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danparsonsonon Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

I think you and I move in very different social circles...

I would have no idea how, nor desire to purchase a Google account on the black market, and I do in fact still trust that my web browser can do TLS correctly.

danparsonsonon Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging

Sorry do you mean, that's how it works now, or, that's how you think it should work? Are you talking about Instagram or WA or something else?

edit: misread your message; if you have two sessions active at the same time, then yes I would expect both sessions to receive the same messages.

danparsonsonon Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging

I don't know the technical details of that for sure, but I think the answer is that keys and chat history are stored on-device only; for example you lose your WhatsApp history if you don't restore a backup when moving to a new phone.

If a messaging app is showing you message history in a private browsing window then perhaps the encryption key for that history is derived from your password or something like that; that can be done locally so that all the server ever sees is encrypted data.

danparsonsonon Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school

Then surely the focus should be on solving that problem? Just clamping down on the proximate cause doesn't really help - as others have pointed out, it seems likely to incite revenge attacks rather than stopping the bullying.

danparsonsonon Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school

> Experiencing hardship doesn't excuse violence against others

I totally agree, but I don't agree that forgoing violence as a punishment is the same as excusing the bad behaviour. The best outcome for everyone is surely rehabilitation, no? There are other punishment options if you still insist on inflicting some hardship.

> Over 60% of violent crime is committed by under 5% of the population. Don't underestimate the value of simply removing repeat violent offenders from society.

That neatly avoids the question of why they reoffend, which is precisely my point. If prison is effective as a deterrent then why do they keep coming back? "Simply removing them" for a period of time simply perpetuates the problem, thus helping to ensure more violent crime in the future, not less.

danparsonsonon Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffie%E2%80%93Hellman_key_exc...

If Meta are turning it off then I guess it's reasonable to assume that there is something to turn off.

danparsonsonon Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users

Syncthing is very nice.

danparsonsonon Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school

How about when the perpetrators are also victims? If child A is bullying child B because they themselves are suffering abuse at home (as is often the case), don't both kids deserve help and support? Just beating up child A is no more productive a solution than throwing people in jail.

danparsonsonon Motherboard sales 'collapse' amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI

You're not supposed to talk about it!

danparsonsonon Appearing productive in the workplace

Even more frustrating is that in many ancient empires, racism essentially didn't exist. The trans-Atlantic slave trade was a big driver of it, as a way to "justify" the evil.

danparsonsonon Knitting bullshit

> If the generated podcasts did not bring any value to the users, such as validation, or engagement, they would not use them, and there would be no change.

Ever heard of heroin?

danparsonsonon Knitting bullshit

You could justify basically anything with that logic. Change isn't always about progress.

danparsonsonon StarFighter 16-Inch

Unfortunately most of it will likely be HBM and datacenter GPUs and therefore useless for consumers.

danparsonsonon Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%

I've been using Linux as my desktop for years - I've yet to spend any crypto...

danparsonsonon Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026?

This is surely the easiest and I would guess the safest way, and has the added benefit that your proxy (nginx in my case) can handle SSL for you, making certificate deployment a breeze.

danparsonsonon New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag

Forgive me if I'm mischaracterising you but you seem to be not only reinforcing the false equivalence but in fact doubling down on it? That trans rights protesters are not only morally equivalent to nationalist protesters, but in fact, in some way more of a problem? A plank in the eye vs a mote of dust?

When I say 'false equivalence' in this context I don't mean 'nationalist protesters are all bad and trans rights protesters are all good'. Of course there are bad actors in the trans rights camp, people who are blinded by their own flag; likewise I'm sure there are well-intentioned and peaceful nationalists who are simply misinformed. I submit to you however that the number of, and danger presented by bad actors in the former camp is severely limited compared to the bad actors in the camp of people who hate foreigners and wish to see them expelled and/or commit violence against them. Even without comparing actual events, that would seem to be self-evident given the trans rights cause itself is centered around support and love for a group of people, and once you do compare actual events the difference is obvious. I've been in the presence of a nationalist rally once, and even as a cis white guy it was a scary thing. I would have absolutely no qualms whatsoever showing up to a trans rights march.

Do you really think the two are basically morally equivalent? That someone could not reasonably criticise rising and widespread nationalist hatred if they don't also, with the same vigour, also call out a handful of zealots aggressively pushing for acceptance and fair treatment?

As I said I totally accept I may have misunderstood you and/or the other commenters here, so please enlighten me if so.

danparsonsonon A desktop made for one

I feel like using an LLM to do serious work is a bit like us using our brains language centre for the same job - like a very elaborate collection of stock phrases. I'm impressed that it works at all but it doesn't really feel like the right tool for the job. I think the robot of the future will have some more logical cortex doing the thinking, with an LLM in front of it handling the communication.

danparsonsonon New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag

The equivalence between supporting the rights of oppressed minorities, and inciting violence towards foreigners, is a good one?

danparsonsonon Security through obscurity is not bad

That's fine if the goal of breaking in is immediate theft; it might also be more along the lines of leaving something behind.

danparsonsonon New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag

It's styled after other bronze statues that are all one colour because of the material. Given the context in which he put this up, it's a pretty clear commentary on nationalism in general, so using a specific country's flag wouldn't work.

danparsonsonon New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag

How so? The concept of the 'blindness' of justice is antithetical to blind patriotism.

danparsonsonon New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag

...which is a blatant false equivalence, to be clear.

danparsonsonon New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag

Splintering because some are going one way and others are going the opposite direction. Heading to opposite extremes.

danparsonsonon Waymo Drives Off with South Bay Man's Luggage

Sounds like there's no guarantee it would let him retrieve it

danparsonsonon For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions

That was my first comment in the thread. I'm not bullying you; if you don't want people to challenge your statements then you came to the wrong place ;-)

danparsonsonon Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs

I never made that connection before!

danparsonsonon I built a Game Boy emulator in F#

See also Higan, formerly BSNES, which among other things is a cycle-accurate emulation of the SNES hardware and its enhancement chips (like the SuperFX used in StarFox/StarWing):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higan_(emulator)

danparsonsonon I built a Game Boy emulator in F#

I feel like trad coding would be more along the lines of 'I work 10 hours a day coding for minimum wage because that's a worker's place in life, and I love it!'

danparsonsonon For Linux kernel vulnerabilities, there is no heads-up to distributions

But now millions more people know about how to exploit it who didn't before. I don't see why you're struggling with this.

danparsonsonon Show HN: I wrote a DOOM clone in my own programming language

It's tough to put yourself out there, and the work you've done is impressive - hats off to you for that. I don't read the parent comments as critiques of your work, just your description of it, so maybe take a breath and don't stress about it.

This is a moment in the spotlight for you - it would be more interesting to hear about what you've done here and why it's important to you.