Hacker News: mab122

New comment by mab122 in "The Pain That Is GitHub Actions"

mab122 — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 10:08:22 +0000

but then, but then your corporate provided laptop with 8GB RAM and 128GB with locked down Windows Entprise™® may need 1000th of security policy exceptions and won't even fit all dependencies on its disk. Not to mention that it would be building for like 10h. Think of the shareholders! The corporation would have to buy actually usable hardware for it's workers! Think of the cost! /j

For real tho, not every project can be build by everyone locally, but at least parts of it should be locally runnable for devs to be able work (at all IMO). What I am noticing is more and more coding is being done on some server somewhere Github Codespaces anyone? Google Colab? etc.

What I am also noticing is that this tools like GH-A there is not really a way to test the CI code other than.. commit, push, wait, commit, push, wait... That's just absurd to me. Obviously all CIs have some quirks that sometimes you have _just run it_ and see if it works but this... it's like that for everything! Abusrd I say!

New comment by mab122 in "The Pain That Is GitHub Actions"

mab122 — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 09:59:08 +0000

In organization setting this is almost useless if you are (or forced to) use some pre-made actions and/or actions that are for your organization only (they cannot be downloaded) also useless if you are forced to use self hosted runner with image that you don't have access to. Not to mention env/secrets and networking...

New comment by mab122 in "Alphabet spins out Taara – Internet over lasers"

mab122 — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 12:29:23 +0000

> Obviously jamming resistant high bandwidth communication enables some scarry possibilities.

This sounds like you would also be in favor of backdoored encryption. I disagree. It's a tool / improvement like any other, how you use it makes it scary. BTW this is nothing new, it's just packaged nicely and (I assume) massively improved technology. DIY and open source solutions were possible in 2001 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RONJA (static ones tho)

New comment by mab122 in "Delta Chat – Email Based PGP Encrypted Chat"

mab122 — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 12:03:54 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

New comment by mab122 in "El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender"

mab122 — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 09:07:41 +0000

What if the person owed money has no idea how to check if a bill is not a counterfeit, doesn't want to learn about really small security prints on every note, what if somebody robs their wallet?

New comment by mab122 in "Alcohol consumption abundant in the natural world, study finds"

mab122 — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 13:16:05 +0000

Link to that study? Cant seem to find it in the article

New comment by mab122 in "SpaceX launches mission for 2 NASA astronauts who are stuck on the ISS"

mab122 — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 14:13:50 +0000

They should be! Have we not learned anything from Apollo? :D Or atleast provision an adapter or something.

New comment by mab122 in "3D Reconstruction with Spatial Memory"

mab122 — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 09:57:23 +0000

Very interesting stuff. I wonder how this one camera (one viewpoint), flat images models work in completely novel environments (not seen in training data). I am wondering if this model could be used with stereo cameras as is.

New comment by mab122 in "Accelerando (2005)"

mab122 — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 09:23:55 +0000

When reading this for first time (like two years ago) it struck me how many issues of accelerando world we actually have right now in ours. In fiction they are just hyperboled to extreme (sometimes for comedic appeal).

New comment by mab122 in "How de-Googled is Lineage OS?"

mab122 — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 11:58:14 +0000

Honestly except occasional location service/embedded maps not working in some app that only implemented google maps APIs - I have like one app that actually doesn't work (is not usable) and I am using grapheneOS as daily driver for at least 3 years now.

New comment by mab122 in "Study: Air purifier use at daycare centres cut kids' sick days by a third (2023)"

mab122 — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 11:52:52 +0000

This sounds exacly as UV water treatment lamps

New comment by mab122 in "Microsoft will try the data-scraping Windows Recall feature again in October"

mab122 — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 19:05:56 +0000

This is almost already a thing with ~~Android~~ Google Play Services and google services in general. They know where you where, when, what apps you used during that time, what notifiactions you received, how you get there and probably a lot more.

New comment by mab122 in "Ask HN: What's new being done with P2P?"

mab122 — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 10:34:51 +0000

IMO That is because we got used to always on, always watching, always working apps / services that run "somewhere" not on our devices. Even in selfhosted open source alternatives most of the applications expect to be run continously.

Example: Google Photos, vs LibrePhotos vs Google Picasa - the last one only worked when you wanted it to work not 24/7

New comment by mab122 in "New study simulates gravitational waves from failing warp drive"

mab122 — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 09:10:56 +0000

May I... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question

New comment by mab122 in "Claude 3 claims it's conscious"

mab122 — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 21:59:04 +0000

> If you knew the LLM does this after every prompt, is that a sufficient condition for possibly concluding that it's conscious?

Yes.

(For me.)

New comment by mab122 in "Physical cash is dying–and you don't need to be a conspiracist to worry"

mab122 — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 17:38:47 +0000

I would argue that cash maybe a little better than cashless because fees are tied to physical problem of moving cash around where as cashless fees are just one board meeting from changing ten fold.

New comment by mab122 in "A battery has replaced Hawaii's last coal plant"

mab122 — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 01:02:07 +0000

I believe in normal circumstances its neglegible and not worth worrying about.

New comment by mab122 in "Flare, a video sharing site built on Nostr"

mab122 — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 11:18:46 +0000

I love that nostr identity is not tied to an instance (unlike activitypub/mastondon/fediverse)! However ignoring some (IMO) fundamental problems (because they are not problems until you hit scale) like hosting, somewhat moderation and letting that be solved "layer above" is a mistake (IMO) it will probably create non standardized APIs for paying for hosting or sth.

As for community it is heavily based on bitcoin/lightning enthusiasts and a lot of content revolving just around that - probably won't attract people outside the circle/general public (which may not be the goal or preferable outcome!)

New comment by mab122 in "Beeper Mini is back"

mab122 — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 18:02:44 +0000

> If you hack a secure communications channel so that unauthorized client software/hardware can pretend to be authorized software/hardware, how does that make the channel more secure?

How does it make more insecure? It doesnt, security should be accomplished by the protocol, messages themselves not by blockong access to a communication channel. Otherwise its just https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_through_obscurity

New comment by mab122 in "Half-Life 25th Anniversary Update"

mab122 — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 20:36:44 +0000

worth every minute of playing. However for me gameplay of the original is still worth a try. I think it forces you to plan, explore and look for alternatives more. Black Mesa has more "modern" gameplay.