Hacker News: pamcake

New comment by pamcake in "NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist"

pamcake — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 16:26:04 +0000

Hyped. Even little projects Mythos everywhere.

New comment by pamcake in "M 7.4 earthquake – 100 km ENE of Miyako, Japan"

pamcake — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:48:24 +0000

> Outsourcing critical infrastructure and emergency services to private parties is always a terrible idea.

That would include Apple and Google.

New comment by pamcake in "Dependency cooldowns turn you into a free-rider"

pamcake — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:53:20 +0000

Right.

Not to mention the (apparently not obvious?) option of detaching review- and release versions. We still look at the diff of latest versions of dependencies before they reach our codebase. That seems like the most responsible.

Besides, why stop there? Everyone installing packaged builds from NPM are already freeriding from those installing sources straight from Github releases. smh

New comment by pamcake in "Modifying FileZilla to Workaround Bambu 3D Printer's FTP Issue"

pamcake — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:03:31 +0000

`0.0.0.0`.

New comment by pamcake in "How the CIA Forgot the Art of Spying"

pamcake — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 23:05:54 +0000

On the one hand, convincing write-up and arguments.

On the other, I find it more plausible that CIA would cultivate this image than them actually having lost the art and game of spycraft.

New comment by pamcake in "Queueing Requests Queues Your Capacity Problems, Too"

pamcake — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 07:04:24 +0000

> Guess what will happen then?

All metrics up! Will fit nicely in my promo packet.

New comment by pamcake in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

pamcake — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 05:30:51 +0000

Yes!

At least for now. Tried many browsers and Mullvad Browser and Konform Browser are the only two that I managed to beat them with. They both enforce bundled set of fonts like Tor Browser. Firefox and other forks are fingerprintable via variations in font rendering due to system fontconf or fonts differing.

New comment by pamcake in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

pamcake — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:18:41 +0000

This is only a thing for Chrome. You trust Google to protect user privacy towards websites in 2026..?

New comment by pamcake in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

pamcake — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:50:21 +0000

Firefox-based browsers not affected.

New comment by pamcake in "r/programming bans all discussion of LLM programming"

pamcake — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:04:47 +0000

I can foresee new subreddit rule: 'Stop complaining "This is turning into the orange site". Just report the slop.'

How the tables turn.

New comment by pamcake in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

pamcake — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:36:56 +0000

Sounds great until trivy images get compromised, like last week.

New comment by pamcake in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

pamcake — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:26:07 +0000

Or those people can (fund) separate repackaging and redistribution with more stringent and formalized review process.

Maybe not all users should pull all packages straight from what devs are pushing.

There's no reason we can't have "node package distributions" like we have Linux distributions. Maybe we should stop expecting devs and maintainers and Microsoft to take responsibility for our supply-chain.

New comment by pamcake in "Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised"

pamcake — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 05:42:35 +0000

A business or government can (should) separately package, review, and audit code without involving upstream developers or maintainers at all.

New comment by pamcake in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

pamcake — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 05:29:12 +0000

And neither do you today.

There is more to it than "being able to make an entire application", which a novice could also have pulled off in a weekend 10 years ago.

New comment by pamcake in "Regular army and reserve components enlistment program: Summary of change"

pamcake — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 05:22:16 +0000

Many people look for purpose and impact in their careers.

If one has impact in the military, what purpose is it serving under current administration and leadership? It's a hard sell from an ethical perspective.

Jobs that feel purposeless is a common complaint but actively serving evil?

New comment by pamcake in "Regular army and reserve components enlistment program: Summary of change"

pamcake — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 05:14:57 +0000

IC?

New comment by pamcake in "Arch Linux considers criticism of Age Verification to be a violation"

pamcake — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 05:04:22 +0000

Your quote is referencing action taken with regards to one specific case, because of CoC violation (nothing there about choice of topic).

The title is worded as if there is a general stance with regards to position on topic.

The latter does not follow from the former.

Raising questions and voicing considerations is one thing while brigading and flaming is another.

This outrage is manufactured.

New comment by pamcake in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

pamcake — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:33:49 +0000

For Linux you have

https://midnight-commander.org/

https://krusader.org/

http://www.boomerangsworld.de/cms/worker/index.html

New comment by pamcake in "Debunking Zswap and Zram Myths"

pamcake — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:16:36 +0000

> The assumption is simply false, and not due to the "SSD wear" argument. Many consumer SSDs, especially DRAMless ones (e.g., Apacer AS350 1TB, but also seen on Crucial SSDs), under synchronous writes, will regularly produce latency spikes of 10 seconds or more, due to the way they need to manage their cells.

Do you know to what extent this can be mitigated by overprovisioning? Like only partitioning say 50% of the drive and leaving the rest free for controller as "scratch space"?

New comment by pamcake in "Arch Linux considers criticism of Age Verification to be a violation"

pamcake — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:27:09 +0000

> It appears that...

Well, maybe look closer before sharing premature conclusions and speculation as if they're news?

Current title is incorrect and ragebait. Lunduke's already known for stirring shit and making a murder out of the tinyest of feathers. The most disappointing thing in this story besides the flaming of maintainers is people still taking L's rants seriously. He's DoSing community attention and you're falling for it.