Hacker News: newsoftheday

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

newsoftheday — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:00:59 +0000

It sounds low to me, I worked at a Fortune high number a few years ago and they had more.

New comment by newsoftheday in "I turned a $80 RK3562 Android tablet into a Debian Linux workstation"

newsoftheday — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:10:55 +0000

We use $200 inexpensive Lenovo laptops with 4 gigs of RAM and run KDE Plasma and Chrome as our streaming devices in the LR and MBR using air mouse device to control them. I also installed ZRAM on them. We could use Chromebooks but I like the idea of being in control of the OS in control of the machine.

Gulp – We have been made aware of a potential incident and are shutting down all

newsoftheday — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:52:01 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/letsencrypt/comments/1t7ifve/gulp_we_have_been_made_aware_of_a_potential/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48068645

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by newsoftheday in "Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers"

newsoftheday — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:46:54 +0000

Wow...that seriously may change my long standing anti-Mac disdain to pro-Mac advocacy, very interesting, even Gemini confirmed what you're saying.

New comment by newsoftheday in "Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers"

newsoftheday — Thu, 07 May 2026 17:42:22 +0000

My theory is that, since I'm going to do things like banking in my browser, I want one that has a lot of skin in the game. Chrome being backed by Google has trillions of dollars on the line should they ever do anything truly evil. Though this sneaky 4GB download comes close.

Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers

newsoftheday — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:56:33 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/1t5qayz/chrome_removes_claim_of_ondevice_al_not_sending/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48050964

Points: 639

# Comments: 252

New comment by newsoftheday in "The Old Guard: Confronting America's Gerontocratic Crisis"

newsoftheday — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:22:45 +0000

> she dropped out of the primary when her impending loss became obvious

That is how voting and elections is supposed to work, not by saying people of a certain age, color, race or creed can't hold office because young people today are bigoted and feel they deserve more than all generations that ever preceded them throughout all of history.

New comment by newsoftheday in "The Old Guard: Confronting America's Gerontocratic Crisis"

newsoftheday — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:20:03 +0000

> old folks have much more money

I retired last year, lead software engineer, never got into management as a civilian, did software for over 3 decades. My salary was lower than it was as a mid level 20 years ago.

What old people have "much more money", maybe they can send some my way.

I thank God for Social Security and hope and pray it remains well into the future, even for the 99% of the people who are saying bigoted, dumb shit on this page.

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

newsoftheday — Wed, 06 May 2026 15:15:40 +0000

I just learned from this Reddit post about the On-Device AI setting:

https://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/1t536x6/psa_chrome_...

"On-device AI" can be disabled. At least, it is in Chrome on Linux Desktop.

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

newsoftheday — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:11:06 +0000

This is what I've done after spending some time to look into it, this is for Linux Desktop:

Delete Chrome's silent 4 GB AI model file and AI

In Chrome, go to: chrome://flags

  Search for and Disable these:

  Enables optimization guide on device

  Prompt API for Gemini Nano

  AI Mode

Open DevTools (F12 or Ctrl+Shift+I).

  Click the Settings (gear icon).

  Go to AI Innovations and uncheck Enable AI assistance.

For Linux, in a bash shell, this should prevent Chrome from trying to download the file again because the root user instead of my user, will own the file/directory.

  sudo rm -rf ~/.config/google-chrome/OptGuideOnDeviceModel

  sudo rm -rf ~/.config/googlechrome/Default/OptGuideOnDeviceModel

  sudo touch ~/.config/google-chrome/OptGuideOnDeviceModel

  sudo chmod 400 ~/.config/google-chrome/OptGuideOnDeviceModel

  sudo touch ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/OptGuideOnDeviceModel

  sudo chmod 400 ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/OptGuideOnDeviceModel

In case they already existed from doing the above previously, make sure root user owns them.

  sudo chown root:root ~/.config/google-chrome/OptGuideOnDeviceModel

  sudo chown root:root ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/OptGuideOnDeviceModel

List to check them.

  ls -l ~/.config/google-chrome/OptGuideOnDeviceModel

  ls -l ~/.config/google-chrome/Default/OptGuideOnDeviceModel

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

newsoftheday — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:55:27 +0000

They do that anyway, so it's in addition to that which is the parent's point.

New comment by newsoftheday in "Docker 29 has changed its default image store for new installs"

newsoftheday — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:03:33 +0000

> If you believe the latest M3 does not perform better than machines you’ve used in the 80s

That wasn't what I was trying to say, I apologize, I should have been clearer. What I intended to say was that I've been using various, many computers since the 1980's so I have a wide and deep sampling of experiences with them and to that end...the M3 did NOT feel to me like it performed better. Regardless the benchmarks, I know how the machine should feel and I know M3 did not feel any better than any other machine I've used (and that is a lot of laptops).

New comment by newsoftheday in "Docker 29 has changed its default image store for new installs"

newsoftheday — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:45:48 +0000

The article says to regularly run prune, how regularly? Currently I run the following once per day from cron:

    docker system prune -a -f
    docker volume prune -a -f

New comment by newsoftheday in "Docker 29 has changed its default image store for new installs"

newsoftheday — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:43:47 +0000

I had to work on a Mac M3 for a year, it sucked, it did not feel snappier than any Windows or Linux machine (including this one) that I've ever used and that is going back to the 1980's.

New comment by newsoftheday in "AI didn't delete your database, you did"

newsoftheday — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:39:05 +0000

The article is dumb, "why do you have an API endpoint that deletes your entire production database?" irrelevant, the AI did what it did, period.

New comment by newsoftheday in "AI didn't delete your database, you did"

newsoftheday — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:37:17 +0000

Does that mean the prompt should include: "...and don't delete my production database."?

New comment by newsoftheday in "Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down"

newsoftheday — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:48:48 +0000

Same, I use Kubuntu but yeah, I do keep snap disabled. Tried it several years ago, can't stand it. I do like Canonical and Ubuntu for servers and of course, Kubuntu for all our home machines, wife loves it too.

New comment by newsoftheday in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

newsoftheday — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:14:40 +0000

Jesus himself said he does not know when God will end the world. That is what I was referring to.

New comment by newsoftheday in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

newsoftheday — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:49:53 +0000

This graph on that page was very interesting to me: "Below-Basic Reading Levels". People's education levels are dropping.

New comment by newsoftheday in "If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?"

newsoftheday — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:43:27 +0000

You're understanding falls far short.

Jesus saves us from the final end destruction, and helps us who believe on him through our daily lives. Some people get along fine without religion. What happens to them when the final destruction (from God, not man) gets here depends on whether these people continue to do it all on their own and choose to not believe; or whether they choose to let him in and believe. In either case, Jesus is about the final end of humans which will be done by God and is outside our control, even outside Jesus' control; that is what Christianity is about.