An absurd decision with dangerous second order effects, many of which lead to VPNs and other privacy tools being next, just look at UK hyping and building that up right now. I hope they will vote accordingly when they're of age, not forgetting what liberties were taken away from them in the name of very dubious benefits, easily circumvented, and prone to exposing them to greater danger going through unofficial channels. Trying to really address the issues younger generations are facing is clearly too difficult for the geriatric, decrepit ruling class that just won't let go, and this helps them further every government's ambitions of increasingly regulating the means of communication between people. Actually, it's not that it's difficult, they simply don't care.
Readit News0x_rs commented on Australia begins enforcing world-first teen social media ban reuters.com/legal/litigat... · Posted by u/chirau
0x_rs commented on Hyundai Paywalls Brake Pads replacement on Ioniq 5 N thedrive.com/news/replaci... · Posted by u/zdw
This is increasingly many cars, starting minimum in the past decade and an half, and not limited to EVs. It's definitely something you need to research before purchasing one so you can dodge the worst offenders. Automotive engineering has been a clown show for years, and greatly suffered from becoming too reliant on digital technology without being willing to invest and spend for robust systems, going for low-cost, low-quality, proprietary parts made in small numbers and unique to each production run. The traditional expectations that you could have options in regards to your vehicle being serviced are on their way out without consumers doing something about it. A future where only the manufacturer and its authorized shops can perform maintenance means they can set any price for it, a price that's already been skyrocketing, and that would effectively allow them to collect far more revenue than previously possible.. and if you can't extract value from customers through heated seats and high-beam subscriptions, maybe you can just have their cars full of black boxes break down more often?
0x_rs commented on About KeePassXC's Code Quality Control keepassxc.org/blog/2025-1... · Posted by u/haakon
There's no way to determine whether a contributor used LLMs in part or full, not without them being honest about it. With that in mind, this seems like a reasonable position. Been using KeePassXC since forever and will continue to do so. It might feel wrong to some, but these changes are inevitable and it's best to be prepared and become acquainted with that now rather than later.
0x_rs commented on The great software quality collapse or, how we normalized catastrophe techtrenches.substack.com... · Posted by u/redbell
This was a greatly unpleasant post to read, likewise for all the others from this substack until I could not anymore. Its unrestricted, excessive usage of obvious LLM patterns was so unbearable I wonder how much of it had any human input at all.
As for the topic: software exists on a spectrum, where the importance of safety and stability is not equal from one point to another, does it not? Safe software is probably the safest (and most accessible) it's ever been before, meanwhile the capacity to produce low-effort has increased massively and its results are most obvious outside of a browser's safe space. And CrowdStrike is a terrible example because nobody ever had any love for them and their parasitic existence, even before that accident their track record of disastrous bugs and awful handling of disclosures.
And your operating system's Calculator apps have always been buggy pieces of crap in some way or another. You can find dozens of popular stories on this website talking about <platform>'s being garbage over all of its existence.
0x_rs commented on Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine express.co.uk/news/uk/211... · Posted by u/ANewbury
Imgur is a joke. They block VPN users with an intentionally obtuse "Imgur is temporarily over capacity. Please try again later.". Most importantly, its value for the average person has plummeted ever since its 2021 acquisition, and when they started deleting inactive content. UK's regulations have no place on a free internet, but the company running it is anything but worthy of praise.
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HN readers from USA, what the hell is happening. How do we "get back to normal"?
You don't "get back to normal". 77 million people voted for this, and 90 million more did not care enough to stop it. This is the "normal" now, what they voted for, and you don't just forget about it.
0x_rs commented on I know when you're vibe coding alexkondov.com/i-know-whe... · Posted by u/thunderbong
> Because no one would write an HTTP fetching implementation covering all edge cases when we have a data fetching library in the project that already does that.
> No one would implement a bunch of utility functions that we already have in a different module.
> No one would change a global configuration when there’s a mechanism to do it on a module level.
> No one would write a class when we’re using a functional approach everywhere.
Boy I'd like to work on whatever teams this guy's worked on. People absolutely do all those things.
This. Reinventing the wheel at every opportunity, forgetting about or ignoring the expected way to do something, mixing patterns, you name it. The author may call it "vibe coding", that's fine but it has little to do with LLMs. The tool has the same amount of care anyone rushing to get something done, or that hasn't build the project themselves, or maybe doesn't have enough experience would. I can only assume it's a not-very-subtle complaint about a specific person in their team, "written in a way no developer on the team would" is telling.
I'd be extremely careful about applying this thinking anywhere else. There's enough baseless finger-pointing in academia and arts already.
0x_rs commented on Microsoft became incompetent in IT mikekaganski.wordpress.co... · Posted by u/doener
It's well known some things will trip those flags, probably not what all of them are or why, but most of them inappropriately (e.g. rating IP trustworthiness, but also simple HTTP requests that look "odd"). It's also well understood you have little to no options available as contacting support, live human or not as it may be, is made intentionally opaque and difficult or completely impossible. They just don't care, there's no reason to when you're one of the many hundreds of millions using their service most likely at no cost, and it's not unique to Microsoft. It's not that they became incompetent (they are, objectively), they simply never cared about you.
There's no mention of this in the article, so be aware there's multiple posts online about QC issues. Rotring quality has been going down over the years, or their name outgrew the actual quality of the product. Current generation of 600s especially suffer from: cracking of the body (0, 1); but most importantly for pens, the joint part that screws into the bottom and upper part of the pen is extremely susceptible to wearing out the thin and fragile upper part's threads, as they are two different metals. So you should be prepared to exercise your warranty if you purchase one.
0. https://www.reddit.com/r/mechanicalpencils/comments/1fzacf9/...
1. https://www.reddit.com/r/mechanicalpencils/comments/1439ru7/...