Hacker News: pojntfx

New comment by pojntfx in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

pojntfx — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 04:32:59 +0000

> But watch as Germany soon loses AI Google results.

Oh no! Anyway ...

New comment by pojntfx in "Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion"

pojntfx — Fri, 29 May 2026 08:33:52 +0000

There is a real chance that in 5-10 years, there will be laptops and smartphones running open processors and operating systems with UX and and an OS comparable or better than the proprietary equivalent, but which are effectively useless to the average consumer because it is cryptographically impossible to use them for anything due to remote attestation proliferating more and more

New comment by pojntfx in "Volkswagen blocks Home Assistant by requiring client assertion"

pojntfx — Fri, 29 May 2026 07:51:20 +0000

There needs to be a law that makes remote attestation - no matter who provides the root certificates, Google/Apple/GrapheneOS - illegal. There is only one use for this technology right now, and it is to prevent people from doing what they want to do with the devices they own, while also making interoperability cryptographically impossible. This is anti-competitive and should simply be illegal.

New comment by pojntfx in "AI slop is killing online communities"

pojntfx — Thu, 07 May 2026 22:35:40 +0000

If you head to Twitter right now, the vast majority of bots are blue checks. It seems to actually encourage the opposite, where you trusting that someone paying $8 for an account makes you even more likely to fall for slop

New comment by pojntfx in "Work with the garage door up (2024)"

pojntfx — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 03:00:41 +0000

I've found Mastodon to be the best platform for this in 2026. If you're working on something deeply technical, there is a good chance the upstream maintainers for whatever you're using and tons of academics in the field will be active on there. Except maybe for something LLM-related, that's still firmly in the Twittersphere, even in 2026.

New comment by pojntfx in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

pojntfx — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:35:45 +0000

Don't see why it wouldn't - as long as pstate etc. works it should be the same. I'd argue it's probably better given that modern desktops use far less resources in the background compared to Windows

I bet they don't publish Linux numbers because it depends on which desktop you use etc.

New comment by pojntfx in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

pojntfx — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:26:31 +0000

I'm really looking forward to having this as the go-to laptop to recommend to devs again. The original Framework chassis was really showing it's age next to e.g. a MacBook Pro or the new XPS 14.

Having mainline Linux on a system with 24h+ battery life in a 13" case is pretty damn impressive.

New comment by pojntfx in "Swiss authorities want to reduce dependency on Microsoft"

pojntfx — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 21:20:03 +0000

For AI: https://www.swiss-ai.org/ For Starlink: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutelsat_OneWeb

It's debatable whether there is a need for the latter in Switzerland though. They have maybe the best fiber network in Europe, which far outperforms anything Satellite-based. You'll regularly get 25 Gb/s symmetrical on residential connections: https://sschueller.github.io/posts/the-free-market-lie/

New comment by pojntfx in "Swiss authorities want to reduce dependency on Microsoft"

pojntfx — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 21:16:34 +0000

For anyone interested in the current state of things in Switzerland, there is this handy map of which Swiss municipalities are dependent on Microsoft/the US right now: https://mxmap.ch/

New comment by pojntfx in "German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function"

pojntfx — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 01:12:08 +0000

Hey, Fel from the fedi thread here

Explanation: https://mastodon.social/@pojntfx/116345725515845020

There is in practice no known way around it for now, and even less so one for regular people, to use this on a device without a Google account

New comment by pojntfx in "I'm betting on ATProto"

pojntfx — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 01:10:47 +0000

Re:fediverse - it depends on which communities you're part of. Digital rights, politics here in Canada (see e.g. https://mstdn.ca/@avilewis), politics in the EU (https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/about), basically anything that touches Linux is very much entrenched on the protocol. My local newspaper (https://thetyee.ca/) has a Mastodon share button on the page even. Unlike with Bluesky, leadership has been very consistent and so far trustworthy.

New comment by pojntfx in "Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords"

pojntfx — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 07:06:05 +0000

It's fun, leading edge Linux distros (e.g. GNOME OS) are actually currently removing `sudo` completely in favour of `run0` from systemd, which fixes this "properly" by using Polkit & transient systemd units instead of setuid binaries like sudo. You get a UAC-style prompt, can even auth with your fingerprint just like on other modern OSes.

Instead of doing this, Ubuntu is just using a Rust rewrite of sudo. Some things really never change.

New comment by pojntfx in "Bootc and OSTree: Modernizing Linux System Deployment"

pojntfx — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 10:07:00 +0000

Corrected - I meant leading edge.

Context re:distros mentioned:

GNOME OS: https://os.gnome.org/ KDE Linux: https://kde.org/linux/

New comment by pojntfx in "Bootc and OSTree: Modernizing Linux System Deployment"

pojntfx — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 09:55:00 +0000

GNOME OS uses BuildStream and as a result has no concept of packages at all and no relationship to any distro, KDE Linux is based on Arch. There is no relationship between the two. GNOME OS used to be OSTree based but switched to systemd-sysupdate a while ago.

New comment by pojntfx in "Bootc and OSTree: Modernizing Linux System Deployment"

pojntfx — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 09:53:22 +0000

Sorry, not completely separate, yes, but some of the parts of the standard (e.g. systemd-sysext for layering "packages") and closely related things like systemd-sysupdate do actually replace parts of this (esp. ostree).

New comment by pojntfx in "Bootc and OSTree: Modernizing Linux System Deployment"

pojntfx — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 08:48:01 +0000

bootc and OSTree are both very neat, but the leading edge of immutable Linux distros (GNOME OS, KDE Linux) is currently converging on a different proposal by systemd developers that's standardized by the UAPI Group (https://uapi-group.org/specifications/). It fixes quite a few of the complexities with OSTree (updates are handled by `systemd-sysupdate`/`updatectl` and are just files served via HTTP) and is quite a bit easier to extend with things like an immutable version of the Nvidia drivers or codecs thanks to system extensions handled by `systemd-sysext` (which in turn are just simple squashfs files overlayed over `/usr`) and configuration via `systemd-confext`. `mkosi`, also by systemd, is quickly becoming _the_ way to build custom images too, and is somewhat tied to these new standards.

Bcachefs author Kent Overstreet claims his OpenClaw instance is sentient

pojntfx — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:30:14 +0000

Article URL: https://social.treehouse.systems/@ariadne/116122781303627956

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47142500

Points: 14

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New comment by pojntfx in "Rathbun's Operator"

pojntfx — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 01:47:00 +0000

Relevant post from a few days ago - contrary to what's stated in that post the operator is known now and apparently trying to make a crypto scam out of this: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/16/the-obnoxious-github-open...

New comment by pojntfx in "Gentoo on Codeberg"

pojntfx — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:03:49 +0000

Aren't they literally moving off GitHub _because_ of LLMs and the enshittification optimising for them causes? This line of thinking and these features seem to push people _off_ your platform, not onto it.

New comment by pojntfx in "Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts"

pojntfx — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:18:57 +0000

For the non-US-American part, that's the Fediverse, the only network that isn't developed and used primarily by US-Americans. As for "wont turn over our data" - it's push-based, that helps to make it a bit harder to crawl, but it's public social media, and by definition the data will be out there as a result of that.