Hacker News: ktm5j

New comment by ktm5j in "Animated ASCII Art for Web Pages"

ktm5j — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:04:48 +0000

I love how prepared for this you were.

New comment by ktm5j in "Tell HN: GitHub refuses to remove cracked copies of my software after a month"

ktm5j — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:29:55 +0000

Digital losses to piracy sounds like something that would be impossible to quantify.. even if they can prove that people are downloading these pirated copies, that's not proof that the downloader was ever going to pay for the software in the first place.

New comment by ktm5j in "ESP32-C3 Adblock"

ktm5j — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:40:11 +0000

But this is an ESP.. it's a 160 MHz microcontroller that does not have wired ethernet, only wifi. Also it's serving data from a USB flash drive instead of from RAM. Latency is going to be through the roof.

New comment by ktm5j in "Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones"

ktm5j — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 14:21:59 +0000

What I'm not seeing is the problem. I'm thankful that the police did everything in their power to put the man who abducted me behind bars. He did things to me that are too awful to talk about here, you should be thankful you've never been through anything like that. If you had I think you would see things very differently.

New comment by ktm5j in "Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones"

ktm5j — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 13:24:41 +0000

Have you ever even talked to a police officer? You guys are full of it.

New comment by ktm5j in "Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones"

ktm5j — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 13:22:15 +0000

You're talking about some abstract person you can't even point to. The guy who abducted me and did things to me that are too awful to talk about here is a lot worse.

New comment by ktm5j in "Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones"

ktm5j — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 20:12:43 +0000

I'm not seeing what you're seeing. The inactivity reboot wouldn't be a problem if they aren't waiting for a warrant. The fact that this article even exists supports the fact that they are waiting for warrants.

Also, as someone who was the victim of a pretty awful violent crime I'm here to tell you that police are not the enemy. There are some really bad people out there, trust me.. if you ever met one you would probably be okay with cops violating their privacy.

New comment by ktm5j in "Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux"

ktm5j — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 13:41:08 +0000

Well I think that's being a little sensitive, frankly..

New comment by ktm5j in "NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates"

ktm5j — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 20:21:40 +0000

Sometimes people disagree, don't take it personally. You might be right and they're wrong, but even still you don't have to blow up about it. That's why you got flagged.

New comment by ktm5j in "Show HN: NSL – WSL for Linux"

ktm5j — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 16:53:56 +0000

Because it does seem like we already have tools that skin this particular cat, it's valid to wonder what value this project provides over existing solutions.. even if they chose the wrong example to compare it to. Why do you think that's condescending?

New comment by ktm5j in "GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks"

ktm5j — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:37:35 +0000

You are nitpicking over semantics in a way that provides no value. For example, you have an obligation to pay your bills, otherwise bad things happen. There's nothing wrong with my choice of words.

New comment by ktm5j in "GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks"

ktm5j — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:48:18 +0000

They are paying people to do that. What I said was that hiring more probably won't happen in this economy.

New comment by ktm5j in "GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks"

ktm5j — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:43:06 +0000

You're the one jumping all over what I said, I'm trying to explain what I said since you seem to have such a problem with it. Wow.

New comment by ktm5j in "GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks"

ktm5j — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 20:15:37 +0000

So you think making bad business decisions is holding up to fiduciary duty? You can't throw money at every problem that you'd like to solve, calling that malice is silly was the point I was trying to make.

New comment by ktm5j in "GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks"

ktm5j — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 20:02:59 +0000

I said it's their biggest priority, not their only priority... solving a problem that doesn't cost money and the solution doesn't make money is bottom of the barrel. Come on guys, be real.

New comment by ktm5j in "GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks"

ktm5j — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 19:03:31 +0000

Definitely not a myth, friend. Read this article from Harvard Business School: https://online.hbs.edu/blog/post/fiduciary-duty-to-investors

"Accepting funding from investors puts you in a fiduciary role in which you’re responsible for managing their money and putting their needs above your own"

New comment by ktm5j in "GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks"

ktm5j — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:32:18 +0000

Life sure ain't perfect.. not much you can do about that sometimes.

New comment by ktm5j in "GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks"

ktm5j — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:25:24 +0000

I mean.. for better or worse, this is how corporate America works. Hiring to solve a problem that's not costing them money (and solving it doesn't make money) is probably not going to happen, especially with the current state of the economy. They have more of an obligation to make money for their investors than they do anything else, that's just how it works.

New comment by ktm5j in "Radicle: Disclosure of Vulnerability in the Network Protocol"

ktm5j — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:11:05 +0000

I find this to be very telling about what kind of people they are. If you make a mistake this big you need to own up to it. BS all you want, maybe you think that works for you.. but people see through it.

New comment by ktm5j in "Two Git ignore files nobody told me about"

ktm5j — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:54:01 +0000

True! But a gotcha there is that if your repo does have a .gitignore in the tree then this trick won't work. I had a coworker try to do just that and we were all pretty confused when his changes kept getting committed. `git add ./` will stage changes to any file in the commit tree, even if that file matches a line in gitignore.