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axus··on Git 3.0's upcoming SHA-256 default will be a costly mistake
Hack into the system holding a trusted repository, and swap in your variant with same signature?
axus··on Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot to Get into Locked Phones
Does this mean iPhones are worth more to steal?
axus··on Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
At some point AI was experimental for companies, clearly it's being used for business operations in 2025 and 2026.

Can we think of an example of computing hardware/software that would qualify for this tax credit?

axus··on An AI sovereign wealth fund isn't progressive – it's techno-imperialism
Fashions change; ideas that look AI-generated are out of fashion right now.

I've never really cared about fashion.

axus··on Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm
I think the claims were about behaviors for 10s of thousands of users of the dating apps, which limits the range of actions a company could take.

Considering that population size, wouldn't millions of users have the same behaviors?

axus··on Ask HN: What are you reading?
Rereading Pale, slowly:

https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/

axus··on DraftKings Is Using AI to Behaviorally Target Chronic Gamblers
If there's no way to distinguish, why was the author "made a VIP"? Or does that happen to every gambler
axus··on Updated Google Maps shows destruction of the city of Rafah
Probably tougher to do politically than me stopping ICE from putting non-violent immigrants in concentration camps
axus··on Nissan's third generation e-POWER powertrain
That's true for majority of cases, but a small percentage of Tokyo that needs to visit places taxis and trains don't go is still a large number.

Thinking 10 years down the road, will autonomous rentals be geo-fenced and not suitable for multi-day trips to rural places?

axus··on Two-tier encryption in the UK
Well in theory more people use an insecure software, the more FBI can monitor
axus··on Samsung accidentally freezes its smart fridges with a software update
My Speed Queens with buttons/LED have been good for ~10 years now, only rare minor problems and none with the "electronics".
axus··on An update on how we confirm your age group on Discord
There was a brief window where you could submit fake biometrics through a third-party site to verify age on Discord, pretty sure I got the link from hackernews.

That made me feel better that Discord didn't need to store my ID or video of my face, and was only storing the results of some analysis and not the inputs.

axus··on Meta’s Muse has a serious 0-day
Did the band end up getting money for that?
axus··on The Claude Delusion
Article says that there's no human intention or design directing the output we get, but I don't think that's completely right. It's not human, but the algorithm is like the Human Instrumentality Project: an amalgamation of human intentions.

That might be more creepy :)

axus··on ZuckOff Know when a camera is in the room
Your comment shouldn't be downvoted for misunderstanding the hypothetical; you give a correct answer why "people" would choose ZuckOff. The question was why "you" (an individual from the Hacker News audience) wouldn't use yj_nearbyglasses instead.
axus··on Cloudflare Quick Tunnels
Wow, exfiltrating data has never been easier!
axus··on I don't like passkeys
Passkeys match a very unique situation where I don't want to store anyone's email address, don't want them to type anything, generally want to store as little information as possible. Also don't want it to be easy for people to share/steal passwords/accounts, and prefer storing on the local device.

Windows still required entering a local PIN, sometimes 2-3 times. I think the account recovery didn't scale, though haven't really tested/explored with any real users :)

axus··on Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023
If the government forced transfer of ownership %, instead of forcing a sale, it would be not as bad?
axus··on A coffee shop owner used AI to make a menu poster. Then came the angry DMs
And if the shop owner is Jewish, it would be anti-semitism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-BDS_laws

I consider a boycott threat a non-violent threat; legal but an exercise of power that has moral dimensions.

axus··on Giving up on smart rings
Totally not what you're talking about, but I've lost a ring while taking off wet gloves. Fortunately someone had explained to me this was a common way to lose a ring, and I checked the gloves before the ring dropped out.
axus··on Iranian banks' SSL certificates are being revoked due to OFAC sanctions
Dumb for the US: if US were currently MITM with certs copied by its agencies, US won't be able to do that for Iranian / Russian certs.
axus··on Volkswagen Just Built an EV That Can Go Nearly 900 Miles on a Charge
A minivan has both high seating and tons of cargo space, after you remove the middle seats and fold the back ones.
axus··on Global shortage has led to motor oil rationing at Costco
COVID was the last time our global CO2 output decreased, hope it sticks this time.
axus··on There Is No AI (It's Just People) with Jaron Lanier
AI is autonomous in the same way a gas leak is autonomous
axus··on Don't Let Anyone Take Away Your Big Box of Cables
If you have children, at least one of them may become fascinated with retro hardware, and play with all of this stuff, reinstalling OS and connecting old drives. Once they grow past that phase, THEN you can bring everything to the e-Waste center :)
axus··on DeepSeek v4.1 Flash
Sentience / consciousness is the awareness and self-awareness I feel when I wake up each day, until I fall asleep.
axus··on Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft
I love how World of Warcraft "gear tier" jargon has expanded into the rest of the world. Pre-Y2K, the pseudo-formal usage of "tier-N" wasn't widespread in the US.
axus··on What will our economic future look like?
According to history, there will be a period of intense warfare.
axus··on Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare
You think the politicians are going to say "The career employees made some convincing arguments about why this is impractical / immoral, guess we'll give up our unregulated power/omniscience"? Or, they will raise the military budgets and continue skipping the audits.
axus··on Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive
The music industry had more political power in 2001 than it does now.
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