Hacker News: sovok_x

New comment by sovok_x in "Apple's ios26 beta 3 Guardrails breaks On Device LLM completely"

sovok_x — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:07:17 +0000

It's what betas are released for - to check whether something breaks or not. What's the point of reposting this to a news site?

New comment by sovok_x in "Ask HN: Reddit shadow banned me. What now for a SaaS founder?"

sovok_x — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 10:43:33 +0000

This doesn't work though. I was banned there without as much as a single-line explanation after 10+ years of being a normal rule-abiding user which didn't change even up to that point. Maximum stuff they might not like I did is visiting through a proxy due to my country's circumstances. Right after that I tried appeals daily nearly for a week with no reaction whatsoever. So I just deleted my acc, less value for them is better.

New comment by sovok_x in "Microsoft sends a warning to anyone using Windows 11 on incompatible hardware"

sovok_x — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 01:20:13 +0000

"Incompatible hardware" is their corporate speak for any hardware that weakens vendor lock-in and propagation of MSFT-centered consumerism.

New comment by sovok_x in "EU to demand technology transfers from Chinese companies"

sovok_x — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 11:10:07 +0000

The comments section there says everything about how many people process such questions:

- historical ignorance;

- economical ignorance;

- repeating mass media propaganda narrative word for word;

- hubris.

I do hope europeans will start working as hard and as low-waged as chinese people did last two decades though, so those tech transfers will actually be on point. They lived too comfortably recently, forgetting that you always bear the hidden price for that in some way. No cheaply available products reality _is_ the norm, after all.

New comment by sovok_x in "The Karma connection in Chrome Web Store"

sovok_x — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 18:18:36 +0000

AFAIK there are two ways for this, neither of which is convenient to use: install all extensions from the source (you can unpack an existing crx for it or use their clonned repo if it's opensource) or use a group policy to disable extensions autoupdate and update each of them manually when the new version has something you want.

New comment by sovok_x in "Windows 11's big 2024 update leaves behind 9GB of undeletable files"

sovok_x — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 09:04:42 +0000

That reminded me of how Windows abuses my HDD by regularly writing dozens of logs I won't ever need unless I'm both knowledgeable enough and debug for specific errors.

And also about WinSxS/Temp/InFlight folder that gets filled with an undeleted garbage of unknown purposes. You can't safely delete files there (with elevated System privileges) even after finishing delayed patching and dism cleanup operations because some of them are still used by the system somehow despite it being a "temp" folder. While thousands of empty subfolders there slow dism/TrustedInstaller runs to a crawl on their enumeration.

New comment by sovok_x in "More than 8 in 10 recruiters say they post 'ghost jobs'"

sovok_x — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 00:35:34 +0000

More like false advertising and platform abuse, but given that this doesn't incur any loss unless you were actually hired and then dismissed, it's also not really actionable. The best measure here is for job search platforms to curate the whole process and deprioritize the companies caught doing that.

New comment by sovok_x in "Microsoft's latest security update has ruined dual-boot"

sovok_x — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 19:19:20 +0000

The thing is it was pretty obvious from the update description that something like this will happen. But the update in question is cumulative so even among advanced users that know how to restrict autoupdates many were forced to install it to prevent even more scary exploits for which there are no separate patches.

And now people need to disable Secure Boot entirely to avoid the side effects. Way to improve worldwide security, MSFT.

New comment by sovok_x in "LAN-port-scan-forbidder can protect you from '0.0.0.0 Day' Vulnerability"

sovok_x — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 07:31:11 +0000

If you have uBlock Origin installed it should already protect you from this attack vector with "Block outsider intrusion into LAN" filter list, though.

And you also don't need this on Windows since 0.0.0.0 IP is blocked on a system level there.

New comment by sovok_x in "Cellebrite enables FBI to access data from Trump shooter's phone"

sovok_x — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 15:09:14 +0000

Ignoring moral and sanitary considerations of accessing a dead body, it just won't work. Most modern phones use capacitive sensing during the process. Once tissue is dead, it loses its electrical charge and will fail to activate the fingerprint sensor, making it impossible to unlock the phone this way.

New comment by sovok_x in "Google dropping continuous scroll in search results"

sovok_x — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 15:22:56 +0000

You just use bad tools for that. When using custom AutoPagerize UserJS mod that utilizes pushState, endless scrolling works like a charm for me for years already. Like I can scroll to thousand-numbered items of HN seamlessly. It remembers the exact page you were on after you close the tab and overrides "target" property of added pages' links to open everything in new tabs regardlessly, preventing accidental page reloads. IDK why developers don't reproduce this.

Kinda sad more and more Web sites switch to pointless AJAX app model recently and it stops working for those.

New comment by sovok_x in "A curious phenomenon called 'Etak'"

sovok_x — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 21:18:08 +0000

Heads up map digitizing seem to refer to the method where computer operator digitized an aerial image map by manually tagging its features displayed on the screen, in contrast to heads down digitizing where they used a special tablet.

Anyway I really need such articles from time to time not to lose my faith in humanity.

New comment by sovok_x in "Sourcegraph Labs – LLM Litmus Test"

sovok_x — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 19:25:58 +0000

This site is currently a counterproductive trash that will simply waste your time on using it. There is some promise in LLM comparison but the limits of this make it utterly useless, even as a litmus test, since you can't check anything practical with it.

It has a very restrictive one-time prompt that stops working pretty fast sending you to buy their subscription and there is even no way to ask the models to fix or continue printing the unfinished code since the input field gets locked right after the inital prompt.

New comment by sovok_x in "WinRAR 7.0"

sovok_x — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 19:15:31 +0000

Also:

- Allows switching non-utf8 zip filename encodings from the menu, it's a mess with 7zip;

- Its context menu works inside Sandboxie without bugs;

- GUI is really much better, so I will reiterate the point. 7zip basically froze in time with it.

New comment by sovok_x in "PeaZip: Cross-platform, Open Source file compression and encryption software"

sovok_x — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 13:13:27 +0000

I will switch to it in a flash if it'll allow creating embedded recovery/par2 records for 7z and zip archives without breaking format compatibility somehow. Otherwise it's just an alternative GUI or things I don't need in practice.

New comment by sovok_x in "Hackers push USB malware payloads via news, media hosting sites"

sovok_x — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 18:50:46 +0000

Technically sites can prevent that by disallowing anything that looks like long baseXY-encoded blobs in their postable sections like pastebin does already.

New comment by sovok_x in "WinRAR flaw lets hackers run programs when you open RAR archives"

sovok_x — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 10:48:11 +0000

Can someone explain why WinRar installers of the same exact versions and languages but downloaded from their different sites www.rarlab.com vs www.win-rar.com have different sizes/hashes while being signed by the same signer?

New comment by sovok_x in "[dead]"

sovok_x — Wed, 26 Jul 2023 19:14:30 +0000

Well, the man clearly wants to kill the thing so crossing it out is not anything unusual.

New comment by sovok_x in "Ask HN: How do you “clean” Windows from all bloatware?"

sovok_x — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 19:49:20 +0000

For ads and online-dependent annoyware a third-party firewall works too.

New comment by sovok_x in "Ask HN: How do you “clean” Windows from all bloatware?"

sovok_x — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 19:46:46 +0000

Google Windows IoT. And yes, it supports WSL.