Hacker News: neop1x

New comment by neop1x in "AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models"

neop1x — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:25:34 +0000

Everything is distillation prevention and children protection, of course!

New comment by neop1x in "Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers"

neop1x — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:26:13 +0000

And the next step will be to lock the bootloader to prevent any unsigned OSes like linux to protect children.

New comment by neop1x in "macOS Container Machines"

neop1x — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:18:50 +0000

A lot of devs needs to use linux but they still use it just as a VM (Mac) or in some kind emulation (WSL). How pathetic.

New comment by neop1x in "Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL"

neop1x — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:10:20 +0000

Just implement caches, add indices to your DBs, use CDNs. Servers are very fast nowadays, have quite a lot of RAM and can handle huge amount of clients. No need to implement this anti-bot bullshit, it is mainly marketing, providing solutions to a problem which doesn't exist for most websites.

New comment by neop1x in "Cloudflare Turnstile requiring fingerprintable WebGL"

neop1x — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:59:31 +0000

It is very similar to kernel modules for game anti-cheats. Soon, websites will work on unmodified Windows and Mac computers only, with a signed cloudflare kernel driver installed. :/ They are completrly destroying the web.

New comment by neop1x in "Please Use AI"

neop1x — Sat, 30 May 2026 12:38:09 +0000

It also feels like stealing. You prompted it but the result is not yours. Likely also because AI was trained on data stolen from others.

New comment by neop1x in "The dead economy theory"

neop1x — Sat, 30 May 2026 12:32:20 +0000

Sadly they were allowed to acquire WhatsApp even though they already had their Messenger. Meta did it to devour their competition. Even today, lots of people still don't know that whatsapp is owned by Meta.

New comment by neop1x in "Ferrari Luce"

neop1x — Wed, 27 May 2026 10:03:23 +0000

Actually I think Tesla S looked better than this and the bar was pretty low.

New comment by neop1x in "Ferrari Luce"

neop1x — Wed, 27 May 2026 09:59:55 +0000

Wow, exactly! That would have been so cool! I always hated Johny Eve's designes at Apple and I find Luce awful too (both interior and exterior). I don't understand how could they invite Johny to destroy such an iconic car brand.

New comment by neop1x in "Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence"

neop1x — Tue, 26 May 2026 23:40:25 +0000

You are betting against insiders, or rather giving money to insiders...

New comment by neop1x in "Search engines alternatives now that Google isn't Google anymore"

neop1x — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:01:33 +0000

But then what's the point of using google if I can use any chatbot directly.

They are transforming google search into chatbot but they already have a chatbot and by dping that they are losing google search product completely.

I miss times when search used to be fulltext search (also in youtube, ebay, etc). Now it is some kind of embedding vector search skewed by marketing and my previous visit history. It often shows completely irelevant and useless results and it is much harder (even impossible sometimes) to find something even though I am sure it exists (and I am able to find it eventually but it takes much more effort).

New comment by neop1x in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

neop1x — Sat, 23 May 2026 12:08:08 +0000

>> put everything behind a login

May not always work. I then click on back button and look for the info elsewhere and in most cases I find it. Same with paywalled websites. If you are ok with a small audience (or you provide a unique content) then it makes sense. But I think in most cases you just cut off a lot of people this way and actually you can simply stop creating content if you don't want consumers of it and let others provide the content.

New comment by neop1x in "GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension"

neop1x — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:54:59 +0000

For linux we have bubblewrap, firejail, apparmor and selinux (popular ones, there are far more). But it is often complicated and annoying to set up. Normally one would expect sw developers would write security rules for their apps but it is difficult due to amount of different sandboxing tools and various distro-specific configuration changes.

It would be nice to have it sorted out somehow. Actually Snap is an interesting example of something done in that regard.

New comment by neop1x in "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE"

neop1x — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:40:20 +0000

Exaclty, the main problem is that they are deciding what content to serve you. They are often mixing posts from accounts which I don't follow with posts from accounts I follow without asking. Then thr are pushing auto-play and infinite scrolling. It would have been a completely different experience if they just showed posts from people I follow and showed them sorted by date.

New comment by neop1x in "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Saudi Arabia, UAE"

neop1x — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:01:35 +0000

Currently the best VPN-alternative seem to be Project X https://xtls.github.io/en/ It is flexible and well tested in China but configuring it properly is quite difficult.

New comment by neop1x in "Tell NYT, Atlantic, USA Today to keep Wayback Machine"

neop1x — Wed, 13 May 2026 15:21:31 +0000

That actually sounds like a cool idea! If only they would allow at least this.

New comment by neop1x in "New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming"

neop1x — Sun, 03 May 2026 13:44:50 +0000

There is also a game Dreamfall: The Longest Journey where they have devices which fastens to user's face and allow one to have lucid dreams. But they are two-way so the corporation can also control that. Then there also also "unlicensed dreammachines" without tracking and restrictions and "unlicensed dreams". I liked that game (and the original point-and-click adventure too)! https://tlj.fandom.com/wiki/Dreamer_Console

New comment by neop1x in "AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing"

neop1x — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:11:06 +0000

Funny, I can't even access his site:

" Sorry, you have been blocked You are unable to access stephvee.ca "

- CloudFlare

Anti-AI but pro-MITM and pro-centralisation, limiting human visitors to his site...

New comment by neop1x in "The RAM shortage could last years"

neop1x — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:52:26 +0000

Won't happen. People are ok with swapping to their SSDs, Macbook Neo confirms that

New comment by neop1x in "YouTube users get option to set their Shorts time limit to zero minutes"

neop1x — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 10:35:10 +0000

Same.They just did the minimum to look like they care about restricting addiction practices but in reality still continuing with business as usual