Hacker News: twelvedogs

New comment by twelvedogs in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

twelvedogs — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:40:06 +0000

Australia is still pretty messy, Telstra was privatised and pretty much stopped upgrading their network for years around the 24 mb ADSL level

Eventually we had a forward thinking prime Minister create a new company that started running fibre to homes and wholesaling it to non government businesses but they lost power and fibre to the home became fibre to the neighbourhood running the last bit over existing phone lines

Eventually it was returned to fibre to the home as upgrading existing lines to run shitty 100mb connections was actually much more expensive than just running fibre

We're only now starting to get to the point where fibre is fairly available when it could have been ten years ago

New comment by twelvedogs in "I'm betting on ATProto"

twelvedogs — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:52:18 +0000

while true i think it's inevitable. bots are most of the internet, limiting communities to known good actors is becoming incredibly important and the side effect of removing unknown good actors is difficult to get around

New comment by twelvedogs in "I traced my traffic through a home Tailscale exit node"

twelvedogs — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 09:36:35 +0000

with wireguard i found that pretty almost every public wifi blocked it and even a lot of private internet connections at my friends houses did as well

if my mobile provider blocked it as well it would have been completely useless

probably depends on your location a lot though

New comment by twelvedogs in "Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)"

twelvedogs — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:17:05 +0000

If you use multiple terminals it kinda sucks unless you do export PROMPT_COMMAND='history -a' in your.bashrc or something cause only the last closed terminal saves to history

New comment by twelvedogs in "A Japanese glossary of chopsticks faux pas (2022)"

twelvedogs — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 11:31:52 +0000

Until you do it on a temporary table and knock over everyone's drinks

New comment by twelvedogs in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

twelvedogs — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:23:09 +0000

convince people to use them and banks can suck it up

New comment by twelvedogs in "Cert Authorities Check for DNSSEC from Today"

twelvedogs — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:09:56 +0000

The difference is DNS provides a fairly obvious up side

New comment by twelvedogs in "Can I run AI locally?"

twelvedogs — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 03:24:21 +0000

think you're on the wrong side of the consensus here

New comment by twelvedogs in "Your phone is an entire computer"

twelvedogs — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:34:59 +0000

If it was easy I would expect 5-10% if people would probably do it, much like alternate desktop installs

This would mean millions of devices

You mention Graphene is more secure so what exactly am I gaining from not being able to install it other than my phone being trash once it's out of support

New comment by twelvedogs in "GPT-5.4"

twelvedogs — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 02:34:18 +0000

I bullied it into giving me concise answers, now it starts every answer with "just quickly" or something similar but it gets straight to the point

New comment by twelvedogs in "A bug is a bug, but a patch is a policy: The case for bootable containers"

twelvedogs — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:42:22 +0000

> What about having several use cases in mind, and give the scores for each of those?

i imagine the same reason they don't score for 1, it takes time that could be allocated elsewhere

tbh i think scoring for multiple scenarios would take more time and be less useful. kernel devs are not implementors, they may have never used docker or built a cut down kernel for an iot device, they just build a general purpose kernel

New comment by twelvedogs in "Facebook is cooked"

twelvedogs — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 22:04:45 +0000

The algorithm is not optimised for meaningful interactions, even 10 years ago i couldn't get it to even mostly show friends and family after fighting it for a week

New comment by twelvedogs in "FBI couldn't get into WaPo reporter's iPhone because Lockdown Mode enabled"

twelvedogs — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 15:32:36 +0000

I don't think we're doing amendments any more

New comment by twelvedogs in "Love it or hate it, Windows 11 has reached 1B users faster than 10"

twelvedogs — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 10:40:46 +0000

Yeah no shit, with windows ten way more people had a choice rather than got pushed into it

New comment by twelvedogs in "FAA institutes nationwide drone no-fly zones around ICE operations"

twelvedogs — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 21:59:47 +0000

I'm not sure what your point is, are you saying ice will draw a line because that tech was used in war?

Trump has ordered troops to be ready deploy, pretending lines exist is silly

New comment by twelvedogs in "Google confirms 'high-friction' sideloading flow is coming to Android"

twelvedogs — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 21:34:31 +0000

Google's search engine domination is nearly over, they are constantly making it worse to the point using ai is preferable and literally anyone can spin up an ai

New comment by twelvedogs in "Bugs Apple loves"

twelvedogs — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 08:51:55 +0000

do you think that makes it ok? they walked into a store, tried to pay money to apple and as a result they had their stuff locked forever

apple recommended they only buy gift cards from apple, but they still sell them in stores...

obviously money is more important to them than the consumers but pretending apple have zero responsibility is silly

New comment by twelvedogs in "Bugs Apple loves"

twelvedogs — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 08:46:04 +0000

this kind of stuff happens all the time across major companies with minimised support. sure your google account is likely to be there tomorrow but it's only a very good chance that it's not locked forever.

i would be surprised if there's any company with millions of users where .01 or .001 (still a LOT of users) just get screwed with zero recourse

New comment by twelvedogs in "Swedish Alecta has sold off an estimated $8B of US Treasury Bonds"

twelvedogs — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:57:52 +0000

No one wants to be left holding the bag

New comment by twelvedogs in "How AI destroys institutions"

twelvedogs — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:50:11 +0000

Blaming only people is also incorrect, it's incredibly easy to see that once the cost of submission was low enough compared to the possible reward bounties would become unviable

Ai just made the cost of entry very low by pushing it onto the people offering the bounty

There will always be a percentage of people desperate enough or without scruples that can do that basic math, you can blame them but it's like blaming water for being wet