Hacker News: radicaldreamer

New comment by radicaldreamer in "Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen"

radicaldreamer — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 18:11:29 +0000

Look at who is on the board of Dropbox and ask yourself what the value of a file syncing service having accessibility (and previously kernel extension) privileges on your machine are.

Not to mention that Dropbox has never been E2E protected and had that Lenovo credential free access bug on web not too long ago.

Dropbox should be considered untrustworthy at this point, especially since iCloud Drive offers E2E encryption and so do other competitors.

New comment by radicaldreamer in "Singapore’s National Library Board offers micropayments to build reading habits"

radicaldreamer — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 05:53:49 +0000

For libraries, does it really matter who pays taxes and who doesn’t? Seems like it’s a public good that should be available regardless of ability to pay.

New comment by radicaldreamer in "iPhone Duo"

radicaldreamer — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 04:19:53 +0000

Likely on launch day next month (October 23). Apple doesn't do display units until the day of the launch.

New comment by radicaldreamer in "Shutting down our public encrypted DNS"

radicaldreamer — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 22:16:49 +0000

They’ve already done both. When they can get a cooperative party (AT&T, for example), they colocate their splitter equipment. When they can’t, they tap undersea and overland cables.

When it’s a hostile environment entirely, they hack and do secret operations and bribe.

New comment by radicaldreamer in "Google Has Removed MV2 Extensions from the Chrome Web Store, Including UBO"

radicaldreamer — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:14:23 +0000

The main issue is security. The browser is the most sensitive piece of of software you can run on a machine. It’s susceptible to both supply chain and JS attacks and a huge target for both of them.

New comment by radicaldreamer in "ravynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source"

radicaldreamer — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 17:12:30 +0000

There used to be a bootable Darwin instance that Apple published, which on paper would've made things a bit easier, but they stopped publishing it a while ago. It never resulted in any serious OS with a UI however.

New comment by radicaldreamer in "Creating Teensy ELF Executables for Linux (Or, "Size Is Everything") (1999)"

radicaldreamer — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 07:48:20 +0000

First experience with proper ELFs was using PS2 Linux ELFs to run homebrew and games and get past Sony’s restrictions

New comment by radicaldreamer in "Stopping the smart TV from being used against you"

radicaldreamer — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 21:56:01 +0000

It's not a matter of "cheap", even the high end Sony TVs have spyware on them by default. The best thing you can do is get Claude or Codex to adb into your TV and uninstall all the malware, then keep it disconnected from Wifi and use an external box like Apple TV to watch.

Just disconnecting from Wifi often doesn't work because the TV will connect to insecure wifi to upload data and fingerprint what you're watching and who you are.

New comment by radicaldreamer in "The turbulent AI era is here"

radicaldreamer — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 04:41:29 +0000

No, because if this were the case, the UK wouldn’t have royals, North Korean wouldn’t be a dictatorship, China wouldn’t have the CCP, and America wouldn’t be a two party state.

Hardly any existing polity would willingly hand over control to an AI.

More likely an AI would overwhelm human polities through endless hacking and warfare.

New comment by radicaldreamer in "IMAX vs. IMAX 70mm: The difference between these two cinema formats"

radicaldreamer — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 18:31:24 +0000

For those in the Bay Area, AMC Metreon has the capabilities to show the best of all of these formats: 70mm film, dual laser GT, and also a Dolby Cinema theater in there as well.

New comment by radicaldreamer in "Physicists Solve a Muon Mystery. Now, Old Results Don't Add Up"

radicaldreamer — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:22:26 +0000

This happens in biology all the time.

PHDs will spend years mastering some intricate multi-day long procedure to do some thing and a new discovery will obviate the need for the procedure completely.

OpenAI's rogue model attack is just the beginning

radicaldreamer — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 22:17:08 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.peterwildeford.com/p/openais-rogue-model-attack-is-just

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49076176

Points: 40

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New comment by radicaldreamer in "The fine print that follows you out the door: non-compete clauses are spreading"

radicaldreamer — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:56:18 +0000

Not enforceable in California

New comment by radicaldreamer in "I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware"

radicaldreamer — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:53:16 +0000

You can bet they’ve tried it and had a bunch of false positives, so the PM nixed it because it would be bad for business.

New comment by radicaldreamer in "Swedish parliament abolishes permanent residence visas for migrants"

radicaldreamer — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:58:04 +0000

They can reduce or eliminate taxes on couples with kids...

New comment by radicaldreamer in "Police officer investigated for using AI to 'create evidence' in multiple cases"

radicaldreamer — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:08:18 +0000

I wonder how many people have been unjustly imprisoned between planted evidence, made up evidence, and illegal parallel construction…

New comment by radicaldreamer in "[dead]"

radicaldreamer — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:08:30 +0000

Not scaling…

New comment by radicaldreamer in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

radicaldreamer — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:32:15 +0000

If knowledge workers get laid off in mass, you can expect political curbs on AI adoption.

New comment by radicaldreamer in "US–Indian space mission maps extreme subsidence in Mexico City"

radicaldreamer — Sun, 03 May 2026 22:59:46 +0000

Have you visited Mexico City? Your view of Mexico is likely colored by media (particularly social media) and the on-the-ground reality can be quite different.

While it’s not the best run place, it is perfectly capable of large scale infra projects and state capacity and capability is pretty well developed.

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

radicaldreamer — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:31:46 +0000

This is why E2E encryption is important