Hacker News: tadfisher

New comment by tadfisher in "Mold Linker Version 3.0.0 Release – Rewritten in Rust"

tadfisher — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 18:27:40 +0000

One of the explicit goals for Mold 3.0 is to promote its use as the default linker in Linux distributions, and bootstrapping complexity is certainly worthy of consideration in that realm.

> We will then conduct extensive compatibility testing and work closely with Linux distribution developers to make it practical for them to adopt mold as /usr/bin/ld. Making this happen is one of our highest priorities for mold 3.x.

New comment by tadfisher in "Redditor buys used CPU, turns out it was banned on Valorant and they are SoL"

tadfisher — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:00:33 +0000

Those were easily worked around with unsigned drivers or physical hardware. Now Secure Boot is required to run Valorant games, which should be a harbinger for what will happen to your online banking experience if consumers allow this to continue.

New comment by tadfisher in "Allow Carriers on Planes"

tadfisher — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 16:28:55 +0000

It did work with the tray tables at the time (underneath, while open or shut). This was about 4 years ago when we last used it. Passenger behind us was more curious than upset.

New comment by tadfisher in "Allow Carriers on Planes"

tadfisher — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 15:45:10 +0000

There is an easy and FAA-approved child restraint system called CARES. My wife and I purchased one and used it with great success. The flight attendants had never seen one, so it comes with a card for you to show them.

https://www.amsafe.com/kidsflysafe-com/

New comment by tadfisher in "B5-BJ2 – Ice Cream Barges – Concrete Ship Constructors (2023)"

tadfisher — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 19:13:52 +0000

The wartime infrastructure got so large that lawmakers feared a widespread economic collapse, and signed into law the National Dairy Council, the "strategic cheese reserve" (AKA "government cheese"), and requirements that dairy milk be served with all school lunches. It's one of the most subsidized and most health-damaging industries there is.

New comment by tadfisher in "F-Droid 2.0"

tadfisher — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 19:05:40 +0000

It's annoying and easy to forget, but you have to enable the high-quality line break algorithm per Text component in Compose. Or you have to set two flags (maxLines=1 and overflow=TextOverflow.Ellipsis). I usually end up with a TitleText and BodyText component in my codebases that set these flags internally so I don't have to remember.

New comment by tadfisher in "I said no and Apple said yes"

tadfisher — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:29:50 +0000

Interestingly, Firefox handles all three like a champ. Even uses XDG portals so I can share a single window or just audio if I want. Chrome took ages to get support, and it's still hit & miss.

New comment by tadfisher in "MCP was always a bad idea?"

tadfisher — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 03:56:52 +0000

It's not "bash", it's containers/VMs/whatever that are isolated from the host and run the agent, which can access a shell to do work.

New comment by tadfisher in "Why does mathmain need an encrypted loader?"

tadfisher — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 03:14:25 +0000

There are "humanizer" scripts that these people like to use. This one is not the typical style I see in my online moderator adventures, which is usually "lowercase everything and remove all punctuation except periods", as if we are repelled by em-dash use and not the tortured prose.

I like the removal of a random definite article, to simulate an ESL writer and garner sympathy for using LLMs as a "tool to clean up posts". Heavens, they would never even think of using their Claude subscription to be a slop factory, that would cross a line.

New comment by tadfisher in "MCP was always a bad idea?"

tadfisher — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 19:39:33 +0000

It's such an important problem that it is sucking all available VC money into an exponentially-growing number of startups promising to make sandboxed agents safe and usable. In other news, MCP exists.

New comment by tadfisher in "ZuckOff is a free app that sees Meta glasses before they see you"

tadfisher — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:37:05 +0000

Huh, I don't see that in the permissions list. I do see:

    - run foreground service with the type "connectedDevice"
    - discover and pair nearby Bluetooth devices
    - run foreground service
    - control vibration
    - Google Play billing service
    - run at startup
    - Google Play license check
    - have full network access
    - view network connections
    - ask to ignore battery optimizations
    - prevent phone from sleeping
    - connect to paired Bluetooth devices
    - show notifications

I also see "In-app purchases" for "$9.99 - $24.99 per item", which is more of a turnoff for me personally.

New comment by tadfisher in "US Revokes Limits on Power Plants' Climate Pollution"

tadfisher — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 22:26:44 +0000

Germany's decommissioned nuclear, and subsequent concentration of base load in Russian gas-fired plants, is certainly a lede your post is doing its best to bury.

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

tadfisher — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:47:34 +0000

That quote is referring to the mechanism for backing up passkeys that only exist on a hardware security key, which deliberately does not exist. Moving keys onto a security key is possible for some devices, but that is a deliberate compromise, as these devices are designed to generate their own keypairs and never leak secret key material (thus preventing backups).

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

tadfisher — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:32:13 +0000

Passkeys are somehow 100% seamless for me, except for two services that have somehow screwed up the implementation: Google, and Okta. In Google's case, they have made it so that if you _ever_ add a passkey to their password manager, it somehow refuses to work with a third-party password manager going forward. In Okta's case, the admin policy UI makes it next to impossible to have passkey-only login without their Fastpass app or an oldschool password login.

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

tadfisher — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:18:04 +0000

FIDO authenticator attestation is dead for consumer-facing RPs. Apple made the right call and simply refuses to support it outside of MDM environments.

New comment by tadfisher in "What's Scarier Than Agents Taking over Internet? CEO Cartel Trying Take over AI"

tadfisher — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 03:54:08 +0000

Remember when various crypto systems were barred from international export because they were treated like munitions? When you had to get what amounted to an arms dealer license to distribute open-source software overseas?

Yeah, this is just as much bullshittery. It's worse than a total ban, it's a naked power grab by billionaires that doesn't need to happen. Regulatory capture at its worst.

New comment by tadfisher in "JEP 544: Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation"

tadfisher — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 17:56:22 +0000

Ugh, that's a pretty bad name collision.

New comment by tadfisher in "LG denies TV spying claims, says tracking and snooping concerns 'not true'"

tadfisher — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:46:07 +0000

Absolutely not a good read. Informative, but it tortures the language, as is usual for slop.

New comment by tadfisher in "JEP 544: Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation"

tadfisher — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:22:30 +0000

It already supports that, try running "jpackage --help".

New comment by tadfisher in "JEP 544: Ahead-of-Time Code Compilation"

tadfisher — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 01:57:33 +0000

Are you describing jpackage? I'm not sure how you would make it less bespoke, given you are essentially creating a Java runtime for your program. Maybe the Java folks could tree-shake the runtime for you so you wouldn't have to care about their weird module system, but it's not the worst thing to learn.