Hacker News: securicat

New comment by securicat in "McDonald's is a premium product now (2024)"

securicat — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:54:00 +0000

Is there anywhere that food is getting cheaper? I’m not sure if this is just an American story. Folks outside the US, what’s your story?

New comment by securicat in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

securicat — Wed, 06 May 2026 01:11:30 +0000

So just leave it out.

New comment by securicat in "Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to"

securicat — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:41:23 +0000

I never said you did say that.

New comment by securicat in "Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to"

securicat — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:39:59 +0000

That’s pretty insensitive to people suffering from mental illness. To compare sitting and doomscrolling on social media with something that’s chemically out of balance in a persons body is… a choice.

New comment by securicat in "Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to"

securicat — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:26:43 +0000

Fair point, and nothing would make me happier than TikTok and Instagram being shut down, at least for minors.

New comment by securicat in "Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to"

securicat — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:25:48 +0000

As if Claude and Instagram are remotely similar products. But again, these products make it incredibly easy to cancel. If work requires that you use it, make the next job you get not require it or just use it on the job.

New comment by securicat in "Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to"

securicat — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:24:10 +0000

Give me a break. No one says “I can’t live without Instagram” literally. There are even studies that show that it makes their users depressed. From inside the company that _makes the product_.

Now, would it be inconvenient to stop, sure, but people need better self control. Put that cookie down!

New comment by securicat in "Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to"

securicat — Mon, 04 May 2026 19:01:35 +0000

It takes five minutes to delete your TikTok, Meta, and Instagram accounts. Setting up forwarding rules from Gmail to Fastmail or another provider takes maybe a little longer, after three months hopefully all your emails are going to the new account after changing them. These companies can’t manipulate you if you don’t use their products.

Edit: I know what network effects are, I was talking about steps individual users can (and should IMO) take. We should be helping our friends, family and neighbors find safe and health alternatives like Signal for comms. Build different networks that are actually social and not doomscrolling.

New comment by securicat in "Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS"

securicat — Sat, 02 May 2026 02:39:13 +0000

Explains why I needed to torrent Ubuntu 26.04 today. Even navigating to the alternative/mirror page to grab the torrent file was painful.

New comment by securicat in "Moleskine's AI Lord of the Rings collection can only mock"

securicat — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:51:33 +0000

Yeah I just really don’t see the issue in that (not saying you do or don’t either). If it were me and I were them I would have contracted with artists because it’s only a few images and it would avoid controversy. However I also use image generation tools for fun non-commercial pieces that I never would have done without the tools.

Does that make me more creative or less? I’m not sure.

New comment by securicat in "MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code"

securicat — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 04:24:20 +0000

Do folks not write tests and review their own code (AI generated or not)?

Also, citation needed:

> With human written code it's a lot easier to tell if it's good or not

New comment by securicat in "Missouri town fires half its city council over data center deal"

securicat — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:13:38 +0000

And why is that?

New comment by securicat in "Building an E2E Encrypted Chat Application with LanceDB and Libsodium"

securicat — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 01:55:22 +0000

Good question. This is targeted more at smaller chat server use cases that put the admins in the drivers seat. Compaction operations and rebuilding indexes can happen during a maintenance window.

I plan on scaling up the number of messages the bot system generates to see where the breaking point is.

Building an E2E Encrypted Chat Application with LanceDB and Libsodium

securicat — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 21:32:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.justinrmiller.com/building-an-e2e-encrypted-chat-application-with-lancedb-and-libsodium/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47558284

Points: 27

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