Hacker News: siliconunit

New comment by siliconunit in "Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act"

siliconunit — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:19:04 +0000

How is this preventing anyone booting up an old pc and sharing a usb key data. This is utter nonsense made to control people and instigate fear and self censorship... this is 'the system' discovering the internet in slow motion and immediately pushing its boot over it. We live in an artificial moral panic that should have no place in the minds of smart people.

New comment by siliconunit in "Never buy a .online domain"

siliconunit — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:44:45 +0000

tried to roll my own email server on a .xyz domain...basically a big no go, couple of emails went through, then nothing, just a black hole. Thanks corpos and the safety theatre.

New comment by siliconunit in "A free and open-source rootkit for Linux"

siliconunit — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 18:42:52 +0000

as much as I'm all for the freedom of knownledge, given the sorry state of the world, releasing these tools to imbecils is not peak foresight.. mcafee for linux next ha../s

New comment by siliconunit in "Titan submersible’s $62 SanDisk memory card found undamaged at wreckage site"

siliconunit — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 20:58:53 +0000

also basically if enough companies agrees on helping the cause your crypto secrets are quite more likely to be exposed...

New comment by siliconunit in "Bourbaki – A Secret Society of Mathematicians"

siliconunit — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 18:09:48 +0000

imagine having to rigorously prove that blood is really essential for the survival of a human being before every surgery, thanks Bourbaki. /s

New comment by siliconunit in "Reverse engineering the 386 processor's prefetch queue circuitry"

siliconunit — Sat, 10 May 2025 18:27:28 +0000

very nice analysis! personally I'm a DEC alpha fan.. but I guess that's a too big endeavor.. (or maybe a selected portion?)

New comment by siliconunit in "TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users"

siliconunit — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 20:11:47 +0000

when the state if the nation is so bad that you have homeless everywhere, healthcare, housing and education are something you have to fight for, prisons are a business, suddenly another perspective seems more alluring, a modern Nordic socialism? putting a brake to unhinged late stage capitalism? or on the darker side, a promise of better conditions in 'some ways'...this is no national security risk, people are getting simply fed up with appalling state of the nation.

New comment by siliconunit in "The Bathyscaph Trieste: Technological and Operational Aspects (1962)"

siliconunit — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 22:25:36 +0000

I agree. Modern stuff is childish at times.. and old stuff when slightly drifting tended to go toward poetry.

New comment by siliconunit in "Tiny-C Compiler (2001)"

siliconunit — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 13:38:28 +0000

I'm quite confused, not the same project at all? To me tiny c compiler always meant the bellard page. Super useful stuff for micro hacky projects.

New comment by siliconunit in "Tesla steering wheel popped out while driving"

siliconunit — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 13:34:49 +0000

Should have a super emergency mode that shows tactile controls on the screen and allows for steering and stoppage of the car...

New comment by siliconunit in "Knots smaller than human hair make materials unusually tough"

siliconunit — Mon, 13 Mar 2023 13:16:05 +0000

Interesting behaviour, usually any normal rope knot makes the rope weaker at the point of maximum curvature/choking etc. Would be enlightening to get a comparison why the different behaviours, just a scale/friction non linearities?

New comment by siliconunit in "I’m the nurse who called 911 for help with staffing"

siliconunit — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 14:05:44 +0000

Unhinged capitalism will be the cause of the most devastating global crisis that is just around the corner. You can see it very easily on a simplex plot, you cannot solve for anything useful, like global quality of life, when there are parameters that have infinites, ie infinite 'growth' bullshit. It's a closed system, limited planet. We need to find a better metric, and forget about 'getting rich, work all your life' crap, when you are dead you take few cubic meters of space including ground, all your real estate 'investing' and stress, they just end 6ft under.

New comment by siliconunit in "Some people who appear to be in a coma may be conscious"

siliconunit — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 09:00:42 +0000

It really boils down to medical professionals developing one or more protocols to a peaceful death, this has been hindered by too much religious crap being forced down to everyone. Just give me a bag of nox and leave me high and happily pass out and die ffs.

New comment by siliconunit in "62 People own the same as half the world, reveals Oxfam Davos report (2016)"

siliconunit — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 08:34:21 +0000

Just wait for the trickle down...

New comment by siliconunit in "“It Is Getting Worse. People Are Leaving”"

siliconunit — Mon, 09 May 2022 15:10:50 +0000

Also I think the real estate disaster is one of the main culprits of most 'common people' problems. One cannot afford an early retirement from a taxing job, cos guess what mortgage is a criminal 10-15x their yearly salary..so good luck pensioning before 70...if at all. Here in the UK this has reached absurd levels and nobody in the goverment says a word about it in real (and no, 'easier access to credit' is absolutely not the right answer)... pay 5-6 pounds for a filter coffee and a plain croissant.. cos the tiny shop has to pay 100k / year in rent.... it's just a road to civil war... hopefully soon.

New comment by siliconunit in "Solar Power/Batteries are 60% of planned new U.S. electric generation capacity"

siliconunit — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 13:28:04 +0000

Exactly, same goes for pollution, container ships, aviation..etc.

New comment by siliconunit in "Make the internet yours again with an instant mesh network"

siliconunit — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 00:51:36 +0000

I ran a citadel mail server on a pi, using a xyz domain..worked for few days before getting blocked as possible spam from google..no appartent solution... the old internet is indeed broken..

New comment by siliconunit in "New Zealand plans to make it illegal for kids to buy cigarettes – for life"

siliconunit — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:14:45 +0000

soon we'll own our lives to some 'benign' all knowledgeable government...I guess it's where everything is heading, all needs to be measured, assessed, risks calculated, resources optimized.. and nobody seems to be too worried, maybe it's just evolution in action... quite terrifying if you ask me.

New comment by siliconunit in "Young's Lattice"

siliconunit — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 14:13:51 +0000

absolutely agree, probably the worst general category in wikipedia, feels very much Bourbakian, extreme rigor and nothing else. Worst way to teach/introduce math imho.

New comment by siliconunit in "Countries are gathering in an effort to stop a biodiversity collapse"

siliconunit — Thu, 14 Oct 2021 21:45:26 +0000

I think there are a lot of misconceptions about GM crops, most people think they are modified to be resist/repel vast types of insects/pests and what not, this is in average not the case and very complex to implement, what they are really engineered for is simply to be very resistant to specific pesticides, very easy to control/predict as you have to target only the few chemicals that you spray. Unfortunately we all know what this means... tenfold increase of pesticides and faster destruction of the environment. Not to say that there aren't GM modifications in that direction, but it's not the norm.