Hacker News: marcta

New comment by marcta in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

marcta — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:26:30 +0000

LLMs are costing Google a ton of money in compute and storage right now. If they can farm any of that off to the users, it makes economical sense.

But yes, there is a 100% chance that logs will get sent back to Google too.

New comment by marcta in "I don't want your PRs anymore"

marcta — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:35:54 +0000

It's not really, because you now have the cost of maintaining that fork, even if it's just for yourself.

New comment by marcta in "Claude mixes up who said what"

marcta — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:59:07 +0000

This is Mr Meeseeks.

New comment by marcta in "Some things just take time"

marcta — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 11:23:27 +0000

Maybe their point is that the brands themselves have a lot of time embedded in them. Generally, status symbols (whatever they are) aren't things that are recently established.

New comment by marcta in "Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta's $2B Lobbying for Age Verification Tech"

marcta — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 13:46:11 +0000

If people have to go through OS auth flow each time they open a website, that will drive everyone mad. One of the key motivators for politicians is not making everyone mad, so the polls don't drop.

Also, I reckon most children know the password for their parent's phone or computer, and many more will find out if there is a highly motivational factor for doing so. How many exhausted parents just toss their phone to their child to stop them whining?

I suppose it could be a biometric sign-in with facial recognition or fingerprint, but again, that's a tonne of friction for the whole web.

New comment by marcta in "SSH Secret Menu"

marcta — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 12:37:02 +0000

I came across ProxyCommand earlier this week, funnily enough. I have Cloudflare Zero Trust set up with an SSH service[0], and have the server firewall drop all incoming traffic. That helps reduce my attack surface, since I don't have any incoming ports open.

[0]: https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/networks/co...

New comment by marcta in "After outages, Amazon to make senior engineers sign off on AI-assisted changes"

marcta — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:50:06 +0000

Goodhart's Law strikes again... "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."