Hacker News: normalaccess

New comment by normalaccess in "DoD Officially Drops 180 Faiths from Military's Recognized Religion List"

normalaccess — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:30:23 +0000

I don't know... The null set is still a set.

New comment by normalaccess in "1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices"

normalaccess — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:58:51 +0000

When that happens, they will be able to rewrite reality in real time.

New comment by normalaccess in "Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can"

normalaccess — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:23:11 +0000

For TRUE offline password storage use "Off The Grid". A cryptographically secure paper based password generator created by Steve Gibson from he Security Now podcast.

https://www.grc.com/offthegrid.htm

New comment by normalaccess in "How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]"

normalaccess — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 20:48:16 +0000

Yep, got my wires crossed, thanks for the correction.

New comment by normalaccess in "How Mark Klein told the EFF about Room 641A [book excerpt]"

normalaccess — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 18:59:30 +0000

You spelled world wrong. China has their social credit, EU has their cameras, America has Palantir, Starlink has internet everywhere, 5G can be used as radar, age verification is being deployed globally, ect... Babylon reborn.

Edit: UK not EU

New comment by normalaccess in "AI may be making us think and write more alike"

normalaccess — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:00:39 +0000

There is a reason Coke spends ~ 5 billion dollars worldwide on advertising sugar water... It works.

Monkey see monkey do. Simple as that.

New comment by normalaccess in "Show HN: Jelly – SSH Social Hangout"

normalaccess — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:35:52 +0000

Yes, but a fun security nightmare!

New comment by normalaccess in "Federal Right to Privacy Act – Draft legislation"

normalaccess — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:51:02 +0000

I agree, and it wont... We will all be tracked at all times as the new global economy is created.

Biblical times.

New comment by normalaccess in ""

normalaccess — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:48:49 +0000

And really when you think about it, all AI is is just the a statical recombination of (almost) everything that (almost) everyone has written.

So it's a kind of mechanical recombination of ideas.

New comment by normalaccess in "What podcasts are you listening to?"

normalaccess — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:58:07 +0000

Security Now with Steve Gibson. Great podcast about the latest goings on in the tech world and often diverts into neat deep dives into technical topics. https://twit.tv/shows/security-now

Side note: Check out this ultra secure offline paper password generator he came up with based off of Latin squares https://www.grc.com/offthegrid.htm

New comment by normalaccess in "So many trees planted in Taklamakan Desert that it's turned into a carbon sink"

normalaccess — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:53:59 +0000

This is the way

New comment by normalaccess in "Rare, dangerous side effects of some Covid-19 vaccines explained"

normalaccess — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 00:46:36 +0000

"Everybody was talking about the safety of vaccines"

Every platform on earth Shadow Banned and blocked people if you said anything other than "Safe and Effective"... Real conversation was shut down on a nation state level. Not exactly a scientific or logical way to discuss experimental injectable therapeutics.

New comment by normalaccess in "CIA suddenly stops publishing, removes archives of The World Factbook"

normalaccess — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:13:15 +0000

Until the next round of lockdowns where we will all be forced to use controlled channels to communicate due to lack of mobility.

New comment by normalaccess in ""Hate brings views": Confessions of a London fake news TikToker"

normalaccess — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:36:15 +0000

An extent presentation (IMHO) by Sam Vaknin on how the very way modern social networks operate even down to their structure are deeply destructive and anti-human. Hate has been and always will be the easiest and most monetizable emotion used by platform operators. Hate requires little complexity or nuance making it ideal for short form viral content where every second counts.

The "Internet Hate Machine" is real and it was created that way by design by anti social deeply narcissistic nerds. Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/Ef7bqgeHenU

New comment by normalaccess in "CIA suddenly stops publishing, removes archives of The World Factbook"

normalaccess — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 21:36:26 +0000

Just wait until the AI "layer" gets fast enough to rewrite the web in real time. Text, Photos, Videos, even real time phone calls will soon be in the grasp of the corporations. Forever locking us into our own personal prisons, controlled silos of information perfectly crafted and tailored to extract the maximum value where truth is not just hard to know but is imposable to know.

New comment by normalaccess in "A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs"

normalaccess — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:18:22 +0000

I'm not sure about computer image generation but you can (relatively) easily fingerprint images generated by digital cameras due to sensor defects. I'll bet there is a similar problem with PC image generation where even without the EXIF data there is probably still too much side channel data leakage.

New comment by normalaccess in "Martin Luther King was talking about a universal basic income before it was cool"

normalaccess — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 19:39:15 +0000

It's still not cool.

New comment by normalaccess in "Windows 8 Desktop Environment for Linux"

normalaccess — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:45:42 +0000

I'm sure there was some meeting where at the end of the pitch deck was some one said:

"...and after people acclimate to them, we'll put ads there! Advertising Directly in the UI!"

New comment by normalaccess in "Windows 8 Desktop Environment for Linux"

normalaccess — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:39:59 +0000

First thought that popped into my mind is the quote from Bennett Foddy for his game Getting Over It.

--"I made a game for a certain kind of person. To hurt them."

New comment by normalaccess in "Are we tired of social media? (2025)"

normalaccess — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:58:29 +0000

An extent presentation (IMHO) by Sam Vaknin on how the very way modern social networks operate even down to their form are deeply destructive. The "Internet Hate Machine" is real and it was created by anti social deeply narssistic nerds.

Youtube Link: https://youtu.be/Ef7bqgeHenU