Hacker News: kyrofa

New comment by kyrofa in "Dropping Cloudflare for Bunny.net"

kyrofa — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:46:24 +0000

> TL;DR my motivation and experience for moving my blog from Cloudflare to bunny.net

In my experience the TLDR generally gives the motivation/experience in brief. This feels more like a subtitle.

What the heck is wrong with our AI overlords?

kyrofa — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 21:23:09 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/what-the-heck-is-wrong-with-our-ai-overlords/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47681533

Points: 8

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New comment by kyrofa in "DeployTarot.com – Tarot card reading for deployments"

kyrofa — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:33:25 +0000

Heh, server time as opposed to client time at least.

New comment by kyrofa in "DeployTarot.com – Tarot card reading for deployments"

kyrofa — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:29:33 +0000

> The cards observe it is Friday. They have not forgotten the Great Friday Deploy of 2021. They have not forgiven it either.

It's... it's Thursday.

Google settles for $68M after lawsuit claimed it recorded users

kyrofa — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:14:55 +0000

Article URL: https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/5707309-google-settles-for-68-million-after-lawsuit-claimed-it-secretly-recorded-users/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46798284

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by kyrofa in "A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth"

kyrofa — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 21:14:27 +0000

That's not actually true: cell phone rx/tx power is quite low. We can get away with that because all they need to do is get to the nearest tower, which has a ton of power, sensitive antennas, and is very tall. Amateur radios have far more power available to them, but any "p2p" (i.e. simplex in amateur radio) runs into normal RF issues, like obstacles and interference. If you used the existing radios in cell phones to communicate directly with other cell phones, you wouldn't get very far. Even amateur radios, with all their power, use repeaters to the same effect as cell towers.

New comment by kyrofa in "I switched from VSCode to Zed"

kyrofa — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:59:37 +0000

Thanks Ben, I wasn't aware of that.

New comment by kyrofa in "Privacy doesn't mean anything anymore, anonymity does"

kyrofa — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 17:17:43 +0000

There are a number of companies/products that operate under this principle (mullvad and signal come to mind). Are you saying all of those are futile and misleading? Or are you saying that you expect they all have significant money and legal teams to defend against a crooked cop's thirst for vengeance for not responding the way they wanted during an investigation?

New comment by kyrofa in "Privacy doesn't mean anything anymore, anonymity does"

kyrofa — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 15:28:46 +0000

Why? That's kind of the whole point of this: they can cooperate entirely and give them everything they have. You think they'll get into legal trouble because they aren't gathering data?

School security AI flagged clarinet as a gun. Exec says it wasn't an error

kyrofa — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 15:15:25 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/florida-schools-plan-to-vastly-expand-use-of-ai-that-mistook-clarinet-for-gun/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46336760

Points: 46

# Comments: 30

New comment by kyrofa in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

kyrofa — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 22:05:49 +0000

Self-hosted gitlab here. Love it, and gitlab CI is excellent as well. Almost all product development revolves around some crappy AI integration that we don't use, and it worries me to see so much focus there instead of the core product, but the core product is still excellent.

New comment by kyrofa in "How I discovered a hidden microphone on a Chinese NanoKVM"

kyrofa — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 18:44:49 +0000

> [It] runs a heavily stripped-down version of Linux that lacks systemd and apt. And these are just a few of the issues.

You mean it's not Debian-based? How is this an issue?

New comment by kyrofa in "Rock Tumbler Instructions"

kyrofa — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 18:13:56 +0000

Loved this as a kid. But as a parent, even putting it in the garage is just too much noise for my household, haha!

New comment by kyrofa in "Google flags Immich sites as dangerous"

kyrofa — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 02:19:23 +0000

Pretty sure Immich is on github, so I assume they have a workflow for it, but in case you're interested in this concept in general, gitlab has first-class support for this which I've been using for years: https://docs.gitlab.com/ci/review_apps/ . Very cool and handy stuff.

Breaking the Creepy AI in Police Cameras [video]

kyrofa — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 19:14:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9MwZkHiMQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45043785

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by kyrofa in "I saved a PNG image to a bird"

kyrofa — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 20:24:10 +0000

Wow, my worlds are colliding right now-- although seeing Benn on HN in retrospect shouldn't be that surprising. Go check out his music, The Flashbulb, he's one of my favorite artists.

New comment by kyrofa in "Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move"

kyrofa — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 06:16:17 +0000

Heh, I suppose you've heard of one now. Fair enough, I could be in the minority here.

New comment by kyrofa in "Synology Lost the Plot with Hard Drive Locking Move"

kyrofa — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 05:01:42 +0000

> When a drive fails, one of the key factors in data security is how fast an array can be rebuilt into a healthy status. Of course, Amazon is just one vendor, but they have the distribution to do same-day and early morning overnight parts to a large portion of the US. Even overnighting a drive that arrives by noon from another vendor would be slower to arrive than two of the four other options at Amazon.

In a way this is a valid point, but it also feels a bit silly. Do people really make use of devices like this and then try to overnight a drive when something fails? You're building an array-- you're designing for failure-- but then you don't plan on it? You should have spare drives on hand. Replenishing those spares is rarely an emergency situation.

New comment by kyrofa in "When power cycling your (x86) server isn't enough to recover it"

kyrofa — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 18:36:34 +0000

Yes, I didn't mean to imply that Linux was doing anything wrong, just that some hardware seems to work better with other approaches, for the reasons you state.

New comment by kyrofa in "When power cycling your (x86) server isn't enough to recover it"

kyrofa — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 14:25:38 +0000

The Linux kernel supports rebooting using a number of different strategies[1]. Some PCs need a different one than the default in order to make sure everything is properly reset.

[1]: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/9b2ffa6148b1e4468d08f...