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hugo1789··on Common cleaning sponge found to release trillions of microplastic fibers
Yes they are. You can easily see it as the sponge keeps its form, whereas the melamine one shrinks on every use.
hugo1789··on Check if a file was made with Claude
That would be so much worse. Code written that doesn't work, SQL that couldn't be parsed, ...
hugo1789··on 9000 RPM is faster than your screen refreshes
Yes it does, it matters a lot. With smaller dimensions, tip speeds remain manageable. As soon as parts of the thing get supersonic, everything gets much more complicated.
hugo1789··on EVE Online moves to Python 3
Seems to me like a migration that should have been done 15 years ago.
hugo1789··on Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory
Maybe but still a little better than closed source like Windows. Everytime whem someone asked me if I could hack my way into his Windows PC I always told "After all it's Windows, how bad can it be?" Doing that since 25 years still waiting for a Windows machine that doesn't open... On the other hand I failed to open about 50% of Apple Devices I was asked to open and about 10% of Linux machines. (Not because Linux is insecure by itself but because most Linux distros install with insecure defaults and users don't care.)
hugo1789··on Is BGP safe yet?
I think RPKI is good enough. As we have TLS on top it doesn't need to be perfect.
hugo1789··on Cyber.mil serving file downloads using TLS certificate which expired 3 days ago
Since revocation is also a big pain.
hugo1789··on Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?
No I would not. They posed no immediate danger to anyone of us until that attack.
hugo1789··on Palestinian boy, 12, describes how Israeli forces killed his family in car
At least it's more interesting than all those AI stuff.
hugo1789··on A review of M Disc archival capability with long term testing results (2016)
That also changed somehow... LTO-10 drives are not backward compatible and can only read/write LTO-10 media.
hugo1789··on Singularity Rootkit: SELinux bypass and netlink filter (ss/conntrack hidden)
That is a critical observation. Last time I had to root an Android device it hat pretty robust defenses like dm-verity and strict SELinux policies (correctly configured) and then everything collapsed because the system loaded a exfat kernel module from an unverified filesystem.

Permitting user-loaded kernel modules effectively invalidates all other security measures.

hugo1789··on Show HN: Netrinos – A keep it simple Mesh VPN for small teams
What’s the alternative—locking down all legitimate users and still losing the data anyway?

Network controls alone don’t stop exfiltration. HDMI/DP can move data faster than most consumer NICs. Does the system account for that scenario?

hugo1789··on Flock Exposed Its AI-Powered Cameras to the Internet. We Tracked Ourselves
What is not only true for police but for every sufficiently big group of people.
hugo1789··on MIRA – An open-source persistent AI entity with memory
Could you please stop that? First it is not true. "Open Source" has nothing to do with the "Open Source Initiative" it existed long before. Second you are making people keep their source closed (not available) which is not a good thing.
hugo1789··on Poor Johnny still won't encrypt
I think mandatory S/MIME without user-friendly key management would either be reverted pretty soon or it would kill Gmail.
hugo1789··on Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left
I think he would attempting a landing despite the issue in most cases because running out of fuel during go-around would be worse.
hugo1789··on LLMs are mortally terrified of exceptions
https://xcancel.com/karpathy/status/1976082963382272334
hugo1789··on DataGrip Is Now Free for Non-Commercial Use
Too late, switched to DBeaver Community some months ago and it works too well for me to switch back again.
hugo1789··on VMScape and why Xen dodged it
Maybe because xen is a type 1 hypervisor in its original meaning and all the other ones are type 2? (yes, ESX(i) doesn't use linux but it also brings its own os on which it runs on top)
hugo1789··on In defence of swap: common misconceptions (2018)
And debug many tools which still ignore the fact that malloc could fail.
hugo1789··on In defence of swap: common misconceptions (2018)
That works if there is enough memory after the "bad" process has been killed. The question is, is it necessary? Many systems can live with processes performing a little bit poorly for some minutes and I wouldn't do it.
hugo1789··on EU court rules nuclear energy is clean energy
Imo that's a pretty complicated topic. On one side if you just build LWRs you just don't need very highly enriched uranium or plutonium so posession of those is a red flag. On the other side fast breeder reactors are the ones which are able to produce the least harmful waste. But fast breeders and closed fuel cycles produce and handle plutonium which in turn can be used for bad things.
hugo1789··on Raspberry Pi 5 support (OpenBSD)
Linux kernel image or another stage of bootloader loaded by the GPU is pretty normal in mobile SOCs like the one that is used here. At least they did not enable secure boot so that it's still possible to execute something else.
hugo1789··on WinBoat: Run Windows apps on Linux with seamless integration
Why another WinApps instead of contributing and fix problems there?
hugo1789··on Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me
I still remember how we installed Windows PCs at home if no media with the latest service pack was available. Install Windows, download service pack, copy it away, disconnect from internet, throw away everything and install Windows again...
hugo1789··on FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons
I don't think that fits MS Office. The situation is more that you have a working, usable word processor which has all the festures your user needs. Since many years ago. But your UI designer thinks it can be a little more beautiful but much slower. Of course you give that way too much priority.

On my Laptop where I am forced by my company to run windows, I run word 2010 and it runs far better(speed and stability) that the newest word I have to use ob my office pc.

hugo1789··on Ask HN: How to get rid of Gemini?
Doesn't work to search serious things. If I search a new car and enter "new car fuck" I get "Hard fuck in new car video". Using the "web" tab (what udm=14 does) works better.
hugo1789··on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source
Nice but where is the code? Is it just very, very incomplete or a joke?
hugo1789··on Convert Linux to Windows
Why so complicated? Wine is cool if you need to run an existing binary but when you're writing your own software, why not just compile the platform independent part into a binary and make the platform dependent part a little library (open-source)?
hugo1789··on Monster Cables picked the wrong guy to threaten (2008)
It seems that are used books

This is the new design: https://www.amazon.com/-/de/gp/aw/d/1621050521/