<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: tacticus</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tacticus</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:19:37 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=tacticus" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tacticus in "OpenClaw is a security nightmare dressed up as a daydream"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>get a travel agent?<p>Probably more reliable and corp ones exist.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:25:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47482882</link><dc:creator>tacticus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47482882</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47482882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tacticus in "OpenClaw is a security nightmare dressed up as a daydream"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>nope.<p>It won't even help you understand that the 20 second task you've been putting off for 6 months causing anxiety will only take 20 seconds (nor will we learn from this)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:23:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47482865</link><dc:creator>tacticus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47482865</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47482865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tacticus in "MAUI Is Coming to Linux"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> accessibility is like implementing braille and things for deaf and colourblind etc.<p>or<p>- larger fonts<p>- Better contrast controls,<p>- Non abstract art iconography,<p>- larger buttons and keyboard navigation,<p>- understanding that there are many types of colourblindness with different requriements,<p>- the ability to set lightmode on your app and website due to the issues reading text for anyone with astigmatisms,<p>- reducing the amount of animation or motion blur<p>The range of what accessibility is isn't small and some of it is going to be required for the vast majority of products. Also accessibility requirements change over time. eyes and hearing degrade. the desire to waste energy trying to find some stylish button that has no border and almost no contrast to indicate where it is goes away</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:07:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47482724</link><dc:creator>tacticus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47482724</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47482724</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tacticus in "Despite Doubts, Federal Cyber Experts Approved Microsoft Cloud Service"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> microsoft unable to explain and show security model to federal cyber experts.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:42:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47433280</link><dc:creator>tacticus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47433280</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47433280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tacticus in "Temporal: The 9-year journey to fix time in JavaScript"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> There wouldn't be Chrome-only sites and tools if Safari wasn't holding the web back<p>Given the number of chrome-only sites that block firefox and not safari i think there are other issues in front end land</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 02:13:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47345491</link><dc:creator>tacticus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47345491</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47345491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tacticus in "NRC issues first commercial reactor construction approval in 10 years [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Well past time to stop listening to anything those grifting charlatans have to say.<p>Are you describing the "just build nukes" party here?<p>Cause we've been waiting a while for this nuke solution to actually ship but every example is far more expensive all while the nuke lovers block solar and wind for the same reasons.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2026 03:16:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47257089</link><dc:creator>tacticus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47257089</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47257089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tacticus in "RAM now represents 35 percent of bill of materials for HP PCs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Those US companies that the US government bought part of and funded their expansions with no controls over the cartel...</p>
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<p>given the max bandwidth of a starlink sat is in the 100Gb on a good day range why would you want to limit a DC to less bandwidth than a single cheap fibre?<p>Also in LEO you're going to have reentry become more of an issue (starlink burning up in the atmosphere isn't some free garbage removal it will have a measurable impact on the chemical make up (assuming it even burns up and doesn't just squash more farm buildings), Power supply more of an issue and still have huge problems with heat and radiation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 06:17:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46867215</link><dc:creator>tacticus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46867215</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46867215</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tacticus in "xAI joins SpaceX"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> SpaceX already has Starlink.  They might need pretty high bandwidth<p>you mean the network that has less capacity than a fibre pair per coverage area?</p>
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<p>5 to 7 months given they want 100kw Per ton and magical mystery sauce shielding is going to do shit all.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2026 06:10:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46867163</link><dc:creator>tacticus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46867163</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46867163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tacticus in "Tesla ending Models S and X production"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> They are also much better at hiding debt<p>Through bonds? or SVPs to fund the building of datacentres?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2026 06:00:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46806350</link><dc:creator>tacticus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46806350</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46806350</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tacticus in "Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> You just need to trust that the people handling your ballot won't do that.<p>Given the number of people involved in watching ballots the entire time it is happening this would require a lot of compromised people and a lot of compromised scrutineers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 05:38:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46715695</link><dc:creator>tacticus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46715695</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46715695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tacticus in "Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unlike the US the elections aren't run by some local arsehat with local rules. they have consistent rules over the entire state or country (depending on election in question)<p>Scrutineers are also not members of the public. They are declared and appointed by candidates and parties for polling oversight and have complete access to the counting and polling area. They're not allowed to touch ballots but they can challenge and bring them up to all the scrutineers in the location (and EC staff) and finally they can take it to the court afterwards<p>Election officials are also not local council\elected people they're people working for the AEC\State Electoral commission. which is as mentioned above a non partisan organisation (which is highly different from bipartisan framing)<p>You also have a large number of counting staff. who do the sorting and then counting with machine assistance (how many sheets are here in this stack do they match the tally the 2 people already made on that pile)<p>Though the senate elections have a more complex voting software stack due to STV fun.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2026 05:36:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46715686</link><dc:creator>tacticus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46715686</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46715686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tacticus in "OneDrive just deleted all of my files"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>it's a dark pattern. Basically update after update has pushed "protect your computer back up now" and the default option turns on one drive with "on demand" mode for downloaded files.<p>basically one drive is the only place it's stored until you try to access it then turning off backup will then delete all the local files.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 02:57:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46494837</link><dc:creator>tacticus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46494837</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46494837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tacticus in "OneDrive just deleted all of my files"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>1 is a well known issue with onedrive.<p><a href="https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/3863319/turning-off-onedrive-backup-for-a-folder-deletes-a" rel="nofollow">https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/3863319/...</a><p>> onedrive is that bad<p>guess what. Onedrive is that bad. this is far from the first situation i've seen with this pattern.<p>the microslop devs are doing great work pushing people off windows.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2026 02:54:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46494819</link><dc:creator>tacticus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46494819</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46494819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tacticus in "How uv got so fast"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>npm isn't the issue there it's the ts\js community and their desire to use a library for everything. in communities that do not consider dependencies to be a risk you will find this showing up in time.<p>The node supply chain attacks are also not unique to node community. you see them happening on crates.io and many other places. In fact the build time scripts that cause issues on node modules are probably worse off with the flexibility of crate build scripts and that they're going to be harder to work around than in npm.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:11:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46397798</link><dc:creator>tacticus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46397798</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46397798</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tacticus in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>blanket 30% profit margin is great right?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 16 Dec 2025 21:01:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46294405</link><dc:creator>tacticus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46294405</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46294405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tacticus in "Ford kills the All-Electric F-150"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> However, if you are towing or carrying heavy loads, they are a bad choice.<p>given the testing that has been done on this it's the aerodynamics that matter more than the weight.<p>> I suspect most F-150 drivers barely ever do these sorts of things<p>I would suspect that most of these oversized "angry boy" utes only ever see a non sealed surface when they're driving to park on footpaths.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:11:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46281469</link><dc:creator>tacticus</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46281469</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46281469</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by tacticus in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> “As a tactic for planting misinformation in the enemy’s [networks], you mean,” Osa said. “This I know about. You are referring to the Artificial Inanity programs of the mid-First Millennium A.R.”</p>
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<p>> Their average customer is probably demanding it<p>The average australian customer managed to get angry enough that the ACCC is working to force a slop free variant and a refund for everyone dark patterned into upgrading.</p>
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