Hacker News: m3rc

New comment by m3rc in "Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30"

m3rc — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 01:16:55 +0000

What's up with the part of the website where you are talking about "neutralized foreign actors", was that also using contracted Mechanical Turk labor?

New comment by m3rc in "Man 'Disappeared' by ICE Was on El Salvador Flight Manifest, Hacked Data Shows"

m3rc — Fri, 09 May 2025 18:33:43 +0000

Is this the best use of your time?

New comment by m3rc in "Snapchat is harming children at an industrial scale?"

m3rc — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 21:44:05 +0000

That is not exactly how disciplinary or legal procedures tend to go. The intention is clear here.

New comment by m3rc in "'Dogequest' Site Claims to Dox Tesla Owners Across the U.S."

m3rc — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 14:06:04 +0000

She should sell it, it's important to make people who may have been "a-political" before aware of what's going on.

New comment by m3rc in "The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available"

m3rc — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:24:27 +0000

I don't think it's a good idea to have that doorbell, or any doorbell that is surveilling at all times and you don't own the recordings. Who knows who is watching them.

New comment by m3rc in "The average CPU performance of PCs and notebooks fell for the first time"

m3rc — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 13:41:18 +0000

I was just using a 2012 X230 running Arch and it's plenty snappy on the command line or even running an electron based editor (or as good as such a thing can be)

New comment by m3rc in "What is there left to believe in?"

m3rc — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 17:23:14 +0000

Can't stand Noah or his preening "adult in the room" affect, when you can find him tripping over his own feet on Twitter any day of the week.

New comment by m3rc in "The Bering Land Bridge was more like a swamp"

m3rc — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 01:31:02 +0000

I mean yeah that makes sense

New comment by m3rc in "AI Stole the Joy of Programming"

m3rc — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 14:24:53 +0000

What does that mean

New comment by m3rc in "The Nearest Neighbor Attack"

m3rc — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 14:09:29 +0000

For the length of time this article covered you would need a power source and to not have your box discovered for months. Probably something out on the street isn't going to fulfill both of those requirements so you'd be trying to enter "Enterprise A" which is unlikely given the presumed elevated security profile this article implies (any guesses who?). With what they pulled off the "box" that ended up being used was something already plugged in next door and very much supposed to be there. Seems easier than any physical attack would have been.

New comment by m3rc in "A Motherfucking Website"

m3rc — Sat, 13 Jul 2024 23:03:00 +0000

Yeah that's what I'm always feeling like I need out of my use of the internet, more whimsy. totally dude.

New comment by m3rc in "Why are there so many tech layoffs, and why should we be worried?"

m3rc — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 16:50:13 +0000

I think that's a little silly, You can get a google search to look for hyper specific stuff it just requires a little bit of massaging. It was not at all true that there was no massaging required when asking Jeeves for something.

New comment by m3rc in "Why are there so many tech layoffs, and why should we be worried?"

m3rc — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 16:45:04 +0000

I don't know how to estimate nostalgia but I've absolutely noticed google search results getting worse in the past 6 - 18 months. You'll see that the entire page of results is based off one misreading of a phraseology, not what you actually searched for. It feels worse in a "misguided" way, not in a pure deterioration way.

New comment by m3rc in "Offering software for snooping to governments is a booming business"

m3rc — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 19:41:32 +0000

If there's any justice in the world every person who participates in this sort of work will be shamed and ostracized in the future.

New comment by m3rc in "Off-Grid Cyberdeck: Raspberry Pi Recovery Kit"

m3rc — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 15:38:56 +0000

What is this? No offense but this site looks like a concept mock-up. There's no actual information besides general ideas and stock photos, and there's no further links or reading, just an email address.

New comment by m3rc in "Regulating Big Tech makes them stronger, so they need competition instead"

m3rc — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 16:39:27 +0000

Facebook's abuse of privacy is only part of the problem, the much more pressing issue is that it's become a publisher and news network de facto.

New comment by m3rc in "Regulating Big Tech makes them stronger, so they need competition instead"

m3rc — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 16:36:49 +0000

Why wouldn't someone who wants Google and Amazon broken up also want Disney and Comcast broken up? That's a massive strawman.

New comment by m3rc in "Regulating Big Tech makes them stronger, so they need competition instead"

m3rc — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 12:00:19 +0000

A stellar pitch for breaking them up instead

New comment by m3rc in "Deconstructing Google’s excuses on tracking protection"

m3rc — Fri, 23 Aug 2019 20:53:41 +0000

Energy usage may be not that high, but data usage, especially on mobile devices, is very high.

Even on my home network something insane like 30% of packets sent and received are ad or tracking related, which I know because they all get blocked by the PiHole sitting next to the router.

Choosing to block ads literally makes my browsing go faster, and keeps my data limits from being blown out. AND it prevents fingerprinting of my habits? It's a complete no-brainer.

New comment by m3rc in "First modern coreboot server platform"

m3rc — Thu, 08 Aug 2019 17:26:15 +0000

I mean you have to get coreboot functioning before getting to libreboot don't you?