Hacker News: ratdragon

New comment by ratdragon in "Oura says it gets government demands for user data"

ratdragon — Sat, 23 May 2026 17:06:17 +0000

Ordering a taxi after running outside of US? Probably missed some mass transport. Raise the price boys... like good old Uber back in the day based on iphone battery level. Really the possibilities are endless if you're evil.

Bad health? Raise the insurance premiums? Or anything more evil I can't think of.

edit: grammar

New comment by ratdragon in "Fuck the cloud (2009)"

ratdragon — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:57:03 +0000

All of mine, but I guess I'm an exception to the rule.

New comment by ratdragon in "I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program"

ratdragon — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:33:44 +0000

maybe eff.org would be able to help you lawyer up or otherwise to push this forward. good luck!

New comment by ratdragon in "Linux boxes via SSH: suspended when disconected"

ratdragon — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 10:02:26 +0000

WDYM lost? do you roam? I used to have a job with simple OpenVPN to connect to the servers (via public IP, just routed through the VPN tunnel) and ssh connections stayed during my trip from office to home. Probably needs both sides not to be overly aggressive with keepalives and such. VPN just reconnected at home, but tun0 device and its local ip stayed the same, ssh connections also stayed.

If you do not roam other side may do TCP keepalives or even ssh protocol keepalives and close the connection for you. Unless you can tune that, not much to do.

Other solutions might be mosh (mobile shell; haven't tried) or just running screen or tmux on the other end and just resume where you left of after quick reconnect.

New comment by ratdragon in "Hardware Touch, Stronger SSH"

ratdragon — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 17:03:10 +0000

ssh-add -c (confirm) can somehow mitigate the "misuse of ssh-agent in the background" the article is talking about

New comment by ratdragon in "AI's real superpower: consuming, not creating"

ratdragon — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 10:52:00 +0000

I do use such an approach and it is actually awesome however only for data I'm sure I don't mind being sold.

New comment by ratdragon in "Nearly all UK drivers say headlights are too bright"

ratdragon — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 18:17:40 +0000

they definitely were persistent before

edit spelling

New comment by ratdragon in "F-Droid build servers can't build modern Android apps due to outdated CPUs"

ratdragon — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 05:58:59 +0000

Did and doing regularly.

New comment by ratdragon in "Pony: An actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language"

ratdragon — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 07:26:20 +0000

Example pony applications: https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/tree/main/examples

Playground: https://playground.ponylang.io/

They're on HP https://www.ponylang.io/ unfortunately the article link points to /discover/

New comment by ratdragon in "Pony: An actor-model, capabilities-secure, high-performance programming language"

ratdragon — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 07:22:35 +0000

Example pony applications: https://github.com/ponylang/ponyc/tree/main/examples

Playground: https://playground.ponylang.io/

They're on HP https://www.ponylang.io/ unfortunately the article link points to /discover/

New comment by ratdragon in "Terminal Click – a new terminal bringing dead text to life"

ratdragon — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 13:54:36 +0000

I use tmux in all my terminal sessions. It can search. It's not grep, but 95% of the time it's enough and the 5% I capture the output to a file myself using tmux's it's copy/paste function. I wouldn't mind such functionality if it wasn't mouse-based. But switching terminal just for this not. But seeing an idea executed it always nice.

New comment by ratdragon in "Thumb-Key: A privacy-conscious Android keyboard, made for your thumbs"

ratdragon — Wed, 26 Apr 2023 16:09:10 +0000

Delete word is "swipe left on backspace". The autorepeat is definitely something I'd like to see too.

New comment by ratdragon in "The Future Dominance of Solar and Wind Energy"

ratdragon — Wed, 11 Jan 2023 08:22:33 +0000

Depends on when, that's why we need gas and other dispatchables. We've no grid-scale energy storage as of now. So saying they're cheaper isn't comparing apples to apples.

New comment by ratdragon in "Show HN: unsock: shim to automatically change AF_INET sockets to AF_UNIX, etc."

ratdragon — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 16:20:28 +0000

I love LD_PRELOAD hacks, too bad it is less & less binaries that can be "hacked" like this.

New comment by ratdragon in "Asus Zenfone 9"

ratdragon — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 08:48:36 +0000

I've deleted Revolut some time ago because of that. Well, they've since reversed their stance. Not sure why but now it works with Lineage.

New comment by ratdragon in "Asus Zenfone 9"

ratdragon — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 08:45:01 +0000

I'm planning to test (but I hate reinstalling) https://github.com/topjohnwu/Magisk for safetynet whatnot.

But lack of kernel updates is pita and absolutely true :(

New comment by ratdragon in "No antibiotics worked, so this woman turned to phage scientists"

ratdragon — Sat, 09 Jul 2022 21:18:14 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halicin - a recently (2019) discovered ATB with "an unusual mechanism of action" has been found to be effective against Acinetobacter Baumanii in mice. Found using deep-learning.

New comment by ratdragon in "Small Modular Reactors Exacerbate Challenges of Nuclear Waste"

ratdragon — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 17:42:05 +0000

I believe these types of arguments should start with "What about..." sir. Also not sure how we got to fossil plants...

New comment by ratdragon in "Small Modular Reactors Exacerbate Challenges of Nuclear Waste"

ratdragon — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 17:16:45 +0000

I think this argument has been here for millennia. Move forward or back to the roots... In this case I look forward, but thanks to some really good PR (and possibly well paid) it seems natural-gas backed renewables are winning at the moment.

New comment by ratdragon in "Small Modular Reactors Exacerbate Challenges of Nuclear Waste"

ratdragon — Mon, 06 Jun 2022 17:12:17 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveling_wave_reactor is supposed to be the solution.

A company called TerraPower is planning to build a test reactor soon.