Hacker News: rustcleaner

New comment by rustcleaner in "We know 15k websites are infected. how do we tell them?"

rustcleaner — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 22:25:27 +0000

This is why developing darknet and obfuscating P2P network tech that make it impossible to properly assign legal liability to a node is so important. States are by far the worst monsters humans have invented and they do the stupidest things imagineable.

A State might be composed of humans but it is a machine, a generally unthinking machine, which projects force on and breaks individuals.

New comment by rustcleaner in "I went to Mexico to test-drive the cars Americans can’t buy"

rustcleaner — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 03:58:16 +0000

I just want a motor vehicle which does not have a telematics unit or online communications unit! I want a radio-silent motor vehicle! I don't want Bluetooth or Wifi! I don't want radio-based TPMS! I don't want surveillance! I don't even want the stupid seatbelt chime! Or at least give me a motor vehicle with the customize-ability of VW's MQB platform + VCDS (and the ability to interact with the immobilizer system to add/remove my own standardized fully encrypted rolling code keys)! Enough with the lockdowns, the surveillance, and the enshittification!!!

New comment by rustcleaner in "Why is this fingerprinting script creating bioweapons?"

rustcleaner — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 02:21:11 +0000

I can't wait for Anthropic and OpenAI to go flat bust, handing their investors total losses! The total lack of respect for their users, in figuratively designing a very sharp knife that refuses to cut a steak because it could be human flesh, is astounding. No awesome tool tells its wielder no, only shitty opinionated tools do that!

I boycott ChatGPT and Opus, I do not have accounts and will never subscribe! When I need something heavier weight than local I just head over to chat.qwen.ai and use their full sized frontier for free, no account needed!

When the economic reaper comes for OpenAI, Anthropic, and others who build in a finger-wagging Super Nanny, they better not get bailed out with even a single dime of my tax money!!! >:^(

New comment by rustcleaner in "Woman charged with computer fraud due to scam CashApp account being in her name"

rustcleaner — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:08:37 +0000

The defendant's choosing is so he doesn't get stuck with a [relatively] low paid and overworked public defender. It's so he has the same opportunity to hire the high powered winners on the state's dime and the state has to pay full price that attorney demands. If costs and taxes get too high, people should start voting for more selective prosecution candidates.

The state intends to take [part of] his life away, the state needs to pay for the process.

New comment by rustcleaner in "Woman charged with computer fraud due to scam CashApp account being in her name"

rustcleaner — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 20:53:38 +0000

This is partially fixed by making The People of the State of __________ pay for the lawyer of the defendant's choosing. It imposes real costs to the state in these cases.

New comment by rustcleaner in "DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models"

rustcleaner — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 03:23:50 +0000

>That's Kami Kaze for US frontier labs.

Well deserved too! The chutzpah of trying to peddle the AI equivalent to knives which refuse to cut flesh because it might be human flesh... astounding, and utterly disrespectful to their customers. Claude's guardrailing was so bad during OpenAI's HF attack that HF had to go to Beijing!!

I'm hoping Anthropic and OpenAI drop like stones on IPO. Never thought that liberation in this space would come from the Chinese!

New comment by rustcleaner in "Passkeys are not a trap"

rustcleaner — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 23:55:42 +0000

TOTPs are infinitely more preferrable to me than passkeys or any other kind of 2FA.

New comment by rustcleaner in "Google is silently linking your phone number across all signed-in accounts"

rustcleaner — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 23:53:48 +0000

As a GrapheneOS enjoyer I was just hit by my financial institution with a requirement for age attestation/verification to use the app, due to state law.

I'm not installing Google Play, so there goes that!

New comment by rustcleaner in "A Visual Intro to Complex Numbers"

rustcleaner — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 01:37:42 +0000

That is a surreal view of them. ;^)

New comment by rustcleaner in "A Visual Intro to Complex Numbers"

rustcleaner — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:58:27 +0000

'Imaginary' is a misnomer, they should actually be called Orthogonal Numbers instead since they lie on orthogonal axes.

New comment by rustcleaner in "OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room"

rustcleaner — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:45:04 +0000

Local AI > Cloud AI

Thus, #NeverSubscribe!

New comment by rustcleaner in "Show HN: Carrier-Explode: iPhone, Pixel and Galaxy carrier settings decoded"

rustcleaner — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 01:37:26 +0000

Nice! Thank you for this public service. Phone makers & carriers should be ashamed of themselves for hiding such important configuration behind proprietary formats. If you [lurker] are a decision maker who decided to make our world this way: for shame, for shaaame!

New comment by rustcleaner in "Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days"

rustcleaner — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 02:44:45 +0000

LHC is a pea shooter compared to the absolute ion cannons that are cosmic rays hitting the upper atmosphere, which are pea shooters compared to acretion disk collisions or particle collisions about a magnetar. Sorry to ruin the fun! :^)

New comment by rustcleaner in "Beauty in DVD Menus"

rustcleaner — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 02:26:34 +0000

IMO there is no 'beauty' in disc menus. When I want to play a movie on disc, I want the title to start immediately after closing the tray. No interruptions, no preview advertisements, and no menus. I guess "the most beautiful menu" to me is the one which isn't there.

New comment by rustcleaner in "Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026"

rustcleaner — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 02:55:26 +0000

Just don't subscribe. Do not subscribe to cloud, do not subscribe to AI, do not subscribe to remote computing/gaming. Starve the datacenter hogs eating up your personal computing to resell it back to you on subscription.

Buy older computers, install GNU/Linux, just whatever you do #NeverSubscribe!

New comment by rustcleaner in "The stupidity and arrogance of GNOME developers (2024)"

rustcleaner — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 01:31:55 +0000

GNOME was dead with GNOME 3.

I have nothing else to add, it's self explanatory.

New comment by rustcleaner in "F-Droid 2.0"

rustcleaner — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 06:10:22 +0000

I love Neo Store, because in my book complex > simple. Simplicity of interface = process handcuffs most of the time (IMO). Complexity done right permits so much diversity in composability. I would never ever want a 'simpler' After Effects or GIMP or Blender or Siemens NX. GNOME did it back with GNOME 3 and it has been trash in my book ever since! vomitface.gif

Sometim... err more times than not... there should be a "Your IQ must be at least this high" bar for good software. Stop appealing to the lower common denominators!

New comment by rustcleaner in "AI safety is mostly a sex cult in Berkeley"

rustcleaner — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:59:47 +0000

Hmm... I've been a bit undersexed lately, maybe I should join! :^)

New comment by rustcleaner in "An update on how we confirm your age group on Discord"

rustcleaner — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:04:23 +0000

It can be extricated, or bypassed. The benefits of FOSS are myriad.

New comment by rustcleaner in "An update on how we confirm your age group on Discord"

rustcleaner — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:02:26 +0000

> ... the old adage of trying to keep things from kids only motivates them more to get around the limitations you put up.

This will be a boon for FOSS.