<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: the_third_wave</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=the_third_wave</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 04:36:55 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=the_third_wave" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by the_third_wave in "Samsung confirms its smart fridges will start showing you ads"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"The cause of the recent crash of flight ADZRUS-666 has been determined to be a badly scheduled ad impression which covered all screens in the glass cockpit to show aan ad of a dancing hippopotamus in a tutu selling skin care products while the plane was on final approach in IFR conditions."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 17:09:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45292213</link><dc:creator>the_third_wave</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45292213</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45292213</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by the_third_wave in "How Does the Cycle of Political Violence End? Here's What an Expert Says"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wikipedia lists whatever narrative the editors who have colonised that section of the site want to push. It is not a reliable source, this is something you learn in primary school.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2025 11:32:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45239056</link><dc:creator>the_third_wave</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45239056</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45239056</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by the_third_wave in "Guy running a Google rival from his laundry room"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>[flagged]</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:43:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45198501</link><dc:creator>the_third_wave</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45198501</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45198501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by the_third_wave in "Europol said ChatControl doesn't go far enough; they want to retain data forever"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Matrix is overly complicated for the purpose and XMPP/OMEMO already are interoperable between many different clients. Just like all other communication systems it is the network effect which makes them usable. Tell your friends to install a client of choice and - for those so inclined - run a server or create an account on one. Keep your current W/app or Telegram or whatever active for now while you slowly move more communications to XMPP. Once you have contact with most of your friends and family via XMPP make it your default wat to communicatie, i.e. do not start conversations over the legacy apps and answer those who contact you over them through XMPP. You'll find that you'll end up using those legacy apps less and less. Keep them active if you want but don't initiate conversations over them and you'll be set for the moment using those services becomes untenable.<p>This is not just fiction, it is what I have done and am still in the process of doing, in my case moving from Telegram - I never used nor will I ever use things which requires accounts run by metafacebook or Google or Microsoft or any of the others.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2025 20:44:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45108793</link><dc:creator>the_third_wave</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45108793</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45108793</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by the_third_wave in "Europol said ChatControl doesn't go far enough; they want to retain data forever"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Conversations on Android and forks thereof are comparable to eg. W/app. This is not a problem, at all.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2025 20:23:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45108513</link><dc:creator>the_third_wave</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45108513</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45108513</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by the_third_wave in "Europol said ChatControl doesn't go far enough; they want to retain data forever"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We're not there yet, by far. Should that ever happen it will be circumvented just like nearly all technological measures are.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2025 20:21:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45108481</link><dc:creator>the_third_wave</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45108481</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45108481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by the_third_wave in "Europol said ChatControl doesn't go far enough; they want to retain data forever"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just run your own XMPP server in your own domain, use OMEMO for encryption and you're set. You can communicate with others on other servers, none of them 'publically available' and the TLA's can stare at all that encrypted gibberish 'till the cows come home. Even if they break into a single server they won't get access to the cleartext, for that they'll need to access the terminal devices - phones, browsers, etc.<p>This is how I've been communicating for years now, it works fine and does not feed any of the data parasites out there.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2025 11:43:53 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45101774</link><dc:creator>the_third_wave</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45101774</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45101774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by the_third_wave in "Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Time to change your laws and/or prosecutors I'd say so those 'minor thefts' can <i>and will</i> be prosecuted resulting in fines which <i>need to be paid</i> - no ifs and buts. Get them early and get them (hopefully not that) often and you may be able to keep the majority of 'proletarian shoppers' on a somewhat less crooked path. If crime pays more people commit crimes, if shoplifting is not dealt with more people shoplift.