Hacker News: slome

New comment by slome in "Play Store blocks AuroraStore, hurting GrapheneOS users"

slome — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 18:06:36 +0000

A Google account is a personal identifier, it is linked to your person. Therefor trying to untie it from anything else is futile.

Google states: Using a false name or incorrect information when creating a Google account is against Google's Terms of Service.

New comment by slome in "Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues"

slome — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:02:04 +0000

I'm surprised HN failed to mention the real reason in this thread. It's AI. The goal of the project is to have users build (fix, maintain, expand etc) the distro themselves through AI generated (bug) reports which are then picked up by AI, solved, tested and published in a new release. A full AI loop.

AI sells, this should be obvious by now. The guy behind the project talks about this in more detail, for instance during the interview he recently did with Network Chuck on youtube.

The Shady World of IP Leasing

slome — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:21:17 +0000

Article URL: https://acid.vegas/blog/the-shady-world-of-ip-leasing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47237438

Points: 20

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New comment by slome in "OpenBSD Innovations"

slome — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 01:57:57 +0000

The openbsd foundation raised around 5 million, half of which has been spent. Curiously they aren't as transparent as they once were.

You mention nvidia support, others are hopeful for a better filesystem and wifi as well.

New comment by slome in "UTF-8 characters that behave oddly when the case is changed"

slome — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 05:08:18 +0000

Thanks for the insight. I had never considered this even though i researched quite some oddities in UTF-8 parsing myself over the years. It's the gift that keeps on giving when it comes to ways to breaking things in software, i find. Time to go over my code again.

Telemetry in Firefox for Android causes performance regression and extreme IO

slome — Thu, 30 May 2024 15:36:08 +0000

Article URL: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1898810

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40524952

Points: 2

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New comment by slome in "OpenBSD on Zenbleed"

slome — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 00:54:24 +0000

OpenBSD only implemented loading AMD firmware two days after AMD published updated microcode to fix Zenbleed. Which makes me believe they were not among the "major kernels", vendors or other entities that got a heads up of this vulnerability which happened over two month prior.

Whether they were last to be in the know or not, i applaud them for being one of the first to have patches out for their latest two stable releases (7.2 and 7.3).

IRC technology news from the first half of 2023

slome — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 17:33:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ilmarilauhakangas.fi/irc_technology_news_from_the_first_half_of_2023/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36727197

Points: 4

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New comment by slome in "OpenSSH has some peculiar handling around command line arguments"

slome — Fri, 14 Jul 2023 14:34:49 +0000

Author doesn't know why this supposed bug can't be fixed and makes a quick assumption. Later on he asks the reader for insights. Crazy.

Just ask the developers directly via the official mailing list [1], or send a bug report as you are invited to do by the developers [2].

[1] https://www.openssh.com/list.html

[2] https://www.openssh.com/report.html

New comment by slome in "Mozilla ending support for Windows 7"

slome — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 00:10:32 +0000

This allows Mozilla to trim away some of the cruft and have more time available to focus on actually improving Firefox for people living in this day and age. There will always be someone who feels left behind but to me this decision is a no-brainer.

New comment by slome in "Bye Bye Ubuntu, Hello Manjaro. How Did We Get Here?"

slome — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 02:30:23 +0000

You can run debian without systemd [1]. I've been running debian sid - the "unstable"/rolling development version - with sysvinit for over 3 years now and it has been a good experience.

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/Init