Hacker News: tomkarho

New comment by tomkarho in "The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standard sudo"

tomkarho — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 09:08:03 +0000

I can see that. I've been part of a conversation where GPL is treated like the son of satan because it requires giving back and no one seems to agree on the scope or what the license actually demands. So legal goes apeshit and management shits bricks because they might have to share some code.

New comment by tomkarho in "The Ubuntu 26.04 Rust sudo is not compatible with standard sudo"

tomkarho — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 22:29:11 +0000

I find it hard to believe that all of this movement is because of Stallman. That seems so... petty.

New comment by tomkarho in "Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM"

tomkarho — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 07:32:33 +0000

Cool. Is it still spying on everyone and everything on the user's computer though?

New comment by tomkarho in "MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability"

tomkarho — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 06:43:00 +0000

Management demanded "put copilot on it!" and someone did is my guess.

Could also be some kind of recall feature.

New comment by tomkarho in "Osewa – An open-source alternative to SSH and Mosh"

tomkarho — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 10:50:17 +0000

But it's written in Rust so it's all safe. /s

As an aside: it looks like they really are trying replace everything on the stack with Rust variants.

New comment by tomkarho in "OpenAI is quietly renaming data centers 'compute campuses'"

tomkarho — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 05:49:34 +0000

Newspeakish rebrand to bypass concerns and reset the conversation so any and all previous discussion becomes meaningless.

"Data centers? We don't have data centers. We have data campuses. Completely different animal. Like apples and oranges. Educate yourself before speaking you Russian bot."

Oh Orwell how prophetic you were.

That IPO must be in big enough trouble (especially after Altman decided to bemoan about personal computing) to warrant this kind of propaganda.

New comment by tomkarho in "Cuba is skipping its November 1, 2026 clock change and staying on DST until 2027"

tomkarho — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 08:55:46 +0000

Good for them. Hope that shames the rest of the world (looking at you EU) to action too.

New comment by tomkarho in "Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates"

tomkarho — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 20:19:38 +0000

I could swear I saw that title here earlier today almost verbatim maybe even referencing the same link.

New comment by tomkarho in "Walter Koenig, Ensign Chekov on original 'Star Trek' series, dies at 90"

tomkarho — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 18:41:49 +0000

He lasted longer than most. B5 cast tend to sadly check out early. Good run mr Koenig.

New comment by tomkarho in "Woman charged with computer fraud due to scam CashApp account being in her name"

tomkarho — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 05:08:44 +0000

California's got this experiment going I believe.

New comment by tomkarho in "PHP 8.2.35"

tomkarho — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:18:55 +0000

Ubuntu probably started working on a rust based replacement instead: rphp.

New comment by tomkarho in "Android apps running native on macOS"

tomkarho — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 04:23:52 +0000

Well they did say "emulate" and emulators are always slightly off the mark

New comment by tomkarho in "Big Tech Oligarchs Have a Terrible Plan for Humanity"

tomkarho — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 16:52:40 +0000

They have already taken part in every conceivable pleasure known to man that money can buy (legal and illegal). So much so that they have been desensitized to any stimuli barring extremes. And that's assuming these billionaires started out as ordinary folks in the first place (which is doubtful). All they got left is a God-complex to sustain them emotionally.

New comment by tomkarho in "Microsoft and CMU team up to train early career software engineers"

tomkarho — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 22:30:43 +0000

Or we could assume since new data is increasingly AI generated then the next generation of models are inherently born out of incestuous relationships so I would imagine Claude's grandson is going to be a dwarf.

Of course it is possible also that Claude will marry a chinese model (since it's asian odds are it is also smarter) bringing some diversity into the "gene" pool. Or better yet, a Russian supermodel.

New comment by tomkarho in "New 'super ice' 10 times stronger, bringing it close to the strength of concrete"

tomkarho — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:38:56 +0000

They already have the heart attack gun and half a dozen other gadgets. An ice bullet would be just (pardon the pun) an icing on the cake.

New comment by tomkarho in "Google told to halt work on datacentres in Finland over environmental concerns"

tomkarho — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 05:25:59 +0000

Considering prime minister Orpo has already been quite vocal about supporting these data centers (when concerns were raised about electricity prices rising which he assured they won't be) citing economic growth and job increase, I doubt Google receives any kind of hard hitting sanctions for this.

Obligatory reminder that Finland is the happiest country and is in fact considered by all metrics among the least corrupt nation in the world. /s

New comment by tomkarho in "Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?"

tomkarho — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:15:17 +0000

What does a Linux ISO sound like?

New comment by tomkarho in "The Return of Sail Power: Cargo Ships Are Turning Back to the Wind"

tomkarho — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 05:23:56 +0000

Can we bring zeppelins back next for air?

New comment by tomkarho in "LG says we're fake news [video]"

tomkarho — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 07:52:04 +0000

I wonder if the following scenario ever occurred inside LG when they were designing this spyware.

1. Teenagers exist

2. Teenagers hook up with other teenagers

3. Sometimes that might happen on the couch in front of the TV

If that TV records and transmits anything, who is on the hook for production and distribution of illicit materials? The parents? The kids? Or LG?

PR/legal wise this might be the worst case scenario and might even get some of those legislators and law enforcement people interested.

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

tomkarho — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 07:37:43 +0000

1. We do NOT record or log anything

2. We might log something but it is local only and these specific features

3. Okay maybe we'll log a little but the TOS gives us permission

4. Yes we log and record everything and this is why it's a good thing; you ought to pay us actually