Hacker News: squeegeeninja

New comment by squeegeeninja in "Raspberry Pi blocks changing RAM chips"

squeegeeninja — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:28:09 +0000

The real story here is that people are selling modded Pis as higher-memory versions. And this check actually caught them + is circumventable. The restriction is somewhat annoying to a small subset of enthusiasts but seems to catch genuine fraud.

New comment by squeegeeninja in "Heretic removes restrictions from language models"

squeegeeninja — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:15:19 +0000

Depending on the model, thingino might help.

https://thingino.com/

New comment by squeegeeninja in "My Anti-AI Manifesto"

squeegeeninja — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:15:18 +0000

Then there's a difficult question to answer: Who should get to use AI and who shouldn't?

The data centers aren't there for no reason, they track demand (and a large helping of hype). It's the same question that arises with cars. A single person driving a car is relatively unproblematic. It's when individual usage adds up that it becomes problematic. And what did decades of car opposition do? A lot less than what happened when a better way to do it (read EVs) came up.

New comment by squeegeeninja in "My Anti-AI Manifesto"

squeegeeninja — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:28:51 +0000

The same argument has been used against most data center operations from the beginning. You can criticise specific bad actors and bad practices (like Musk and his blatantly illegal gas turbines) without morally condemning an entire field of technology through the lens of religious environmentalism. There is nothing about the technology that prevents data centers from running 100% renewably.

New comment by squeegeeninja in "My Anti-AI Manifesto"

squeegeeninja — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 10:02:50 +0000

This feels more like unrelated political dissatisfaction packaged to hitch a ride on the AI discourse train. The experience of struggling for solutions only seems to disappear if you lack ambition. Keeping the amount of thought you put into problems constant only requires broadening your horizon to new problems.

New comment by squeegeeninja in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era"

squeegeeninja — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 10:23:21 +0000

The $199/$299 prices were never real. Those were on carrier-subsidized plans.

New comment by squeegeeninja in "Pixel 11 Pro Fold feels like the end of an era"

squeegeeninja — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:55:43 +0000

I'm not sure you can engineer your way out of the fundamental problem: You have a lever with both arms converging into a fragile display fold. Sand and dust can't not be brutal on that.

New comment by squeegeeninja in "Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days"

squeegeeninja — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 07:47:30 +0000

It seems like we are watching the newest form of the script kiddie evolve in real time (no offense intended towards the author, everyone starts out young). It's going to be interesting whether this evolves into its own thing or just ends up being the same old dynamics but with a new set of tools.

New comment by squeegeeninja in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

squeegeeninja — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:45:29 +0000

"feeling" implies experience. Functional emotions are learned text generation modes, nothing more. Our emotional states influence our writing, so modelling our emotional states is necessary for efficiently predicting/emulating our writing. Functional emotions are the model's inference of a fictitious author's emotional state in that situation.

New comment by squeegeeninja in "Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly"

squeegeeninja — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 16:45:15 +0000

Firefox has been blocked entirely for at least a year now, in my experience.

New comment by squeegeeninja in "Chinese banks cause alarm as capital flight measures intensify"

squeegeeninja — Sun, 05 Mar 2023 16:15:41 +0000

Aaron Maté is a notorious war crimes and genocide denier. His takes on chemical weapons attacks by the Syrian regime (or Russia, for that matter) for example barely rise above the level of blatant, easily disprovable lies.

The same applies to Seymour Hersh. No matter what your opinions on the North Stream bombings and the perpetrator behind them are, his version of events is objectively false. Almost every detail mentioned in his article is very easy to disprove using just publicly available data. Only relying on a single anonymous source in order to make dubious claims has been a dominant motif in his work for at least a decade now.

New comment by squeegeeninja in "Web hackers vs. the auto industry"

squeegeeninja — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 01:01:27 +0000

The consensus among manufacturers (and auditors) is that R 155 does cover the security of vehicle backend services with its wording and intent. There are of course still active discussions about what exactly constitutes a backend service, e.g. whether a production planning system that provides data to a direct vehicle backend service should also be considered relevant under R155. But in general, this is something that manufacturers in Europe are aware of and are working towards.