Hacker News: yowo

New comment by yowo in "Dutch 'idealist' bank ASN blocks non-Google Android, including GrapheneOS"

yowo — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 14:14:40 +0000

If you leave your phone whose bootloader is unlocked on a coffee shop table and visit restroom, you can never guarantee it is not compromised when you return.

I still don't think it is a good ground for banning, but understandable.

New comment by yowo in "Dutch 'idealist' bank ASN blocks non-Google Android, including GrapheneOS"

yowo — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 12:29:36 +0000

Always install these apps and negatively review them, specifically mention banning of GrapheneOS, there is absolutely no plausible reason for that.

I get banning rooted devices and unlocked bootloader (despite I disagree of them being ground for banning), but GrapheneOS left no possible excuse to anyone.

New comment by yowo in "Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders"

yowo — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 16:50:21 +0000

Read: ALLERGIES.md

New comment by yowo in "Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders"

yowo — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 16:49:19 +0000

Hey Clanker, check my todo and order enough food for the amount of work due tomorrow.

New comment by yowo in "120 days until Google restricts side-loading, declaring war on Android freedom"

yowo — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:11:08 +0000

I despise everything about google, from surveillance and user hostility to monopoloy and genocide enablement, but I can understand this change everytime I look at my grandparents app menus, for me, it feels patronizing to have to wait 24hrs to enable basic functionality, but I can understand where does this come from.

Anyways, it is a good thread to remind people that Motorola partnered with GrapheneOS and will release GrapheneOS compatible devices next year.

New comment by yowo in "120 days until Google restricts side-loading, declaring war on Android freedom"

yowo — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 15:57:04 +0000

GraphenOS?

New comment by yowo in "Our position on open-weights models"

yowo — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:15:35 +0000

Conclusion: open weights models are good for Anthropic because they shows the so called threat that will make congress allow pouring money in Anthropic for national security & AI arms race

New comment by yowo in "The kids with phones are alright"

yowo — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:12:10 +0000

I don't have a particular opinion about smartphone/social media ban for minors, but the argument made here is at best a strawman fallacy, there is no law that prevents minors from having a digital camera that can be used to collect evidence or document malicious actions, and they aren't more expensive than phones.

New comment by yowo in "Lost city discovered beneath Egypt's desert with ancient church"

yowo — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 09:44:37 +0000

Completely wiped out? Christian copts were the majority for more than a century after Egypt became under Islamic rule, the shift took centuries of immigration and fertility rate changes. Many churches still stands in Egypt where they were before Islamic rule.

The copts themselves welcomed Islamic conquest as Muslims gave them more rights than previous rulers.

https://www.britannica.com/place/Egypt/From-the-Islamic-conq...

You are attempt to disguise your hate as history is a failure.

New comment by yowo in "Did my old job only exist because of fraud?"

yowo — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 07:03:06 +0000

I have a serious question for everyone who reading through comments: If you get a great paying position in a business that is clearly managed by too ambitious people and will never succeed, given that you are legally not a part of the potential fraud ring that you can't prove, just an engineer closing issues and merging patches, would you reject it?

New comment by yowo in "Arch Linux Now Believes Malware Incident Under Control: More Than 1,500 Packages"

yowo — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:33:37 +0000

This is like saying a user who clone a random git repo is not to blame and git-scm should do more to prevent cloning of malicious repos. If it is not official, it is your job to review, if you dont like it, use iOS instead of Arch Linux.

If you crash your car, you are liable for the accident. If you aren't ready for that, take the bus.

More power = more responsibility

New comment by yowo in "Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes"

yowo — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:02:10 +0000

Maybe US OFAC has missed one particular state

New comment by yowo in "Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes"

yowo — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:58:03 +0000

What a surprise..

New comment by yowo in "Surprise, pay $1000"

yowo — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 10:13:35 +0000

Unpleaseant experience and all, but sounds like complaining about not reading the full terms and then being shocked after the first bill, which is ok if you are buying a personal service, but that's a no-no in business.

The argument of "like many early startup do, we oversaw this and ignored that" doesn't really make it better.

New comment by yowo in "The Public Should Own Half of the Big A.I. Companies"

yowo — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:55:06 +0000

Better idea, mandate 4 days work week and 30 days PTO, the labor squeeze such law would cause will bring wages up and offsets AI productivity boost impact and pays people back in lifetime.

New comment by yowo in "Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets"

yowo — Sun, 31 May 2026 04:01:08 +0000

- Global economy on the verge of depression.

- ChatGPT drops, AI is perfect to be our savior.

- AI glorified as the great messiah.

- Everyone worships stocks even remotely related to AI.

- Execs desperate for relevance boast about tokenmaxxing.

- SHTF

- burst

- last year flagship GPUs and DRAM are sold used for the price of a burger.

- Laidoff people start using local AI as hardware price drops to make actual useful stuff

- New round of bootstrapped tech bros that eventually give birth to the new metaverse/NFT/etc.. hype.

New comment by yowo in "The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100"

yowo — Mon, 25 May 2026 08:11:38 +0000

4-day work week is one of the fastest ways to distribute AI productivity gains back to public

New comment by yowo in "Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality"

yowo — Sun, 24 May 2026 11:57:32 +0000

Wow, many dictatorships wouldn't mind this level of speech.

New comment by yowo in "Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy"

yowo — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:24:04 +0000

1600 years old in Egypt isn't ancient

New comment by yowo in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"

yowo — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:43:51 +0000

No, give him a handshake and thank him for being a good teacher who didn't let me and my colleagues turn the class to a zoo and teached us discipline.

Corporal punishment is not bad when its fair, not arbitrary, unjust, nor physically damaging.