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2025 05:41:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44969394</link><dc:creator>the_third_wave</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44969394</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44969394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by the_third_wave in "Investigation into 4chan and its compliance with duties to protect its users"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Could you give some examples which refer to the activities you accuse him of? Examples of actual violations of the Constitution of the United States, that is, not just examples of him deciding things you happen to disagree with.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2025 00:21:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44936136</link><dc:creator>the_third_wave</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44936136</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44936136</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by the_third_wave in "California unemployment rises to 5.5%, worst in the U.S. as tech falters"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You Grayscale people have it easy, at least you have contrast. As a person of Transparency I end up overlooked everywhere all the time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2025 10:38:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44922042</link><dc:creator>the_third_wave</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44922042</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44922042</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by the_third_wave in "Why are there so many rationalist cults?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>Gott ist tot! Gott bleibt tot! Und wir haben ihn getötet! Wie trösten wir uns, die Mörder aller Mörder? Das Heiligste und Mächtigste, was die Welt bisher besaß, es ist unter unseren Messern verblutet.</i><p>The average teenager who reads Nietzsches proclamation on the death of God thinks of this as an accomplishment, finally we got rid of those thousands of years old and thereby severely outdated ideas and rules. Somewhere along the march to maturity they may start to wonder whether that which has replaced those old rules and ideas were good replacements but most of them never come to the realisation that there were rebellious teenagers during all those centuries when the idea of a supreme being to which or whom even the mightiest were to answer to still held sway. Nietzsche saw the peril in letting go off that cultural safety valve and warned for what might come next.<p>We are currently living in the world he warned us about and for that I, atheist as I am, am partly responsible. The question to be answered here is whether it is possible to regain the benefits of the old order without getting back the obvious excesses, the abuse, the sanctimoniousness and all the other abuses of power and privilege which were responsible for turning people away from that path.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2025 16:01:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44878124</link><dc:creator>the_third_wave</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44878124</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44878124</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by the_third_wave in "Severe turbulence forces Delta A330 to make emergency landing, 25 injured"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>...and as if on queue the narrative around climate "crisis" is woven into an article about a plane experiencing turbulence: <i>experts say the issue is getting worse in an era of climate crisis</i>. Do publications like the Guardian have narrative quotas they need to achieve?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2025 14:13:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44745877</link><dc:creator>the_third_wave</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44745877</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44745877</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by the_third_wave in "XMPP: When a 25-Year-Old Protocol Becomes Strategic Again"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Certainly XMPP is not perfect but then again, nothing is. The extensibility does make it a bit of a gamble whether any specific server - which can be used for all kinds of purposes, many of which not related to human communication - offers everything a client program expects it to. Then again if your communication/discussion partners all make sure to use servers which support the essentials for the type of use you want to make of it - usually that'll mean those XEPs need for OMEMO, muc and maybe Jingle, the Conversations project publishes a list of what is needed [1] - things work just fine and you'll be communicating without the need for centralised (monetised, censored, monitored, ...) services. I've been running it for decades now, first as a backup "just in case" communication channel but for the last 7 years or so as my main channel to family and friends. We're using mostly the Conversations (-derived) client(s) on mobile, Gajim on desktop and Converse.js on web with servers running on different types of hardware ranging from SBCs (RasPi etc) to ex-lease enterprise hardware. The maintenance burden on the server software is close to zero with Prosody, it hardly takes any resources and has never crashed on me.<p>[1] <a href="https://codeberg.org/inputmice/Conversations#xmpp-features" rel="nofollow">https://codeberg.org/inputmice/Conversations#xmpp-features</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2025 09:12:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44681188</link><dc:creator>the_third_wave</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44681188</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44681188</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by the_third_wave in "Are we witnessing the final days of Mozilla?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A lot of that time was spent chasing the ever-changing "standards" which describe what a browser is supposed to do. It is easier for a new project to implement the distilled essence of those "standards" than it was to try to keep up with the house-of-cards-built-on-quicksand while its "architects" kept on changing and expanding its "design". This means Ladybird should be able to reach parity in a much shorter timeframe, it is the slog which comes after which decides whether they can keep up with whatever Blink does (which more or less is what those "standards" end up describing).