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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/zenethian; my proof: https://keybase.io/zenethian/sigs/nzvX8hbHms88Z76nGX9SIyyJxk0RRqnJeI0BOXB3HlM ]
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zenethian··on A Screensaver for LG's Spying Smart TVs
Just don’t let it connect to the internet then? I don’t trust any tv to connect directly to the internet at all. Ever.
zenethian··on Vancouver strip club's Instagram taken down over sign featuring lake joke
I didn’t realize that someone from Washington State would think of Lake Ontario as theirs?
zenethian··on US diesel prices hit a record high of $5.85 on average
Where are the “I did that” stickers now???
zenethian··on IBM Bob
“I would expect something like this from IBM, but I never expected it from IBM!”
zenethian··on ChatGPT ad targeting is garbage
It’s wild to me that people click ads.
zenethian··on US sanctions Italian hosting provider Autistici Inventati
It’s still a myth. This administration labels anything that is against their agenda as “Antifa.”

They still haven’t positively identified an organization called “Antifa” and never will.

zenethian··on Bitchat is now on Radicle
Is this bit-chat or bitch-at?
zenethian··on Over 400 Linux CVEs published in the last 24 hours alone
That’s a pretty insane leap to go from “we have a non-technical security team” to “DEI caused this.”
zenethian··on Firefox 12.58% for Desktop Browser Market Share in North America June 2026
I can’t even open it because the domain is blocked in my dns as being an analytics collection system.
zenethian··on AltTab is introducing a Pro version and staying open source
This app has been in my kit for many years now and I will buy a license the very day it goes on sale.
zenethian··on Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada
As a Minnesotan I would gladly trade Alberta for Minnesota and become Canadian.
zenethian··on LoRA and Weight Decay (2023)
Every time I see an article about LoRA on here I think it’s about the radio technology LoRa that powers LoRaWAN and just for a moment I’m very excited.
zenethian··on The AI industry is discovering that the public hates it
You forgot the part where they stole literally everyone’s copyrighted works and trained on it and have not been sanctioned at all for it.
zenethian··on ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state
I read the comment as “use it to mitigate against OpenAI bots scraping the web” and not to mitigate Cloudflare.
zenethian··on Ubuntu 26.04 Ends 46 Years of Silent sudo Passwords
You got some sources or did you just make that up?

Because to hell with UX when it comes to security. Knowing the exact length of a password absolutely makes it significantly less secure, and knowing the timing of the keystrokes doubly so.

zenethian··on Oil and gas prices jump after Iran and Israel attack gasfields
Time to get out our “I did that” stickers, right?
zenethian··on Ask HN: Remember Fidonet?
I still have my node address memorized. The very late 1980s and mid 90s were the very best era for the vibe of hobbyist computing. Amazing ANSI art and text driven menus still fill my heart with joy.

I still think that some of those systems are easier to use than what we have now.

I miss the quality of EchoMail conversations with friends around the world. I even ended up moderating a few echoes myself after mods had moved on.

Good times.

zenethian··on New evidence that Cantor plagiarized Dedekind?
I am not a mathematician; I barely knew who Cantor was and had never heard of Dedekind. I would have likely not read the article without the title being so sensational. Your assumption sits upon the tip of your nose.
zenethian··on [dead]
I wholeheartedly agree. I pity any kid whose parents use this product. The AI use is irrelevant; this is just shameful.
zenethian··on SwiftForth IDE for Windows, Linux, macOS
Especially for $400
zenethian··on The Day the Telnet Died
Can you show the exact line in the RFC or IANA port reservations that says it has to implement a shell login interface with the Telnet protocol if it’s on port 23? Because I can’t find it. Nothing says that anywhere.
zenethian··on The Day the Telnet Died
Their replies are only obtuse because you fail to see that you’re being made fun of for having such a ridiculous pedantic position about this. “Terminal” does not mean shell when you read the Telnet RFC. It means TTY. A human to machine interface. MUDs implement the Telnet protocol and provide a remote TTY. What’s running on the terminal is absolutely irrelevant.
zenethian··on G Lang – A lightweight interpreter written in D (2.4MB)
Oh, we’re talking to an llm. Gross.
zenethian··on Show HN: Adboost – A browser extension that adds ads to every webpage
Okay but hurting consumers by tracking everything they do is totally okay?

Companies aren’t people. Fuck companies.

zenethian··on New books aren't worth reading?
Somebody deeply hurt this person and their anti-women stance is so bitterly apparent in their writing that they felt the need to write something not worth reading.
zenethian··on Refusing to Use Twitter
IMO social media is not a type of source I have to participate in order to get information. I can read the far right’s opinion though actual sources and news aggregators without Twitter at all.

To continue the analogy, I need not go to a Nazi bar to read the headlines of the local newspaper to see what the latest propaganda is.

zenethian··on Refusing to Use Twitter
You’re bringing a Reddit analogy to HN and they are not equivalents. On HN there is no downvote. Something unwelcome gets flagged for review. After sufficient flagging the content is removed not just buried. It’s not calling it “stupid” it’s saying “hey buddy maybe this isn’t the right place for this.”

You can’t seem to depolarize yourself from extremes. You call your original post “highly intelligent” and equate any disagreements as being shouted “stupid” at like those are the only two options here or something when they are not.

zenethian··on Dell UltraSharp 52 Thunderbolt Hub Monitor
I really want more monitors that are taller and have 3:2 aspect ratio.
zenethian··on Emoji Use in the Electronic Health Record is Increasing
I just had Claude generate a readme for me and it added at least 10 emoji to it.
zenethian··on Thirteen Months That Changed IBM (2020)
A DevOps crew? Mainframes aren’t something that are just part of some random web app project in a company. A System Administration team would be the likely maintainer. But a lot of mainframes are designed to be run with very little manual maintenance these days.

They’re also wildly different architecturally from your typical rack of x86 servers, which is why the initial reaction to Linux running on a mainframe sounded stupid at first. When I worked at IBM in the 2010s, a Linux Zserver felt more like a VM running inside the mainframe than anything else. There were abstractions of the mainframe components that intentionally leaked into the Linux side that were interesting. I knew very little about traditional mainframe software development at the time, so I was very fascinated by how it all worked.

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