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New comment by thewanderer1983 in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

thewanderer1983 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:34:51 +0000

Thanks for the response. Sorry I should of been less vague. Paqet works on raw sockets with KCP. Though it's intended for good. What's to assume bad actors aren't also using this method to get around solutions like littlesnitch?

A recent example, but not the only is a Iran a botnet, using this to get around detection.

https://cybersecuritynews.com/iran-linked-botnet-exposed-aft...

New comment by thewanderer1983 in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

thewanderer1983 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:58:38 +0000

Does little snitch and similar software work against solutions like Paqet?

https://github.com/hanselime/paqet

Arena Zero Ep.1 [video]

thewanderer1983 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:00:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqcH-1Rk-ow

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47567262

Points: 3

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New comment by thewanderer1983 in "Wander – A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web"

thewanderer1983 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 21:21:46 +0000

Have you considered including Gemini and gopher support? There is a very nice small web community there.

New comment by thewanderer1983 in "New 'negative light' technology hides data transfers in plain sight"

thewanderer1983 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:41:17 +0000

Yep.

New comment by thewanderer1983 in "GPT-5 outperforms federal judges in legal reasoning experiment"

thewanderer1983 — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 01:03:57 +0000

I was diagnosed with a rare blood disease called Essential Thrombocythemia (ET) which is part of a group of diseases called myeloproliferative neoplasms. This happened about three years ago. Recently, I decided to get a second opinion and my new specialist changed my diagnosis from ET to Polycythemia Vera (PV). She also highly recommended I quickly go and give blood to lower my haematocrit levels as it put me at a much higher risk of a blood clot. This is standard practice for people with PV but not people with ET. I decided to put the details into google AI in the same way that the original specialist used to diagnose me. Google AI predicted I very likely had PV instead of ET. I also asked Google AI how one could misdiagnose my condition with ET instead of PV and google correctly explained how. My specialist had used my high platelet count and blood test that came back with a JAK2 mutation then after a bone marrow biopsy to incorrectly diagnose me with ET. My high hemoglobin levels should of been checked by my first specialist as an indication of PV not ET. Only the second specialist picked up on this. Google AI took five seconds, and is free. The specialists costs $$$ and took weeks.

But yeah AI slop and all that...

New comment by thewanderer1983 in "A flawed paper in management science has been cited more than 6k times"

thewanderer1983 — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 10:34:20 +0000

did “not impact the main text, analyses, or findings.”

Made me think of the black spoon error being off by a factor of 10 and the author also said it didn't impact the main findings.

https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/12/13/how-a-simp...

New comment by thewanderer1983 in "Mysterious Victorian-era shoes are washing up on a beach in Wales"

thewanderer1983 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 09:30:38 +0000

How about some local performance that recreated shoes from the Victorian period. That ended up in the ocean?

New comment by thewanderer1983 in "Global Village Construction Set"

thewanderer1983 — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 00:56:46 +0000

Someone only has to take part in a makerspace to see tragedy of the commons in action.

New comment by thewanderer1983 in "Choose Your Own Adventure"

thewanderer1983 — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 22:16:06 +0000

Interactive Fiction still exists and is being actively developed. Check out the top games on Interactive Fiction DB. https://ifdb.org/viewcomp?id=1lv599reviaxvwo7

New comment by thewanderer1983 in "Why do people keep writing about the imaginary compound Cr2Gr2Te6?"

thewanderer1983 — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 23:10:32 +0000

>Peer review isn't spellcheck or proofreading.

>It's about logic, methodology, significance, and citations

To quote kazinator in this thread. "The typo is not the problem; it's that the typo is evidence of academic dishonesty.

When you make a citation, it means you cracked open the original work, understood what it says and located a relevant passage to reference in your work.

The authors are propagating the same typo because they are not copying the original correct text; they are just copying ready-made citations of that text which they plant into their papers to manufacture the impression that they are surveying other work in their area and taking it into account when doing their work."

>It's not some gold standard of perfection or truth.

"Gold standard" is a term used within the scientific community to describe the high rigor expected within the scientific community when doing research. One of the processes they hold up in this standard is Peer Review. I wasn't making some general public statement about perfection. Google "Gold Peer Review Gold Standard".

New comment by thewanderer1983 in "Ask HN: The government of my country blocked VPN access. What should I use?"

thewanderer1983 — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 20:46:24 +0000

Go here. https://github.com/net4people/bbs/issues

Very helpful community.

New comment by thewanderer1983 in "Why do people keep writing about the imaginary compound Cr2Gr2Te6?"

thewanderer1983 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 02:01:49 +0000

Similiar tech was used for screeners to try and track leakers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screener_(promotional) Printer Tracking dots is another example. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots

For those interested in modern solutions. Look at watermark researchpapers.r

New comment by thewanderer1983 in "Why do people keep writing about the imaginary compound Cr2Gr2Te6?"

thewanderer1983 — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 01:06:08 +0000

The list is bigger than sokal. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scholarly_publishing_s...

New comment by thewanderer1983 in "Why do people keep writing about the imaginary compound Cr2Gr2Te6?"

thewanderer1983 — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 23:12:23 +0000

Have you heard of this thing called Peer Review? It's what academia hold up as their gold standard and it is supposed to pick up on these things.

New comment by thewanderer1983 in "The contrarian physics podcast subculture"

thewanderer1983 — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 22:46:00 +0000

I used to watch her show a few years back. I enjoyed her willingness to point out the failings of the scientific community. Things like lying by omission around the cold fusion energy levels being generated. Certain cosmological areas ignoring the need for empirical validation of their mathematical models etc. This was during that post-covid window where science was the institutions not the the method, skepticism was anti-science. Scientists were being portrayed as angels not humans, that don't suffer from the same failings as the rest of humanity... Anyway it was refreshing.

It was her video on the Stanford Internet Observatory. That made me realise she doesn't always put a lot of research into areas outside her expertise.

New comment by thewanderer1983 in "The demographic future of humanity: facts and consequences [pdf]"

thewanderer1983 — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 23:49:24 +0000

The last line of the slide reads "Once you start thinking about these issues, it is hard to think about anything else: demography is destiny."

Raoul Pal primary thesis about macroeconomics is that Demographics is everything. Here is a 54 second video of him highlighting that issue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJm_zFbIqPE

New comment by thewanderer1983 in "Hiding secret codes in light protects against fake videos"

thewanderer1983 — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 23:20:10 +0000

Reminds me of the 'mains hum' technique that was used to identify videos. Can also be done with light.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0elNU0iOMY

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical_network_frequency_a...

New comment by thewanderer1983 in "The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million"

thewanderer1983 — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 01:02:33 +0000

You can actually estimate this pretty well with only your brain and basic math. Example 1 in Guesstimation by Lawrence Weinstein and John Adams, would work for this problem. The problem is about estimating the height of all lottery tickets in a lottery. Another book called The art of Insight in Science and Engineering by Sanjoy Mahajan has this problem (1.3) but its with a suitcase filled with $100 bills.

New comment by thewanderer1983 in "Title of work deciphered in sealed Herculaneum scroll via digital unwrapping"

thewanderer1983 — Mon, 12 May 2025 00:41:19 +0000

Instead of an interesting discussion about the technologies used to unravel these documents, it quickly degraded into the usual politicized issues that plague the United States, and sadly it seems, now this forum.

I tried emailing Dang, to remove my account with no response. HN administrators, if you read this can please remove my account?