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2025 12:26:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44658429</link><dc:creator>the_third_wave</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44658429</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44658429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by the_third_wave in "Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No Chrome, no problem. Just remove it or - better still - never install it. Use an AOSP-derived distribution like Lineage, use Cromite as system we view and <i>all your browser engines are belong to you</i>.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 10:54:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44558585</link><dc:creator>the_third_wave</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44558585</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44558585</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by the_third_wave in "Apple's Browser Engine Ban Persists, Even Under the DMA"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is both fruit factory fanboyism as well as anti-EU sentiment and it has nothing to do with 'capitalists' not liking 'consumers' having choices. Without capitalism the problem would not exist, so much is true. It would not exist because there wouldn't be anything to choose from: no browser market, no mobile devices, no choice. This tired anti-capitalism rhetoric needs to be shelved with the other books from the 60's and 70's.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 10:48:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44558529</link><dc:creator>the_third_wave</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44558529</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44558529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by the_third_wave in "Ask HN: Any resources for finding non-smart appliances?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Repair your current device? If that is really not possible get a "smart" one and dumb it down - don't allow any network access or - if it insists on being connected or you want to get some use out of its "smart" functions - put it on a separate network which has no access to the internet. Of and when I'm "forced" to get a new "smart" piece of equipment this is what I do if I can not change the firmware on the thing to something under my own control. I never let any "smart" device access the internet because of a host of reasons ranging from security and privacy to the risks of the thing "upgrading" itself without my approval.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2025 11:11:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44488991</link><dc:creator>the_third_wave</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44488991</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44488991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by the_third_wave in "A new, faster DeepSeek R1-0528 variant appears from German lab"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sounds like a good use of "spare" time to me and not that different from many a lab I've been part of: someone gets a hunch, sets up an experiment to follow it, proves poor disproves whatever they were after, pulls down the experiment, rinse, repeat.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2025 10:02:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44471528</link><dc:creator>the_third_wave</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44471528</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44471528</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by the_third_wave in "The US dollar is on track for its worst year in modern history"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Approval poll numbers seem to indicate a plurality of US voters agree with much of what the current government is implementing and for the first time in a very long period the majority of US voters seems to think the country is on the right track. You may not like what Trump and his crew are doing but most people did not like what your preferred candidates were doing and planning to do. Given these numbers I'd say "your democracy" (which is a constitutional republic but I'll just borrow some of the oft-heard rhetoric from the "democratic" party) seems to be functioning quite well and certainly a lot better than under the previous regime when approval numbers were abysmal.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 08:45:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44462537</link><dc:creator>the_third_wave</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44462537</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44462537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by the_third_wave in "Google Gemini is about to control your messages and calls, even if you say no"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You don't need GrapheneOS or any other specific AOSP derivative for that, any of them will do. Just don't install any Google-specific bits on the device - use microG if you need to have something resembling Google services - and you're there. Even on stock devices with Google services you can get partly there by disabling anything you don't need, only enabling it when you happen upon some app which absolutely won't run without them but first check if you can replace that app with another or - better still - a web app which can replace it. How to disable Google services you asked? Why, using a script of course, launched from a Termux widget. Here's one way to do this, using a disable/enable script (one script, two hardlinked names) on a <i>rooted</i> device running some stock distribution. If you try this and your phone breaks you get to keep both pieces without extra cost - in other words this works for me but might not work for you:<p><pre><code>   ~ $ cat .shortcuts/Google_Services\:enable
   #!/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/bash

   PACKAGE="com.google.android.gms com.google.android.gms.policy_sidecar_aps com.google.android.gsf com.android.vending"
   PATH="/data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin:$PATH"

   command=$(echo "$0"|cut -d: -f2)

   pman () {
           action=$1
           shift
           for package in $@; do
                   sudo pm $action $package
           done
   }

   case $command in
   disable|enable)
           pman $command $PACKAGE
           ;;
   *)
           echo "command '$command' not supported"
           ;;
   esac
   exit 0</code></pre></p>
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