Hacker News: yaris

New comment by yaris in "Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked"

yaris — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 12:16:33 +0000

Yes, nothing and the facts that these are government services, they use BankID and they updated their websites with "maintenance work" announcements for tomorrow, Saturday. For kronofogden.se there was no maintenance planned just half an hour ago. Knowing swedish tendency to plan things months ahead I would _guess_ that this maintenance work has been rushed due to some circumstances.

New comment by yaris in "Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked"

yaris — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:37:45 +0000

Knowing swedish people's mindset I'm not surprised at all by the breach. What can be mildly surprising is that no major e-gov service has expressed concerns on their websites. Only on skatteverket.se, which is Swedish Tax Service website, there is a vague note on "maintenance work" planned for coming Saturday. Maybe totally unrelated though.

New comment by yaris in "Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked"

yaris — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:30:19 +0000

I would guess that skatteverket.se, polisen.se, kronofogden.se are among those affected by the leak.

New comment by yaris in "Source code of Swedish e-government services has been leaked"

yaris — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:27:02 +0000

As if it ever happened that a breached company admitted immediately that they've just been fucked.

New comment by yaris in "A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth"

yaris — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 11:00:37 +0000

The Internet is _not_ for talking to people across the globe. The Internet allows that, but not only that - one can have a Whatsapp chat with someone in the same bus, this is both legal and technically possible. The bitchat app serves the niche where talking face to face is not an option and talking across the globe is not needed. And the app explicitly states "infrastructure independence" as one of its design goals: "the network remains functional during internet outages", which cannot be served by internet-based apps by design.

New comment by yaris in "A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth"

yaris — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 10:41:22 +0000

It depends on the country you're in, obviously. I've been to countries where protests are illegal (even 1-man protests with a blank sheet of paper).

New comment by yaris in "A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth"

yaris — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 08:24:21 +0000

Any situation when mobile internet cannot be used. That is not only protests, but also legal gatherings, i.e. street concerts, or places where mobile coverage is poor in general.

New comment by yaris in "Provenance Is the New Version Control"

yaris — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 07:19:17 +0000

What is conceptually different between prompts and code? Code is also not always what the computer will do, declarative programming languages are an example here. The only difference I see is that special precaution should be taken to get deterministic output from AI, but that's doable.

New comment by yaris in "Porn company fined £1M over inadequate age checks (UK)"

yaris — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:57:11 +0000

China has built their Great Firewall over many years gradually, and they have a lot of resources inside, so almost everything from the "western" Internet has a Chinese analog. Russian government simply does not give a flying fuck about people and economy on either side of the border, so they can just pull the plug completely if they see it necessary from the political point of view. So these countries are hardly reference points for what UK can achieve (although Russia is closer than China).

New comment by yaris in "Klarna says AI drive has helped halve staff numbers and boost pay"

yaris — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 13:58:04 +0000

If I get 10K and my boss gets 400K - our average compensation will be just above the mentioned 203K. But there are some small details, you see...

New comment by yaris in "Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software"

yaris — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 06:07:30 +0000

Nope, 15.7.2. Maybe there are some settings, unknown to me, that are configured by MDM and that allow for such behaviour - our Macbooks are managed by the employer and are intended for development, so would be logical to set them up this way.

New comment by yaris in "Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software"

yaris — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 06:37:28 +0000

To check I did this: removed the signature (LC_CODE_SIGNATURE section) using lief Python package (no affiliation, just looked suitable for the task), checked by otool that the section is indeed gone, started the binary - it worked. The spctl said that the binary is "rejected", but it says so about every non-Apple binary I checked on my machine so not informative. The codesign tool shows "is not signed at all" on the binary with stripped signature. I'm not too well-versed in OSX system/dev tools, so if there is a more correct/precise method of checking the signatures I'd very much like to know.

New comment by yaris in "Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software"

yaris — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 12:14:44 +0000

As mentioned above you have to approve the binary two times (at least), being careful the first time because the dialog popup offers to remove the binary. Also since our product has some networking to do one has to mingle with firewall settings to allow the binary to do the networking.

New comment by yaris in "Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software"

yaris — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 11:46:16 +0000

(I may be wrong here but) under the hood Docker on macOS runs a small Linux VM where all containers live, exactly because containers are basically Linux namespaces on steroids so not portable 1:1 to anywhere.

New comment by yaris in "Homebrew no longer allows bypassing Gatekeeper for unsigned/unnotarized software"

yaris — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 11:09:31 +0000

You very much _can_ run unsigned software on Apple silicon. At work my department has a bit less than 50 engineers with Macs (M1 to M4) and nobody complained that they can't build and run our product (using GCC from Homebrew, not Clang from Apple). But it involves some jumping through hoops, yes.

New comment by yaris in "Knocker, a knock based access control system for your homelab"

yaris — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 09:55:30 +0000

The authentication part does not look much different from password authentication (key ≈ password), and the "Configurable TTL" bit is somewhat confusing, the first part of the sentence assigns the TTL to API keys but the second part says it applies to IPs being whitelisted. I would expect that TTL for a key means that after the TTL expires the key itself becomes unusable.

New comment by yaris in "The strangest letter of the alphabet: The rise and fall of yogh"

yaris — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 10:03:41 +0000

With Polish it may be even harder to go backwards, look for a clip from "Jak rozpętałem drugą wojnę światową" movie on Youtube.

New comment by yaris in "BlueOS Kernel – Written in Rust, compatible with POSIX"

yaris — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 08:34:07 +0000

/offtop, but could not help... Optimists learn English, pessimists learn Chinese, realists learn AK-74 (or M-16 or whatever one's military is using).

New comment by yaris in "A proof-of-concept neural brain implant providing speech"

yaris — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 09:38:38 +0000

I often wonder how such teams build their devices - I assume it requires quite a few pieces of equipment that can't be bought at a nearby shop. Are such devices ordered from some manufacturer or are they built in-house somehow?

New comment by yaris in "Our crisis is not loneliness but human beings becoming invisible"

yaris — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 08:18:51 +0000

Could you explain what stops _you_ from punching different machines (coffee machines, ATMs etc)? After all they are exactly that - robots, and your comment makes it quite clear that it’s OK. And also human workers who for different reasons are unable to socialize with you while doong their jobs?