Technetium
Re:AUR Packages Compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit
on Friday June 12, 2026 @08:17AM (#48503176)
They were orphaned, so anyone could adopt them. There are 15k other orphans at the moment.
Re:About the BLOBs in Ventoy
on Thursday August 07, 2025 @02:29PM (#44828495)
https://github.com/fnr1r is currently working on a reproducible open build system. If you wish to help the process, direct your attention there! You can see progress on the issues of their repos, as well as in this now (appropriately) locked issue: https://github.com/ventoy/Ventoy/issues/2795
Re:About the BLOBs in Ventoy
on Thursday August 07, 2025 @02:22PM (#44828403)
That would be quite an overblown reaction. There is currently no proof of malicious activity.
Re:AWS merges malicious PR into Amazon Q
on Friday July 25, 2025 @02:24AM (#44680157)
I found a postmortem which seems to be well written: https://www.mbgsec.com/posts/2025-07-24-constructing-a-timel...
Re:uv Running a Script with Dependencies
on Monday July 21, 2025 @09:46PM (#44642445)
Caching linked on the left: https://docs.astral.sh/uv/concepts/cache/
The index of the Concepts section says: "Looking for a quick introduction to features? See the guides instead."
Maybe there should instead be a link to the Concepts section for people who want more details, but I feel it's fine as it is.
Re:Show HN: FlopperZiro – A DIY open-source Flipper Zero clone
on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @07:05PM (#44515608)
The firmware repo was archived Apr 12, 2025. I don't think it's going to be revived or be feature-competitive.
Re:ASUSpicious Flaw – Users' Information Exposed Since 2022
on Tuesday June 24, 2025 @05:29PM (#44371275)
Unfun fact: that setting is often re-enabled after updates.
Re:VPN providers in France ordered to block pirate sports IPTV
on Friday June 06, 2025 @03:22PM (#44204093)
Can't ever trust a free VPN. If it's free, then you are the product being sold!
https://x.com/sleepinyourhat/status/1925626079043104830
"I deleted the earlier tweet on whistleblowing as it was being pulled out of context.
TBC: This isn't a new Claude feature and it's not possible in normal usage. It shows up in testing environments where we give it unusually free access to tools and very unusual instructions."
Re:Amazon to display tariff costs for consumers
on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @12:55PM (#43835131)
News sure moves fast...
"Amazon denies it planned to disclose cost of US tariffs on its website" - April 29, 2025 12:01 PM EDT: [1]
"Trump complained to Bezos before Amazon said it scrapped idea to display tariff cost" - April 29 2025 9:01 AM EDT: [2]
"Amazon denies tariff pricing plan after White House calls it "hostile and political"" - April 29, 2025 12:01 PM EDT: [3]
[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/white-house... [2] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/29/white-house-blasts-amazon-ov... [3] https://www.axios.com/2025/04/29/tariffs-amazon-prime-day-se...
Re:EFF Border Search Pocket Guide
on Saturday March 22, 2025 @11:46AM (#43446589)
You can trigger an admin lock with one tap on Android using this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iglint.and...
Re:Gemma3 – The current strongest model that fits on a single GPU
on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @11:34AM (#43344351)
I looked around to get confirmation, and I did find some related issues. Seems like it works properly when context is defined explicitly. There also appears to be a warning logged about "truncating input prompt", so it isn't an entirely silent failure.
https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/2653 + https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/4967 + https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/7043 + https://github.com/ollama/ollama/issues/8144
Re:Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in ...
on Saturday March 01, 2025 @06:54AM (#43218393)
Here is the official FAQ: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/wiki/Frequently-as...
For some context, I currently have 393,405 network filters ＋ 385,476 cosmetic filters.
"The current limit imposed by the various implementations is a guaranteed 30K. It is possible for an extension to use more rules, but anything above the global limit will not be enforced. Currently, the global limit in Chromium is 330K static rules."
Re:I found 1000 GitHub repos with malware. Can we get them deleted?
on Friday February 28, 2025 @10:37AM (#43206769)
Do not click the links or allow images to load, and you will remain safe. View the full raw email and look at the headers. Search who is registered for the domain in question. Contact their hosting provider.
