Hacker News: mikece

Fragnesia Made Public as Latest Linux Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

mikece — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:01:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Fragnesia

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48123670

Points: 37

# Comments: 18

New comment by mikece in "The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization"

mikece — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:18:58 +0000

I feel like the title of this post should have "for now" appended.

New comment by mikece in "Colombia hosts talks on exiting fossil fuels as global energy crisis deepens"

mikece — Wed, 06 May 2026 19:04:50 +0000

Interesting that Colombia is currently powering more than 70% of their electrical consumption on hydropower. They currently have about 65 TWh of hydropower capacity; the total feasible generation potential is around 200 TWh. Makes then an interesting country to host such talks.

New comment by mikece in "Proton Meet"

mikece — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:40:04 +0000

The launch of Proton Meet officially eliminates the lazy excuse that securing real-time WebRTC media at scale is "too hard" for modern enterprise platforms. Hopefully this forces the hands of Slack, Teams, and Google to stop treating E2EE as a premium afterthought and start offering it as a standard option for the modern web.

Farewell, Jeeves: Ask.com shuts down

mikece — Sun, 03 May 2026 02:13:06 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/02/farewell-jeeves-ask-com-shuts-down/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47992657

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Ubuntu Rust Coreutils Audit Revealed 113 Issues

mikece — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:36:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Rust-Coreutils-Audit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47865944

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

Linux 7.1 Is a Big Win for Intel Panther Lake with Fred Now Enabled by Default

mikece — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:33:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.1-Enabled-Intel-FRED

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47783251

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mikece in "YouTube starts showing 90-second unskippable ads to TV viewers"

mikece — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:13:58 +0000

Sounds like a reason to just watch regular TV to me.

New comment by mikece in "Going from streaming music to collecting CDs"

mikece — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:05:32 +0000

What is the preferred/best way to rip CDs from the Linux CLI? Is there a way to apply track info (is CDDB still around?) and edit that as well?

Show HN: Rustobol – Compile Rust to COBOL

mikece — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:50:15 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/romanagenda/rustobol/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603370

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

The US government just banned consumer routers made outside the US

mikece — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:32:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/news/899172/fcc-foreign-router-ban

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47521347

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by mikece in "Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case"

mikece — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:02:42 +0000

A good time to (re-)recommend the movie "The Social Dilemma".

New comment by mikece in "Sanders and AOC unveil data center moratorium bill"

mikece — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:50:20 +0000

Do they think so-called AI is capable of self-awareness or abstract thought, that it's not a human-programmed mountain of if statements and strict logic?