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New comment by krunck in "Linux's Latest Vulnerability Allows Reading Root-Owned Files by Unpriv Users"

krunck — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:39:18 +0000

Remediation: https://gitlab.cern.ch/ComputerSecurity/mitigations/ssh-keys...

New comment by krunck in "Residents furious as Utah approves datacenter twice the size of Manhattan"

krunck — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:08:51 +0000

These are projects designed to serve the US military in it's future wars against China and other "threats". Note that "other threats" includes the American citizenry. You'll be - probably already are - targets of continual AI propaganda and manipulation to keep you compliant and keep paying your taxes to support this waste.

New comment by krunck in "Testing UPS Output Waveforms"

krunck — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:07:18 +0000

I've had servers that would not power on with non sinusoidal power.

AirPods with cameras for AI apparently close to production

krunck — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:59:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/tech/926376/apple-airpods-cameras-ai-production

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48063253

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by krunck in "StarFighter 16-Inch"

krunck — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:47:55 +0000

Never. I'd rather use an external mouse than use a track pad.

New comment by krunck in "Can I disable all data collection from my vehicle?"

krunck — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:10:26 +0000

I wonder how Slate ( https://slate.auto ) will rate when production begins? I suspect poorly as it's a Bezos property.

New comment by krunck in "How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]"

krunck — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:18:22 +0000

That's the what's required to make propaganda and manipulation work the best.

New comment by krunck in "Copy Fail"

krunck — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:14:13 +0000

Any Setuid binary will work: passwd, chsh, chfn, mount, sudo, pkexec.

New comment by krunck in "Copy Fail"

krunck — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:00:18 +0000

Wow. I tried it on an old testing VM of Ubuntu 24.04 that had not been touched for a few months. Instant root with the bonus that any user that runs "su" gets root too. I updated the VM thinking it would be fixed afterward. Nope.

New comment by krunck in "Making AI chatbots friendly leads to mistakes and support of conspiracy theories"

krunck — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:49:11 +0000

> “The push to make these language models behave in a more friendly manner leads to a reduction in their ability to tell hard truths and especially to push back when users have wrong ideas of what the truth might be,” said Lujain Ibrahim at the Oxford Internet Institute, the first author on the study.

People aren't much different. When society pressures people to be "more friendly", eg. "less toxic" they lose their ability to tell hard truths and to call out those who hold erroneous views.

This behaviour is expressed in language online. Thus it is expressed in LLMs. Why does this surprise us?

New comment by krunck in "ASML became the chokepoint for cutting-edge chips"

krunck — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:04:35 +0000

"Seeing ASML’s machinery exhibited at IMEC was what led TSMC to partner with ASML in EUV development. "

This industry sure likes it's acronyms.

New comment by krunck in "Men who stare at walls"

krunck — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 15:57:21 +0000

A meditation practice(in the Soto Zen tradition) over the course of five years changed my life. Daily 40m of sitting facing a wall watching the breath and returning the mind to the present moment when it strays. No judgement. Just returning the mind to the present, again, and again, and again.... The BS starts to drop away. No enlightenment moments. But later, away from the practice you have more patience, more acceptance, more little moments of joy, less fear.

New comment by krunck in "Tariffs Raised Consumers' Prices, but the Refunds Go Only to Businesses"

krunck — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:56:11 +0000

Zero businesses passed on the additional costs onto the consumer? None?

New comment by krunck in "'Hairdryer used to trick weather sensor' to win Polymarket bet"

krunck — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:05:20 +0000

Quite literally EVERYTHING around us is now subject to possible manipulation by these idiots if they think they can profit.

Even the US Government has executive and legislative officials profiting from secret information they know from doing their duties.

I wonder when someone who does cloud seeding will place a bet about rain at some unlikely time and place.

Or the next large forest fire.

New comment by krunck in "FBI looks into dead or missing scientists tied to NASA, Blue Origin, SpaceX"

krunck — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 17:07:15 +0000

"...the importance of the energy being pulsed in order to have biological effects on humans. When you produce pulses like this, you can actually stimulate electrically active tissue like brain tissue and the heart, for that matter, mimicking what the brain normally does, but now you're driving it with your pulses from the outside."

Ah, so a portable pulsed microwave device. Current phased array technology is certain to be able to produce a narrow and powerful beam. Current energy densities of batteries allow for a significant amount of portable power. Expecting to see "Show HN" on this soon...

New comment by krunck in "All 12 moonwalkers had "lunar hay fever" from dust smelling like gunpowder (2018)"

krunck — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:03:19 +0000

Mars has toxic levels of perchlorates in the regolith. That will require that humans never come in contact with the regolith or things that touched it. Those space suits that dock to vehicles seem like a necessity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perchlorate#On_Mars

New comment by krunck in "NASA Force"

krunck — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:50:11 +0000

Such urgency. They're definitely racing China to the moon.

New comment by krunck in "We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit"

krunck — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:57:36 +0000

Not "she". It.

New comment by krunck in "US national level OS-level age verification bill proposed"

krunck — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:20:03 +0000

I pledge to defy it.

New comment by krunck in "God sleeps in the minerals"

krunck — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:15:59 +0000

Imagine associating $DEITY with war, slaughter, and destruction. I prefer the mineral $DEITY.