radicalcentrist
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Re:EMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise
on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @05:31PM (#50172971)
I admittedly don't know much about how CAs work but why would a state actor care about such an exploit? Wouldn't they just ask any local cert issuer and receive a "legitimate" cert?
Re:Tesla Roadster
on Friday October 16, 2026 @02:49AM (#50114994)
Not RCS (used a gimbaled turbofan instead), but the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Landing_Research_Vehicle) is also incredibly cool.
Re:Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake
on Friday October 02, 2026 @04:08AM (#49931044)
I think you would be very unpleasantly surprised to see how many organizations deeply rely on GitHub. Think about how many open-source projects you've seen that have willingly tied themselves to GH-specific features, and then extrapolate to thousands of companies with masses of spaghetti code that are hopelessly reliant on their internal GH Enterprise features.
Re:Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel
on Friday October 02, 2026 @03:39AM (#49930863)
I assume both? I'd be surprised to see a vulnerability fixed without first being discovered.
Re:Fable hacked my piano, can I release the results?
on Monday September 07, 2026 @03:09AM (#49594931)
Consider previous cases where companies like Reddit have unmasked their users at the behest of court order.
Re:Keep Our Servers Running: Your Recurring Donation Goes 3X This Sept...
on Monday September 07, 2026 @03:05AM (#49594899)
I'm not well-informed about this situation, but DDOSing does strike me as an action which is fundamentally counter to information freedom and archival, so that seems like a reasonable suspicion to me.
Re:Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fou...
on Monday July 06, 2026 @08:24AM (#48803639)
Yep, a great lesson, and a relatively low price to pay for teaching my kids the honorable act of civil disobedience.
Re:Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff
on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @08:29PM (#48578934)
Interesting, this reminds me a bit of TTS models that had poor quality training data inserting commercial jingles or background music into their output, although I would agree that in this case it sounds intentional.
Are we expected to know latin, or is this supposed to be a little homework assignment for us? Ridiculous.
Re:The Myth of the ThinkPad
on Friday January 16, 2026 @03:28AM (#46644324)
I believe there is a kernel of truth here, but having used both the mainstream products and their "underdog" alternatives, this is completely counter to my experience.
Nokia is a bit before my time, but I've used both iPhones and Androids and simply cannot suffer iPhones anymore. There are so many features of Android that are impossible to replicate on Apple products. Even something as simple as blocking ads is a fool's errand on iOS. I make extensive use of third-party app stores, patching .apk files, and my device's filesystem. I laugh when iOS introduces a new features that's been included in Android for half a decade.
I've had to suffer many work Macbooks and vastly prefer both the hardware and (Linux) software stack on non-Apple laptops. The history of Apple hardware and OS X (sorry, macOS) is littered with blunders such as the touchbar, keyboard issues, and now Liquid Glass. Is a ThinkPad the holy grail of PCs? Probably not, but they've been a lot more reliable in my experience.
NVIDIA's Linux drivers are especially laughable. After years of wrangling their drivers, struggling to make sleep work, and getting X/Wayland rendering working reliably, at this point I can't bother. I simply disable any discrete NVIDIA laptop GPUs entirely and use the integrated graphics. It just works better and doesn't drain my battery. On a desktop I'm with AMD all the way.
I promise you, I have plenty of experience with both sides and I am most definitely not "suffering under inferior tech", at least not anymore.
Re:I announced my divorce on Instagram and then AI impersonated me
on Monday December 22, 2025 @10:17PM (#46362047)
filing jointly
Re:The "AI 2027" Scenario: How realistic is it?
on Thursday May 22, 2025 @04:09PM (#44066322)
Well that's what I don't get, how is spending the money bad faith? Aren't they getting the money ahead of time so they can spend it before the world ends? If they have to keep the world-still-here money tied up in escrow I don't see why they would take the deal.
Re:The "AI 2027" Scenario: How realistic is it?
on Thursday May 22, 2025 @03:04PM (#44065543)
I still don't get how this is supposed to work. So let's say I give you a million dollars right now, with the expectation that I get $10M back in 10 years when the world hasn't ended. You obviously wanted the money up front because you're going to live it up while the world's still spinning. So how am I getting my payout after you've spent it all on hookers and blow?
