coldpie

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by coldpie 5d ago
Many bothans died to bring you that suggestion to make a new emoji of pizzas in a yard.
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by coldpie 5d ago
> the industry is taking a big turn toward stack ranking and implicit or even explicit 996 expectations. I don't think this is actually happening. Maybe a few high profile businesses trying to burn through and exploit inexperienced
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by coldpie 5d ago
Close your laptop no more than 8 hours after you opened it. Never work on weekends. If they need more hours worked than that, then they can hire another person to work them. If they fire you (they won't) then I guess you have your answ
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by coldpie 5d ago
> the only reward for hard work is more work. Yup. I work 35-40 hours a week. I do not put work stuff on my personal devices, I do not open my work laptop at home. This isn't something I negotiated or made explicit, it's just w
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by coldpie 8d ago
They make sense as a technology for businesses & their users. In that scenario, the owner of the account is not the user, but the business. It makes sense for the business to be able to place strong restrictions on how & where the
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by coldpie 9d ago
Yeah. My mom hung onto my old school stuff and finally wanted to get rid of it when she moved. I took it graciously with thanks, and then tossed it in the trash when I got home.
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by coldpie 10d ago
YC's finest https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flock-safety
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by coldpie 11d ago
Yeah, of course. Every solution has pros and cons, you gotta settle on the best one for the world you live in. CAs are quite distributed already. You probably have a couple dozen or even a hundred different root CAs installed right now, and
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by coldpie 11d ago
> Why do we loathe Oracle again? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America,_... https://www.patentleaderboard.com/company/oracle
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by coldpie 12d ago
Oracle going out of business would at least be one thing to celebrate in 2026.
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by coldpie 12d ago
Huh, wow. I kind of thought the whole point of CAs was to do identity verification. It they have dropped that entirely, what is the point?
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by coldpie 12d ago
So, you're right that this does work in theory, but it obviously doesn't scale, right? We can't have every person physically go to every storefront they want to purchase something from and then drive home with a USB stick.
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by coldpie 12d ago
You can go look at them. In Firefox, head to "about:certificate" and click the Authorities tab.
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by coldpie 12d ago
How do I know that the DNS record is owned by the entity they are claiming to be? CAs have nothing to do with caching.
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by coldpie 12d ago
> provide the public keys to my clients How does this part happen? How does the client know that the entity providing them with that public key is who they claim to be?
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by coldpie 15d ago
> Unambiguously, a system where the only code that runs is code that you explicitly run is more secure. I don't think so? If I want to run a 3D modeling program and I download their executable and run it, it has access to everythin
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by coldpie 15d ago
Here's an extension I wrote to do the same idea, except it clicks the Hide link for each AI submission instead of just nuking the DOM node. This means when you load the front page again, HN will fill it in with articles from the 2nd p
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by coldpie 15d ago
I can't solve all of the world's problems, but I can solve the problem in front of me and share my solutions with others who have the same problem.
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by coldpie 15d ago
I maintain a simple browser extension to auto-hide AI news stories: https://github.com/ColdPie1/enough-ai-on-hn/ It just scans for keywords and clicks the Hide button. Doesn't catch everything, but cuts out
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by coldpie 15d ago
So, I kind of agree, but I don't know what a better solution looks like. Is it really better for users to download and run straight up executables with no security model? We tried that in the 90s and 2000s and it was pretty bad. We can
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by coldpie 17d ago
The comment I was replying to said: > I’d love a phone that was roughly normal iphone sized when unfolded but was a flip phone à la Motorola razrs in years gone by. So the Razr does seem pretty comparable to what they were requesting.
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by coldpie 17d ago
Have you looked at the new Motorola Razrs? They're great. 4" external display that is easy to use one-handed and can run any Android app (though some apps and websites struggle with a screen that small), and it unfolds into a ph
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by coldpie 17d ago
I think that's a poor analogy. I think the better comparison is it's 50% of the quality for 20% of the cost. Is that a win? I dunno.
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by coldpie 17d ago
I work at a significant computer security software vendor with 5-digits of employees. They provide AI tooling and training and encourage people to use it, but it's not like "use this or we will fire you and kill your children&quo
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by coldpie 17d ago
Partly it annoys me because the answer to the question "how do I protect myself?" is simply "don't connect it to wifi" and that's it. These rumors make it all complicated to answer when it's really not tha
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by coldpie 18d ago
I'm not.
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by coldpie 18d ago
I'm afraid I can't help you with your paranoia. TVs just simply don't do this. It would be trivial to prove if they did. There's plenty here to be upset about without making up stupid conspiracy theories.
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by coldpie 18d ago
> A real problem is that you might not even need to give these internet access. If your neighbor gives their TV internet access and it can establish a mesh connection then it might be able to exfiltrate data that way. No TV has ever been
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by coldpie 18d ago
> If I’m not mistaken there is the possibility for the tv to connect to public/open networks to send this stuff without you knowing. No, there is no evidence that any TV has ever done this. Please stop spreading this rumor.
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by coldpie 18d ago
> The fact they they can connect to Xfinity networks without consent is shocking too. For all those “just don’t connect the cable” responses, it still connects! No, it doesn't.

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