Re:Microsoft begins turning off uBlock Origin and other extensions in ...
on Friday February 28, 2025 @10:26AM (#43206644)
4. No, it is not good. "Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37932754
Re:Obscura VPN – Privacy that's more than a promise
on Thursday February 20, 2025 @07:54PM (#43122758)
AI is not the answer for most things, but it's especially not the answer for this. Basic packet filtering is all there should ever be.
Re:TikTok goes dark in the US
on Sunday January 19, 2025 @02:39AM (#42754766)
Yes, it has been a security threat for years. It's a shame it took this long. In case you missed some of the myriad stories, here's just a few. Sure seems like the onus is on TikTok to prove they aren't being evil at this point, because all the evidence so far isn't implying anything good. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23634138 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29592103 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34109771 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31920756 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28199588 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33280176 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21076459 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33302591 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34098132
Re:New iMac with M4
on Monday October 28, 2024 @12:08PM (#41972672)
Re:Bitwarden is no longer free software
on Sunday October 20, 2024 @10:06AM (#41895451)
When I paid, it was with the expectation of supporting something open source. That's why I came to Bitwarden from Lastpass. This is really twisting the dagger in my back. They're probably preparing for an acquisition, since they have hit the same financial inflection point that CEO Michael Crandell was at previously when selling RightScale: https://bitwarden.com/blog/accelerating-value-for-bitwarden-...
Re:Swarm, a new agent framework by OpenAI
on Saturday October 12, 2024 @02:14PM (#41821150)
The title of this issue is: "Notorious namesquatter is threatening legal action" https://github.com/openai/swarm/issues/50
Re:Windows 11 24H2 hoards 8.63 GB of junk you can't delete
on Saturday October 12, 2024 @12:05PM (#41820111)
This feels like clickbait, and also may be a duplicate.
Re:Scuda – Virtual GPU over IP
on Friday October 11, 2024 @10:48AM (#41809956)
It would be nice to have a description added.
Re:Microsoft Recall is now an explorer.exe dependency
on Thursday October 10, 2024 @02:54PM (#41802100)
O&O ShutUp10++ is a requirement for me. It is my preference because every debloat script tends to legitimately break the OS. I have had to do clean installs multiple times this year after customers ran them. MS provides registry keys that can be configured, but they do consistently move them around. Without an application which can easily revert automated changes, it'd be nearly impossible to keep track of it all, let alone notice changes. Upside is not having a broken system, downside is needing to open it once every week or two. I agree with the other comments that LTSC would be better, but there's no reasonably legal way to obtain it, and nobody wants to have the BSA knock on their door asking for a quarter million USD per license violation. https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10
Re:Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 24.10 Performance For Intel Core Ultra 7 Luna...
on Wednesday October 09, 2024 @12:41PM (#41789895)
Timeshift is not exclusive to Mint. It's important to note that it was archived in 2022, and therefore will not see fixes or improvements. I'm a big fan of Snapper as a replacement, and encourage everyone to explore it. https://github.com/openSUSE/snapper
Re:uBlock Origin supports filtering CNAME cloaking sites on Firefox now
on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @01:11PM (#41779498)
2 days ago: "Chrome Canary just killed uBlock Origin and other Manifest V2 extensions" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41757178
Re:What's inside the QR code menu at this cafe?
on Monday September 23, 2024 @09:33AM (#41625915)
Author has removed the article.
Re:Scramble: Open-Source Alternative to Grammarly
on Wednesday September 18, 2024 @09:11AM (#41579289)
They proclaim "privacy-respecting" but all your keystrokes go to OpenAI. Horrific and genuinely upsetting.
Edit: The author replied to another comment that there is an intent to add local AI. If that is the plan, then fix the wording until it can actually be considered privacy-respecting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41579144
Re:Rio-labs/rio: WebApps in pure Python. No JavaScript, HTML and CSS n...
on Tuesday September 17, 2024 @11:42PM (#41575545)
"Once your components are ready, you can mix and match them to create entire web applications. Even this entire website is written in Rio."
Re:NIH cancels 'Havana syndrome' research, unethical coercion of parti...
on Monday September 02, 2024 @01:31PM (#41427259)
A commonly disregarded possibility is that it is self-inflicted while asleep: https://sleep.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s41606-019-...
Re:Set Up a $4/Mo Hetzner VM to Skip the Serverless Tax
on Monday September 02, 2024 @12:41PM (#41426850)
Confirming this is the case. OVH closed all my non-US accounts approximately 1 year ago.