Re:Show HN: Learn where countries are on the world map with Spaced Rep...
on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @01:58PM (#43415314)
This is awesome, I got way more sucked into this than I expected. If you're open to adding more features, a "custom playlist" would be really cool. I'd love to drill myself on the Balkans or West Africa, for instance.
Re:Show HN: Learn where countries are on the world map with Spaced Rep...
on Wednesday March 19, 2025 @01:47PM (#43415164)
Interesting, thank you for the link. This answers a few questions I had about preferred country names while trying out the game, such as Czech Republic/Czechia, Swaziland/Eswatini, Turkey/Turkiye. I also found the partially recognized states curious, especially Palestine being reduced to "West Bank".
No it's not called supply and demand, it's called price discrimination. The way things should be priced is based on the value it gives the market as a whole. Anything further is an anti-competitive attempt to vacuum up more of the buyer surplus.
Re:Nobody Cares
on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @11:04PM (#42721044)
They have an option to do an ACATS to another brokerage account. They do not mention specifically, but it looks like this would be considered a stock transfer "in kind" which should not be considered a taxable event.
https://old.reddit.com/r/Fidelity/comments/la7tj6/can_someon...
https://cash.app/help/5026-transferring-stock-to-another-bro...
Re:E.U. Agrees on Artificial Intelligence Rules with Landmark New Law
on Friday December 08, 2023 @06:37PM (#38576361)
Sounds like 7% of revenue rather than profit. But I agree it seems weird to cap it at 7.
Re:You are never taught how to build quality software
on Friday December 08, 2023 @06:20PM (#38576130)
To quote Donald Knuth, "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."
Re:9th Circuit rejects TSA claim of impunity for checkpoint staff who ...
on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @02:01PM (#37663320)
Calling it a jobs program is overly generous. It's broken windows fallacy. Considering the ineffectiveness of the TSA as shown by multiple audits, opportunity cost of waiting in security lines, lost revenue to airlines, and increased road fatalities due to flight aversion, it's a massive net loss to the economy for no actual benefit to safety.
Re:What Are the Risks of Cleaning with Bleach and Other Disinfectants?
on Thursday March 23, 2023 @06:24PM (#35282215)
Is that on the ground floor of the neutral milk hotel?
Re:Reddit has been down for more than an hour
on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @05:25PM (#35158986)
I really hope this site doesn't become the next reddit. I don't think a massive influx of new users would be healthy for good faith discussion here.
Re:I hired 5 people to sit behind me and make me productive for a month
on Saturday February 04, 2023 @09:36PM (#34661106)
Okay this part has me convinced this post is satire. The hackernewsiness is simply off the charts. As the kids would say, ain't no way.
Re:Is remote work bad for the economy?
on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @10:03PM (#34605785)
Great writeup. It seems like a strange variant of the broken windows fallacy to imply that workers need to be shuttling to and from work and spending money on brick and mortar restaurants and stores. Of course remote workers will have extra spending money that's still going into the economy, whether that's delivery services mentioned in the article, local restaurants in their personal time, etc.
Re:Disabling the Intel Management Engine
on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @02:27PM (#33347502)
The risk of bricking isn't so bad as long as you keep a copy of the original firmware. If the patched firmware doesn't boot, you can always revert back.
Re:Cocaine Paraphernalia Ads in the 70s
on Tuesday November 23, 2021 @01:41PM (#29321474)
Don't forget video games and rock & roll.
Re:Closure vs. derivation in the Nix package manager
on Monday November 22, 2021 @05:43PM (#29312468)
Re:Space Station 14 – Open-source remake of Space Station 13
on Thursday November 04, 2021 @08:44PM (#29114218)
Hahaha, the issues are hilarious! A few examples:
* You can put yourself into disposals while dead
* Bullets rotate with the station
* Pulling doesn't know what newton's 3rd law is
* You can select wires hidden under walls and zap yourself with them
Where are all the mundane build problems and crashes? Their issue page is full of the type of zany interactions gone wrong I love to debug.
Re:How long does it take ordinary people to get good at chess?
on Sunday October 31, 2021 @01:12AM (#29054658)