Hacker News: lagadu

New comment by lagadu in "Apple patches decade-old iOS zero-day, possibly exploited by commercial spyware"

lagadu — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:08:59 +0000

The exploit was always there, you just didn't know about it, but attackers might have. The only thing that changed is that you're now aware that there's a vulnerability.

New comment by lagadu in "Swapping SIM cards used to be easy, and then came eSIM"

lagadu — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 21:10:51 +0000

Try doing it without any sort of data connection, where the phone can't ask the carrier to deprovision the esim.

New comment by lagadu in "Apple M5 chip"

lagadu — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 08:56:39 +0000

Base M4 was already slightly outperforming the M2 Max in CPU. GPU-wise it's nowhere near close.

New comment by lagadu in "The dangerous intimacy of social location sharing"

lagadu — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 22:16:34 +0000

The fascist government won't need you to enable tracking, they can have the corporation that makes your OS silently gather it and give it to them, or simply have the phone carrier do it, again silently to the one carrying the device.

We're already all carrying a tracking device with us, willingly.

New comment by lagadu in "AI is different"

lagadu — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 09:59:32 +0000

Once computers and AIs can approach even a small fraction of the our capacity then sure, only cameras is fine, it's a shame that our suite of camera data processing equipment is so far beyond our understanding that we don't even have models of how it might work at its core.

Even at that point, why would you possibly use only cameras though, when you can get far better data by using multiple complementary systems? Humans still crash plenty often, in large part because of how limited our "camera" system can be.

New comment by lagadu in "F-Droid build servers can't build modern Android apps due to outdated CPUs"

lagadu — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 07:49:55 +0000

Amazon has a big one too. I also know of a popular one called Aptoide.

New comment by lagadu in "We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness"

lagadu — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 19:06:42 +0000

In what way is not being social a successful strategy for reproduction nowadays?

New comment by lagadu in "More women than expected are genetically men (2016)"

lagadu — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 17:23:47 +0000

If anything chromossomes would be the key determinant of sex, not gender. But even that's not how we attribute sex: biologically sex is attributed by the capacity to generate small or big gamete, which means that someone who doesn't produce either type, such as a child or elderly person has no sex.

New comment by lagadu in "More women than expected are genetically men (2016)"

lagadu — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 17:16:33 +0000

Having and X or Y (or even multiple of each, as some people do, XXY and XYY are real, even single X or Y too) is binary, what's not binary is how it doesn't perfectly correlate with the sex (not even getting into gender here) that the person in question belongs to.

New comment by lagadu in "The $25k car is going extinct?"

lagadu — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 14:51:29 +0000

Not just SE Asia: In Europe I can go buy a Dacia Sandero for 14k€ right now (about $16500) and that includes 23% VAT.

New comment by lagadu in "Getting free internet on a cruise, saving $170"

lagadu — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 18:27:40 +0000

I hate to sound preachy so I apologize if I'm coming off like that but if someone's relationship with the internet is so bad that being put in a situation where being forced to stay off it is seen as a positive, perhaps the whole relationship should be taken a hard look at?

New comment by lagadu in "Where can you go in Europe by train in 8h?"

lagadu — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 19:49:04 +0000

Even if it did prevent 10% of suicides by train, it stands to reason that a huge portion of those 10% would simply become suicides by jumping off a bridge.

New comment by lagadu in "Where can you go in Europe by train in 8h?"

lagadu — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 19:36:02 +0000

Taking a fast train is significantly faster than driving. On short and medium trips they're even competitive with flying, if you factor the time it takes to get to/from the airport and associated lead time associated with airports vs showing within 5-10 minutes of departure right at the city centre.

New comment by lagadu in "Where can you go in Europe by train in 8h?"

lagadu — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 19:30:54 +0000

These are trains with sleeping cabins and actual beds you sleep in. It's better than many hostels.

New comment by lagadu in "Does current AI represent a dead end?"

lagadu — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 15:57:44 +0000

You're effectively saying that the owner of this LLM isn't allowed to say or in this case not say something according to their wishes because somehow their work, the LLM, needs to have the speech that you want rather than the speech that their owner wants. You're effectively asking for more restrictions on speech and on what private entities do.

New comment by lagadu in "I was banned from the hCaptcha accessibility account for not being blind (2023)"

lagadu — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 16:58:43 +0000

When someone recommends me an album or artist I "take a look" at it: I listen to it. Though now that I think about it, I wouldn't say that in my other languages.

New comment by lagadu in "New Mersenne Prime discovered (probably)"

lagadu — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 11:02:40 +0000

I'm not an SME but I would imagine that if there's some sort of very large scale pattern in Mersenne primes then finding that might lead to the discovery of some currently unknown emergent property. Of course this argument is likely unfalsifiable, as it can scale infinitely if there's an infinite amount of them, though we don't even know whether they are a finite set or not.

New comment by lagadu in "We outsmarted CSGO cheaters with IdentityLogger"

lagadu — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 20:12:09 +0000

I always found it funny how ip bans seemed to be so popular despite being apparently completely ineffective until I realized this was mostly a US thing. In my country (2 of them that I've lived in, in fact) ISPs always assign the client a dynamic address from their very large pools every time I reconnect. This was as true back in the 28.8kb dial up days as it is in the 10gbit FTTH days we live in. Having a static IP address here has always been a service you have to pay for.

I remember this being hilarious when idiots would ip ban me back on the IRC days: "oh no, I have to press the reconnect button!"

New comment by lagadu in "We outsmarted CSGO cheaters with IdentityLogger"

lagadu — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 19:53:18 +0000

Until they get jailbroken that is. There is no such as a perfectly secure platform in which the user has complete physical control over it.

New comment by lagadu in "We outsmarted CSGO cheaters with IdentityLogger"

lagadu — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 19:49:25 +0000

Because at the end of the day the game is running on the user's machine, a machine in which the user has full access to every part of the execution and the software developer does not. You can only get around that by streaming the game instead of running it on the client side and even then an aimbot or some type of automation would be possible nowadays.