Hacker News: terminalbraid

New comment by terminalbraid in "IRCv3"

terminalbraid — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 11:31:50 +0000

This, which is not uniform across servers, and has more work if you want to do certificate-based auth. Additionally getting a nick cloak is good opsec and also extremely not uniform.

New comment by terminalbraid in "IRCv3"

terminalbraid — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 11:17:46 +0000

> A focussed effort to get Matrix working

At what point do we say matrix isn't going to work? It's been like this for years. It's so overengineered on an immutable chat history on a blockchain it has crossed the line into "way too expensive to run and maintain for streams of cat pictures and memes". Worse is better.

New comment by terminalbraid in "IRCv3"

terminalbraid — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 11:02:25 +0000

You might be surprised to learn there are dedicated ftp clients.

New comment by terminalbraid in "IRCv3"

terminalbraid — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 11:01:32 +0000

Yeah, but the major upgrades for things like telnet and ftp were adding appropriate encryption layers and improved authentication to include things like certificates. IRC shoehorned those into the connections awkwardly but it's still not often mandatory and registration is painful.

Also usenet is still very popular but mostly used for file sharing.

New comment by terminalbraid in "Bitwarden Dual License Model"

terminalbraid — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 15:48:17 +0000

keepassxc works across any major platform, mobile platforms have keepass2android and KeePassium. You don't have to run your own server, but you do need some type of file sharing system to keep them synced. I personally run a webdav share on a vps with some sync scripts to keep a backup on devices otherwise. OneDrive, google drive, dropbox, and others work.

Also protonpass.

New comment by terminalbraid in "Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen"

terminalbraid — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:51:01 +0000

Neutrinos are not an analog to sound in the point you are trying to make. They are many orders of magnitude more weakly interacting and much, much difficult to measure.

New comment by terminalbraid in "Nobel Prize in Physics 2026: Francis Halzen"

terminalbraid — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 10:56:18 +0000

Why? They gave that out already.

New comment by terminalbraid in "Apple and a hacker's future"

terminalbraid — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:20:16 +0000

> Because people will shoot themselves in the foot if you give them a shotgun.

Correct. This is why gun safety is taught. Try and bring up banning shotguns in the US and see what happens.

New comment by terminalbraid in "Apple and a Hacker's Future"

terminalbraid — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:22:58 +0000

The author themselves say "I am admittedly being pedantic here" to that point.

New comment by terminalbraid in "Apple and a hacker's future"

terminalbraid — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 14:20:14 +0000

Why does Apple need to protect anyone from themselves? This is the problem with commercial vendors creeping in computing freedom. It is exactly this mentality that people shouldn't be the ones responsible for the hardware and software they own and operate which erodes that freedom.

New comment by terminalbraid in "Owners mourn spoiled food after firmware update bricks Samsung smart fridges"

terminalbraid — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:15:22 +0000

Roku-being-sued-for-illegally-collecting-and-selling-children's-data Roku?

New comment by terminalbraid in "Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting"

terminalbraid — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:22:16 +0000

You might be shocked to learn how "society" has been forged over history.

New comment by terminalbraid in "OpenAI is enlisting an influencer army to make it look 'good for the world'"

terminalbraid — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:23:33 +0000

Of course. Say something bad about Elon and see what happens.

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

terminalbraid — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 10:47:10 +0000

> and have enough Linux know how to fix the occasional hick up

> but it can sometimes "just work" for a long time without any issues

These are defining qualities of something that does not "just work"

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

terminalbraid — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 18:08:36 +0000

Google gives you no guarantee of service for your account. They could arbitrarily decide to lock you out for any reason and you have literally no recourse.

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

terminalbraid — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 13:14:09 +0000

Email and SMS are not reasonable and both have an extraordinary number of flaws.

How macOS Works

terminalbraid — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 19:02:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.macinternals.app/en

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49745073

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by terminalbraid in "Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting"

terminalbraid — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:42:47 +0000

I quit OpenAI anything early when when their "do not train on my data" option was broken for several weeks. They are my one and only chargeback when I tried to quit and oops somehow I still got billed.

They are a deeply unethical company by any measure of observation.

New comment by terminalbraid in "Biggest dark matter detector spots a single weird particle"

terminalbraid — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 22:03:40 +0000

That doesn't rule out "dark matter having other interactions which do not interfere with our detectors" Dark sector theories which include other dark particles or new particle interactions are not controversial amongst cosmologists in this space. For example there's a whole area of study around "dark photons" which would mix with our photons and interact with dark matter.

New comment by terminalbraid in "It's Not the End of Programming"

terminalbraid — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:02:23 +0000

I can't tell if this is ironic or not.