealthy and poor will change anytime soon.

Problem is, to tax the ultra wealthy more, it needs to be coordinated globally. Otherwise, the ultra wealthy just move to where the tax system is more attractive. Not sure if this will ever happen to be honest.

However, awareness of the problem is still important

New comment by keysersoze33 in "Systemd BirthDate Merge: Conflicts of Interest"

keysersoze33 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:17:20 +0000

I think most distros are waiting to see if upstream can rethink this first and evaluate what makes sense. Forking something like systemd is no easy task. Perhaps this just starts out as a patch removing the DOB changes. But in reality, distros don't want to face possible legal ramifications either. It's all a bit messy, and time will tell (I suspect for the better, but who knows).

New comment by keysersoze33 in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"

keysersoze33 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:15:27 +0000

Being 46 (and quite an active 46 year old, just finished a Skitour), am curious why the cutoff for these things tends to be 45?

New comment by keysersoze33 in "Claude wrote a full FreeBSD remote kernel RCE with root shell"

keysersoze33 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:57:09 +0000

This is more of a Linux kernel criticism of KASLR, but perhaps it's related as to why it's not been a priority in FreeBSD (i.e. it gives a false sense of safety and rather focus on 'proper' security hardening): https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/truth-about-linux-4-6-sec...

New comment by keysersoze33 in "Arm AGI CPU"

keysersoze33 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:54:10 +0000

That's a really good point - thanks for chiming in

New comment by keysersoze33 in "Arm AGI CPU"

keysersoze33 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 06:50:36 +0000

This smells like the beginning of entshitification at ARM. I'm not saying AMD or Intel are a whole lot better, but the move to compete with licencees of ARM tech and to cheekily use AGI in the name is not going to ensure confidence in the short or long term.

New comment by keysersoze33 in "A Faster Alternative to Jq"

keysersoze33 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:07:09 +0000

Just the basic things, like viewing the complete json (with syntax highlighting) to then determine the filter, that is '.' becomes '**'

New comment by keysersoze33 in "A Faster Alternative to Jq"

keysersoze33 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 07:57:15 +0000

I was a bit skeptical at first, but after reading more into jsongrep, it's actually very good. Only did a very quick test just now, and after stumbling over slightly different syntax to jq, am actually quite impressed. Give it a try

New comment by keysersoze33 in "A Faster Alternative to Jq"

keysersoze33 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 07:54:59 +0000

I had the same problem (brave browser)

New comment by keysersoze33 in "Fermented foods shaped human biology"

keysersoze33 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:41:58 +0000

If you think sauerkraut and kimchi make things move more, wait till you try homemade kefir!

I'm quite sensitive to it and can only have a spoonful or so and generally plan to work from home the next day. Note that the store bought stuff is often heated or similar and doesn't contain anywhere near the same level of bacteria.

New comment by keysersoze33 in "Kagi is contemplating the removal of the assistant from its professional tier"

keysersoze33 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 12:14:09 +0000

I've been a Kagi Pro user for several years now, and to be honest, the models from the pro tier aren't that useful compared to the free versions of Gemini & ChatGPT.

For me, I pay for Kagi pro for search without Google/Bing enshittification, their Translate (which I use quite often while I'm learning German/working in German - better for me than Google Translate), and their Summarizer. I pay for Claude, and also occasionally use OpenRouter for my AI needs.

New comment by keysersoze33 in "Weave – A language aware merge algorithm based on entities"

keysersoze33 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 10:47:12 +0000

Thanks for the kind offer - no urgent rush though

New comment by keysersoze33 in "Weave – A language aware merge algorithm based on entities"

keysersoze33 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 03:20:35 +0000

Interesting that Weave tries to solve Mergiref's shortcomings (also Tree-sitter based):

> git merges lines. mergiraf merges tree nodes. weave merges entities. [1]

I've been using mergiraf for ~6 months and tried to use it to resolve a conflict from multiple Claude instances editing a large bash script. Sadly neither support bash out of the box, which makes me suspect that classic merge is better in this/some cases...

Will try adding the bash grammar to mergiraf or weave next time

[1] https://ataraxy-labs.github.io/weave/

New comment by keysersoze33 in "I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers"

keysersoze33 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 05:15:48 +0000

I've contributed 32 edits (1 new page) in the past 10 years, so despite being stable, there are still many things to add and fix!

Sadly, the edit volume will likely drop as LLMs are now the preferred source for technical Linux info/everything...