Hacker News: moritonal

New comment by moritonal in "Ukraine claims first drone evacuation of wounded soldier"

moritonal — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 07:40:16 +0000

Whilst I do understand your point it's hard to argue that a drone would fare any better against a 50cal round. They are infamously, very fragile.

New comment by moritonal in "Ousted Savannah police officer gave ICE agent husband access to Flock system"

moritonal — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:20:45 +0000

When Batman created his sonar system we cheered because he needed it to fight "the bad guy". It took Alfred to explain this was too much. "The bad guy" has been used for hundreds of years to escuse simple solutions under the premise that we're "the good guys".

New comment by moritonal in "Passkeys are not a trap"

moritonal — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:33:53 +0000

Security matters, users who want choice have to take responsibility, users that don't can just use Apple.

"What happens when I go to the same site on a different platform?" = "If you meant device, then Chrome has a feature to allow you to use a different device such as a NFC YubiKey"

"What if I can't use cross-device authentication because I'm on a locked-down work machine or one that simply doesn't have bluetooth?" = "Good, Passkeys are doing their job correctly and you cannot export credentials"

"What if I want to consolidate them all in one platform just for the sake of being organised?" = "Then log in and add more passkeys to things rather than copy-pasting passwords everywhere"

"What if I lose or simply don't have the device with a certain passkey near me?" = "You should have multiple passkey's or use the various cloud versions that exist"

New comment by moritonal in "OpenAI bots knew about the RubyGems caching vulnerability"

moritonal — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:05:12 +0000

The you treat it like an employee you started a fire that got out of control and damaged property. Was the employee supposed to start a fire, is the company liable ect.

New comment by moritonal in "Steam Frame starts at $1059"

moritonal — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:20:22 +0000

VR would be a perfect device for sharing or an arcade if it wasn't for the usual issues with sharing anything.

New comment by moritonal in "There Is No AI (It's Just People) with Jaron Lanier"

moritonal — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 21:29:46 +0000

That "probably" is the problem. If I do something I don't understand, and am not qualified to control, then I'm still at fault. If I start a fire, and loose control of it, it's definitely my fault. If I created a computer virus, ajd it worms half the Internet, it's definitely my fault.

New comment by moritonal in "Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit"

moritonal — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:46:07 +0000

Yes, but in that very link it explains how they work with the public to establish some trust?

"Any current issues of public concern?

It is recognised the extent of the UK network is a privacy concern and the scale of that network is likely to remain so for...

The NPCC ANPR lead has established an Independent Advisory Group (IAG) chaired by the Surveillance Camera Commissioner (SCC), with a broad representation from civil society and other..."

New comment by moritonal in "Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?"

moritonal — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:05:02 +0000

Some of my Codex sessions are still working (and continue to), but new ones are giving a Reconnecting currently.

New comment by moritonal in "Fastpotify"

moritonal — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 09:58:44 +0000

It's a weird world where they put less time into writing that doc than you did reading it.

New comment by moritonal in "“It works better in the app”"

moritonal — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:49:58 +0000

Oh don't, I remember being at a Google PWA Conference where they showed a world where you walked up to a coffee machine which served you a website over some local Bluetooth beacons, you asked for a coffee and it made it. It was such a hopeful concept looking back.

New comment by moritonal in "WPD won't replace stolen Flock cameras, citing public trust"

moritonal — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:23:13 +0000

You managed to say everything but the difficult bit. People don't generally have a problem with cameras, all our computers and phones have one. The problem is who can use them and when.

New comment by moritonal in "Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code"

moritonal — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:09:30 +0000

Same, but I always run within dev-containers. I joke I trust my LLM with the same energy I trust juniors?

New comment by moritonal in "Pebble Mega Update – July 2026"

moritonal — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 09:57:06 +0000

What is there to mock? Making ten smart rings because each one is consumable sounds worse for the environment than making one that has a simple charging circuit?

New comment by moritonal in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

moritonal — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:40:32 +0000

Rip the band-aid. You don't own your email, which means all the things you're worried about could at any moment be lost anyway.

Buy a domain, own the MX records, send your emails where-ever you want. Then just try live your life, and anytime you log into something, try swap it over to your new domain.

Keep your gmail, keep it as the backup email. Just reduce your risk.

New comment by moritonal in "Snowboard Kids 2 is 100% Decompiled"

moritonal — Sat, 30 May 2026 07:13:55 +0000

Massively, armed with the right tools you can tear apart old software now

New comment by moritonal in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

moritonal — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 08:32:53 +0000

Anecdotal but over several years with an AMD GPU in my desktop I've tried multiple times to do real AI work and given up every time with the AMD stack.

New comment by moritonal in "GPT-5.5"

moritonal — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:51:07 +0000

This. When compilers came along, I believe a bunch of junior engineers just gave up utterly on understanding the shape of how the code was generated in assembly which was a mistake given early compilers weren't as effective as they are today. Today vibe-coders are using these early AI tooling and giving up on understanding the shape, and similarly struggling.

New comment by moritonal in "GPT-5.5"

moritonal — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:50:28 +0000

I think it's more: when I don't have access to a compiler I am useless. It's better to go for a walk than learn assembly. AI agents turn our high-level language into code, with various hints, much like the compiler.

New comment by moritonal in "FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer"

moritonal — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:19:43 +0000

Personally I consider the crop part of the problem. By cropping (rather than just picking another image) it "cleans" the image, but retains the context. I could crop many images to be valid as test-images, but people who know the context would still see them for what they are. Lenna represents a time when the highest quality magazine at hand in a laboratory was softcore pornography.

New comment by moritonal in "FIM – Linux framebuffer image viewer"

moritonal — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:51:08 +0000

I want to point out some of the language you've used. You've brought up "current narrative", "crusade", "sin" and "inquisition", when really you seem to be saying "the image doesn't signal anything and the push to remove it is overblown". I disagree with you (for example IEEE has banned it) but I do respect you believe the actual movement that disagrees with is small but influential.

Instead however I would ask you look at the words you used, where they came from, who said them to you, and why you brought them up here. They are strangely charged words for a debate over a picture.