Hacker News: whatevaa

New comment by whatevaa in "Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates"

whatevaa — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 20:11:09 +0000

Full disk encryption protects from somebody yanking a hard drive from running server (actually happens) or stealing a laptop. Calling it useless because it doesn't match your threat model... I hate todays security people, can't threat model for shit.

New comment by whatevaa in "Electrical transformer manufacturing is throttling the electrified future"

whatevaa — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:59:04 +0000

How would you join transformers?

New comment by whatevaa in "Ubuntu now requires more RAM than Windows 11"

whatevaa — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:46:41 +0000

Win11 barely works with 4GB. Like, you can have a browser with youtube on and that's it, 90%+ memory usage. I know because that is one of my media PC (instead of smart tv).

Can't move to Linux because it's Intel Atom and Intel P-state driver for that is borked, never fixed.

New comment by whatevaa in "U.S. is burning through Tomahawk cruise missile stockpile"

whatevaa — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:43:05 +0000

No we are not ok with it, where the hell did you pull that from? LNG shipments are also blocked.

New comment by whatevaa in "Nvidia rolls out its fix for PC gaming's "compiling shaders" wait times"

whatevaa — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:44:57 +0000

Shaders are mini programs running on GPU. It is possible to exploit them as vulnerability. You do not want to trust client provided executable code.

New comment by whatevaa in "IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember"

whatevaa — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:52:42 +0000

My DNS "server" is a router which can "add" static entries. Easy with static addresses, won't work with dynamic addresses.

What redundancy, multiple servers? Do you think everybody runs dedicated homelabs to access a raspberry pi.

New comment by whatevaa in "Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it"

whatevaa — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:24:34 +0000

"The user just needs to be careful not to step on a landmine. Exact steps left as an exercise to the reader".

Anybody can send email with all of the dmarc stuff, how do you "be careful" with spoofed email?

New comment by whatevaa in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

whatevaa — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:06:35 +0000

No more such thing as commit to the company in western world anymore. Companies are definitely not commited to you.

New comment by whatevaa in "America tells private firms to “hack back”"

whatevaa — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 23:12:26 +0000

It applies to more things than computer security. Best defense is offense is a very old and broad say.

New comment by whatevaa in "How Ford burned $12B in Brazil (2021)"

whatevaa — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 10:20:57 +0000

Smaller battery, slower max charging. Higher speeds are achieveed by parallelization.

New comment by whatevaa in "Super Micro Shares Plunge 25% After Co-Founder Charged in $2.5B Smuggling Plot"

whatevaa — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:55:19 +0000

They don't work. Chinese are skilled enough to desolder and smuggle just the ships themselves. They make the rest of GPU in-house. With more VRAM than the nvidia offers, comically, in case of 4090.

New comment by whatevaa in "The Reason Windows Hate Is Exploding: It's the End of Personal Computing [video]"

whatevaa — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:11:22 +0000

Heard that most android devs use iphones. You can see that, actually, with some silly annoyances never fixed.

Probably similar with Windows.

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

whatevaa — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 07:39:50 +0000

If the wait was a week/a month/a year/a decade, would you still consider that "ability"?

New comment by whatevaa in "What if Python was natively distributable?"

whatevaa — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:42:49 +0000

Arrays starts at one scared everybody away.

New comment by whatevaa in "Review: Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra"

whatevaa — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:33:09 +0000

Wait some time after launch, prices will come down.

New comment by whatevaa in "Have a fucking website"

whatevaa — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:37:05 +0000

Table reservations are only for fancy restsurants.

New comment by whatevaa in "Retailer denies memory replacement due to 4x increase in DDR5 pricing"

whatevaa — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:18:40 +0000

In this case it would have been best to allow customer to get his product back not-replaced/not-repaired so he could seek other options, like repair. It is likely that only one of the sticks was bad, and a single good stick is worth 2x refund price. Buying a single not matching stick would have been better than this.

New comment by whatevaa in "US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says"

whatevaa — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:34:57 +0000

They buy all of them.

New comment by whatevaa in "Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads"

whatevaa — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:04:27 +0000

Not just TV's. Xiaomi subsidizes it's mobile phones by having ads in it's file manager and other default basic apps. Just as an example.

New comment by whatevaa in "I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services"

whatevaa — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 11:03:40 +0000

They will track you irregardless of your choice and then get fined 2% of their income from that tracking if caught. Most EU fines to big companies are still unpaid.

Either your trust website to not be shady, or not. That button click is not a formal agreement.