Hacker News: ntoskrnl_exe

New comment by ntoskrnl_exe in "Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down"

ntoskrnl_exe — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 12:26:38 +0000

You seem to ignore the fact that changes take time.

There are entire governments in the EU with workflows built around Microsoft products that have no real 1:1 alternatives. If a governmental procedure stipulates that a ministry uses Windows w/ Office365, it uses Windows w/ Office365, no room for an argument. If anybody pulls a plug here, the consequences will be unimaginable.

It's nice that a single German state has switched to LibreOffice, but the rest of Germany, or the remaining 26 countries might take years, if not decades, to certify and permit someone else's solution.

New comment by ntoskrnl_exe in "There's no reason for software to be slow anymore"

ntoskrnl_exe — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 06:21:11 +0000

Anyone not in the US feels this even more since so much online is US hosted, 300ms for every little interaction adds up quick.

Don’t know about that, pretty much everything is hosted on Cloudflare, Azure or S3 these days and all of them have at least one CDN on each continent.

New comment by ntoskrnl_exe in "John C. Dvorak has died"

ntoskrnl_exe — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 06:09:34 +0000

RIP, every once in a while I rewatch the segment in Computer Chronicles where he attempted to take apart an IBM PS/2, one of the funniest things ever.

New comment by ntoskrnl_exe in "Winamp Skin Museum"

ntoskrnl_exe — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:29:21 +0000

No problem, glad that got sorted out :)

New comment by ntoskrnl_exe in "Winamp Skin Museum"

ntoskrnl_exe — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:04:34 +0000

I have a question: It seems that all the preview PNGs and the WSZ files themselves are fetched from hxxp://webampskins.org. When I go to that website directly, I get redirected to some shady looking website pushing crypto and gambling. Can you give me some background about this?

New comment by ntoskrnl_exe in "Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links"

ntoskrnl_exe — Sun, 24 May 2026 08:13:25 +0000

I got used to that one, but the other day I was checking Outlook in the web browser and I ended up on outlook.cloud.microsoft, I couldn't believe my eyes.

New comment by ntoskrnl_exe in "Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message"

ntoskrnl_exe — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:14:13 +0000

While I get your point, I can't think of a free email service that wouldn't also be a gate to other products. Whether it's Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo mail etc. you always get an "account" as well, something that connects other services from the provider in an easily accessible place where the user actually gets monetized. The email is there just to make sure the user comes back.

New comment by ntoskrnl_exe in "Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA"

ntoskrnl_exe — Thu, 07 May 2026 08:58:33 +0000

QR codes are used in direct account-to-account transactions. They encode all the data like the IBAN-based account number, bank code, requested sum etc. that you may find on invoices in a way that’s much more convenient than typing over by hand.

Apple Pay meanwhile uses your credit/debit card to perform the transaction, the other party needs a terminal or payment gateway and is required to pay fees to Visa or MasterCard.

New comment by ntoskrnl_exe in "Ubuntu 26.04"

ntoskrnl_exe — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 14:22:18 +0000

Awesome, this must be a recent thing, when I last checked about a year ago the latest drivers from restricted were a couple versions behind. Many people always complained about it on reddit, AskUbuntu etc, which is where I found out about the PPA.

New comment by ntoskrnl_exe in "Ubuntu 26.04"

ntoskrnl_exe — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 05:43:36 +0000

I’m curious about proprietary Nvidia drivers. Ubuntu normally comes with fairly outdated, if not obsolete ones, but there’s a semi-official PPA with more recent versions. How does Debian handle this?

New comment by ntoskrnl_exe in "French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data"

ntoskrnl_exe — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:27:55 +0000

Thinking about it, I probably wouldn't remember to change my fingerprints to the new ones with all the services I use, I'd probably have to carry my "legacy fingerprints" wherever I go for some time to avoid a lockout.

New comment by ntoskrnl_exe in "US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification"

ntoskrnl_exe — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:21:55 +0000

You put your child in the driver’s seat and expect others to make sure it doesn’t make a wrong turn? Did you really have to give it the keys to this hypothetical car instead of, say, LEGO?

New comment by ntoskrnl_exe in "Fix monitor that goes black, off or blinks due to static electricity in chair"

ntoskrnl_exe — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:19:44 +0000

I have the exact same problem, except it affects my cheapo keyboard. Almost every time I move from my desk, the Num/Caps/Scroll Lock LEDs flash up as the controller restarts. And since it's a PS/2 model, if I'm holding a key and let it go as I'm standing up, it never sends the termination sequence and keeps typing it until I press it again.

I'll definitely try some of the tricks from this article.

New comment by ntoskrnl_exe in "Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates"

ntoskrnl_exe — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:23:41 +0000

And they say Linux is inconvenient because you have to open the terminal every once in a while.

New comment by ntoskrnl_exe in "TikTok will not introduce end-to-end encryption, saying it makes users less safe"

ntoskrnl_exe — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 06:52:52 +0000

Pretty sure that for Meta the impossibility to moderate E2EE was the point. It’s cheaper to shrug than pay content moderators.

New comment by ntoskrnl_exe in "Never buy a .online domain"

ntoskrnl_exe — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:15:33 +0000

I'm curious if this would really be considered unlawful access, since only pure idiocy and no hacking/scamming/etc were involved.

New comment by ntoskrnl_exe in "Discord cuts ties with identity verification software, Persona"

ntoskrnl_exe — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 16:43:42 +0000

You have a point, I've seen a fair share of Github projects where they asked you to join their Discord if you wanted documentation/support/tips etc.

New comment by ntoskrnl_exe in "YouTube as Storage"

ntoskrnl_exe — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 13:06:22 +0000

Wouldn't it also be a performance nightmare?

The energy bill for scanning through the terabytes of metadata would be comparable to that of several months of AI training, not to mention the time it would take. Then deleting a few million random 360p videos and putting MrBeast in their place would result in insane fragmentation of the new files.

It might really just be cheaper to keep buying new HDDs.

New comment by ntoskrnl_exe in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

ntoskrnl_exe — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:40:15 +0000

Do you mean that new action button thingy above the volume controls? You can reassign to perform something else in the settings. Only a few options to choose from, but it's totally possible.

As for powering off, you can tap the ⏻ symbol in the upper right-hand side corner of the control center.

New comment by ntoskrnl_exe in "Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability"

ntoskrnl_exe — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 09:57:45 +0000

I’m not sure I understand what you’re trying to say. You could always edit system files with notepad, that was something that the program always excelled at thanks to its simplicity in both how it looked and behaved. And i fail to see the new features as anything but useless bloat.