Hacker News: latentpot

New comment by latentpot in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

latentpot — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 07:10:52 +0000

It was problematic, so we moved to blackice defender iirc

New comment by latentpot in "Flock and Cyble Inc. weaponize “cybercrime” takedowns to silence critics"

latentpot — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 08:48:11 +0000

Cyble, with a large team of dark Web researchers based out of India cover that while giving flock plausible deniability

New comment by latentpot in "Unlocking free WiFi on British Airways"

latentpot — Sat, 25 Oct 2025 09:50:29 +0000

That's EAN, also used by BA as the backhaul.

New comment by latentpot in "How OpenElections uses LLMs"

latentpot — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 02:42:42 +0000

Why complicate? One LLM works, another reflects and then a decision engine to review would be cheaper.

New comment by latentpot in "How and Why I Stopped Buying New Laptops (2020)"

latentpot — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 15:51:56 +0000

Dell makes devices with mpp compatible touch screens. Cheap stylii, good pressure response

New comment by latentpot in "QUIC is not quick enough over fast internet"

latentpot — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 05:04:17 +0000

QUIC is the standard problem across n number of clients who choose Zscaler and similar content inspection tools. You can block it at the policy level but you also need to have it disabled at the browser level. Which sometimes magically turns on again and leads to a flurry of tickets for 'slow internet', 'Google search not working' etcetera.

New comment by latentpot in "Trainee just took down our business and has no idea how or why"

latentpot — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 16:40:13 +0000

Why wasn't there a PAM solution in place that logged all the mainframe user level activities and commands? Maybe cyberark or such? Would have help to trace the issues and even control such commands from being run by a novice.

New comment by latentpot in "Is Tableau Dead?"

latentpot — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 07:15:01 +0000

Apache Superset is a good option if you are ok with open source.

New comment by latentpot in "Anyone working on LLM tools for enhancing data quality?"

latentpot — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 04:37:43 +0000

1 is already a solved problem. My employer had originally put a ML based system to find DQ issues (already working) and is looking at pocs to add LLMs in the model mix. Hearsay is that our lakehouse vendor will have their own solution to this question via a acquisition.

2 is interesting, possible to do via LLM but I worry about data privacy and hallucinations making data more believable but not real.

New comment by latentpot in "Freaky Leaky SMS: Extracting user locations by analyzing SMS timings"

latentpot — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 09:33:09 +0000

There is a category of sms that won't show up in your inbox. Think of them as messages for your baseband/ system. But they will result in delivery messages. They used to be quite well used in the Nokia era.

New comment by latentpot in "Accenture would cut 19,000 jobs"

latentpot — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 12:57:43 +0000

This is a company that bills it's sales team to clients indirectly. Wonder if they've automated/ ai-fied some of their mundane corporate functions and back office activities leading to this point.

New comment by latentpot in "Ask HN: Carrier “lost” my number in a port request"

latentpot — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 13:08:09 +0000

Solution - need some big pull to get this done.

The number needs to be recreated at the original provider (assuming no one else has picked it up), activated, ported multiple times (if you have ported earlier) and then brought to the current final provider.

Source - lost a 20+ year old number during a port activity the same way. Fortunately the provider was a client, and got a circle head involved to recover the number in the way it is mentioned above. Took a week.

New comment by latentpot in "NFT's aren't the answer to the problems of digital art"

latentpot — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 11:04:05 +0000

Succinct and specific. Thank you.

New comment by latentpot in "Microsoft files patent application for using brainwaves to mine cryptocurrency"

latentpot — Sun, 26 Sep 2021 04:07:02 +0000

Precursor to the Matrix?

New comment by latentpot in "Announcing Vitess 11"

latentpot — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 02:26:07 +0000

It seems like a large contributor to vitess and another tool orchestrator linked in another post is Slack? Very interesting.

New comment by latentpot in "HashiCorp Boundary"

latentpot — Wed, 14 Oct 2020 16:59:07 +0000

Is this very similar to cyberark, but without the logging and recording of usage?

New comment by latentpot in "A socialite who hated washing dishes invented the automated dishwasher"

latentpot — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 11:42:47 +0000

You're onto something here

New comment by latentpot in "Major Microsoft Outage"

latentpot — Fri, 14 Aug 2020 04:19:09 +0000

Legit question, if it is a regional issue, can using a VPN to another Geo be helpful here in getting access to the affected services?