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New comment by tardedmeme in "Show HN: Uruky (EU-based Kagi alternative) now has Image Search and URL Rewrites"

tardedmeme — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:47:30 +0000

Is that better or worse than Google?

New comment by tardedmeme in "U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse"

tardedmeme — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:04:35 +0000

It's more like you ask a paralyzed person to lift his arm and he says he doesn't want to.

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/02/science/discovering-that-...

New comment by tardedmeme in "I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it"

tardedmeme — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:49:59 +0000

FYI there are no FOSS LLMs

New comment by tardedmeme in "UK media fails to disclose defence sector links in nearly 60% of cases"

tardedmeme — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:44:38 +0000

> In the current Iranian war the UK is only allowing it's bases to launch defensive missions, i.e. strike offensive capability

If Iran struck all of the UK's missile factories and military bases, would it be considered a defensive or offensive action?

New comment by tardedmeme in "Mobile won the platform war on distribution, not capability"

tardedmeme — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:20:05 +0000

That's true. There is, like, no GUI library on desktops any more.

New comment by tardedmeme in "A Post-Quantum Future for Let's Encrypt"

tardedmeme — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 10:01:43 +0000

I'll believe that you believe that your bank statements only need to be private for a year, when you upload all of yours until a year ago.

New comment by tardedmeme in "A Post-Quantum Future for Let's Encrypt"

tardedmeme — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:24:09 +0000

Why would you take the stupidest possible interpretation of that person's comment?

New comment by tardedmeme in "A Post-Quantum Future for Let's Encrypt"

tardedmeme — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:21:17 +0000

Signatures aren't as urgent to replace as encryption keys are. You can wait until someone is about to build a quantum computer, then change all your signatures. Encrypted data is more critical because the NSA's going to store all internet traffic for centuries if it thinks it can decrypt it later.

New comment by tardedmeme in "A Post-Quantum Future for Let's Encrypt"

tardedmeme — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:08:54 +0000

In terms of actually doing it, it's still very remote, but not as remote as it would have to be for us to completely ignore it. And the NSA has massive data centers full of hard drives storing our encrypted internet traffic.

New comment by tardedmeme in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

tardedmeme — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:07:06 +0000

Gradually, and especially when hot. Modern chips are pretty close to the physical limits of how small they can be made, and that means atomic/chemical effects like electromigration are accounted for and determine the lifetime. Every extra 10 degrees Celsius of temperature doubles the speed of chemical reactions.

When they stray too close to the line ... you get Intel's 13/14th gen chips that wear out after 1-2 years instead of 10-20 years. Intel calls it "Vmin drift" because that doesn't sound scary, but the actual point is that various wear-out mechanisms push the chip outside of its design envelope - increasing the voltage or lowering the clock speed may get it to run for a while longer, but you're living on borrowed time as the various circuits just stop working right and you get unpredictable instruction mis-execution: https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/oodle-2-9-14-and-in...

New comment by tardedmeme in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

tardedmeme — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:32:32 +0000

Thanks captain pedantic

New comment by tardedmeme in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

tardedmeme — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:46:27 +0000

Just make a new one and start using it for new things. Move things over piecemeal. You don't have to close your old account.

New comment by tardedmeme in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

tardedmeme — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:42:36 +0000

Do casual computer users use the word "malware"? I think people only know the term "virus" but when I say "windows is a computer virus" everyone thinks I'm insane.

New comment by tardedmeme in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

tardedmeme — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:38:43 +0000

I can see that chrooting into an empty folder can make it look like everything is deleted but it's actually the mkfs command that deleted everything.

New comment by tardedmeme in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

tardedmeme — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:21:38 +0000

I think it's a case of projection. Megatech CEOs feel that avoiding interactions with peons is the most important thing, so they add this feature assuming that everyone else also wants that.

New comment by tardedmeme in "Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?"

tardedmeme — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:20:06 +0000

Banning selling alcohol to children is a slippery slope to banning candy and then banning food and then banning giving water to children. Right?

New comment by tardedmeme in "Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?"

tardedmeme — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:19:40 +0000

> It's the digital equivalent of requiring ID to go anywhere or do anything, rather than just a few well-defined things.

No, it's social media, specifically. That's why it says social media. It's not everything, it's social media.

New comment by tardedmeme in "Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?"

tardedmeme — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:17:42 +0000

Thank god we have "American ingenuity" to enshittify new inventions. Where would we be without that?

New comment by tardedmeme in "Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?"

tardedmeme — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:15:34 +0000

Did the USSR have a space program?

New comment by tardedmeme in "Age verification for social media, the beginning of the end for a free internet?"

tardedmeme — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 11:14:34 +0000

For $5 I'll give you an age token from my card.