Hacker News: negura

New comment by negura in "Two-tier encryption in the UK"

negura — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 01:24:50 +0000

> Not likely the case in 2015 Apple nor probably even now

I disagree, I think it's 100% Apple to do that.

New comment by negura in "Two-tier encryption in the UK"

negura — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 01:23:01 +0000

There are multiple vendors which ship devices with IME disabled and instructions for flashing coreboot (or they ship with it pre-installed). And Apple is much closer to Windows than it is to a GOS phone and self-hosted infra. The options are there for the people who actually care.

New comment by negura in "Goodbye Google"

negura — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 07:01:38 +0000

The only new thing (to me) was the observation that some of our societal timeframes (e.g picking a 4yr university degree) hinge on assuming a specific rate of societal change. If the rate of disruption exceedes that assumption, the timeframes become inadequate.

> AI is developing faster than humans can individually and collectively understand it and adapt to it. People trying to plan their futures, e.g. trying to plan for a world several years in the future as they enter university, can no longer do so the way previous generations could.

New comment by negura in "Goodbye Google"

negura — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 06:51:12 +0000

> I’m also very concerned about other AI-related issues: cognitive surrender, AI-induced psychosis and loneliness, power concentration, economic disruption, cybersecurity, lack of accountability, and so on.

I'm so bothered that we seem to have moved on from the ATTRIBUTION problem with LLMs. It just isn't on people's minds anymore, even tho it STILL is a big deal.

New comment by negura in "Two-tier encryption in the UK"

negura — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 22:46:04 +0000

I really don't understand this. That's how you make your security decisions? Based on something you've read about Tim Cook in the news? But no third party audit, no open source code, no decentralization, zero self-hosted infrastructure? You put all your data in a black box that someone else controls fully, but hey, at least they took the FBI to court once? And on top of that considering this is Apple, well known for dazzling people with superficial first-impressions, into making bad long-term choices?

New comment by negura in "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"

negura — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 22:31:39 +0000

I never heard of that. Is this documented anywhere? Also doesn't Apple Store usually replace the whole device for a repair, rather than individual hardware components?

New comment by negura in "Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges"

negura — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 22:29:06 +0000

First world problem if there ever was one.

New comment by negura in "Why is Hacker News like that?"

negura — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 05:37:02 +0000

And enjoy the anonimity of downvoting this, for now. But don't fool yourself that your complicity isn't noted.

New comment by negura in "Why is Hacker News like that?"

negura — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 02:33:24 +0000

The takeaway from this is very important, and always missed: the people at the top were, are and always be intentionally political, ideological and conspirational in their activities (Drew does a good job proving that). And what benefits them the most is exactly the kind of asymmetry which is created when everyone else keeps politics out of their conversations.

> Please don’t use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

New comment by negura in "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"

negura — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 08:05:21 +0000

The nagging notifications are only a small part. Apple has far more effective ways of forcing updates on you. On iPhones, for instance, the Unicode tables ship with the OS version, so unless you update, you cannot render newly added emoji codepoints. Given how central emojis have become to pop culture - and how determined the Unicode Consortium seems to keep adding more of them - the whole situation almost looks like a conspiracy, if you squint. But that's just the tip of the iceberg.

In the App Store, Apple won't let you filter for apps compatible with your iOS version. So sooner or later, you have to manually try installing every search result just to see whether it errors out. There's no explanation for not adding such a trivial filter other than to annoy users on purpose. Without jailbreaking, you also can't install earlier (compatible) versions of a given app. And by the way, updating iOS eventually just turns into buying a new iPhone, once the latest iOS no longer supports your device at all.

But the worst part is how critical software components are bundled with the OS too. On iPhone, that means WebKit. So very soon your Internet browsing experience starts to rot, because the only way to get a version supporting the latest Web standards is to update the whole of iOS. Likewise, on Macs, your runtimes/frameworks are bundled as well, so you can't update them individually. Eventually, the only way to install even non-native apps is to update the whole macOS.

