Hacker News: kramerger

New comment by kramerger in "Chinese hacking documents dump offers window into pervasive state surveillance"

kramerger — Sat, 09 Mar 2024 15:40:27 +0000

> I-Soon and Chinese police are investigating how the files were leaked

Well, I can tell you that. They were hacked by a competitor after loosing a goverment contract to i-soon.

I guess I'm on some kind of list now...

New comment by kramerger in "FBI: U.S. lost record $12.5B to online crime in 2023"

kramerger — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 18:17:42 +0000

What is that?

Do you mean scams that start on tinder? Pig butchering?

New comment by kramerger in "Aegis: Raspberry Pi CM4 7" Handheld Device"

kramerger — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 07:33:22 +0000

This looks interesting, but I wish the author have included some pictures from the inside.

There are some decent handheld emulators based on an old Rockchip design. If someone can make a more powerful model in this format I would happily buy 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JazW_Rf0Ko

New comment by kramerger in "Regarding Audible"

kramerger — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 16:04:23 +0000

I have realised the no service will have all the books. So why not pick one that has more local authors and comes from a company that treats their workers and authors a bit better?

New comment by kramerger in "Regarding Audible"

kramerger — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 11:41:49 +0000

The issue with audible is that authors have to be there or they don't exist. Even if the pay is crap, you "have to" be on audible.

I don't see how any competitors could break their dominance as long as the authors give in this easily.

I listen to audiobooks quite a lof and some yeargs ago I moved to a different service (storytel, its a European thing). If they don't have a book, well I get it from another source that is definitely not owned by Bezos.

New comment by kramerger in "OpenAI and Elon Musk"

kramerger — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 09:47:37 +0000

> but it doesn't really refute any of his core assertions: they still have the appearance of abandoning their core mission to focus more on profits

They don't refute that, but they claim that road was chosen in agreement with Elon. In fact, the claim this was his suggestion

New comment by kramerger in "Linux Crosses 4% Market Share Worldwide"

kramerger — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 07:43:18 +0000

This is desktop only.

Linux is market leader once you bring in mobile, embedded and so on.

New comment by kramerger in "GTPDOOR – A novel backdoor tailored for covert access over the roaming exchange"

kramerger — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 20:59:35 +0000

I think it would be more interesting to keep quiet about this and monitor what type of information this backdoor is used to access.

The counterintelligence that would give you should be far more valuable.

New comment by kramerger in "What I like about Go"

kramerger — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 20:51:08 +0000

This blog post could have been written by me. This is exactly how I feel, on all accounts.

Hope this doesn't mean we are in a cult ;)

New comment by kramerger in "The Corvette that Windows zip folders bought"

kramerger — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 11:30:46 +0000

I wonder how much the winzip and winrar guys made

New comment by kramerger in "Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI [pdf]"

kramerger — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 11:55:01 +0000

He was probably high on something when the idea that AGI competes with Nerolink came to him.

You know, the same way he decided trains are evil because they competes with his cars.

New comment by kramerger in "Malicious AI models on Hugging Face backdoor users' machines"

kramerger — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 19:06:51 +0000

Eh, have you tried vscode lately?

Some of the official extensions install code from random places like that.

New comment by kramerger in "Dune: Part Two Is the Best Sci-Fi Film of the Decade"

kramerger — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 18:59:54 +0000

Really? I was very impressed with Rebecca Ferguson as lady Jessica. The first 10 minutes was worthy of an Oscar.

New comment by kramerger in "Memory Safe TLS Library Now Has AWS Crypto and FIPS"

kramerger — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 16:35:10 +0000

Out of curiosity, why would you ever need unsafe code in go?

New comment by kramerger in "Amazon lobbyists face ban from European Parliament"

kramerger — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 20:39:59 +0000

There is a Churchill quote there somewhere...

New comment by kramerger in "Rewrite the VP9 codec library in Rust"

kramerger — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 20:29:23 +0000

Android started this way too with media libraries being updated first.

New comment by kramerger in "X becoming a 'ghost town' of bots as AI-generated spam content floods internet"

kramerger — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 08:55:49 +0000

So fireing everyone working with spam issues and shutting down automated spam detection tools to save a few bucks has nothing to do with this?

New comment by kramerger in ""14 Years of Go" by Rob Pike"

kramerger — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 18:08:11 +0000

I know C, python, Go and Rust reasonably well and Go is usually my default choice for a new projects.

Well unless it's just a quick script, in which case Python will do just fine.

Tried Scala while learning Chisel and hate it from the bottom of my heart. It's like Kotlin on bad drugs.

My point is, people are different.

New comment by kramerger in "AMD Zen 5 CPUs Reportedly Made on TSMC's 3nm Process, Mass Production in Q3"

kramerger — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 20:47:43 +0000

The AMD Ryzen strategy has always been many but less powerful cores.

Single core performance is only useful for artificial benchmarks. And even there Apples lead is less than 2%.

New comment by kramerger in "AMD Zen 5 CPUs Reportedly Made on TSMC's 3nm Process, Mass Production in Q3"

kramerger — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 17:41:56 +0000

> specifically efficiency

AMD is already significantly faster than M series, and has been so for a long time. Efficiency is the only place Apple still has an advantage