Hacker News: orbisvicis

New comment by orbisvicis in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

orbisvicis — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:39:06 +0000

Yeah, but proprietary baseband blobs don't control power, right? So if I turn the phone off, the radio ought to be dead... fingers crossed.

New comment by orbisvicis in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

orbisvicis — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:39:35 +0000

""" If the battery runs out or device is off

For supported devices, which include Pixel 8, Pixel 9, and Pixel 10 series, the Find Hub network can locate your phone for several hours even if the battery runs out or the device is powered off. """

https://support.google.com/android/answer/3265955?hl=en#zipp...

Couldn't find any official documentation from Apple, but there's this:

https://www.howtogeek.com/805624/what-does-iphone-findable-a...

New comment by orbisvicis in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

orbisvicis — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:40:57 +0000

What about the find-my-phone BLE database, for which I just learned modern phones broadcast even when off? Is that controlled by the OS (Google, Apple) and not the carrier?

New comment by orbisvicis in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

orbisvicis — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 18:50:54 +0000

How was Amandla even identified? Stingray at the protest? Then how was the phone number linked to Google? Facial recognition at the protest? I guess his details are on file under terms of the visa? So then the government simply asks Google for all details on the individual by name? Either is pretty disturbing.

Contained Codex Networking

orbisvicis — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 02:43:37 +0000

This is a bit odd, because it was going to start off as an Ask, and now its a hybrid Show/Ask.

The ask being, how in the world do I make use of Codex's proxy networking? I wanted Codex to have access to local services (not MCP servers) running outside its bubblewrap. The default config.toml file ships with this:

  [permissions.network]
  # enabled = true
  # proxy_url = "http://127.0.0.1:43128"
  # admin_url = "http://127.0.0.1:43129"
  # enable_socks5 = false
  # socks_url = "http://127.0.0.1:43130"
  # enable_socks5_udp = false
  # allow_upstream_proxy = false
  # dangerously_allow_non_loopback_proxy = false
  # dangerously_allow_non_loopback_admin = false
  # dangerously_allow_all_unix_sockets = false
  # mode = "limited"                           # limited | full
  # allowed_domains = ["api.openai.com"]
  # denied_domains = ["example.com"]
  # allow_unix_sockets = ["/var/run/docker.sock"]
  # allow_local_binding = false

I couldn't get it to work, so I downloaded Codex's source code and pointed Codex at it, but after a few hours it hadn't fared any better. I was thinking about asking here because nowhere else is 1000% all-in on AI, but for such a simple question I decided to concurrently try building my own network container... Which was a pain in the butt. First I proxied local traffic, forgetting that codex needs openai.com/chatgpt.com to work. Then I ran into systemd-resolved binding :53 SO_BINDTODEVICE, likely a symptom of I-think-I-know-best-itis, so I couldn't redirect DNS. There were lots of other paper-cuts, but a week later I consider this a really interesting deep-dive into Linux networking.

Anyway what I have here [1] is somewhat of a one-off, but also a really useful guide to building a network namespace container. Hopefully it'll be a useful roadmap for others.

1. https://gist.github.com/orbisvicis/347fb8439b658fd6161486f3de1e1ea0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47760640

Points: 2

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New comment by orbisvicis in "Practical Advice to Avoid Getting Pwned by a State Actor Using AI"

orbisvicis — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:24:28 +0000

* unresolved personal vignette * ad copy for mythos * generic advice

New comment by orbisvicis in "MegaTrain: Full Precision Training of 100B+ Parameter LLMs on a Single GPU"

orbisvicis — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:02:48 +0000

That's interesting. So you want to train language, linguistic reasoning, and tool use, but otherwise strip out all knowledge in lieu of a massive context? Just grade they model on how well it can access local information, perhaps also run tools?

New comment by orbisvicis in "Show HN: Hippo, biologically inspired memory for AI agents"

orbisvicis — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:37:06 +0000

Isn't this the idea behind holographic memory? Chopping the image in half gets you the same image at half the resolution? Or so I've heard...

What you want is a context mipmap.

Then there was the Claude article describing using filesystem hierarchy to organize markdown knowledge, which apparently beats RAG.

New comment by orbisvicis in "Sky Wins Irish Court Order to Unmask 300 Pirate IPTV Users via Revolut Bank"

orbisvicis — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 22:39:33 +0000

That's why I don't feel bad pirating textbooks.

New comment by orbisvicis in "Sky Wins Irish Court Order to Unmask 300 Pirate IPTV Users via Revolut Bank"

orbisvicis — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 22:30:04 +0000

For example:

Good. The internet is meant to uplift human society, not enable petty theft. If only they could have gone after each thief to take back the money they stole.

- signed, not-Asooka

New comment by orbisvicis in "LLMs can be exhausting"

orbisvicis — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 02:37:10 +0000

Ehh, I find that the most tedious code is also the most sensitive to errors, stuff that blurs the divide between code and data.

New comment by orbisvicis in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

orbisvicis — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:44:44 +0000

What is it like purchasing consumer goods from the EU under the new 10% section 122 rates? Previously I could have expected 25% tariffs + UPS/govt fees equivalent to another 40%. But hearing the horrors of shippers (UPS, FedEx, DHL) charging import fees equivalent to 1000% with no recourse to refuse the shipment and recoup costs, I never pulled the trigger. Has anything changed with the section 122 rates, especially considering the $800 de minimus exception won't be reinstated?

New comment by orbisvicis in "Weave – A language aware merge algorithm based on entities"

orbisvicis — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 09:26:43 +0000

That's a really good point. I'm not familiar with Unison, but I think that's the idea behind the language?

https://www.unison-lang.org/

New comment by orbisvicis in "Weave – A language aware merge algorithm based on entities"

orbisvicis — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 09:25:31 +0000

It's still possible for two commits to conflict only semantically, one obsoleting the other. Merging both would lead to dead code so perhaps stricter (line-base or ast-based) conflicts would be preferable.

New comment by orbisvicis in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

orbisvicis — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:32:39 +0000

No, it's 996 for 845 wages.

New comment by orbisvicis in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

orbisvicis — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:29:37 +0000

Do we need a "human in the loop" when targeting autonomous machines?

New comment by orbisvicis in "Sizing chaos"

orbisvicis — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 07:45:15 +0000

> By destandardising sizes

Oh. I thought there was an outside chance you intended a positive response. Ah well.

> Age, health and status

I can understand age. But wouldn't everyone want to signal good health and high status?

New comment by orbisvicis in "Sizing chaos"

orbisvicis — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 07:37:27 +0000

eBay? Can you elaborate? Do you mean used clothes like on Poshmark? And does eBay really publish decent clothes measurements?

New comment by orbisvicis in "Sizing chaos"

orbisvicis — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 07:35:23 +0000

If only, but wouldn't dimensions work just as well as pattern/silhouette visualizations? And finding retail dimensions is the hard part.

Hey, how close are we to being able to 3d print our own clothing?

New comment by orbisvicis in "Sizing chaos"

orbisvicis — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 07:29:51 +0000

Ironically I think the hourglass high-rise means I can wear (some) women's pants without tightness in the crotch, and the extra back rise is great when sitting.