This is what you sign up for when you buy an Apple product. Apple has mastered the art of tempting you without letting you realize what's really going on until it's too late. Apple was, is, and always will be evil. The clue is in their logo.

New comment by negura in "Hister: A private search engine for the pages you visit and the files you keep"

negura — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 09:51:40 +0000

Maybe stop using the mickey mouse browsers? I mean Firefox is pretty much a lost cause.. unless you start using extensions. I agree those are basic features that should be built-in. In qutebrowser I use them reliably all the time. E.g press T (keybinding for :tab-focus command) - type keyword (matches against tab ID, page title, page URL & the tab's process ID) - press Tab - menu is populated with results - cycle through them using Tab/Shift+Tab - press Enter to jump to it. Similar workflow for history, different bookmark types, etc. History can also be loaded as an HTML page and jumped through with regex, etc. If you want to stick with

Drugmakers prepare for next phase of space pharmaceuticals

negura — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 20:45:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/drugmakers-prepare-next-phase-space-pharmaceuticals-iss-retirement-nears-2026-09-17/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49746307

Points: 3

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New comment by negura in "Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing"

negura — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:29:46 +0000

There is. By default it tries to obey your query. But if that query returns no results, only then it makes a best-effort attempt to return something vaguely related.

New comment by negura in "Leaving Linux"

negura — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:07:55 +0000

You don't really realize how Apple rips the soul out of your chest for a profit, until it's too late. Good luck with that.

New comment by negura in "If bots take the "internet down", alternatives?"

negura — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 06:22:59 +0000

> many, many overly redundant internets that are "Great Firewalled" from one another

This actually has name, "the dark forest theory of the internet".

I've personally reverted back to many offline/analog sources of information and community participation.

New comment by negura in "There's a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Ruining the Internet"

negura — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 06:18:30 +0000

Yeah, same. I realized for the most part, using the internet isn't worth it anymore. I was using it out of inertia and thinking it offered convenience. Realistically, that convenience isn't there anymore. As others mentioned, I also started reading a lot more books, I meet with people, I always phone call instead of messaging, I also attend talks (local universities are great) and go to museums, etc.

New comment by negura in "There's a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Ruining the Internet"

negura — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 06:09:53 +0000

Captcha passing services cost peanuts btw. Some also offer a browser extension that automates the API call.

New comment by negura in "There's a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Ruining the Internet"

negura — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 06:07:45 +0000

I've posted several reviews recently on Google, rating the company 1 star and warning that they're customer support is using AI agents that are unhelpful and try to waste your time. The other crazy thing is restaurants who use AI generated pictures in their marketing. Instant yuck.

New comment by negura in "Show HN: Check if your IP has appeared in a residential proxy network"

negura — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 05:09:45 +0000

How exactly do they obtain this data? Residential proxy providers don't publish their IP list (you connect to one of their servers which then tunnels your traffic to the residential exit point). Plus there are tons of such providers.

In any case, residential proxies are a godsend. Because most of the everyday services like web shops, govt information portals, even personal blogs sometimes are blocking access usings captchas.

EDIT: they write this on their marketing copy [0]:

> The Spur platform identifies traffic originating from residential proxy networks by analyzing service fingerprints, ASN ownership, and behavioral indicators.

Sounds like guesswork that results in a ton of false positives. And the more innocent IPs are blocked by platforms on the basis of this data, the more the demand increases for residential proxies, from users who need access to essential services. Talk of creating the problem and then selling the "solution".

[0] https://spur.us/platform/residential-proxy-detection

New comment by negura in "OEMpocalypse: Unprivileged Android app to root on Samsung, Xiaomi, others"

negura — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 10:50:54 +0000

Not sure why this is downvoted. It's accurate. A major problem is that when you root you loose assurance of the integrity of your /system partition. That means malware can now persist undetected.