Hacker News: queenkjuul

New comment by queenkjuul in "Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face"

queenkjuul — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:26:26 +0000

Presumably those vulnerabilities resemble known vulnerabilities found in other software.

New comment by queenkjuul in "Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face"

queenkjuul — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:33:52 +0000

They literally gave it a proxy to the internet (artifactory). The only thing between the model and the internet was Artifactory.

You can take far greater measures to lock down external traffic than just that.

An offline package cache (aka artifactory WITHOUT its own internet access) likely would have precluded this whole thing.

New comment by queenkjuul in "Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face"

queenkjuul — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 09:21:04 +0000

> I wonder if we can still trust these labs to develop something that benefits humanity

At no point could we do that.

New comment by queenkjuul in "Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face"

queenkjuul — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 08:53:00 +0000

It really irks me that if a student or intern did this they'd be facing charges and OpenAI gets to just brag instead

New comment by queenkjuul in "Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face"

queenkjuul — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 08:47:00 +0000

Monitoring that didn't take days to notice unauthorized external traffic would probably be a good start

New comment by queenkjuul in "Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18"

queenkjuul — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:34:22 +0000

It's basically unlimited bandwidth for a VPN server, for free. I hate oracle but i also hate spending money lol

New comment by queenkjuul in "Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search"

queenkjuul — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:22:43 +0000

So "this kind of speculative thing" isn't cops being bad cops?

What about when they stalk and pull over women they're infatuated with? That's not being a bad cop? You know they do that, right?

This literally does help them hide behind some tool. They can get away with all sorts of rights violations by the nature of "we didn't collect the data, we bought it" in the first place.

New comment by queenkjuul in "Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18"

queenkjuul — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:16:44 +0000

I did actually once claim a completely free instance without payment info. It can be done but you're best off using a script, or just sticking to the free limits on a PAYG plan

New comment by queenkjuul in "Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18"

queenkjuul — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:14:41 +0000

Oof. Not actually the end of the world for me but i do have two of their free instances that i rely on every day. Lucky for me i mostly just use the functionally unlimited bandwidth they give out for free (VPN to my home server so i can access Plex, Nextcloud etc via my domain name--basically zero CPU, but lots of big file transfers)

My god though, OCI is an absolute shambles, far and away the most awful cloud related UI of any variety I've ever used. Early on i didn't realize just how impossible it was to provision free resources, i got really lucky (probably helps i signed up in the middle of the night? Idk) but i deleted a misconfigured instance that i couldn't figure out how to fix... Took me a couple days to claim another.

They say they don't take prepaid or virtual cards but pretty sure they accepted my Privacy.com virtual card which i retroactively set a $1 spending limit on. I'll still have to go make sure they're not gonna try and charge me though. Can't trust em one bit (except with my VPN traffic lmao)

New comment by queenkjuul in "Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc"

queenkjuul — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:26:48 +0000

I replied to you because my point is that it's established law that they cannot come after you for a backup of a title you own, and even the rights holders admit that.

Selling machines that require subscriptions to operate doesn't change the settled law about having backups of things you bought.

New comment by queenkjuul in "Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc"

queenkjuul — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:18:02 +0000

... That is my point

New comment by queenkjuul in "Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search"

queenkjuul — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:23:39 +0000

> Flock is not helping cops be 'dirty cops' or anything.

Yes it very much is, there's plenty of evidence

Note that all the other charges against this person were dropped.

New comment by queenkjuul in "Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search"

queenkjuul — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:16:00 +0000

Ah yes, the sheer terror of someone selling handbags.

If you consider that terrorizing, you need help.

New comment by queenkjuul in "Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc"

queenkjuul — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:12:05 +0000

Xbox kinda, windows no

New comment by queenkjuul in "Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc"

queenkjuul — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 14:05:20 +0000

Silly, you should've paid $60 for the re-re-remake of halo one (which would still need a login i guess...)

Sorry though, i just reinstalled MCC yesterday to play Halo 1 myself, and lucky me my Microsoft account worked fine

New comment by queenkjuul in "Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc"

queenkjuul — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:54:54 +0000

It's genuinely hard to imagine commodity USB DVD-ROM drives being sold with subscriptions? There's millions of them, they cost nothing, they're built by a dozen no name Chinese factories

New comment by queenkjuul in "Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc"

queenkjuul — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:51:58 +0000

Personal backup copies are fully legal, RIAA and MPA admit as much on their own websites; this was settled back in the VHS and cassette tape era

New comment by queenkjuul in "Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc"

queenkjuul — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:49:12 +0000

The death of the used games market is still a big deal, even if said used games still depend on the manufacturers' networks and licenses being valid. A digital only world where Sony and Microsoft have the only say about pricing and used games are no longer available is a downgrade for users even from the already-bad status quo

New comment by queenkjuul in "Cursor removed cost information from the usage page and CSV export"

queenkjuul — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 21:32:01 +0000

Outrageously, the international criminal court does not operate in the united states whatsoever

New comment by queenkjuul in "How Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)"

queenkjuul — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:56:48 +0000

There was literally no mechanism, there were no YouTube memberships, there was no Patreon. You could maybe donate to a PayPal link as a one time transaction.