Hacker News: patchtopic

New comment by patchtopic in "Suits Are Better Tech Than Modern Clothes"

patchtopic — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 06:12:21 +0000

suits are flimsy and need to be dry cleaned.

New comment by patchtopic in "Anthropic just wrote a statement just to confirm all concerns about watermarking"

patchtopic — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:24:55 +0000

ditto

New comment by patchtopic in "Who does Anubis actually stop?"

patchtopic — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:57:54 +0000

perhaps the author, instead of the "I'm so clever" theoretical arguments from the client side, actually implemented Anubis on the server side and observe the results.

I have set it up on a few sites being relentlessly hammered by clearly idiotic bot traffic, and it drops bot the traffic levels from insane to manageable. I don't even care if the traffic is AI or bots, if the bot has gone to the same effort as the author has the bot may even just access the site in a responsible manner and that's fine.

New comment by patchtopic in "OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router"

patchtopic — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:15:28 +0000

I purchased one of these for a family member and it has been great.

New comment by patchtopic in "Frog-derived gut bacterium eradicates tumors in mice"

patchtopic — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:45:24 +0000

rest of the site has the usual "cooker" insane brainrot ivermectin, etc crap

New comment by patchtopic in "Google workspace threatening to block Firefox access"

patchtopic — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 01:25:46 +0000

antitrust

New comment by patchtopic in "Linux 7.1"

patchtopic — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 22:36:15 +0000

before and after apache logs showing much less crap in them from bots. Do you think the maintainers of https://lore.kernel.org/ would leave something in that didn't work? It isn't perfect but I have run it on a (much smaller) web site getting hammered by bots and logged "before" and "after" and the difference is measurable.

New comment by patchtopic in "Total Reciprocity Public License"

patchtopic — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:08:52 +0000

what packages use it?

New comment by patchtopic in "You can just say it"

patchtopic — Sat, 30 May 2026 00:34:30 +0000

these keep it real types obviously not having to deal with the day to day crap I deal with. using LLM to redraft emails/support calls for a particular large firewall turned an enfuriating endless feedback loop of makework support nonsense into 2 message resolution.

Sharing the prompts would have messed it all up for sure.

There are other instances where I have shared fairly direct, but not what I would consider rude or aggressive emails to people and had them freak out and I have no idea why, rewriting with LLMs to make them blander but convey the same message is very handy here.

New comment by patchtopic in "Molly: An Improved Signal App"

patchtopic — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 22:52:35 +0000

this is why molly.im was a lifesaver for me.. trying to move a family member from VIBER to SIGNAL and ran into the annoying roadblock of not being able to link an Android tablet to an Android phone like Viber can - but molly does it fine.

New comment by patchtopic in "Bitcoin's big secret: How cryptocurrency became law enforcement's secret weapon"

patchtopic — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 04:47:13 +0000

this kind of blockchain analysis for the non-privacy oriented coins has been well known at least for a decade.. I don't see how it's a secret weapon except against the naive or uninformed

New comment by patchtopic in "Google Cloud suspended customer's account 3 times, for 3 different reasons"

patchtopic — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 15:03:19 +0000

I had the same frustrating "we are suspending your account but we refuse to explain why, have a nice day" crap from Azure.. anyone who depends on mission critical stuff from these services needs their heads read.

New comment by patchtopic in "What Americans die from vs. what the news reports on"

patchtopic — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 10:51:13 +0000

Next in this series: why does the news not report on the time Trump spends sleeping and on the the toilet with the same importance that he spends on political decisions

New comment by patchtopic in "Doom crash after 2.5 years of real-world runtime confirmed on real hardware"

patchtopic — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 14:17:34 +0000

I haven't opened my DOOM software box, it's still in the shrinkwrap. I guess I can take it back and ask for a refund now?

New comment by patchtopic in "Denmark's Justice Minister calls encrypted messaging a false civil liberty"

patchtopic — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 12:58:08 +0000

well said.

New comment by patchtopic in "Denmark's Justice Minister calls encrypted messaging a false civil liberty"

patchtopic — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 12:57:04 +0000

A false civil liberty they reserved for themselves.

New comment by patchtopic in "Six months into tariffs, businesses have no idea how to price anything"

patchtopic — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 02:22:47 +0000

something good for small hands, some kind of russian flute?

New comment by patchtopic in "Tesla insiders have sold more than 50% of their shares in the last year"

patchtopic — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 01:52:21 +0000

since space joffrey only owns about 12% of the shares, the other shareholders should vote the clown out..

New comment by patchtopic in "FFmpeg 8.0"

patchtopic — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 12:10:46 +0000

you know I cut a whole documentary in ffmpeg?

New comment by patchtopic in "Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS – I say that's freedom"

patchtopic — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 14:19:50 +0000

GrapheneOS says

"European authoritarians and their enablers in the media are misrepresenting GrapheneOS and even Pixel phones as if they're something for criminals. GrapheneOS is opposed to the mass surveillance police state these people want to impose on everyone"

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114784469162979608

State employees in their official capacity making inaccurate claims to media about GrapheneOS to smear it as being for criminals and as the users as largely being criminals is a state sponsored attack on the GrapheneOS project.

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114813613250805804