<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: laserbeam</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=laserbeam</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 00:44:56 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=laserbeam" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by laserbeam in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's impossible to say. But as  a reminder from Cory's first talk on enshittification... When Google and Facebook were small, they would argue for open protocols and competition. Facebook would reverse engineer MySpace's protocols to allow people to migrate away. Once FAANG became dominant, they went the opposite direction to built monopolistic practices.<p>GrapheneOS is still small and appears honest. Despite them being in the right in this fight and them deserving our support... We gotta keep them honest in the long run!<p>I don't think there's any way to tell if a small company will keep their values if they succeed in getting enough market share.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2026 19:06:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086817</link><dc:creator>laserbeam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086817</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by laserbeam in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's like saying users have no right to push against certain features. It's like saying Windows Recall was always ok and there was never any reason to demand it not be installed. The only difference  is one can choose to use a different browser easier than they can choose a different OS.<p>You're right in the sense that practicality and consent are orthogonal issues. There are probably stronger arguments to complain about a feature than the disk use.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 03:55:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031978</link><dc:creator>laserbeam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031978</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48031978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by laserbeam in "Online age verification is the hill to die on"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You use eID when explicitly interacting with a govt entity or bank or otherwise similar institution because you have to and want to prove who you are. Yes, I do want to prove who I am when I file taxes, vote or want to start a business...<p>You don't use it when just browsing randomly on the internet. You don't use it to buy games on steam. Your computer isn't forced to store it because a law arbitrarily says so.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:08:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47953852</link><dc:creator>laserbeam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47953852</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47953852</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by laserbeam in "GTFOBins"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I just grabbed one of the examples there which was readable and didn't require the reader to know all the extra flags passed. One that would illustrate the purpose of the website. One that Linux newbies who read the question and further answers here could follow along with. Not one that tried to be optimal.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:32:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47932584</link><dc:creator>laserbeam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47932584</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47932584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by laserbeam in "GTFOBins"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Cool, so it is what I imagined, thanks!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:28:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47932554</link><dc:creator>laserbeam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47932554</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47932554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by laserbeam in "GTFOBins"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am confused. Is this saying that if you don't have access to `cat`, instead of `cat /path/to/input-file` you can use `base64 /path/to/input-file | base64 --decode`?<p>Or is it saying that `base64 /path/to/input-file | base64 --decode` can bypass read file permission flags?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 07:14:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47931323</link><dc:creator>laserbeam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47931323</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47931323</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by laserbeam in "Flipdiscs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Damn, I really wish there was a T in "Quick jazzy vibe flows from exploding pixels", 'cause the sentence is just cool!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:43:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919903</link><dc:creator>laserbeam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919903</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47919903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by laserbeam in "Firefox Has Integrated Brave's Adblock Engine"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ladybird is many years away from being usable by a casual human. The hope is it turns out to be a great browser eventually.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 05:04:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47898788</link><dc:creator>laserbeam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47898788</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47898788</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by laserbeam in "Pretty Fish: A better mermaid diagram editor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The first thing I tried to do is resize that rectangle in the default diagram... and the resize handles do not affect the height, only the width. What is this "better" than?</p>
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<p>1. The video is amazing. It does deserve a shoutout.<p>2. I actually prefer when HN links to articles rather than videos. I kind of expect interesting reads, not watches when I open this forum.</p>
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<p>If that's so, it's really poorly communicated. I strongly recommend full sentences for that.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 07:39:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47671911</link><dc:creator>laserbeam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47671911</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47671911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by laserbeam in "Audio tapes reveal mass rule-breaking in Milgram's obedience experiments"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> It points out that the compliant subjects who delivered the shocks weren't always following the procedure they were given perfectly. Which is, of course, expected, since people in general don't follow instructions 100% perfectly all the time<p>The article quantifies the amount of rulebreaking. The article actually compares rule breaking across participants and notes that those who were better at obeying the instructions of the experiment are the ones who refused to continue till the end.<p>The article doesn't invalidate the milgrim experiments. It claims that the interpretation from traditional literature is possibly wrong.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:41:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47588059</link><dc:creator>laserbeam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47588059</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47588059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by laserbeam in "Why I love NixOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That’s my feeling when reading nixos forums. People are willing to help but don’t realize how little newbies know about nix when asking for help. The first month of nixos was a massive uphill climb for me, and that knowledge doesn’t stick well because I get to interact with nix every few months to tweak things, not weekly or daily.<p>It’s a solid os, and I’m enjoying it, and I love that I can’t break things while tweaking. But the docs are and discussion threads are not written for beginners (it’s really hard to write for beginners).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 06:58:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47486232</link><dc:creator>laserbeam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47486232</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47486232</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by laserbeam in "Why I love NixOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Can you share some good examples of how you use nix shells with python for one off scripts? I am still figuring out how python interacts with nixos :(</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 06:50:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47486183</link><dc:creator>laserbeam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47486183</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47486183</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by laserbeam in "Stop Sloppypasta"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This website needs to be simpler, snappier and polite on the homepage. I should be able to send it as a quick reply to anyone doing the deed. Just like nohello.net</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:15:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47397933</link><dc:creator>laserbeam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47397933</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47397933</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by laserbeam in "How the Sriracha guys screwed over their supplier"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To be fair, if I had a company and won a lawsuit like that... a lawsuit which makes for a good underdog story, I'd let my PR team use it as much as they desire! That lawsuit is a golden asset for them now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 11:58:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47307919</link><dc:creator>laserbeam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47307919</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47307919</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by laserbeam in "“Microslop” filtered in the official Microsoft Copilot Discord server"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It needs a Discord Server because MS Teams is just that good X_X</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:03:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47220711</link><dc:creator>laserbeam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47220711</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47220711</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by laserbeam in "I built a demo of what AI chat will look like when it's “free” and ad-supported"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would honestly expect AI ads to be invisible, and for them to just be injected by the provider as part of the prompt. For example, you ask for something about firefox, but the AI tells you that firefox has a nasty ugly way to solve your problem and it would be easier to install chrome.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:08:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47209655</link><dc:creator>laserbeam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47209655</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47209655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by laserbeam in "Making Wolfram tech available as a foundation tool for LLM systems"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> against the spirit of science to keep them from the general public<p>Within science, participants have always published descriptions of methodology and results for review and replication. Within the same science, participants have never made access to laboratories free for everyone. You get blueprints for how to build a lab and what to do in it, you don't get the building.<p>Same for computation. I'm fairly sure almost all (if not all) algorithms in these suites are documented somewhere and you can implement them if you want. No one is restricting you from the knowledge. You just don't get the implementation for free.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:17:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47135237</link><dc:creator>laserbeam</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47135237</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47135237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by laserbeam in "Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ladybird has a strong "all dependencies built in house" philosophy. Their argument is they want an alternative implementation to whatever is used by other browsers. I'd argue they would never use a third party library like servo as a principle.</p>
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