Hacker News: stonogo

New comment by stonogo in "No more icons in every menu by default"

stonogo — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 04:52:46 +0000

And given the rapidity with which that decision was thrown in the trash and abandoned, we have no reason to assume it made sense to revisit it in the first place.

New comment by stonogo in "eMudhra intermediate CA compromise"

stonogo — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:28:33 +0000

Every certificate library has to implement its own blocking no matter which platform you run on. Windows provides an API to do this at the system level, which means nothing if a given application vendors their own TLS library.

New comment by stonogo in "Florida's HOAs and condo associations are making the housing crisis worse"

stonogo — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:02:22 +0000

"HOAs and homeowners have always been at odds" might be the most succinct description of the problem that modern "homeowner associations" constitute.

New comment by stonogo in "First enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months"

stonogo — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 04:48:22 +0000

Grid connection permits don't take as much time as, for instance, real natural gas turbines, which currently have a three to five year lead time. The jet turbines are the "right now" solution while they wait for those. While it's possible some jet-powered datacenters have some grid tie permits in process, I have so far found none. Permit applications are public record almost anywhere, so it's not tough to check

New comment by stonogo in "First enhanced geothermal power plant completed in just 23 months"

stonogo — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 20:59:42 +0000

Because behind-the-meter generation bypasses many municipal permitting processes and now also skips NEPA review. As diesel keeps climbing it'll get more expensive to truck fuel in and you'll start to see operators begging for the grid connections they scoffed at before.

New comment by stonogo in "Texas city demands $2M for public records on Flock usage"

stonogo — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 04:43:50 +0000

I'm aware of places where this is done because the law sets prices and policies for 'copies' in terms of physical papers and has never updated their laws to reflect the past half century of information technology. Definitely the fault of the local legislators.

New comment by stonogo in "Greg Kroah-Hartman – Security in the LLM Age [video]"

stonogo — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 21:37:40 +0000

His presentation style may be no-nonsense, but the content is brimming with nonsense. I would like to hear Greg Kroah-Hartman explain how the Mythos output was 'only 10 real bugs' but there were simultaneously over 1300 CVEs issued last month. It seems not much counts as a 'real bug' when an LLM comes up with it, but when it's time to bully distros into shipping an LTS release, anything goes?

New comment by stonogo in "Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility"

stonogo — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:47:59 +0000

I'm not sure your claim is backed up by the evidence you've provided (to wit, that Indiana did not pass the bill).

New comment by stonogo in "Most data centers refusing to say how much water, electricity they use"

stonogo — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:41:58 +0000

People keep comparing datacenter water use to agricultural water use, and it doesn't make sense to me. I can't tell if it's a bad-faith comparison or if people really know that little about how water is used in these industries.

The vast majority of agricultural water use is either tapped directly from groundwater, drawn directly from surface sources, or rain. The vast majority of datacenter water use is processed water from a municipal water utility. In other words, it is meaningless to compare the two, because only one is competing with residential use, and so only one is worth caring about.

That's not to detract from serious concerns about e.g. overutilization of the Colorado River, or the idiotic practice of irrigating deserts, but it is to say that comparing datacenters to agriculture makes very little sense.

New comment by stonogo in "What even is an OS now?"

stonogo — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 21:26:14 +0000

The feedback here is pretty clearly that it's not clear that it's your site. Are people supposed to just assume that 'sockpuppet.org' and 'tptacek' are related somehow? Do we have to click on the profile of every commenter we read to establish outside context? And whether or not you submitted it has nothing to do with whether or not you commented on it at length without establishing that relationship.

You're getting perfectly reasonable feedback here, and your response is weird.

New comment by stonogo in "Goodbye Google"

stonogo — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:18:40 +0000

Ads are what allow these products to exist. Take away ads, and the platform cannot sustain its own server requirements. People won't pay for stuff like this; it's only mainstream because it's ad-supported.

New comment by stonogo in "Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space"

stonogo — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 13:27:13 +0000

Because running 40MW of high-speed inference on GPUs is a different sort of mission then bolting a camera to a Jetson SBC and dropping a cubesat into orbit?

New comment by stonogo in "Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space"

stonogo — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 01:31:21 +0000

Because launch costs and density are completely imaginary. The whole thing is predicated on launch vehicles they hope someone builds eventually. They also appear to have profoundly miscalculated their radiation shielding costs and amounts, but I'm not really motivated to calculate that correctly.

New comment by stonogo in "Transit rewards"

stonogo — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:49:36 +0000

No.

New comment by stonogo in "Suspension of the de minimis administrative exemption for imports $800 or less"

stonogo — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 22:11:30 +0000

we need an irony hall of fame for this forum

New comment by stonogo in "Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5"

stonogo — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:33:36 +0000

Arguably, it doesn't. Instead of a team of people doing break-fix on golden images you have that same size team of people doing break-fix on upstream playbooks. Lots of software doesn't achieve the goals but has a huge deployment story; not sure those things have ever been related.

New comment by stonogo in "I don't like passkeys"

stonogo — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 23:40:35 +0000

I don't think "fuck 10% of the population" is as strong an argument as you seem to think it is.

New comment by stonogo in "I don't like passkeys"

stonogo — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:58:10 +0000

Poor people exist.

New comment by stonogo in "Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera"

stonogo — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:49:05 +0000

Your conclusion seems at odds with your evidence: the quote you reference indicates that a professional engineer was meant to examine the 'retrospective concessions' and did not. The result was that no qualified engineer was taking responsibility for their quality. Fixing the process meant getting credentialed engineers to assess and incur liability for the solutions, which is how the professional engineering licensure system is supposed to work.

New comment by stonogo in "Ubuntu 26.10 completes transition to Rust-based coreutils"

stonogo — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:12:39 +0000

Or just use Arch, and skip the pointless hype squad