Hacker News: normalaccess

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

New comment by normalaccess in "Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?"

normalaccess — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:21:22 +0000

Anyone in a position to short sell from the inside?

New comment by normalaccess in "The Free Software Foundation Europe deleted its account on X"

normalaccess — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 21:24:18 +0000

The groupthink is real, and it's coming for a skull near you.

But in all seriousness I think it's a mix of bots on the dead internet leading the monkey see monkey do paradigm. If you see 80 out of 100 people doing a thing then you get swept up in the flood. Even if 50 of those 80 are bots.

New comment by normalaccess in "Show HN: I built alwayswith.us to easily add deceased loved ones into photos"

normalaccess — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 17:27:40 +0000

Digital Necromancy.

New comment by normalaccess in "Show HN: I built alwayswith.us to easily add deceased loved ones into photos"

normalaccess — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 17:20:41 +0000

Don't do this... You will overwrite core memories and the AI will "bleed" into your mind.

Life can be harsh and cold at times, but trying to bypass grief with a fabricated reality can only lead to disaster.

New comment by normalaccess in "You can't turn off Copilot in the web versions of Word, Excel, or PowerPoint"

normalaccess — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 20:44:55 +0000

That's because AIs can't survive by eating their own output. The only solution they know to ward off model collapse is more human input. They need you to use AI to feed the beast. And if it's built into your office apps, they get that data for free.

That's part of why every service and system are getting integrations, It's not for us it's for data harvesting.

In the end that's what "Windows Recall" will be used for. Access to every moment of every user for every app... Can you imagine the training data that would provide? An AI that could run any program ever created.

New comment by normalaccess in "Some people can't see mental images"

normalaccess — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 20:35:09 +0000

For me it's a gradient, depending on how tired I am. I can go from fairly vivid mental image to full on seeing things with my eyes closed. It's that window when falling asleep that is the most impactful visually and very close to lucid dreaming.

So I would say yes, it is like you are seeing things but in your "minds eye".

If you can "hear" music in your head when thinking about a song it feels about the same as "seeing" without seeing. It's imagery but from a different place.