Hacker News: ktm5j

New comment by ktm5j in "Nanocode: The best Claude Code that $200 can buy in pure JAX on TPUs"

ktm5j — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:15:41 +0000

Is there a pythonic way to satisfy the prompt? IE without making a new list?

New comment by ktm5j in "Claude wrote a full FreeBSD remote kernel RCE with root shell"

ktm5j — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 13:25:25 +0000

I don't understand this, because KASLR has been default in FreeBSD since 13.2:

[kmiles@peter ~]$ cat /etc/os-release

NAME=FreeBSD

VERSION="13.3-RELEASE-p4"

VERSION_ID="13.3"

ID=freebsd

ANSI_COLOR="0;31"

PRETTY_NAME="FreeBSD 13.3-RELEASE-p4"

CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd:13.3"

HOME_URL="https://FreeBSD.org/"

BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.FreeBSD.org/"

[kmiles@peter ~]$ sysctl kern.elf64.aslr.enable

kern.elf64.aslr.enable: 1

New comment by ktm5j in "Cyber.mil serving file downloads using TLS certificate which expired 3 days ago"

ktm5j — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:49:29 +0000

That's not what man in the middle attacks are about.. it's not about the encryption, it's about verifying that you really know who you're talking to.

New comment by ktm5j in "The future of version control"

ktm5j — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:19:44 +0000

I'm on my phone right now so I'm not going to dig too hard for this, but you can also configure a "merge tool" (or something like that) so you can use Meld or Kompare to make the process easier. This has helped me in a pinch to work out some confusing merge conflicts.

New comment by ktm5j in "Libre Solar – Open Hardware for Renewable Energy"

ktm5j — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:03:01 +0000

Like I said, I'm not a lawyer.. and I'm no longer a homeowner so I don't have an insurance policy. So I don't have a citation for you. I may be wrong about this, but I don't think that I am. If anyone who's in the know can help then I'd be okay with being proven wrong.

New comment by ktm5j in "Libre Solar – Open Hardware for Renewable Energy"

ktm5j — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 14:17:12 +0000

IANAL but I don't think that's true at all. Electrical work needs to comply with code standards (NEC). I'll eat my hat if an insurance company pays for a fire that was caused by using homebrew electrical systems.

New comment by ktm5j in "Libre Solar – Open Hardware for Renewable Energy"

ktm5j — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:56:06 +0000

DIYers and enthusiasts should still worry about their house burning down because one of these boards started a fire. An insurance company would investigate and find any excuse they can to deny payment.

New comment by ktm5j in "/e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem"

ktm5j — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:23:21 +0000

Yes it definitely can diverge while still staying open source. Happens in the Linux kernel for example whenever the ABI changes.

New comment by ktm5j in "Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users"

ktm5j — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:42:30 +0000

Perhaps, but it doesn't change the fact that this is bad behavior for the company sending the email. Since YCombinator funded this company it makes sense that YC would want to know about how they are conducting business.

New comment by ktm5j in "I Ported Coreboot to the ThinkPad X270"

ktm5j — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:11:06 +0000

Yes, I said in another comment that I might have used the wrong word. It's still not something I have a lot of motivation to do something about. At least not until the process is easy.

New comment by ktm5j in "I Ported Coreboot to the ThinkPad X270"

ktm5j — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 14:21:34 +0000

I mean, maybe paranoia is the wrong word.. it's not something that I'm personally worried about, but stuff like that has actually happened.

New comment by ktm5j in "I Ported Coreboot to the ThinkPad X270"

ktm5j — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:10:52 +0000

That still doesn't answer the question of why it's better. Unless you're paranoid about an OEM backdoor, I think this is cool but not worth the effort.

New comment by ktm5j in "Emulated Windows 3.11 in the Browser"

ktm5j — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 20:45:08 +0000

If this were a commercial project then I could understand the complaint.. but this is just a small, for-fun project and they have little motivation to put the extra effort into support for all browsers.

New comment by ktm5j in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

ktm5j — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 20:05:25 +0000

I feel like you're making a silly distinction. I mean, we ban cigarette use for minors because it's bad for them.. are you against that too? You're admitting that you think certain books are inappropriate for kids, but saying that we shouldn't do anything about preventing their use in schools.. why?

Not every kid goes to a school with wonderful teachers. I think banning books for use in schools is justifiable.

New comment by ktm5j in "Show HN: Echo, an iOS SSH+mosh client built on Ghostty"

ktm5j — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:48:37 +0000

Any chance you'd consider an android port?

New comment by ktm5j in "GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple"

ktm5j — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 16:05:36 +0000

Not a bad idea.

New comment by ktm5j in "Rolling your own serverless OCR in 40 lines of code"

ktm5j — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 15:48:39 +0000

This is more like buying a loaf of bread from the store and saying you baked it yourself. They did nothing even close to making an OCR engine.

New comment by ktm5j in "GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple"

ktm5j — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:27:28 +0000

Seriously. Especially if you're someone who wants to cut ties with Google.

New comment by ktm5j in "Suicide Linux (2009)"

ktm5j — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:29:52 +0000

which is run by bash in the way I described.

In /etc/bash.bashrc:

# if the command-not-found package is installed, use it if [ -x /usr/lib/command-not-found -o -x /usr/share/command-not-found/command-not-found ]; then ... fi

New comment by ktm5j in "Suicide Linux (2009)"

ktm5j — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 21:11:50 +0000

Oh you might be right about Ubuntu vs Debian.. but I'm right about everything else I said. I went and looked at the source code.