Hacker News: treebeard901

New comment by treebeard901 in "Got personal financial, medical data you'd like to keep private? Good luck"

treebeard901 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 06:31:19 +0000

Just go ahead and upload your companies valuable source code to our model so we can eventually replicate your business... Or I mean, uh, protect you from hackers. Yeah.

New comment by treebeard901 in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

treebeard901 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 06:15:55 +0000

Most phones are not really off when shut down with the battery still inside. It is still responding to E911 services and other forms of tracking. I know this will try to be debunked that if the phone is off, there is no power or communication to the various radios and transmitters. But there are different power states depending on your phone and firmware. You're only really "off the grid" when the battery is removed or you have a faraday bag.

New comment by treebeard901 in "The Onion to Take over InfoWars"

treebeard901 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 06:08:44 +0000

Turning into an odd form of a take over. Basically renting it for 3 months to let Tim Heidecker do a few shows??

New comment by treebeard901 in "The Onion to Take over InfoWars"

treebeard901 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 06:07:03 +0000

I'm concerned they won't know what to do without Alex. Already going back over shows from 2006...

New comment by treebeard901 in "Making RAM at Home [video]"

treebeard901 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 05:41:56 +0000

With memory prices what they are maybe there is a business opportunity for a return of SoftRAM 95

New comment by treebeard901 in "All phones sold in the EU to have replaceable batteries from 2027"

treebeard901 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 15:59:57 +0000

Being able to remove your phone battery also stops all tracking and surveillance for that device. If that sort of thing matters to you.

New comment by treebeard901 in "Notes from the SF peptide scene"

treebeard901 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 08:31:22 +0000

San Francisco seems, after only living here two years, to be a city kind of in a cold war with itself. I think the Broligarch Tech crowd is fighting with the progressives and in many ways the progressives are losing and do not realize it. I am not using these terms in their strict political meaning either. Much more extended to cultural aspects. I know it is also much more than just those two subcultures but they are the two most dominate.

Makes me wish I could've experienced the 1960s San Francisco or even the 90s SF. Tech and tech money just rots the soul of an area.

New comment by treebeard901 in "Remember? "Sideloading" is here to stay, and won't go away, they said?"

treebeard901 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:54:37 +0000

The powers that be do not want any code being run that hasn't been approved by a central authority. The same applies to running any code that is not authenticated to an actual person backed by some form of ID. Facial, drivers license, phone number, etc. to a central authority. The financial interests also want to force the advertising system on everyone and side loaded apps like new pipe and others threaten the monopoly.

It is about much more than just owning a device.

New comment by treebeard901 in "US v. Heppner (S.D.N.Y. 2026) no attorney-client privilege for AI chats [pdf]"

treebeard901 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 07:53:55 +0000

For criminal matters, the Govt will be so far into your phone and accounts, that unless you meet your lawyer in a faraday cage, you have no real attorney client privilege. Zoom attorney calls, cell phone calls, in person meetings with devices in the room... Using cloud connected systems to draft your legal defense... All of it is monitored and a form of parallel construction is done to use the information learned against you in ways that shape the case in the Govts favor before you even get to court. Just another use of the surveillance state.

New comment by treebeard901 in "The FBI Director Is MIA"

treebeard901 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 07:49:20 +0000

Check if he teleported to a waffle house

New comment by treebeard901 in "Everything we like is a psyop?"

treebeard901 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 19:00:16 +0000

How much of the Internet is like Moltbook where you don't know the other users are bots? Does the private sector or Government control them? ... How long has it been this way??

Yes everything is a psyop

New comment by treebeard901 in "Controversial FISA program extended by House but only until April 30"

treebeard901 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:57:58 +0000

The only thing people in power want more than money is more power. So if you ever hear they stopped authorizing these programs, it just means a more secret and powerful one replaced it behind the scenes.

New comment by treebeard901 in "Ban the sale of precise geolocation"

treebeard901 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:55:58 +0000

Once wealthy and powerful people realize how this can be used to track them they will start cracking down. One of many examples for how underrated access to location data is for unauthorized people, it is a primary way that the military locates and kills targets in foreign countries. It is surprising all of the data is so freely available with data brokers. Or in some cases from the app companies themselves, if you're willing to make it worth the trouble for them.

New comment by treebeard901 in "Sam Altman's home targeted in second attack"

treebeard901 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:35:02 +0000

Only a matter of time before ChatGPT of the future sends a terminator back in time to protect and/or stop him...

New comment by treebeard901 in "Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?"

treebeard901 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:01:19 +0000

America used to be great. Can someone make it that way again?

New comment by treebeard901 in "Users say Adobe Creative Cloud rewrote hosts file to detect installed app"

treebeard901 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:20:33 +0000

All of the pirated Adobe installs require host file changes to redirect the license calls to local or nonexistent IPs. Maybe by Adobe adding this, it enables them to track pirated installs, since presumably the new host entry would reestablish the creative cloud connection...

Would be interesting to hear if any previously working cracked installs were broken...

New comment by treebeard901 in "Live: Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

treebeard901 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 01:40:39 +0000

Artemis II is scheduled for re-entry to Earth on April 10th. That is when the heat shield issue will be the most dangerous.

If it fails and the mission fails with loss of life while knowing it went ahead despite the IG report about the heat shield... It might be the end of NASA.

Hopefully it will return safely.

New comment by treebeard901 in "Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email"

treebeard901 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:43:23 +0000

Maybe the hackers will release information connecting Patel to the Noem and Lewandowski grift operations with govt contracts. Out of the four companies allowed to bid for the $220 million advertising contract, 3 were linked to Noem and Lewandowski and one to Patel.

Im sure they are all doing it...

New comment by treebeard901 in "Missile defense is NP-complete"

treebeard901 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:53:02 +0000

China, Iran and Russia can vastly out produce missle interceptors. Drones, hypersonics, etc.

They can also manufacture launchers faster and cheaper than they can be countered. $30k drone vs interceptor at millions.

The U.S. and Israel will not accept the current regime staying in power.

Neither side wants to stop the war. Israel, Europe, the U.S., gulf states and others in missile range of Iran will not want the current regime to remain in power.

What happens next? Full invasion? Regime change Iraq style??

Here is a highly probable outcome before next year. Iran continues breaking the Iron Dome and firing on "allied" targets and infrastructure. The U.S.refuses or cant sustain a full invasion (because it is a death trap).

What happens next? It is obvious Israel will use tactical nukes on Tehran and other targets in Iran. It is going to be their only option.

New comment by treebeard901 in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

treebeard901 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 07:16:56 +0000

Location data is arguably more important than financial or medical data. Atleast in a context where someone is after you. Thanks to bribery and data brokers, it doesnt have to be anyone in Govt or LE tracking you. Collect certain identifiers from a device or account and you can track almost anyone. Financial and medical data access is certainly bad, but your location data can be used to orchestrate a stalking campaign or a murder in a deniable way.

It is why after the U.S. kills or captures some foreign leader, they brag about figuring out their routes and daily habits. It is not a stretch to say that it could also be done, and probably has before, in the U.S.

Extreme penalities should be put in place for any location data access without a court order... And your location should never be allowed to be sold or shared with any non court approved third party. It really is that serious and if the public had the bandwidth to be concerned over another issue, maybe something would change.

Who knows, maybe all the public needs to take it seriously are some real life examples of location data being used illegally...